how to quit smoking?

Question

i have been smoking for 6 years and for 2 years i have been smoking 3 packs a day! i wanna quite help me pls!!!

Answer 1

This site has some very helpful info. You can do this, Good Luck !

Answer 2

Each person has a different way of quitting. Some people reduce it slowly and eventually quit. Some do it cold turkey. Some use pills, patches, hypnosis, etc.

You have to figure out when you smoke and why. Then start eliminating certain periods of time when you smoke. As you keep doing this, you will start reducing the number of cigarettes and the craving too. Find something to do. Eventually the craving goes away.

Answer 3

Well sweetie, this first tool for quitting is preparing your mind. You have to definitely be mentally ready in order to quit. Smoking is a horrible addiction to break. There are so many methods these days that help.

Cold turkey, just give it up and start chewing gum or sucking on hard candy or see your doctor. They now have several different tools or medications to help you not only break the habit, but rid your body of the nicotine that makes quitting so hard.

My husband is doing the patch right now, most insurances pay for it. He had tried Ziban, inhalers and hypnosis and none worked for him. So the only thing I can suggest is, find what works for you and never quit quitting.

Good luck.

Answer 4

If you dislike the idea of going cold turkey, this method is way slower 2-3yrs, but worked wonders for me. ( I haven't smoked in 10 years after being a heavy smoker for 20, and don't miss it at all or had withdrawals.

Regulate your dose and you will eventually stop smoking, 6 years is a considerable time and 3 packs are too much, so if you want to live longer, you should start quitting now, make sure you want to live longer though, else you will fail.

Here's how to quit:

1.Finding reverse:

Decrese your daily intake to a more manageable 5 cigarettes a day to start with, if you cant do 5, then do 10, if you can't do 10, then do a pack, but 3 packs a day will put you in the grave in no time.

There are several ways to accomplish this, but I suggest you time your cigarettes and allow yourself just 1 every hour, it also helps if you get longer lasting cigarettes and start putting them out when you've had enough of your nicotine fix, usually 4 hard puffs, you will be wasting money and cigarettes this way, that's ok and part of the plan.

Ideally you shouldn't mix smoking with anything else, so try not to read,drink or do any other thing while smoking, these are your last smokes, so enjoy them, better yet make each one an ocassion and not something to do when you are bored.

Your mileage will vary, so after a week,month or year of stabilizing your smoking habit to 1 pack or less you will start phase 2.

2. Fooling your body.

The hours are numbered and so is your habit, as a new years,christmas or birthday present to your body you will start trimming the smoking hours.

For the next month you will not smoke before 9am, but don't worry, if you have cravings you only have to wait less than an hour and you can puff away your daily ration which by now will be in between 1 pack and 5 cigarettes.

After one month , you will not smoke before 10 am, repeat this process until you reach 2 pm as the start of your smoking day. You will be able to trim your smoking to around 5 -6 cigarettes at this point(count them !), but if you smoke less, great.

3.The last goodbye.

To effectively quit you should not be smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day and your first one shouldn't be before 2pm.

Note:
At this point I toyed with the idea of smoking 3 cigarettes a day for the rest of my life ( and in my case I did it for a couple of months), but since quitting seemed doable and easy !, I gave it a shot and this is what happened:

The first day you don't smoke is a big deal,it almost feels naughty,it is important that you smoke the next day, so as to ease the cravings during your nicotine fast, in my case I went crazy and had a setback, smoked 5 the next days but still managed to respect my rules of not smoking before 2 pm.

I started non smoking random days (4 in month), but after the second or third non smoking day something happened, and I realized I didn't need to smoke any more.

I became a bit more adventurous and decided to quit for longer, but I always told myself that if things didn't worked out I could always go back to smoking 3 cigarettes a day.

The first time I tried not smoking for longer than a day I went on for 1 week straight !, after that I went back to smoking 3 a day for a couple of weeks with non smoking days in between random days. The second time I quit altogether and haven't smoked since.

Good Luck

Answer 5

the 1st day.. One minute at a time, a minute turns into an hour, and 24 hours turn into a day.

Take a look at the 12 steps of nicotine addiction.

Nicotine as powerful as an addiction as smoking crack cocaine or shooting meth. It is connected to many other behaviors.

I was a two pack a day man and was jonesing for about 3 days, after 3 days you are over the worst of it.

Get some healthy snacks, when you feel like a smoke grab a carrot or celery stalk.

And don't beat yourself if you "Slip".. begin again..

Answer 6

Tell everybody you know about your decision.

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Cold turkey. But you have to be sure you never ever pick one up again. It will only be bad for a couple of days. Just make sure you find something else to do. You'll have a lot of extra time on your hands!

Answer 9

in one of my past psychology classes, the professor conditioned themselves to quit smoking by putting several ciggarette butts and ash into an empty canister for rolls of film. everytime they had a craving, they would open up the canister and inhale the nauscious smell. the goal was to condition yourself to be sick of the smell everytime you had an urge. almost like shock treatment but without electricity and pain. try that.

Answer 10

Take a one week vacation.
Go to the tropics
Lie in a lawn chair
Watch naked girls
NEVER SMOKE
You will be OK after your vacation

Answer 11

as brutal as it sounds...do it COLD TURKEY!!! my grandmother did it when i was born (she didnt want to be smoking around me a she knew how bad it was to begin w/ so she decided to quit cold turkey) it may be hard but at least u seem like ur willing to try anything so just stop completely...U CAN DO IT!!!!! =)