Someone PLEASE help me quit smoking!

Talk to your doctor about possible medications (they work well) as well as investigate hypnotism. While that doesn't work as well with weight loss, it works wonderfully for quitting smoking!

Good luck!

Just stop. Don't do it anymore. Don't let an addiction have control over you.

my mother smoked for oh gosh 40 years and went on chantix (spelling?) and it worked wonders! i would recommend it. she did experience some gnarly side effects but shes been smoke free for 5 years now. no weight gain side effects, at least for her...just really detailed scary dreams

Try an electronic cigarette the "ego" is best for beginners. It's just vapor with some nicatine. No smoke.

i second that ,,works really well & it helps to have it in your hand whenever you need it

You don't need anyone else but YOU!

You can do it, get your mind right and it will happen, I was the same, most my friends smoke too, I quit 7 months ago today as it happens!! (freaky huh!!) but you need to realise that you will only quit for good once you WANT to, it's 100% possible but it's not easy.

I quit with 18 left in my pack, don't set a date or a time or a "I'll just have one more pack", tell yourself at some point in the next few weeks I will decide if I want to smoke or not and when it feels right, do it.

You have to remember whether you think you can or whether you think you can't.....you're right!!

You can stop, it is possible and it will happen <--- all you need to know!

Ben.

I went cold turkey over 7 years ago and never looked back. I was absolutely sick of the smell, taste, expense and the fact that I almost coughed up a lung every morning. One day I threw down a ciggie halfway through and decided that was it. All the while I lived at home with an entire family who smoked and had a boyfriend who also smoked. About 3 months after I quit my Dad had a heart attack then everyone else quit. My Dad had to quit obviously but really wanted to after a scare like that.

To help me I carried a half box around with me like a security blanket and kept an online ticker of my progress. It told me how many ciggies I hadn't smoked, how much I hadn't shaved off my life and how much money I'd saved.

I hope you find something that helps and wish you lots of luck!

I used the quit now application on my phone....been smoke free 3 months!!! :glasses:

I smoked for almost 15 years and was up to a pack a day. I was hospitalized due to a MRSA outbreak and noticed I had a headache even while on Morphine and Percocet. They had to give me a nicotine patch before the headache would go away. That made me want to quit.

I used cinnamon sticks. yes sounds weird but anytime I felt like smoking I would grab a stick and "smoke" it. They are about the same size and weight of a cig but instead of making your breath stink.... it smells good.

I also used an app on my phone that showed me how much money I had saved and how many cigs I didnt smoke.

Good luck

You gotta do it. Gotta quit. Don't miss out on opportunities and your health for a smoke.

I started smoking at 16 and smoked for about 18 years. I quit 3 times but it never stuck. I finally tried hypnosis and it worked. I thought it was expensive to pay for hypnosis but looking back it may have saved my health and future.

Quitting smoking was one of the hardest and most worthwhile things I have ever done for myself.

You can do this! Do it now. Make a choice to live smoke free and healthy.

And get your partner on board with this. You can both quit and be healthy. Or at least get him to smoke outside and keep the ashtrays and lighters and cigs away from you.

July 29th will be my first year without a smoke or a chew of tobacco. I've smoked for 20 yrs. I'm a 53 year old business man and my wife smokes still. I quit cold turkey because I could not stand the thought of being a slave to tobacco. It's not easy, so tighten your belt and put the word can't out of your vocabulary. After all you want to join the fire dept. don't you? Consider it part of the training.

Thirty years later i quit...

It was just time, lots of practice trying.

1) Set a date, in stone. Consider day of week, your appointment book, time of month whatever works for you. Plan ahead, do your research, give yourself at least a month to plan it out. Once you set your date, THAT'S YOUR DATE! No changes.

2) Ask BF to be considerate of a few things including your possible grouchiness, but don't ask him to do anything that you wouldn't.

3) Change your habits, break them in that way. You're planning ahead a month in advance for a reason. Whenever you want to light up during that 4th week b4 u quit wait 1 minute, check your phone whatever but you have to wait at least a minute... you can always just wait one minute right? If you forget to light up after you waited a minute that's fine right? Third week before you quit, require 2 minutes, it's just another minute and by now your getting at it, plus you still get your butt. Nothing to this, you got it under control stick to it so YOU know that YOU have it under control every time. VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU HAVE CONTROL< NOT THE ADDICTION, plus many times if you wait you forget the trigger and the initial need. Still with me? Second week b4 your date, change 2 minutes to 5 minutes, really need to be using a time piece of some sort. Last week before quitting you wait 10 minutes.

4) (Don't set your date before reading the plan on one of these packages, or their website) If your not going to go to a doctor (I'm not suggesting you don't, some people just won't take that route) go to Walmart (btw NY Sate has a quit smoking hotline use it, FREE stuff! Can't speak for other states) buy some of their store brand (much cheaper) of quit smoking lozenges. Read label b4 buying and definitely before using, stick with their advice. Yes, think it takes about 4 months with this program but it's a great deal less then 7 years. No excuses ("they taste like *kitten*") like butts taste good? Ad****tions (spelling intended) have their own language, listen to your head, NOT the addiction.

5) Lastly if you pull this off, and you can, reward yourself. Your not going to be able to save eevry penny that you would have smoked during this 4 month period, but in that pre-month do the math. Honestly calculate how much you would have spent if you kept smoking. save as much of that smoke $ as possible and buy yourself a present, go ahead pick it out in advance, then buy it after you pull this off, you would have just been messing yourself up with this money anyway so you've earned this gift X2. Guess what? Just for S**ts&giggles let me point out that you can do this for the rest of your life too... every 4 months!

Best wishes

Thanks for all the advice and suggestions, I also want to quit.