Smoking- How to Stop the Addiction (pic)
 

What's the Best Way for You to Quit?

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seriously, what stop smoking method worked for you?

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none yet. still smoking a pack a day. damn nicotine gum tastes like shit and the patch falls off way before the 12 hour perid. Quit smoking sponsor told me that some people actually use duct tape to keep there patch on. The birth control patches are made with much better adhesive. I do hear that patch is killing people though. oh well.

So smoking cigs is the healthy alternative?

The nicotine patch is a way to take in nicotine without smoking. The idea of using the nicotine patch is to allow you to first change the things you do that support your habit before you deal with your addiction to nicotine. Once you're a nonsmoker, you can deal with the nicotine and stop the patch. For it to work, you must carefully follow the directions on how to use it.

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If you want to quit it has to be done cold turkey

i'm starting to consider this an option if things come to worse--> Make non-smoking friends

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Even with this.. she's still smoking!? WTF?

trust me, if it was easy as that, lung cancer would be a thing of the past.
imagine how those long time smokers quit in a sudden manner without
ever turning back. in a gradualy manner, id say YEs

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that's the way the do it

Cold turkey. It's 10% chemical dependence... 90% mental. Make yourself so busy and entertained that you don't have time to think about it, even for a second. After a few days or week, you won't miss it... unless you obsess over it.

Cold turkey.

I never started. Couldnt stand the thought of the government getting rich because I need a stress reliver. Worked real well for me. And anyway, thats what weed is for, and its untaxed. :thumbsup

that pic is brutal

Seems even that won't stop her...

i stopped after 10 years, no gums, no anything. just stopped and never started again. it's all in your head.

and well, seeing my Dad dying from lung cancer probably helped a bit

nasty bitch

To her its like Pringles, once you puff you can't stop. :1orglaugh

Cigarettes are highly efficient nicotine delivery devices and are as addictive as drugs such as heroin or cocaine.

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In relation, it would be interesting to know the real facts behind nicotine addiction.

Nicotine is a stimulant drug, but paradoxically effects of both stimulation and relaxation may be felt. The mental and physical state of the smoker, and the situation in which smoking occurs, can influence the way in which a particular cigarette will affect psychological perceptions. The addictive effect of nicotine is linked to its capacity to trigger the release of dopamine - a chemical in the brain that is associated with feelings of pleasure. However, recent research has suggested that in the long term, nicotine depresses the ability of the brain to experience pleasure. Thus, smokers need greater amounts of the drug to achieve the same levels of satisfaction. Smoking is therefore a form of self-medication: further smoking alleviates the withdrawal symptoms which set in soon after the effects of nicotine wear off. -- ash.org.UK

i know a dude who doesnt smoke but wears the nicotine patches to sleep because he says it gives him vivid nightmares.

that is one nasty bitch.

chew gum

yeah, it appears no stopping here despite those wicked stitches :1orglaugh

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The patch and some hardcore will power..it isn't easy

cold turkey the only way
have some balls and just stop
you can handle it, it isn't heroin
I just quit 4 days ago and it hasn't been easy
When the doctor tells you that you have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency-related (AAT) emphysema
you quit pretty fast if you want to live a few extra years.

I smoked for 23 years but quit last year without problems, now I even hate cigarette smoke

yup cold turkey.
I quit last year.
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My Boss quit cold turkey after 40 years

I smoked for over 30 years...2 and half packs a day for the last 2 years, I've been smoke free for a little over 2 and half months...this is my second attempt at quiting the first time about 2 years ago I made it 2 weeks and gave in, thought I could have just 1 :1orglaugh Any how the way I quit was, I got some nicotine gum and read the directions...then I said fuck the directions (they would have had me so pumped full of nicotine it would not have been funny) Soooo I only took a piece of gum when I really needed it...at first about a piece every 4 or 5 hours...after about 2 weeks I would have about 1 piece a day just to take the edge off and now I take 1 every once and awhile mainly when I drink because I still get a little weak and want a smoke when I drink :1orglaugh ...but the biggest thing with quiting is you have to really want to quit and stick with it I know I can't have just 1 or I'll be smokeing like a mother fucker again...The bottom line is YOU HAVE TO WANT TO QUIT what works for me might not work for you. Just don't give in when you feel like having a smoke and tell yourself I DON'T SMOKE ANYMORE. Also it helps me to remember that it took me 30 years to get this fucked up and it isn't going to fix it self over night it takes along time to get over smoking and you won't feel better right away (you will feel worse for awhile do a google search for nicotine withdrawl so you know what to expect)...but IT IS WORTH IT....GOOD LUCK :thumbsup

That pic gives me the fucking willys man.

it looks that the method ain´t working...

the will power is the difficult part not unless you got some deeper reason
to just stop instantly like dying and have a few days left to live

definitely support from your family cen spell the difference

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I practice the best method.... not starting in the first place. :glugglug

Good for you :thumbsup

Started smoking since college but i wouldn't call it addiction at that time
it was more of a stress reliever for the rest us, though I can admit
even now that i never had any problems quitting at any point in time.
Besides, smoking never runs in our family. It started with a stick then
eventually max of 3 a day. This year, i even manage to smoke only one
cig a week which is a big achievement for me. Here's the worst part, if
you hang with some close friends who most of them smokes, tendency is
I get hooked back again like a speeding ferrari on a highway.

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cold turkey is the only way

problem with nicotine is you build up tolerance to it, so even if you use patches and other nicotine replacements, you're just prolonging things, you're still going to have to go through nicotine withdrawel and just lowering intake will make it harder, because you're cravings will only intensify.

you just have to take it one day at a time, keep yourself busy, try not to think about it at all.. eat a LOT if you can, eat mints or anything that doesnt go well with smoking too.

best thing to do though is to quit with someone else, it makes things much easier when your with someone who's going through the same thing.

and you have to have a reason to quit, it cant just be "because I should", you have to think about your family, your kids, your kids kids.. you dont want you're loved ones to sit around you one day on a bed while your so thin and dying that they can see your bones and organs through your skin.

Just remember whether its been 2 years, 20 years, or more.. the hardest part of quitting is the first 3 days, the next 2 weeks are just mental, after that smoking isnt even a second thought most the time.

it takes 18 days of a repetitive action to form a habit, so 18 days of non-smoking should start you on your non-smoking habit :)

Furious_Female and I quit this month, we've both tried before but it was much easier doing it together, so the best thing to do is find someone to quit with, if your wife or girlfriend smokes.. ask them to quit with you, then spend the next 3 days attached at the hip, find as many things to do together as you can and dont think about smoking :)

BINGO...was his name.
i used www.quitnet.com for their 24/7 free support, helped alot. the first 7 days sucks ass, but after a month, its all gravy.

however, i believe that you'll only stop smoking when you WANT to. If you dont want to stop (i mean truly sick & tired of it), then you'll relapse later.

Last weekend when I went out drinking and partying at a strip club (wild night lol) i had like 7 cigs from a friend of mine....but i also knew that I'd leave it there at the strip club and not smoke at home for a million different reasons, and i havent :) Its been about a year since I quit and I honestly have no desire to pick up the HABIT again. But I know that if im in a social situation, that I am strong enough to deal with a few smokes and still be smoke free the next day. :2 cents:

That sends cold chills through my spine

congrats, what method worked for you?

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have some god damn self control and know when its time to quit.

didnt look like it helped

Midnight, March 5th 2002. I smoked the last cig I had in the pack. Never bought anymore. This was after smoking 20 years. You can try all you want. You'll never quit, until you truly want to.

Man its been 32 long days for me. THe only way I did it was to be out cold in a hospital for 17 days! I'm still keeping it going though, still have cravings like you wouldn't believe. When do they stop?

i can very well relate to your story :thumbsup
if there's something im proud of, is learning when to say NO

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It IS a tough thing to kick, regardless what others say! People cope differently. I know cause i managed to not start all through highschool and college, but then travelling through Australia it just happened! Then i quit for 3 years! THEN, one stupid night, thinking I was better than the stereotype, i gave into a couple smokes....and have now been smoking again for a year! I'm the biggest Fool I know!

its the best time to try again with the ban coming in

The only people who I know that ever quitted did so Cold Turkey.

at first, i thought the pic was a fake but i guess its not
damn, only shows how hard to kick the habit for the
rest of us

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You can see in the pic it doesn't stop her from smoking, but it shut her up which is even harder to do to most women then quitting smoking!

nothing can stop a chain smoking bitch like her