Have You Ever Quit Smoking Or At Least Tried To Quit?

[Lee]

I think after i finish my last packet of smokes im going to quit.

Got any hints or tips you want to share if you have quit smoking in the past?

Regards,

Lee

[maxpower]

Smokers are Jokers :joker:

[BentGirl]

Dont swap it for another bad habit like chewing your fingers nails/tongue piercing jewellery or eating tons.

I put on 6kgs when I quit smoking. I found when I needed a smoke I'd go eat. My hips really didnt appreciate it.

Cold turkery is painful. Try and do it gradually.

[Lee]

Cold turkery is painful. Try and do it gradually.

Well see, thats a problem, if i try to do it gradually, i KNOW ill never stop.

Im more the type of person who needs to cut something off flat out for it to have any effect LOL

Regards,

Lee

[BentGirl]

Lock yourself in a room, with only a net connection and food

Seriously though, I think you have to really want to quit for it to happen. I wanted to quit, I didnt really need to.
I put put my weekly smoking money away and saved up for a holiday. It was a really good incentive for me, but hard not to go and just get a little bit of money out to buy a packet.

Though I have saved a heap of money now I dont smoke. Which is always a bonus.

[Dzinerbear]

The patches work really well. If you're committed to quitting and put the patches on, they really do take the edge off and give you some smoke-free time to deal with the habit. By the time you're on the last level of patches you're really not even thinking about it.

I headed back to a non-smoker again on Tuesday after the long weekend.

Cheers
Michael

[basschick]

i quit smoking around 22 years ago. i just up and stopped and never smoked one more cigarette.

[gaybucks_chip]

Our one employee just quit smoking about a month ago. (It was a condition of employment; we won't employ smokers.) He used the Commit lozenges (similar to the gum) and said it was very helpful.

The other things that I've been told by people who have successfully quit:

-- Get some black licorice that is naturally flavored (fennel is a natural licorice flavor, but there are a lot of artifical flavors.) Something in the fennel helps to reduce the cravings for nicotine, and having the licorice pieces in your mouth can help to fulfill the physical desire for something in your mouth (no off-color comments, please) and also reduce the desire to eat more. My holistic doctor gave this advice to a friend of mine years ago and it turned out to be very helpful.

-- To help deal with the conditioned responses/associations with smoking (cigarette and coffee, cigarette after a meal, at a bar, etc), order a carton of Quest 3 cigarettes (just search them on Google, lots of vendors). They are cigarettes made from a special genetically altered tobacco that contains no nicotine, yet smokes and tastes like regular cigarettes. You can smoke a bazillion of them and have no addiction concerns. We keep a few packs around for to give to models that are sincerely interested in quitting, and many have told us they were very helpful when they were in a setting where everyone else was lighting up and they were tempted.

-- The biochemistry of the body is such that the nicotine receptors created when you start smoking never die; even if you've been away from cigarettes for 10+ years, smoking a single cigarette (for 95%+ of ex-smokers) will almost immediately start to reactivate the receptors, and restore the strong physical cravings as though you'd just quit smoking the day before. Another reason why having the Quests around can be helpful if you get an irresistable craving.

-- I'm told that if it's really tough, hypnosis and acupuncture can both be very helpful to the quitting process.

Good luck and keep us posted!!

[FisHY]

I quit smoking before and started again and now I'm trying to quit again. Down from 1 package a day to 3 cigs. I just keep it away from me (it helps when I don't see it..I'm too lazy to move) and I don't bring it when going anywhere. I also keep thinking that those bloody cigs help me age BADLY and get terrible skin..

Fish

[Seth]

"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times." -Mark Twain

[Morbazo]

Can't anymore count how many times I stopped and started again to smoke.

I think every year again I stop smoking for a few weeks and go back smoking.
My longest time ever was 6 months with the help of Zyban. Strong medicament but very helpfull.

I think my problem is I like it a lot to smoke and I really don't want to stop it but otherwise after a long weekend out wake up monday morning I feel sometimes very bad because of too much cigarettes and think about it to stop smoking - well for about one hour.

[collegeboyslive]

my hubby is also quitting this week. he is 2 days into it. just warn everyone around you NOT to smoke where you are and that you will be a really crabby ass.

actually warn everyone on the board as well

[A_DeAngelo]

There's only one way to quit, just do it!

I smoked for 30 years, then one day, while I was dying in bed, hacking and coughing up god knows what, I decided it was time to say goodbye to chronic bronchitis, bad breath, funky house and car smell, etc...

I decided that I would NEVER touch another cigarette! and I haven't in almost 6 years.

I convinced myself that I was going to die and that a fate worse than death was to quit again, and again and again...so I made sure that I have never, ever, ever had to go through the agony again.

The key, don't ever buy another pack, pick up a pack or even look at one!

And don't, don't even think of subsituting something else in it's place. Be a man and face your addiction. It gets easier every day, and the first day is the worst!

(I've taken up cigars in their place....just kidding...my avatar is from a photo shoot! and, I didn't even light the stinky thing!)

[Lee]

and that you will be a really crabby ass.

actually warn everyone on the board as well

Haha that sounds like me on a good day so im pretty sure the board doesnt need warning about that LOL

Regards,

Lee

[Lee]

I actually think the hardest part of quitting for me will be the association of having a smoke with a beer or glass of wine.

Since ive been smoking for the last 6 years ive always smoked a lot more when ive been drinking so i really do think thats going to be the hard part.

I have 6 cigarettes left in my last packet so im spacing them out across the day then ill go cold turkey and see how long i last.

Regards,

Lee