Posted: 4/26/2006 9:19:14 PM EDT
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well, what worked for you? I smoke about a pack and a half a day thanks for any help icon |
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Drugs . . . .actually welbutrin took the initial edge off and nicoderm. I quit taking the welbutrin after I felt like driving my car off a bridge. The patch helps alot and I did that for about 6 weeks before going cold turkey. It took nearly 8 months before I didn't feel the urge to smoke. Morning coffee wasn't the same for a long time. Main thing is you have to want to quit. It's been a year as of April 1st (I figured fool's day was as good as any since I was a fool for smoking) I have run marathons and cycle all the time. I wish I never started, but I am so glad that I quit. |
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I went cold turkey about '95 after smoking for 17 years. It is hard but ... if you kick it ... there is most likely nothing you can possibly do for your overall health that will continue to pay as many benefits for the rest of your life. Plus, you'll save $, you'll smell better, and anyone that spends time around you will be better off, too. Anyone that disputes that is either full of it or has a family-owned tobacco farm. So ... pick a date and soon. Let those close to you know what you're going to do. They can support you in your decision AND push you to stick to it. Stay busy. Take up (or go back to) a hobby. I started tying flies and built a fly rod. It may not have helped my poor eyes but it kept me busy. Beware of caffeine and alcohol. They trigger receptors in the brain that may start a desire for accompanying them with some nicotine. When you get busy, watch out for "breaks" and down-time; if you're like many people, this is when you'll "congatulate" yourself with a smoke. Revel in the TASTE of food... not the quantity. The metabolism effect that gets blamed for weight gain is overblown; it has more to do with replacing the activity of smoking with eating. Pay attention to your "habit" times that you smoked. The urges will be strongest then. Be strong. Keep telling yourself that you can do it because it definitely is worth it. Good luck. Stay safe |
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You may think this is hard but it is really easy. First stop buying sigs. If you don't have them you'll have to bum and no one likes a bum. So you'll feel guilty asking for cigs. Stop going to bars where people smoke. Avoid people who do smoke. Like kick the girl out who smokes. Try to stay in water as much as possible and do something with your hands. Paint, load ammo etc. Ride a motorcycle with full face helmet. Stop thinking about cigs and try to think about other pleasurable things to do. Then when you've cut down, just go cold turkey. After day 2 you'll be in good shape. Continue to do the above. If you have problems, then buy a small pack of small cigars and limit yourself to only one little cigar per month. After month two you'll wonder what the heck you are doing and will most likely pitch the remaining cigars. My drug now is coffee. It's safe and is higly pleasurable. Buy some good beans, a grinder and drink as often as you feel the urge. Much better than smoking. If you are stressed: EXERCISE. Something you should be doing anyway. In no time you body will reject smoke. I can't stand the smell of smoke. I can smell smoke from workers on construction site from 3 miles down wind and it half makes me sick. You will loath people who do smoke. Forget patches and gum. If you get the urge to smoke you must immediately change your thougt process and what every you can think to do to divert your attention away from smoking you must do. Believe me, I crumpled many packs of cigs and threw them in the trash only to dig them out, reconstruct them or make whole ones just to get a fix that I soon knew what I was doing wrong that I not only crumpled them but poured water in the packs to make them utterly useless that if you don't have cigs around it is impossible to smoke. Get the hell as far away from cigs as you possible can. If you live with a smoker then tell them to stop or leave. If you don't feel guilty when you smoke then your chances of quiting will be harder. You asked what works so you must be concerned. Oh, btw, you can type a novel and that will keep your fingers busy too that you won't have time to smoke. Then after you've stopped smoking for a year or two some big ass truck will come across the line (a guy lighting up his cig) and crash into you and kill your ass. Go visit a thorastic surgeon and ask to see some pictures of lungs of dead people who died smoking and you'll run like hell away from Marboro. I smoked a little cigar tonight, first one in 4 years and it half made me sick. Blah! I threw the 4 that were left in the trash. Funny, when I did smoke and people asked how often I smoked I just told them I only smoke when I drink and they asked how often did I drink and I said all the time. Just a joke. But you should be mindful that alcohol is not good either and drinking will make you want to smoke so follow the above for beer. Don't buy it and don't be around it and don't be around people who do drink. Also, I forgot to mention in the wind down stage make smoking impossible. Only smoke outside. You'll get so bored in going out that you'll loose interest. Being winter helps and standing outside to smoke in the cold is a pain in the ass you'll smoke less. My uncle is now going on 02. Worked in steel mill for 25 years and smoked alot. Now he'll suffer till the end-- cigs are worse than heroin to quit but you can do it! Just make it hard to smoke and you'll have no recourse but to cut back that you can go cold turkey. Good Luck |
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I quit smoking 3 years ago. Went to a good hypno therapist....not the group thing...one on one... It was a 2 hour session with the hynosis session being about 40 minutes...the session was taped and you play it to your self each nite at bed for 21 days....it was 300 bucks... worked like a charm...no pain..no withdraw...recouped my money in a couple of months....saved thousands after that..........I highly recommend it... |
Kick out your girl and quit going to bars? I think I d rather die of lung cancer lol! |