2006-08-02 22:11:57 · 18 answers · asked by mary g 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I don't know if this is a perfect way, but it helped me. I was smoking over a pack a day for many years. I tried many times to stop and finally succeeded. I used to pick a date, 2 or 3 months ahead of me, like my birthday or a new year resolution. I was pretty serious about it. Possibly this time let me prepare myself or embedded something in my mind, I don't know, but at the date it was easy to stop. My urge disappeared and I could spent time with my friends, 90% of them chain-smokers, without even noticing their cigarettes (sometimes literally, this is how much smoke they can produce together).
Months were passing and I always made the same mistake. I thought I had the addiction under control and just out of boredom or curiosity I had lit one this cigarette. It didn't make any harm I thought, so one week later I lit another one. Before I knew I was smoking more than ever. I had to start whole giving up procedure all over again.
Now I haven't been smokin for 19 months and I promised myself that no matter what, I won't touch another cigarette.
2006-08-03 01:45:56 · answer #1 · answered by Feniks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
SMOOKING is an incredibly powerful addiction.
The Nicotine from SMOOKING is considered to be stronger than a heroin addiction and to add to it every store, gas station, bar, and a lot of other places have cigarettes for sale.
Unlike any other addiction there is no drug rehab for SMOOKING and everyone that has never SMOOKED can't understand it.
I have been SMOOKING for over 25 years, I have tried many times to quit SMOOKING but I always go back to them.
The cravings NEVER go away EVER. Life is hell when every single day you want to have a SMOOKE so bad and you struggle to avoid it. That is what makes X-SMOOKERS such a ***** to be around. They too are cranky because they also want a SMOOKE...
2006-08-03 05:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mental understanding that you are not addicted. You do not need cigarettes. They do not make you feel more relaxed or relieve stress. They do infact cause higher stress levels. They are an excuse to take a break or gather with peers... it is all a complex net of excuses that are imaginary. The feeling you have that you think "makes you" want a cigarette... you choose what it means. I feel hunger, but it sometimes means I need nutrition, sometimes it means Im bored, sometimes it means I like carsinogens... My point is, It means whatever I believe it to at the time. I have smoked cigarettes many times in my life. I smoked 1 pack a day for 7 months recently. I quit once in the middle but didnt really care and started again in less than a week. About a month ago I just didnt buy more. I somehow didn't care. Everytime I felt like having a cigarette, I found myself laughing at the urge. I saw the compulsion as a failing impulse that didnt want to die. I stomped it out in my head. I havent smoked since and I have no desire to, and whenever the thought crosses my mind, I feel proud of myself for having won, again. You can do this. Do it for your health and for the ones you love.
Imagine having to talk through a tube in your throat... or having to have your vocal cord scraped. Or try going for a long bike-ride... feel how hard it is to breath... feel how weak your body is from smoking and try to remember what it was like being a kid in middleschool gym class... There was a time when you did not smoke and you got along fine. You can have that back.
2006-08-03 05:58:46 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if I was ever addicted to cigarrets, I would bring 1 into a secure room, such as an asylum, and have a friend lock me in with food, for one week, and smoke the 1 cigarret when I first got there, and have something to do in there.
2006-08-03 05:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by wd20x2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its different for everybody. i just up and stopped 4 months ago the hardest part was the first 3 days but after 3 weeks its not on your mind too much if you don't let it be just keep yourself busy. i tried not to have any idle time until i could handle it( Took 2 months ) but now i am ok and don't think about it that often.
2006-08-03 05:19:09 · answer #5 · answered by drunkenbastard4135 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a program, from smoking to cigars then chewing tobacco and then chew bubble gum flavored with nicotine.
2006-08-03 05:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Awesome 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people I know who smoke did it to get rid of tense/stress. So I guess strong WILL and a change of LIFESTYLE will do.
2006-08-03 05:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by Frontal Lobe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
place a trigger on their skull & just ask quit or ill pull da trigger
Just kiddin.
well its a persons strong will only can do it. otherwise its impossible to do it forcibly by ya.
da person should understand its only good for da person itself.
2006-08-03 05:17:44 · answer #8 · answered by hauntingskull 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
strong will and finding an activity to vent the urge of smoking.
2006-08-03 05:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by Abena Zed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reduce the number of cigars you take by one every week until your body rejects it.
2006-08-03 05:18:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋