How did you quit smoking?

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  • sparkynazca
    sparkynazca Posts: 169 Member
    I quit cold turkey, it wasn't difficult for me.

    But I had to have made up my mind already that I wanted to quit... until I had done that, I wasn't going to quit.
  • splashtree2
    splashtree2 Posts: 277
    I started cut cigarettes and I used nicotine cewh gums I stopped in 3 months and I started trekking to get oxygen in my lunges, I stayed vegetarian for a while otherwise I would crave cigarettes!!


  • harlequin0318
    harlequin0318 Posts: 415 Member
    I tried everything except prescriptions. from the patch, gum, lozenges - nothing distracted me from wanting the real thing....until I got a Vape. So, I'm technically still "smoking", but it's actually vaping a flavor at 0mg of nicotene
  • SwashBlogger
    SwashBlogger Posts: 395 Member
    I was never a heavy smoker, so we picked a day and stopped cold turkey. My husband had a much harder time. He took to eating ice cream sundaes whenever the cravings got too bad ( mind you he was a 2+ pack a day smoker). Forty pounds later, he was free of cigarettes, took up running, and is now a workaholic marathoner. Smoking just got too inconvenient and socially awkward in the "new world"
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,002 Member
    I quit cold turkey but bribed myself for positive reinforcement. In the 80s, my two pack a day habit cost about EUR 40, so the price of a new CD. On Saturday, I would buy myself a little gift with the cigarette money (typically a CD) and my contract with myself was to not smoke for the week until the gift was paid for. As time went by, I bought bigger gifts with longer periods of cigarette money. For example designer shoes with three months of cigarette money. About a year and half in, I could stop bribing myself. It took about two years before I stopped thinking about cigarettes completely.
  • bshot1
    bshot1 Posts: 44
    I quit a little over a year ago with an ecig. If you go that route, buy a REAL set up.
  • Ripfit138
    Ripfit138 Posts: 1,148 Member
    I quit with an e-cig as well. I used that for about 8 months and then stopped using that as well. Lasted 1.5 year but then stress got the better of me and I started smoking again. I'm currently doing the e-cig quit again. Day 3...so far, so good.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    It's different for everyone. Both my parents smoked all theire lives. 2 Packs. Pall Malls. after 35 years my Dad came home and said "I quit today." He never smoked again and didn't seem to have a problem. My Mom decided she would quit. Took her a year, with many failings and she was a bltch most of the time. After my Dad died, my Mom started smoking again.
  • CarolinaAcorn
    CarolinaAcorn Posts: 418 Member
    I got seriously sick and couldn't breathe. After that I reevaluated my smoking habits and quit cold turkey. That was in March of this year.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    My last cigarette was September 25, 2012. I was a 2-3 PAD and had tried to quit on multiple occasions using various things like gum, patches, prescription meds, etc. Ultimately it was the e-cig that did the trick.

    When I picked up the e-cig (not one of the cigarette looking kind...I wanted something completely different) I determined that I would never pick up another cigarette ever again...and I haven't. The first couple weeks were tough...the ecig helped for sure, but I still wanted the real thing..but it helped a lot.

    After a couple of months or so I decided to lower the amount of nicotine...then a couple months later I lowered it again...and again until I was at zero nicotine. I did this over the course of about 6 months. I was at zero nicotine for a month or so when my battery went out...I just decided at that point that I was done altogether.

    More than two years later, I'm a completely different person. I still get a craving now and then...especially when I'm out in the mountains around a campfire or something...but by and large I don't think about it much anymore at all.
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    My wife quit during COVID quarantine by keeping her hands busy doing puzzles. When complete she glues them, puts them into picture frames, and they become our family gift to others.

    However, when quarantine was lifted and she could hang out with her friends again, she immediately relapsed back into smoking. Is a coincidence all her friends are smokers?
  • honey_honey_12
    honey_honey_12 Posts: 14,870 Member
    I chewed the gum.
    I’m 10 years quit.

    I say use whatever you need, it will never be easier to quit than it is today.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    My daughter confronted me of her dislike of it.

    I told her I'd quit that day forever if she promised never to try it.
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    Ok, I'm not a smoker but my boyfriend is. How is the best way for me to support him if/when he decides to quit? Are there any good ways of even bringing up the subject.
    And no, I don't ever want to "change" him. But I do have a concern for his health, especially in this age of covid.

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