folks how do i stop cussing?

Question

i just can`t help it. my parents tried but nothing came out of it.

Answer 1

i have young kids, and they are the best thing for me to stop swearing in front of them. I replaced swear words with similar sounding words, and now i say them without actually stopping and thinking about it. For the F word, i use FUDGE; sugar instead of S**T; and so on. make up your own words which cant be mistaken for the real words. pull yourself up everytime you swear, and repeat the word you want to use instead. eventually, you should get used to the replacement words instead of the swear words. Or another way is to pinch the back of your hand after every time you swear, again your brain will realise swearing means pain.

Answer 2

You'll probably grow out of it once you enter the professional world.... But if you want to stop now, you just need to make a conscious effort. Think before you speak. I've had moments when i thought i cussed a bit too much so I made a conscious decision to tone it down a notch. You just gotta focus on your speech patterns. That's what I did.

Answer 3

Start making up non-cuss words for the real thing.
Shoot, frickin, darn, etc.
I've tried that before and I thought I sounded more stupid saying that stuff than the real words until eventually, I stopped cussing. Unfortunately, I'm back to the real deal, but try and stick to it. Maybe it'll work for you.

Answer 4

Tell all of our friends that you are wanting to stop cussing. Make an agreement with them that starting Monday every time they hear you cuss they will call you on it. Give them an incentive (like having to pay them a quarter for every cuss word). Stock up on quarters. Lots of quarters.

Answer 5

You start to feel good about yourself, for a start.
Then you make up your mind to stop.
Start for one hour, then the next day two hours, etc etc.
You will be regarded in a different light if you stop, and you become a less fearful person.

Start to turn your life around and look forward to being looked up to ,instead of looked down at.

To BRANDON K - Wow, what a wonderfully intelligent answer, you must feel real good about yourself.

Answer 6

Every time your goin to open your mouth rehearse in your mind whats goin to come out of it. You can also play this game with your friends called bad habit. Is everytime that anyones whos playing curses they get punched till they say bad habit this game really works. We do it all the time and is so fun.

Answer 7

You have to make a conscience effort to pay attention to what's coming out of your mouth. Think before you speak - every time.
Good luck.

Answer 8

Take a rubber band, put it on like a bracelet and everytime you do slap yourself with it by pulling on it. Eeezy-peezy hurts like cutting yourself.

Answer 9

quit talking, lets see what you want to say more than fowl words

Answer 10

you ******* just need to stop ******* cussing and tell all the ****** to shut up and ******* **** ***** ***