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Quitting Smoking...how hard!

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after a few years of smoking i decided last week to quit, i'm not using any methods just the good old will power, has anyone got any tips for me as it is so hard, and how did u's all stop smoking (if you smoked in the past that is)

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You just have to go cold turkey, avoid places where people will be smoking, the first 10 years are the worst. :wink: Only joking, the craving diminishes with time. If nothing else helps try hypnotherapy, it can have amazing results. Good luck, you can do it and at your age its got to make sense.
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party-boy, good luck, :smokey:
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Pilot wrote:You just have to go cold turkey, avoid places where people will be smoking, the first 10 years are the worst. :wink: Only joking, the craving diminishes with time. If nothing else helps try hypnotherapy, it can have amazing results. Good luck, you can do it and at your age its got to make sense.
thanks pilot, i havent had a cigarette for about 5 days now, but tonight will be the real test for me, going to a party at the top club, and the smoking ban isnt in yet :? going to try my best
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will powers all you need you give up or d*e. thats the choice.
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Stay positive, if you can go without for 5 days, you can got without for ever, in a few years you'll be wondering why you ever smoked. 8)
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Be positive,tell yourself you dont need to light up
personally speaking i used sweets as a substitute.
Good Luck to you,willpower needed.
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Post by memor »

Speaking as someone who used to smoke 60 Bensons a day.

I gave up 33 years ago before patches using only will power.

I found that using breathing techniques very helpful.

When you feel the urge for cigarette take in really deep lungful of air.

Hold it a few seconds and slowly. (and I mean very slowly )Let it out almost as if you are blowing smoke out lungs.

If it helps hold the two fingers you held cigarette up tp your lips as if you had cigarette in them.

Do this three times (Holding breath and letting out slowly)

The more times you do it when you get the urges for cigarette it get less and less.

I virtually not feel like cigarette after a week.

It not a complete fix. Sometimes the urge is really strong and you need real will power but it helps.

Also last thing but FIRST thing. You GOT TO WANT to give up cigarettes.

Not some half arsed attempt you've got to want to give up 100% strongly.

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I used to be a thirty a day... started at 12 quit 13 years ago at 43...

... if I can do it, anybody can..

best tip I can give you is..

you have to realise that its a "two part" habit.. you have the nicotine addiction and the physical/(automatic reaching for and lighting up without realising it) habit..

I found the only thing that worked were the patches.. they allowed me to break the physical/automatic habit, while still getting the nicotine, that way you can train yourself to find something else to do on those occations that you would normally reach for a cigarette.. after a month or so of that, I could reduce the dose on the patch and gradually ween myself off them...

it still took about three or four months for the cravings to go completely and even now, if I get a whiff of fresh smoke....

... it doesnt make me want to smoke, but it does remind me of how much I used to enjoy it......

just remember, there is NO MAGIC cure... I've had medical training, I've seen what it does to the body, I've seen the cost..... the thing that finally spurred me on to quit was the feeling that I was now in the minority and that everyone else was looking down their noses at me, I came to feel like a social outcast... the realisation that I reaked of stale smoke, I had bad breath, yellow teeth, ......... fill in the rest of the blanks yourself...

But regardless of all the medical/financial considerations, the only way you will quit, is if YOU really want to..


I had a real shock on Saturday, I was in Tesco's on and noticed that 200 Silk Cut are now £51.50..

... that means if I still smoked, I would be spending £1,880 a year on cigarettes. !!!!!!!

I wish you the very best of Good luck...

... something they didnt tell me, once I realised I had finally kicked it... I felt on top of the world..
When designing something completely foolproof, the designers seldom take account of the inginuity of complete fools !

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memor wrote: When you feel the urge for cigarette take in really deep lungful of air.
Hold it a few seconds and slowly. (and I mean very slowly )Let it out almost as if you are blowing smoke out lungs.

If it helps hold the two fingers you held cigarette up tp your lips as if you had cigarette in them.

Do this three times (Holding breath and letting out slowly)
:lol: :lol: :lol: Memor dunno if thats meant in a comical way or not but I almost passed out laughing at that line, imagining the scene
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Post by freon »

Hey its not that hard and you get your taste buds back as well
so you back off on the salt on your food and thats a plus
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i have found that fiddling with a pen keeps your mind off cigs
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I found after having a triple heart bypass last november strangely i've never touch a cigarette since :shock:
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johnc10 wrote:I found after having a triple heart bypass last november strangely i've never touch a cigarette since :shock:
effective, if a little extreme....... :shock:
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LOL @ Babbs Post...

Not being Funny or nothing memor, but it did sound sort of funny :lol:

Im in a silly mood tonight..


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