Ideas on quitting smoking

what helped me kick it was realizing how disgsting i actually smelled and tasted after smoking a cig. i wash my hands a lot as it is and i was just tired of my clothes smelling and my chest hurting

 

I chewed on gum/tooth picks ,wore a nicorette patch for a couple days ,and kept a rubber band around my wrist that I would "snap" anytime I had a craving to get my mind off of it. After about two weeks all I had to do was tell myself I'd never pick up another cigarette again and alas one year and two months later I haven't and I smoked for eleven years.

 

 
 
Get the book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Alan Carr. Make sure you actually read it. By the end of the book you'll be done smoking, and no, it's not a gross-out thing or a fear thing or anything like that.

 

Also try sitting down and making a list of all the reasons you want to quit smoking to help motivate you.

 

Go read about what's actually in that cigarette you're smoking.

Quiting isn't difficult if you know what it's actually doing to you. You have to want to quit before you actually will.

Maybe you just need a reason? Take up jogging. Find a girl/guy who doesn't like smoking.

Do you really want cancer? It's likely that smoking will cause it.


I smoke everyday because I like it.
I know what's in it, how it's grown and what potential health problems may occur. Fuck it I say, i'll smoke until I choose to no longer inhale carcinogens.

 

I only smoke when i drink beer. I perfer gold shorts. You won't catch me smoking sober.

 

 
 
There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence that waving the consequences in front of a smoker will not help them quit, and may actually make them more stressed out and more likely to smoke.
 
That's why I recommended Alan Carr's Easyway book -- because it's entirely focused on the positives of stopping smoking, and trust me there are a shit ton of positives. Every smoker knows the consequences, and TV is peppered with awful commercials showing those consequences. But in this case, the carrot works better than the stick.

 

Guys, you're telling him the same crap that the cigarette package says. If the consequences were bad enough to make him quit, would they not have been bad enough to keep him from starting? I was smoking a pack a day for a long time, and people kept telling me about how bad cigs were for me. No. The only reason I managed to quit was finding a way to curb the withdrawal and cravings. That and my girlfriend being allergic gave me the motivation to follow through.
 
What I am getting at is don't keep posting the same crap. You want to help somebody? Teach them, don't just feed them the same crap over and over, right?

 

What you can find through research of your own is far more than the cigarette pack or the tv will tell you.

Through learning the negatives will come positives.

 

Sunflower seeds help me.

Are you an American? I just quit my 11 year pack a day habit 3 days ago because my health insurance premiums would have increased by $800 a year if I didn't...

That's a Lotta bucks dude.

 

Study for you-
 
[SIZE=12pt]Cannabidiol reduces cigarette consumption in tobacco smokers: Preliminary findings.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt](abst – 2013)           [/SIZE]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23685330
 
 
 â€œ24 smokers were randomised to receive an inhaler of CBD (n=12) or placebo (n=12) for one week, they were instructed to use the inhaler when they felt the urge to smoke. Over the treatment week, placebo treated smokers showed no differences in number of cigarettes smoked. In contrast, those treated with CBD significantly reduced the number of cigarettes smoked by ~40% during treatment. Results also indicated some maintenance of this effect at follow-up. These preliminary data, combined with the strong preclinical rationale for use of this compound, suggest CBD to be a potential treatment for nicotine addiction that warrants further exploration.“ 
 
CBD is the same compound that stops severe epileptic seizures in kids. It can NOT get you high.  The inhaler they used would give almost instantaneous results, as would inhaling the vapor from a “high CBD” strain of cannabis using a vaporizer.  A 40% reduction in tobacco smoking in one week, isn't bad. I wonder what the reduction would have been if they had run the study for more than just 7 days?
 
 
Granny

 

Yeah try one of the refillable ones. One of the best for cig smokers that want to move to vaping is the itaste MVP. I have it and it's fantastic. Gives you all the throat hit you need too. I enjoy it more than I ever enjoyed smoking cigs. Not even tempted to smoke with my delicious alternative.
Best part is that it's cheaper and you quit all of your other chemical addictions, leaving only nicotine to battle with(if you care).


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My husband and I quit cigarettes 521 days ago, we have a little app that keeps track of every day, every cigarette not smoked, and how much $ you have saved.  There is a million free ones, I'd get one so you can keep track it helps to look at it on those days when you feel weak.
The thing that ended up working for me was wanting to quit smoking, and getting mad about it. I used to try and focus on my health and the money, but after a few days suddenly me lowering my risks of lung cancer wasn't enough to keep me from buying another pack.  I guess I'm the type of person that can hold onto a bad feeling more then a good feeling, and rage fuels me. I found pictures of tobacco executives in fancy cars, on their yachts, on the beach somewhere gorgeous, etc. and I put speech bubbles on them that basically made fun of me, and how stupid I am. I'd stare at them and think "I'm paying for their good time. Here I am trying to cover my own bills and I'm busy paying theirs." And that helped me. The first few weeks I was stomping around angry all the time, but I let everyone around me know I'm quitting smoking and if I'm a rancid bitch thats why and not to take it personally. After a few weeks, it wasn't so bad, I wasn't so angry anymore, I'd have to carry tic tac's around and pop a few anytime I had to drive because driving without a smoke was the worst, but it got easier.
 
It sounds cliche, but when you are ready to quit it is going to be a lot easier then when you try to force yourself to quit. 
I have heard from a few people that the "quitting" pill works pretty well, but I have also heard that it has some pretty horrible side effects. So........yeah, that'll be your choice on that one. 

 

You can try the patch. My father smoked his whole life and then quit with the patch.  I think some brands don't work well so you need to use one that works for you.  I think he used Nicoderm.  They might be expensive but may be worth it in the long run.  Idk because I never been addicted to cigarettes but that may help you.