I'm trying to stop smoking and i'm having a very hard time coping with the withdraws. What did you do to keep from smoking during the time you made the effort to stop for good? I would really want to know if there's something i could do besides eat up my house and home to keep my mind off the cigs?
2007-03-14 16:10:48 · 6 answers · asked by B. Gregory 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I would like to stop cold turkey because there was nothing I used to start up smoking so i feel like I can do it without medicine or murder...LOL
2007-03-14 16:12:36 · update #1
I stopped cold turkey 18 years ago.
Haven't had one since.
I just kept my mind on other stuff and kept my hands busy. Smoking is alot about having something in your hand - so if you can keep busy with a project or book or hobby or chores, that's good. Drink lots of water too. Always have a bottle of water on hand.
Good luck and blessings with your efforts.
2007-03-14 16:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First thing is that you really want to quit smoking. I smoked for many years and then I had congestive heart failure and that scared me enough to want to quit smoking. At first I used the nicotine patch for a month but then decided that I didn't need it and went cold turkey. I used to go to the store to the tobacco counter and smell the tobacco in the packages. You could try exercising or go for a walk.That seemed to relieve my temptation. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about having a cigarette but I don't give in. I just try to keep busy to take my mind off of it. I don't do it because I want to live to see my grandchildren grow up.
2007-03-15 00:13:53 · answer #2 · answered by Marilyn H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do ANYthing
Eat up your house if thats what it takes
There is no amount of food you can eat that is worse than one more cigarette!
I ate pumpkin seeds. Millions of them
And drank water, and walked around the neighborhood, and cried, and banged my head on the walls, and had a terrible time, but I made it - and its been 9 years. I have quit drugs and alcohol too in my lifetime and none of it was as hard as cigarettes.
Good luck to you
2007-03-14 23:14:25 · answer #3 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How I quit was I get yearly bouts of Bronchitis and Pnuemonia and one time it hurt so bad around my lungs I threw away a carton and a half a can of TOPS rolling tobacco and I've been a steady smoker for 16 - 17 yrs.
2007-03-14 23:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by bigfoot51074 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i quit because i simply got over it. After 6 years of smoking i just felt crap one day after a smoke and never lit one up since, however i know a few people who have quit and they said that chewing chewing gum or sucking on a lollipop helped them quit!
Hope that helps a bit! :)
Good luck!!
2007-03-14 23:14:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I kept the oral fixation under control by snacking on small, low- or non-fat stuff like sunflower seeds, almonds, raisins...small stuff that kept me chewing.
I also took up embroidery. It kept my hands busy, and I had something nice by the time was I detoxed.
2007-03-14 23:19:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋