EX SMOKERS.... Did you use any alternative type solutions to kick the habit?????
 

The laser treatment, acupuncture and so on?

I do believe that I am ready to kick it and looking to see what peoples experiences have been with these methods

It will never work.enjoy your smokes

Get an Rx for Chantix. It is a miracle drug for quitting.

Is that anywhere like the other one (wellbutrin) ?? I tried that in the past and it made me into a zombie

Ill do research on Chantix but leaning towards staying away from any non essential pres drugs cause it tookme years to wheen of all the shti my shrink had me on

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Just get a new addiction, worked for me.:thumbsup

If someone needs me, I'm in the bathroom. *sniff*sniff*

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just quit cold turkey, buy some juicy fruit and pretend its nicorette.

I tried the nicotine patches, gums, etc. but the only thing that helped me was Chantix. I quit June 1st, 2008.

Hey Juicy I own a clinic in San Diego that does Laser treatment. It's only been in the USA for a few years yet in Europe its been around 32+ years now. It has absolutely zero side effects other than make you very relaxed and tired. Treatment takes an hour including a talk on other steps you need to take after the treatment. There is no pain as it's a Class 3 low level laser. If you left the laser in one place on your skin for an hour all it does is leave a red mark.

There is no cutting just a slight tingling as the laser excites the areas on your ears nose and hands.

If you are ready and I mean if you really want to stop because you know its harming you then you have a great chance at stopping. Over the course of treating 2300 clients in 2007-2008 we got an 80% success rate over a 6 month period.

The big issue you will have is not drinking coffee for at least 3 weeks and no alcohol whatsoever for about the same time. No bars no clubs, but dont worry sex is OK.
If you need more info hit me up on ICQ.

I had this treatment in London 18 years ago and never ever had another Fag ( Cigarette ) Im not saying other methods dont work but most have side effects and Zyban being the best drug so far available is only 20-27% effective. A few people have the will power to stop without the aid of any drugs, hypnosis or lasers but I have only known a few of these lucky people.
Cost for laser treatment is around $400.00, normally just one treatment is all thats needed, follow ups are around $100 if required to keep you calm !

I stopped buying them, and rationed the last ones as long as I could. Then I raided the ashtry. Then I had no tobbaco left anymore.

Rationing was done by leaving the pack downstairs when I came upstairs and vice versa. Forces you to think about it when you do that automatic "reach for a smoke" and realise the pack is not at your fingertips. The fewer you have left, the longer you'll wait, and they you're a non-smoker.

Smoke a joint instead whenever you want a cigarette.

I used nicorette for about 4 months, then went off that cold turkey. At the time I smoked, I did about 2 packs a day.

This August is my 8th year of non-smoking.

I used to smoke, then I quit smoking, and pretend like some hot chick was smoking ME!

just prayer :(

Who's done more research than the good people at the American Tobacco Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you're dead, you can't smoke.

Stopped about 2 months ago and been smoking since i was 13 :)
NICORETTE INHALERS - Now just please tell me how to kick those LOL

Me = smoker 24 years , 2 packs a day
My last smoke was literlly 5 minutes before I went climbed onto the bed for surgery (colon cancer) I woke up wareing a patch and they alternated arm's for the next week. I actually "forgot" I was a smoker while I was in the hospital. At home, I wore the patch for a few more days but basicly, I feel more like I went cold turkey.
HOWEVER ,, 2 years later, I still crave and I even still consider myself a "smoker". I still step outside after a meal (and just stand there) I still go back to whereever I just was because I forgot my smokes (I'll move things looking for my lighter) I have even bought smokes ! All my old routines, I still have.
The tabacky really has a hold of me, and I just can't seem to shake it.

I say.. (as a cancer survivor) if you don't have health concerns, keep smoking.

please re-read what "Jesus Hoobastank Christ" posted above.. 100% acurate

This works :thumbsup

I've been working on it for about a week. The first few days I tried to go cold turkey but felt like a crack feign. Tearing up the house trying to find something to smoke. Picking out tobacco leaves from the carpet and shit.. lol j/k But it was pretty bad. The first few days I had 1 cigarette but I didn't leave the house because I knew as soon as I did I would stop and get a pack. I got sick of fucking candy, snacks, and eating every fucking thing else in the house so I'm trying the scale back attack. Like someone mentioned earlier I've left them in my car so it takes a stroll to get a smoke.

Then you're smokin too many doobs to compensate and probably more damage

Getting another addiction is not the solution. Maybe the new one is not as bad as smoking but you're not solving the problem here.

You can try drinking some water or even better, try to change your habits of anxiety. That's a good self exercise to do and self improve everyday. You need a change on your behave.

Otherwise i think soon or later come back to it or to any other similar shit just because you didn't get to the point.

I worked for a guy had hypnosis and never smoked again.

into my 3rd month without smokes and the Champix made it easy as hell - never felt like I wanted a smoke the whole time.
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and I was a packet-a-day smoker for 18 yrs

I finally think I've kicked this fucker in the nuts

I used patches for 8 weeks.

Forget all the solutions, just STOP. I stopped over 5 years ago and it's still one of the best decisions i've ever made...
If you really understand how bad smoking is and that you don't need it you just stop...

A few of my fathers friends and an uncle of mine quit with Hypnosis.. Really i think it's just a placebo of sorts, if you psych yourself up thinking it will work, it will...

Whether you think you can, or you think you cant... You're right.

I didn't.

Am actually going on laser treatman on sunday,lol wish me good luck:)

Thats what my Dr. said... three times.
Still smoking.

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All that stuff sucks. You need the patch, you need to be strong and you need to stay away from drinking for 6 months. 3 months clean and counting!

That's how I did it. The lightbulb just went off that it was a totally fuckin stupid habit that was guaranteed to kill me in a slow and nasty way. Pulled a pack out of my pocket, crumpled it up and threw it in the trash. Over five years ago now myself and doing just fine without the slow suicide ritual that is cigarettes.

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cold turkey.

will power.

i kicked smoking and drinking with no drgs or medication, if i can, ANYONE can, i was physically addicted to both. couldnt wake up without shaking for a drink and a cigarette... i am sure you arent that bad.

you dont need anything but your WILL

no offense TTH i know you been trying to quit for YEARS, but really, people who use drugs to combat drugs usually never *want* to quit, so the cycle continues.

if you truly wanted to quit you would. there are many of us who were smokers and quit, without any replacement drugs, and if we can do it, you can.

Pure will to quit...

I don't smoke since May and I haven't used anything.

I even casually light one in a bar or something, but never smoked at home and never bought a pack of cigarettes.

And I don't even enjoy it.

You change the mindset, you don't need it, that's it.

I don´t use anything to replace the cigarrete, but what I increased a lot was the consume of water. Now I work with a bottle of water next to me, and I drink almost 3 liters a day. In some way I made a replace of habit, at least during the time I am in front of my computer.

snacks, sex, exercise, chew some gum?

good luck Juicy :)

We just quit about 14 days ago and I feel great. As of yet, no weight gain. We are eating allot of fruits. I usually eat some fruit or stick pretzels. The pretzels are low fat, but I enjoy the fruit more than the pretzels as it fills me up and is healthy to eat....so I eat as much as I want. Salads are great too :thumbsup

The hardest thing is not having it with my coffee in the morning so we switched to West Lake Tea we purchased at the Chinese Cultural Center. With this tea you can still puff and will gradually lose the urge to smoke, but we quit and are using the tea to curb the DT's ....so to speak.
Here is a link.
http://curingherbs.com/stop_smoking_tea.htm

Good luck to ya. You will be surprised on how much money you save and you will be healthier in the end. why did I not quit years ago is beyond me, but I am looking forward to living healthier.

In the end, it takes discipline and keeping yourself occupied to keep your mind off of wanting to smoke.
I also walk and exercise to keep the weight off.

Good luck Juicy :thumbsup

I used Chantix to quit and it worked great for me. It's not for everyone but most are able to kick the habit.

If you want some visual motivation http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Thats awesome, Nikki! You wont believe how you will start to SMELL things again after several weeks/couple months. It's like magic.

I smoked for 23 years mid April it will be 1 year without any... I tried the new stop smoking pill from the doc,s Chantix at first it was ok then 2 weeks down the road I wanted to yank mother fuckers out of their car and beat the living shit out of them for simple stupid traffic stuff lol that ain't me.. I said fuck it and For 1 week I took the salted sunflower seeds still in the shell and sucked on them! I was sound 2 lbs of them bad boys I blew up like a floating body in the Al antic!! LOL

MAN you aint kidding I swear I can smell a fart from a ant lol Food taste so much better I smell better my car and house and my kids smell better it's weird when you smoke you don't know you stink till you quit for a long time my kids go over to my moms and when they come back they smell like a wet ash tray :(

Juicy, I feel your pain man! Been looking around for a good hypnotist for myself and plan on having that appt. to quit right after the forum.

...But in the meantime, I'll meet ya in Phoenix for a schmoke. :winkwink:

Seriously, I wish you much success with quitting sweetie!

lol exactly! When my sense of smell came back, I realised how badly my whole house REAKED.

Formula 409 works well to clean interior walls of the brown gunk that smoke leaves on the paint. You'll need several bottles of it too..

Thanks, things are smelling better for sure. We never smoked in the house, so that is a good thing. Now we just have to take all our good clothes to the cleaners to get out any Cig smell

Just go cold turkey, the pain is the same, all the gimmicks just spread it out overtime... and the longer it takes, the higher the chances that few days into it you will say "fuck it" and start smoking again...

Exactly! If you don't need it, you won't need anything to replace that.

I smoke weed so it was easy to quit....

The best way to quit is to first vow to never buy another pack of cigarettes again....If you need one, bum it off of someone else....

Then you should NEVER say that you'll never smoke again because you'll feel like shit when you slip....Just say that you're not fucking with cigarettes anymore but you never know.....So if every once in awhile, you smoke a cig it's ok...

That's how I did it and now I can't even stand the smell of cigarette smoke.....I'm not saying I'll never smoke again but I can't see myself smoking one right now.....

Ok, now it's time to smoke a puff of weed out of my pipe and go out and get my dick sucked.

Chantix doesn't work if you do not want to quit. If you do not want to quit you will always find some excuse to smoke.