Quitting

[Guilty_Biscuit]

I'm giving up smoking today now that most people who quit for new year have started again



Any tips for giving up? These cigerette things are a bit moreish.

I will also now apologise in advance to everyone I end up flaming due to 'cig rage'

[unriggable]

Congrats! I have no ideas. But good that your quitting.

[pancakemix]

My aunt attributed her quitting to 600 gourmet lollipops. She did stick a few in an ashtray, though...

[Phobia]

just dont give up, smoking wastes a lot of money and damages your health and everyone around you. if desperate, resort to this -

[Anarchy Ninja]

congrats i hope you succeed my parents used to smoke but not anymore

[Guiscard]

I quit in September and it still kills me sometimes. Should be better in July when the smoking ban comes in, but as for tips I suppose you just gotta stick it out. I didn't do this, but I know people who put the money they would have into a jar so they can literally see what they're saving.

[Stopper]

I stopped the fags three weeks ago. I'd recommend (and am using) nicotine gum, but given that this is about the seventh time I've given up, I'm not sure how much of a good tip that is...

Mind, you can get nicotine-replacement stuff on prescription, you know, just in case you're using one of those.

[dcowboys055]

Get rid of that avatar?

[Guiscard]

We should have a grumpy ex-smokers thread where we can all complain about how nice smoking was. The other day I was sitting outside at sunset at the missus house (she has a lovely garden) with a whiskey... Lovely wheather... I had to eat a fucking apple!

[dividedbyzero]

I quit smoking about 7 years ago. I don't really miss it.

I hate to tell you that it took me 4 or 5 good tries to quit, but I know now what I did wrong. It's all about breaking habits. If you tend to smoke after a meal, you need to create a new (preferably healthier habit) to replace it.

When I was at work, instead of taking a smoke break, I would take a quick walk instead. At home, after dinner, instead of a smoke, I'd read the paper or something. I just created something I did instead of smoking. (It helped that my roommates and I didn't smoke in the house.)

I tried the nicotine gum...but I couldn't keep it lit. No, really, it helped for a week or two but it tasted nasty. Just hang tough. It's a hard habit to break.

dbz

[Stopper]

I would complain, but it's too much of a novelty at the moment. I've stopped wheezing (although I'm still coughing), and my clothes don't stink anymore. And I feel virtuous all the time.

The danger point isn't until a few months down the line, which is when I really start to miss them, and I think to myself, well what harm can one cigar do? Look, s/he's smoking, and s/he doesn't care. The next day, a packet of 10 fags? A packet of 10 a day?Then it's back to 20-30 a day again.

[stooby]

I quit in late January, the only drawback I have encountered is the amount of paper rubbish in my car now that I chew gum everywhere I drive!

You can't ever think "just one more won't hurt"

I quit in 2000, for 9 months (no I wasn't pregnant!), and made that mistake. It's taken me until this year to finally get off the nicotine again.

If you can stay off them for more than 3 days, you have apparently beaten your physical addiction. It's just the 'habbit' you have to break then. The best way to do that is to find something alternative to do whenever you get a craving.

Also think about the money you are saving by not buying them ciggies. Maybe keep count of that cash, and treat yourself to something when you've saved a certain amount.

[alex_white101]

yah my grandad smoked and paid the ultimate price, died a few years back of lung cancer, its a disgusting habit which killed him. any one who smokes should really be expecting a nasty end..........

[heavycola]

Putting the cash away is a good idea. Especally in the UK - i think 20 fags is abuot £5.50 now ($11). But then i used to smoke rollies.

Dude if you're serious, try reading Allen Carr's Easyway to stop smoking. Worked for me and for almost everyoen I know. And you get to keep smoking while you're reading it.

[Genghis Khant]

yah my grandad smoked and paid the ultimate price, died a few years back of lung cancer, its a disgusting habit which killed him. any one who smokes should really be expecting a nasty end..........

Apparently, every cigarette takes 6 minutes off your life. But the way I see it is that it's 6 minutes when you're old, senile and incontinent.

**lights another cigarette**

[Guilty_Biscuit]

*update*

3 hours now, just had my lunch and was contemplating theft to get hold of a cig (I deliberately didn't bring cash to work today to help my willpower a bit). Followed dividedbyzero's advice and went for a walk instead, pretty weird but the air tasted great

I stopped the fags three weeks ago. I'd recommend (and am using) nicotine gum, but given that this is about the seventh time I've given up, I'm not sure how much of a good tip that is...

At the moment I'm trying to quit the same way as one of the girls at work. i.e I've survived 3 hours without a smoke and it wasn't so bad, so I can survive another 3 hours. No NRT, hardcore style (although I do have a pack of NiQuitin lozenges in my jacket pocket just in case and a pack of Remegel for the inevitable indigestion .)

Get rid of that avatar?

I'll sort that after work!

I quit in September and it still kills me sometimes.

The cravings last that long?

[Wisse]

just don't buy them and get rid of it

[Guiscard]

I quit in September and it still kills me sometimes.

The cravings last that long?

Well if its any help, not constant cravings. Only when I smell smoke or am in smokey areas. For example, I'll be fine for three days, not even think about fags at all (whereas earlier I'd have been craving a lot), and then get a whiff of someone smoking as I pass them on the street and BHAM! Craving. BUT I have broken my routine of smoking. I don't feel the need to smoke with a pint, or on the way to work, on my break etc. Just when I smell someone else enjoying themselves.

[stooby]

yah my grandad smoked and paid the ultimate price, died a few years back of lung cancer, its a disgusting habit which killed him. any one who smokes should really be expecting a nasty end..........

Apparently, every cigarette takes 6 minutes off your life. But the way I see it is that it's 6 minutes when you're old, senile and incontinent.

**lights another cigarette**

forget the 6 minutes thing... a friend of mine died of cancer last year - she never made it to her 40s. Seeing someone wither away like that, in their thirties, is the worst thing I've seen in my life.

[MR. Nate]

I'm not a smoker, but I had a prof who swore by hypnotism. Of course, he'd start smoking again every finals.

[chewyman]

Only ever smoked one cigarette and don't plan on ever doing it again. I consider it a disgusting and dangerous habit so I wish you all the best of luck trying to quit.

[GrazingCattle]

hang in there! Smoking can be a tough habit to break but can be done. We're all pulling for ya!

[gordon1975]

try allen carr as heavycola said it realy works kinda like deprograms you ,only thing is your supposed to smoke while reading it

[pancakemix]

yah my grandad smoked and paid the ultimate price, died a few years back of lung cancer, its a disgusting habit which killed him. any one who smokes should really be expecting a nasty end..........

Apparently, every cigarette takes 6 minutes off your life. But the way I see it is that it's 6 minutes when you're old, senile and incontinent.

**lights another cigarette**

forget the 6 minutes thing... a friend of mine died of cancer last year - she never made it to her 40s. Seeing someone wither away like that, in their thirties, is the worst thing I've seen in my life.

My grandfather died of emphysema. He had it for six years before it killed him. Imagine breathing through a coffee stirrer for six years. He couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom.

[CrazyAnglican]

No clue, but I'm with ya dude.