Advice on quitting smoking?

[GOONR]

...putting your mind into freewheel mode and think of nothing - switch the bastard fully off. It helps you stop feeling like you are going mad.

Steve

Yeah that's the bit that is getting me, most of today I haven't been too bad, but every now and then I feel like I've gone nuts.

[kevfromcoro]

JUST done 48 hrs,,without a smoke..
there is a lot of good advice in here..but it doesnt make things easier...
how you going GOONR???
i have heard it is easirer to give up herron.
dont know never had that....
keep going................
hope it get a little more easy soon
about to strangle something...KEV

[Lilly2w]

Well done! soon you will know how great it feels when someone asks if you have a lighter and you can finally say "no sorry I DON'T SMOKE"! And you'll be surprised how stress effects you LESS when you are smoke free (nicotine craving + stress = homicide)

I LOVED my fags, but was crazy thing to keep doing, I promised myself when I quit that I could start again if I became terminally ill or got a life sentance (wasn't exactly rational first few days ) But now I'm so over them I don't think anything would make me start again.

[McJim]

Read the Allen Carr book. He sounds like a knob but it really does work.

[Cheshire Cat]

surround yourself with people who dont smoke.its working for me

[GOONR]

JUST done 48 hrs,,without a smoke..
there is a lot of good advice in here..but it doesnt make things easier...
how you going GOONR???
i have heard it is easirer to give up herron.
dont know never had that....
keep going................
hope it get a little more easy soon
about to strangle something...KEV

Hey, well done. I still haven't had a smoke either, don't think any of my friends are talking to me at the moment though

[vifferman]

The fact that there's a thread on this topic at all indicates you're not really committed to the idea of giving up. Like others have said, if you really WANT to stop, just do it! Don't look for others to help you - it HAS to come from you deciding, "This is the end of it", and sticking to it. If you're always looking for help, or an easier way out, you're never going to manage it, and you'll always be finding a convenient reason for having another one:
"I was feeling really bad".
"I was pissed".
"It was too hard with my flatmates all smoking".
"Someone offered me one, and I forgot I was giving up."

In the final analysis, it boils down to making a decision and sticking to it. Everything else is just procrastination, self-indulgence and weakness of character.
Man up, decide to stop, and do it.

Smoke or don't.

[GOONR]

Read the Allen Carr book. He sounds like a knob but it really does work.

The missus went and bought this yesterday (she is stopping as well) , a few people round work reckon it helped them. I've gone and got the patches as well, hopefully that will stop me being so ratty with everyone.

[Headbanger]

so......was anyone successful?

[GOONR]

so......was anyone successful?

Errrr, nope

Stopped for about 2 months, got made redundent and started again. As vifferman said "weakness of character". I take my hat off to Nasty, obviously has more self control than I do.

I am going to have another go but I'm not ready for it right now. (Waits for the bashings)

[SARGE]

free copy of Allen Carrs Quit Smoking book if anyone wants it



i dont wanna quit... id rather the Gubbmint made it compulsory from the age of 6

[Slyer]

If everyone smoked, dying early or being short of breath wouldn't be a problem.
Everything is relative.

[Mom]

Smoking is not good for you.

Smoking is becoming socially unacceptable. (I actually spelled that smacking, go figure that).

Smoking is expensive.

Smoking provides the government with millions of tax dollars.

We are encouraged to give up the filty habit, by buying hugely expensive patches, gum, pills etc. If it truely is such a huge health concern the government would make these supports free to smokers, but think of the money they will lose.

Smoking is a choice and an addiction. You choose to smoke and it keeps you smoking. I need to give the baccy away and have had a couple of aborted attempts, apparently I was not actually ready to give up. I am close to ready now.

No amount of "help" is going to stop me smoking, I am the only one who can.

[TLDV8]

If everyone smoked, dying early or being short of breath wouldn't be a problem.
Everything is relative.

You forgot the stink.

All smokers stink,if i had the phone number of every bird i had been out with i would ring and apologize.
Not one smoked now that i think about it.

Nothing changes,it is an addiction,nothing more,nothing less.
If you do not want to beat it,you won't.

Think about it,suck smoke in,blow it out..WTF.

6+ years smoke free now and smell like roses.

[SARGE]

If everyone smoked, dying early or being short of breath wouldn't be a problem.
Everything is relative.

Egg Zachary!


im going out with a ciggy in one hand , a Big Mac in the other and a beercan shaped dent in my forehead


i enjoy it .. im addicted and im fat and happy


hold your breath