whats agood way to quit smoking if you live in ahouse filled with smoking you don't want take any pills?

Question

ihave a bad cough and told its boncitious i use inhalers and my dr. put me on tranquerlizers they give bad dreams and make me sleepy all the time.they also scare me that i'm going to die if idon't or i'm not going to wake up when i fall asleep.

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

There are lots of options - from nicotine chewing gum to nicotine patches - that'll help you quit smoking. Best to talk to your family doctor and they'll help you make a plan.

However, if you live in a house full of other smokers, it's going to make it that much more difficult since you'll be inundated with the visuals of the other people smoking and the smell will just fuel your cravings. Not to mention the fact that you'll still be getting all the badness from second hand smoke....

Why not discuss this with the entire family and maybe you can make the house smoke free, and even bring some of the other smokers with you on your quest to butt out.

Best of luck!
RXZ

Answer 3

As a former smoker really the only thing that works is being ready to quit and will power. Don't feel bad if you back slide and sneak a smoke it's natural. Eventually the only way that I quit was to leave my cigs on the coffee table so everyone could see how many I had left and I didn't hide it when I had a smoke.

Answer 4

Hi,

Great post! Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and I thought I wasn't addicted!

Here's what I tried before finding success: hypnosis, those fake cigaretts, the nicotine patch, and group therapy....none worked.

I finally tried this HERBAL patch I bought 6 months ago on the net. They claim a 97% success rate. Well, it worked! They had a sweet deal which was a free 10 day trial for only $3.95 including shipping (it's regularly $53 for 10 days)!!

I don't know if they still have that deal, but it's worth a try.

http://www.alllsite.info/stop-smoking-free.php

Good Luck

Answer 5

Move. Don't take the pills if they don't help you. The inhalers are worse than the smoke. You might also trying smoking herbs like sage. Believe it or not, sage smoke is very healing to the lungs. It relaxs them and can stop asthma attacks and coughing fits. Even if you quit smoking it won't do much good if you are living in a hosue filled with smoke so perhaps you'll have to convince people to smoke outside or move...?

Answer 6

Haha. I'd like to see you bite me over the internet. Then and ONLY then will I reward you for doing something so strange.

Answer 7

even if you quit smoking you are still getting second hand smoke, so you really aren't quitting