any useful tips for givin up smoking?

Answer 1

I suggest starting by not smoking indoors or in your car. This is is super easy! AND a GREAT start. I live in Michigan and quit smoking 100% when it got cold because I didnt like going out into the cold to have a cigarette. The cold provides a strong deterrent to having a cigarette. Taper down by a cigarette every few days, then you barely notice. As you smoke fewer and fewer, the will to brunt the cold is reduced as your addiction fades. If you struggle, change your clothing, MAKE yourself suffer while you are out there! T-shirt and jeans baby! This worked extremely well for me. Just make sure that you are extremely diligent come the first warm week of spring NOT to smoke AT ALL or you get back into the habit and have to wait another year for the cold thing to kick in again (I made this mistake, but used some willpower to never exceed one cigarette per day througout the summer, I rationalized it by believing everything in moderation is fine, um...this is NOT true, if it were then meth is also good in moderation). If you are stressed or whatever, pick up exercise, walking a dog, sex (yes I am serious), weightlifting, swimming (best), playing b-ball, etc. Be careful to NOT use food for this purpose or you may gain a ton of weight. I used running with my dog, then after a year and a half got into weightlifting as well.

Answer 2

I'm celebrating 3years of giving up smoking today,Dec 6th,after smoking for37 years.I used patches for about a week then ,as I couldn't remember if I had a patch on or not,went cold turkey.One tip I learnt was to have the cigarettes in a different room to which you were, thus having to making a conscious effort to 'have a drag' and most times,by the time I could be bothered to go to where the packet was, I didn't want one.
One other tip,after a week or so, smell how bad a smoker stinks and think,'I used to smell like that'!!!

Answer 3

First tip I can give you is:
DON'T MAKE IT A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION.
By doing that you give yourself extra pressure to succeed and people have an expectation for you to fail.
Do it in your own time. If you can just try to stop with no patches, gums etc, you might just surprise yourself with your success and you'll be more likely to stay off them.
Another good tip is to put the money you spend on ciggies into a jar and count it after you're fist week. If you haven't been tempted to buy any, don't count it again until a month has passed and you'll be shocked at what you've saved.
Finally hunny.............good luck. I wish you all the best and hope that you do succeed.
Merry Christmas! xx
J.J.

Answer 4

Invest in Allen Carr's 'Easyway to Stop Smoking' It's a great book, I read a chapter a day while I was having a cig. You gradually smoke less and less, by the time you have finished the book you just don't have the urge. It's just common sense. Been three years now, don't even think about smoking, even when I'm out for a drink with smokers. Great investment. After 40 years, 30 a day.

Answer 5

I stopped 5 yrs ago, you have to want to stop and not just half heartedly want too.

If you aren't positive about giving up you never will.

If you are positive about giving up, then ether see your doctor or go to one of those stop smoking groups,
The groups are made up of people who all want to give up and if you start smoking again whilst in the group you feel guilty as hell for starting again.

But mainly its 75% will power and 25% nicotine patches or such like.

Change your habits,
don't go into the room were you would normally have a smoke when you get up in the morning,
do some thing when you have finished you meals etc.
break all your old smoking habits

good look,

You can only feel better for stopping and don't give up giving up

Answer 6

I stopped smoking in 1976. The method I used was a little unusual but it worked for me. I set a date, which was the following Saturday and on that day I smoked over a hundred cigs, it is possible. By the time I went to bed I was so sick of smoking I threw my last cigs into the fire and was so pleased to do so and have never smoked since. I did want to stop as I was keen on sport and I was getting short of breath. Although I had tried to stop a dozen times before, I found this easy! I had been smoking about 60 per day

Answer 7

theres a book called allen cars easy way to give up smoking , basically deprograms the mind of all the brainwashing and myths about smoking . you go from how ever many cigarettes u smoke a day to nothing and feel good about it , sounds a bit like magic but millions of people have given up reading this book or by going to there clinics all over the world .

i read it 6 years ago never looked back and i actually felt good about it , also everyone that has read it that i know of has given up !!

alota the government funded ways of giving up have it all back to front like the book tells u and not surprising as the government makes billions out of smokers every year!!

anyway go buy a copy read it simple as that and then give to someone else make sure they dont stick it on the shelf and u might help someone else stop aswell always a good christmas present .

and by the way i have thumbed down everyone that has given bad advice , not spiteful just most dont realise there giving bad advise and making it harder for u .

Answer 8

I live in Turkey and we operate an Anti smoking center similar to iqs. There is a 45 minute therapy involved where you'll receive aurocology - stimulation through 15 points on your ears. This has over a 90% success rate if you're adament on giving up. My partner quit over 6 months ago now on this therapy, after we used toothpicks as a side track when he thougt about cigarettes. After 72 hours nicotine is released from your system, so the rest is psychological. Good Luck!

Answer 9

Decide on the day you intend to make a start. On that 1st day, write down the time you light up every time. At the end of the day, total up how many ciggies you smoked, and work out the average time gap between smokes. This first day is easy, and you can smoke as much as you like! Day two the same, but reduce your total by one, plus increase the time gap between smokes by 10 minutes. Day three, reduce by two and make that time gap longer still. Day four.........you get the idea? While you are doing this, get out in the fresh air and walk every day. Avoid all those things and situations that make smoking so 'pleasurable'. You should work out all of this stuff before your start day. Keep going; it's not too difficult to begin with. It will get more difficult, but you are in control if you hang on to your determination. The logic of this method is of course to reduce right down to one last smoke!, but all the while your mind is focussed all the time on what you are about. This is what I did; I hav'nt smoked for four years. One final thing to say: No substitutes! You have to do this once and for all. I wish you the very best of luck.

Answer 10

My wife got the injections in the face and she never smoked again and that has been 20 years now.

Nicotine is a powerful drug and it overpowers and replaces weaker natural compounds in your body, but your body does not produce nicotine so the only way you can get your body back into balance is to have a cigarette, That's what nicotine addiction is.

Science has found the compounds that the nicotine has replaced and the injections are nothing more than those weaker compounds that you had originally in you, the ones nicotine replaced, by injecting a week's worth of those weaker compounds back into you you can now walk away from cigarette addiction free of charge because your body is in balance and you have no cravings at all.

My wife chewed gum for a week to get her off the "mouth in use" thing and she has never smoked since and has a clean life.