Quitting smoking?

I would love to be able to quit smoking, I only found the willpower both times I was pregnant but started up again literally days after each was born! I'm currently looking at getting nicotine patches etc, wishing you luck!!

Hi,

Stopping smoking is also one of my goals in the New Year.

I will be 30 in May and if I'm still smoking by then that will have made me a smoker for half my life so far

I have given up in the past but as many of us do I started again, this time I will stop for good.

I am currently 3/4 the way through "Allen Carr's - Easy Way For Woman To Stop Smoking Without Gaining Weight" and have to say it has completly changed the way I now think about smoking. Hopefully I will be a non-smoker by the time I finish the book.

Please feel free to add me as I could do with some support with this and am only to happy to help others if I can.

Love Gemma xx

I quit smoking a little over three months ago using Chantix. It's been a tough journey, but I actually tried to cheat yesterday (drunken NYE f*ckery), and the cigarette was much too strong...it burned my throat!. Two drags and it was out the window. Chantix worked amazingly well for me and I occasionally use an electronic cigarette.

Good luck on this difficult journey. Feel free to add me.

I have also quit smoking for the new year, i am finding the e ciggerette a life saver, id probably of tried to strangle my fiance by now if i didnt have it. You should think of getting one if you start to find it hard, or miss the feeling in the back of your throat from smoking. Good luck ::) Hannah

I quit 6 1/2 years ago. I smoked 1-2 packs a day plus chewed a can of skoal a day for around 20 yrs. I tried cold turkey, hypnosis, patches and the gum. None of them worked for me. I went and did the acupuncture and walked out of there like I never smoked or chewed. It made it the easiest thing in my life. No anxiety and no cravings. One of the best decisions I've ever made. I highly recommend looking into it.

My last puff of a cigarette was a week ago Tuesday. It was really really tough at first but I got generic Nicorette Lozenges and those helped SO MUCH. Although I read on reviews on Amazon that a lot of people got addicted to the lozenges, which scared me, but I only used one or two a day and they worked wonders! I haven't used any lozenges for 3 days now and I feel fine. Just tired and emotional haha.

Good luck and good for you! My fiance quit cold turkey almost 2 years ago and hasn't had once since. I totally think its doable... its not necessarily easy. The big thing that helped him was taking away some of the environmental & behavioral triggers for doing it. So, no time around other smokers, no bars, etc. Now it doesn't hold any temptation, even around his family who all smoke.

YOU HAVE THIS.

I smoked over a pack a day for 31 years. Last cig was March 31, 2012. It's been over 9 months and I don't miss it at all. Many failed attempts to quit over the years, but this one is it. I don't like the smell anymore at all.

The things that helped me the most were the electronic cig (but not the kind that look like a cig, they don't "smoke" enough). And I went cold turkey with the nicotine. I used 0mg nicotine liquid for the e-cig. It satisfied the hand to mouth part of smoking, as well as the feeling of the smoke being inhaled.

I also used an app for my phone called Quit Now. I still have it to remind myself how much money I saved so far and how many cigs I have not smoked. It also shows the health benefits of not smoking as you go along.

Good luck to anyone quitting. It's hard but definitely worth it. I never realized how out of breath I was doing simple things that I would never be able to do now while exercising if I was still smoking.

Oh yeah, most definitely. Also trying to quit. Kind of have to. Some days I almost make it, but I have zero willpower (even with patch + gum) living with smokers. Don't want to blame them, but I just am having such a hard time with it.

I did quit for over a year, once, in different conditions.

Good luck to you

Hey! I'm knocking on my one year anniversary of being smoke free. My date is January 16th. I smoked for 33 years and quit using Chantix, but the stuff made me incredibly loopy. Really. It was a wonder I still had a job by the time I came off of it. Cinnamon sticks helped a great deal! I chomped at least a hundred of them.

Hey! I'm knocking on my one year anniversary of being smoke free. My date is January 16th. I smoked for 33 years and quit using Chantix, but the stuff made me incredibly loopy. Really. It was a wonder I still had a job by the time I came off of it. Cinnamon sticks helped a great deal! I chomped at least a hundred of them.

Congrats, that's great!!

We can all do this!

I quit smoking about 9 years ago after many many many failed attempts. I haven't smoked since and don't miss it.

I quit cold turkey, had the support of my husband AND finally got it straight in my head. Quite simply, I didn't want to be an addict anymore and made that my mantra. Whenever I wanted to smoke, I repeated my mantra, really believing it, until the urge passed.

You have to want it for what it is. By that I mean, you can't quit for health or weight or your husband. You have to deal with the smoking head on and for what it is.

The truth is simple: you don't enjoy inhaling that foul smoke into your lungs. Your brain is addicted so has fooled you into thinking you enjoy it. What you ACTUALLY enjoy is satisfying your addiction. That feeling of calm you get is your jangling nicotine receptors getting their hit.

There are only 2 things keeping you smoking: physical addiction and fear. That's it. Fear that you will never enjoy a social situation again, fear that you will be chained to your desk with no hope of breaking the mind numbing monotony of your daily grind, fear that you won't be able to cope with stressful situations without it.

Well, you can and you will because millions of people who have never smoked all manage perfectly well!

Read "How to stop smoking" by Alan Carr. It literally changed my life.

I'm also quitting.

2 1/2 weeks smoke free here! You can do it!

I quit cold turkey twenty years ago. Quitting was the hardest thing I have ever done. I was successful with family support (nobody else smoked at home) and breaking the associations between certain activities (drinking) and smoking. Good luck with your journey.