How did you quit smoking?

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  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    PV [personal vaporizer] AKA e-cig.

    I technically still get my nicotine fix, but I've quit smoking actual cigarettes since August of last year. It wasn't planned, but I just naturally didn't want to smoke them once I got my e-cig. I tried a couple after a month of using it, and each time it was nasty as *kitten*. I'm able to breathe better [sometimes better than non-smokers], and I've regained my sense of smell... in fact it seems better than ever. And the plus side, it hasn't hindered my weight loss at all.
  • sandram82
    sandram82 Posts: 615 Member
    BUMP
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    The time it stuck for me was with nicotine gum. For me, nicotine replacement therapy really worked. I was under the impression that it was a mostly psychological addiction, but it was definitely mostly physical. I would crave a cigarette desperately, but taking the mega-dose of nicotine from the gum curbed that right away. I then weened off slowly by taking only half the piece of gum, then 1 quarter, then less and less often, etc, until I was finally done.
  • poolcue
    poolcue Posts: 35

    That is GREAT Advice, and you're right about when I need a smoke. I told my doctor that the morning smoke is the only one I truly crave, and the only one that I enjoy in the day, the other three are out of pure 'habbit' - 2 at lunch and 1 on the way home from work ... When I'm at home, I don't even think about it ... it's just that morning one that drives me nutty.

    If the morning smoke what you worry about, you could leave your smokes in your car or at work and try to break that habbit a little at a time. When I first start cutting down, I would still have the same amount of Nic but in all different times, and like you the morning one was the worst, and the one I had the most trouble. Instead I use that time to use my phone to get on here or play games.

    PC
  • jmzhale
    jmzhale Posts: 186
    I was a 3-4 pack a day Marlboro full flavor smoker. I stepped down to Mediums, then Lights, then Ultra Lights and then went cold turkey in 1999. Find something you want more than that cig, for me it was my wife.
  • jtsmou
    jtsmou Posts: 503 Member
    I started dipping my cigarettes in pinesol, but that didn't work so I started rubbing butter on my shins.
  • smota
    smota Posts: 62
    Cold turkey. Someone said before they did it together with joining MFP, and I did too. I've had an account since last year, but then I had to stop training and didn't come back here until about a months and a half ago. I haven't smoked since the 6th February.

    Put your mind to it. If you can control your food and exercise because you want to be healthy, everytime you pull out a cigarette you'd better be shoving down a hamburger with fries and xl coke :/

    Good luck :) xx
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    My quit day is Saturday (3/19). I started one per day Zyban (generic version) last Saturday and will up to twice/day on the 19th. I'd been cutting back, from 25 cigs/day to 13/day and stalled... couldn't break the barrier. So, my DR gave me the prescription. Today, my final total will be 6 for the day.

    On Saturday we're spending the day with my parents who will help keep us honest (husband's quitting too).
  • peteyTwang
    peteyTwang Posts: 250
    smoking and being overweight is a _really_ bad idea.... so congrats to all the MFPers on the same healthy journey...
    i quit (in '95) mostly cold turkey.. bought a pack of the nicotine gum but only used about 3 pieces over the course of the first week... after that i did chew a lot of sugarless trident for awhile though... good luck... it gets easier the longer you do it and i definitely believe that the experience and self-discipline I learned beating nicotine addiction was a fundamental skill for me losing that ~80lbs
  • ArchyJill
    ArchyJill Posts: 548 Member
    Cold turkey! Went out to the bar to celebrate my thesis being signed off, got utterly plastered, ran out of smokes, too hung over the next day to go buy more so I just ran with it. It's been about 4 years now.
  • Pmiller8367
    Pmiller8367 Posts: 1
    Smoke free Oct 2007... I quit by hypnotherapy. I went with a friend who to this day still smokes. It worked for me. I gained 80lbs since I am now trying to loose so any help would be appreciated.:happy:
  • marissamd
    marissamd Posts: 11 Member
    Cold turkey in October of 2007 when I found out I was pregnant. :happy: I was hell on wheels to my loved ones for about two eeks, but it got better.

    I am still not smoking, but the cravings have returned big time in the last two months. :frown:
  • Jenn728
    Jenn728 Posts: 683 Member
    I smoked a pack a day for 15 years. In September 2009, I used Chantix to quit smoking. I only used it for 9-12 days, it was messing with my head...big time! But by then I didn't even want to smoke.

    Besides being bad for me, I quit smoking so I could tell my kids never to smoke and all of the negative affects on your body, it won't be said while I'm taking a drag off of one!
  • chelvid
    chelvid Posts: 12 Member
    Cold Turkey for me. I have been smoke free for over 2 years now and have never felt better.

    Good luck
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