quit smoking?
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- ********0
err...
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* Nausea (30%)
* Sleep problems (trouble sleeping, changes in dreaming)
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- six0
- Projectile0
you just gotta develop a "HELL NO" attitude about it. so basically whether your buddy you quit with is having "just one" or it's your birthday or you've just shagged Kate Moss and she's having one, you've gotta just mentally scream "fucking hell just stop it!! fuck off!!!" to the little voice that starts dreaming up excuses. and just keep it up. forever. it gets a lot easier as you go.
seriously, i actually say those exact words in my head every time like an angry mantra. it works
- ali0
I gave up many years ago unfortunately it took death to help me.
I watched someone close to me at the young age of 40 die a slow and painful death from lung cancer leaving behind 4 children and a baby. I see smoking as slow suicide and it breaks my heart to see my family or friends deliberately hurting themselves. When I see someone smoking I see the image of this woman laying lifeless in her hospital death bed, her son sitting beside her, forsaken, holding her shrivelled skeletal hand asking 'why?'Make your decision once in this moment... if it is to quit then try this if you like, it worked for a friend of mine;
- Find a piece of paper and pen
- Write at the top:Today [insert date] I have made the decision to quit smoking I am doing this because...
[insert list of all the reasons you can think of why you want to quit]- After this write:
I [insert name] from this day forward promise to myself for the reasons above that I will no longer smoke cigarettes.
Signed faithfully,
[sign here]- Keep this piece of paper in your wallet and every time you feel like a smoke take it out and read it to remind yourself you have already made the decision.
Good luck and don't doubt yourself!
- mydo0
The single best reason i found, was that the beautiful buzz you get from a cigarette is the momentary feeling of not being addicted or craving nicotine. in other words, feeling like a non smoker.
so i started thinking....
"i smoke to feel like a non smoker?"
"what the fuck is the point in that?"
and then I stopped.
- ok_not_ok0
< 1 year smoke free today. Cold turkey and Allen Carr's audio book worked for me. When I was starting to quit, everytime I get cravings I listen to the last chapter. It's like having a buddy telling you that you stronger than the craving and explains to you what the cravings are. Hey it worked for me.
Now I became a running nut. I've gone through 4 running shoes since quitting smoking. GOODLUCK!
- Ambushstudio0
Cinnamon toothpicks
Everytime you feel like smoking pop one of those bastards on your pie hole.
- fyoucher10
Chantix. Worked immediately for me. I smoked for 17 years, pack and a half a day. The dreams were a trip, a good trip though. I think it may have messed my body's chemical balance up for a while but it sure as hell beats what cigarettes were doing to me. I've done cold turkey before and the patch but they only seemed to work temporarily (for me at least)...
- instrmntl0
Join a QBN challenge. It'll force you to run. I did it, lost 14 lbs, and quit smoking. It made it really easy.
- ********0
it's simple, just quit.
- inhaler970
Tea tree oil tooth picks helped me.
I became a jerk to all my friends, but they understood. Just remember, you're just going to feel better than when you did when you were smoking.I quit cold turkey... almost at a years mark.
Good luck.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
I ate about a bag of these a day, and I have been quit for over 3 years.
- ukit0
Just do it man, don't be a fucking wuss.
Do you know what other people at other times in history had to put up with? I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but believe me, it was tougher than quitting cigarettes. Do you have any idea what life is like for kids in Africa with no food, no access to running water? And you can't quit a fucking luxury product that gives you cancer. Boo fucking hoo.
- fooler20
It still amazes me people still smoke these cancer sticks.
- MHDC0
"Pacifiers"
- "What are you saying, man? You're saying I'm a Taco Bell kind of guy?"DRIFTMONKEY
- twooh0
I've gone 6 days without smoking so far, with some help from the patch. It's difficult when a bunch of people you work with go out for a smoke, and I can only imagine it being more difficult when I go to a bar.
I've been smoking for 15 years, and it's time for me to quit. Best of luck to you.
- comicsans0
Firstly, you really have to want to quit, not think it might be a good idea, really want to quit. Find your motivation, the rest is easy. Without motivation you will probably relapse.
The first week is easy 'cos adrenaline will carry you through. Identify what situations make you want to smoke and find solutions for those.
What helped me was deep self loathing at being addicted to cigarettes. Because I thought it might be a problem I switched to cigars (I said I wouldn't inhale but would allow myself a cigar whenever I wanted). I smoked 3 cigars in the first week and threw them away. Have not smoked, or wanted, a cigarette since.
- scarabin0
i quit, but LOVE smoking on ecstasy. between myself and my girl we can finish a pack in a night... so i did this "well i'll just buy one pack to smoke while rolling" and then all the positive associations it made with the ecstasy put it back into a desirable place in my brain. so that pack turned into another pack "just for the hangover" and then a third...
now i'm smoking cigars just to avoid buying a pack, but am weaning myself off of those
- so... don't smoke on something so rewarding as e. alcohol may have the same effectscarabin