| | How did you successfully give up smoking?Page 1 of 4 (1, 2, 3, 4) | I did a thread serch on this but I couldn't find this same question.
If anyone knows of a thread the same as this then please post it and I'll ask fr this to be deleted.
So..as the title...if you ave given up and stuck with it..how did you do it?
What tips can you give?
Was there anything you used to get your mind off the craving which helped? | |
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AlmaM
| | Joined: 3/20/2008
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 4:55:50 AM | I gave up smoking last time when I was`pregnant and this was the only way for me 
Lasted for 5 years and I stupidly started again.
I did not have cravings.. nothing.. just imagining smoke getting into the baby's head really did it for me ... | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 4:56:40 AM | Well I haven't stopped completely yet but Im the closest I've ever been.
I've got so far and feeling confident about it by using nicotine chewing gum, and several times a day reminding me of all the reasons I want to stop. I also remind myself that the craving is not something I want, it's my body simply reacting to the lack of a drug it has had for many years. That kinda makes it less personal.
When I go out anywhere and I know I'll be a couple of hours, I take my chewing gum and leave the fags behind. Knowing I haven't got them on me was scary at first, but now it's becoming habit. It hasn't been as hard as I thought, but it's still not easy.
I'm looking forward to the day when I can put Non smoker on my profile. :) | |
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fugue
| | Joined: 5/7/2008
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:08:32 AM | I stopped buying them. you feel antsy for a few days but it passes.
Nicotine is a colorless, odorless, organic-based alkaloid in the same family as cocaine, morphine, quinine and strychnine. It is a super toxin, fetal teratogen and natural insecticide that was sold in the U.S. as Black Leaf 40. The lethal dose needed to kill a 160 pound human is 2-3 drops or about 60mg. Drop for drop it is more deadly than strychnine (75mg), diamond back rattlesnake venom (100mg), arsenic (200mg) or cyanide (500mg). Imagine 1mg of nicotine, the average amount delivered into the bloodstream by smoking just one cigarette, being sufficient to kill the largest rat you have ever seen (1-2 lbs.). Is it any wonder that a recent study suggests that nicotine gradually destroys brain gray matter?
http://whyquit.com is a great resource for stopping. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:14:43 AM | Easy...I never started.
But more seriously my mum was a heavy smoker for years and gave up many times for me and my brothers but always started again and didn't give up properly untill she did it for herself and because she wanted too.
Been of them now for about 14 years except for a 2 month period when she found out her dad died, the first she did was buy a pack of fags!! Good luck to anyone who is trying to give up. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:17:27 AM | | Its been about 13/14 years now since i quit.I tried cutting down but that didn,t last long.In the end after several attempts i just went cold turkey.The funny thing was that the times when i used to smoke more like 1st thing in the morning,were the times i found the easiest.I think a lot has to do with picking the right time for you and actually really wanting to quit.The only problem i had though was that i ate for England!Not cos i was hungrier not smoking, i think more to do with that hand to mouth action.As for tips, i think just keeping busy and finding something else to do with your hands Cleaning your teeth is supposed to help too when you get the craving. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:17:44 AM | Overkill.
I bought 200 back from abroad, and over a day and night sat and smoked myself stupid.
After last one threw away ashtrays lighter etc and have never been tempted since. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:29:03 AM | I gave up first time with an inhaler,then started again after i had been drinking.
I then gave up with patches,but again relapsed after a few drinks.
This time i just did it with will power,if i do have a cig after a beer i know that i dont need to have 1 the day after,even tho ive been out lots of times and been on holiday and still havnt had a cig so i think i may just have cracked it
I had promised my son tho this time,he had read on the packet that smoking causes cancer,and my dad died of cancer and he was so worried i had to do it for him. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 5:59:23 AM | I gave up the first time round with the gum and will power. That lasted about 3 months but I stupidly gave up the course early thinking I had beaten it and the cravings came back within a couple of days and the will power wasn't enough so that was that.
Second time round I tried Zyban but I don't think I was in the right place for giving up smoking then as I still wanted one just as much after 2 weeks of taking the course.. I have heard it does work though.. I guess it's just selective who on.
I'm now smoking roll ups for the main reason that they are a lot cheaper but funnily enough I have also started to ween myself of them naturally with out even thinking about it so I'm thinking about the gum again but this time with better thinking and better results... Not successful as of yet but fingers crossed. | |
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Keefys
| | Joined: 6/12/2008
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 6:19:26 AM | You've got to want to give up, and I mean really, really, REALLY want to give up. And you've got to do it for you, it's no good trying to give up because somebody wants you to. Don't be afraid to ask for help, get all of the help and advice that you can, use patches, gum, hypnosis... anything that will work for you, everybody is different. And if you do have a setback and don't make it first go, then that's all it is - a minor setback, learn from it and do it better next time!
Go and talk to a proper stop smoking practitioner for starters, your local GP or chemist will be more than willing to help, tailor any advice you get to something that you know will work for you. I actually found that the fear of giving up was worse than the reality! For years I convinced myself that giving up was too difficult. It isn't, it's not easy either but it is achievable and it gives you one hell of a personal lift when you do achieve it.
I made all of the mistakes first time I tried to give up. I tried giving up with somebody, I didn't get the proper advice, I tried to do it myself with few aids little support. I failed. Second time I *REALLY* wanted to, for me, on my own, so I registered with my local GP's stop smoking clinic and went for it. Within a month I had stopped, I had been a 30+ per day for 30+ years smoker, that was over two years ago now.
So that's my advice Blueskies. You've got to really want to, for you, don't be afraid to ask for and accept all the help and support out there, don't give up giving up - you will achieve it. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 6:29:05 AM | Started smoking again 2001 after not having a cigarette for years....I have chosen the hardest time for me to quit, as have been up and down with depression stress and anxiety for over a year..figured if I can stop now, then I can do anything else I want to do as well.
I went to quitters at local surgery 4 weeks ago..She gave me a course of pills (champix)to help as patches ,gum,etc were useless to me.
They give you a quit date..Mine was wednesday 6th August.
Had my last, final, cigarette the night before. Didnt really need it, just had it to empty the packet..Could have thrown it away instead but habits etc...
Not had one since.
I dont really think about them. Tell myself I can do without them..
I was told if instead of saying I have given up smoking, I say to myself, I dont really want one today, it makes it sound better, ;less final.
I dont really want one today..and will not want one tomorrow either.
Oh and aslo didnt take the tabs I was given..decided I didnt need them!!!
T | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 7:49:43 AM | I like that 'I don't really want one' thinking..I'm doing just that to cut down at the moment...it's working too.
Got myself booked into the next available course..got nothing to lose..bit nervous though! | |
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Keefys
| | Joined: 6/12/2008
Msg: 13 | |
| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 7:56:01 AM |
I like that 'I don't really want one' thinking..I'm doing just that to cut down at the moment...it's working too That's what I did  A trick that worked for me was to change my smoking habits, deliberately not smoke when and where I used to. I put my cigs in a specific place that I had to go to to get one, I went to a specific place to smoke it. Worked for me, it cut them down to the stage of "I might as well stop" and went a long way to breaking the habitual side of smoking. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 8:41:59 AM | I got a dose of the flu and was more concerned about breathing and keeping breathing than i was about a ciggy. After 6 days in bed, being only strong enough to throw up anything i tried to eat or drink, i lit a cigarette and thought my lungs would explode from coughing. Not touched them since. That was 16 years ago last january.And i was smoking 40 superkings a day.
And i dont miss them. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 12:20:58 PM | | Thats exactly what happened to me earlier this year!.The flue was that bad that when I had a fag,I went into a coughing spasm and could not breath,and I had sutch a scare that I decided I was'nt goint to do anything that stupid again,and I had smoked since I was 12 - FEAR is the best motive to stop,patches only help reduce the craveings. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 1:23:42 PM | | Spite ,my then husband decided to give up and then smoked my last cigarette, the one I was saving for the morning and I was so pissed off I stopped there and then. I went from 60 malboro to none. Spite is a great motivator | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/18/2008 3:43:41 PM |
.if you ave given up and stuck with it.
Surely one only ever gives up something once?
I've been a life-long smoker, but I will only truly stop smoking once everybody else stops doing it!
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-LIL-
| | Joined: 2/3/2007
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/21/2008 10:13:38 AM | After numerous attempts I evently went cold turkey. Didn't think I could do it, but hey 5 years on here I am. Also avoided alcohol as the two seemed to go together for me, thirdly took up a lot of exercise, boy did that clear the lungs.
It is definately worth it. No more stinky breath, crap skin, smelly hair, off coloured teeth, stinky clothes, chesty cough.
Good luck with your efforts. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/21/2008 11:17:35 AM | | i used to smoke between 40 and 60 fags aday ....it was pure fear that helped me give up .i had a stroke 2yrs ago ....i was very lucky girl and im almost better ....if you realey want to give up the fags visit a stroke unit in hospital ....im sure like me you will never smoke again ...big hugs ....joolsy x | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/21/2008 6:08:08 PM | | I'm currently trying to quit at the moment, finding the nicotine gum very handy, also a friend of mine quit a few months back really recommends "fresh start", not entirely sure what it entails (other than quitting smoking) but worked for him. Quite often as well these plans provide vouchers or something to knock some of the cost off the "quiting aids", which aren't exactly cheap themselves. | |
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| How did you successfully give up smoking?
Posted: 8/31/2008 3:56:16 AM |
Overkill.
I bought 200 back from abroad, and over a day and night sat and smoked myself stupid.
After last one threw away ashtrays lighter etc and have never been tempted since.
omg!!!!! in a day and a night 200? thats taking chain smoking to the extreme!!!!! lol
I have just bought a pouch of golden virginia, some filters, papers, and a machine to roll them, in an attempt to save money and cut down. Its working, I cant for the life of me roll the buggers, with the machine or by hand. If I carry on like this I will have to go back to the shop and buy a pack of 20.
any advice? arrrrrrrrrrrrrragggggggggggghhhhhhhhh | |
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geo47
| | Joined: 6/21/2006
Msg: 24 | |
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Lori 8
| | Joined: 6/27/2008
Msg: 25 | |
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