How you quit smoking?

Im off them a few days.I think Ive got my head straight about it too,this time.

But I want hear other peoples success stories.

And tips or suggestions.

This is probably the best and most important thing I could ever do for my health and well-being and this time I want to succeed in staying quit.

Which way have you decided to do it? Everyone seems to have a way that suits them, some cold turkey where with others that drives them insane! One of my friends had failed cold turkey so many times then actually went and got advice and they gave her free patches, gum, inhalers etc and gave her a program to follow it took her 4 months to stop needing any replacement but she finally did it. Another friend just cold turkied but I swear at one point I thought he was actually going to kill someone I tried to be supportive but he was awful to be around!

Also a good idea to get hold of some sugar free sweets. Everyone I know who has stopped starts munching, and depending on what your weight situation is sometimes the last thing you want after you are proud of yourself is to be upset by the weight gain, unless you could do with the weight gain then munch away! lol

Which ever way you have decided to do it, good luck to you!

Posted by JayDee33
Im off them a few days.I think Ive got my head straight about it too,this time.

But I want hear other peoples success stories.

And tips or suggestions.

This is probably the best and most important thing I could ever do for my health and well-being and this time I want to succeed in staying quit.

Cold turkey is probably the best way to go. I couldn't do it though, I bought an electronic cigarette online with different flavored liquids (tobacco, menthol (my favorite), different fruits like strawberry and watermelon and red bull (curiosity killed the cat) and the flavor mimics their real life counterparts well. Except for tobacco. But trust me, the llarge variety of flavors flavors will keep you happy. The point of the electronic cigarette is to slowly dilute the nicotine content until it reaches 0 mg/ml. Ha I bought 26 mg strength liquid without a diluting liquid... that turns out to be 2-2.5 packs of cigarettes' nicotine content per day for me. So get the lower strength. There's a huge online community with tons more info, just Google e cigarette forum. These are relatively harmless devices and a friend told me about a recent news article claiming that it's the safest alternative to cigarettes. And keep in mind that a) you can smoke these with 0 nicotine content and thus b) still have somewhere to go for your oral fixation. They're better than munching on candy 24/7. You can also smoke these inside! No smell or anything. I love my e cigarette.

Actually, "cold turkey" has about a 10% success rate. Gum will take you up to about 20-25% success. Chantix combined with support therapy/groups can get you up to 40%

I quit a long time ago. Way back when you needed a prescription for the gum. It took me 5 years of seriously trying to finally "quit." I put quit in quotes on purpose. I still once in a while feel a very strong urge to smoke, and it has been something like 25 years ago that I smoked my last smoke.

I stopped because i got sick and just stuck with not smoking, also cutting down drinking also helped because what is a drink without a cig?! A guy i know said the best way was to start eating lychees. Because it keeps your mouth and fingers occupied. Lychees are fiddly to peel and have an interesting taste, so whenever you want a cigarette start peeling a lychee! I don't like the flavour or texture of them myself but it worked for him so maybe give it a go.