I want to quit smoking, but I have no will power. What works the best?

Question

I have tried cold turkey, and it didn't work for me.

Answer 1

How about this: Get with someone in hospice and see if you can meet and get to know someone with terminal lung cancer. Not only do I think this will work but also I think you will have no relapses

Answer 2

I smoked for 10 years and got up to a pack and a half a day. I finally got tired of being out of breath when I went up stairs and decided to quit. I started taking Chantix and have been smoke free for 26 days now! It's a really amazing drug. I started to try and ween myself off of cigarettes before I actually quit and just waited as long as possible between cigarettes. My last pack of cigarettes lasted four days because I think the Chantix was working and I wasn't getting any "happy" feelings when I smoked. I am now using a toothpick, for replacement, and my cravings are getting more and more rare. One of my friends quit using the patch and went through some serious withdrawl crabbiness. I had ONE evening, on day seven, that was bad but otherwise it's been great. The hardest part is breaking the habit and un-linking everything with smoking. I don't think that I could have done it without Chantix, my friends' support and the real desire to quit. Good luck, you can do it!

Answer 3

How long have you smoked? Perhaps the following can help:
For me, the hardest part about quitting was removing all of the associations around smoking. Example, whenever I had a beer, I had a cigarette. Whenever I finished eating, had a cigarette. You get the idea. I purposely and deliberately "weeded out" all the associations I had with smoking until I only had a few. In other words, I consciously did not smoke after each of these other co-occurring activities, until the urge was diminished. Once this was done, I had already reduced my smoking to a few cigarettes a day. To completely quit, it was a combination of negative imagery and getting the flu. I imagined coating my lungs with a thick goo of tar and nicotine while I smoked. I was never able to smoke when I had a cold or the flu, so after 5 days of various orifice purging, I realized I could probably go another few days without. Bottom line for me: discipline of living how you want.
As for the stress, good time to involve yourself in a very detailed kind of hobby, like model rocketry or exercise like biking. If you can weather through the first few days, you'll start to feel the benefit of being able to breathe without getting winded, and smell wonderful scents of nature and/or aromas of baking and cooking seemingly for the first time! Good Luck!

Answer 4

Try every time you want a cigarette, chew on a straw or a piece of sugar free bubble gum. But really the only way to quit is if you really want to. You can try everything in the book but nothing will help if you really don't want to quit. Which is why I still smoke but I've tried those before and they've helped.

Answer 5

Crocheting and dum-dum suckers worked for me.

I didn't have too hard a time with cravings, it was the loss of something to do with my hands and mouth that bothered me most. Crocheting (or knitting, needlepoint, etc.) make it impossible to do anything else with your hands AND take up a decent bit of your attention.

Keep your hands busy and your mind focused on other things. That will help a lot. Good luck! You can totally do it!

Answer 6

With out willpower you have a lifetime of blissful smoking ahead of you. However long that may be.

Answer 7

the numerous times my friend tried to quit smoking she would chew cinnamon gum, supposidly the gum makes the cigeratte tatse nasty. there is also nicotene gum and the patch thing you could try.

Answer 8

you have to want to that is frist i have son whose just quit and hew as smoking alot. you have to want to he went to the doctor and got thses small patches and they worked he used them 4 days and then hes just said hes quitting. hes doing it but you will always want one cause of the nocotine. you hae to just want to and leave it. period.