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HOW TO QUIT SMOKING ~ Mega Thread

I don't personally believe in needing another drug or pill to get you off the first drug, but I don't judge if it works for you. Quitting smoking is obviously more of a priority, and whatever helps!

I quit twice, cold turkey both times. The second time I was much more of a regular smoker than the first time (I smoked like a pack a week on average the first time).

Look into EFT. You can get control of your mind, emotions and cravings, even when its tough. I started a thread about EFT in here awhile back and still swear by it, you can use it for anything and it WORKS. It changed my life in so many ways.

Beyond that, it's just knowing if you really want to quit or just kinda feel you should. For me, all the times I tried to stop when I just kinda felt I should didn't last. But when I really want to do something, I do it. When you feel the withdrawls, just think about how it's because of the toxins coming out, and try and use how bad it feels to make you never want to put the toxins back in again.
 
Libby said:
READ Allan Carr: EASYWAY to Stop Smoking. Availiable at EVERY bookshop.
I swear on my life it works, you will never crave cigarettes ever again.
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The book is also available for free online:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6536976/Allen-Carr-Easy-Way-to-Stop-Smoking
You may also find something on torrents.
Also, some other books by the guy:
http://www.wowio.com/users/searchresults.asp?txtSearch=Allen+Carr

I found it too late, I had already quit smoking :) so I can't vouch whether it works, but I thought it was a clear and common sense explanation of how the psychological mechanism of addiction works and it could help someone become conscious of that mechanism and subvert it.

Another interesting site in the same common sense vein I found:
http://whyquit.com/
 
Hi,

The best way to kick away this unsavory of habits is first and foremost psychological. Willpower goes a long way in determining whether your quest to stop smoking will be successful. Secondly, keep everything that has the remotest connection to smoking out of sight lighters and ashtrays will stimulate a desire in you to smoke so keep them a way. And in the line of keeping quitting as natural as possible, always keep your hands busy on constructive duties to stave off the urge to hold a cigarette.

Quit Smoking Forever
 
My most successful attempts at quitting nicotine have come when I replaced nicotine with cannabinoids.
 
MynameisnotDeja said:
I don't personally believe in needing another drug or pill to get you off the first drug, but I don't judge if it works for you. Quitting smoking is obviously more of a priority, and whatever helps!
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eh...I would not have been able to stop without champix. trust me. I tried a lot of times...used the nic gum or patch....didn't work......it's still very hard sometimes to not smoke....

I think its a good thing, a lot of people can't quit without it.
 
It's less about abstinence and more about filling the gap in your life that smoking fills with something more fulfilling.

I know one person who, once he fell in love, was able to quit smoking cold turkey, months later he's going strong.

The answer lies not in attempting to rid of the smoking, but to raise up the levels on all the other positive aspects of your life so you drown out your addiction with all the lovely music.
 
I think the most honest way to look at smoking is that if you aren't smoking, then you've quit. Even if you're holding the cig in your hands and its burning, if you aren't inhaling then you aren't smoking.

The trick is to increase the time between inhales.

This sounds like a joke but its 100% serious. Just feel good whenever you aren't smoking, and then notice it and stop asap when you are-- if you want to quit.
 
An Iz said:
I think the most honest way to look at smoking is that if you aren't smoking, then you've quit. Even if you're holding the cig in your hands and its burning, if you aren't inhaling then you aren't smoking.

The trick is to increase the time between inhales.

This sounds like a joke but its 100% serious. Just feel good whenever you aren't smoking, and then notice it and stop asap when you are-- if you want to quit.
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This is true, I've been able to cut down gradually by just not smoking the whole thing... It's okay to light it up take a puff and then just hold onto it while it burns down... it is comforting to have a cig burning nothing wrong with that, just try not to get as much in your lungs
 
silentscience said:
eh...I would not have been able to stop without champix. trust me. I tried a lot of times...used the nic gum or patch....didn't work......it's still very hard sometimes to not smoke....

I think its a good thing, a lot of people can't quit without it.
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Whatever works for the individual is all good, I say. As long as it's not replacing it with something worse.

It's less about abstinence and more about filling the gap in your life that smoking fills with something more fulfilling.

I know one person who, once he fell in love, was able to quit smoking cold turkey, months later he's going strong.

The answer lies not in attempting to rid of the smoking, but to raise up the levels on all the other positive aspects of your life so you drown out your addiction with all the lovely music.
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Yes! Just figure out why you're smoking and then fix that. The physical addiction only lasts a little while, you go through the detox and then it's all mental.

This is true, I've been able to cut down gradually by just not smoking the whole thing... It's okay to light it up take a puff and then just hold onto it while it burns down... it is comforting to have a cig burning nothing wrong with that, just try not to get as much in your lungs
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Haha that would so never work for me. There's no way I could waste it. Its crazy to me that doing that works for some people. My brain must work in some sort of opposite way or something. I have self control as far as just not doing it at all, but if I was actually holding it in my hands, Id be smoking the hell out of it.

To me that's like keeping a bunch of crack rocks and pills around for memory's sake or something. If they are in my house, I'm gonna take them!

Lucky for me I don't generally hang out with people who smoke so I never think about it now.
 
I have slipped up so much, I am so angry at myself.

I dropped it down to around 5 cigs a day. I don't even really know how I did it, I just started putting off allowng myself to have a cigarette... basically if I wanted one, I would say "OK, but do x first." Then I would do x and use the same strategy. I started saving money and have been quite broke lately, and those were great motivating factors.

However, money is not as dire at the moment, and I've been giving up grocery money and whatnot buy my cigs lately. I've been stressed out but also just not motivated to stop smoking. I don't understand the shift, it's so frustrating. I'm back to a pack a day now. Ugh. :(
 
SweetIrony said:
Some people at my work have been raving about this technique they've been doing to help you quit smoking.

they do some sort of acupuncture or audio-laser something or other in or on your ear, and it's supposed to be highly effective.

and only $50.

They say it completely removes the urge to smoke...and if a craving arises, they'll do it again for free... so long as you don't smoke. (And they can tell that too.)

Has anyone tried this? Anyone have any info?

I'm a very very light smoker...maybe 1/2 pack per day; but I really really wanna quit for good.

SI
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When i was in rehab they did free acupuncture (in the ears) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was extremely relaxing, I fell asleep a few times. The thing I noticed is that the first few times were just average, but after i had been going 3-5 times a week for 7 weeks it just got better and better. I would really love to do it again, not just to quit smoking but also because it had a psychedelic/dreamy feeling to it. But that shit is expensive and IME I need to go several times a week for full effects which is way too expensive. I really miss the acupuncture, it was crazy too, this wasn't some fancy 4 star rehab, this was a welfare rehab joint where all the consolers and nurses were licensed acupuncture people. Maybe I should quit my life, go on welfare just to get free acupuncture? :/

Besides that, I quit with chantix, which i only took for the first week or two and then stopped taking because it made me fart like crazy....really really smelly farts, and i was in a halfway house with 20 dudes, and about half of them were taking chantix and it was horrible.

As far as nicotine replacement I'm a fan of patches and gum. Patches are great to kill the craving (and for lucid dreaming). Gum is nice cuz you can get that nicotine the moment you want it.

But I have about 1 1/2 packs of cigs left and I'm ready to quit again. I'll probably go with patches or get a script for a nicotine inhaler. I wanna get in good shape and cardio is impossible for me when i'm smoking a pack a day.
 
Hi,

Make a list of the reasons that you want to quit smoking. The first thing you should do is spend some time thinking of the reasons you want to quit smoking. So, does the connection between quitting cigarettes and weight gain have to do directly with the cigarettes themselves, or are there other, outside reasons why this happens so often to people who “kick the habit”.
 
My motivating factors for quitting : Getting extremely sick with the flu (possibly pneumonia) three weeks ago and missing work for the first time in THREE years. I wont lie, I've smoked maybe 3 cigarettes last week but its just not the same. I feel dirty and gross after, and I just dont want to put anything in my (once again) cured and healthy lungs after my sickness.

So there. Dont plan on smoking anymore.
 
lol i actually developed panic disorder and anxiety disorder from quitting cigarette cold turkey
i mean not that you guys will be dealing with this
its just that i had anxiety with me all the time and quitting cigarette just amplified this to the next level!
 
I quit smoking last year using the generic equate cherry nicotine lozenges. This will be my 3rd time quitting. The first time I quit CT but I was also in rehab and quit all drugs. I stupidly started back a couple years later. The second time I quit using Chantix-sp? It was horribly expensive and did not work at first but after 4-5 month it helped enough that I quit for a year but it did not last. Hopefully I wont ever smoke again. I dont have any cravings for cigarettes for the first time ever. I am having anxiety problems over these stupid lozenges. I think they are more addictive than cigarettes!! If I find myself out of them I literally have a total panic attack! I am trying to wean off them so wish me luck.
 
I quit smoking cold turkey in Oct. or Nov. of '08. Was quit 'til Jan. '09 when I had my 21st Birthday and bummed one from nearly everyone there. Woke up the next morn., fiending, so I went and bought some. The entire time I was quit though, I wanted a cig. I remember one time, about six weeks after I had quit, a co-worker asked me "What's up?" (you know, like "Hey, how's it goin'?") and I totally freaked out on him, tellin' him to leave me alone, etc. Now it's funny but it wasn't at the time.

I quit again this past March and have stayed quit with not a whole lot of cravings (maybe one every couple weeks?). Quit cold turkey with the help of a book. Allen Car's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking." Was recommended to me from another poster here. I highly suggest anyone trying to quit check out the book. Totally changed how I felt about "the habit" I had.
 
I forgot about these threads.

November will be my 6th cigarette smoke free year.
After 16 years of smoking.
I used the patch for 4 weeks.
 
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