Quiting Smoking, need help!

I am psyching myself to quit also. One lil extension for firefox browser I found seems to be increasing my motivation. Quitomzilla . Dunno if it would be of use to you but worth a look see.

Also, some years ago I did quit for a while. One thing that helped me back then was placing one cigarette in a test tube with stopper. Mad scientist that I am, I labeled the tube, jokingly, with 'open in case of emergency' and carried it in my handbag so it was with me at all times. And you know what, it helped. Just knowing I had that cig in the tube and could smoke it any time I wanted, I didn't feel the urge to smoke. It’s funny how the mind works at times.

Anyhow, good luck...

florenze

GO FLO!!!!!



Spoken Like a true smoker. LOL. Did not matter anyway?? PUHleeze.

I quit 16+ years ago after watching my mother die of cancer. It still took a while, so I know it's hard. I just never bought them anymore. I would BUM them. yep. Never once did I get a cig I preferred, and within 2 months, I was cured. Haven't had a cig since Feb of 1990.
I had quit once before that for a long time, I quit with a BUNCH of friends, and we all took up the much less nasty habit (spoken with tongue in cheek) of sunflower seed eating! So, get me a pack of smokes took on new meaning for all of us.

Now I just use this one: I don't question your right to smoke, but I do question your will to live. (yeah yeah, lot's of things can kill you, but you KNOW smoking WILL...)

I wish you luck Billybob...it really is a mindset, get the right one and you are smoke free. (And after a few years, you smell other smokers near you and their clothes reek, and their hair reeks! AND your hair reeks after a night out at a smoking allowed bar and it's just ICK!)

If you smoke only a carton a week, in one year, you could buy yourself a very nice PC to play SL on.

GO FLO!!!!

DOH! Snuff was my suggestion.

... or find cigarette in the inventory and right-click it and select "Detach" from the pie menu.

Not necessarily, hon. It depends on how much you are smoking when you quit, although my attempts early on weren't as bad. I'm still trying, but I know enough people who have quit, and you see them right in this thread, to believe I can. Which is half the battle, it's an emotional crutch as much as a physical addiction. The cigs are a way of dealing with stress and you lose your coping muscles. When I quit for a long time once, I found myself anxious long after the nicotine was out of my system and started smoking again. It was all emotional.

You are going through the worst of it right now and nothing is going to give you the hit that a cig will, so don't expect the gum to do that for you.

Most people try several times before they nail it. Try finding a forum for people quitting, it can be helpful, everyone has their own techniques that work for them, though. My only successful attempts have been stone cold turkey, everything else I found just reminded me of the cigs.

I plan to pay someone to lock me in a room until the cravings are past. They'll just have to deliver me food and water twice daily, and patrol the outisde to make sure I don't try and tunnel my way out.

I'm actually going to the store today to see if that book I linked to previously is available. Today I found out that one of my coworkers may have lung cancer. Very scary.

Just don't smoke anymore. Tell yourself and all your friends that you don't smoke. Don't say all that crap like:

"I've given up"

That's CRAP!

"I'm trying to give up."

That's CRAP!

"Oooh, I've only smoked 3 cigarettes today. Aren't I good?"

FUCKING CRAP!!! NO! YOU'RE A WIMP!!

STOP MESSING ABOUT!. BE STRONG!! YOU'RE IN CONTROL!!!

YOU DON'T SMOKE!

TAKE CONTROL OF YOURSELF!!!

GrrRRRrrRRRrr!!!

* coughs *


YOU DON'T SMOKE!!!

YOU DON'T SMOKE!!!

YOU DON'T SMOKE!!!

YOU DON'T SMOKE!!!

YOU DON'T SMOKE!!!





Well that's how I gave up.

keep counting the days to remind yourself how much self-control you are demonstrating. Every day tell people (friends, family) how many days it has been...

Be proud that you are GIVING yourself a great gift by not smoking. Drop the internal lie that tells you that you are denying yourself something you want (a cigarette). Smoking denies you the greatest gifts of all: self-discipline and self-respect.

Perhaps I am a bit fanatical about it, but I believe that smoking is a minor character flaw. It doesn't mean you area bad person, it just means that you have given up control of a part of your life to cigarettes.

I quit 3 months ago, for the 5th time in 6 years. I am flawed too, but working on it.

Champie

Come to think of it, there was a few times I quit but started back up. When I had the FLU! When your vomiting & have a temperature over 100 degrees F, you're not in much of a mood to smoke a cigarette.

That's how my grandfather quit. He got a nasty cold one day and got sick of the taste of tobacco.
I never smoked, what do i get? \o/
On a side note... you know what they say about "idle hands". Get busy and get out of the house. Take up cycling or something. When you're out in the boonies 30 miles from the nearest store there's no way you can give in to that craving.

Well first off good for u for trying to quit!
I myself am trying to cut back and I'm doing pretty good.
I can normally go about 4 days without one LOL until something happens then its poof poof time
The only thing I can suggest is chew tons of gum and candy!

Yes - this is a real issue for me now because most of my friends are smokers and I love them but I cringe when I have to be in an enclosed space with most of them.

Also I take the stairs whenever possible at work because I can't stand getting on the elevator with someone who has just come in from smoking. I understand it, heck, I used to do it, but I am very sensitive to the smell of it now.

The longer I am away from not smoking, the worse it smells to me also. Sometimes I pull something out of my closet that I used to wear when I smoked, like my old leather Harley jacket, that just reeks. I nearly vomited. I got it cleaned but could never get the smell out and since I can no longer ride anyway (the epilepsy), I sold it on ebay (hope they didn't notice) .

I got rid of all the pillows, curtains and rugs and nearly all my old clothes. Here's what's weird, every now and again, when I wake up in the morning I smell ciggarette smoke as strongly as if someone is smoking one in the room. Very strange. Maybe I need to get rid of the mattress - or maybe I'm just nuts.

Hubby says that the Topamax can do that too, it brings back the memory of smells. Grrrrrr - sure wish it had picked a better one to remember!

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Take up french fries.

*warning necropost*
I think I am replacing my tobacco addiction with reading the forums. I can't decide which is worse for my health.

Reading the forums is one thing. RESPONDING quite another