I need help With Smoking Please?

Question

I had my 40th birthday yesterday and my gift to myself is to quit smoking cigarettes . I am a pack a day smoker and need all the help I can get . I have quit cold turkey several times in the last year and no good results . I hear tons of good things about joining online stop smoking support groups . There are hundreds of sites out there in internet land, but Im not sure witch ones to try because there are so many .

HEPL !!!

Thank You

YES I KNOW I CAN ONLY QUIT ON MY OWN ~ BUT SUPPORT IS GOOD TOO RIGHT ?

Answer 1

Dear e-mail friend as you are looking for help it means you really want to stop smoking,GOOD IT MUST BE YOUR FIRST STEP TO GO AHEAD,now look at yourself and say "I love myself and I'll win this battle by myself with my friends help".Good luck and think positively.

Answer 2

I have been a non smoker for 2 years and 10 months. I joined a Smoking cessation class. It was kinda like AA but it was so unbelievable helpful. The instructor went over benefits of quitting and consequinces on not quitting but nothing gory like a black lung or anything but it helped a lot it was eight weeks the first 2 weeks you can continue to smoke then the 3rd week is the quitting week it was put on by the county and if you were a resident you got 3 steps worth of the patch. Call your doctor and see if there is anything in your area. Quitting smoking is the most difficult thing to do.. its never easy... I still get the urge to smoke now... also the instructor told us that cinnamon helps stimulate the same tase buds as nicotine so sucking on a cinnamon stick or chewing cinnamon gum helps a lot too. Hope this helps you a little. Sorry if there are spelling errors i'm at the lauindry mat and my laundry has to be changed! =)

Answer 3

Something different works for everyone. Here is what worked for me.

First, I temporarily changed my entire lifestyle. I did not go around any of my smoking friends of family for about a month. (My hubby smoked at the time, but he was nice enough to not smoke at home for a month- he went for a walk to smoke). I also did not do any of the things that made me really want a cig like drink coffee or alcohol. After a month of not smoking, I slowly started adding those things back to my life without the cigs.

Second, I wrote "STEROID" on my fingers because my lungs had gotten a bad infection due to the smoking and I had to get a steroid shot once to clear them up. That way, whenever I wanted a cigarette, I had to face the guilt written on my fingers. You could write "CANCER" or something.

Finally, and this is the hardest- I had to come to terms with the awful reality of addiction. That is that I have accepted that I will want a cigarette for the rest of my life. There will never be a time when I don't want one. Now that I haven't smoked for two years, I go days without really wanting one, but suddenly sometimes the desire will hit me hard and I have to be really strong. You can't give into that "just this one time" feeling and take a drag off a friend's cigarette because that will make you start smoking again. I relapsed twice before I finally quit, and both times it was because of the "just this once" mentality. I'd have one cigarette, then one more three days later, then two, etc, then in a month I'd be back to a pack a day.

It's all about hard cold determination and will power. There is no quick fix or trick. That really sucks, I know, but you can do it!

Answer 4

If you want to quit you have to have willpower if you really want to you will.
Instead of quitting cold turkey try cutting back first, say if you smoke 20 a day over the week cut back to 10 then 5 then 0.
Find something else to do with your hands take up a hobby like swimming or something crafty, not only will it keep you busy so you don't think about smoking but if you do something crafty you could make cards or pressents for people.
I gave up smoking a while ago and only ever smoke when i i go out for drinks otherwise i hate them.
Best of luck to you and once you quit stay a non smoker.

Answer 5

Assistant manager of a pub, tried several times to quit in lots of different ways... smoked at least a pack a day but four weeks ago i just stopped. (I even threw away a full packet!)

I had had enough. It's hard but you just get to the point where YOU want to be in control!

I've gone cold turkey and everyone is being supportive. It's all about taking each hurdle at a time!!

I feel great already!

And so does my bank balance!

Will power is a marvellous thing!

Answer 6

It is a good idea to quit within a group,as you all give each other a boost when you say `i've not smoked for ....so many days/weeks or whatever.
They're also there for you if you fail.
It's hard quitting on your own,and with people saying you won't do it,you need lots of positive support.
Ask around,and see what people have to say,and enquire on the sites about help you'd get.

Answer 7

Good for you for quitting smoking. My mom quit in 1983 because Dad had a heart attack and both of them had to quit smoking. She went to a hypnotist; she said she wasn't sure whether the hypnosis worked or whether it was her Scottish heritage saying that since she was paying for this then it had better work.

My HMO runs a 'members-only' website with discussion boards. One of the discussions there concerns quitting smoking. There are also other resources available through the site for smokers who want to quit (some HMO-based and free, and others are contracted from outside providers and are not free). If you belong to an HMO and your HMO sponsors a website, go and see what's there. :-)

I looked up "nicotine anonymous" in Google to see if there were such an organization; there does appear to be one:

http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org

Following the general format of "anonymous" organizations, there probably is no official fee (there might be a hat or similar device placed somewhere to collect donations, however).

Addendum (after reading others' postings): When Mom quit smoking in 1983, she put a carton of cigarettes in the freezer (just in case she needed them). She threw them out in 2004 when the house was sold.

Answer 8

My birthday is on Tuesday next week. I am going to get some patches in the next few days to give them a try. Smoking to me is as precious as the air we breathe but I don't want to end up dead or sick because of the cizgys that I really love. All the best

Answer 9

For a start stop thinking about them they nearly killed me at the age of 38. Your not trying to quit you have quit you don't smoke. Breathe deeply and slowly exhale fast. I found carrot sticks and oranges a great help. And smelling an old ashtray and telling myself that's what I smelled like helped as well can't stand the smell of them now. Good Luck be triumphant live longer and put them out of business.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

If u really want to quit, u will start chewing gum and just quit.
But if u enjoy the taste of the earth, u will put back in your body what smokin takes out like antitoxins such as taking vitamin C daily and eating lung foods such as carrots and celery.
One cigarette destroys 200 mg of Vitamin C, so u need 2000 mg a day in your system to keep u healthy. Eat foods under the vitamins.
Its your choice, we just live once on this planet.