PLease help i want to quit smoking so badly?
July 9th, 2011
ok today is the day i am going to attempt to quit smoking i have a lot of stressful thing in my life which make it hard, plus i live around people who smoke all day everyday so i have a lot of challenges. but i really want to quit, i find it gross and i hate smelling so bad. So first how long does it take before the hardcore craving cease to the point where i can control myself to stay away from cigarettes, also that does anyone have any tips on how it could make it easier for me to quit smoking, thank you to all those who help
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do it!
give away all your cigaretes to the homeless people who needs a smoke
Get a prescription for CHANTIX from your doc. It really does work.
FIND A WAY OF KEEPING URSELF BUSY by doing anything fun
get nicoret pattches
ummmmm talk to some one
p.s soz bout the caps
I’m 17 And Have Tried And Suceeded To Quit Smoking Before. But Gone Back, Not Because Of Addiction, But Because Of Needing Something TO Do. It’s Not Hard To Quit If You Know Yourself You Want To. The First Way I Quit Was Bought Flavored Chewing Pouches. Hide Them If You Want Knowone TO Know, But It Will Do It Almost Immediatly. The Second Way Is Eat Alot Of Bread. Everytime You Want A Ciggarette. It Will Stop The Craving, It Usually Takes 4 Days Or So For The Hardcore Cravings TO Go Away. JMHO. -Vic.
you need to do something you enjoy doing (not smokeing) somethings thats good for you. EXersize instead. something thats funner than smokeing and will take its place. you dont like to smoke, so dont do you. you are the only one who can make your self stop. you have control over yourself. you will always have opportunities to do bad things, but that doesnt mean you have to do the bad things. dont hang around with people who smoke or at least while there smokeing, tell them you dont like it. people who smoke all day are not fun. dance, run, exersize, clean, cook, get a job you like…instead. do what you really want to do. ask all your old friends if they want to dance with your or something but tell them they must not smoke around you ether. if they wont do what you ask, then dont be there friend anymore becuase you can get whatever you want in the world, dont settle for less. make friends with people who want to live a healthy life like you do. Break dance. eat at least 2500 cals a day. Muscle weighs more than fat, don’t try to loose weight, eat healthy- fruits(3-10 serv.) and veggies(3-10serv) and only drink water 36-100 cups, meats(0-10serv) dairy(0-10serv) bread types(3-10), exersize hard, sweaty, out of breath, painful, burning, get tired, if u sleep 14 hours, then exersize 3- 4 hours, if u sleep 8 hours, then exersize for 9-10 hours, shower 2-14 times, clean mouth 3-14 times, the goal is to be strong and healthy! http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx i did the calculator, I need to eat at least 3500 cals.
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and they’ve done studies…it takes 2-3 days to get all the cigerette smoke and whatever else completly out of your body, so if you are addicted to it…it wouldnt take longer than 3 days to get over cravings, but most people dont get addicted to it, if your smokeing under 3 boxes a day, then your prolly not addicted, if you crave them longer than 3 days, that means its all in your mind.
On average it takes 3 days for the nicotine to leave your system and the physical addiction to go. However the hardest part is the ‘mental’ addiction. Try getting hold of a copy of the Allen Carr Easyway book – it really helped me. I stopped nearly 5 months ago after smoking for over 20 years.
Congratulations on making the decision to quit, that was the biggest step. You need to make a list of the reasons you are quitting and display this in all the areas you would tend to look. Reaffirmation of your goal to quit and your reasons to is key to redefining your thoughts and behavior. Smoking was part of your lifestyle and thus you must accept that your lifestyle has now changed, again say to yourself it has changed for the better, for your health and for your loved ones health etc..keep positively reinforcing your thoughts in order to recondition your mind. Cigarettes are highly addictive, nicotene is a powerful drug and you must not underestimate the effect that it has had on your mind and body. Accept that you were addicted to it, are addicted to it and are fighting it daily, stay away from your peers that smoke and ask them to respect your decision, do this for as lond\g as the intense craving stops. This will vary from person to person but on average by the 3rd day should start to diminish significantly. Yes that is quite long away so keep strong and distracted for now. The easiest way to overcome and addiction is to substitute it for another interest. For now throw yourself into a project/hobby etc that you are passionate about and give it your all. Patches and the gum are only visible physical distractions and have had a friend actually become addicted to the gum, so beware! Just remember the positive reaffirmations and stay self confident. you have made the best decision of your life. good luck.
Hello and WTG. If you really want it you can quit. You will have to accept that it will not be a comfortable process. You have to decide that no matter how jangly your emotions get, or how much you think about it, or what you start doing instead of smoking…you are going to quit smoking. It’s okay to be an emotional train wreck. It’s okay to gain the weight. It’s okay to be grumpy and obsessive. Just don’t smoke! Don’t let those things surprise you or deter you.
NO EXCUSES! Prepare for them and rebut them! “I’m not ready to quit.” or “There’s too much going on right now.” “If _____ doesn’t have to quit, I shouldn’t have to quit.” All these things are crap!
You will always have stressors and problems and things that make you want to smoke. You will always have triggers and temptations out in the world because some people smoke. Everyone isn’t going to quit with you. Life isn’t fair but remember quitting is a choice, not a mandate…and eventually you will come to believe that quitting is a blessing for you regardless of what others are doing. You can pick them up and you can put them down, you don’t HAVE to do anything but there are consequences to everything.
You will get different advice about HOW to quit, mainly whether to taper off, use nicotine replacement, or quit cold turkey. What one person swears by intimidates the hell out of someone else.
I quit the smoking but used nicotine forever after I gave up cigarettes. This helped me because it separated the HABIT from the ADDICTION. Habit meaning when in your day you like to smoke, and the reaching for them lighting them up, gathering your stuff, going outside, etc. When you think about it people are very ritualistic about their smoking. Paying attention to these things and breaking your patterns is a BIG step of quitting.
Have you ever noticed that (for a while anyway) you don’t crave simply because of where you are? You don’t expect to be allowed to just smoke anywhere. In the movies. In the waiting room. Most public places. So make sure that you keep yourself in those places as much as possible. Don’t just hang around in places you used to smoke or where it is allowed, and wait to be tormented.
If it helps you in the first few days, go somewhere ELSE. Cash in some sick days or take a little road trip, check into a non-smoking motel and get away from things for a bit, somewhere that you can just lay up and cry or journal, or eat, or whatever. If everything in your environment is different for a few days, it isn’t so strange that you aren’t smoking because you aren’t doing a lot of things that you usually do.
All the while you can use nicotine to keep the addiction under control…the lozenges helped me most when patches gave me nightmares and the gum gave me heartburn and hiccups. And it’s okay to LEAN HEAVY on them. Overuse them…completely spoil yourself on them, use them on demand. Love them. Depend on them. Keep them handy. Just don’t smoke.
After you have used the nicotine replacement for at least a couple months, wean yourself off them. Make them harder to find. Put yourself on a schedule. Switch to something else. In my case, I went from nicotine lozenges to altoids more and more often, now I’m chewing gum.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Scare your self straight! Do an image search on smoker’s lung, and lung cancer. NOT PRETTY! You could also contact your local Cancer center, even if you do not have cancer, they can direct you to papers, books, videos, etc on helping people quite smoking. They can probably direct you to a support group as well. They are there to serve the public, take advantage of their preventative programs!
Just burn all of the cigarettes. Or just control your mind not to smoke.
Now, the kits for quit smoking are free, just follow it, success or not depend on you.
I’d say four or five months. But it varies from person to person. I strongly suggest you consider Chantix. If you can tolerate it, it will really help.