What is the best and easiest was to quit smoking?

Answer 1

What worked for me was a multipronged approach.
1. Get a prescription for Zyban - be sure to follow your doctor's directions.
2. Use the patch. A lot of helath plans have quit assistance programs that will pay for the patch. Read the 'quitting guide' in the package it has lots of little tips that sound silly but do help.
3. Set a quit date and tell everyone thats the date. The embarrasment of failure was a big motivator for me.
4. the day before you quit. Smoke every cigarette in the house - even if you don't want one. you want your last memory of smoking to be unpleasant. You also don't want any cigarettes handy where its easy to just pick one up.
5. smell your clothes, your smoking hand or anything that consistently stinks of smoke often before you quit. Afterwards, every time you get a craving, smell that some thing again and enjoy the sweet smell.
6. Next time you crave a cigarette, take a few breaths of air through your mouth as if you were inhaling. It actually helps.
7. Stock up on sugarfree gum! I found baby carrots helped me too.
8. focus on the hardships you no longer have to deal with. The cravings in an airplane or train you don't have to fight off. Leaving the room or building at work.
9. every time you would have bought a pack (or carton) place that money in a jar. Once there's enough and it happens fast at $4 a pack, treat yourself to something nice. A new outfit, iPod or whatever. Something frivolous that you would normally not buy...

I smoked for 20 years (over half my life!) and I am smoke free for 14 months now - trust me - this is the best thing you will ever do.

Answer 2

Kill yourself!!
Just kidding. It's tough, but it can be done. If you're a hardcore smoker, you might opt for using the patches for a few weeks, unless you have the freedom to go into seclusion for a week until the withdrawals pass. I quit back in November and I used the second step patches for about two weeks to get "used" to not smoking... and then dealt with the withdrawals that inevitably come after taking off the patch. I still think it made it a bit easier. Other than that I would say:
1. Stay away from smokers and smoking situations for a while

2. Play mind games with yourself: tell yourself you only have to make it through this one day without smoking. Then do it again the next day and the next day and so on.

3. Remember that you are doing something really good for yourself and reward yourself accordingly (although preferably not with food)

4. Any kind of exercise will take the edge off and remind you why it's a good idea to quit smoking: it's good to breathe!!!!

Good Luck and remember it WILL get easier every single hour, day, week you go without a cigarette.

Answer 3

The first time i quit, was easiest, going cold turkey. Years later, during a very stressful time, i started again, but quit last year, doing the "counting system".....say, you smoke a pack a day.....the next day, u can only smoke 19, the day after that, only 18, etc., and then quitting completely. That was definitely harder for me. Some people have had a lot of luck with the nicotine gum and the patches, although i haven't personally used those. Good luck, just remember that you CAN do it! If I can do it, ANYONE can do it!

Answer 4

Cold turkey ! Hypnosis only works on those who are receptive to it and can afford it! Gums, patches, mints and pills all cost a fortune .... generally don't work anyway and can have serious side affects. Cold is the most definate way to go! Oh, by the way.... NOTHING WORKS UNTIL YOU HAVE SERIOUSLY MADE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO QUIT !!!!!!!!!
When you have made that decision in both the heart and soul there are a few things that really help. They are...... eat at non-smoking restaraunts, remove ashtrays from the house , make slight changes in your daily routines that were always associated with lighting one up. Start your day with deep breathing exercises when you wake up to help open and expand your lungs with fresh air. This really helped me because as I did this I could feel the air intake and it relaxed my body's urge for a cigarette. If you need substitutes don't use food. If you must: eat healthy! As time goes with out tobacco your tastebuds will heal and you'll discover the flavor of food again. That's why people gain weight when they quit!

Answer 5

I JUST quit (it has been exactly 1 month) and I WILL NEVER SMOKE AGAIN (and I have been struggling for 12 years). I have tried cutting down, the gum, the patch, antidepressants, THE LOT. The problem with all of those methods is that you are a nicotine addict. Is ingesting small amounts of nicotine the best way to recover from an addiction? Think of it this way...is allowing an alcoholic "just a little alcohol" a good idea? Probably not.

Every time you absorb nicotine into your system you are re-setting your body and mind right back to where you started again. You are in constant withdrawal hell. You are in pain (from not smoking fro 12 hours) have just a little puff, and feel better for an hour, only to feel that intense agony once again. Nicotine doesn't really work that way. You either have it in your system or you don't, and if you do then you WILL GO THROUGH WITHDRAWAL as long as it's in your system! It doesn't matter where it's coming from! Look at the statistics of success from nicotine substitutes !!! http://whyquit.com/pr/051906.html

Incidently, that link came from the greatest quit smoking site which gave me everything that I needed to know to quit. You MUST read it. Seriously, it helped me so much. Read it as you go through withdrawal. Education is important. http://www.whyquit.com/

I have spent the last 6 months cutting down from 2/day to 1/day and remained there, in constant withdrawal. I finally gave up and decided that I could no longer handle the withdrawal pain. 3 days later of not smoking at all I started to bargain (but I thought that I'd feel better in 3 days? I felt ripped off! - that's your body's final desparate attempts to get you to smoke. You're almost there! The nicotine is out of your system!).

I'd experience the horrible cycle - lonely/depressed/intense craving/bargaining "if only I have have just one it would be ok, this isn't worth the pain," random crying spells, irritability, strange sick symptoms. Time will feel really slow. BUT as the days went on the cycle continued (the first week) but with time periods when I'd forget about smoking. By the second week I'd think about smoking less and less. Sure, I'd still have horrible pangs of missing it, but I started to feel proud of how little I was noticing it.

Just know that you will feel horrible. You will have to quit nicotine at some point. You may as well not prolong the pain. You are an addict, and you will experience withdrawal. But, you can feel strong in quitting. Going through withdrawal is something to be proud of, because it means that you are so strong you are not giving in! You are using more will power than you ever will!

1) Decide when you are going to do it. Minimize stressors
2) Decide that you will be sick for a few days. You will. Also, decide that you won't let yourself have even a little. If you do smoke even 1 PUFF - I'm serious, even 1 you are starting at square 1 again. I tested this many times and regretted it. SO NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!!!!
3) If you need to smoke, then smoke HERBAL cigarrettes (the Soex kind isn't too bad - they are nasty tasting and smelling, but just being able to smoke something really helps - make sure that they have no tobacco and no nicotine. They got me through, and also made me realize that the driving force behind me smoking really was the nicotine, and not the act of smoking (I barely smoked herbal cigarrettes at all). Then I started to recognize how much of an addict I really was.
4) drink grean tea, fruit juices, buy sugar free gummy bears/snacks, eat healthy food, minimize caffeine, exercise
5) surround yourself in wonderful smells, and notice when others smell like cigarrette smoke, and when others smell good. Focus on that. Buy wonderful smelling bath products/perfume. Treat yourself.
6) Tell everyone that you are quitting. This will give you 3 major benefits 1) support 2) understanding 3) guilt/obligation - think about it, if everyone knows, think about how embarrassed you will be if they find out that you failed!

I do urge you to GO TO THIS SITE (OMG I sound like an advertisement - eekk!)! I learned EVERYTHING that I needed to know, and a big reason why I actually followed through with it! They really know what they are talking about!

http://www.whyquit.com/

Answer 6

Best and easiest way is to really make up your mind that you want to no matter what. Then you'll be able to overcome any physical or psychological discomforts that you WILL encounter on the road to being smoke free. If you REALLY want to quit, you can do it with a pack of smokes in your pocket. It won't be easy but if you want it badly enough, that is if you want it worse than you want another fix, you CAN do it.

Answer 7

If you don't like grapefruit juice... this one works.
When you get a craving, do a shot of grapefruit juice. The taste somehow helps with the craving, and the vit. C helps purge the nicotine to make physical withdrawl a shorter period of time.
(If you are on medication, ask your doc if you can drink grapefruit juice. some blood pressure meds react VERY badly with grapefruit juice)
Brush your teeth A LOT. At work... after EVERY meal and snack.
Use patches if you must. Pray out loud to whatever God you believe in... (yes, you can do it in your car or alone in your room...go for a walk...it doesn't need to be in front of anyone. But out loud helps your willpower feel more concrete instead of just wishing to quit.) After 3 days... Tell everyone on the planet you quit. (This way you don't feel bad if it doesn't work out the first 72 hrs. After 3 days... it's a commitment you can and will stick to because everyone knows. And you won't go ballistic on that idiot that says,"I thought you quit." or "Wanna smoke"

Answer 8

Just quit. Drink plenty of pure water and warm water with at least a half a teaspoon of herbal cayenne pepper powder in it. This not only helps speed up the healing process of the damage you did while smoking but also give you ten times the energy of coffee. Good luck. ps. it also keeps the craving for cigarettes or nicotine down to nothing.

Answer 9

The best way to quit is just to decide you are not having another cigarette. Don't buy any more and just suffer through the withdrawal. I did it, so anyone can. It is just a matter of deciding you are not going to smoke anymore and sticking to it.

Answer 10

Just go to your local hospital and have a talk with a lung cancer patient on his death bed. If you cant quit after that then i dont know how to help you.