Has anyone here quit smoking after 25 years of contentious smoking. If yes please tell how you managed it?

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 think you should quit...why should I be the only one that goes to bed early to avoid wanting a last cigar, coughing more than I did last week when I smoked. It has fun side effects..people you didn't like a little you grow to hate intensely and if given a choice between being a flower arranger at your local church or a hit man for the mafia...you choose the latter. Day 5 coming up and I am about to draw the curtains as young guys are walking by the house smoking. Its a disgusting habit and I am now kneeling beside the letter box hoping their smoke drifts in. Yes give it up that way, so I am told, you can get to live an extra 5 years....five long miserable bloody years.

Answer 3

I started smoking when I was 16 yrs. old......I quit 4 yrs ago...I was 40 yrs old....many factors came int play. For me, it was, the price of smokes and, it just didn't taste good any more! I quit cold turkey......it was hard but I stayed away from drinking and peeps who smoked for at least a month....little by little I came around...I am glad to quit but, still from time to time I get that urge..and I tried to smoke but even the smell now, makes me nautious...be strong be determined but most of all be ready!!!....good luck!!! ;)

Answer 4

I'm a hypnotist. I've helped hundreds of people stop smoking no matter how many cigarrettes or years they have been smoking. What's really important is the desire to quit.

Answer 5

i quit smoking and chewing mainly chewed copenhagen for 17 years you have to realy want to quit i quit many times and went back after a few months or weeks i just got sick of being tied to it and needing it i slowly weaned my self off over about a year and then just quit buying it that was that yes i still get craving and urges but they get less and less #1 you have to realy want to quit not some one else that is pushing you that and watching my mother inlaw who did not smoke die of lung cancer over a very short period of time make have prompted me

Answer 6

After a pack and a half a day for forty-five years I quit cold turkey but it took a heart attack, that seems like a good incentive..

Answer 7

Simple, just quit buying, opening, puting in your mouth and lighting them !!! Unless someone else is doing this 4 U , I'm serious this is how I did it, cold turkey, the only way.

Answer 8

It is just sooooooooo easy to quit smoking,I did it so many times.

Answer 9

My doctor gave me Wellbutrin for about 90 days. It really helped control the cravings.

Good luck to you.