Someone with experience quitting smoking please? I want to quit smoking now but I do not want to take?
May 4th, 2010
anything to quit smoking. What did you do to stop smoking that helped?
People hate this answer, but it helped me.
I collected my old cigarette butts in a jar for a week.
Then I had my quit day.
From that point on when I wanted a cigarette, I opened the jar and sniffed it and told myself that’s what I smelled like.
It was nauseating.
When I realized I also had an oral need, I pursed my lips and took a deep breath and held it till I was dizzy. When you smoke you take some oxygen away, so I guess that’s what I was simulating.
I had smoked a pack a day for fifteen years when I quit, twenty eight years ago. Not one cigarette.
Don’t keep them in the house, don’t bum them, don’t rationalize ‘just one’. One other thing, I would leave restaurants right after eating because that was a trigger time for me. I don’t need to do that anymore.
I do still get the urge to smoke, but I still don’t give in. You don’t have to give in either.
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The first component is willpower. If you want to quit you will. After that, consider sunflower seeds to help you along. Worked for me….
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I was driving to work, took the pack I had and tossed it out the window. That was in 1985, now if I even smell smokers clothes I get sick. Disgusting.
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i did the nicotine gum and took st. john’s wort to help calm my mood swings. you really have to look at cigarettes as the enemy and try not to let them win. after about 4 weeks of not smoking i tried to smoke one and it literally hurt too much to inhale.
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A vacation. I went on vacation and didn’t take my smokes. When I got back, I used carrot sticks. When I felt like I needed something in my fingers I put a carrot stick there. If it went to my mouth it was at least healthy.
Good Luck, it takes a lot of will power and determination.
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just stop. after a while its not so bad. it really helps the best to stay away from other smokers. the urge to smoke will be with you for life. been there, done that.
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Jail works good, they don’t permit cigarettes in most these days.
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I smoked for 34 years,tried the patches,thegum,everything,but what I’m going to tell you will sound real stupid,but it worked for me,I h heard it would but I thought it was stupid until it worked.GET A FARMERS ALMANAC,towards the back is a page called the DAYS PAGE,days to quit smoking,days to wean babies, etc,It will have 12 columns,one for each month,with a couple of days in each colunm,select that month,and the day for that month and quit cold turkey,,It’s been a year and I’ve only had thre or four bad cravings,….IT REALLY DOES WORK
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I just threw them out. Stayed away from my friends that smoked for a while..You have to want to do it.. I just woke up and refused to buy or bum a cigarette…Now with cigarettes reaching $9 in some states that mike make it easier to not buy them..
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Good luck!!!
The best way is to quit cold turkey, but you might need other things to help you get through it. Such as chew on toothpicks, straws, or even dum dum suckers. With every urge you get, you must replace it with something to keep you busy. The urges you have will eventually fade away. You must have will power! Good Luck!!
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People hate this answer, but it helped me.
I collected my old cigarette butts in a jar for a week.
Then I had my quit day.
From that point on when I wanted a cigarette, I opened the jar and sniffed it and told myself that’s what I smelled like.
It was nauseating.
When I realized I also had an oral need, I pursed my lips and took a deep breath and held it till I was dizzy. When you smoke you take some oxygen away, so I guess that’s what I was simulating.
I had smoked a pack a day for fifteen years when I quit, twenty eight years ago. Not one cigarette.
Don’t keep them in the house, don’t bum them, don’t rationalize ‘just one’. One other thing, I would leave restaurants right after eating because that was a trigger time for me. I don’t need to do that anymore.
I do still get the urge to smoke, but I still don’t give in. You don’t have to give in either.
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I kept my cigarettes in the car. That way, I had to go out of my way to get a cigarette when I wasn’t driving, which gave me time to think. I did that with what was left of my carton and then used up a carton of a brand my wife had bought at a reservation and didn’t really like. Then I didn’t buy any more. It took about a month. That was in 2006.
In 1987, I did something similar. I was using rolling papers to scrounge up leftover tobacco from butts and smoke that. When I did buy a pack, it was lights, and when I got a headache that came back after smoking the last two cigarettes in the pack, I didn’t buy any more. Instead, I bought a 5-lb. bag of dark chocolate discs from a candymaking supply store.
The reason that only lasted until 1989 was that I got drunk one night in a bar and spied an unattended pack of Kools and gave in to temptation. About a week later, I bought a pouch of Bugler and was rolling my own, and not long after that, I was buying them by the pack. Kools, of course. (My previous main brand had been Marlboro Red.)
In 1987, someone I told about quitting told me not to get too cocky, because he had quit for 10 years and still gone back. On the other hand, my father quit before I was born, after getting sick from a 3-pack-a-day habit he picked up as a bored army radio operator in WWII and never touched one again.
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P.S., My wife still smokes, even though she was in the hospital for months after I quit.
In 1987, a few weeks after I quit, I kiddingly asked one of the guys at church when he was going to quit. He said, "Fug Q," but a year later an acupuncturist put a staple in his ear and he hasn’t smoked since. When I showed up with a pack in my pocket, he lit into me: "My role model!"
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