quit smoking?
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- kilroii0
I've recently just started again.
It feels great!
- shapeaspect0
Go Digital
- pavlov0
go out for a run, when you notice you can't run for a mile even, that should inspire you... helped me quit.
- whereRI0
err...
In clinical trials, the most common side effects of CHANTIX include:
* Nausea (30%)
* Sleep problems (trouble sleeping, changes in dreaming)
* Constipation
* Gas
* VomitingThese are not all the side effects of CHANTIX. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
no thanks
- six0
- Projectile0
you just gotta develop a "HELL NO" attitude about it. so basically whether your buddy you quit with is having "just one" or it's your birthday or you've just shagged Kate Moss and she's having one, you've gotta just mentally scream "fucking hell just stop it!! fuck off!!!" to the little voice that starts dreaming up excuses. and just keep it up. forever. it gets a lot easier as you go.
seriously, i actually say those exact words in my head every time like an angry mantra. it works
- plash0
quit cold turkey about a month and a half ago. i was a chain smoker. about pack/ pack and a half every day. I've only started going out to bars again and really thats i when i get them cravings.
i feel *a lot* better and i truly believe this time it will stick. Like i said, the cravings only happen when i drink and i have broken the habitual barrier. (which was a big crutch.)
yay..
- ali0
I gave up many years ago unfortunately it took death to help me.
I watched someone close to me at the young age of 40 die a slow and painful death from lung cancer leaving behind 4 children and a baby. I see smoking as slow suicide and it breaks my heart to see my family or friends deliberately hurting themselves. When I see someone smoking I see the image of this woman laying lifeless in her hospital death bed, her son sitting beside her, forsaken, holding her shrivelled skeletal hand asking 'why?'Make your decision once in this moment... if it is to quit then try this if you like, it worked for a friend of mine;
- Find a piece of paper and pen
- Write at the top:Today [insert date] I have made the decision to quit smoking I am doing this because...
[insert list of all the reasons you can think of why you want to quit]- After this write:
I [insert name] from this day forward promise to myself for the reasons above that I will no longer smoke cigarettes.
Signed faithfully,
[sign here]- Keep this piece of paper in your wallet and every time you feel like a smoke take it out and read it to remind yourself you have already made the decision.
Good luck and don't doubt yourself!
- mikotondria30
Coming up 2 years quit, after using Chantix (aka Champix in UK)..
I was totally a hardcore fully-addicted smoker, who would smoke cigarettes I found on the ground if I was really skint..
The Chantix really did stop me wanting another cigarette, and as I weaned off it I just learned to do something else when a smoking craving/situation came up. If you don't smoke, then the feeling of wanting to smoke goes away.
Sure I might get a couple of times a week when I could really do with that bump, but I'm so happy that I am able to not give into it.
All the cliches are true:
You really do have to want to give up ( more than you want a cigarette),
It DOES get easier the more times you don't give-in.
When you get a craving it will go away within 5-10 minutes *WHETHER YOU SMOKE A CIGARETTE OR NOT*
That last one is you ticket out of it - fully understand that and you're90% of the way there. The other 10% is just - not - putting - the - thing - in - your - mouth - and - lighting - it.
- mydo0
The single best reason i found, was that the beautiful buzz you get from a cigarette is the momentary feeling of not being addicted or craving nicotine. in other words, feeling like a non smoker.
so i started thinking....
"i smoke to feel like a non smoker?"
"what the fuck is the point in that?"
and then I stopped.
- ok_not_ok0
< 1 year smoke free today. Cold turkey and Allen Carr's audio book worked for me. When I was starting to quit, everytime I get cravings I listen to the last chapter. It's like having a buddy telling you that you stronger than the craving and explains to you what the cravings are. Hey it worked for me.
Now I became a running nut. I've gone through 4 running shoes since quitting smoking. GOODLUCK!
- fooler20
It still amazes me people still smoke these cancer sticks.
- DoktorDavid0
Quit nine years ago, via Zyban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu... after thirty years of smoking. Long story, short: cancer sucks; have lost *seven* family members to it and although I may still get it, I'm trying my best not to make it an absolute. Smoking tobacco is addictive, it is meant to be and it is not easy to quit - I still think about smoking every single day. The key? I just don't.
Best immediate result/reward? That first kiss after no smoking for a day or two... "so, that's what I have been missing..." Yes, I put on weight, discovered exercise and proper diet; now I'm down to the same waistline I had when I was sixteen.
Good luck - you're doing the right thing.
- houdou0
I quit about two weeks ago...Damn this is hard! Especially when I am at work. Not even so when socializing.
- slinky0
my mom passed in 2001 from lung cancer at age 50.
:(
- fadein100
I have now done 6 months. still chewing gum though.