Any smokers out there?

It sounds dismissive, but speaking from personal experience, just STOP buying them.

I was about halfway through a pack when I decided to quit. When that pack was gone, that was it. I refused to purchase any more. Period. That was six years ago, and aside from the first week of crankiness, sticking with quitting hasn't been as hard as I feared.

I quit with Chantix..it really worked for me except for the messed up dreams... it made cigarettes smell and taste awful!

I did the e cig also and it worked for me. OF COURSE its NOT the same as a real one. No copy will be the same. But set your mind to the fact that something will work be it cold turkey, hypnosis, e cig, candy.. etc... Pick something and believe in it and use it and find some will power..
You will find it gets easier as time goes on. Im 21+ months non smoker and I love it, I still love the smell of cigaretts and will deepy inhale when Im around them but that is as close to a cig I will get. Im clean and plan to stay that way.. Just do it!!

i'm a smoker and i want to quit...eventually.i really don't feel like now is the moment to stop.first i want to lose my weight and then try to quit smoking.i just think it's better to solve one problem at a time.

I tried to quit for years and smoked for about 26 years. Each time I failed because I was not mind set to actually quit. I would come up with excuses or subject myself to the "triggers" that led me to smoking, like others were smoking around me in the car or when I was out at the bar.

I quit 2 years ago and have not looked back. How?

1) I wanted to quit. I had enough and I genuinely wanted to quit. (This is key)
2) I eliminated the "triggers" or replaced the actual smoking with a different activity for the ones I could not or didn't want to eliminate that gave me the urge to smoke. Like after meals, alcohol, social events. For that after meal urge, I went for a walk instead. Alcohol, I noticed I would smoke if I were in a bar but not if I was at home. So I quit going to the bars. In certain social events like gatherings of friends, I would excuse myself if the smoke bothered me or I began to get the urge. Then return after it subsided.

I know this two step process seems trivial. But you have to WANT to quit before you will. Then it is just like dieting, you have to work at it and build the self discipline and keep moving forward and never look back.

You're addicted to "having something in your hands".

The only thing nicotine is is addictive (there are actually some benefits to nicotine. There is ongoing research - scientists are trying to figure out how to put it in a drug).

It's all the toxic chemicals in cigarettes that make them bad.


Enjoy an eCigarette. I know it isn't the same as drawing smoke into your lungs but the addiction part is from the nicotine and that's it. And nicotine isn't harmful to the body.

Just recently read that nicotine aids in releasing free fatty acids from adipocytes to allow humans access to the energy stored in their fat cells. Nicotine is an archetypal slimming drug. Hell, sugar's addictive and no one seems to belive and/or care about that drug. And sugar is more dangerous to the body than nicotine.
Heard last year (on the radio) that cigarettes actually rais the metabolism a bit (you expend more energy).

Maybe this is why when you quit smoking you can gain weight (nothing to do with "snacking" or "overeating"). Your body's metabolism changes when you quit.

You're addicted to "having something in your hands".

This is true. If I don't have something in my hands, I'm a nervous twitchy wreck.

I'm using the patch right now and this is day 24 of not smoking for me....no weight gain so far and it feels great to be free of that hold that cigarettes have over us!

I did lose 35 lbs before I quit, so obviously I felt like a lot of you did, that it was better to tackle one thing at a time...but its SUCH a huge improvement to my lung function when I work out, I can't even believe I didn't do it sooner. I started the couch to 5K running plan the day I quit, and my chronic cough is pretty much gone and I can work out HARD without wheezing and coughing. Food tastes better and my sense of smell has improved tenfold.

I'm not going to lie - I definitely have more urges to eat more junk food right now, but I think of it being like when I started my weight loss mission where I had to cut out the bad things I was eating before, and eventually it will get easier (plus, I got rid of all my old clothes, and am NOT going to buy bigger ones again!)

You're addicted to "having something in your hands".

This is true. If I don't have something in my hands, I'm a nervous twitchy wreck.

I am a smoker. I'm battling a sugar addiction right now, though. One addiction at a time.

I'm addicted to drawing the smoke into my lungs.

Interesting that the French smoke more than us, eat more saturated fat than us yet have less lung cancer and heart disease. Maybe saturated fat protects the body from the bad effects of smoking. I tell you, since I started eating mostly fat (and mostly saturated fat), even as a smoker my lungs have cleared out and I don't cough like I used to. Saturated fat is such a wonderful fat (in the absence of carbs).