how can i stop smoking?

Answer 1

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves, as you have already observed.
Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one. Beware - alcohol will weaken your resolve.
Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.
It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!
We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.

After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.
All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.

Answer 2

I was smoking 40 a day. But gave up one Easter. On the Good Friday I smoked 120 cigarettes, but only smoked the first 1/4 of each of them and stubbed them out into a large metal tray in my front room.

On the Saturday, I said to myself that I could smoke all I wanted - from the tray. I smoked them - but only another 1/4.

On the Sunday, I said to myself that I could smoke all I wanted - from the tray. I smoked most of them - but only another 1/4.

On the Monday, I smoked another 1/8 leaving the butts.

On Tuesday morning I tried smoking the butts again but was violently sick whenever I tried smoking them.

On the Wednesday I could not face the tray so put it behind me on the sideboard. Stayed in and drank some beer watching TV.

On the Thursday I did not want a cigarette. I have not smoked now for 20 years.

Answer 3

i gave up 5yrs ago by doing the cold turkey and jam jar method

fill jar half way with contents of ash tray,it may take a few days
add boiling water
allow to cool
replace the lid
and shake
when you have stopped smoking and feel the need for a ***
SMELL THE JAR
it's avery bad smell...nicotine colgne it will make you retch
but you take each hour, day ,week,month as it comes
i was able to throw my jar away after the 3rd week it smelt like someone died but now im a non-smoker
GOOD LUCK THEN

Answer 4

just think for a Minuit girl , how much do you want to live and have a lively life,smoking will affect your lungs that you will have, if you don't have now a most irritating cough that you and whoever is in the room with you can,t sleep as well as yourself,you will be out of breath easily.
If you go out with with someone who doesn't smoke, your breath will probably stink, it will be like kissing a stale ash tray. Many more reasons, money is the least of your worries, I saw my father die a terrible death with lung cancer, believe me its not nice.

Answer 5

Go to a nursing home where there is a lot of people on oxygen tanks. Ask them why they are on oxygen and 95% will tell you they were stupid when they were younger and smoked. They are now dying because they couldn't quit. SOME EXCUSE. I know this ,because I am one of those people. I am only 57. I quit cold turkey in 1987. WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE?

Answer 6

sounds crazy but it stopped me and a lot of people who i told. Get a cotton bud, dip it in milk and run it along your last few cigarettes. Leave to dry and when you light one up the taste will put you off nicotine as everytime you think of tobacco you associate it with the horrible taste you experience from the fags. You won't be able to help it

Answer 7

You have to be ready to quit, seriously. I wasn't ready to quit quite a few times and it failed. When I was ready, I stopped cold turkey, and was just done. I was sick of needing a cigarette, smelling like smoke...etc. Good luck!

Answer 8

When I quit, I just went cold turkey. The first 2 weeks are the toughest, but then it gets easier. Just take one day at a time.

Answer 9

>:D empty out ur money in the bank and start chewing gum. O.O if that doesnt work then get addicted to something lesser worse than smoking

Answer 10

Cold turkey is the best way...

but one more smoke and your addicted again.