Quitting Smoking!

The last sentence says it all !!

Good Luck driver !!

 

Smoking does something for you, in some role. What you'll need to do, is find out what it is that it does for you(reduce stress, reduce anxiety, fill time, etc.), and then find something else to replace that need in place of smoking. Quitting is just as much psychological as it is physical, and good luck!

 

I'm 41 and quit smoking almost two years ago. I started smoking when I was 15.....to be cool. lol

I attempted to quit a couple times...once lasted for seven months. But then a girl broke my heart and I used it as an excuse to start up again.

IMO, if you truly do not want to quit, don't even try. It won't last. My step dad, whom I respected and loved more than any man, fought cancer for four years. During that time he mentioned I should stop smoking. I never did. Then I was there when he died and still didn't. Shortly thereafter, I was doing something and was completely winded. Took me a couple hours to get my wind back, it seemed. I quit right then. I've been in too good of shape to be so "out of shape" feeling.

The only thing I used was a little plastic sucker stick and gum. I chewed the heck out of it and the inside of my mouth for a while. But I knew I WANTED to quit...finally. There are times when I think a smoke would be good but I won't ever go back.

Besides truly wanting to quit, you have to break habits. The after dinner smoke, the smoking while driving, when you wake up with your coffee etc....

Sunflower seeds are wonderful....and of course gum.

Good luck. It's really not that hard once you set your mind to it. You just have to really want to.

 

Not smoking while you drink that morning coffee was the worse for me. I went the chantix route

 

Just quit, if your really want to, just do it.
The gum, patch, pills, is like switching from wine to beer to quit drinking.

I'll tell you something else, I discovered that I was not addicted to tobacco! I was addicted to the crap they put in cigarettes. Switch brands every pack, and buy smokes you don't like, this will break the first chemical dependency. Then you can easily get up one morning and just not have that first smoke.

JUST QUIT! It is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

 

For those hooked bad,(me)-does anyone know anything about those electric cigs,& how well they work??

 

I tried the electric cigarettes. They gagged me and I put them down. You probably have to learn how to use them with light draws.

I tried Nicorette and they upset my stomach from the juice. I tried the patch which didn't do anything. I tried Chantix and it depressed me.

I'm thinking of going cold turkey on the first. I cut my smoking in half today.

 

I am telling you from experience....
I am 42 and had been smoking since,,,hell, I smoked my first cigg ever when I was 7. My dad smoked and got the "C" and died 4 mo's later after he found out... I decided right than and there I was quiting. Lets see, shortly after turning 30, I used Welbutren and quit for 6.5 yrs straight. Well, than I joined the military and got deployed straight out of boot camp. Spent 6mo's in Camp Shelby, MS and within 3mo's I was smoking again. It seemed to me at the time that I had nothing to loose, hell I was going to war and might not ever come back. Never been to war before. Anyway, everyone in the Army, either smokes or dips, most everyone. Got home, and quit probably 3 times between 2008 to sept 2010. Nothing worked and I guess I just wasn't ready.

The truth is, you really have to want to quit, I mean really want it. Cant halfarse it or try, it has to be a forever. Chantix works like nothing else in this world. It works on your mind, not the habbit. I forget that I ever smoked until the subject comes up again, but I never crave like I did when I just went cold turkey.

I wish you the best friend,
SheepDog