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PLS HELP WITH TIPS TO HELP ME QUIT SMOKING...
treedawg
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would love to quit. what worked for you????? i wish they would go up to $10.00 a pack.
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If you REALLY want to quit, try this....
Don't buy packs.
If you see someone smoking a cig, ask em for one. If they give you one, great. Enjoy. If they don't, so what. Pretty soon you will get sick of asking friends/strangers and you'll give up entirely.
May not be perfect, but worked for me.
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I have not had one since. I did keep a pack in my desk for almost a year just so I knew there was one there.
Good Luck
...don't start.
Your milage may vary.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
He hasn't smoked in a couple of years now!
Merc
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
I realized that I had two problems -- craving, and the fact that I would forget that I was trying to quit. Since my surroundings weren't going to change, I had to figure a way to combat the physical craving as well as the mental forgetfulness. So I decided to start quitting on a Friday after work when I had the whole weekend to myself. I was determined to do this, so I didn't mind doing something foolish. Here's three things I did:
1. I knew that if I bought a pack I could immediately throw it away, because that's still a lot cheaper than lung cancer. So I made up my mind to waste all the cigarettes I needed to in order to keep from smoking. If I bought them in a weak moment, I'd throw them out or destroy them in a stronger moment.
2. I knew I spent most of my waking time in one room of the house in front of the TV, with only quick trips to the bathroom or kitchen, so I made huge signs out of opened up newspapers and in very heavy black poster ink I wrote a word on each "poster." The three big signs read: CANCER! - YOU - A**HOLE! I hung these three signs over the drapery rods all around the living room so that I had to see them whenever I was in the room. This helped my memory not to slip while at home. And I did stay home, all weekend, so that I would be in a safer environment.
3. Whenever a physical craving or "nerves" would well up, I would lie down and take a nap. I would sleep through the craving. I don't know if a few tranquilizers would help with this, but I didn't need them because usually when I'm nerved up I'm tired and need a catnap.
After the first weekend, it got a lot easier. I left those signs up, and looked at them when I walked in after work. It was a small price to pay to confront myself with what I knew, in my honest moments, was basically the short version of the truth. My grandma died of emphesema, and that's no way to go either. Same for my aunt, and my uncle got some kind of leukemia. My dad never picked up the habit, and he's still healthy enough to run a mile and do 300 situps at 76.
I hope this "system" is of some help. It's really about keeping your focus for the first few days and having the freedom to get plenty of rest. Naps are a good way to "drop out" until the worst of the physical craving is over. If you need something with a little kick orally, drink tea or coffee or eat chocolate or something. Chew on pen or pencil. But the key to my system is, cold turkey. You can taper down on Wednesday or Thursday if possible, but once you start the process on Friday night, its zero tolerance.
- Life NRA Member
If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
You have to be able to quit with a pack of coffin nails lying around.
I had to quit drinking, and having sex till I beat the habit. Stay away from areas that you normally smoke alot. Stay clear of people that smoke, at least for a while.
Don't give in for just "1" quick one.
Good luck! You will not regret it.
Have Gun, will travel
1) pick a special day to quit. Independance day has two meanings for me now.
2) For about a month before I quit I switched brands every day. I usually smoked Marlboros. So one day I smoked PALL MALLS, next day COOLS, Lucky's, etc. I also tried to pick less popular brands so I was always smoking stale cigarettes.
3) Find new ways to deal witn stress. I had a habit of stepping back and having a smoke whenever a stressful situation arose. At first I kept one of those little puzzles in my pocket, the ones with the little steel balls you have to jiggle to get the balls in the holes. It works takes about as long as a smoke too.(but don't let your boss catch you)
4) Everyone has different feelings on this, but the only time I did it I never restarted smoking. Keep your last cigarette. I used to smoke my last one, then about 2:00am I'd find myself driving 5 miles to the store. It's just one of those stress things. You start worrying about not having one and needing it.
5) Don't tell anyone you're quitting. Unless you want to be reminded about it alot. People mean well but the constant inquiries weren't any help at forgetting to smoke.
6) Stop wearing shirts with pockets.After almost 4 years I still occasionally reach for my pocket after starting the car.
7) Set a goal for all the money you're not spending, don't make it too hard to reach and don't make it too easy. 16 months after quitting I had a small house down payment.
I smoked between 3&4 packs of Marlboros a day for 14 years. If I could quit anyone can.
Woods
How big a boy are ya?
Happiness is a warm gun
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
first off you really have to want to quit,i made up my mind to quit for my son,hes 6 and don`t need to smoke,i didn`t quit for myself if it was just about me i would still be smoking,one way i found was real easy to quit was put little post-up signs all over the house,like above the tv,in front of the toilet on the fridge and on the front of the computer,on the signs write "quit smoking july 4" or any day,just put them where you see them alot and read them everytime you see them after awhile you won`t have to read them but sub-limitatly you will,put the notes up about 2 months before you want to quit,birthdays are aways good or holidays,the most important part is that you have to wanna quit.
Edited by - roofdog on 05/16/2002 10:05:32
I smoked for 18 years. Quit Jan. 2, 1982. I was in the hospital for shoulder surgery and my GP came by the night before I was to be discharged. He had a serious look on his face. He asked me how long I had been smoking.....18 years I said. He looked me straight in the eyes and said...."I just got your cheast xray".... pregnant pause for about 5 seconds. During which time my heart had sunk into my feet! He didn't change his expression at all. Looking real serious. Then he said "It's clear, why don't you quit?" I never forgot that feeling waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I quit three weeks later. Absolutely the easiest thing I have ever done. I was ready to quit between the ears. Never had a craving or anything. Its been over 20 years and sometimes I still dream I am smoking, wierd.
Get it in your mindset. You are the ruler of your body, not some rolled up vegetation. In just one week, you will feel much better. You'll know your on your way when you notice how good food starts to tastes.
Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
not for everybody, but it worked for me.
my wife said i was an animal for 3 mos. but i dont remember it that way.
still have my last opened pack of cigs sitting in front of me on my computer desk.
one of my favorite trophies!
lots of luck, i know you can do it.
barto
the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
A friend had this treatment and now does not even crave cigarettes,
It is guaranteed to work.
They give you a mild sedative, then two shots right into the carotid arteries, and an injection in the arm, this blocks the nerve receptors, therefore no craving, your told to go home and go to bed for a good nights sleep, and when you wake up in the morning your will be no longer smoking, and you wont even crave it.
The cost is 400.00 but most insurance companies will accept it.
Check with your Doctor about this proceedure.
LR
Have Gun, will travel
Good luck!
This worked for me but it was definately NOT by design.
The day my daughter was born in 1990 I had the flu and didn't feel like smoking. Couldn't smoke at home because of my young son and couldn't smoke at work due to a "smoke-free" building rule. After about three days, I had recovered but thought, "Let's see how long I can go." Made it about three weeks. Decided (with logic only an addict can follow) that I could control the urge and that I could have a cigarette occasionally. Bought a pack of Camel plain ends and lit up. Within five minutes my head was spinning and I was nauseated. It occurred to me that I was clearly past the physical craving and that the whole desire for a cigarette was purely in my head. Quit then for good. But that must've been the 10th time I made a serious attempt. Had quit for up to six months before. Don't know why I started again or why quitting worked the last time.
I used to say to myself as I lit a cigarette; "Just look at yourself dodging the issue at hand instead of facing it squarely. You should have enough strength of character to handle it without delay". This combination did it for me, not tapering off or picking bad brands. At parties I had as many as three cigarettes going at a time.
Cigarettes were $.33-$.34 a pack then and I was up to 2 1/2 packs a day.
Gino
thanks again,
todd
stop=live
smoke=dead
get it,
got it,
GOOD.
this was about 30+ years ago.
It worked for him because he is now 89 and crochity as ever.
Remember,"your woman may not find you handsome, But atleast she'll find ya handy". I love that show..............
wish me luck
todd
I've been there and done that. Take it from me if you don't quit now you are going to pay the price later. Use any product that you think helps but when it's all done it will be your determination and will power that does it. I think that if a person says they are going to try to quit they are whipped before they start. If you want to quit, quit. It will drive you about half nuts but nobody but you will know that. Make it look like the easyist thing you ever did. Your family and friends will be amazed that you are that tough and made it look so easy. Take it from me beer and coffee can be drank without a cigarette and they still hit the spot. However, I about beat my chest to a pulp before I learned you can drive a tractor without smoking. Hang in there and good luck. If you can get past the first week you whipped it.
You're tough, you can do it!
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AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
To the stars through difficulties
That was the trick for me.
Just enought nicotine to take the edge off.
Then weaned myself off of them.
I had watched my dad die of lung cancer, but still joked to all my hunting buddies about how we would lose all the Marlboro freebies if we quit.
Then, when my first grand daughter was born.......My daughter put it this way
if you want to see the baby, you can't smoke in or around our house; and we won't be coming to yours.
It really "Pi$$ed" me off, but then a reality check said-do it!!
Been off for 6 years.
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Used the gum - still do, more than I should, but figure it's not half as bad as smoke. When the craving got real bad, I'd brush my teeth & go for a walk until it passed. The first time I *really* quit (then I re-married, which killed that!), I kept a "trophy pack" which proved my downfall in falling off the wagon. This time, I made sure threw everything out - and still found packs in old jackets, tackle boxes, the like. I think I was more stressed about not being able to smoke or not having smokes available than I was about going a few hours without one. Several others have alluded to some sort of isolation, and I would emphasize that. Cooperative person that I am, most every time I did quit for a few days, some 'helpful' self-righteous prig would give me a lecture about how evil I was to have even started smoking - or something in that vein - and p*** me off so badly, I'd find something to light up just so I could blow smoke in their face. I also used a punching bag quite a bit the first few months. I'd used cigarettes for a substitute for a hot temper for too many years and had to have some outlet for that. Discovered over time, I mellowed out (some) naturally. I did try the patches, briefly, had allergic reaction on my skin.
It's a witch, but if I can do it, I figure a normal person can - but it's entirely up to you. Mind over tobacco, as it were.
If you or k.stanonik wish any support, I'll do what I can. And I promise not to lecture!!!! I still allow people to smoke in my house & in my presence - been in their shoes and refuse to treat them like second class citizens.
I did quit coffee for a few weeks.
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todd