Not sure where to post this....E-Cig

I just quit cold turkey. patch failed me.
I see stuff at the Dr. they can perscibe like cantix, that makes you quit instantly.

I did "cold turkey" but my husband is using the e-cig and he's doing really well. I think he's using a V2 or something like that. I'll get more info from him on what he thinks is a good deal.

1. Want it more than life itself.
2. Have an NRT crutch be it e-cig or nicotine lozenge etc to hand for when it gets too much.
3. Do it.
4. If you crack, stick with it, dont "start again tomorrow"

Im currently smoking, planning on quitting, again. Have managed to quit for years at a time following the above. Simple fact is #1 though, you have to really, really want it or it wont happen.

I got a prescription for Champix (I think its called Chantrix in the US) and it seemed to be helping with the addiction part, but for me it's the physical action that I can't beat. I know it's totally in my head, because if I stay at home for 2 days straight I don't need to smoke but if I drive anywhere, go to work, or talk on the phone, I gotta smoke. So I'd really like to try the e-cigs too and am hoping you get some good responses with what people recommend. Good luck!

my husband sells e-cigs and he likes using them. I read up on them and it made me nervous to use them (like actual smoking is better lol) so i am still trying to quit and your right....its the hardest thing i have ever tried to do. I roll my own cigarettes since i know its full of less chemicals (gives me a false sense of security anyways lol) and I bought a snuffer to snuff it out after a few drags (i dont smoke as much this way). I figure eventually i will find the will and determination with smoking like I have with weight loss. I pray all the time about it. It is extremely frustrating and I wish you luck!

Glad to see someone else using these to quit. Although the actual site (E-Cigaretts) are expensive, they sell them in the tobacco stores. Or at least they do in Arkansas where I live. I have not used them but my husband works with people that have gone to them after he started using them and they think they are great. They are all about the same. Just different name brands. The strengths are about the same no matter what company you go with. They have regular and flavored one too. Also, to save money my hubby changes out the filters himself. All he did was get cotton pads that you use to remove nail polish and put that in the butts as filters. They work great.

I would recomend this as a way for anyone who wants to quit. I was in the same boat you are in, That was the hardest things to quit. I have not smoked since May 26 and am down to only using the electric cig a couple of times a day. (my husband still uses it a lot more but that is ok - I can live with that more then I can his smoking regular cigs). I wish you the best of luck in the world with it. I think it is the best!!!!

Just go cold turkey right now while you are going through this weight loss transition. Make eating healthy and exercise your priority. If you wait til you are thinner you will be frightened you will gain weight back and then you just wont stop. when you have the cravings exercise or have a healthy snack, soon your cravings will go away and you will be a completely new you.

Quitting anything is hard. But just like food, there will always be a temptation and maybe at first you mess up sometimes and eat something wild...but you stick with it anyway and regain your composer and keep trying. After a while you dont have quit so many crazy cravings and sometimes when you mess up later on you dont even fee good afterward. Try the same thing. QUIT and then if you slip and have one, re gain your composer think of the reasons why you quit, and start again, if you slip again, have a self talk again. Slip ups dont mean failure. after a while they will taste different--and your ability to breath better and knowing how much your helping yourself will win

I quit cold turkey 7 years ago and never looked back. Best thing I ever did.

It's not as difficult as its made out to be. It's all about marketing. Cigarette companies and Stop-Smoking companies have pounded into smoker's heads that it is so difficult and impossible for so long that everyone believes it. This way people keep buying their cigarettes, gum, patches, pills, and etc. I mean think about it... if the patch (for example) really helped you quit smoking... you wouldn't need their product anymore and they'd lose a customer.

The only REAL way to quit, is to quit. You just do it. It's not as difficult as it's made out to be.

cold turkey...
I know of a great support site.


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two months quit so far

I have them but they have not helped me quit BUT I am not sufficiently motivated to quit yet. I highly recommend Vapor4Life and my biggest recommendation is that you get a manual one, not automatic. The manual one has a button you hold down so that you get more of a "hit" of vapor and feels more like real smoking. You can start out at differnt levels of nicotine and work your way down to no nictoine.

It's not as difficult as its made out to be. It's all about marketing. <bunch of other nonsense>

Whatever, it's hard as hell. Glad it was a breeze for you.

It's the same as any other habit...it's different for everybody. I personally am finding it hard as hell also! Makes me want to kick babies!

I was the worlds biggest see you next tuesday for a few weeks.
I STILL have rough days.

Quit cold turkey on April 1 2009, havent looked back since. Man (or woman, whatever) up and quit. No more excuses.

No, it's not any fun. I'm not going to lie to you. I actually rented a hotel room and stayed in it for 3 nights, because I did not want to be around my wife and daughter (actually, I'd have LOVED to be around them....I didnt want them around ME). After 3 days, the nicotine is out of your system and the physical withdrawal is largely over. I say largely because your brain chemistry isnt quite back to normal at that point: you are still going to have some physical withdrawal symptoms (like insomnia, or the opposite, fatigue, etc) for a couple more weeks...but it's largely in your head after three days. Suck it up and hang with it.

I feel for you. I've been there. It sucks. But the only way you are going to quit is by stopping. That's it. So, here's my advice for people on MFP who want to quit smoking.

1) STOP SMOKING

2) take a break from your diet for a couple of weeks. I dont care if you pack on 20 pounds in that time, it's worth the weight to quit...and you really are going to have to put something in your mouth to get over the psychological impact of giving up the HABIT of smoking.

3) STOP FREAKING SMOKING

4) Make a list of reasons why you want to quit. Write them down. Carry it with you everywhere you go.

5) Have I mentioned you need to just STOP smoking?

6) This is the odd one....buy a new pack of cigarettes. Just dont open it. Carry it with you. This is the only way it worked for me, because it was the only way I could actually reduce quitting to a minute by minute problem rather than an OH MY GOD I CAN NEVER HAVE A CIGARETTE AGAIN EVER FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! problem. I CHOSE to not smoke, one cigarette at a time, 100's of times per day. For months. I still have that pack, by the way...and it's still unopened.

7) Just. stop. now. right. this. second.

There is no fun way to quit smoking. There is no easy way to quit smoking. There is no magic pill. There is no magic button. There is no stop smoking fairy. It's work. It's hard. You just have to do it.