For smokers only please...?

Question

If you have quit succesfully, how did you accomplish?

Answer 1

Ok......i gave up just 3 months ago, and was told it was going to be really difficult and i was gonna die!!! well.....im still alive and found it quite easy. I have to say i got through lots of food and hard boiled sweets to suck on, but this oly happens for a few weeks. im telling u its well worth it!!!! i just had enough, it was giving me breathing difficulties and i hated the smell and taste and everything, i had had enough of one little stick control my life, and it costs way too much!! i woke up and threw my cigarettes far away, and its al in the mind! just say no, no, NO!!! once you have got past day one, you have an urge to get through day 2, and etc etc. I feel so much better now! and i gave up in a house where there are 6 smokers around me! GOOD LUCK!!! you can do it!

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I qualify - I smoked my last cigarette on May 11th this year and am still fighting the fight. On that day, I decided that when my pack ran out, I would not be buying any more. In preparation I bought a starter pack of Nicorette Inhalator as I was sitting in a bar attending a work colleagues leaving do. Since then, I've chewed the odd nicorette 2mg gum and use approx 3 inhalator cartridges per day (although they say I should be using between 6 - 12 as I smoked approx 35 cigs per day).

It's been hard work, especially as I still drink like a fish, live with a smoker, frequent smokey pubs etc, but I think that if I am to beat the habit, I've got to carry on doing the things I've always done, just without lighting a cigarette. I've got mates who stopped drinking alcohol at the same time as giving up smoking, but the minute they went back to having alcohol, they went back to ciggies too.

I just like the fact my bedroom doesn't smell like an ashtray anymore. I've kept my smoking paraphernalia as it reminds me that this is a 'choice' I've made, (plus some of my lighters were bloody expensive and darn attractive!).

So, it's a case of make a choice. Do you smoke or not? If you choose not to, then don't.

Answer 3

I carried a toothbrush with me everywhere I went. I would sometimes brush my teeth 30 times a day. Every time I got the urge to smoke I would brush my teeth. The natural desire to be clean is more over powering than smoking. By doing this it also kept me from using any patches or gums which just puts nicotine back in the system and I didn't gain a pound.

After a week or so you won't be able to stand the smell of someones breath that smokes it about made me sick to think that my breath smelled like that.

GOOD LUCK
Just remember you don't need a cigarette you need a job a home a family and good health.

Answer 4

one day I just quit.
( after trying several times)
got rid of everything smoke related.
Drank lots of water, cranberry juice and did breathing excercises when i really got a craving.
Also my fav thing was to blow bubbles.
Like the kind you buy for a buck.
Got the hand/mouth thing and blowing satisfaction.
Sounds silly but it reliieves the stress.

American Cancer society has some tips too

I have never known , patch or gum to help people though.
Cold turkey is the best.
Good luck and think how great it will be to have that monkey off your back!
And how much $ you will save. Ya spend the money you save on something great like a vacation or a Ferrari.

Answer 5

I used to smoke Cigaretts. Back in 1993 I decided I wanted to quit. So I put together a plan that as a reward I would buy a new Harley. So I picked a quit date which was March 14, 1994. I selected the bike I wanted to buy and then just kept telling myself I was quitting. At 7pm on March 14th I had my last smoke as well as drink. Yes I am an alcoholic. I have to tell you what a fight. YES I QUIT BOTH drinking as well as smoking. I bought my new harley which I picked up on January 31, 1995. I am proud to say I have not touched another drink since, and I have not touched another cigarett since then as well. BUT I do smoke cigars now. I have for the last three years. I find them relaxing and don't believe them to be as bad for you as you don't inhale them. OH by the way, when I quit cigaretts I was smoking four packs a day.

Answer 6

Shouldn't you say: For ex-smokers only?

I quit cold turkey. I never was a very heavy smoker, and in college I was in with a roommate that did smoke heavily and I just got so sick of the smell that I quit.

After that I might have bummed a smoke from someone if I was drinking, but I never went back to smoking regularly, thank goodness.

Answer 7

My Dad got cancer and quit, He was a 2 pack a day smoker for 30 years. He quit in 1 day.

Answer 8

I still haven't quit but know a couple of people who smoked for decades before quitting.
One told me to wash all the curtains, scrub all the walls, throw away all ashtrays and throw away any other smoking paraphanelia you may have lying around.
Another still keeps an unopened pack sitting on his dresser, so he will wake up every morning, look at them and think "I don't have to open those."
My dad quit briefly by using an herbal remedy. (He's tried the patch, gum, etc.) Yet the herbal was by far most successful.
Good luck!

Answer 9

I quit cold turkey, and I have no idea how. I had tried every other way imaginable, with no luck. I tried gum, patches, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, smoke-away, gradual reduction, nothing worked. I just woke up on Jan. 1st and decided I didn't need to do it anymore, and for some reason, this time it stuck. You just really have to want to quit for yourself. Good luck.

Answer 10

I was a very heavy smoker for 35 yrs. I had a heart attack, the doctor told me that if Ikept on smoking he'd see me in hospital again within 12 months,that was 10yrs. ago,needless to say i've not smoked since