how long have you smoked cigerettes, any tips on quitting?

Question

ive smoked for a year off and on, any tips on quitting smoking

Answer 1

I have smoke for a decade. The best way to quit is cold turkey. Take it one day at a time and never look back.

Answer 2

First step in quitting smoking is that you should have the realization, will and resolve to quit. No outside aids or medication is going to help you if you lack the will to stop smoking.

I recently quit smoking like 3 months ago, up till now I am strong in my resolve. The reason being I am 40 and think its high time I quit smoking before getting into serious health trouble. I did some research on the best way to quit smoking. I am not fan of nicotine patches or gum because certain side effects are associated with them, after all it is nicotine which is a poison.

I am using a combination of hypnosis and natural remedy (Crave-RX) to quit. Hypnosis works at the subconscious level to eliminate the triggers that cause us to smoke and Crave-RX is good to reduce nicotine craving and suppress withdrawal symptoms.

The best I liked about this solution is it does not carry any side effects. People respond differently to different treatments but it worked for me. It is worth a try.

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Answer 3

I smoke for 55 + years, I quit a 5 pack a day habit

My quiting was somewhere around the 10th to 12th try

Step #1 you have to have it in you mind that you want to quit
no matter the reason, Mine was the f'n politics were stealing $30 a carton for pre-pre school paid for by only smokers
(baby sitters for 2 yo)

You need to get down to 1/2 pack a day before the other crap works ( $1000 worth of usless drugs)

An anti anxiety drug like ativan ($10) helps more with the nic fits than the anti depressents like Zyban at a $100 per script

I cut down by smoking less each week


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Answer 4

Bret, I smoked at least one pack a day for 28 years. If I was partying then I smoked more. Sometimes three packs a day. I thought there would be absolutely no way to ever quit. So I never tried. Then I had an allergic reaction to an Iguana that I had raised from 4 inches to three feet. I believe he lived with us for 5 years and then all of a sudden I couldn't get near him without becoming extremely short of breath. I thought a few times I was on the verge of death. So I go to a doctor and at this time I didn't know it was from the lizard and the doctor runs test after test and come to the ridiculous conclusion that I had asthma. I have never had even the slightest trouble breathing and in my teens and twenties I could run forever. He prescribed "wellbutrin" to try to help me quit smoking. Wellbutrin is a drug that is used to calm hyperactive and really nervous people. I started out just taking 10 cigarettes with me to work. The first two days I had to bum a couple of smokes but after that I got it down to only 10 a day. I took my medicine religiously. After about 10 days I cut it down to 5 cigs. Then I just left them at home. All together it took me two and a half weeks to quit. I have never wanted a cigarette since.

Answer 5

I smoked a pack+ per day for about 10 years (17-27). Tried the hypnosis and thought it was a joke. Tried cold-turkey on a Wed because I went to the doctor with chest pain. I had a nic-fit by noon, went and bought a pack of Marlboro Lights and a box of patches (the three-size brand?) and started using them that Saturday along with some set ideas to distract myself at "normal" smoking times (like work breaks).

I thought it was rather easy (as easy as quitting an addiciton can be?) and it worked for me. I even cheated a couple of times, and for a couple of years I'd still have one or two if I got drunk in Vegas. Now, I can't comprehend why anyone would want that taste in their mouth. One puff & it stays with you for hours.

Nasty habit, and you CAN live without it, no matter how much the addiction makes you think otherwise. Good luck.

Answer 6

There is a great deal of hope for you since you have not been at it too long....and you said off and on which implies that you have experienced "quiting" before. I smoked for 30 years with periods of quiting that lasted a year, 18 months, 2 1/2 years, and other times for weeks or months. I have now quit for a year but this time I am more aware of the pitfalls and triggers. My Dr. prescribed Welbutrin which I believe is the generic for Zyban. It helps that my husband quit too so he is my support system. Our ultimate support system is prayer. The pitfalls of before was always thinking I had it conquered so when something triggered me emotionally or temptation came up, I was not prepared for my response. Keep trying to quit and when you succeed for a time, keep trying to resist. Good Luck.

Answer 7

I smoked two different times in my life. The first time I smoked from age 19 to 20, for one year, then I quit.

Then, when I was 24 years old, I picked them up again, stupid thing to do! I smoked for 9 nine years that time! I prepared to quit for three years, yep! I was smoking Salem 100's and I switched to Salem 100 lites. At first I was smoking twice as many ciggies, but that slowed down after awhile.
I knew it was working one day about a year later when the store only had Salem 100s and I bought a pack. The first drag and I knew I could no longer handle the regular cigs!

So then I switched to Salem 100 Ultra Lites. I did that for one year. Then I did another switch to Kent Ultra lites. After that, I went cold turkey, but had to give in after two weeks because my nerves were really bothering me so bad. I tried again about two months later and actually lasted about three weeks before going back to smoking.

Finally, I read how you have to develop a good habit along with getting rid of the bad habit. So I combined that idea along with aversion therapy techniques.............

You see, I really HATED the stinkiness of cigarette smoking, so that made it easier for the aversion. I went cold turkey that last time (third try that year) and whenever I would crave a ciggie, I would drink some water, then I would smell a dirty ashtray and then smell my fingers. Then I would say out loud, "Ewwww how icky that smells! I don't want to mess up my hands with that nasty stuff!"

When I got really nervous, I would get on my exercise bike and wear myself out. It worked for me. That was 1986.

Point is, don't give up. I read somewhere that it takes at least five tries to quit before it takes. Find out what works for you. Back in 1986 there were no nicotine patches. But I probably would have tried them.

Good Luck! Quitting ciggies was really hard. But you can do it if you want it bad enough.

Answer 8

I smoked 2 packs a week, on and off for 11 years. For me it was simply a matter of consciously deciding that I didn't want a smoke, after a while, when the withdrawal stop, it is an unconscious choice and you are free.

Answer 9

I have smoke on and off, Years ago!

I wanted to remember a day a that i quit smoking so i decide to quit on Thanksgiving day. I wanted to quit Cold Turkey and i thought that would a good day to quit.

It's been since 1984 twenty (23) years this Thanksgiving Day in November 2007.

I made it a point NOT to:

HOLD cigarettes
Buy cigarettes for anyone
Lend people money to buy cigarettes
Especially if they tell me they need it to buy cigarettes
I will not drive anyone to the store to buy cigarettes.

Cigarettes was no longer my habit! it was their habit.

during that time If i felt like smoking and someone that smoked was around me, I would tell them to blow smoke in the air and I would inhale that smoke Only! (i will not hold that cigarette).

after several weeks it ended and never made that request again.

that's how I quit and very proud of it... :)

sometimes people would ask me to hold there cigarette and i would catch myself just before i was to hold it, i paused and reject and object of holding that cigarette.

be strong, keep alert because your friends don't think about you not smoking only their habit.

I hope this helps... :)
we are proud of you! :)

Answer 10

You first MUST truly WANT to quit! Then take each day one at a time. I had a close friend that helped me quit. Here's the funny part of how I quit smoking...I gave my close friend my permission to "take" any cigarettes off my person any time he caught me with any!~Once he followed me to a grocery store (without my seeing him) where I purchased a carton of cigarettes and some groceries, and when I got to the exit door, he reached into my grocery bag a proceeded to take my carton of cigarettes with a remark.."Thanks for buying my smokes today!" laughing all the while!
If it had not been for my best friend, Earl, I do not think I could of done it on my own...I loved my smokes to much!
Thank you Earl wherever you are!...I have been smoke free now for 25 years!