Any tips for giving up smoking?

LeJosh said:
He has nothing to apologise for.
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He asked for the truth and I gave it to him, then mocked me for it. Op, carry on smoking you probably will anyway no matter what any of us say. Cut the nonsense, if you really want to quit then don't smoke. Don't ask for advice over it, do whatever suits you best.
 
Lakeland said:
lol @ the strange dreams, I forgot all about them!
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Some of those were trippy as sin, you go to sleep for 8 hours and it feels like you have been running away from gigantic frogs for 8 hours. I hated it.

Just quit, its not that hard if you actually want to. 20 Lambert a day to nothing. Lambert, I know.
 
sponge999 said:
He asked for the truth and I gave it to him, then mocked me for it. Op, carry on smoking you probably will anyway no matter what any of us say. Cut the nonsense, if you really want to quit then don't smoke. Don't ask for advice over it, do whatever suits you best.
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I sense handbags being used.:p
 
Try one of them books, I did years ago all be it I started again but it really helped me further down the line.

I had my last smoke on Jan 1st just gone. I haven't told myself I'm quitting or anyone else, I just take each day one at a time. The last thing I want is more pressure telling everyone so I've kept it to myself also. I chucked away all my fags, rollups and lighters so there's no temptation. If I get a craving I'll do something to take my mind off it, make a brew, wash-up, shower, phone a friend or family, play on pc.
Just take each day one at a time, it does get easier. Try one of the books, only a few quid. Do it on your own, don't try and give up with someone else, if they fail you will think it's ok for you to give in. It only takes one drag and you end up right at the beginning again!
 
davedudes said:
Thanks guys, suppose the medication can do only so much got to want to give it up.

Cheers once again.;)
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This might sound silly, but bear in mind that the guts of the matter is psychological. Especially so in your case, as you've said yourself.

Stop thinking about stopping smoking as giving up. Giving up is at best failure and often worse than failure. It doesn't help to label your goal as being at best failure. With your labelling system, you are going to fail because those are the only options. If you smoke, you have failed. If you don't smoke then you have given up, which is at best failure.

If you don't smoke, you are not giving up. You are succeeding in what you set out to do. Completely the opposite thing.

Yes, it's just words. But words are the expression of thought and thus very relevant to the psychological aspects of drug addiction.

Being around long-term smokers can help, because you can see, over and over again, how their stupid and callous drug use has degraded their lives. After a few days you'll smell them too and it's nasty. Smokers don't realise how strongly and how badly they smell.

Go to a couple of funerals. That gives you a perspective. Smoking tobacco is a particularly harmful way to take a drug that does very little for you. It doesn't even get you high in any way. Really, what's the point?

When you want to smoke, look at the people nearby. Is it worth making them suffer and maybe condemning them to a foul death, just so that you can feed your drug habit in a particular way? That is the reality of the decision you're making.

In short, try to mentally step back from pure habit and make a decision. If you do, you will decide to not smoke. It's expensive, it's harmful to you and others and it's pretty much pointless. It's almost solely addiction for the sake of addiction.

When you're craving your drug habit, do something else. Anything else, as long as it occupies your mind. Human minds are pretty much one thing at a time, so if you focus on some other thing it will reduce your craving for your drug use.

Reward yourself for success. The obvious thing to do is to use the money you're not spending on drugs to buy something fun for yourself. Seperate it out from the rest of your money, so you can see it. You can't need it, because you've been burning it on your drug habit. So put it to one side where you can see it. It's the psychological thing again. Craving the drug use? Look at the jarful of cash that's the money you haven't spent on your drug habit. That's your new PC. Your holiday. Your big TV. Your spare car to mess about with. Your kit to improve your existing car. The deposit on your house. It's whatever you want. It's your spare money available for whatever will be the most fun for you.

Feed this page accurate information:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/protect/demotivator/

For example, if you spend £7 a day on your drug habit, over a normal working life you'll spend over £110,000 on it. If your gross pay is £20,000 a year, you're working 10 weeks a year to pay for your drug habit.

People tend to overlook small payments even if they are repeated. That page shows how much repeated small payments add up.

Every time you don't give in to the drug habit you have acquired, it becomes easier. The worst is over in about 3 days, because that's how long the physical addiction lasts. For those 3 days, you get both physical and psychological addiction. After those 3 days, it's all psychological. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's easy, but it's definitely less hard than both of them together.

You can change a psychological addiction, an engrained habit, by not doing it. It's like a huge snowfall that's blocking your driveway, drifted yards deep. Daunting to begin with, but if you keep at it you will clear a way.
 
Reading Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is how I did it.

20 a day for ten years and I gave up overnight. Almost 2 years ago that way, not touched one since.
 
I gave up over a month ago and have to say so far its been easy :) went on patches for 2 weeks then stopped because i thought id give it a go and aside from a slight morning craving its easy. best way is to get rid of all ashtrays, lighters ect out the house, pump it full of air freshner and wait till you start getting your tastebuds back along with making it easier to breathe.

Smoked for 24 years, 20 of those on rolling tobacco and went from being heavy smoker to none overnight.
 
Find something that you would rather spend the cash on instead!

I quit about 4 years ago now and haven't smoked since. I realised that I was spending about a fiver a day on ciggys and that with that money I could buy about 5 new vinyls a week! So I stopped smoking and now have the best part of 1000 records! :)
 
I only smoked when i drunk in pubs ,then i stopped drinking in pubs ,now i drink at home but dont smoke , my will power is pretty bad ,dont think i could stop drinking ,but at least i dont smoke
 
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