How do I stop smoking?

[blacjac]

This is what did it for me after smoking 30 a day for about 9 years (anywhere between 60 & 100 a day if I went out at night).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_...rds=allen+carr


I read 2 of them, but can't remember which 2, sorry.....


I think it's all about finding what works for you. I had tried gum / patches / inhalers & stuff but for me it was these books that worked. However as some above have posted, I know people who quit using gum and these books made absolutely no sense to...

[cojak]

I've heard that if you wear a rubber band around your wrist and 'twang' it instead of reaching for the fag packet it helps.

I've no idea how though...

[OwlHoot]

Try snuff

(although you'll get through quite a few tissues and may get cancer of the nose instead of the lungs)

[Gravy Train]

If you smoke, the odds are that one day you will get Cancer and die from it, and believe me, that's not a very nice way to go.


Harsh but true. Think about that next time you're puffing away.


It worked for me - when i found out my aunty was dying from Cancer i went from a 15-20 a day habit to nothing overnight. I drank a bottle of Cognac(!)until i was ill. Next day i still felt too ill to smoke and that was the first time i'd been a morning without a cigarette. I stopped overnight. I was a pain in the ass for about a month but after that it got better. I still think about the act of smoking and probably always will and i reckon giving up smoking was one of my biggest achievements in life!!!

[conned tractor]

emphysema did it for me. I am 32.

Try getting a past HR for a permie job when declaring that.

[Durbs]

They gave me nightmares too.

They do that to me too! Not always nightmares but whenever i wear one at night its always bizarre really vivid dreams without fail.

[BoredBloke]

Me and the wife gave up at the same time. I don't really think that either of us really thought the other could do it but we had an agreement that if one started smoking then the other would also. Neither of us cracked. I did it cold turkey as I wasn't a huge smoker - unless I was out on the beer. My wife smoked more than me and I got her patches (I worked at GSK and could get them for 4 quid instead of the 17 Tescos wanted for them - before they were allowed on prescription). My mother in law was a serious smoker and must have been about 50 a day and she gave up by being hynotised. None of us have had a cig - for me the last one was back in 2004. I often think about having one but don't, especially as I'm in a place where smoking is still allowed in bars.

The a craving I used to get was on the A40. There is a speed camera as you approach the Greenford flyover and I used to light up there as I knew that I'd be able to finish my cig by the time I got to the gates at work. Once I stopped smoking my hand would itch as I got to the camera. It took a while for that to go.

[Coalman]

I stopped 10 years ago - just realised that - wahey!

I had all my wisdom teeth out at once and the doctor told me smoking with four gaping wounds in the mouth was not a good idea (not sure on the medical truth on this but being told after coming too in a hospital it sinks in!). In addition my wife (then gf) would have to reach for her asthma inhaler every time I lit up at home - did not want to lose her.

Still had a few cigars over the next 6 months but managed to stop them as well.

I occasionally get a craving but willpower rules supreme.

[Francko]

I tried with gums in the past but it never worked. It worked 3 months ago just by quitting cold turkey. I still cannot see how putting nicotine in your body could help you quitting. I think they are just a marketing product and our mind rationalise them as needed but in reality they are not. The physical addiction to nicotine is nothing, your body clears your nicotine in 3 days but even on the first day you hardly really have any physical pain from its absence. It's all mental and for this reason I cannot see how nicotine assumption can really help, if not from a mental point of view. As a matter of fact you still miss a cigarette after 6 months or 6 years and that is certainly not a physical problem.

[Gonzo]

I think that the most useful information for the next generation that is obvious from this thread is that all smokers wish that they had never started.