what is the best way to stop smoking?

Question

i need someone to answer this who has actually stopped smoking. unconventional methods too

Answer 1

There is no best way. It has to be your way. I stopped smoking 33 years ago. I had a cold with a sore throat. I tried to smoke and cough a lot. It burned my throat. I said to myself, "why are you doing this"?
At that point I knew I was doing something that was harmful to my health, so I decided to quit. I threw the cigarettes down the toilet and never bought another pack.
What you need to do is find a reason to quit that is better than the excuses to continue.

Answer 2

Allow for a day off if this does not co-incide with a weekend.

Wait until you have a REALLY bad cold with sore throat - so that cigarettes are hurting the throat and you can barely taste them anyway - and then stay up until you are absolutely knackered - then stop smoking and go to bed.

In the morning, have water and snack food to hand - and basicalyl just try and stay in bed most of the day. By the time you wake up after being utterly exhausted you should have been off nicotine for about 10 hours - longer if you stopped a couple of hours before you went to bed.

The first day is the pig - if you can doze through it - with a good slug of whisky helping throat and general drowsiness, then the next day will be more manageable.

A craving (even on day 1) rarely lasts more than about 5 minutes.
Also try to ensure there are no cigs around in the house - so if you DO have a moment of weakness, your craving will have passed long before you have actually dressed, waked to the shop and bought some.

This method - or variations on it, have worked for me and a few friends.

The "gradual cutting down" almost invariably fails

Answer 3

Quitting smoking is not easy, but it can be done. To have the best chance of quitting successfully, you need to know what you’re up against, what your options are, and where to go for help.

1. Don’t smoke any number or any kind of cigarette. Smoking even a few cigarettes a day can hurt your health. If you try to smoke fewer cigarettes, but do not stop completely, soon you’ll be smoking the same amount again.

Smoking "low-tar, low-nicotine" cigarettes usually does little good, either. Because nicotine is so addictive, if you switch to lower-nicotine brands you’ll likely just puff harder, longer, and more often on each cigarette. The only safe choice is to quit completely.


2. Write down why you want to quit. Do you want

to feel in control of you life?
to have better health?
to set a good example for your children?
to protect your family from breathing other people’s smoke?
Really wanting to quit smoking is very important to how much success you will have in quitting. Smokers who live after a heart attack are the most likely to quit for good—they're very motivated. Find a reason for quitting before you have no choice.


3. Know that it will take effort to quit smoking. Nicotine is habit forming. Half of the battle in quitting is knowing you need to quit. This knowledge will help you be more able to deal with the symptoms of withdrawal that can occur, such as bad moods and really wanting to smoke. There are many ways smokers quit, including using nicotine replacement products (gum and patches), but there is no easy way. Nearly all smokers have some feelings of nicotine withdrawal when they try to quit. Give yourself a month to get over these feelings. Take quitting one day at a time, even one minute at a time—whatever you need to succeed.


4. Half of all adult smokers have quit, so you can— too. That’s the good news.There are millions of people alive today who have learned to face life without a cigarette. For staying healthy, quitting smoking is the best step you can take.

Answer 4

I stopped for 12 years by using hypnosis. The second time i used the drug Zyban. It worked really well. However I had a seizure from it. It was because I have a very low seizure threshold. If you have no history of seizures I would give it a try. Hypnosis works if you really want to stop. You can easily try this yourself.. While you are in bed and waiting to fall asleep. Tell yourself all the reasons you don't want to smoke anymore. The more graphic you are the better. Such as my lungs are all gunk ed up with this black ugly goo. Smoking makes by breath stink. It's killing me. I won't want a cigarette when I get up. when I am on the phone. when I'm having a drink. etc, etc..Do it every night. It will work.. Good Luck

Answer 5

Read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. While many people here are mentioning that you need willpower, he argues that will power is never enough if you still have an underlying desire to smoke. His method is to convince you step by step that there is no actual joy or benefit in cigarette smoking. By the time you get to the end of the book you want to stop smoking and do not regard it as any kind of sacrifice.

Answer 6

Homeopathic Treatment for Smoking :-

To reduce the craving; while discontinuing its use Tabacum 30, 4 hourly

Though addicted to tobacco; but cannot bear the odour of it Lobelia In Q(Mother Tincture) 4 hourly, 5 -10 drops

Great desire to smoke; tobacco heart; oppression of breathing as in asthma Caladium S 30, 4 hourly

To produce disgust for tobacco for habitual tobacco chewers Plantago Major 30, 4 hourly

Take Care and God Bless You !

Answer 7

-Don't use drugs.
-Shop in the produce section.
-Water
-Will power


The last one's the most important. If you don't smoke, then you've quit smoking. Don't let others' failure hinder your performance, either. You don't need a miracle poppy to keep you from smoking... I quit for 3 years by using the cold turkey method. (Note: It involved absolutely no turkey flesh.)

Why did I start again? I now have the cleanest and most well thought diet of any man I've ever known, get plenty of water, more than enough rest/sleep, and a great deal of exercise.

Cigarettes don't kill. Imbalance does. If you smoke, eat nothing but pizza and fried foods, drink nothing but soda, and get less than 20 hours of sleep (what's required now for your body to detoxify after all of that), you'll get cancer and die. It's just that simple.

The body can clean itself. Quit smoking if you want to, but please don't do it because of the medical community's blatant ignorance on the subject.

Good luck, though!

Answer 8

I stopped smoking...and I enjoyed it before I stopped.
I did the following things...
1. I watched a tape by the American Cancer Society
titled...21 days to stop smoking..........
2. I drank alot of water and urinated alot. cleansing
3. I ate carrots...as carrot sticks...to give me vitamin
A which is healing...and kept my hands
busy..
4. I listened to subliminal tapes about not smoking..
///don't know if they worked...but was desperate...
5. I told myself..I CAN NOT TOUCH A CIGARETTE
OR A PACKAGE OF CIGARETTES AGAIN...I have not
touched one for sixteen years...If you don't pick it
up you can't light it...GOOD LUCK...
RUN AWAY FROM SMOKERS...THEY ARE POISON
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO QUIT....

Answer 9

I WAS a smoker for a bunch of YEARSSSSSSSSS !! I tried quittin colddddddd turkey as you other guys out there say but no luck over and over again i FAILED AGAIN AND AGAIN I JUST COULDN'T DO IT . I COULDN'T AFFORD THOSE EXPENSIVE NICOTINE PATCHES THAT SOME PEOPLE DO AND STILL HAVE LITTLE OR NO LUCK WITH AND SOME EVEN GET WORSE WITH IT.SOME FOLKS CAN QUIT IF THEY ONLY SMOKE ONE PACK A DAY OTHERS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH TWO OR THREE AND YEAH THAT WAS ME , I DID AND OR WAS TWO TO THREE PACK A PERSON. I BELIEVE IN GOD AND IN PRAYERS LOTS AND LOTS OF BOTH . ASK GOD FOR HELP AND HE WILL HELP BUT ... YOU MUST BE SINCERE CAUSE HE WILL KNOW IF YOU ARE NOT . HOPE THIS HELPS. FIND YOU A GOOD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH THEY WILL HELP YOU PRAY TOO.

Answer 10

Throw your cigs out and never buy anymore. If your friends smoke then get new friends. If you have a lifestyle that might cause you to be stressed out then change your lifestyle.

I personally used to smoke and quit by doing those things. Just remember that you are the most important person in your life. Your friends and your lifestyle are not nearly as important. The only person in this world that is gonna care about you is you.