Quitting smoking

I know this is completely non-video game related but I figured I would ask and see if anyone has any reccomendations.

I've been a pack+ a day smoker for about 7 years now and I've come to the conclusion that it is high time I kick this habit. I've managed to switch from smoking full strength cigarettes to ultra lights in the past couple months, but I want to drop it completely. I always manage to get a couple days into quitting and then I end up going back.

Any former smokers on here that have any tips on how they completely kicked the habit and kept themselves from going back? Any reccomendations would be appreciated, thanks!

 

I've never smoked myself, but i know when my mother quit a few years back she needed something to hold in her hand to replace the cig. Her biggest problem was the fact she was used to holding a cigarette and it bothered her to be without one. She went out and bought packs of toothpicks to hold. She claims it's the only way she could ever quit.

 

ive tryed to quit about six times now.

To be hounest the patch really does help, but you need to have something ready for the void of having a smoke. Longest I went was about 6 months, then I went to a bar one night (before they banned smoking in Canadian bars) and light one up, from there back to square one.

But you notice when you are trying to quit something really affect you, I.E sitting in traffic, waiting in line for long period.

Somethings you never noticed before will just put you over the edge to want to smoke.

Like I said have something always with you, keep something in the car, office, home just incase you misplace what you are going to use to fill in smoking with, always with you.

Now if I could take my advice I would be ok (-_-)

 

I wish you luck. I know giving up an addiction is easier said than done. Try and take yourself away from situations that will put cigs on your mind. If you have to be a hermit for a while in order to kick the habit, then do it. Good luck man!

 

I used Zyban, it's like speed, you can't sleep on it, and your brain is all fuzzy, but it works. You don't get the "kick" from the cigarette, so you basically go cold turkey even when you smoke like crazy. Eventually you just get sick of smoking, and stop.

Go to a quit group thing, that helps more than the drugs, really.

I don't want to smoke anymore as I have a new house and a baby. When I go to my mothers, she still smokes and the smell of us when we leave turns my stomach now. She won't even smoke around us, it's the stray smell from her house.

 

I guess I'm just lucky. I was a pack-a-day smoker as well, back when I was starting college and foolishly chose Architecture as my major (which I changed, fortunately) - but I started smoking like in high-school. When I changed majors and started Communication Science, I still smoked almost a pack a day. It didn't help that all of my friends smoked too (not in terms of imitation, but because of the fact that they always had cigarettes available to bum). Hell, the girlfriends I've had have always been serious smokers.

But one day, I simply chose not to smoke anymore, and I pretty much never did. I have one cigarette when I feel like it, every once in a while, but I don't need it anymore, so I seldom smoke.

I guess it's a matter of just stopping. At least it was for me.

 

People, I smoke a pack everyday, and that is 20 cigarettes, and I really want to stop. But the anti smoking campaigns just makes me want to smoke more.
Since I feel it is a hetz against us smokers.

So when I quit, it won´t be because of campaigns, but because I want to quit of personal reasons. And well those socalled "holy people" who has been smokers, and fights for antismoke, I am sometimes close giving them a hard time. Alot since I think those socalled "saved/praised/shitfuckers".
Are worse, than us smokers.
Even if I was a nonsmoker, I would sit with the smokers, since it is publically known that smokers has a better life and takes it more easy and are quite more happy and relaxed . And no you can find the information on the internet, since I don´t want to go into that thing, where I got my information from.
But the illnesses are a problem to us smokers.

 

Smokers have a better life? WHAT! That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

Anyway, I'm a big time 'Anti-Smoking' person. I have asthma, and I can't breathe that stuff as it can set off a serious asthma attack. I'm all for stricter laws (maybe even to the point of outlawing) on cigarettes and where you can smoke them.

Anyway, good luck on quiting kingofthelobster.

 

You forgot to include (J/K). Because this HAS to be a joke.

 

I found it to be really stupid when they placed bans in bars for smoking. Not only did it hurt bars ALOT, but I felt like peoples rights have been stomped on.
It isnt new for people to smoke at bars or clubs, if you dont like the small or if have a serious illness, maybe a club/bar isnt the right place for you to begin with.
As far as a outlaw ban on smoking, it will never happen, as much as the goverment claims they spend on curing people in hospitals etc, they makes three times as much if not more with just taxes alone.

In canada a pack of cigs are about $8.00, subtract all these goverment taxes that is on that single pack and it is only $4.50

 

No I am serious, there has been a real, no bullshit, scientific research on the subject. Since many nonsmokers are more stressed, and it is no joke. And I hope you can see, I am not talking about illnesses, since that was something I said was BAD for us smokers. us smokers are for most parts, more laid back, and relaxed. Since I have seen too many nonsmokers getting almost a flip because of their stress. Where I just was taking it easy. And I got same stuff done (assignments etc.) .

And I am talking about tobacco, not cannabis.

 

Cannabis cant give you cancer can it? If not, its probably no worse than alcohol.

 

MR, Casual , the risc of getting cancer of cannabis, is bigger than smoking tobacco, and the illnesses are the same, and some of them are even worse than just smoking. Since I don´t think I have ever heard about a tobacco psychosis, but I have met people who had and heard about hash psychosis.

But to top it off, I can tell you, that my father have met people in his work, who was psychotic, of alcohol alone, even that they called it something else back then.

My father took care of people who were old , and some of them had very funky papers on them. Even some of them had papers on them that said they were Psychopaths and I am not joking. Since they were Psychopaths ! (some of the people he took care of) .

The old danish name for what my father was a "sick helper", now a days it is called, a social and health helper, or a social and health assistent, when you have taken the full education.

My grandmother was a nurse, when she worked, and was alive. But what she did back then , is the same that my father did, and my sister now does. and what my mother did, before she changed to another job. Since her knees got arthritis.

So just to be honest with you, cannabis has more backsides, than just the addictiveness like Cigarettes. And well while we are at it, cannabis is the cause of more illnesses, than tobacco.

 

When I gave up I had a friend of mine check up on me all the time. I gave him 50quid and I got 10 pounds back a week as long as he didn't catch me smoking. I cheated once and got away with it, but after 5 weeks I was alright, I still get twinges of wanting to smoke, but it is not too bad. I pretty much replaced it with caffeine though.

Thing is if I go out for a good night, I will nearly always end up having a cig or two, and then you taste it when you wake up in the morning and you really want another. That takes will power, but not that much, it really is that initial struggle.

Good luck, you will feel better once you have done it, you save money and you smell better, I really noticed my skin was better, but you are gonna miss it for a good time.

 

Oh, nevermind then. I heard some druggie on here say that cannabis was no worse than alcohol. That person must have been in denial so he can smoke his precious weed.

 

No it's not. If you smoked as much weed as you did tobacco, maybe, but who does that? You can smoke one really good joint and be done w/ it for the day, whereas you have to smoke 20 cigarettes or more.

KingOfLobster: Am I the only perfectly reformed ex-smoker here? (I quit on October 18th, 2003). I smoked a pack+ a day for 9 years. I even quit in Japan, which makes it like 100x harder b/c you can smoke anywhere. Anyways, I read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking and it worked for me. My father, a 1.5 pack/day smoker of 50 years used Zyban and got off, but he was also facing serious health risks. One point you will see in the book is that tobacco is not a physically addictive substance (very few drugs are). Once you get over that, it makes the habit easier to break. It's a cheap book too. Give it a try.

 

I've never smoked myself (only weed, and "quitting" that is easy as hell), but I'm friends with a few smokers. What I've mainly heard, and I've seen it already mentioned, is that they like to have something to do with their hands. One guy I talk to said that's the main reason he can't give it up. The tactic ProgrammingAce suggested sounds pretty reasonable - give that a shot.

 

I'm trying to quit at the moment as well. Pack a day as well and moving out in a month so I need to if I want to eat(smokes cost stupid amounts in Australia).
I'm using nicotine gum to delay the time between ciggerettes. So I'll have one ciggerette every 2-3 hrs and between that I'll have a piece of gum. Then I'll extend the time between ciggerettes untill I evetually quit.
My Dad quit this way after a 15-20yr pack a day habit.

 

Yeah Gajin is right, you'd have to smoke weed as much as tobacco to get cancer from it.

Lobser: Good luck bro. Wish I could give you advice, but I can't. The best I've managed to do is to cut down by getting more excersize.