Quit smoking. Any help??

[joshual]

Hi there,

some years ago i was a big smoker ( 40 cigarettes a day...). I quit ery easily with nicotine substitute in one week.

Last year some things happenned and i started to smoke again. I now smoke max 15 cigarettes a day.

I want to quit smoking again, but this time nicotine substitute didn't do the trick...

So if you guys had some techniques or great results, could you help me please....

I know it's not good for my voice and above all not good at all for my health, but it's really really hard....

Thanxs

Josh

[gno]

What about the E-cigerette? It can deliver nicotine, looks and feels like a cigerette, and you could use it in no-smoking evironments. I've never tried one, and I'm not a smoker, but I saw this and it looked like a good idea for someone trying to quit.

[kristy85]

1. Slowly reduce smoking habits with extended gaps which will minimize addiction to cigarette smoking.

2. Keep some chocolates or chewing gums with you. Whenever you feel for smoking take one chocolate or chewing gum and keep in your mouth and concentrate in your work.

3. Whenever you feel to smoke immediately leave your room and do some physical exercise which is helpful to forget smoking.

4. Avoid company associated in smoking habits.

5. Avoid to inhale smokes from any smoking person surrounding you because indirect smoking will also be addictive and harmful.

6. Don't keep cigarette packet along with you.

7. Make a tour program in high altitude mountain trekking. In high altitude you will feel no urge to smoke. If you can spend a week in such high altitude place you can quit smoking. If you can motivate yourself after return at home that will be the best opportunity to quit smoking for ever.

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[MariFreakinA]

Chantix =)

[ronws]

Of all the members of Guns and Roses, Axl Rose was the least involved in substances, such as drinking, smoking, etc. Yes, he smoked cigarettes. But, primarily, in his own words, he didn't want a thing controlling him. Not everyone has that vision or mindset.

And yes, cessation can be accomplished through behavioral pattern changes. You had quit before. Then started again, as a response to something in your life. So, the idea is to change your response to life. On the other hand, I have seen studies where heroin addicts that quit often change to smoking cigarettes, considered the lesser of two evils. It usually takes a person longer to die from cigarettes than heroin. The depressant effect of nicotine takes the edge of the case of "nerves" from quitting heroin.

I've known people to quit "cold turkey," as in abruptly, with a carton within reach. Others require medical intervention or a substitute substance. A high school friend still chews nicorette after years. His body is still craving the nicotine. George Burns smoked cigars and lived to 104. And did not die from anything related to a lifetime of smoking cigars. And he also sang, even into his 80's. I don't say that as a support for the habit.

Eric Clapton smoked for a couple of decades and then quit. And it changed the tone of his voice. He's happy with it.

What I do mean is that it is going to depend completely on you and your ability to live with consequences of decisions.

Some of the newer meds allow you to continue smoking, which takes off the pressure of having to stop immediately. However, in double blind studies, there are some listed possible side effects. The problem with the double-blind study is that neither you nor the doctor that ran the study know if the side effects were actually personality traits of the subjects before they entered the study. For example, if a listed side effect is depression, there is no way to know if the subject was prone to that, regardless of their smoking or not smoking. They study can only address whether or not the product helped in cessation of smoking. And in the study, part of the group will be given the med. The other part of the group will be given a placebo, which is just a sugar or salt pill that is made to taste like the med. This is to determine the effect of just thinking that the med will help you, versus the real result of what the med can do. No one except the doctor administering the program can know. He must keep that knowledge secret in order to tabulate the effectiveness of the actual drug.

Sometimes, one can quit through situational means. Being in a place or being broke where access to cigarettes is effectively nil can "force" you to not have any. You will go through withdrawl. Working in an office where you have defined short breaks can cut down on smoking.

[Antonio]

Nice sharing.

Quite smoking is very difficult way but slowly reduce smoking

habits with extended gaps which will minimize addiction to cigarette smoking.

Thanks for sharing.

[Deon]

I think when you feel to do smoking then you

should eat chocolate, i also had used this method.

A very amazing method of quite smoking.

[slstone]

Maybe I can help.

I smoked for 26 years. Mostly a pack a day. Today, I can honestly say, I havent had a cigarette in 2 months(8 1/2 weeks).

I used the gum. It helped. I refused to try the pill as I have heard many bad things about it such as heart problems etc...

Cold turkey never works for me. I weaned myself down until I only smoked 1 or 2 per day. Then quit completely.

It is a daily demon to avoid picking a cigarette up, but so far I am managing.

It all comes down to basically mind over matter. Believe me, I still want to light one up all day every day. So I chew regular

gum whenever I feel the urge. Call it Operation: Distraction. Whatever works to help you avoid the temptation to fire up another one.

My wife quit cold turkey along with me, so its kind of like the buddy system. We help each other.

As far as side effects for nicotine substitutes such as depression, agitation, etc...These are not side effects of various things like gums and pills.

These are the side effects of quitting smoking and have nothing to do with whatever method you are using to quit.

Some of my co-workers have noticed I am a little tighter wound than I was before. I have noticed that since I quit smoking, my tolerance for BS has

plummeted to zero, lol. But it is what it is. There is always a trade off for what you desire. And that goes for just about everything in life.

Basically you have to decide to do it and force yourself. Its like any other addiction: You think, ok, I will only have one, and no more. But that one

leads to another one, etc...so much for quitting then.

So you are not alone my friend. There are others of us here with you.

Funny little anecdote. Went to see my doctor. Receptionist for doctor was a smoker. Apparently, my wife and I inspired her to quit smoking too.

Regards everyone.

[smith joe]

1. Slowly reduce smoking habits with extended gaps which will minimize addiction to cigarette smoking.

2. Keep some chocolates or chewing gums with you. Whenever you feel for smoking take one chocolate or chewing gum and keep in your mouth and concentrate in your work.

3. Whenever you feel to smoke immediately leave your room and do some physical exercise which is helpful to forget smoking.

4. Avoid company associated in smoking habits.

5. Avoid to inhale smokes from any smoking person surrounding you because indirect smoking will also be addictive and harmful.

6. Don't keep cigarette packet along with you.

7. Make a tour program in high altitude mountain trekking. In high altitude you will feel no urge to smoke. If you can spend a week in such high altitude place you can quit smoking. If you can motivate yourself after return at home that will be the best opportunity to quit smoking for ever.

Hello joshual.

These tips are really useful and it would must work for remedies of smoking.You just have to follow these tips and have the effective results one day you will totally stay away from smoking.