How do I Stop Smoking?!

[katharina]

Quitting was difficult for him for a couple of weeks, but as he felt the benefit in better breathing and not getting winded it encouraged him to stay with it.

That's always one of the first discovered benefits, yes... the fact that we can actually know what it's like to breathe again. The second is probably actually being able to taste food again.

 

[chocoguy]

I don't think candy or gum works for people who are truly addicted and have been for a while. That's more of a "put gum in your mouth instead and you won't want a smoke" thing, but when it's an addiction, gum really doesn't do anything and the craving remains.

I don’t really know if that would work because I have never been a smoker for all my life. I just got the idea from my friends.

 

[heretoday]

It's also a bit of a buzz when you realise that your cravings are not as insistent and hard as they had been; it really empowers you, I think.

 

[katharina]

It's also a bit of a buzz when you realise that your cravings are not as insistent and hard as they had been; it really empowers you, I think.

Yes... very true. They never really go away completely, though... well I can only speak for the first 4.5 years. But sometimes when I go past someone or a group of people who are smoking, there's that intake of breath that comes with that particular addiction and there's a fleeting thought that "oh! it's time for a smoke!" Luckily it goes away just as fast as it came.

 

[Frankie]

If you want to quit, quit. If you don't really want to quit, don't. Wouldn't work anyway.

You have to want to quit. Then just do it however it suits you.

 

[heretoday]

Katharina, you're right. After all these years,even, I can still feel the spot between my index and middle finger where the cigarette was held...I guess that never goes away as well.

 

[oldnamvet]

Every day, put the money you would have spent on smoking into a large jar. Have something you really want to buy as the goal. It will encourage you as you see the $$ amount climbing.

 

[katharina]

Every day, put the money you would have spent on smoking into a large jar. Have something you really want to buy as the goal. It will encourage you as you see the $$ amount climbing.

If one can afford to do this, at the price a pack is now, this is a very good idea. And if I'm not mistaken, I just heard of still another tax put onto cigarettes recently. Was it over a dollar a pack, I think?

 

[Frankie]

Katharina,
The idiot in the White House, banking on the stupidity of the American people, signed into law the largest tobacco tax increase in history. It's $1 a pack on cigarettes....but a 2000% (yes, thousand) increase on loose tobacco. It's to pay for childrens healthcare, in theory. It will never work and is doomed to failure.

 

[kirby55]

chew minty bubble gums instead of smoking all the time..

sometimes it is not important what you do to stop yourself from smoking too much, the most important thing is that you have to put in your mind that you're really eager to quit smoking.. you have to true and inspired.. be honest to yourself..