Quitting Smoking

[mboy88]

I'm in the process of trying to quit smoking, but after 14 days of not smoking a single cigarette, I relapsed (due to several stresses I've been having lately) and bought a pack of smokes and had a cigarette... I really want to quit smoking because I know it's a dirty and hazardous habit, but it's so HARD... it seems to be the only thing that can calm my stress.

Does anyone have any tips to quitting smoking? Or is anyone in the same position as me right now?

 

[MainEntry]

After smoking for years, I was hospitalized for 5 days where it was impossible to smoke. I also had an operation with anasthesia. When I went home, I stopped smoking forever. That was 10 years ago. I think the the anasthesia and the inability to even imagine getting a cigarette did it. I don't think anything else would have.

 

[sunshinesteve]

if you keep telling yourself that smoking is the only thing that will calm you when you are stressed it will be!
Try insted to think of it as something that will make you smell bad and eventually kill you, that may help.
I am an ex smoker, for the past 6 years, and cant stand the smell of it and it also makes me feel sad when I see others addicted to such a pointless drug.
Be strong and try to find a better way of calming yourself.
Good Luck mate!

 

[Centexfarmer]

I took a small mayonaise jar with a lid, and filled up with cigarette butts, and ashes, and just a little dab of water, and screwed the lid back on, and kept it with or nearby wherever I went.

When I got the urge to smoke, istead of going to the store to buy a pack, which I knew that I really didn't need or want, I screwed off the lid and took a whiff of those nasty cigarette butts and ashes, and grabbed some sugar-free gum instead.

YOU CAN DO THIS!

 

[mboy88]

You might watch this video, I found it very insightful. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/756818/quit_smoking/ I have never smoked, but I support the efforts of anyone that is willing to quit. Best of luck, tyler

Wow, that video was pretty startling... seriously, thank you so much for sharing it, it was really disgusting to see what comes out of a cigarette.

Thank you everyone, for all of your replies, I think I can do this, and I will throw away the pack of cigarettes I bought today.

 

[looseliam]

The best thing for me was avoiding the bars and what-not.

If I felt the urge for a ciggy, I'd go for a walk.

I have some of the nicotine lozenges that take the edge off it a big craving comes along.

 

[JackFTwist]

first time I quit, I did the patches and the gum until I no longer needed them.

5 years later I had "just one" and nicotine grabbed me again. I know now I can never have "just one" again.

Quitting the secnd time, I got that chantix and while I had a little problem with nausea that shit really works, well worth the expense and the nausea - it just advanced the process so much; it totally worked.

When I have those occasional moments when I think a cigarette would be good just to have cuz I'm stressed, I remind myself that a cigarette never solved a problem in its life.

 

[1st love ron]

. I know now I can never have "just one" again.

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I agree strongly with that. It's been 25 years for me and I know I can never just have one again.