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I want to quite smoking, only one question.....

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NoStateofMind

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I want to quite smoking, and im asking you guys for help. One of two ways...cold turkey? or after I finish what I have? one pack left..would last the rest of today. Thanks for your help.
 
meh just subsitute the ciggies for mint gum, thats what I did when I quit....but then a year and half later when I gave up the gum I got withdrawl symptoms real bad...the only fix... back to chewing mint gum...it's been like that for over 4 years now, I need two packs of gum a day or I start to stress🙁
 
If you go with the "finish the pack mentality" then you'll never quit. I know, because I did the same thing. The only way is willpower and cold turkey. Just make sure you stop smoking mid-afternoon on a Friday, because then you have Friday evening through to waking up Saturday morning without nicotine, and that'll help with the cravings because... well.. you'll be asleep 😉

Good luck.
 
Cold Turkey, this is how I did it 3 years ago now and haven't started back up since.

Though before that I tried quiting about 6 or so times without enough personal conviction to pull it off.
 
If you finish what you have, that just shows that you don't have the proper will power to stop COld Turkey and you are already making excuses like "But I just want to finish this one pack..."

Quit now, flush the rest, tell all your friends who smoke to kindly refrain from doing it around you, and you'll have a far better chance of success. Of course it goes without saying to not go to bars or other places where everyone smokes for at least a month or two while your body is still fighting off the bad cravings.

Good Luck!
 
Ok I quit on 4/26/06 of this year and have not looked back. It was completely unplanned, I was downstairs smoking the last cig in my pack and getting ready to go buy another pack. I did a quick mental calculation and thought, "man, I am spending about 150-200$ a month on cigs. WTF!" My next thought was (Pardon the language) "Are you this much of a f*cking p*ssy that you cannot control your own god d*mn body?" That one thought helped me quit more than the others. After the first 3 days it was all downhill for me. First three days though I killed about 100 packs of gum. Good luck with quitting!!
 
Take that pack and put it in a sealed container, glass box, whatever. 1 year from now, if all goes well, you can show people the last pack of cigarettes you ever purchased, still sealed in the container you put it in. Repeat yearly (or monthly, or daily).
 
Option 3 - Wellbutrin. Take the med and smoke like you normally do. Within 30-60 days, you won't have the urge to smoke anymore. Continue to take the med for a little while, and then wean off of it slowly. Cold turkey fixes usually don't last. I'm not saying no one has ever quit that way, but most go back.

Also, make sure to remember the date of your last smoke so that you can reference it in terms of "It's been x number of days/weeks/months/years/whatever since I smoked"
 
From TFD.com:
quit
v. quit or quit·ted (kwtd), quit·ting, quits
v.tr.
1. To depart from; leave: "You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits" Horatio Nelson.
2. To leave the company of: had to quit the gathering in order to be home by midnight.
3. To give up; relinquish: quit a job.
4. To abandon or put aside; forsake: advised them to quit their dissipated ways.
5. To cease or discontinue: asked them to quit talking; quit smoking.
6. Computer Science To exit (an application).
7.
a. To rid oneself of by paying: quit a debt.
b. To release from a burden or responsibility.
8. To conduct (oneself) in a specified way: Quit yourselves like adults.
v.intr.
1. To cease performing an action. See Synonyms at stop.
2. To give up, as in defeat; stop.
3. To leave a job.
adj.
Absolved of a duty or an obligation; free.

quite
adv.
1. To the greatest extent; completely: quite alone; not quite finished. See Usage Note at perfect.
2. Actually; really: I'm quite positive about it.
3. To a degree; rather: quite soon; quite tasty.

Sheesh.
 
Edit: Sorry for the double posts. My short term memory sucks, and I apparently forgot that I already posted in this thread......in the time it took me to scroll down and read 3 or 4 posts.🙁


Originally posted by: Bryan
Option 3 - Wellbutrin. Take the med and smoke like you normally do. Within 30-60 days, you won't have the urge to smoke anymore. Continue to take the med for a little while, and then wean off of it slowly. Cold turkey fixes usually don't last. I'm not saying no one has ever quit that way, but most go back.

Also, make sure to remember the date of your last smoke so that you can reference it in terms of "It's been x number of days/weeks/months/years/whatever since I smoked"
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Beware of Wellbutrin - you may not want to drive for a week or two after starting to take it. 1 in 1000 people get a seizure from it, think that's the statistic. I was that one. Had a grand mal style seizure during a networking class within a week of starting to take the stuff for depression. Shortly afterwards I bid all anti-depressants farewell. I never have been comfortable with stuff screwing with my mind, and that was a deal killer.

Had that happened while I was driving, it basically would have looked like I'd just fallen asleep. I never felt anything coming on - and after the seizure was over, the people in the class set me back in my chair, I regained consciousness, and went right back to what I was doing before, like a Tivo going from Play to Pause and back to Play again. I never knew that anything had even happened until I asked why everyone kept looking at me, and why (and how) a security guard suddenly appeared behind me.
 
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