how can i stop smoking? i smoke 80 a day and i no its not good for me?

Answer 1

Jeeeeezuussss! 80 a day! at £5 a pack (at least - here in the uk) thats £20 a day, £140 a week, £7280 a year!!!!
That should be enough to make you stop lol!
Just think - if you gave up for 11 years & put all that money to one side you could buy one of these for me..
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t383385.html
go on - you know you want to!
Good luck

Answer 2

Go to the doctors, they will point you in the right direction. I can't work out how you smoke so many a day. Let's say you have on average 8 hours sleep a night. That's 16 hours of the day left. That means you're smoking a cigarette every 12 or so minutes! How do you get any work done?!

I used the inhalator when I quit. It worked for me and I was the sort of smoker that needed one as soon as I woke up and before going to bed! It does take willpower and determination and you'll feel crap for a while but after a few weeks you'll feel 100 times better!

Answer 3

At 80 a day it will be hard for you, and you must be decisive. Say to yourself before your annual leave, I am am not going to buy another pack when this one's finished.

Then go to bed for 3 days while you have the shakes.

After that it's a matter of discipline.
Remember to reject offers.
Do not buy any just to prove you can have them around.

Tell everyone you've stopped, so that you don't want to look foolish if you smoke again.

Answer 4

you smoke 80 a day, that is 4 packs. HOLY COW!! I wish you luck. I would recommend the patch, That should help kick the habit. Or the nicoret gum.. Talk to your doctor there is a pill that can help you kick the habit as well.


Quit help line i don't think will help a 4 pack a day-er, you need something that puts nicotine in your system this way you can gradually be weened off.

Good Luck

Answer 5

My father used to smoke 40 a day, but probably over a much longer period than you. He went to the doctor about something else and was told that he would be dead inside six months if he didn't stop.

That kinda sorta did the trick for him and he stopped overnight. He was a real git to live with for the first four weeks after, but he mellowed in time again.

He lived for many years after he stopped and said he felt a lot better for having given up. Hope you find your motivation - good luck

Answer 6

Only you will know when the time is right! My Mum was a really heavy smoker and the more we told her to stop the more she smoked but then one day she said she was testing herself to see how long she could go without that was about 7 yrs ago and shes still off them now! She always kept a packet on her because she never said she'd quit it was always just a test. Good luck x

Answer 7

I just stopped. I smoked from 1980 to 1999, between one and two packs a day.

I haven't touched one in nearly 8 years.

The key is to disassociate yourself from those things you do while smoking. That's what makes it a habit. You get used to sparking one up when you do this or that.

Answer 8

i hae 3 sons having trouble smoking and they smoke much more then you. one of them gave up hes smoking 4 packs a day and the other two are trying desperating actually one boy told me its just quit and hes got commit its chewing things and then you get the patch with 21 mg and that should help get on the regiment and it will help. but you have to keep it up its very expensive i would just stop myself. i know its hard but i did when i needed sleeping pill for 1 1/2 years to work and when i retired done an di did it. its hard but the main thing you have to really want to cause it does kill they have proven it causes heart attacks and strokes i have lots of relatives it got.

Answer 9

Have you ever read Allan Carrs book, the easyway to stop smoking. My brother in-law smoked 40+ a day, he read the book January just gone and hasnt smoke since.
Try it, you have nothing to lose but so much to gain

Answer 10

If you know its no good for you, you are right, you do need to find a way to stop. Have you seen the latest pack warnings with the pictures, this could be you! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/29/nsmoking129.xml
Statistically in terms of success numbers some form of NRT, usually patches or patches plus gum or insufflator together with attendance at a smoking cessation clinic is the best bet. Your local GP practice should know where they are held.

Go for it! Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.