what is the best way to quit smoking altogether?

Answer 1

These are some practical tips to quit smoking

Preparing to quit
Decide on your quit date and stick to it. Draw up a plan of action, considering which methods you will use to help you to quit. Immediately before your quit day remove all traces of cigarettes from your home environment. This should include:

Putting away ashtrays and disposing of all cigarettes, cigarette packaging and lighters

Cleaning your entire home and car to remove the smell of smoke
While you are quitting
There are many things you can do to minimise the desire to smoke. You can even think of the day you quit as being the start of a new, healthier you and include other healthy activities as part of your new routine.

Keep busy to keep your mind off cigarettes.

Drink plenty of fluids — keep a glass of water or juice by you and sip it steadily. Use different flavours to maintain its appeal. This frequent, regular action may help you to keep your mind off cigarettes.
Become more active — exercise helps you to relax and can boost your morale.
Think positively — giving up smoking is difficult and can be unpleasant, but it is a sign that your body is recovering from the effects of tobacco. Increased coughing is a sign your lungs are recovering and improving their ability to clean themselves. Irritability, urges to smoke and poor concentration are common. But don’t worry — they usually disappear after a few weeks. You are going to quit, just like thousands of smokers before you.
Quit with a friend, colleague or family member. You will understand what each other is going through and can help by providing support and encouragement. If you smoke, you don’t just let yourself down.
Make sure your family, close friends and colleagues know you are quitting. They can provide support and help you to avoid situations when you will be tempted to smoke.
Change your routine — try to avoid the shop where you usually used to buy your cigarettes. Try to avoid the place and situations in which you usually used to smoke, at least for the first few weeks.
Don’t make excuses to smoke. Don’t use a crisis, or even good news, as an excuse to smoke. One cigarette can dramatically reduce your chances of quitting as one cigarette can lead to another…

Treat yourself at certain time points after quitting — one week, two weeks, four weeks etc.

You can even work out the amount of money you are saving by not smoking and spend this on rewards, a compact disc for example after the first week, or a holiday after six months. Think to yourself, that you wouldn’t have the reward if you hadn’t quit smoking. Enjoy it and feel good about yourself.

Be careful what you eat.

It is natural to put on a little weight while you are quitting. Try not to snack on fatty foods. Eat fruit and drink diet beverages or water.

Take each day as it comes. Stay motivated by thinking about why you are quitting.

Every day without a cigarette is good for your health and many other aspects of your life. But don’t get complacent — urges to smoke can still hit you months after you think you have quit.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about aids to help you quit smoking. In particular, nicotine replacement therapy, such as NicabateCQ, can greatly increase your chances of quitting.

Dealing with cravings

You will undoubtedly feel some strong desires to smoke while you are quitting. Avoiding situations that you would associate with smoking will help you to avoid associated urges. Try to identify these situations so you can see them coming.

Planning what you will do to resist these urges is also critical to staying quit.

These are highly personal — what works for someone else may not work for you. It’s what works for you that counts. However, you may learn from the experiences of others who have quit. Here are some examples:

Take a deep breath and relax.
Tell yourself that the urge will not last long — if you can get through the next few minutes, the urge will pass.
Drink some water, chew on a carrot or eat a cracker.
Distract yourself — change what you are doing. Read an article in a newspaper or magazine, or come to this web site to check the testimony of other quitters.

You can also talk to a family member, friend or colleague to take your mind off smoking.

They will be able to give you words of encouragement in your quest to quit

HOPE THESE HELP....

Answer 2

I have tried many things to stop. I smoked 3 packs a day. I smoked so much it was more than my car payments every month. The best program I have used is the "quit smoking right now program" http://tinyurl.com/yag6v4
They helped me go cold turkey and never look back. In fact, I can have a cigarette now and not want another one. That's how great it works.
I used the patch as well, and didn't smoked for 2 months but had headaches every day. the mental part is hell, no question. what worked for me is chewing big red gum, (no other flavor helped, kinda strange), and changing your habits. if you normally wake up and smoke while drinking coffee, take a walk instead and have coffee when you get back. you really have to do something totally different at those times when you would normally be smoking. it's hard to do, but someone told me that the mental craving of a cigarette only lasts for 7 minutes, so, if you can get past that 7 minutes, it'll be easier! I suggest you invest in yourself and then put the money you are saving into a jar and watch it grow, then buy yourself a nice reward for quitting. good luck to you!

Answer 3

Try the patch at first. You can get this form your Doctor or a store.

But to be honest I smoked on and off for 15 years and I quit 4 times and went back. I finally quit for good 3 years ago . I had the shakes for a whole week. I just stopped one day. Never to return. If you can be as strong as that, then you can do it like that. But, if you need a little help or a push along the way then try the patch.

Smoking is a drug and like most drugs, some need to ween off them at first.

Answer 4

I stopped smoking 8 yrs ago and this worked better for me than anything else.

I stopped during the winter months and I left my cigarettes in my car. I would get the urge to smoke but I would have to bundle up, go to the car and sit. Then I would only light the cigarette and take one or two puffs off it, snub it out and put it in the ashtray to smoke again later.
Taking only one or two puffs actually kicks the urge for the nicotine but we are so used to smoking the whole cigarette we just do it. Has nothing to do with the actual amount of nicotine we need in our system.
I found the longer I did this, the space between cigarettes got longer and longer until I noticed one day I hadn't had a cigarette in weeks.
I left them in my glove box for relapses for another couple months. I never have picked one up since then and in fact now, I can't stand the smell anymore.

Good luck. I hope you have success.

Answer 5

CUT BACK A CIGARETTE A DAY UNTIL THE WHOLE PACK IS GONE