how do i quit smoking - delhi region?

Answer 1

ok bhai saab, dont quit cold turkey, but uh take it one step at a time. and reward yourself with something healthy, for everytime you DONT smoke and resist the craving

Answer 2

Quit Smoking Tip Sheet




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Quit cold turkey. In the long run it’s the easiest and most effective technique of smoking cessation.
Do not carry cigarettes.
Quit smoking one day at a time. Do not concern yourself with next year, next month, next week or even tomorrow. Concentrate on not smoking from the time you wake up until you go to sleep.
Work on developing the attitude that you are doing yourself a favor by not smoking. Do not dwell on the idea that you are depriving yourself of a cigarette. You are ridding yourself of full-fledged smoking because you care enough about yourself to want to.
Be proud that you are not smoking.
Be aware that many routine situations will trigger the urge for a cigarette. Situations which will trigger a response include: drinking coffee, alcohol, sitting in a bar, social events with smoking friends, card games, the end of meals. Try to maintain your normal routine while quitting. If any event seems too tough, leave it and go back to it later. Do not feel you must give up any activity forever. Everything you did as a smoker, you will learn to do at least as well, and maybe better, as an ex-smoker.
Make a list of all the reasons you want to quit smoking. Keep this list with you, preferably where you used to carry your cigarettes. When you find yourself reaching for a cigarette, take out your list and read it.
Drink plenty of fruit juice the first three days. It will help flush nicotine out of your system.
To help avoid weight gain, eat vegetables and fruit instead of candies and pastries. Celery and carrots can be used safely as short-term substitutes for cigarettes.
If you are concerned about weight gain, do some moderate form of regular exercise. If you have not been exercising regularly, consult your physician for a practical exercise program which is safe for you.
If you encounter a crisis, (e.g. a flat tire, flood, blizzard, family illness) while quitting, remember, smoking is no solution. Smoking will just complicate the original situation while creating another crisis, a relapse into the nicotine addiction.
Consider yourself a “smoke-a-holic.” One puff and you can become hooked again. No matter how long you have been off, don't think you can safely take a puff!
Don't debate with yourself how much you want a cigarette. Ask yourself how do you feel about going back to your old level of consumption. Smoking is an all or nothing proposition.
Save the money you usually spend on cigarettes and buy yourself something you really want after a week or a month. Save for a year and you can treat yourself to a vacation.
Practice deep breathing exercises when you have a craving.
Go places where you normally can't smoke, such as movies, libraries and no smoking sections of restaurants.
Tell people around you that you have quit smoking.
Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption until smoking cripples and then kills you, or, you decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever. As long as neither of these options appeal to you - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF

Answer 3

I think you should quit...why should I be the only one that goes to bed early to avoid wanting a last cigar, coughing more than I did last week when I smoked. It has fun side effects..people you didn't like a little you grow to hate intensely and if given a choice between being a flower arranger at your local church or a hit man for the mafia...you choose the latter. Day 5 coming up and I am about to draw the curtains as young guys are walking by the house smoking. Its a disgusting habit and I am now kneeling beside the letter box hoping their smoke drifts in. Yes give it up that way, so I am told, you can get to live an extra 5 years....five long miserable bloody years.

Answer 4

I was a chain smoker myself for atleast 17 years but i have quit smoking in 2000, 6 years ago. I quit it slowly in a month. I made a target in my mind and reduced the qty of cig. what I was smoking. In the last one week of that month I was smoking only after having my dinner and then on 11th oct. 2000, it was all over. I call it :

Will power and not the Wills power

Answer 5

If you really want to quit, dont ever try again. Not even once. You may feel to smoke after lunch or dinner as per habit but remember, if you want to quit, then JUST QUIT.
You may have to fight a battle but you need to come out as a winner.
Still if you lose, go to a Hypnotherapist.

Answer 6

The most effective method is probably a week-long in-patient program, which combines medications (nicotine replacement, Zyban, and now Chantix), intensive behavorial therapy and education and have proven rates of one-year abstinence as high as 45%, compared with less than 5% for quitters generally.

Here are some in the US:
Mayo Clinic (mayoclinic.org/ndc-rst)
Hazelden Foundation (hazelden.org)
St. Helena (smokefreelife.com)

Check with your nearest academic medical center

Answer 7

There are several options patch, gum, sprays, etc.... but if i was you i would weine your self from them and take it a day at a time...And you have to have the will power to quit or you never will.. Support groups i have heard help real well.

Answer 8

take it one day at a time .Just remember how much money you will save when you quit

Answer 9

move to arkansas you can't smoke in any public places- it is against the law

Answer 10

You quit.