I know how to quit smoking, how do I STAY quit? Please Help.?

Answer 1

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves.
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 quit smoking 1 year and 3 months ago (wow- I can't believe it's been that long) after 25 years of smoking. I have to tell you it was certainly the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life. I had tried at least a dozen times before, but somehow this time it stuck!

The first thing is you have to want to do it for YOU and only YOU! I also had a challenge with 2 other friends about quitting. They both thought it was going to be harder for me- so each time they smoked, it encouraged me more to keep on going.

I never kept any "emergency" smokes around the house and if it got real bad- I'd go by a pack- sit on the floor and CRY! I'd cry and cry until I finally got up and threw them away. I decided I had to be stronger then the cigarettes!

I also used the patch- exactly according to details and didn't falter from the plan.

Some people use support groups on line. I ddn't care for that because I found it had me thinking about smoking more then I wanted to.

I think it took about 3 months (post patch) to get past the crying and longing. It took another 6 months before I could finally say- I'll never smoke again. When you are going through it, it seems like your life is all blurry and fuzzy and that you will never feel right again. But, it does get better!

Good luck on your quit!

Answer 3

Since I'm not a smoker, I don't know if this will help. But if you search the web about the manufacturers and learn all the things they do into making their product, you might find out some things that will shock you and possibly get you angry enough to want to quit. A lot of the things that are done are shockingly malicious.

Answer 4

Working out helped me. I quit smoking a started hitting the gym everyday to handle stress. I haven't smoked in 6 months and I lost 40 pounds and feel great. I wound never be able to go back to smoking my health is to important now. maybe you should try.

Answer 5

Will power worked for me, every time i really wanted one I did something to distract myself and every day, I put aside what I would have spent on cigarettes and treated myself to something nice. I got to luck forward to the treat and ended up thinking about what I might get instead of not having a cigarette. I've been stopped for nearly 3 years now and if I ever think about them, I remind myself that the money I used to spend on cigarettes every month now pays for a nice holiday every year.

Answer 6

I had the same issue with my sweet tooth, this is what you should do.

Every time you feel an urge, shake your head and say "I will not let it control me, I will not let it control me." Get your mind off of it with exercising and fun activities. Throw away all lighters and cigarrettes. Try to think ahead what might happen if you die from it, or if you will be in the hospital, what will your family and friends do?

Answer 7

remind urself that you will die from it sooner than you think or may want to and find reasons to want to live. find thing to do with your time. keep busy and not with a girl because when thats done you will go back to smoking.

Answer 8

u need to do the same tenque that u stopped it to dont do it agian i know it can be a hard habbit 2 break but you can do it try u wiill die soon if u dont

Answer 9

I got hypnotized...but I know that doesn't work for everyone. I only needed one session.

Answer 10

will power is the best way.. good luck!