im finally gonna stop smoking (pic)
 

so i finally had it with smoking, and im down to my last smoke.

i bought a shitload of gum of different flavors to help along the long hard road ahead of me...

http://babagirl.com/gum.jpg

anyone who has stopped smoking, wanna give some pointers/tips on how to kick the habit for good?? :Oh crap :helpme

my sister did some hypnosis stuff, it worked out pretty good for her

smoke!! NOW! SMOKE!!!!!

I managed to beat it with nicotine gum - I smoked for 20 years, and have now been smoke free for a little over a year. The first couple of weeks are the toughest, and I found that being able to grab a piece of nicotine gum whenever I wanted one helped a hell of a lot.

Good luck with your quit smoking quest :) Don't get disappointed if you sneak the occasional smoke, just keep up the mantra "today I am not gonna smoke!"

drink milk whenever you get a craving - it's how I quit

my man's mom also did that, and she hasnt smoked since too. but i cant find anything in Milwaukee that i could go to (the guy she saw was just in town for a day, he travels over the U.S.)

id love to do something like that if i could find somewhere to go.

thanks! and congrats to you on stopping! :thumbsup

right now im drinking milk and smoking a cig. It doesnt match well, thats for sure!

good luck with it, i dont smoke myself so i got no advice for ya

Carrots.
Grapes.
Walnuts
Sunflower seeds

Be sorrouned by them
Nothing wrong with gaining an addiciton to baby carrots.

i stocked up on a ton of friut cuz i heard that smokers that stop, gain weight really fast. so i took out all the crap food out of my house (the boyfriend is PISSED lmao), and stocked up on watermelon, grapes, baby carrots, canolope, fat free pretzels, and of course, the gum.

i think im going to buy a few lollipops too (to kick my oral-fixation habit).

you might not have to actually see somebody in person for it to be effective. My brother also used to smoke and just bought a cd and for a while i didnt see him smoking but he picked up on it again since almost all his friends and his wife smoke

You'll be back..they always try :pimp

do you know what cd he used??

thanks for the support :1orglaugh

I successfully stopped for the past several years. The one thing I suggest is to use the patch or whatever slow released nicotine plan is out there these days. To try to quit cold turkey without the patch...is crazy and too much of a struggle to succeed. Get the patch and ease out of the addiction.

Congrats, and I wish you big luck !!

Hey Baba hit me on ICQ. I want to speek with you about someone in your area.

This August will be 4 years for me. :) I used the nicotine gum for slightly over three months. I don't think I could have done it w/out the gum. I was a heavy smoker who had smoked for many years.

Something that helped me was simply deep breaths and really being aware of the breathing. To feel it inside you. When I'd do that, it would help take my mind off the immediacy of the craving by focusing on something else, and I would realize how much clearer my lungs were than they had been. How much deeper I could breathe.

Which was help in and of itself.

Good luck! :)

i hope thats sugar free gum, unless you want to rot your teeth

thats an awesome tip (breathing in really deep). thanks!!!! and congrats on your almost 4 yrs now! :thumbsup

oh, hell ya! lol its Carefree Sugarless gum.

i take good care of my teeth (never even had a cavity :) )

:1orglaugh

hey, do you have yahoo messenger?? i hate icq and dont use it anymore lol
if so, hit me up: Babagirls18

damn you got a big ass thumb :)

wtf?? now gfy is making fun of girls thumbs??? did we already get tired of making fun of gfy females faces & tits already that we're now talking about thumbs?????

get the fuck outta here!!! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I'd probably have to find some new friends if I even tried to quite. My 3 roommates and most of my friends smoke. Kinda hard when you are drinking and/or playing poker 5 nights out of the week.

Best of luck to you though!!

good luck

i joined a gym about 2 months ago and i go 4 times a week and i was hoping that workin out for 2 hours a day would make me stop, but it didnt. (althouigh i did cut down alot).

i'm not going out of my apartment for 5 days unless its to the gym and back. out of sight, out of mind (until i can get over the 3 day hump)

Good for you. :thumbsup

That's one curvy thumb you got there.

... you have to be mentaly ready, otherwise you are wasting your time and all you'll get is another failed attempt to quit smoking.

im ready. i've been wanting to quit for months now, and started planning on stopping. like i said, its one of the reasons why i joined a gym.

im ready! :thumbsup

How often do you get manicure'd?

i dont lol i dont waste my money on that shit, my nails usually break from typing on the keyboard 12 hours a day anyways. my thumbnail is pretty long though for once, im sure it'll break off soon lol

hey i think your thumb is sexy, may i lick it?

Yes...Yes she did. :thumbsup

http://hypnotrick.com/main.php?u=&c=&e=

Oh, I just remembered this. :)

http://www.quitnet.com has a cool tool that works as a motivator for me, or did back when I checked it more frequently.

Your Quit Date is: 8/13/2001

Time Smoke-Free: 1336 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes and 23 seconds

Cigarettes NOT smoked: 46792

Lifetime Saved: 11 months, 27 days, 10 hours

Money Saved: $7,598.50

The dollar amount one was the one that always made me smile. ;)

I never did hang out at that site much, because I didn't want to be around posters who were continually posting about not smoking. Made me want a damned cigarette. But there is alot of good info there.

is that virtumike's site? i know he does the hypnotizing stuff..

hey, thats pretty cool! thanks for the link! :thumbsup