Any good suggestions for quitting smoking?

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Well today is the day for me. I really do want to quit.
I just finished a pack and I am not going to get another pack. I thought about the buy one pack if i couldnt handle it, but i'm a student so $10 for two cigarettes would be a bit much. My only really bad times are in my car, other than that its not horrible. I will keep this updated as to my sucess.

However I am going to the store and loading up on Jolly Ranchers and gum .

Well, good luck. But it's going to be hard not to cheat... and normally when people like franguinho cheat, it starts off slow first. First with drinks, then now and then with friends, and then after big meals, then the next thing you know, they're back to where they started. With my method of throwing away a pack everytime you do cheat, you really do think about the consequences. Every smoke, from the very first cheat one, is going to remind you of why you quit and the cost of smoking.

When people start up after they quit, it always start casually like i mentioned above. They rarely think 'damn, i failed, might as well just smoke 2 packs a day like i use to.' No, it begins really casually, with the thought 'a smoke with friends won't hurt me, i can control it.' Then it becomes a smoke just before an exam, or a smoke when you're stressed out. Without even becoming aware of it, you're addicted to it again and formed all the same old habits. With my method, from the very first cheat smoke, you actively think about it. You spend time weighing the consequences, and if you do consider it worth the cheat, you're going to feel like sh1t afterwards because you just wasted $5, and you realize, damn, that wasn't worth it.

 

I quit cold turkey.

Part of my quitting was getting about 3 ounces of sh!tty schwag mexican brick weed. Grinding it all up in a coffee grinder, then rolling 100 joints or so.
Everytime I wanted a smoke, I would smoke one of the joints. It tasted fairly bad, and really doesn't get you high at all. At least, it does that for me.
Of course, this is a very specialized treatment.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Start smoking weed until the initial discomfort from quitting cigarettes passes, then just stop smoking weed. (stopping smoking weed is tons easier than stopping smoking tobacco)

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Start smoking weed until the initial discomfort from quitting cigarettes passes, then just stop smoking weed. (stopping smoking weed is tons easier than stopping smoking tobacco)

That wouldn't work for me. Far from it. I use to smoke like a chimney when i was stoned.

 

[Lonyo]

Put a picture of some tarred up lungs/trachea etc in your wallet, so every time you reach for some money to buy some cigs, you're reminded of the disgusting consequences.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Put a picture of some tarred up lungs/trachea etc in your wallet, so every time you reach for some money to buy some cigs, you're reminded of the disgusting consequences.

In Canada every pack of cigarettes have some sort of picture on the box, some are of cancerous lungs, some of pregnant women and a message about the dangers, pictures of mouth cancer, etc.

 

[CaptainHefe]

Originally posted by: ausm
Has anyone tried that smoke away program?

Is it BS?


Ausm

personally i haven't tried it. but two coworkers tried it together. one of them was back smoking just like before after 4 or 5 days. the other made it several months without a cigarette. i left that company then so i don't know how he's doing now. i think the guy that quit just really wanted to for his daughter's health and that might have had more to do with it that the smoke away.

 

[NorthRiver]

Cinnamon gum.

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Has anyone tried the gum?

I'm loving the gum. heh.

I quit 10/15, after smoking (LOTS) for 29 years. my quitnet gadget says :
35 days, 23 hours, 26 minutes and 32 seconds smoke free.
1691 cigarettes not smoked.
$262.38 and 12 days, 22 hours of your life saved

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't still be saying that, if it wasn't for this gum. I switched yesterday from target's 4mg gum to walmart's 2mg.. don't like it as well, but I'm pretty sure it's not because it has less nicotine that I don't like it as well.. it just doesn't taste "as good". ok, it just doesn't taste as much. I think I'll go back to target next!

I don't spend more on the gum than I did on cigarettes! the last (2nd) box of 4mg gum lasted 22 days, at 38.xx for the box. I woulda smoked 150 bucks worth of cigarettes in that amount of time (I told ya, I smoked LOTs).

so. I like the gum. recommend it.

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: Azraele
If you're good at imaging, then you can try this. Everytime you hold a cigarette in your hand or smell the smoke, picture as vividly as you can the most disgusting, repulsive, gag inducing object you can think of. Take maggoty rotted meat for example. See the maggots squirming, smell the rancid odor...you get the idea.

The purpose of this exercise is to realign associations from smoking as positive (relaxing, whatever) to negative.

Goatse?

 

[BD2003]

Ive quit smoking three times (yeah, I know).

I had a bunch of false starts each time, but I never quit in the end until I really WANTED to quit. Used to smoke a pack a day.

Although Ive found that as bad as the health risks are, it was never enough for me to completely stop. I always needed some sort of exterior motivation. So I found it. Start chasing after a non-smoker girl, the kind that is totally turned off by it, and see how long your habit lasts. Works like a charm every time.

After the first couple days though, it really is a piece of cake. Its just the initial hump you need to get over. The week after you quit, youll be thinking about them constantly. By the end of the first month, theyll cross your mind maybe once a day. By two or three months, youll wonder why you ever smoked to begin with.

This is of course if you can keep smokers out of your face. If people are going to be constantly smoking in your face, youll never be able to quit.