Ive tried it a few times over the last few years and never been successful. Ive tried the gum but it is AWFUL - feels like my throat is on fire, dont like the inhaler and i am allergic to the patch! To nicotine replacement is out the window for me. When i stopped before i got really irritable and it felt like my lungs were about to explode - so i started again! Any advice from anyone who has gone cold turkey?
Also someone told me a while ago that the cravings NEVER stop for your whole life. I cant feel like that forever! So that has kinda put me off! But i really wanna stop!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Scarlet x
2007-08-13 21:17:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
I found this site that helped me quit
http://www.whyquit.com/
2007-08-14 04:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by mikentammy76 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I quit cold turkey in 1971 and have pretty much stayed quit ever since. It took me several tries before I was able to stay quit, but my last cigarette was in September of that year. I smoked an occasional cigar for a time after that, but my last cigar was in 1977.
First, the cravings will eventually go away. What may help you is to find several friends who also want to quit and form your own support group. There are also support groups already organized for smokers who want to quit.
I don't recommend the patch, the inhaler or the gum--they don't always work and you are likely to depend on them if you use them and that isn't helping what is already a substance problem.
The best advice I can give you is don't give up. If you truly want to quit you can quit, but it could take you several tries. Backsliding is very normal.
Good luck and don't give up.
2007-08-14 05:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heya,
Try this: Just try to trick your mind and just say to yourself that you are not stopping forever but only for a while..
The pressure of telling yourself that you will never smoke again is too heavy. However it will be easier to consider having a break.
Everytime the cravings come, just resist, get busy ( go on internet, clean your house, car, dog......), do Sports....
After a few days u will feel much beeter and it will only help you more.
Keep on pushing the next cigarette away without saying I will never smoke again.
First 3 month are the hardest.
I used this technique before and managed to stop for one year and started again for a silly reason.
I have now "paused" again and so far so good ( its been 2 weeks).
Good luck.
2007-08-14 04:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Pierre R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy 2 boxes of chocolates, like Snickers, Mars and so on and keep one at your place and the other in your car. Whenever you are thinking of cigarettes, you`ll get the craving obviously!
So, substitute the cigarette for a bar of chocolate instead and develop that behaviour. However, you MUST make sure you then provide additional care to your body.
For example, make sure you go to a gym weekly to lose out the excess calories + adopt good diet + brush teeth twice if not thrice, everyday.
2007-08-14 04:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by Ronnie RZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you heard of Chantrix look up how to quit.com this drug really works. My friends and I all took it and all quit with no bad feelings and no cravings for a cig. Good luck I know it is hard but wasn't with this medication.
2007-08-14 07:34:43 · answer #5 · answered by jeva75 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I stopped by not having any smokes, whenever I wanted to buy them I made sure I wouldn't have enough money for them. Good luck, by the way its not as hard as you percieve. If you tell yourself it will easy to stop it will be, mind over matter. It really does work.
2007-08-14 04:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by Tee D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋