Quitting Smoking

[ci5ic]

I've been a smoker for about 10 years now, and it's time I got rid of this habit. I'm just curious what methods/products other people have used to quit. Any suggestions?

[Amish_kid]

Damn I remember something begining with a Z zantrex??? All I know is it's pretty good since if you start taking it the smell of smoke basically makes you sick and if you smoke while your using it you most likely will.

[benny27]

I have smoked for about 5 years and I have tried the gum once and did not work one bit I steal would smoke even when I had the gum in my mouth

but I did not relay try to hard at all to stop

[ci5ic]

Originally Posted by benny27

I have smoked for about 5 years and I have tried the gum once and did not work one bit

Yeah... that shit never stays lit.

I don't wanna do any kind of prescription stuff.

I think the chemical addiction won't be hard to handle, it's just having something to do all the time and I won't be able to do it.

[Amish_kid]

Start smokin' drugs atleast that way you get something out of it. Another thing about having something to do just make models or wood work or knit something?

[YogsVR4]

A couple guys here at work took up jogging at the same time they cut smoking (cold turkey) and they haven't smoked since. Its been almost a year now so I'd say its working.

[ci5ic]

Originally Posted by Amish_kid

Start smokin' drugs atleast that way you get something out of it. Another thing about having something to do just make models or wood work or knit something?

Well, I quit smoking herb about 3 years ago because it started giving me bad panic attacks, so I'll never go back to that, and there aren't any other drugs out there that I'm about to get into. Plus, I've got tons and tons of hobbies, so I'm not lacking for something to do really, it's just that whenever I'm doing anything, I'm in the habit of taking smoke breaks.

Plus, I drink quite a bit, and when I drink, the urge to smoke is that much greater. It'd be really tough for me to be at a bar without smoking. Plus, when you're a smoker, you hang out at the smoking section at work or school or whatever, and before you know it, you're friends with the other people that hang out at the smoking section, and pretty soon, all of your friends are smokers. It's tough to be around it all the time.

[ci5ic]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

A couple guys here at work took up jogging at the same time they cut smoking (cold turkey) and they haven't smoked since. Its been almost a year now so I'd say its working.

That's something I would really considder. Either that or, any time I've got an urge to smoke, go do a bunch of push-ups or lift weights or something. I think that would be a good idea because, not only would I not be smoking, I'd be doing something relatively healthy as well.

[Steel]

Zyban is what it's called, for that prescription. That's probably my only hope.

[Jay!]

California Smokers' Helpline

Consumer Tobacco Cessation Index

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[verno]

I to smoked for about 10 years. I've tried cold turkey, and being hypnotized which neither worked at all. The only sucess I had was with the patch. Even with that said and done I haven't had a smoke in about 6 months, I could still light one up right now if I had em on me. Even if I smell it, I still get a small urge to burn one. What sux is it will prolly be like that for the rest of my life. My ma quit for 40 years and she even got the urge to have a cig when I used to smoke around her.

[boingo82]

My husband (who had smoked for 8 years) quit 3 years ago when we started dating. It was a combination of simultaneously running out of cig. money AND spending every waking hour in my company. We worked together at a telemarketing place (since been shut down by the FBI!! long story.) and EVERYBODY else in the building smoked. So just leaving the building on breaks helped a LOT because he wasn't smelling everyone else's smoke.
He has had a few relapses (all related to being around generous smokers) but none in the past year.
I have not been there myself but what I've read is that first, analyze the situations that you smoke in (stress, an excuse for a break at work, etc) and try to either avoid the situation or replace the smoking w/ another behavior.
I read one story in Reader's Digest about a guy who did this, and found that he smoked when:
a. he was stressed at work and needed a break.
b. he needed something to do with his hands.
c. he was self-conscious.
His replacement behaviour was that he went and bought a portable calculator. Every time he wanted to smoke he'd pull out the calculator and start punching in figures. It gave him something to do with his hands, and at work everyone assumed he was super-smart and solving all kinds of problems.

[Shortbus]

I have smoked for over 10 years, and about a year ago I quit cold turkey. I tried all the other shit (before trying cold turkey), patches, pills, gum, ect. None of it seemed to work for me, I guess to quit smoking you really just have to WANT to quit. You have to approach it mind over matter, well I am sorry to say with all the recent shit in my life mainly the divorce I started smoking again and now all of those familiar annoyances are back, I wake up coughing in the morning, get short of breath, can't breath through my nose as well anymore, allergies are coming back, food doesn't taste as good, ect. But for the time being I don't really want to quit just yet. Like Mike I enjoy my smoke break "again" while at work or tinkering around in the garage, and I drink beer and smoking and drinking goes hand in hand for me.

[Jay!]

Phillip Morris's page on the subject:

http://www.pmusa.com/health_issues/q...ource=home_fca