I've heard that taking vitamin C pills can help with quitting smoking. Is this true? Do I take them while I'm

Question

still smokeing. Or do i quit and then start takeing the vitamin C? I'm just trying new ways to help me quit for good. Thank you for the 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. An especially good substitute is a glass of orange juice a couple of times per day, as this replaces the lost vitamin C, and the time spent squeezing oranges gives us something to do with our hands. Freshly squeezed is far better than boxed stuff, which contains unhealthy preservatives, 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

Natural Quit Smoking Magic

Answer 3

Yes..it gets much easier! Just hang in there! I smoked for 16 years and I have recently been quit for a year! The first few days are the worst! You will be counting months before you know it..then you will lose count! Just don't go around any smokers in this critical period of the first couple of weeks! That will help a lot! Good luck! You can do it! Don't give in! Keep on Truckin'!

Answer 4

Ive not heard of them helping people quit smoking but I've heard of people taking them while smoking to help prevent lung cancer. They would pop a vitamin c with every cigarette they smoked. Warning about vitamins and smoking. Vitamin B can cause increase chance of lung cancer in smokers. Wanna quit? Be brave and just do it. It takes a strong person but it can be done. Im sure lesser people that you quit all of the time. I quit cold turkey and you can to. Its not easy and the cravings last for months and months. Need help? Just think about death and what it will be like to be sitting in a hospital bed in between dilotid injections in the most unimagineable pain there is, praying to god to die. Keep smoking and you will more than likely die this way. Or drown in your own fluids from emphysema. Imagine what it will be like to gasp for breath like you are drowning every moment of the last few months of your life. Just quit. you can do it. Put them down and walk away.

Answer 5

Smoking does rob the body of Vitamin C so yes take it.
You should drink Lot's of water to help flush the nicotine out of your body. One thing that helped me to quit was to cut a plastic drinking straw about the length of a cigarette
and I'd draw on it and pretend to inhale and exhale just as if I were smoking, because the habit of putting something in my mouth was one of the things I missed about smoking. I told a friend about this and it also helped her quit.

Answer 6

No love... you take vitamin C to replace what the smokes suck out of your body.

Vitamin C is one of the only vitamins that your body can't maintain on it's own and when you smoke it makes it worse...

Answer 7

I've never heard of it. My b/f takes viatmin C pills on a regular basis and he is still smoking! lol. All I know is vitamin C pills help with our immune system.

Answer 8

Vitamin C will not help you in quitting smoking...However, vitamin c is good to take while you are a smoker since smoking depletes vitamin c in the body

Answer 9

Start taking vitamin C. Then in exactly two and a half days give up smoking and after the following 12 days start drinking. You will successfully drop one vice and also successfully pick up another, but much more enjoyable.

Answer 10

Cigarette smoke tends to block certain nutrients, or to send them out of your body before you can benefit from them. IIRC, vitamin C is one of them. You'll want to start taking the C now.

Good luck.