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Good Luck more4me, its a tough road that takes alot of hard work. I am down to 3 smokes a day, why I can’t stop those 3, I don’t know. I have not used anything but will power to stop. I started by eliminating the places I allowed smoke and am down to outside on my little deck and I tell you…it’s getting darn cold there! lol
The first few days are the hardest, but after a few you start to feel like you got a 3rd lung and I think that alone encourages one to keep going.
Whatever you do….don’t give up the fight, it is worth it! ummm, try chewing toothpicks, they have no calories and keep you busy.
Best of Luck!
I allowed smoke and am down to outside on my little deck
Can I join you?:inlove: This is going to be one of the toughest things I have ever done in my life. I know to some, it may seem like nothing but, it is one hell of a tough addiction. Beat narcotics easier.
Yes, that was an earlier thread that I chose to stay out of. Only for the fact that I woke up one day and decided, that was it. Never went back since. 26 years clean!:hattip:
Hey more4me
A friend of mine read a book that made him throw a full pack away and he has never touched them since. His girlfriend too.
I’ve messaged him asking what the book was called. He has been smoking for about 15 years so if it helped him it may help you. Will get back to you when he tells me
Good luck!
Hey Renee,
Would certainly appreciate any info you have. Although, I cannot understand how a book could help your friend quit unless of course, it contained graphic images of what smoking can do. I’ve seen what it did to my Mom and it was horrific. I was with her when she took her last breath. IF you could even call it a breath. I have nightmares constantly. That is why I don’t sleep much. You would think I would have quit then. But, right after Mom went, her Mom, my Gram (95) got real sick and she went. Was too much stress to give up my “crutch” at that time.
I am looking to give up my crutch and hopefully find some friends to lean on instead of smoking. It’s gonna be a long hard road but one I have made the decision to travel.
@Renee 138356 wrote:
Hey more4me
A friend of mine read a book that made him throw a full pack away and he has never touched them since. His girlfriend too.
I’ve messaged him asking what the book was called. He has been smoking for about 15 years so if it helped him it may help you. Will get back to you when he tells me
Good luck!
The book I bet is by Allen Carr – I know a lot of people that read his book and stopped – It isn’t magic or anything it simply takes you through the steps and educates you about how illogical smoking is. It sounds like common sense but although I didn’t stop immediately after reading the book I use a lot of what he said to help now (On my 11th week).
I stopped in July after so many attempts, the ban in the UK helped loads because you aren’t tempted by others smoking around you plus I just decided it was time, that and a bet with my g/f that she has to go skiiing if I stop. There was several times I nearly smoked in the first few weeks (mainly when I was out at a bar or party) and thankfully my smoking friends refused to give me one which I was really happy about in the morning.
I am on the gum and find it helps loads – It doesn’t stop you wanting a ciggerette but take the edge of it and stops me going crazy!! :crazy: Just use things for motivation, whether it be the fact your cough will go, you won’t have to stand out side or your mum, keep that in your mind all the time when you are tempted.
Good luck!!
I smoked for 16 years and was always reasonably healthy. But as you get older so the ailments start creeping in. Runny nose, colds, flu etc. I was lying in bed one night reading a book, when all of a sudden my heart started to beat very fast. This lasted a few minutes and then my heart rate returned to normal. This happenned several times over the next few days. This was my wake up call.
I had tried in the past to give up smoking using patches, chewing gum etc. without long term success. This time I went cold turkey without any “crutches”. I also started to exercise at the same time and eventually joined my local gym. It has been three years now that I have stopped.
Benefits are numerous: Lot more healthy, lot more energy, sex life has improved, don’t smell like an ash-tray. Money saved on smokes and medication.
You have to really want to give up. No excuses. Picture the long term benefits. They really are worth it. Looking back I realise that smoking was a crutch for a lot of personal issues as well.
Go for it, I wish you the best.
Today is my … third day without a nicoderm patch, after about 6 weeks WITH the patch! I used to talk a lot.. now I NEVER shut up.. Day one.. you should see the message I posted here on CAP.. It got moderated.. it was that bad..
I don’t see my kids real often lately either .. hrmm
Anyway .. here’s some bright points for you.. feel free to PM me, I seem to have lots to say..
Just ask my business partner, whom I try to keep on the phone for as many hours as possible lately 
1. I have SOOOOOOO much more energy. I can’t sit still, I asked my husband when do you think I’ll be back to normal!
he said.. you’ve smoked your entire adult life, maybe this is normal .. (so reason 1a. A clean house, and tons of completed projects! )2. Taste, stuff tastes sooo good, is it fair that quitting smoking gives you the munchies as it is? Then everything tastes sooo much better!
3. Smell.. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.. but my sense of smell has gotten soooo much stronger! I think baking lots of bread, which should go well with step 2 is good for making this a benefit and not a con.
4. Clean Air.. Clean Lungs.. Clean Clothes.. Clean Hair!
5. Winter is coming man, it’s cold outside!
6. No ashtray mouth, which is the reason I have stayed quit.. every time I want a cigarette.. I dream about them.. I think … but it’s gunna taste sooo gross! (damn those newly alert taste buds anyway
)Of course there’s the usual stuff, like not killing people with second hand smoke, not smelling up the environment, not getting lung cancer, or mouth cancer, or throat cancer.. your house won’t stink and neither will your car..
Then there’s the MONEY! I love money! I have kids, so money is never mine.. it’s always theirs. I made a deal (with me..
) I used to smoke .. A LOT! now.. I get to keep half of what i would have spent on cigarettes anyway, and do something .. frivolous.. like pedicures.. or movies.. or just whatever, waste it.. nothing to show for it.. MY MONEY!I am saving somewhere between 5 and 15 dollars EVERY DAY!
Walking, doing lots of walking, exercise, etc.. going to the gym A LOT more, because I’ve found.. I’m rather bitchy lately (sorry Rob
.. and Steve.. and errr Professor.. War.. Insert Name here.. ) when I get pissed off, I have taken to grabbing my tennis shoes instead of a cigarette.. more fulfilling anyway really..Anyway those are some of my reasons, wish me luck, I’ll wish you luck
and you can feel free to do some of your bitching in my PM box You can do it. If thousands of people quite smoking every day then so can you. You’ve got to tell yourself that and believe it because it’s the truth.
You have to want to quit, and stop making excuses to yourself as to why you can’t quit. Deep down everyone knows there are no negatives to quitting, only plusses. So it’s only the addicition keeping you smoking.
I quit nearly 2 years ago now and its the best thing I ever did. You don’t realise how unhealthy it is until a few weeks after when you feel so much better in every respect.
I tried the patches, but they didn’t work, and I tired the gum as well, but I didn’t like them. I found that the lozenges (I tried Nicorette lozenges) worked well, on 4mg, then reducing to 2mg after a month, and then down to 1mg until you feel you can live without them. But everyone is different.
The first 2 weeks are hard, and you might feel worse before you start feeling better while your body gets rid of all the toxins stored from your smoking. But after that, you start getting your smell back and smelling things which you had long forgotten, your sense of taste gets better, you don’t feel as much out of breath, you have more energy.
After the first 2 weeks or so it gets easier. If you tell yourself that you don’t want to smoke today, then the day passes and before you know it months have passed and youve successfully quit the habit.
I think the best way to quit smoking is to reverse the process. You didn’t just start smoking 50 ciggs a day it took 20 years to build up to that many so does it really matter if it takes 6 months to stop?
Take small steps to ramp down.
Become conscientious of where you bring your ciggs and start eliminating them, one by one over time. Short trips to the store, leave the ciggs at home, on the computer checking emails, ebay no ciggs, you get the idea.
Don’t try an eliminate too many places at once, pick a couple and just work on those, once those become the norm eliminate some more.
Hang in there!
I smoked 2 – 2 1/2 packs a day for over 20 years and I was hardcore. I told myself I really enjoyed smoking and wasn’t going to be bullied into quiting by the media or from pressure from non smokers.
I finally quit smoking eight years ago now and it was one of the best things I ever did. In my case it was a serious case of Pneumonia that nearly killed me that made me realize just how essential our lungs are and how unpleasent it was to not be able to breath.
While I was in the hospital on a respirator I obviously couldnt smoke, I asked the doctor to put me on the patch and he agreed. This helped. When I got out of the hospital two weeks later I had already gone through any withdrawel anxiety and the patches were working. I decided to stick with it.
My youngest daughter had just been born and I sensed that if I didnt quit smoking and abusing myself she might not ever know me. So another motivational tool for me was the desire to spend as much time as I could with my family and friends before I checked out.
As previously noted the benefits of quiting are huge. Anyone of even average intelligence can grasp all the positives. But quiting really doesnt boil down to an intellectual choice. It has to be an internal committment. You have to really WANT to stop and you have to be ready to do whatever it takes to get over the hurdle. Once you do that its not as hard as you might think. The patch or gum helps but ultimately the cure lies within you.
More4me please promise us you wont smoke again without at least talking to us and waiting for two or more responses. Friends can help and if you can make it through even 10 minutes the urge to light up will pass. So take advantage of the former smokers here and lets get you through this.
I stopped in Dec 05 I just tossed them out of a car window one day and said I am done! My late husband past away a few months after that and I realized I had to be around to take care of my 4 kids and that is the only thing that kept me from picking up another cig believe me…lol
I do think if you keep your fingers busy it helps, like sunflower seeds it gives you a way to use your fingers when you get that itch…lol If you make it past a week or so your in the clear but my thoughts are you have to want to quit and you have to make your mind up that your the one in control not the damn cigs!
Good luck to you!!
My doctor did prescribes me Wellbutrin XL for 3 months. It works for me. The doc. said that the gum and patch can also be addictives and many people, who stop smoking, keep taking nicorette long after the program ended.
Hi,
I have little reason to preach. i still smoke but before I got in trouble for growing pot …. I was down to 5 a day.
enough background. here’s the thing that worked for me.
I once woke up in such bad shape I had to crawl to the car to go to a chiropractor….. (however its spelled).
he fixed me …. but the best thing he did for me was to say that urges …. smoking …etc….. all last about 2 min.
if you can find a way to get past that 2 min …. you have beaten the urge until the next time. that’s how I got down to 5 a day.
when you feel the urge. find another “something” to take your mind off the urge. i did it cold turkey although admittedly only got down to 5 a day. now I smoke like a chimney but fully expect once off legal issues …. to again start my plan to quit.
I wish you best and will add you to my prayers.
I smoked for a bit over 21 years and quit July 3 1993.
It was close to the toughest things I have ever done.
First, it helps to realize that you are quitting because it is something that YOU WANT to do…no one is forcing you.
Keep telling yourself this and give yourself positive reinforcements about why you have made the decision to stop, you know it better for you etc etc…(like many of the reason posted in the thread so far)
Also, drink lots of water…..waaay more than you normally do, take a really good muti-vitamin….and stay away from additional spices if possible for a week or so.
If it’s reasonable, excercise a little more for the week also.
If you need to, chew on straws, toothpicks or something similar…it helps get over the idea of need something in your mouth/lips a bit.
Stay out of bars or smoke filled environments for a bit if it’s possible…if not, become really resolved to do it….
…and remember YOU CHOSE TO QUIT…and YOU CAN do anything you set your mind to.
Rick
Universal4I am not a smoker but I saw a story on the internet about the benefits of when you quit smoking right away and down the line… Here is the article/image: http://www.healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/smoking_timeline_2070x1530.gif
Good Luck!
