I've GOT to give up smoking

pearl123

Maybe try NiQuitin lozengers. They are very effective and you get no craving whatsoever. Just make sure that you quit via the recommended time span / number of lozengers per day, cause in the end I was popping an extra lozenger as and when I felt required. Ie when I got stressed, so it look me longer than the requested time to quit but I still got their in the end. Also the patches I've heard are very good.
Look around you at other smokers - are they smoking for pleasure or are they dragging on a fag desperately trying to get some nicotine in fast. I think you'll find its the later. I read somewhere that the moment you think of quiting - it is your own mind and body trying to protect itself from more damage.

If you were smoking one cigarrette per day it would still be too much.

jackieb

Lifesaver wrote: »

It hasn't actually, as per the Smoking Cessation Nurse, it takes away the cravings without any effort from the smoker, when they stop the tablets they invariably start smoking again.
The best success rates are with patches and inhalaters.

I dont know anyone that has sucessfully stopped for a prolonged period following the cessation of Champix.

I stopped 12 months ago with patches and inhalaters - but, God, I could murder a fag!

I speak for my husband, and he's tried patches and e-cigs, and Champix has been the only thing that's worked. He hates smoking now. He says he never has a craving for one. He thinks it's disgusting. He's been stopped since June last year. I work in a smoker's house and he always says I stink after a shift.

jungle_jane

Alan Carr's Easyway to Quit Smoking. (yes, Easyway is spelled one word in the title!)

Myself and many of my friends quit with this. You read the book and have to carry on smoking while you are reading it. You use no substitutes like patches etc (you will realise why once you read it) and by the end of the book you don't want to smoke again. There are no withdrawls and cravings, you don't put on weight and the book takes half a day or so to read.

I quit 4 years ago, hubby quit 3 years ago and so have countless friends who i have given the book to. It costs about £10 or so and there is also a DVD and a CD ROM.

Quitting smoking goes down for me as one of the best things i have ever done. Cigs were a demon to me - i struggled to quit for years and year. I still feel so enormously grateful for having quit - life is so much nicer as a non smoker OP!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

notechno wrote: »

For medical reasons that aren't relevant here, for now at least, I have to give up smoking. Now I know that should be a great impetus and should have me stubbing out and never looking back. But I know me, I know the excuses I'll make. How every pack I buy is the last pack ever, if I can just get past this stressful episode then it'll be easy blah blah blah. I'm a single mum to a 12 yr old, again all the encouragement I should need. And it is...most of the time.

But I need more encouragement. Do any of you have any tips, no matter how off-the-wall they might sound? I smoke roll-ups, so not much of an incentive financially as they only cost me about a fiver per week. I only smoke between 8 and 10 a day, so there are lots of times I'm not smoking, but the times I do are very firmly entrenched (first thing in the morning, breaks at work, after my tea, just before bed - they're all hooks I hang on to determinedly)

Any ideas/help most welcome!!

If you WANT to stop, rather than HAVE to stop, then it's easy.

All you do is get a little help to manage the feelings caused by nicotine leaving your system and work out methods to deal with feelings of emotional discomfort when you don't dash out and drag on a ciggie to distract from the emotions.

I recommend lots of ice cold water sipped through the stressful times (better than biscuits) and lots of fresh air to blow the cobwebs and tar out.

Macdexter

Quitting cigarette is not very easy but it can be done only by will power, one can quite smoking only if he/she really wants to quit it and makes his or her mind, as we can't easily quit this habit so it need lots of encouragement, "socially, mentally, physically" for the addictive person, only then a person will be able to quit this habit.

DansMum_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If you WANT to stop, rather than HAVE to stop, then it's easy.

I agree JoJo....

I gave up 3 years ago, just stopped after 25 years as a 20 a day smoker. I hated the fact that this little stick ruled my day. I stunk :eek:, my teeth were yellow, I wheezed, my skin was pasty grey and pale, I hated it...

I started by cutting out the first one of the day, then caught a cold and decided to stop and I've never looked back. But then am I one of the lucky ones? Keep busy OP when you're ready. Have plenty to occupy yourself and recognise when you have a habit cigarette...

Apprently it only takes 10 seconds of nicotine exposure for the receptors to go doo-lally again!!:eek:

Best of luck to you xxxxxx

kevana

hi, jess b if its alright i might just join you with the stopping smoking. it is now becoming more and more of an issue financially and physically that i do feel i must stop beating about the bush and put some real effort into stopping. i did work out the other day that i must be spending somewhere in the region of £2,000.00 on cigerettes, i also try to hide the fact that i smoke (or still smoke) from my family (not very successfully). my son has asked me to stop a couple of times and, as he is coming up to 10 i really really do not want him to start smoking.

i was very interested to read about the blood sugar levels and will bear that in mind for the next few days when i make my start.

Rossie_Cheeks

Hi

I would also like to to join in the stop smoking, I have the Allen Carr book that I picked up in a charity shop at the weekend so I will have my last cigarette Sunday night.

If anyone interested in being buddies, pm me.

I have tried before, but without success, but I feel more determined now, and it is so expensive. My breathing has also deteriorated because of them.

R

System

I have friend's who've managed to give up whilst on Champix from their GP. One had gone 6 months, the other is up to 3 1/2 months and they haven't gone back to smoking.

When i'm ready to quit its something i will look into myself

Kaelea

I spent about 6 years trying patches, inhalators, hypnotherapy, gum etc etc nothing was working, I'd stop for a few months, a slight catastrophe and the first thing I'd reach for was a cig and I'd be back smoking again

One day while out shopping I just nipped into a no smoking clinic to see what they had to say

they suggested Champix, I went to my docs who said ok and gave me the prescription

now your supposed to take these tablets and carry on smoking, but by day 4 I couldn't bear to put a ciggarette by me, omg yuk!! so I stopped there and then, I went on and completed the course of tablets.

18 months later I haven't touched nor wanted a cig since, I can be around other smokers and all I think is omg stinky .. thank god I no longer smell like that

so for me .. I can wholeheartedly recommend champix

whatever way you choose to do it .. good luck .. and if at first you don't succeed .. try something else .. never give up giving up