Quitting Smoking Cold Turkey

Did anyone else read this and think mmmmm smoked turkey? I should go get some lunch I guess.

You can do it!! Download the Cessation Nation App on your phone.... it is what kept me going during times I wanted to sneak and smoke. I am at 203 days today, I've saved $300 and not smoked 1,012 cigarettes. You will be soooo happy that you quit... I truly am.

I too am a quitter

I did quit using a recipe that I heard on the Oprah show. Crazy as it seems, it did work for me ( you continue to smoke while doing this)

1. 6-8 oz glass of juice (preferrably cranberry or orange juice)
2. 1 tsp of creme of tartar (you can purchase in the spice isle -at the grocery store)

Just before bed, empty your bladder. Stir up the ingredients and gulp down as fast as you can. DO NOT go to the restroom again until this has been in your system overnight. If you get up in the "wee" hours (excuse my pun), thats ok, but try to keep in your system. The first time you will actually smell the nicotine flushing from your system, in your morning urine. I know gross but you can only imagine... I was about 1 1/2 packs a day when I quit. You do this method for 7-10 days, still smoking your normal. You will notice that you will begin to only smoke half of a ciggy or have less of a desire to smoke as much as the nicotine is flushing from your body. As the ten day mark approached, I didn't even want one. When I picked up a smoke (as my usual habit with coffee), the taste of the cig was nasty. It made it easier and it only cost me about $4.00 You can do it but the recipe only works if your desire to quit as well

GIVE IT A TRY -- going on 6 1/2 years or more

I quit smoking about 3 days ago, cold turkey. After the first two days, it gets a little easier. Try chewing gum and keeping your hands busy!

I had a 32 year pack a day habit. I quit January 2012.
Change any routine you have, and invest in cinnamon sticks, gum and chewing sticks (usually available at health food stores).
I wish you well.

Congrats on a wise decision. I had been smoking for almost 50 years. From the time I was 30, I have tried just about every method to quit. My best results have been with quitting cold turkey. In 2011 I quit for 9 months, then my ex-husband who I had been taking care of 24/7 for nearly 8 years died. I started smoking again and thought I could just quit after the one pack. NOT! It took me 7 months to quit again after beating myself up.. every... single... day... and now it's been nearly 6 months since quitting.

If you get an urge: Make a list of like.. 10 minute things you can do. Play a computer game, walk around the block, go try on your skinny clothes... anything. The urges will pass and I promise you; the longer you are quit, the shorter, and farther between, the urges get. Just make sure you have your list printed out and keep it with you so you can look at it immediately when you get the urge. Anyway, it's worked for me.

Best of luck

Don't you people realize social security is going to be insolvent if you don't go back to those cigarettes? People are living too long already!

I too am a quitter

I did quit using a recipe that I heard on the Oprah show. Crazy as it seems, it did work for me ( you continue to smoke while doing this)

1. 6-8 oz glass of juice (preferrably cranberry or orange juice)
2. 1 tsp of creme of tartar (you can purchase in the spice isle -at the grocery store)

Just before bed, empty your bladder. Stir up the ingredients and gulp down as fast as you can. DO NOT go to the restroom again until this has been in your system overnight. If you get up in the "wee" hours (excuse my pun), thats ok, but try to keep in your system. The first time you will actually smell the nicotine flushing from your system, in your morning urine. I know gross but you can only imagine... I was about 1 1/2 packs a day when I quit. You do this method for 7-10 days, still smoking your normal. You will notice that you will begin to only smoke half of a ciggy or have less of a desire to smoke as much as the nicotine is flushing from your body. As the ten day mark approached, I didn't even want one. When I picked up a smoke (as my usual habit with coffee), the taste of the cig was nasty. It made it easier and it only cost me about $4.00 You can do it but the recipe only works if your desire to quit as well

GIVE IT A TRY -- going on 6 1/2 years or more

I am going to try this.... Thank you!

I did it last month... here is how I did it... after I threw away my cigs... I quit talking about it, I DIDNT go on "I Quit" sites, I didnt read a book on it, I didn't remind myself of cigs in any manner! When I felt like I needed a cig, I breathed (if that's a word) through it... I would say the word "CALM" really low and really slow till I had no breath left to blow out... then I did it again till the urge for a cig passed, it takes about 3 to 5 minutes! Good luck to you!!!!

i quit cold turkey thirteen years ago, coming off a nearly two pack a day habit. i had bronchitis, and was outside in the freezing cold trying to smoke but could only take tiny little drags off my cig without coughing. i looked down at the cig in my hand and had the blinding realization that if i didn't quit, that was how i was going to die. in a bed, drowning in my own lungs, and my whole family sitting around watching it happen. i threw away a nearly full carton of cigs and became a non-smoker. i wasn't 'trying' to quit...i just became a person that didn't smoke anymore. the first few days were bad, but it really wasn't any worse than being really, really sick. and, like being sick, i knew it was something that was going to go away and eventually i'd feel fine. for the first few years i couldn't be around anyone that was smoking, but it doesn't bother me at all now.