Has anybody here quit smoking

[knightstalker]

I am trying to quit smoking and cant seem to go more than half a day before i breakdown and go buy some..I was just wondering if you could tell me how you did it .How hard it was..I thought the price would help but i always seem to find enough in my budget to include them..Anyway any suggestions would help ..

 

[SexyChele]

You will find several people here have kicked the habit, myself included.

I used the patches - back when they were by prescription only and cost a fortune! I really didn't want to quit, I made a deal with my doctor that I would give them a try. I figured I would do his little patchie deal, and then go right back to smoking and tell him it just didn't work. 2 1/2 months into the patches, I was sick of getting sick. (the patches do make some lightheaded, queasy, vivid dreams, sleeplessness - mostly withdrawal symptoms) I went off of the patches and discovered to my complete amazement that I no longer wanted to smoke.

If you do the patches, you must follow the instructions. Don't use them as a "crutch", putting one only in places where you can't smoke and then removing it so you can smoke. They aren't for everyone, granted, but they worked for me. I quit on July 14, 1993, and haven't smoked since then.

Good luck. It can be a tough habit to kick!

 

[*ladylove*]

I quit smoking for eight months a few years ago. Then started back up again. This morning I dropped them again. Reason: I can't breathe when i walk up the stairs and its PISSING ME OFF!

And for me, getting mad at the fact that something has a hold on me, most definitely helps. That and suckers, gum, pens, pencils, whatever else i can sink my teeth into or wrap my lips around. Making it through the nicotine withdrawals is the hardest part, today's headache just finally went away.

WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[Rubyfruit]

Several times.

I need to do it for good soon. It's really effecting my breathing.

 

[Ezzy]

Stopping buying them is always a good start...

I went cold turkey and quit in Feb this year, as I have smoked since I was about 11 that is enough years of smoking to preserve me for decades to come.

I have fallen off twice since, once I bummed a couple of cigeretes from a waitress, the other time I actually bought a pack.

I still breath deeply when someone lights a fresh smoke near me, I can't help doing it even though that gives enough nicotine to make my head spin.

The only thing to do that I have found helps is to have the reason to quit so deeply ingrained in you, that even if you fail 20 times you will still go back and try again to quit.

Keep at it if you can, try the patches the gum and reducing slowly till you don't want to keep going.

Just don't quit on the quiting.




EZ

 

[GuyJD]

I've been smoking cigars since I was in the Navy (20 yr. old) in 1982. It was just a habit that I picked up. When my father passed away, ironically from smoking, my habit increased along with drinking. I left New Orleans for California in 1999 and smoked my last cigar. Since I moved to Cali, I'm smoked just one cigar 2 weeks ago and lost all interests for them.
At the rate of my habit a couple of years ago, I thought that I was going to need a long nicotine bandage to mummisize myself with in order to quit.

 

[kiwiwolf]

I gave up for 18 months a couple of years back before being put back on the smokes by my doctor.

I did it cold turkey but with a few aids and props. I found that after day three my nicotine craving was minimalized, but the problem of what to do with my hands, was raging. To counter this I used an empty smoke packet filled with carrot and celery sticks, cut to cigarette length.

This way you kill two birds with one grenade. The eating urge is satisfied without you piling on shitloads of weight, and your hands are kept occupied. Also when the cravings got too bad, I would have a smoke after the first three weeks. It usually happened when I was out on the town. One cigarette after three weeks without, tasted like shit, and I would usually stub it out after 2 puffs. It got to the stage that I was having one smoke every 2-3 months, and hating it.

It worked for me.

 

[shescurious]

I quit January 9, 1999 using Nicoderm CQ. It worked great for me. I recommend chewing gum and sucking on nipples.. Oh I mean suckers. LOL
Keep trying the average smoker tries to quit at least three times before actually quitting.
Good Luck

 

[bluespoke]

I was sitting working at a very early home PC when I ran out of cigarettes. It was early evening and I couldn't be bothered to go and get more, I would leave it till the morning. Morning arrived, it was the day the Chancellor announced his budget and cigarettes were bound to go up. I thought 'fuck it' I won't buy any more.

I didn't. That was twenty years ago. Despite the fact that I had been smoking for about sixteen years before, I was one of the lucky ones, no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. If there had been, who knows what my reaction would have been.

My only advice to someone giving up now would be to persevere, be bloody minded and use every friend you have (including those here) as a crutch to help. If you need a cigarette, speak to a friend and have them talk you out of it. If they are truly a friend they won't mind if its 2 am. Just don't give in. It only takes one to get you back on the smokes.

And heaps of good luck.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I gave up for a few months a few years ago. I added an extra hour between each one and got it down that way........ Then I got all tubby and that just an't me.... so I started again and got slim.....

 

[Harbinger]

Do It!

Hang in there, I gave the damned things up last spring, and it's only gotten easier. Don't give up. As much as possible, stay away from smokers and places where you used to smoke! At least for the short term. Don't buy any and don't borrow any! If you slip, THROW THEM AWAY as soon as sanity returns, preferably by breaking them up into little pieces and then pissing all over them.

That way the time it takes to dig them out of the trash, dry them out in the oven, and handroll them will give you time to think, "WHAT IN THE HELL AM I DOING???"

 

[pdx39]

A Few tips

You can buy Nicotine gum and patches on E-bay for 50-70% less than store prices. I chew gum most of the time, but still buy a few packs each month. I never buy two packs in a row and take Zyban to help reduce cravings.

 

[Moridin187]

I've been smoking for 7 years now...

I've tried to quit a total of 9 times, one time I managed to quit for almost a year, but then one day I got really pissed off at my mother and started again. I'm currently using the gum and trying to quit, and I'm down to about half a pack a day of Camel Filters, last year I was smoking four packs a day of Camel Nonfilters, so I think I'm doing fairly good. Most of my friends encourage me NOT to quit, I tend to be quite an asshole when I'm suffering withdrawl. Also, I'm so nicotine dependant that going more than 2 hours without any nicotine puts me into a deep lethargy, I lose the ability to think clearly or speak coherently, I can barely walk. All around, I'm quitting because these things have such power over me, and I'm sick of the misery I go through when I can't get one.

 

[Mellon Collie]

I quit for like two months once and I think that's the longest I ever lasted. I have cut back significantly though, I'm down to a pack of Newport 100s a day. Before I was like two and a half packs of regulars a day so I'm pretty proud of myself.

 

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[Sassy7]

I quit cold turkey about 12 years ago. I had tried for many years before that to quit, but always went back after a few days or so. I even smoked after my mother died from lung cancer. It took my not being able to breath without my chest hurting, not being able to climb stairs and my doctor telling me that if I did not quit soon I would not live very long for me to finally quit. I think everyone reaches a certain point that is right for them to quit. Thankfully, I was able to just stop and did not use anything, no patches or medication. I just threw my cigarettes away and never had another. I also was lucky, did not gain alot of weight afterwards like my sister did.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I quit for both pregnancies, right through breastfeeding. As soon as that was over, I was smoking again.

I don't have any breathing problems, and i've been smoking for 16 years. I also don't have 'nic fits' if i go an entire day or even week without smoking, it doesn't bother me. but i truly love to smoke.

 

[Moridin187]

I quit for both pregnancies, right through breastfeeding. As soon as that was over, I was smoking again.

I don't have any breathing problems, and i've been smoking for 16 years. I also don't have 'nic fits' if i go an entire day or even week without smoking, it doesn't bother me. but i truly love to smoke.

You're a good mom pcg, please tell me you try to avoid smoking around the little ones as much as possible...

My mom smoked while I was in uetero, and my parents have smoked around me all my life. It was to the point where I could come home after school and I'd walk in the house and it would be like a fog, everywhere. So, I've got asthma, chronic bronchitis and all my silia are burnt out.

I absolutely refuse to smoke in a room with a pregnant woman or child.

 

[Calamity Jane]

You're a good mom pcg, please tell me you try to avoid smoking around the little ones as much as possible...

Thank you.

Yes, I don't smoke indoors, except in my office upstairs with the window open (and it's cooooolllllddddd tonite!)... I smoke in the car if it's a long trip, but not often. I figure smoking is my choice, and I shouldn't inflict it on them anymore than necessary.

My mother smokes so much that you can see the smoke hanging in the air when you walk into the house. Grosses me out.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

I am giving up and I am strong until now but I fear the Christmas stress may overpower me I will be stronger, yes

 

[carrie-on]

Nothing like the pleas of a five year old "Mommy, don't smoke! I want you to be my Mommy for a LONNNNNGGGGGG time!!"
I quit in 1980, and now she smokes. I have been teaching her son to do the same thing to her,that she did to me. PESTER,PESTER,PESTER !!