FORMER SMOKERS: How did you quit?

Question

I would really love to quit smoking but I haven't ever even tried. What helped you quit? What worked for you? Thanks for the advice, it's much appretiated.

Answer 1

There's this company called Quitters Inc. They guarantee results, no matter what.

Answer 2

I quit a 5 pack a day habit and 55 years of smoking

Step #1 you have to have a real good reason to quit

Mine was the theiving politics, In the last 3 years they raised they
taxes $30 a carton the pay for Pre-pre-school on the backs of smokers only

How much are they stealing? in Mexico, cigs are $11 a carton, the rest is taxes

Step #2, IF you are smoking more than a pack a day forget the pill/patch etc until you can get below 1/2 pack a day

Step #3 Get some anti anxiety drug from your Dr like ativan
Nic withdrawal is an anxiety attack When I got mine it was only $10 w/o insurance. Saved a few trips to the hosp with SOB

Step #4 Time your smokes for a week, write down every time you lite up.

Step #5 Just say your doing one smoke every 5 min. The next week do one every 10 min

Step # 6 repeat the add 5 min every week, don't make my mistake a drop every 3 days, It takes 3 to 5 for the body to readjust.

Step #7 Remember that if you screw up, your only normal
Start again. Your human

Step #8 after you get below 1/2 pack a day, then the other stuff
will help, You can do that or just keep on keeping on, and save $20 to $50

Step # 9 your gonna feel crappy a 3 pack a day habit prolly about a year, a 5 pack a day habit 15 to 18 months

Theres gonna be those days you'll feel like smoking again will make you feel better

Just my 2¢

Answer 3

I'm not a former smoker, I currently smoke. I have tried to quit,most recently I took the prescription medicine Chantix. It was fabulous the first six weeks, I just about beat it, then my meds ran out and slowly I was right back up to my pack a day. I tried again, this time with a 3month supply of Chantix. Again, did great the first six weeks, then I was smoking on top of the Chantix. I'm gonna try again with the Chantix,I have medicare that covers the cost,without insurance it is $294.00 at Rite Aid in Oregon. I want this really bad, I've smoked for 35yrs but I find it totally disgusting. Good luck, I hope you succeed.

Answer 4

Hi Smoker, I have just quit smoking. Go to a site "quitnet.ca." It is a support group and you will find a gold mine of advice and ideas. You are able to communicate with other people in your situation. I started by using the nicotine patch and have had no problem. I realise it is harder on some than others and my storm is not over yet, but I sure feel good about quitting. Good luck in your attempt and believe me I have never seen so much support as on the above mentioned site, and I have smoked for 50 years.

Answer 5

Well, I still smoke, but it's because I want to at this point. (Don't ask me why I want to!)
But as far as quitting, the only method that really works for good, is Mind over Matter. If you really want to, then it will work; if you just want to play at it, then it won't.
And being a former HEAVY drug user who has now been clean and sober from those for many years, I know that it can be done. Just walk away and tell yourself that you'll never pick up again and you won't.

And to the answerer that said he asked God for help, so did I and that was the only thing that kept me from falling down later when it would have been so easy!

Answer 6

I enjoyed smoking. I never even wanted to quit. Smoking saved my sanity for many years. I enjoyed the "instant gratification" you get. My drug of choice any day of the week. Cigarettes saw me thru a lot of rough times. But they were there for the good times too.

THEN, my friends, the cigarettes turned on me. I am 60 years old. I am on total disability. I have COPD and I am on oxygen 24/7. I would be dead if I didn't have the oxygen. Do you have any idea what it is like to be attached to a 50 foot plastic umbilical cord? You trip over it, it gets in the way of other people and it get tangled around your neck in bed and you wake up feeling like you are being strangled because you are!!!!!!!
I have to do a pursed lip breathing to exhale the air from my lungs. That is fun to remember. Your lungs are quick to remind you if you forget. They won't breathe.
I do breathing treatments and medications most of the day. I can't go away over night because of the "crap" I have to drag to live. I am in and out of the hospital with lung infections. They have to feed you by IV to bring you back. You have to take steroids and that is a terrible drug. The side effects will kill you if the steroids don't.
Would you like me to keep going or are you convinced? I am 60 now, but I started fighting this disease about ten or fifteen years ago.
I am waiting now for word on a partial removal of both of my lungs OR a transplant for one lung.

DON'T WAIT AS LONG AS I DID. CIGARETTES ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND AND CERTAINLY NOT WORTH GIVING UP YOUR LIFE. YOU HAVE NO QUALITY OF LIFE WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER BREATHE. THAT IS SOMETHING YOU MUST DO TO SURVIVE...........................

Answer 7

Well... I had smoked for 20 years... (around 5 a day.. 20 on a night out).. Then we decided to move to the states and I quit.. I didn't want to pay astronomical medical health insurance ...this was and is my continued motivation.. been non smoking now for 14 months.

Answer 8

This probably wont work for you, but i quit when I got pregnant. I couldn't use the patch, or gum, or anything else, so I just bought a big bag of dum dums, and popped one in my mouth every time I would have been putting a cigerette in. It's all about having the right kind of motivation. No matter what method you try, it will only work if you really want it to.

Answer 9

I quit in 1965 because I had a strong motivation to do so--religion. Any smoker that wants to lay them down forever must have the motivation and willpower to accomplish it. Without a strong reason behind the choice, such as health improvement, finances, or other reasons, quitting will be difficult.

Answer 10

I got pregnant and that made me stop - I just quit cold turkey and have remained smokeless since. It was hard, but I just filled my smoking time with reading books and stuff to occupy me. I made my husband quit too - and he actually got a RX for wellbutrin and he quit within a couple weeks.

Answer 11

i was lucky i only smoked for 13 years, and not too heavy! i cut down to 5 a day, and quit COLD TURKEY!! AND I WAS NOT HARD AT ALL! people who need the patch to quit are just making the medical people and drug companies rich! i thinkn if you need a patch, you are WEAK!! IF I CAN QUIT COLD TURKEY, SO CAN ANYONE! IT HAD NOW BEEN 5 YEARS WihouT A CRAVING AND I HAVE MORE MONEY TOO!