What is a good method to help quit smoking...?

Question

I will be 25 next month and have been smoking since I was 14. I quit when I found out I was pregnant, the baby helped, the smell would make me sick to my stomach. I started back when she was a week old. My daughter is now 7 years old. I want to quit, but it is soooo hard. I find it helps 'calm my nerves'. Also, I am worried about gaining more weight if I quit. Any suggestions please. Also, please be nice, I am asking for advice, not rude remarks. Thank you.

Answer 1

Quitting smoking is a process that requires careful planning, courage, discipline, and commitment. You can succeed by following this advice:

1. Pick a quit day
Choose a date within the next two or three weeks to quit. Having a deadline makes it easier to plan how you will handle the people, places and situations that make you want to smoke. Try to choose a time that is not particularly stressful. But don't wait forever for the "perfect" day - pick a quit date now and work with it.

2. Chosen one or more proven quit-smoking methods
Your chances of success are greater if you combine quit methods like counselling, self-help guides, the patch and other medicines. Learn more about methods to help you quit smoking. Choose the methods that will work best for you. It also helps to:
List your reasons for quitting - health, family, money
Write down the things that can replace smoking: healthy alternatives like exercise, or a new hobby
Speak with friends, family, and colleagues who can give you support. Tell them about your plan to quit, so it feels more real to you. Start making the lifestyle changes that will support your plan - leave cigarettes at home when you go out, remove the ashtrays from your home

Consider joining a support group. Some people find it helpful to talk to others who are also trying to quit. Contact your provincial Lung Association to find a support group in your community.

3. Work your plan

It's your quit date. Be firm that you won't smoke.
Review your plan often. Knowing how you're going to handle the urge to smoke will help you better cope with cravings
Avoid those people and situations where you will be tempted to smoke
Go for a walk instead of a smoke.
Find a hobby that keeps your hands and mind busy
Clean your teeth, your clothes, your house of that stale tobacco smell
Be positive. You are choosing to be smoke-free
Celebrate your success

Believe in yourself and your plan
Understand that it takes time to re-learn smoke-free habits
Remember, that quitting is a process, not an event
Though your recovery begins within hours of your last smoke, it takes at least three weeks to make a new habit. Don't be discouraged if you slip. It's part of the process. You are not a failure. Review your plan and ask yourself how you can do it differently next time.
Reward yourself

Answer 2

I just quit on new years and I'd have to say that the gum really didnt work but the book included with it did have some good points. You have to learn to avoid associating cigarettes with certain situations in which you smoke. Like if you smoke when you wake up, find something else to do like excersize. Also if you smoke when you are stressed, try takin a bath or shower instead.
Also you have to look at the deeper perspective of this, looking into how it affects others. Do you want to be around for childs grandchildren? How would your husband feel if you got sick? I've learned to believe that smoking is very self centered. As it offends people even by it's smell. Having been a smoker I know first hand how hard it is. Just find things that'll help make it stick, like maybe painting your walls in your house, because we all know theyre probably tainted with yellow smoke if you were smoking indoors. This will make you feel guilty for smoking inside if you do. Anything helps, hope this does. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Well the best way to quit is to go cold turkey. A person that goes cold turkey is more likely to succeed at quiting for good than someone who uses patches or gum. The gum and patches are still giving you niccotine which is what is keeping you from quiting so it is quite possible that you may become addicted to the gum or patch. However going cold turkey is the hardest method it is the most successful. Since you've done it before try a different approach. When you get the urge think of why you want to quit and the consequences of smoking. if it doesn't work try drink water. it will help a lot with your nerves and will keep you preoccupied. good luck man

Answer 4

OMG< I have so been there. I always had a cup of water in the microwave ready and waiting, and a box of chamomille tea, which really calms your nerves BETTER than nicotine, and has a longer lasting affect. 40 seconds to calm.

In the summer I would carry around cold green tea with chamomille in it. I would make a gallon on Sundays and then drink about 20 ounces of it a day.

It worked for me...

licorice if you like it also works because it has a strong taste and is hard to chew. Tires out your mouth, freashens your breath, and has not fat. It also is a nervine. Mostly it satisfys that open mouth insert object craving without making you fat:)

have fun and good luck. I still drink green tea, and have chamomile once a day:)

Answer 5

My son made up his mind to quit smoking because it's not good for his health. He never had one minutes problem. He'd been smoking for 25 years. He's 45 now.
You have so many reasons to quit. Not only for you and your health, but most importantly for your 7 year old daughter. You are allowing the smoke to go through her little body and lungs. They don't know what's good and bad for them. Sometimes they don't like some of the things that we do, but what can they do to protect themselves? You don't want her to grow up to be a smoker. Smoking can cause so much trouble. Cancer is one of the possibilities. I hope you will be good to yourself and your daughter and stop.
We don't get but one chance at life. So, try to make it the best one you can have.
Good luck.

Answer 6

You should have very strong willpower. As i has also quit the smoking after 15 years regular smoking. Nothing has to do only think heartily that NOW AND ONWARDS U HAVE TO NOT SMOKE. The weight gain/loss is just psychological not real. So go ahead and all the best.

Answer 7

I just joined this wed site called quitnet. You take a test and they tell you the best way for you personally to quit smoking. I am also worried about gaining weight so they suggested I use the gum. Here is the web addy:

Answer 8

First, study how much and where you smoke and don't smoke.
Make larger gaps between smoking to help cut down, and stay at places where you never smoke longer. Over time you should notice you smoking is being cut down, and over more time make the gap bigger.
It's easier to cut down first, and easier to cut down by staying at places where you would never smoke or can't smoke.
Remember to give yourself time.

Answer 9

Cold Turkey is the best and the hardest. weigh yourself every day to monitor your weight and just quite. That is how my mom quit and how I quit too. It is all about mental control, quiting smoking.

Answer 10

nicotine