What's the best way to stop smoking?

Question

I want to stop but I'm so weak when it comes to cigarettes even though I know I'm killing myself&I'm suffering a terrible cough.Please give me your suggestions to kick my filthy tobacco habit.

Answer 1

dont ever buy a pack again

Answer 2

I have tried everything without success...patches, gum, lozenges, hypnosis. I finally talked to my doctor who put me on Wellbutrin because he says they have found that people who take it lose their desire to smoke. Well I've been taking it for a month and while I did reduce my smoking i wasn't finding myself stopping. some do however...I just didn't. So I made up my mind I was giving it up anyway hoping that the pills were at least cutting my withdrawal symptoms far better than anything else. I've had some rough spots but I am on day 12 of not smoking and I think I'm going to make it. So I highly recommend getting the pills from your doc.

The people who tell you to just simply stop are idiots and have no clue what the addiction is like. Medical Science has published articles and done studies proving it's as bad as a heroin addiction. Unfortunately, unless you've been there and know what you're talking about you should hide your stupidity by just shutting up. I smoked for 35 years. I know what I'm talking about.

Answer 3

I had a three pack a day habit. I asked God for help. I read all the books I could find on it. I even went to smokers anonymous. But I kept asking God for help. And I quit till I quit. I would break down and buy another pack , smoke some and then throw water on the rest of the pack and throw it away. It took a long time. But I didn't start out smoking three packs a day. I just made up my mind to keep quitting. I got stronger and stronger. It has been many years now. I am so grateful. You can do it. Quit till you quit.

Answer 4

Suffering a terrible cough is reason enough to put a scare into you.. I have tried a number of things but only one thing worked but developed an alergic reaction, I used the patch. and lots of deap breaths and breath holding to get me over the first couple days, then it was easy going, The gum? ouch, to hard and yucky, and to harsh on the throught, ZYban? did not work for me, but did for a buddy,.. to make things even more harsh on you..
I started when I was 17, I am now 55, a long time to stay smoking. I saw a lot of my friends die, Why am I not Dead? I am not sure.. When am I going to Quit? well, I may try the patch again without the tape and use Hypoalergetic tape as the Dr., Recommended, but I am camping next week with my son of 16. He is insisting that I give it another college try with his support..
God bless him.. Cigs are to much money to die for. give yourself a kick in the butt and get yourself prepaired to quit, You have to mad enough to be ready. Good luck.

Answer 5

I stopped for 12 days in June then had a bereavement and started again, OK 12 days is not long but I had been smoking for 30 years. I plan on quiting again when the kids go back to school.
I got the nicorette inhalator from the doctor it tasted vile so just used will power.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Easyway – Allen Carr.

This does exactly what it says, it is an easy way to stop smoking, and the way it works is essentially by de-programming the ingrained notions you have on smoking and quitting smoking so that it deals with the psychological problems of your smoking rather than the chemical. The chemical addiction is not the problem, you can go all night without being woken up by a craving, you will find sometimes you're having so much fun you forget to have a cigarette, quitting smoking does not have serious withdrawal.

Socially we are taught that smoking needs to be difficult, we live now in a very anti-smoking society, rather than a pro-quitting society, where there is no real support for people to quit, it teaches non-smokers that smokers are idiots and smokers that they have to suffer when they quit – if you believe it is difficult, this makes quitting smoking difficult – you believe to quit smoking requires will power and that quitting smoking will be depriving yourself of something you like doing, when you do not really like doing it, nor are you depriving yourself of anything, you are actually gaining something by quitting smoking.

Problem with most methods is that they will either involve going cold-turkey or nicotine replacement. Cold-turkey is not only depriving yourself of smoking but it is also just dealing with the chemical addiction rather than dealing with the psychological, nicotine replacement isn't depriving you however it is again only dealing with the chemical addiction, this is not the problem with smoking.

Allen Carr can explain this far better than I can, so let me just stick to telling you about Easyway – yes, it sounds gimmicky but it is the only way I have ever seen anyone quit smoking for good, and the only method to quit smoking that I have seen people happy with rather than being moody miserable and remaining under the impression that they need to fight the urge to smoke every day for the rest of their lives.

A book on Easyway from Amazon will set you back just £4, less than a pack of cigarettes, the book also offers money off their clinics – their clinics boast well over 90% success rate and give you a money-back guarantee – so that is just £4 you are spending for something that will help you quit smoking, be happy about quitting smoking and remain a non-smoker.

Not only that but you are allowed to carry on smoking while you are reading the book, in fact you are specifically told to carry on smoking while you read and the further you get into the book the less you want to smoke.

Check out the book reviews;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141026898/202-2911417-2461432?v=glance&n=266239&s=gateway&v=glance

You really don't know unless you try it, I honestly recommend this to everyone I know, a lot of people are too scared to try it because they aren't ready to quit yet, but all those who have read it agree it is fantastic and the only sensible way to go about quitting smoking.

Link to Easyway web site - http://www.allencarrseasyway.com

Answer 7

Dont buy fags! In fact get some Nicorette gum and that should help.

Perhaps chew ordinary chewing gum or take up a hobby,exercise.

Think about the money you are saving for not buying fags and end of month treat yourself to something nice with what you have saved but not sweets or chocolate!

Thats when you'd probably put on weight and you might not want that.

The first few weeks of giving up fags are the worst but then it does get easier.

Good luck!

Answer 8

Firstly do not tell anyone, they will only remind you that you want to give up by asking you 'have you have a smoke today etc..', Go cold turkey, and some guts and be tough on yourself. Say to people (exactly), "No thanks, I do not smoke cigarettes'. 10 out of 10 will not press you any further. I know some worse habits. Good luck.

Answer 9

It`s all about willpower.I gave up over thirty years ago and i realise now it`s the best thing i`ve ever done .Be strong and determined.It will encourage you if you put aside what you would normally spend every day.Watch it grow then you realise what a complete waste of money it is.You will feel an improvement in your health in just a few weeks,and it keeps getting better.Good luck.

Answer 10

Stop thinking of yourself as weak.
Stop using negative self-talk - it tends to become self-fulfilling.

Have something else to occupy yourself, and do that whenever you get cravings. It might be chewing gum, or having a drink of water. Just something to 'do'.

Also, when you get your cravings, stop and rationally analyse whether you genuinely want one. Rationally analyse the 'craving', what it feels like and whether you can deal with it.
This will remind you of your reasons for quitting and will engage your rational mind, which will stop your subconscious from following its routine sequence of reacting to the craving by lighting up.

Don't be too disheartened if you fail. Each time you fail to quit, your chances of quitting get better for next time you try. In effect, you become better at giving up, until you can get off it completely.


Learn about Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Answer 11

i have tried nicorete patches, which were absolutly rubbish, i think i even overdosed with them, becuase even with the patches on me i continued to smoke all though i didnt want to smoke as much. in jaunuary last year i gave up by using a drug called zyban which doctors can prescribe but you must either find a antismokig pharmacy that provides this service, you then are given a letter to be precribed the drug by your gp, you then have between 7/14 days to stop smoking, the idea about this is that you take zyban one a day while you are still smoking, as this allows the anti smoking tablet to build up in your system, hopefuly by the 7 th day you should be able to not want to smoke as much and if this is the case then you are put on it twice a day once in the morning and once at night. although if you are strugaling still on the 7 th day they will alow you to go on smoking with zyban getting into you system, but you will only be still prescribed the drug for once a day, but by day 14 you feel that you cannot stop you will be removed from the program and will have to wait another 6months to go back onto the program once again. but good news if you can stop smoking by the 14 th day you will then be prescribed the zyban twice a day like i said once in the morning and once in the night.

i my self found that by the 7th day although i was still craving for a cigarette, once i started the zyban twice a day i think by the 2nd day, i did not crave a ***, it didnt even bother me if other people were smoking around me, which i must say was brillent, because you cannot avoid all places where there is a smoking inviroment.

the 2 good things that came out off this is that i didnt put on any weight, because i wasnt craving for the nicotine, and my house, clothes and hair no longer smelt of dirty fags, i also noticed an improvment in my skin as well as it was less gressy and my hair started to shine and i need to wash it less offten as it was not prone to getting gressy so much.

i also thing that you must have quite strong urge to give up the habit, because my friend did this with me and alothough i have now stoped she has not, but i dont think she had such a strong will power to give up.

i am so glad and proud off my self as i was somking around 30 a day, also as a insentive to myself i put the money i would ave been spending into a money box, by he end off that year i had saved enough for myself kids sister and brother-in-law to go away to america.


i think thre is also one more point i should make, if you think that you would fimd it harder doing it yorself then go along to groups which are anti smoking clinics where people share there experinces on what they are finding hard or easier, for myself i found that ver intimedatig.

also you can not cheat while n the zyban, because before you are prescribed the drug you have to breathe into a tube, which gives you the readings of carbon monixide in your lungs, so everytime you go along to the pharmacy to get a letter to take to the doctor you have to breath into the machine, which should slowly decrease with every reading and if it aint this proves that you are still smoking, and will be taken of the program immedatly.which you no longer will able to get the anti smoking drug zyaban for another six months, and believe me going on zyban is the best thing that has been brought out,the inhalers are discusting alomgside with the gum, and as i had said the patches have done nothing at all. zyban saved me and my life.


As i said though you will have to be strongley motivated to give up othewise the program wont work at all for you.

i hope you get on well and do manage to give up. xxx