What are some of the most successful methods to quit smoking?

Question

Successful experience of this method is preferred, not just what you've heard or read about.

Answer 1

A combination of a smoking cessation medication along with behavioral counseling results in the highest quit rates.

Chantix, a twice a day pill, has 45% quit rates at 12 weeks, Zyban has 30% and nicotine replacement systems around 20%.

Your odds of quitting on your own, without a medication or behavioral counseling support, are 7% at one year.

Good luck!

Answer 2

i started running a few years ago. i stay away from cigarettes because i would have to give up running. i smoked for 2 weeks in may, but that was the worst of it. i wouldn't be able to keep up both, so i always choose running. :) good luck edit: to add more detail, the motivation is that i could never give up the way running makes me feel. even though smoking can be fun (the 2 weeks were during a trip to amsterdam - haha), it is so much more depressing to think of giving up running than depriving myself of any pleasure to smoking. i am like you, i could never really care enough to stop, even though the habit depressed me.

Answer 3

Dying

Answer 4

I feel the most successful method to quit smoking would have to be.... marry a hard core non-smoker that constantly nags everytime you even mention a cigarette much less look at someone smoking in a suggestive manner! And soon you'll realize everytime u think about smoking, you'll remember you'd rather urinate on an electric fense rather than to risk upsetting your spouse who will nag you untill your ears BLEED!!!!


But thats just speaking from my experience!

Answer 5

Just quit. The craving will be strong for the first few days, then it lessens. Once in a while you might have a strong urge to smoke, yet if you can withstand the craving, that urge will go away after a few minutes. The longer you stop, the longer the intervals are between the cravings.

Answer 6

Cold turkey. You have to really want it, if you really want to quit it. All those like Nicorette ads about the gum and the patches just put nicotine into your bloodstream so that it stops the cravings, but in your mind, you haven't successfully quit, which leaves you prone to start smoking again in the future. Please try it. Slowly decrease the number of cigarettes you smoke each day by weeks or months, and it'll REALLY work as long as you put your mind to it. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 7

Before I quit I started eating healthy and I exercised everyday. I did this for two months and lost 10 pounds. I used the patch for two weeks. And it has been almost one year since I smoked. I still eat right and exercise everyday. I have not gained weight but if you do oh well just keep eating and exercising and you will do fine good luck.

Answer 8

Quitting smoking is extremely difficult.

Don't believe commercials or "stories" you heard of people doing it easily.

Nicotine substitutes, like nicotine gum, nicotine patches, or nicotine inhalers, will put nicotine in your body as you quit cigarettes. It's a good healthy plan towards quitting. The positive thing about them is you can quit the cigarettes then quit the nicotine later. And the amount of nicotine you get goes lower and lower as you go along. The downside is when you're done it's still kind of depressing.

Cold turkey works too. Just stop smoking and adapt. I like this because it doesn't cost money. The downside is that it's hard. I would quit cold turkey if I had a lot of free time on my hands, and not a lot of stress. Something to remember is that after 48 hours any nicotine in your system will be gone. You can kind of feel this happen on the 3rd day.

I've quit a total of 3 times. Twice with patches and once cold turkey. (Tried the gum once, but it made my throat itchy and coughy.) I can say that if you do go with the patches (or any nicotine substitute) follow the directions and the schedule/plan. It might seem excessive since each box of patches costs a pretty penny. But doctors do research on that kind of stuff, and I can say the second time I did the patches (following the schedule) it worked much better than the first time, when I just used 3 boxes total, and stepped down once each week.

Answer 9

For some of us I think the most successful metod is Death itself.

Answer 10

You say to your self I don't wanna smell that way any more, I don't want people to be disgusted by my habit, I don't wanna get sick from it, and I don't wanna be a fool any more. Than you throw the cigarettes, and you never smoke again. Than you say in a couple of weeks; I had no idea I was such a character!