Help me with your quitting smoking success stories!

[blazer]

I smoked a few times when young so gave up a few times, it's just as hard as if smoking for years. If you have stopped for a few days you are on your way - I used different methods, the first time I saw it as if the 'Devil' was tempting me, ok sounds silly but if it works. I used to really want a fag but if I could work through say 1 hour of temptation, I was ok for the next hour - so on it went.

 

Next time; if I wanted a fag I would buy a packet, spark up and throw the packet away - so each puff cost me a packet. Finally after starting again like a twit on holiday with my mates, I just had to work through it. Strange how the health bit doesn't work because we all know 'just one fag won't hurt'. Another method is to put say a £5 away each day and save up for a treat for yourself but if you spark up you have to put all the money in a charity box.

 

If that doesn't work I will put down some horror stories for you tomorrow if you like. I work in Hospitals so does my wife, if a detailed account of somebody dying will help I will put it down - I can't be done for breaking patient confidentuality, it was my own father.

[Wex]

Some tips here also

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members-only/37931-quitting-smoking-new-post.html

 

 

Good luck fella

[Taupotreeman]

ask the doctor for zyban father in law took this never looked back its been 9 years

 

I'll second that but you have to WANT to give up. I told myself for years that I was going to kick the habit when really I enjoyed my monring smoke too much. Eventually I just decided that this time I'd had enough and that I did want to quit. I got the Zyban from the kwak and from there on in it was pretty easy.

[samthescam]

ask the doctor for zyban father in law took this never looked back its been 9 years

 

I'll second that but you have to WANT to give up. I told myself for years that I was going to kick the habit when really I enjoyed my monring smoke too much. Eventually I just decided that this time I'd had enough and that I did want to quit. I got the Zyban from the kwak and from there on in it was pretty easy.

 

I do want to give up. I want to be fitter, I want to be more sociable, I want to have another 150 quid a week, I don't want to hold my nephew in 3 weeks and make him stink of fags, I dont want to have to explain to any kids I have in the future why it's ok for me to fill my lungs with toxins but they shouldn't.

 

As soft as this sounds, I've done everything to make excuses to stop all of the above helping me. If use stress at work, relationship problems and everything else as my excuse for not taking control.

[Taupotreeman]

If it's of any help; they say that it takes two weeks to form a habit. Two weeks to form the habit of smoking , drinking etc. Work on this principle and it takes two weeks to form the habit of NOT smoking. Set yourself the target, day by day, of getting to the two weeks. I know it doesn't help when you're craving but believe me (at least in my case) after two weeks those cravings are disappearing fast.

[John Shutler]

Just stop

[Nat]

Well done and I wish you best of luck.

 

Your chemical addiction is over after 7 days, anything after that is habit...

[treemeup]

i gave up summer 2010, used to smoke half ounce of gv every couple of days. i stopped drinking tea, coffee and alcohol for 3-4 weeks (until i found it easy to have a drink and not crave a ciggy)

 

also don't be giving up......be a non smoker!!

[Ian C]

I stopped cold turkey 5 years ago after 20yrs of smoking, my god it was hard but has been the best thing i have ever done health wise. No way would i go back to those stinking things. I feel so fit now and never get out of breth even on the harder days.

[Pete Mctree]

I quit sept last year. It's easy if you want too.