Trying to quit smoking.....Help!!!?

Question

I am trying to quit smoking.... what are some suggestions that u have tried and were sucessful with? i have tried candy, gum, patches, and chewing ice and to no avail......im still smoking.

Answer 1

Quiting smoking is not a single habit, it is many! I smoked for 34 yrs,and after many attempts, managed to quit. But,in order to do it,I had to change my attitude on what smoking really is. I broke the multitude of habits,one at a time. I started by giving up the cigarette, I had while putting makeup on.I worked on giving up just that one cigarette. The next week, I gave up,the one while talking on the phone. Then the one that burned while I cleaned the kitchen. I had set a goal of quiting in 3 months and by the time that date rolled around, I was down to 1 cigarette. So, I didn't quit cigarettes at once, I quit 1 habit at a time. It worked for me!

Answer 2

I quit aftersome thirty years of smoking for seven years and now i'm battling it again . the first time I tried patches nicoret gum and still smoked getting the greatest nictotine high in my life doing all three at once till I found a program on the psychology of false positives that psychological support the habit . also I would smoke to counteract the cough so I started using cough drops and trying to repattern my thinking especially for when the urge hit the strongest and I would break down . attitude and negative reenforcement help . but the only way is to make up your mind go cold turkey long enough to completely slide into the positive groove of a non smoker to the point where you are fully able to maintain a positive feeling less the urge and are safe from returning this is what i'm going through now . I have to maintain healthy feelings of attitude that off set the urges to keep fro breaking down and losing my head when it comes . Anytime you have a bad habit you can't break it without displacing it with a good habit that fills the gaps that create the craving .some say repetition of positive thought patterning helps .
good luck to both of us.I just started to quit again tonight and if I fail I'm looking into hypnotherapy or additional counseling for support. one more hint practice saying no as much as possible in as many ways as you can .

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The one and only reason you're still smoking is because you DO want to. You're NOT serious about quitting. If you were you'd quit in a day. Yes, it's possible. I know people who used to smoke two packs a day and quit just like that, not gradually. But they REALLY did want to quit unlike you. People who take up smoking have no will at all, and the same thing when they try to quit. So, if you reallly want to quit, you say right now you're not going to smoke starting 12 am tonight. That's it.

Answer 5

I was sitting at a local restaurant, watching the children at the table next to me. My biological clock was ticking, and I was always interested in having a little boy. As I watched, the child tried to get up out of his seat, but his mother yelled at him to get back down. He began to ask when they could leave. She answered, “Let mommy finish her cigarette, please.” He sat there and watched her as she pulled one out of her pack. “Are you going to light your cigarette now, mommy?” he asked. She lit it up. I shook my head, and vowed to never smoke around my child. I figured that – not only was it not healthy for both myself and the child, but a child should not know the 'how’s" to lighting and smoking a cigarette – especially at the age of about four, as this child looked.

That was when I decided that my quitting time would be before I had a child. Granted, that was (hopefully) several years away (which I was right about!), and I still had time to party and be what I considered – irresponsible – with my body. Once a child came onto the scene, responsibility would set in, and I would have to give up my party life. I was not too worried about it, and figured that, once I got to that point, I would have been darned close to giving up cigarettes as well.

Since my husband did not smoke, and neither did his friends; I used to have to go sit at the bar and smoke by myself. It was not something that I found difficult. It actually was one of those good way-to-get-out-of-boring-conversations methods. I would just stand up and say, “Excuse me, I’m gonna go have a smoke.” Most people would decline to come with me, so I was left alone for a short while.

There are several ways to resolve to quit, and the first is by making a list of why you want to. An example of such reasons might be the benefits to your health, the extra money you would have once you stopped buying cigarettes (a pack-a-day smoker can save almost $2000 a year by giving up smoking!), or even the added benefit of raising your children in a smoke-free environment.

Also, many people try to choose a day when they will quit completely. That person may begin by cutting down on smoking a couple of weeks before this or her actual Quit Day. That person may choose a day that bears a big significance for them in other ways – perhaps a birthday coincides, so they may say that they “quit smoking for his or her 35th birthday”. Alternatively, one may want to pick a day in a month that you have no reason to party! Therefore, once your Quit Day comes around again, you can celebrate to your newfound health and wealth!

I used this site to give me some tips and motivation as well:

http://www.thecomputerguynetwork.com/info/Quit-Smoking-Today.htm

Best of Luck!

Answer 6

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Good luck!

Answer 7

I took up sunflower seeds, the kind with the shell still on. I think by distracting yourself with another activity when you get the urge helps.
I haven't smoked for 2 months and rarely feel the urge anymore.

Good luck

Answer 8

well you cloud ask your docter or something

Answer 9

there's no end to it! your doomed to lung cancer just like me!