Hi All,
Well I have finally came to the point that I WANT to quit smoking, not to mention the fact that I need to. Open to suggestions from reformed smokers, and how to keep from putting on more weight, which I don’t need either lol. Two packs a day for 20+ yrs, am 44 now, want to see my kids mature.
Thanks for any help
Alan
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I quit smoking the day I was served with divorce papers 2 years ago. Very effective way of channeling some of the emotion, but I'm not sure I recommend it!
I also used the patch (had tried it several times before, but that time it worked)
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"I may have said the same thing before... But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different." Oscar Wilde
so that's why...
;)
You must be a gluton for punishment, trying to quit two bad habits in one day..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
I quit after 20+ years pack a day 1yr 7mo 4days ago and I still want a smoke. Hanging out in places where they don't smoke (stay out of the bar!) helps alot till you get over the initial gut wrenches. I chewed Nicorette gum for a few days, it helped the pangs but I found it more addictive than smoking.
Its time to see what your made of. If you're worried about the weight, start going to the gym. You can afford the initial membership and steroids with all the money you'll be saving.
You start to quit the day you stop buying them. You know you've got them beat the day someone flips a cigarette out a car window and you don't stop your car and chase after it.
Gordsco
I have a lot of admiration for anyone who can kick an addiction like smoking.
Hope you can do it.
Bargain, n.: Something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
I quit Skoal this summer after having a dip in pretty much all the time for more 20 years.
It was no picnic, but I was surprised how quickly the physical cravings went away, and astounded at how long the psychological cravings have lasted.
I shouldn't have been.
A few years ago I talked one of my uncles who quit smoking when he accidentally burned his infant daughter. He said he still felt a little urge when smelled the first puff off someone else's freshly lit cigarette.
His daughter was ~50 years old when he told me the story!!!!
For some reason, I get an urge to reach for the Skoal every time I walk out of my favorite building supply here.
K
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well, I don't know how many suggestions I can offer, but I quit for 9 1/2 years. It didn't take I guess. Been smoking again for about 8 years. Have "tried" numerous times to quit again. Having had so much trouble trying to do something that I've succeeded at in the past, I have come to the conclusion (Again) that the only way you can quit is if you truly WANT to. For whatever reason. Doesn't matter what motivates the desire. If you truly want to, you will. At least I can offer this. When you really do want to quit, the cravings (physical) only last a couple weeks. (The mental or psychological issues are with you for life from the moment you become hooked.) Good luck to you.
cold turkey, no patch, no gum, no nuthun.
Willpower.
three months of weirdness, then you won't feel normal for about another year.
I quit after 38 years, 2 to 3 packs a day (cold turkey). It was 2 years ago this month.
You have to be ready!
Don't even take a puff of one or it wont work. Stop completely! No more at all. Don't cut back just stop. I know I tried that a couple of times.
As for not gaining weight, I did but I'm back to my old weight now. Food taste soooo good its hard not to. and somethings taste bad to (I didn't expect that)
I spent a lot of time in my shop working and working. I told my wife that she didn't wont me around or I might bit her head off. After the first week I was a little nicer and it got easier. Every week it gets better. Then one day you'll think wow! I didn't think about it yesterdayat all ( I remember that day well).
If I can anybody can!
This might sound stupid, one of the best things about not smoking is the hasel of it all. Sure I feel better, but I don't have to go outside to have a smoke anymore. No more runs to the store at midnight because I forgot to buy a pack. and best of all is no one bugs me anymore about smoking!
Just make up your mind and do it.
I wish you the best of lock. Let us know.
Jeff in so cal
B1 ..the key is you said I WANT to now you got to find something that will push you over the hill. As strange as it seems a $50.00 Hypnosis seminar did it for me. I really didn't believe I could be hypnotized thought it was a bunch of B.S. but in the midst of 60 other people I was, left the seminar and listened to a tape for the next 21 days and that was it. Four years not smoking is my proof it works........started smoking when I was 16 I am now 57.
Hike up yer skirt Mary! And stop!
ok..that might not really work...that's what I said to my friend Mary when she wanted to stop.......
Jeff
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My one carpenter just quit about 6 weeks ago. He used some herbal s**t called Smoke-Away. He took them for 2 days and he says he hasn't had a craving since then. He works with all us smokers everday and it doesn't bother him. Good luck!
Greg