Tonight is the night...Quitting smoking.

[Bren]

Well, after smoking for over 20 years it is time for me to attempt the big quit again. Have just (hopefully) puffed away my last smoke. I have got patches beside my bed and also gum...
Now the hard thing is the actual quitting, I am deliberately outta smokes and have discarded any part packets of tobacco about...My last try was plain old cold turkey and I managed for two months...lets hope I can do better this time....

[skelstar]

Good stuff. Good luck

[Toaster]

Go hard out dude and quit that stuff.... huge waste of good money better spent on bikes!

[Mikkel]

Go for it! If you can't beat the smokes you have to face that you're just another addict...

[canarlee]

ffs just quit!



all these patches and gum ideas are ok, but they are for week willed people and very few actually quit with them.


if ya wanna, ya will. simple.

[yod]

hang in there mate....i gave up 5 months ago, best thing i ever did....

this worked for me: hope it helps for you too
just remember, when you get the craving, you only have to hang in there for a few minutes, then it subsides - if you dont give in, the cravings will get further and further apart....after a few days I found it pretty easy

good luck mate, you dont need it and you'll live to ride that much longer!!

[Bren]

all these patches and gum ideas are ok, but they are for week willed people and very few actually quit with them.

Just another tool in the arsenal of quitting, i agree with you basically....90% of the quitting is all about where your head is at...

[Lteejay]

Good on ya

The biggest thing for me when giving up was the thought that I would never ever ever again have a cigarette. The thought was like chopping off an arm or losing a best friend - pretty fucken dreadful and enough to send you straight back to the ciggies. So what I did was give myself 1 cigarette on a sat night - this way that feeling of 'never again' wasn't there. Those first few months, I hung out all week waiting for Sat night and when it came - wahoo. But as the months went by, that Sat night fag started to taste pretty horrible, until they started to make me feel sick and eventually one Sat night I threw up and never had another. Dont get me wrong, it was still hard after that but it got easier, and that was the mechanism that got me through those first horrible 4mths.

Just my experience - but it might help.

It does get better, it really does but you just gotta do the time. Now 3 yrs and more later and I am no longer blowing the cost of a pack of cigerretes every day (smoked since a young teen for a good 12-13 years or so). I still have the odd nastalgic moment, but I know if I ever have one puff, I'd go back to it, so I dont ever allow myself to have even that. Best thing I ever bloody did.

Good luck dude

[peasea]

ffs just quit!



all these patches and gum ideas are ok, but they are for week willed people and very few actually quit with them.


if ya wanna, ya will. simple.

What he said;
I went cold turkey back in '81, still don't miss it.
Think of your lungs and your wallet; take a deep breath and spend the cash on your bike.

[Luckylegs]

Good on ya !!!

Good Luck.... Nah, you dont need no stinkin good luck, If ya ready, you'll be sweet.

[Magua]

Good luck. Stick it out, it's worth it in the long run.

[Her_C4]

Hmmm good luck mate. Everyone who smokes has different triggers and if you can identify what they are and make sure you have a backup plan in place for those 'moments' - you may find that you are halfway there.

I smoked for (well) over twenty years and attempted several times to give up (20 gazillion attempts or thereabouts by my reckoning... ).

I read a book by Allen Carr on how to give up smoking and chucked it away after I had finished reading thinking that it didn't help at all, and everything he said was logic and commonsense (and I am the queen of logic and commonsense so I knew it all....) or did I??

To cut a long and potentially very boring story short - it took me a month or so from the date of finishing the book to fully give up but I haven't looked back. I kept thinking of passages and themes in the book and relating it to myself and then one morning I woke up and I knew this was the day.

I guess the biggest piece(s) of advice I can give you is..

Identify the moments where / when you would 'normally' find yourself reaching for a cigarette and do something / go somewhere different.

If you can - don't rely gum or patches. They are replacing the nicotine /chemicals that your body is craving, when you find yourself short of them or without, the chances are that you will find it easier to light a cigarette and puff away.

Read Allen Carr if you have a ken to.. all of it. Then put it away.

Don't give up trying to give up - remind yourself as many times as necessary everyday that your goal is to become and remain smokefree. Remember that your breath will smell better, your mouth taste fresher, your clothes will not stink, your teeth will stay whiter for longer and you will look more attractive (regardless whether you are male or female).

If you have a smoke don't punish yourself and decide that you may as well smoke the rest of the packet - start again and again ... as many times as it takes.

Kia Kaha and congratulations for taking the hardest step already...

[Krusti]

My advice..............do what ever you need to and use what ever aid you need to get you there. What works for one may not work for the next.

It is the end result that matters, not how you got there.

[kevfromcoro]

Good onya ..I think all smokers would like to stop..
Cost and health are a big issue..
Mayebe we could keep this thread for support of people of wanting to give up;
Just a thought
KEV

[Romeo]

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