Things That Helped You Quit
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Krizzle4Rizzle
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I smoked my last Cigarette August 12th 2011. It was very hard. Especially since most everyone around me smokes. Here are the things that helped me quit
1. An E Cig. I have no doubt I would have been sucessful without it. It helped more with social situations. Like when everyone else was smoking, I would have my e cig so it would help curb the cravings.
2. Weaning myself off. I didn't quit cold turkey or overnight. In fact it took me almost a month. I had 2 packs and everyday I smoked less and less until the cigs were gone. I never purchased another pack.
3. The money. I was not a pack a day smoker. I smoked about 5 packs a week. And that was costing me $105.00 a month! When I did the math, I could not believe it. I was paying $105.00 to kill myself. It feels very nice to have that money in my pocket. In fact, I am saving up to buy my first brand new car. The bonus is that it will not get ruined due to cigeratte ashes!
What things helped you quit?
1. An E Cig. I have no doubt I would have been sucessful without it. It helped more with social situations. Like when everyone else was smoking, I would have my e cig so it would help curb the cravings.
2. Weaning myself off. I didn't quit cold turkey or overnight. In fact it took me almost a month. I had 2 packs and everyday I smoked less and less until the cigs were gone. I never purchased another pack.
3. The money. I was not a pack a day smoker. I smoked about 5 packs a week. And that was costing me $105.00 a month! When I did the math, I could not believe it. I was paying $105.00 to kill myself. It feels very nice to have that money in my pocket. In fact, I am saving up to buy my first brand new car. The bonus is that it will not get ruined due to cigeratte ashes!
What things helped you quit?
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Wellbutrin, therapy and deciding I really didn't want to die. Pretty much the same things that made me decide to start changing everything else in my life. I also used the patch for a short bit and that helped hugely with the withdrawals.0
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I to used the patches they helped this time. But something about the look on my doctors face when he said if you don't QUIT
and get your cholesterol down you are going to die of a massive stroke.6 days later I had heart surgery 4 bypasses.That was May 3rd .Have been quit going on 7 months. Will never pick up a smoke again. I have lost 17 pounds, for the first time in years my cholesterol is normal! Better then normal. So If after 40 years I can quit. You Guys can do this.
I will be right here cheering you on.0 -
I've tried about every way you can quit and multiple times at that. Gums, patches, hypnosis, wellbutrin, and finally *I* decided it was time and with the help of Chantix- am now nearly four years quit.
Here's some practical things that helped me quit:
1. Hand things: stress balls, rubber bands, crayons and coloring books, and crocheting. ANYTHING to keep your hands busy and moving.
2. Find different ways to go places: For one, PUT yourself in nonsmoking situations. Avoid bars for a while. Not forever, but until you can handle the emotional parts of quitting(for me about two years). I visited movie theaters and nonsmoking restaurants alot during my initial quitting phase. Take a different way to work, school. New routes means there are no preexisting 'smoke breaks'.
3. Treat yourself every Friday that you don't smoke. Now- don't do it the way I did with Strawberry milkshakes and cheesy tator tots from Sonic(hence why I am now on a WEIGHT loss journey...) but reward yourself every week you don't smoke. It helps to have something to look forward to.
4. WATER. Lots of it. I also had a minty gum to reinforce how NONsmoky my breath was.
5.Appreciate the little things: notice how you don't have to rush through shopping or a movie to get to that smoke break- cause you don't smoke anymore! Notice how you can STILL smell your hand lotion a few hours later, since you don't have nasty nicotine all over them. Notice how clean your clothes smell.
6. Over all- don't smoke. Make it in your head that there is NO situation that will cause you to reach for a cigarette. Not someone dying. Not someone mad at you (even yourself). Not a tornado or fire. Nothing.0 -
I quit cold turkey without anything (mostly because I'm poor, haha). I even live with two smokers, so this is especially hard. I think what is helping me to quit is remembering the fun I had running last week. It felt great! But the next hour afterwards was hell. I want to feel that high from running again, but I can't do the hell afterwards. And I know if I have even one I will go right back to where I was. When I get the craving I play Bingo Island on Facebook, or I have a lollipop, or just grit my teeth and bear it.0
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I'm using Allen Carr's EasyWay. I got the book from the library completely skeptical - I wasn't even there to get a book, I was printing. Thought, what the hell I'll check for it. I took it home and read it in one sitting. Initially I thought "Now what can he possibly say to me thats going to make me ready to quit." But oh boy, did he say something. A lot. I put that book down the same day and nonsmoker. That was Sunday. Today is my day 4 and I'm not missing cigarettes at all. The cravings are a little uncomfortable, but nothing I haven't been able to deal with. Lately I've been noticing an increased urge to eat, but not that I've identified it I can control it better. I smoked for 17 years and I feel so amazing now, already. My favorite part is knowing I don't smell bad anymore.
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I used patches and this amazing website webcoach.net It really gives you some awesome tips. But CrisN99 said it. YOU have to be ready to quit. Once that happened for me, and I started to see all the positive benefits, it was easy. Yes, easy. I had few cravings, and even losing my father to lung cancer didn't deter me.0
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This is exactly what "happened" to me. Somebody gave me this book and recommended reading it. I didn't like the title and thought: oh yeah, another wanna-be-guru...I'm using Allen Carr's EasyWay. I got the book from the library completely skeptical - I wasn't even there to get a book, I was printing. Thought, what the hell I'll check for it. I took it home and read it in one sitting. Initially I thought "Now what can he possibly say to me thats going to make me ready to quit." But oh boy, did he say something. A lot. I put that book down the same day and nonsmoker. That was Sunday. Today is my day 4 and I'm not missing cigarettes at all. The cravings are a little uncomfortable, but nothing I haven't been able to deal with. Lately I've been noticing an increased urge to eat, but not that I've identified it I can control it better. I smoked for 17 years and I feel so amazing now, already. My favorite part is knowing I don't smell bad anymore.
I found it in the attic the other week, started reading, couldn't stop, had my last *kitten* between pages 100 and 110 and am FREE since Nov 9.
Thinking positive, talking to myself like : I am not this nico-demon's slave, these *kitten* didn't give me anything and so on, that did the trick.
Every morning I put the money I would have spent for *kitten* in my piggy bank (mind you, here in Ireland one pack of cigs is $11.30, I'm not kidding!). Guess what: it is enough to pay for the hair dresser next week. I quit comfort eating, I quit smoking and now I quit dying my grey hair brown. This will be the biggest treat. I'll turn blonde for a while, then ash-blond then grey!
Oh, by the way: for the first few days after quitting I used an e-cig vaping mentol only (zero nicotin), but I had the feeling it reminded me too much of smoking . The vapour looked like smoke ;-), it was too real.
Stay strong, all of you. Isn't it great we can support each other?
Barbara0
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