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HOW TO QUIT SMOKING ~ Mega Thread

Perpetual Indulgence said:
I am back to being a quitter. Day 3. Cold turkey. Shouldn't be a problem. Most of my friends don't smoke and the ones who do go outside so I don't have to follow them. I smoked 2-3/day weekdays and 5-10/day weekends. Weekends depend on the alcohol consumption. My husband quit for 6-8 months in the 8 years we have been together. He said his 35th year of life was the year. I figure I would get a headstart and I will hold him to that commitment.
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Keep it up, PI. And good on your husband for picking a year not so far off in the future it'll kill him before he gets there.

I have an on again, off again smoking habit... I currently can't afford it if I'm going to put myself in major debt get out of here, so I'm done for now (and have been for a couple weeks). I try to avoid saying "I've quit" because then I feel like a failure when I go back... "I'm done for now" works better in my opinion. If the day never comes where I pick up a smoke, so be it, the words are still valid.
 
I smoked for 6 years from 13-19. I quit coupla months ago. I got paranoid about lung damage and imagined how fucked my lungs were from starting at such a young age. I was worried about lung cancer emphysema all that shit. One day, i just got up and said fuck it, finished the pack and quit.

I will still have a cigarette or two when drinking coffee or alcohol. Esp. alcohol, a nice camel menthol really hits the spot.

Unfourtunately, a few years ago i lost a bet to a game of pool and i had to pack a lip. Skoal peach, i spit that shit out within 20 seconds. But, i kept doin it every now and then and now that im done smoking i dip. I know its bad for you but i asked my doctor and he said that you can catch mouth cancer before it starts with regular dentist check ups as opposed to smoking where you dont know youve got cancer until you get it.

But, i think dippin is better than smoking but im still harming my body. Oh well.
 
For me, the only way to quit cigs is COLD TURKEY...pick a day that means something to you (kids or moms B-day) and suck it up for the first few days. If you need it, use the gum to help when you get crazy.

Smoked since i was 16....30 yrs!

doing it on a day that means something gives you the purpose and lets people know you care enough to be around for them.
 
I recently quit cigs after smoking for 6 or 7 years... This is my fifth serious attempt at quitting in the last 2 years and I'm happy to say I feel I have finally successfully quit. The longest I ever went before was a week at most, and I haven't bought a pack since the beginning of August. I'll admit I've had a cigarette here or there (maybe one a week) when drinking with friends but the craving is gone and that's what I was concerned about. Times before when I would always feel like smoking I don't feel like I need it anymore, and when people offer me a cig now I can turn it down and not even want to smoke.

The previous times I tried to quit I tried nicorette gum but this time I didn't use anything. I really do think it's all mental. You just have to really want to stop (which I never wanted to before - I was quitting for other people not for myself).

and maybe some people would say I didn't really quit since I'll still smoke in a social situation when I've been drinking, which is a fair criticism because I didn't exactly swear off them, I just made the decision to stop
 
I'm rejoining the gym today, as I usually do for winter, hopefully that means I don't want cigarettes anymore. I only have like 1-2 a day usually.... a lot more if I'm partying, but still, I am not even really sure why I picked it up again after quitting for so many years. Just one of those 'for fun' things that turned into an addiction. I have like five cigs left right now, I don't know if I'm gonna smoke them or not. I could easily give them to one of my friends. I think I like having a couple on hand as 'emergency' cigs so I don't impulsively buy a pack and then feel obligated to smoke them. It's such a stupid mindgame I play with myself.
 
I've been smoking about 12 rollies a day since 2010

was prescribed zoloft 4 days ago and i haven't felt the need to smoke since then

going to try keep going and stop myself bumming cigs off friends
 
have been doing a "steady taper" wherein i'm trying not to place too much focus on it, hoping to make it easier. has stopped working in the past week as i've plateau'd and am going to have to actually try now.. uugggghhhhhh fuck cigarettes, soooo gross :|
 
I agree. Especially if you are at <5 cigs a day. Today is day 34 for me. I had to count the days on a calendar.
I am done with cigs although I would ENJOY one right now.
 
I'm worried about cold turkey because that's how i've always tried, and i always started back up.
..although cold turkey did work for long-term on other things. I dunno it probably is best, need to nut up and just go for it.
 
agreed.

and ya it's all that's been on my mind the past hour, i think i'm gonna go for it (yes, i will go have a last one if i choose to do this).

hearing that you *just* quit and knowing what you do is pretty motivational, i presumed you quit ages ago. think i've gotta go for this nao.
 
DO IT!!!! I smoked for 16 years. Quit for 5 years. Intermittently smoked for 2 years with the last 8 months or so becoming a pack every 4-5 days. Enough is enough. I am almost 40. Being on birth control and smoking is just asking for a killer blood clot. Wanting to stay on the pill was my motivation to quit when I was 32.
 
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