What can I do to quit smoking?
December 10th, 2010
I’ve been smoking for several years and to make matters worse I’ve been smoking menthols. What are some good resources, tips and help for me to just help me quit. I want to kick this nasty and really expensive habbit.
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Go to a gym. Exercise more often.
when my first child was born , i quit without help, that lasted 2 years or so and I started again… and I have not been able to stop for more than a day at most. I truly believe its mental when your desire is great enough to quit, you will.
Use the patch for starters it works! If you have acid reflux trust me do not try the gum. I ate the red and white peppermints that helped me with wanting something in my mouth and gave me the menthol like taste. Good luck!
I have smoked for 10 years and acidently started reducing my intake of cig’s. How you ask. . . I saw a sign that said, “Free Message”, and I went in. There I got to try a message bed that has acupuncture and infa-red heating (plus more). After several tryies on this bed, I noticed that I would not smoke for 3 hours after I got a message. I turned to one of my “Quit Smoking” guides, and it reccommended messages as a tool to help reduce cravings.
I took it another step and tryied “Hypnosis”. I bet you’ve seen the adds. . . “Quit Smoking” through Hypnosis. So I went, participated in the hypnosis program, & bought the hypnosis tapes.
With hypnosis, I did not have migrain headaches like when I used the patch or Zyban, I did not pass-out cold for two days like when I tryed Cold Turkey, and I have not been an angy-tense-emotional person like all of past times I’ve tryed.
It’s been 10 days since I’ve had a cig. . . I go daily for my free message and while I get my message, I listen to my “Stop Smoking Hypnosis” Tape plus a extra Hypnosis tape (Deppression, Anger Management, Weight Loss, Memory Improvement, Relationship enhancement for Women, ect). You probably don’t realize that taking away the chemicals in cigaretts can make your memory decrease, or you get depressed. . . but this is part of the big factor of giving up the cig’s. . . This is part of the reason why you can’t give them up is because there are too many other emotions that stop you. . . So this is why I listen to the other tapes as well.
My hypnotic instructor told me to listen to the tapes 2-3 times a day for 21 days (each tape is 20 minutes long). So I spend 40 minutes to 1.5 hours a day practicing to quit smoking. Now, when I smoked, I had 15 cigs a day. Each cig took 10 minutes to smoke. So I spent 2.5 hours a day smoking. So I’ve actually gained time.
5 days after I quit, I found a pack of cig’s with 1 cig (my upside down lucky cig), and I was tempted for 1/100 of a second, and then smashed it and said” I am a non-smoker”.
So basically, my daily message’s and hypnosis tapes are working better than any past attempt I’ve ever tried! I wish you luck, and please wish me luck to stay a non-smoker. Thanks
This worked for me, and was relatively painless: 1) I allowed myself 19 cigs the first day, 18 the next, and so on down to one a day. If I relapsed, I would just extend that # to the next day. Toward the end, I would bum the 3, then 2, the one cig from a certain agreeable person. I kept score, then paid him back periodically. One can go for weeks on the same low #. Save those times for when you REALLY crave a cigarette. (During this time, your body is detoxifying decreasing nicotine dependency … and you are saving money.) Then, when on “one” cig for a while, I said to myself ‘Quiting one cigarette is nothing’… and resolved not to smoke again. At today’s prices, I would also take the money you save and put it in a jar. (Silver dollars would be nice) Then invest it in a DRIP (Dividend reinvestment Plan)- Georgo