what is the best way to stop smoking?

Answer 1

I'm trying patches and an inhalator, only in my first week. Having an incentive helps, I've just come out of hospital with blood clots in my lungs, so now I have proof that smoking is killing me and boy do fags scare me now!! Still have cravings though!

Answer 2

How I gave up was....... I had decided that I didn't want to smoke anymore so planned to give up in the new year.... after a heavy drinking and vomiting session (sorry.....) at Christmas the cigs just tasted AWFUL so I stuck a patch on, the next day I missed the "hit" at the back of the throat.......... you know what I mean. the delicious drag............... so I bought an inhalator. I have been off the cigs for nearly 10 months now. I also met a gorgeous new fella who is a non- smoker so that helps........ I am still tempted to have a cig occasionally but I have come so far now I just wont give in....... ONCE in the early days I succumbed and had just 1 ciggie I enjoyed every lung full, and afterwards thought "ok that was good but I still don't smoke"...and have never had another, it's almost as if you have to change your way of thinking... it is easier to think I have had a smoke so I may as well buy 10 more...... then that is your attept at quitting stuffed........... the down side to my story is I have put nearly 2 stone weight on

Answer 3

Smoking cannot be ceased immediately. For a starter, try reducing the packets of ciggarettes smoked everyday. Drink plenty of water and get yourself plenty of fresh air because your lungs might have already been congested. Go see a doctor to have a chest x-ray done to see how your lungs are. The doctor will prescribe you with some anti-smoking gum like Nicotine gum or patches to reduce the temptation in smoking. Never ever get a hand on a ciggarette when people are smoking around you. Secondary smokers have high tendencies of having lung cancers as well as first hand smokers. Go online and start searching for more anti-smoking articles. I'm sure they help you alot. And if you believe in God (from whichever religion), try not to smoke as it is not healthy. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Ignoring the obvious health benefits of quitting, smoking may be symbollic of something important in your life (or childhood).
For some people smoking gives the illusion of freedom, rebelliousness, self-confidence, creativity, stress release or simply having a smoking break.
This image may have been reinforced when you were younger and the advertising/cinema was full of smoking as "cool".
Smoking also creates chemical changes that promote addiction.

Ask yourself (1) what benefit you get from smoking and (2) how you can get the same benefit in another way
(e.g. find other ways to relieve stress, have a break etc.)
It does not help to replace smoking by another addiction!!!

Other people have given some great tips for quitting AND it helps to understand the underlying illusion & chemical addiction.

Answer 5

Personally speaking, if nothing else worked for you, COLD TURKEY is the next best thing! It WON'T be easy but after you get through the first week you'll realize that you CAN do it! When you feel like smoking, you need to do things like chew gum( it changes the taste) or get more involve in a hobbie, think about whether or not you want to end up with the PERILS of emphysema. I had a family member who had to wheel around an oxygen tank.

Answer 6

I can only share what has worked for me Iam 50 years old and to quick smoking 24 years ago was an expirence I was pregnant with my first child I couldnt breath I had no idea I was pregnant i walked into a steam room and that did it for me i couldnt smoke after that it hurt too much i later found out the baby was soo big pressing on my lungs .Oh i desparatly wanted a cigaret but i stuck to my promise I made myself that I would quit for the benefit of the baby who is now a terrific soon to be 25 year old . Girl the apple of my eye I couldnt be prouder. You got a tough road ahead of you I drank tons of cold water cried alot and I sucked on ice cubes coinstantly I did have a picture of a baby with a gas mask on and smoke all around that helped me i didnt want my baby breathing dirty smoke so i gave it up It doesnt bother me any more the craving is gone good luck . also im told the doctor has a remedy to quit try that id my method doesnt work for you

Answer 7

First you have to really want to stop.
I had acupuncture at a local Chinese doctors and have never smoked since, I did not crave and felt no symptoms of withdrawal whatsoever.
Two sessions, £40 a piece, four needles in my face and instantly stopped smoking. No pain, just a great feeling of relaxation and that was it, I was instantly a non smoker after 35 years of the bloody filthy habit.
Healthwise the best thing I ever did.

Answer 8

i'm a Smoker too , an i'm not gonna give you some BS answer like i have read .. "will power" .. "just stop" .. you & I know that just dont work !!

I went to my doctor an told him i was trying to Quit he gave me wellbutrin, it was made for a Anti-depressent , BUT .. when they did there studies of it , they Found that Smokers who took it Stoped Smoking after 3-4 weeks of using it, I have been using it for a week now , it's Slowley killing my urge for Cigs. An thats exactually what it's suppose to do. You start taking it , an slowley you will cut down on the Smokes , then Finally Stop. GOOD LUCK TO YOU !! I hope it works for you , as it's working for me !

Answer 9

When I quit my theory was to make myself hate smoking. So, whenever I wanted a cigarette I smoked two. i basically overdosed myself with nicotine on a continual basis and made myself sick. For the last couple of months of my smoking career I was up to about 2 and half packs a day. When I finally did quit it was kind of a relief.

That was 7 years ago, without a single puff.

Answer 10

Basically, regardless to what methods you use, be it gum or patches, you have to make up your mind, that is it! Paul Carr s book really helped, especially when you dont have to pack it in until you have read it, phew. But it helped!

Too expensive! Unhealthy! Stinks! How can a thin roll of paper and weed dominate you???

You are bigger then it! Who controls you, you or it??? ENOUGH!!! I am now a NON smoker!

The original *** Ash Lil, 4O plus a day, down to the filter tip, leather lungs, panic down to 2!
I did it 15 years ago, best thing I ever did, and it helped my self esteem, and when I realised I could do that, well I took my self off to college, and did a load more stuff I never thought I could do, or afford to do, or was healthy enough to do!

GOOD LUCK!