What's the best way to give up smoking?
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Honestly, cold turkey.. Since July.2 smoke free for one year.
I used gum first, but started walking and exercising. eventually
it will get your mind off it. If you crave a cig. sit back or play a game on the computer, it takes about 5 minutes for the craving to go away. Breathe deeply. Just keep busy. It will get easier as time goes by. Its hard but I feel so much better and now realize how bad I smelled after a cigarette, when I smell other people.
I am not a non-smoking fanatic, but it is easier if you surround yourself with non smokers.
Good Luck to you.
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Self determination
dunno still trying dont plan it, just do it suddenly..
Quit, I did it on the 1st of Feb this year, no f'ing patches or any of that nonsense, just give up and NEVER smoke another.
I am a nurse, I see the effects on people and how they scream and cry and writhe in agony as they battle cancer from smoking. It makes you physically sick to see the effects.
Just stop.
Remember what Mark Twain said .
"Quitting smoking is easy . I've done it hundreds of times."
wish i bloody knew !! but when i did have ago last year the patches were brill and those inhalators with nicotine in were good as you could hold it like a cigarette. you get it all free at the doctors and see them 1 a month for help advise .. good luck . just stop, simple, no method, no procrastination, no gum, no patches. Just make your mind up,
save the money you would have spent and watch it grow.
don't buy any Julie is right - don't start but, if you have started then jan t is right - just give up without planning it. That's what the experts say anyway. The most successful quitters just decide to do it there and then and that's it. Mind you, I have never even held a lit cigarette so how would I know? But I DO know that I told my husband (then a new boyfriend) that it was the cigarettes or me. He chose me 20 years ago - thank goodness - and he just quit there and then and hasn't smoked since. If anyone reading this is trying to quit I wish you every success.
Have you tried Zyban? You take 1 a day for 6 days (carry on smoking) then 2 a day with 12 hours in between and around 15 to 17 days later you stop. It really is good 3 in my family have used this and they all said it was as if something just switched on in their head. It doesn't bother them being around smokers either, and they have had no craving.
There are side affects for some people one is pains in the chest if this happens you must stop taking them. Unfortunately this happened to me and I thought it was my heart but after a check up at the hospital the said it was the Zyban and not my heart. It was scarey because I didn't know about the pains but hey it worked for 3 out of 4 of us.
Look at the adds, statistics and the death rate. Even the Cigarette packets carry very large health warnings.
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