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The 'quit smoking' thread

^ that's really interesting. i have always wondered about the legitimacy of hypnotherapy. I'd be keen to try it to see if I can stop biting my nails!

My ex's mum used to actually practise it - and apparently did it with some success, but as she hated me I was always reluctant to be a guinea pig :D

Did your girlfriend have similar success???
 
Damn, that would be good if it works. I remember seeing some show they tried a whole bunch of methods but hypno didnt work.
Ive heard a bunch of people talk about some reallly good book - anyone know it?

I quit using patches 5 months ago (20 a day for 14 yrs)

For the last 2 weeks Ive been getting intense cravings again up to 3 times a day. I'd stab my own granma for just a drag right now.

... but I wont :\
 
from on this page m4dd0g...those cravings must be affecting your eyesight! ;):p


pharm_friendly said:
I was a 'pack-a-day' smoker for 5 years.......and for most of that time i thought i loved smoking. Was something to do, complimented my morning coffee rather nicely etc. As most smokers, the thought of quitting always crosses your mind here and there - but when you believe you enjoy something (and can afford it etc) you think "why quit?!".

Anyways, long story short. For all those serious about quitting, and especially for those that think they love or enjoy smoking, read the book "Allen Carr's Easy way to Stop Smoking". I guarantee that once you've read it, you will quit with no drama's in the world :D

After i read it, i was that taken back by it that the next day i went from smoking a pack a day, to nothing. no withdrawals, no moodiness.... nothing.
6 months on and still no cravings or anything - and feel so much more alive!

Just thought i would add my two cents. Goodluck to all those trying to quit!

Love & Light
~pharm_friendly~
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^ Cheers :) No, its not the cravings affecting my eyesight, its my intensive masturbation schedule.
 
Mary Poppins said:
^ that's really interesting. i have always wondered about the legitimacy of hypnotherapy. I'd be keen to try it to see if I can stop biting my nails!

My ex's mum used to actually practise it - and apparently did it with some success, but as she hated me I was always reluctant to be a guinea pig :D
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A guy I used to work with got hypnotised to quit smoking. Afterwards he couldn't even pick up a packet of cigarettes. I don't know what they did during the sessions, but he said that even just looking at cigarettes made him feel ill.
 
Mary Poppins said:
Did your girlfriend have similar success???
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Similar success, but not the same. She will get drunk/take drugs and have a drag of someone elses cigarette.

Also, another thing i noticed when i quit, for about the first month afterwards, i had these seriously intense and fucking crazy dreams, every single night with out fail. they werent bad or anything, they were just bizarre. One of my friends who has tried patches said the same thing would happen to him.
 
i quit last week...well tried to anyway...i went 3 days without a cigarette, with the help of patches.for the next 2 days, smoked 2 or 3 cigarettes with the patches on, the decided to take the patches off. i've since only been smoking a few menthol a day.the one thing about quitting smoking is not having a cigarette after a meal. that was the thing that was killing me the most...i'll try again, prob on the w/e, then again next week, then 2 weeks after that.... im so unsuccessful wen it comes to quitting
 
i have posted 6 times in this thread already, and each time i have said il quit!

im still suffering from a serious case of -- a smoker in denial
 
oh, as for quitting smoking, you can do some things you can't do while you were smoking or you can smoke and do some things you can't do while you were not smoking, like be a vector of disease.
 
im finding it so difficult to quit.everytime i quit, i start smoking weed, and i tell myself its prob better to smoking cigs,so i start smoking again. DAMN ADDICTION!
 
Sorry Up_all_night, you cant bum a lung from me, :)

i think im too scared to go to the doctors to find out about my lungs....
I have still yet to open my box of zyban, i keep thinking that its a nerotoxic thing that may affect other stuff i take. or visa versa
 
Yay, not gagging for a smoke anymore.
In fact I dont think i'll ever have one again (scariest statement ever)

Almost finished "Allen Carrs easy way to stop smoking" (6 months after the fact).
The biggest thing it teaches/shows you is that craving is self inflicted.
Also the only thing you actually get from smoking is relief from nicotine withdrawal.

If you can get over the irrational fear of contemplating quitting its well worth it, and easy as the book's lofty claims.
 
so have the new pictures that they have on cigarette packets now made any smokers want to quit sooner than they otherwise would have?

personally i've been planning on quiting ever since i started up smoking again mid last year and these pictures although alarming and unpleasant to look at unfortunately haven't done much for me in regards to deciding to quit sooner rather than later :\

i have a friend of mine who when she gets one of the new cigarette packets will transfer the cigarettes into one of her old packets that doesn't have the picture - and i've also actually heard and witnessed people request to change the packet that they got with a picture that they feel a bit more comfortable with. i.e. the guy that i saw do this chose to get the one with the picture of the kid in hospital attached to a respirator in as opposed to the one that he originally got which was emphysema.

something that i don't think is right about what they've done though is that they've taken off the bit on the side of the packet which contains information about how much of what is in the cigarettes that you're smoking and replaced it with more general things like "these chemicals damage blood vessels, body cells and the immune system" and "QUIT NOW to reduce your risk of chronic illness and premature death". i mean i can understand why they chose to do that but i also think that it's good to also have the other information there so you know exactly what it is that you're inhaling when you smoke.
 
^ Yeah I was wondering why they took off that info? I didn't even know what milligram I was smoking the other night when I bought alpines [yeah I know, I've been sick and alpines feel better than normal cigarettes!] ;)

I have been saving my cigarette packets without the pictures, waiting for the day when the pictures turn up on Marlboro Lights [hasn't happened here yet]. Although that being said, I don't think it will deter me, it's just not what I want to be looking at. And, I'll probably do what that guy did - aka ask for the kid. I used to do that sometimes anyway, 'I want the cigarettes that only harm my unborn baby, please.'
 
bah! smokers arent dumb, they know what cigarettes do. All the advertising does is make the stress worse which means you need to smoke more to deal with it, which means you value it more.

smoking is psychological, but like any argument, if you ignorantly push a point of view all that happens is you reinforce the separation between ideologies
 
I remember something in an advertising unit at Uni which discussed alcohol and driving.

The general idea was that the stock shock anti drink-driving ads, which show the horrendous worst-case-scenario's in all of their bone-snapping glory are only effective for a very limited (in an advertising sense) amount of time.

After which people get blasé and desensitized to the message. Eventually as the advertising gets more and more "Oh My God!!!" the target audience react from emotionally distancing themselves from the message and ignoring it completely.

Apparently the idea is now that in adverts to stop smoking or drink driving the target audience is no longer the smoker or the drink-driver, but their nonsmoking and nondrink-driving peers.

Give their social circle a message and they will bleat it over and over ad nauseum to the person who has the unhealthy behavioral habit.

Thank you HECS!
 
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