Quitting Smoking

div0 said:
It all depends how determined you are that you've smoked your last ever cigarette.

Like you said, previously when you tried to quit you were 'stressed at work and just 'had' to have a fag.'

Unless you're absolutely determined to quit, then you'll always have 'excuses' like this, where it's easy for you to give in and start up again. You have to be sure that the every time you get the craving and you are on the edge of lighting up, that you're going to have the mental strength to not pick the cigarette up.
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Precisely.

We both work for different companies but in the same office complex. We're also both very competitive with one another, and not wishing to be out done I think the competitiveness is where the will power shall come from. Personally I hate the tight chest, high cost, coughing up all manor of **** in the morning, the inability to exercise with people three times my age. Most of all though I hate the idea of being beaten by the girlfriend - so if one of us does crack it won't be me :P
 
Will power should be enough.
That is how me and my then girlfriend (now wife) did it and neither of us have smoked for about 7 years now.

One Saturday evening we were outside having our "final cigarette".
When we had finished we literally threw-away all that we had left.
With two of us both stopping it was so much easier - neither of us wanted to let the other one down.

After the first 3-4 days the major cravings are out of the way - the cravings that really hurt.

I'm sure these patches and gum can help some people - but you've got to WANT to give up and if you really want to then give willpower a go.
 
Competitive element is the future :D Not smoked since Tuesday, neither has my other half and we've just managed a weekend away in Wales without a single argument.

As said before, neither of us want to let the other one down :D

stoofa - you're dead right, the cravings are already getting better, friday was the worst (day 4), but today it's been dead easy. Been to Caernarfon castle today and on a cruise of the menai strait - I think keeping your mind occupied is also a big factor.

Well done for giving up on willpower alone!
 
Will power.

Right now im on the verge of quitting smoking. I'm not needing patches etc... Just "extra" chewing gums.

And it's Ramadan aswell. And since im fasting during the day and not needing to smoke/drink/food, it's giving me an advantage.

Not had a smoke since Tuesday night. So far so good. If i doo get any cravings then i just have a chewing gum.
 
See your GP / local NHS trust. Get Champix on prescription. Incredibly high success rate.

Turned me from a 20 year smoker to completely non-smoker in 10 weeks. Now 'clean' for 18 months :)
 
I'm pretty sure there's a big drive for GPs to get smokers to quit. You'd really benefit from going to see your GP about it. They do a support pack and a load of other little goodies to help you.

Personally, I'd stay away from Champix unless necessary given the bad press/warnings that go with it.
 
I have got big ass boxes of nicotine gum on prescription from simply popping into my local pharmacist. They made me blow into a machine which told me i had '6' on the carbon dioxides scale and they want to see me again in a week, and i must blow lower than that, ideally 0.
 
shoes said:
I have got big ass boxes of nicotine gum on prescription from simply popping into my local pharmacist. They made me blow into a machine which told me i had '6' on the carbon dioxides scale and they want to see me again in a week, and i must blow lower than that, ideally 0.
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What happens if you don't get lower than 6? Reckon they'll go china style and imprison you?
 
Give up drinking for the duration. Invest in lollipops or gum or something to help address the 'habit' side.

From the biological, just go cold turkey and be ****ing stubborn about it. You've decided you're going to quit, you've quit. That's all there now is to it. You were a smoker, now you're not.
 
You can do it.
Unless you want yellow fingers, yellow teeth with smelly hair and a terrible cough.

You will find it infinity easier to get up in the mornings without all the chemicals clogging up your brain.
 
shoes said:
Yes, and Nix runs the place...
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You may think I'm not being overly helpful, but seriously the best advice you can ever get on this is to stop fannying about with patches, gum and whatnot and focus on getting a part of your brain to click.

You've decided you want to quit, so quit. You're ultimately the one who'll put a cigarette to your mouth again. If you're not going to stick to your guns about the whole thing (which is why I say avoid drinking for now), then why are you even bothering?

Seriously, be stubborn. It's mind over matter. All the smokers who dither and complain it's too hard are just too weak to follow through. Are you strong or are you weak?

Man up and ****ing conquer it.
 
Nix said:
You may think I'm not being overly helpful, but seriously the best advice you can ever get on this is to stop fannying about with patches, gum and whatnot and focus on getting a part of your brain to click.
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totally. You need to convince your self that is what you want to do. You need to beleive it is the right thing to do. When you convince your brain, you just won't WANT a cigarette any more.

I found I had done this, and what was finally stopping me was braking the habit, the fag in the car, the fag at break, the fag after lunch the fag after dinner etc. Just 'don't' have these and you will begin to break the physical habit.

avoid drinking, and mixing with other smokers
 
I know I easily spend over £1000 on cigs a year, I would ideally like to still smoke when I am out on the lash but not feel the need to have one every few hours.

Will go on holiday or get a nicer car.
 
Nix said:
You may think I'm not being overly helpful, but seriously the best advice you can ever get on this is to stop fannying about with patches, gum and whatnot and focus on getting a part of your brain to click.
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Well said. Give up and after a few weeks you'll wonder why you hadn't stopped sooner.
 
FenixTorch said:
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is the only thing that worked for me.

Can't recommend it enough.
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Wish this worked for me, I understood what he was talking about and how it made sense. But I also felt like he was talking to you as if you were stupid. Jedi mind tricks never work on the weak minded :(
 
Motivation is the biggest factor in quitting smoking.

If you don't really want to quit you won't no matter how many sticks of gum you chew or how many patches you stick to your arm.

Find something that makes you really want to quit and focus on that and you will do it.

I smoked 30 a day for over 25 years and quit cold turkey 3 years ago. No gum or patches or any other quitting aids.

My motivation was spite pure and simple, me and the wife quit together and she failed after 3 days, she called me from work to tell me she was smoking and it ticked me off because she did not even attempt to get my support she just started again. So I thought ok then I'll be damned if I am going to fail so out of pure spite I never smoked again.

Get your motivation and you can't fail
 
Nix said:
You may think I'm not being overly helpful, but seriously the best advice you can ever get on this is to stop fannying about with patches, gum and whatnot and focus on getting a part of your brain to click.

You've decided you want to quit, so quit. You're ultimately the one who'll put a cigarette to your mouth again. If you're not going to stick to your guns about the whole thing (which is why I say avoid drinking for now), then why are you even bothering?

Seriously, be stubborn. It's mind over matter. All the smokers who dither and complain it's too hard are just too weak to follow through. Are you strong or are you weak?

Man up and ****ing conquer it.
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Ah no, it was a joke, I know you're 100% correct. So far so good too, tomorrow will be the end of the first week and it's getting easier.
 
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