Best Way To Quit Smoking

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What is the best way to quit smoking?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

According to the Bloke, get Swine Flu, Seasonal Flu and a chest infection over the course of a month.

According to me, get a pack of nicotine patches from the GP, stick one on every day for about 3 days. Get ticked off with them falling off, grabbing tiny hairs, people lecturing you about how bad it is to smoke (Yes! I know! That's why I've got the sidding patch on!). Don't bother by about day 6. Make a habit of getting up and drinking ice cold water and sort of flicking your hands about when you feel uncomfortable.

The nicotine seems to be the easier bit, despite what the nicotine selling companies tell you in their advertisements. The harder bit is changing how you react to uncomfortable feelings - tiredness, anger, anxiety, boredom - because you can't react by sparking up/walking outside/inhaling deeply.


I do hope this isn't a spam thing I've just been drawn into answering.

missm29

my step dad gave up 4 months ago after a health scare, with the help of boots, they give you free patches for so many weeks 8/12 i think and hes not bought any since. You go there once a week and blow into something and then get more patches, hes been a very heavy smoker for many years, would have a roll up just before we started eating and then rush out again for another before everyone had finshed. Too be honest i think being rushed into hospital for lots of tests and everyone becoming hysterical helped.

Steph998

Vaporizer wrote: »

What is the best way to quit smoking?

I am 47 and smoked from the age of 16. Ten years ago I bought a book by a guy called Allen Carr. (Not the buck toothed comedian! ) I read the book, and had a 'eureka' moment. However...I still thought I was enjoying smoking, and always felt like I was missing out. Two years later, I had one fag and was soon back to 20 a day. HOWEVER. The book changed my 'mind set' about smoking...I no longer just lit up without thinking. After reading it, I always hated smoking and was very aware whenever I lit up that it was something I did not want to do anymore, and I was angry that the fag was controlling me - not the other way round. I was aware that I smoked because I was addicted to nicotine, NOT because I liked smoking. I hated it.

Six months ago, I had to get dental implants and was told if I continued to smoke I would be wasting a huge amount of money as they would fail. So I dusted out the book again - and I also got it on CD for my iPOd. Within four days of reading the book and listening to the CD...I quit for good. A light just went on in my head, and I realised the trap that is smoking...and how easy it is to get out. I didn't need patches or gum - or willpower. Who needs willpower or substitutes for something you genuinely, seriously, do not want to do anymore? I am not sitting here like I used to after previous attempts to quit, thinking , 'I want a fag, can't have one, I want a fag...NO I don't' ...because I really don't want a cigarette. Smoking became abhorrent to me...it was the weirdest thing ever. (I don't mean I am one of those patronising ex smokers...I have no problem with others smoking, I just don't want to do it myself. And no one is more surprised than me, because I was seriously addicted. ) There was no cravings, and I have absolutely no desire for a cigarette. I have never, ever had any desire to light up this time, and it it absolutely wonderful. I realy feel free for the first time in years, and not controlled or restricted by my cigarette addiction. I have actually forgotten about fags...about something that was on my mind every ten minutes for the past 20 years. It's an amazing feeling to only be reminded when you see someone else light up and think, My God, you poor sod. When you stop, you will know exactly what I mean.

If you do decide to get the CDs....beware. The guy reading it sounds like a right pompous git, and his voice annoyed me. But stick with it! I don't know how Allen Carr did it, but he worked a miracle for me and for millions of others.

Good luck
x




I read 'The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently'. You can buy it, or his shorter book 'Easyway to Stop Smoking' on eBay or Amazon.

fizzytrinket

the book can also be borrowed from the library. but it didnt work for me

Steph998

fizzytrinket wrote: »

the book can also be borrowed from the library. but it didnt work for me

Try it again.

Steph998

bungle4x4 wrote: »

sod all the hypnosis, patches, ethnic chanting.

when you WANT to quit, go to your GP, tell him you have tried patches, gum and ethnic chanting. and nothing works.

and then tell him you want to try CHAMPIX. get his prescription, and give that a go. if you WANT to give up. then these tablets are the best. they worked for me.

I'm sorry, but just google Champix to see how dangerous this drug be. Probably, in the sphere of things not as dangerous as continuing to smoke..... but, why take a drug that acts on the area of the brain that controls addiction, when you can simply work it out for yourself with new information? After taking tablets you are still left with the thought that you are missing something, or there is something to GIVE UP as you say above. There is nothing to 'give up'. There is no sacrifice. The prison that is smoking is all in the mind, and you have to change your mind about smoking in order to be free. Tablets won't help that.

Melonade

Tough question to answer as I suppose it'll be different for everyone.

I started on the patches on Tuesday thinking that my son going back to school would make it less stressful and easier.... until I realised school was closed because of the snow :eek:

3 days in and I'm doing ok, trying to keep myself occupied and busy. The hardest part is after eating, I just wanna have a ciggie at the back door But I've resisted so far.

One of the side effects are strange dreams and I've had plenty!! Last night I won a bronze medal in a downhill skiing competition :rotfl:The dream was so vivid that I'm convinced that if I was on top of a snow covered mountain wearing ski's I would of tried to ski down it!! Another dream was my son was on "It's a Knockout" and me and my Nan sat and watched it on tv :rotfl:

I reckon what ever you try there'll be a fair amount of will power needed, keep busy as possible, and if you last 1 hour then try to challenge yourself to 2 hours, then 4, then 8 and so on.

Sorry for the rambling on, it's an example of me trying to keep busy lol. Good Luck

veggieblob

Allen Carr Easyway worked for me too - not one puff since I finished reading the book just under 5yrs ago and I had smoked for over 30yrs, much to my shame now.

fizzytrinket

i am a prisoner. i know it. i've just been outside to smoke in the snow and freezing cold in my dressing gown. didnt enjoy it but had to.

i am preparing myself to stop. it's just finding the right day.putting it off i know :rolleyes:

Steph998

bungle4x4 wrote: »

like i said, dont bother with ethnic chanting. it does this to you.

nicotene acts on the brain, so use a tablet that acts on the brain. i stopped smoking 7 days after starting these tablets, and finished the tablets after 8 weeks. and its now been a year since i quit. do yourself a favour and get all the help you can.

its like saying, childbirth, ill leave the good drugs and read a book instead...

Sorry....this just shows how mis informed you are. 'Ethnic chanting'? No. What I recommend above is called 'reading a book'. (If I buy a DIY book to help me plumb in a new toilet, is that classed as Ethnic Chanting? ) It's not mumbo jumbo, voodoo, meditation or wearing orange and shaving your head, it's a simple case of reading a book exploding the myth of something that has brainwashed us for hundreds of years into thinking we enjoy, and will alway have to do.

'Nicotine acts on the brain...so use a tablet that acts on the brain'. That's like saying hit yourself on the head with a hammer to get rid of a head ache. 'Knowledge' also acts on the brain...so why not just use that?