quitting smoking whats the best form?

Question

i want to quit smoking but dont know if its quicker to go cold turkey or with help from patches as ive been told it takes up to 12 weeks with patches but i want all the craving to go quicker and feel like a non smoker coz i have five children and i need to quit the best way for me and my family

Answer 1

just set a date and quit

Answer 2

I am a psychologist, and I have read journal articles that say it takes 7 attempts to quit for good. I think you can use the patch and consider that cold turkey at the same time. Quitting cold turkey has been researched to be the best way period. Use the patch and quit the smoking cold turkey at the same time.

I'm not a smoker, but I have to guess it is as hard as giving up masturbation or something- you always want to do it, it's always available, you know how it feels, and you're supposed to quit? So, good luck.

Answer 3

Natural Quit Smoking Magic

Answer 4

I quit cold Turkey, at least 10 times. Repeatly I tried but I managed to go longer and longer periods without them till at one point on a bet/new year resolution I quit. 1989 was the year so this new year makes it 18 years so I need 2 years to equal the 20 years I smoked. I was no pack a day guy, i would work up to 3-4 packs a day and only backed down when nicotine headaches would intervene. I used to wish for the flu to initiate force withdrawals. I think any method to quit will work but one has to first make up his or her mind to stop. Hang the weight gain, that is another issue but lets say the very strenght it takes to quit cigarettes will also help you lose weight too. Confidence and the
singlemindedness that quitting takes is the true answer for the wieght. DECIDE what you want and do it, simplistic sounding but so true. All the aids and buy this or that book are not magic bullets to cure your ills. The huge diet industry along with the stop smoking aids are useless without the critical ingredient, YOUR RESOLVE.
Sound Preachy, sorry but it is true. I just got tired of the sucking up smoke and lugging around excess baggage. Hated that
effort it took to stand and the lack of air after a walk around the block. Motivation abounds just use it, if I can anyone can believe me. Diet and exercise, just try it and go slow because in less than a year the vitality will increase at a faster and faster rate.
cheers

Answer 5

Cold Turkey.

I have the worst will power of anyone that I know, but I do have a bit of a competitive spirit so when I quit smoking with my boyfriend at the time, as long as he didn't smoke, I refused to smoke. I refused to lose.

I smoked for 22 years, I quit on my 36th birthday. The worst birthday of my life, but it was a gift to myself I knew I would appreciate years down the road. It has been 1.5 years.

I had tried quitting 2 other times. Once with the gum, and once with the patch. The gum's taste interrupted my love of my second habit, Mountain Dew. The flavors didn't mix and while drinking rum and cokes at a party I smoked some cigarettes. The second time I quit was with patches and they just didn't work. I never once felt any craving cessation so I smoked.

Third time, I knew it was going to be hard before I even began, but I had to bite the bullet. My smoker's cough wasn't severe, but there is a character on Mad TV that had a constant cough and I was comparing myself to her and it scared me to death. I am very vain and the idea of being like that seemed so ugly to me.

Cancer scared me, ugliness scared me, losing my voice box scared me, death scares me.

The best form for me was cold turkey. Continuing intake of nicotine could only be defined as torture and prolonging of an addiction no longer wanted. 18 months later I still get little pangs of want, but they pass within seconds. Nothing severe that takes over my mind and spirit. I can live so much better without the smokes.

Answer 6

It depends on your motivation. I woke up to a room full of doctors and was told I had a stroke at age 55. I was told that my smoking probably caused my stroke. I quit cold turkey that day, that was seven years ago. I was a 2-1/2 pack a day smoker for 40 years. I resolved that I wanted to live more than I wanted to smoke, so I quit overnight,cold turkey, after many prior unsucessful attempts. I don't miss it, it can be done easily if you are truly motivated to quit.

Answer 7

Hi,
I really empathise with you, I quit my 20 a day habit in a pain-free way this time last year!
No stress, no cravings, no weight gain, no pills, patches or gums.
The program I followed was recommended by a friend and now boasts a 90% success rate and is 100% fully guaranteed - can't say fairer than that

All the best..

Answer 8

The reading I have done about low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) indicates that smoking helps control the lows. So you may have a low blood sugar condition without knowing it. I therefore suggest going on a diet that levels blood sugar, for at least 2 weeks, before quitting cold turkey. The diet will help minimize the weight gain most smokers get after quitting, and may minimize all cravings as well.

For more info about low blood sugar and diets, check out www.hufa.org - especially the library link.

Answer 9

The best thing for you to do would be to contact a counsellor at your local GP's surgery. Then you will receive support from someone who really knows how to help you and you will meet other people who are in the same predicament as yourself. There are several aids for stopping smoking, pills to suck, sprays, fake cigarettes as well as the patches. Nicotine gum or lozenges are also excellent at preventing nicotine withdrawal. Good luck - I really do hope that you are successful. I am also trying - and battling a little bit. My biggest concern is becoming irritable at work, especially as I do work with the public.

Answer 10

I quit smoking after going into hospital with a heart attack. I was there for a week and no smoking was allowed anywhere on the premises. I'd been a smoker for more than 55 years. It was easy. Now I detest all smokers with their filthy habits and smelly clothes and yes I am a hypocrite

Answer 11

The best way of quitting smoking is in the psychological way!
You just must convince your that you're NOT going to smoke all time. It's matter of willing against addicting!
If you really want to stop smoking, you must want it badly and try stop thinking of cigarettes at all!
Like everything in life, it's not easy, but if you keep up yourself in the right way there's nothing to fear!

I can also to recommend you to focus on someone you love or etc.. and always think of it you're doing it not only for yourself, but for your loved ones.