| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/13/2009 12:04:18 PM |
When I quit smoking I also gave up alcohol and caffeine. Two other addictive substances. I didn't like the kind of influence these substances had over me. To deal with the fidgeting and busy hands syndrome I chewed gum and spent a lot of time typing in forums. :-)
Give up coffee? BLASPHEMY!!!
But yeah,if you're gonna give up smoking,you also have to give up the other addictions.
One of the greatest moments in life is to sit at Starbucks on a nice weekend morning with a cup of coffee,a cigarette,and a newspaper.....BLISS!  | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/15/2009 9:56:06 AM | Get on a rich cardio program where you have to breathe heavily. It'll purge the tar from your lungs AND help burn the fat that quitting smoking will incur.
Happily, I tried smoking, but never got hooked, 'cuz I couldn't stand the stink in my breath, skin, hair and clothes. Maybe THAT'll be a motivator too-! | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/15/2009 8:05:08 PM | | I smoked on and off for a few years, I still get cravings today but I manage to ignore them. | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/17/2009 1:49:27 PM | | I agree w/ Jaxi. Don't make it a big deal and take it one day at a a time. For me, one day I just got tired of not being able to breath, smelling like smoke, etc., and just quit. Can't even remember what day I quit. It just happened. Before long a month passed and I couldn't allow myself to not quit. | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/29/2009 8:49:28 AM | I'm a little over a month into quitting using the Chantix. It's free through my health insurance, which is good because it can be quite pricey!
I like it because it gives me the space to redirect myself when I experience a trigger. When something triggers the urge to smoke, i just literally think, ok, what else can I go do? Other methods have never given me that room to think around the addiction. Plus in the end that is what you have to do, learn to manage stress in a more healthy fashion than lighting up a smoke.
It's definitely not a drug for everyone. One of my girlfriends really did badly on it and all the horror stories you hear in the news are quite true if it affects you that way.
For myself, I have really cool dreams on it, and use that as part of my reward for not smoking.
Good Luck Quitting!
Brat | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/29/2009 10:47:58 AM | | What I did to quit smoking was use camel snus. At work I was always surrounded by people who smoked at least 2-3 cigarettes during their 15 minute break and it always made it hard until I heard about snus. Now if I ever get the urge to smoke I just pop one into my mouth and it really does take the edge off. Now I don't have any urges and I completely quit smoking and taking snus. It actually tastes pretty good and (though bad for your teeth) actually did help me quit. It's not nearly as expensive as the gum or prescriptions either (for me it was like 4.83 for 15 pouches). I hope this helps! :D | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 8/30/2009 1:13:55 PM | | Snus is just a different form of tobacco use. Might as well chew tobacco, for all the good it'll do. Tobacco is tobacco, and if you look up usage in countries with lots of access to snus, it shows that their smoking rates are not lower. I think if you are going to quit smoking, you really need to quit tobacco altogether. It can be done, but it's not easy. Otherwise you are just substituting one addiction for another, and what's the point of that? | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 9/3/2009 8:09:04 PM | Thank you all for this thread.
In my profile I did make it known that I didn't want to meet smokers because I was trying to quit and even as a smoker, it defeats my purpose. And as a smoker, I never liked being in smoky places unless it was a bbq or a camp fire. I deleted that from my profile. I think I'll put it back up.
I only smoke at smoke at home, outside and am preparing myself for my quit day. I don't smoke when I am out with non smokers and it doesn't bother me. This past week when I consciously made that effort to not smoke all day, I felt this amazing anxiety in my tummy/diaphragm area. It was really quite scary. I have never felt like that before . . . is that withdrawal? The last time I quit, I didn't feel anything and I stopped for a year and then where I worked, there were smokers and I started again.
And yes it does stink. . .where I use to live, I would visit a friend of mine and he would smoke in his house. I couldn't stand the smell on my clothes and in my hair so I would shower every time I would come home from his place and put my clothes in a tied plastic bag until wash day. I never went to visit him very much.
My question to those of you who have already stopped and are doing cold turkey, what did you do to curb those anxious withdrawal symptoms? | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 10/24/2009 1:13:16 PM | Just an update. I went through the program I described in my first post and loved every minute of it. The counseling helped me learn a lot about myself and the anxiety that is associated with smoking. I have learned how to control the anxiety and smoking was not "calming" me in the least.
Although it won't sound like much time, I am now 3 days into "smoke free" and feel very good about it. Get the cravings, but it's like a wave and I know I can control it and it will pass.
Best of luck to everyone who makes that decision to finally quit. I have smoked for a long time and I truly was ready. | |
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| Quitting smoking
Posted: 10/24/2009 6:49:35 PM | | i quit smoking on 23 November 2005 its goin to be 4 year . i was thinking of quiting b4 bt nvr had a chance it was 2 am in the morning me and my mates whr smokin enjoying i said to them this is my last cigerat after taht nevr had a cgrt ....it all depens on ur will power how strong u r .it all in ur head . | |
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