Help Me Kick The Habit!

I am going to try to stop smokeing cigs.. i need your help i dip skoal to help me ease my woahs but that hardly makes up for it. i dont really want to quit but atleast slow down majorly like only smoke at home or something i hate going in smelling like smoke its highly unproffesional in my opinion. Does anyone have any good tips to cut back?

*kicks billy into submission*

THERE!

It's easy to quit... I quit 100 times already.

Im 20 years old.. and i have been smokeing literally half of my life.. 10 years.. isnt that ashame! longest i quit for was around 8 weeks.. first few days i couldnt eat because my jaw hurt sooo bad and i felt like poop.. and i didnt quit because i wanted too it was because i went to boot camp.

Actually, I don't smoke. (the cigarette smokes, I'm only a sucker)

Someone should have a anti smoking class in sl.. im sure there are alot of people that have quit here.

Heroin helps take the edge off a bit when you're quitting.

Just remember though, nobody likes a quitter.

I did it for money. Here are the steps:

1 - If you have strong political beliefs, give a large amount of money (something that will hurt a little) to a close friend in the form of a blank check.

2 -If you don't quit smoking by a certain date - then the check gets written to the group that you most dislike!

3 - If you do quit smoking then you get to reward yourself by spending the money in any way you like (except cigs! )

And quitters never win.

And Only users lose drugs - but I don't think that supports the point.

Exercise. Really. Keeping yourself busy gets your mind off of cravings. I never smoked, but I had to "quit" (over)eating and the exercise really helped, along with drinking insanely large amounts of water to keep my stomach (and bladder) feeling full. 6 months later I was 70 pounds lighter and my weight has been more or less stable ever since.
I heard the patches really help too.

Please do not quit...the government needs those tax dollars. These tax dollars will fund our efforts to fight "terra" all over the world. Think of smoking as a contribution to your nation a contribution to everything good and decent in the world. Think of the tobacco farmer. He could be growing soybeans or have a cattle farm but he is growing tobacco, the highest taxed cash crop in the world. Burn a butt for the governmutt.

Get patches and a ton of the gum and just go nuts, if someone is smoking near you run away as fast as possible and pop in a piece of gum. When you wake up immediatly do the gum and jump in shower. Avoid coffee and alcohol. Get a new hobby after your lungs heal enough that gets your mind off smoking while doing it, watersports are the best for this becuase well wet cigarettes aren't very good to smoke. The patches work as long as you stay away from other smokers. As soon as you hang out with another smoker though you almost always light up just too sooth the horrible mental anguish.
Or you could just keep smoking and live with the fact that someday it will kill you. I mean you could die any time anywhere from something as stupid as a car jumping a curve at the wrong moment.

Besides all that though if your worried about it affecting proffesionalism at a job setting then def use the gums, dip is nasty becuase you gotta spit and swallowing it can make you hurl, plus Moutch cancer is gross as hell. Double up on a supply of gum and patches when you dont' want your clothes and breath stinky.

While I have since fallen off of the nicotine wagon, I was once able to successfully kick the habit for 9 months with some medical help.

I told my doctor, after he asked me if I wanted to quit, "of course, I do".

He prescribed me wellbutrin, which is a widely used anti-depressant. While its an anti-depressant, one of the interesting side effects is that it reduces nicotine cravings.

I was on the medication for about 6 weeks, when I finally took the plunge and quit cold turkey. I have to say that of the many times I have tried to quit, this time with the help of wellbutrin was by far the easiest.

Talk to your doctor and see if he might be able to help you.

Good luck, billy

- Ace

I tried welbutrin didn't work for me, I have the double whammy addicton, oral and chemical argh. I wonder if you took welbutrin chewed the gum put a patch on if it would actually be worse for you than just lighting one up.

We need cigs that smell like cologne or something.

Or they could just legalize marijauna and we'd be all set.

Why quit? You gotta die some time. May as well pick your own poison

Maybe because by "picking your own poison" you are also inflicting it on a hundred other people? Or costing me a shitload of tax money in health care.
Studies have shown that harmful amounts of tobacco smoke remain in the air for long periods of time, and spread over very large distances, even if you can't see or smell anything.
If you must kill yourself, please be quick about it and just put a gun to your head or jump off a cliff.

There have only been two major studies done on the impact of second hand smoke. One was done by the NIH in the US, and the other by WHO. Both studies showed that the increased risk of cancer or other ill effects from second hand smoke were statistically insignificant... small enough to be within the margin of error for the studies. You never hear about that fact though because the people who funded and released the studies wanted them to show something else and have exaggerated and spun the results ever since. Smoking is very bad for the smoker, but the second hand smoke myth is just a cheap way for non-smokers to feel superior to smokers. It's pretty much just bullshit. Sorry. And the tax money argument is bullshit too. A pack of cigarettes costs around $4-$5 now. 80% of that is pure tax, meant to offset the healthcare costs. Obesity puts far more burden on the health care system and no special tax is levied against them. The vast majority of people in the US (4 out of 5 I think?) are overweight. If people insist on perpetuating smoker discrimination then I insist restaurants have a "no corn syrup" section! Roll people onto a scale once a year and tax them by the extra pound. If you look at raw statistics, second hand smoke is right up there with terrorists and bathtubs on the list of things that kill people. Cars kill a thousand times more, yet people aren't lining up to ban them or tax the hell out of anyone who drives one, or lay some guilt trip on them about the public welfare. The bottom line is that the anti-smoking craze is just a cheap way to have a socially acceptabe group of people to beat up on without genuine just cause.