What's the best way to give up smoking?

Answer 1

Honestly, cold turkey.. Since July.2 smoke free for one year.
I used gum first, but started walking and exercising. eventually
it will get your mind off it. If you crave a cig. sit back or play a game on the computer, it takes about 5 minutes for the craving to go away. Breathe deeply. Just keep busy. It will get easier as time goes by. Its hard but I feel so much better and now realize how bad I smelled after a cigarette, when I smell other people.
I am not a non-smoking fanatic, but it is easier if you surround yourself with non smokers.
Good Luck to you.

Answer 2

Have you tried Zyban? You take 1 a day for 6 days (carry on smoking) then 2 a day with 12 hours in between and around 15 to 17 days later you stop. It really is good 3 in my family have used this and they all said it was as if something just switched on in their head. It doesn't bother them being around smokers either, and they have had no craving.

There are side affects for some people one is pains in the chest if this happens you must stop taking them. Unfortunately this happened to me and I thought it was my heart but after a check up at the hospital the said it was the Zyban and not my heart. It was scarey because I didn't know about the pains but hey it worked for 3 out of 4 of us.

Answer 3

Julie is right - don't start but, if you have started then jan t is right - just give up without planning it. That's what the experts say anyway. The most successful quitters just decide to do it there and then and that's it. Mind you, I have never even held a lit cigarette so how would I know? But I DO know that I told my husband (then a new boyfriend) that it was the cigarettes or me. He chose me 20 years ago - thank goodness - and he just quit there and then and hasn't smoked since. If anyone reading this is trying to quit I wish you every success.

Answer 4

Wellbutrin or Zyban. It artificially elevates the same pleasure center in the brain that nicotine targets. So you keep smoking, but get none of the satisfaction until you actually want to quit because there's nothing left but the nasty parts of it. The only trick is the oral fixation that the pills don't satiate. I kept taking smoke breaks as usual but chewed on a toothpick instead of a cigarette. Good luck!

Answer 5

This is working for me; smoke a pencil. LOL I know it sounds daft, but just go through the same motions with the pencil but obviously don't light it.
I am at the point where if I do give in and light one up, it makes me cough and turn green. This really works mate, and I wish you the best of luck!
~Because sometimes it is rocket science.~

Answer 6

Although it's not easy, the true, manly, hard, know you have willpower way is to just never smoke again. Just don't pick up and smoke another cigarette. Also, a rubber band that you can wear on your rist and snap against your skin when you get tempted works well.

Answer 7

Quit, I did it on the 1st of Feb this year, no f'ing patches or any of that nonsense, just give up and NEVER smoke another.

I am a nurse, I see the effects on people and how they scream and cry and writhe in agony as they battle cancer from smoking. It makes you physically sick to see the effects.

Just stop.

Answer 8

Acupuncture can help with the cravings and taste of cigs. It wont make you stop, but it can help. You still have to change some of your habits that u did while smoking so u dont get in the rut of doing it again. Search the net for acupunturists in your area. Good Luck.

Answer 9

I smoked 15 cigs in a row and was sick. Now I still feel a bit queasy when I even smell smoke - it'll defintely make you quit.

Answer 10

wish i bloody knew !! but when i did have ago last year the patches were brill and those inhalators with nicotine in were good as you could hold it like a cigarette. you get it all free at the doctors and see them 1 a month for help advise .. good luck .