i wanna quit smokin'. Help me please. I am too addicted to it u know?

Answer 1

The patch worked for me.

Answer 2

I smoked for 36 years and just quit last October 12th. I had 2 cigarettes left in my pack, and I threw them out and that was it. Never thought it would happen, cuz I was a 2 pack a day smoker, but I told myself I was done. Its very hard the first couple weeks, not because of nicotine withdrawal, but because of the habit itself,and what triggers it. I am doing great. Its a mind thing, and you have to win it. Good Luck!

Answer 3

I too swear by American Spirit brand. I was up to over a pack a day, then I switched to American Spirit. I roll my own now (with filter): You can get a tin of American Spirit, a roller, and a pack of filtered tubes at any discount smoke shop. All in all it will cost you about $20 bucks. I now have gone down to about 10 cig's a day. I haven't completely quit, of course, but it's still a lot less than I was. Plus American Spirit IS all natural, it doesn't include all that crap that the usual cig. manufacturers put in it.

Answer 4

I quit a month ago, because I was pissed off and finally had enough of the mind games and bs. Smoking is not good for you, it's terrible for your health, it's a waste of money. It took my years, trying numerous times, to finally quit, and hopefully I am done for good now.

A note about roll your own cigarettes. I rolled Drum cigarettes for the last few months. A really stinky european brand. I don't know if it is "pure" like american spirit or not, but they were very strong and stinky. They were really cheap though, which is why I switched to them. I think the fact that they are so much more inconvenient than normal cigarettes is why they make it easier to reduce the number of cigarettes one smokes per day. Plus the fact that they are usually stronger and yuckier tasting and less enjoyable to smoke. If you want to save money before you quit, and in all likelihood make it a little bit easier to quit, then you could roll your own if you aren't going to quit right away.

The best thing to do I think is to get pissed off about it. It helped me that the person I loved hated for me to smoke and continually challenged me to quit. I think that helped more than anything else. Because I kept failing, I got angrier and angrier at the addiction, and that anger and desire to change gave me the will to be strong when I had really really strong terrible cravings to smoke.

Even if you screw up, keep at it. On the third day, I had a cigarette (it sucked). On the 4th day (well night) I was at a bar, and smoked 2 cigarettes, but I didn't use that as an excuse to keep smoking. I used that to get angrier, and to become resolved in quitting. On 4th of July I had one more cigarette, I had one more cigarette, while I was drunk, after breaking up with that girl I loved.

Some suggestions:

Don't drink or go to bars when you are trying to quit because it greatly increases your chance of slipping.

If anyone you know is motivating you to quit, make that work for you.

In the long run, quitting smoking completely will be the best thing. But sometimes it is hard to imagine that you can go the rest of your life without smoking. Sometimes, during a bad urge, it's best to tell yourself something like, "I won't let myself smoke tonight, I can succumb to this urge next week, or tomorrow, if I must, but not now." But at other times, it helps to tell yourself, "NEVER AGAIN!!" Once you've gone several days or weeks, you should be telling yourself to never smoke again all the time.

You can tell yourself, I'm not a killer, I will never kill anybody, I will never let myself kill another person. Likewise, since cigarettes kill, you can never let your self smoke, or work towards your own destruction by smoking again.

I'll include a link that helped me a little bit, but unfortunately I don't know of anything you can read that will just instantly give you all the motivation and desire to quit. You have to build that up inside yourself, I guess, and once you have a strong enough desire to quit, you will.

You see if you want to quit, you will not smoke when you have a craving. But if you don't want to quit, you will smoke when you have a craving, it's that simple. So in order to quit, you have to want to quit, and you have to really want it.

You will have cravings, which will be very unpleasant, but if you really want to stop, you will be able to resist the cravings. You don't have to give in to the cravings - you have the power to choose not to. The cravings will pass... and in time they will become less intense, and they will occur less frequently. The cravings will essentially fade away in time (some say a few months, some say a year, some say 7 years - I guess it depends on the person, how long you smoked, how much you smoked, and probably tons of other factors).

You can do what you put your mind to. It's not easy, I think it is one of the hardest things in the world to do (well depending on the severity of the addiction) but millions of people have done it and you can, too.

Answer 5

It's great that you want to quit, and you CAN do it. The Red Cross in most communities has smoking cessation groups. Use the patch if you need to. The most important thing is to want to quit, and commit yourself to doing so. PS when I quit I ate little carrots and celery sticks, because chances are you'll want to EAT EAT EAT all the time.

Lots o' Luck!

Answer 6

No I don't but with my addictions (food, videogames, doing certain things in my pants, etc) I just go cold turkey. Granted thats gonna be wicked hard with nicotine, but I believe in you. Hey, it's also the cheapest solution. If you REALLY can't do it by yourself, have a loved one monitor you like a hawk.

Answer 7

I was on this site four weeks ago and with the same question. Im happy to say im still trying but I did have one inbetween and it tasted really nasty. Keep at it we are all behind you. Maybe you should try the patch. I did cold turkey

Answer 8

A friend of mine swears by American Spirits. he says switching to a "purer" tobacco lets the body ease itself off of the other chemicals first, then all you have left to shake is the nicotine.

Answer 9

I often suggest trying to find another hobby to take your mind off of smoking, I had a partner at work, that knew he couldn't smoke while at work, so he found something online and was able to postpone going to smoke, until he was down to a few.

Answer 10

Listen to this song till the end:
Air - How Does It Make You Feel.