How to stop smoking?

Answer 1

Just keep trying and dont quit quitting - everytime you quit your odds of it being successful go up dramatically. It took me 4 tries before I successfully quit (5 years now.) I had tried the patch 3 times, gum, and welbutrin. The patch alone is what helped me be successful. I had surgery and that helped, and it was after becoming engaged and the idea of beign in a wedding dress with a smoke in my hand just wasnt acceptable to me. My husband (then fiance) had quite a beyatch on his hands for a few months but I got through and now am so thankful - especially since I have kiddos now - nothings more pathetic then seeing a mom with a baby in one hand and a smoke in the other. Find distractions, make some new goals and some big life changes and make that a part of it - take up moutain biking or a new hobby something to distract you. Oh I also pretty much quit drinking for about a year and gave up my coffee for awhile too since I didnt know how to do either without a smoke in my hand - I also avoided bars at all cost. Hanging around nonsmokers instead of smokers makes a big difference too. Rid of anything that reminds you of smoking or encourages cravings - I also kept chocolates and candies around for after meals. (Fortunately I didnt gain a bunch of weight lol) Good luck to you! And keep on quitting itll take.

Answer 2

I am currently in the process of quitting and am taking Chantix which helps, but after being a smoker for over 60 years. the desire is still very strong at certain times. So far, in the past six weeks, I have slipped twice and had some cigarettes. but then went back to not smoking at all. I dream I am smoking or looking for a cigarette and I have to change channels on TV if they show someone smoking. The only thing I can tell you is to RESIST the impulse...drink a large glass of water, brush your teeth often and definitely after meals. Limit coffee drinking if you are a morning coffee person..I found that hot tea did not associate with smoking like coffee did. The desire only lasts a few minutes so if you can busy yourself when the urge comes, you will outlast it. Good luck to you. I am pretty much disabled with COPD after a lifetime of smoking so the sooner you quit, the longer you will live without lung problems. I decided to try to quit again (had already tried three times before in the last six ;years) as I finally realized that I am killing myself and I don't want to be that stupid.

Answer 3

If you have pain in your chest when you smoke that is very helpful in keeping you on track. You may not have that pain, but keep thinking about the pain you do suffer, the coughing in the morning, or whatever. In other words, when you think about cigarettes think about the negative. I did quit cold turkey, but that was the only choice back then. One trick I found very helpful was to make a habit of not buying or carrying cigarettes, and if somehow I did get some throwing them away. (this works with liquor too). Obviously, you need to not be bumming cigarettes either. Think about how cheap and foolish you are to do that. The thing about not buying cigarettes is that the buying is at least a little painful so that is a good place to intervene if you start back up again. Likewise if you have started again and feel disgusted that is a good time to throw them in the stove (I have a wood stove) and then if you want more you would have to buy them. You just set up a steady negative wind... Good luck! You'll be feeling a lot better in just a few months.

Answer 4

Actually u can't quit smoking if u r addicted to it so i would say the best thing to do is to think that u can u can !!!!!!!!
You CAN quit smoking. Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term benefits for you and your loved ones. Studies have shown that you have a better chance of being successful if you have help. Tell your family, friends, and coworkers that you are going to quit and want their support. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out.# When you first try to quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Eat breakfast in a different place.Plan something enjoyable to do every day.Drink a lot of water and other fluids.
these are some of the ways u can quit smoking.
It will help u in some way
COME ON TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U CAN DO IT!!!!!!!

ALL THE BEST!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Hi there,
must important thing is to create a cognitive thinking against. You have to create repulsion agaisnt cigarrete. For example, I hate the smell the cigarrette leaves on clothes; I hate it so bad that my answer to that is just repulsive against. My mind evokes that before I ever light it up...

I am a non-smoker but I tried to be one in my teen years as I guess everybody else. I guess I was just lucky my body and mind worked it out perfectly to stop right there.

If you manage to associate something that is discusting to you, it'll help a lot... just like the day after a night-long party and lots of alcohol, yo feel so bad you always, always say: "I won't do it again". The problem is that our cognitive thinking does not go beyond more than a day or 2, or a week or 2.

Anyways, hopefully this will help. A good example of this "experiment" can be seen in the movie Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick. This one goes beyond boundaries.

Good luck.

Answer 6

I used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day, that too in the worst possible manner of sucking the smoke deep in and holding it there. My blood used to smell of nicotine, whenever I cut myself.

Yet I stopped. Like that. More than 40 years back. Never touched it again.

Only way. Stop. And never allow any slip up.

Just DO it!
It is worth it.

Answer 7

Everyone is going to give you different advice; the patch, pills, just stop, etc...

For me it took getting Bronchitis. I wasn't able to get a full breath, I was coughing violently, and felt awful. When I looked at my cigarettes I started thinking of what it would be like to never breath freely again.

That was a month ago. I'm still feeling the effects of the bronchitis. If that is even an inkling of how it feels to have lung disease I will never smoke again.

Answer 8

I used Chantix, a pill. You take one daily as you are quiting and after you quit. It takes away the effect that nicotine has to hold you to it. You have to want to quit, because you will have urges periodically, but they go away in minutes and I have noticed that I rarely have any sense of that any more. It is prescription and costs about $100 a month. I have used the other quit smoking aids and this worked the best for me. I didn't feel exhausted as I had with other ways of quiting

Answer 9

Take Chantix: http://www.chantix.com/content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp?setShowOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp&setShowHighlightOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp&source=google&HBX_PK=s_smoking+medicine&HBX_OU=50&o=%25epid!|%25eaid!|%25erid!
My aunt's friend smoked 3 packs a day and he found out about Chantix and started to use it and now, he hasn't smoked in like, 3 months. He just stopped. He didn't have the urge to smoke! Try it!