I need help quitting smoking

Also if the gum makes you want to puke, try the patch or one of those nicotine inhalers.

Other than that the only other tips i could give you are the ones I’ve found here on the internet ( drink lots of water, exercise ).

Good Luck 

try picking up another habit. a guy i know started eating those white life saver mints. he cant stop eating them but he doesnt smoke any more.. good luck

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Marx said:
good luck with the microscopy 

Dude can’t buy his own cigs or niccorette he’s not 18. Ban! Ban! jk.

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-QuantumMeltdown

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

  -Mark Twain

“The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome

Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That’s what livin’ is to me
That’s what livin’ is to me”
Jimmy Buffett

I’m sorry if this is to obvious of an answer, but to quit smoking, stop it! Do not smoke. to not be smoking.. there is no other way..

unless you do not quit, you can not quit..

a tips. If you think you have stopped smoking, if you only have stopped buying smoke.. well.. you will still be smoking, just having no smoke..

and then, one could go for weeks, not having smoke, thinking one has quit, and when the offers a smoke, one can not say no, as one still smoke, but quit buying it for weeks, and really got a need for it..

there is but one way to quit smoking.. It is to quit smoking!

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Disclaimer!?

i agree with gomp, there’s no easy answer. Accept the fact that you will never stop fiending for cigs, but know that the longer you go without them, the more you will have at stake to not do it again. Every time you crave a smoke and dont give in, it’s like punching a cig company big-wig in the nuts. Just look at it that way. If you are young, there is evidence that your lungs can fully recover from the damage that has been done by cig smoke. Take up skateboarding or martial arts,bike riding, something that clashes with smoking and strengthens your body.

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http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/”The object of this book is to get you into the frame of mind in which, instead of the normal method of stopping whereby you start off with the feeling that you are climbing Mount Everest and spend the next few weeks craving a cigarette and envying other smokers, you start right away with a feeling of elation, as if you had been cured of a terrible disease.”

Comment buy a reader left on amazon:

“Simply unbelievable. I vowed to stop smoking before my 30th birthday (later this year) and after a few failed attempts using willpower, decided to see if the hype about Mr. Carr’s books was true. I had heard that by the time you reach the end of the book, you just stop smoking, as if by magic. I was convinced that I would be the one sucker who read the book and just carried on puffing away – to be honest I almost hoped I would, such was my inability to imagine my life without fags. As it was, I was on a beach holiday at the time – usually a prime smoking time for me – finished the book halfway through the hol and – yes, haven’t smoked since. I’ve had no withdrawal symptoms, don’t miss it at all – in fact hardly think about it at all. I am so incredibly happy and relieved at having stopped. I am loving each and every thing about being a non-smoker. It’s difficult to explain exactly how he does it but I think that what worked for me was the fact that he basically de-mystifies smoking, dealing with each and every argument, issue or angle, without being a nag or having a holier-than-thou approach. On the contrary I really appreciated the fact that he’d been a heavy smoker himself – and knew all the little habits and quirks that you develop as a smoker to keep justifying why you keep smoking. I think that the trick is to really think about what you’re reading and re-read it if necessary until it makes sense. What has been especially fab is the fact that I haven’t found myself worrying once about starting up again. I simply can’t imagine myself smoking again – not even that odd sneaky one at a best-friend’s wedding. I always thought that I wouldn’t be the same old me without my ciggies, but now I’ve realised that I am exactly the same – only healthier. And I am loving it! If you really want to stop smoking then I’d say that this is the only way to go. ”

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Edited by Sinbad (06/24/05 10:44 AM)

I started slowly weaning myself off cigarettes a little over a year ago. At that time, I was a 1/2 to 3/4 of a pack a day smoker. Today I allow myself to smoke one cigarette every few days, a very non-specific schedule- usually I save it for after a good, long cannabis-smoking session, during a shroom trip or some other special occassion. I used what is called “the cessation technique” among addiction specialists: this is simply a gradual enlongation of time between cigarettes. There are literally thousands of potential triggers for a heavy smoker to have a cigarette. Most of these are small, passing thoughts triggered by a wide range senory perceptions- anything from a gesture or words to objects or sounds/smells. I have found that by consciously ignoring these minor triggers, it soon becomes possible to eliminate all but the primary or ritual cigarettes. The hardest for me to get rid of was the infamous after-meal cigarette; a meal would always feel incomplete without that capper. The hardest cigarettes to not smoke are these “mandatory” cigarettes. You must convince yourself of the fact that there is no such thing as a mandatory cigarette, and as you wean off, NEVER smoke at these conditioned intervals. It doesn’t matter if you get stuck at 5 smokes a day, as I did, as long as they are not smoked at ritual event-times. Also begin to avoid the intermeadiate, more informal ritual times, such as before/after class/work and while waiting for something/someone. Get used to the idea of not lighting up at the same time as others- cigarette smoking as a social event is your arch-nemisis. A final thought- don’t tell yourself you are quitting completely; if your anything like me, you really don’t have to quit, just slow it down to a reasonable level that won’t have any dramatic negative effect on your physical and mental health and you will find that the mental fixation will all but disappear completely, leaving only an occasional passing thought which is easily ignored. If you can master these thoughts, congradulations- you are no longer Big Tobacco’s helpless pawn and now have an invaluable experience of self-affirmation that no one who “just said no” can claim. If people tell you you’re playing with fire by still having an occasional smoke, tell them return to the safety of their televisions and to let you know when they finally manage to come up with an original thought. please excuse my rambling, but I know you can see it through without any need to depend on capitalists with patches and gum. Peace and good luck!

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“Not only is the universe more strange than we suppose, it’s more strange than we CAN suppose”

– Terence Mckenna, R.I.P.

Once, psychologists conducted an experiment in which they electrified cigarette packs in the attempt to stop smokers by attempting to associate a painful electric shock with cigarettes. It so turned out that the smokers became deathly afraid of cigarette packs, not cigarettes. Hah!

good luck… (no daily ciggies for me since like december last… but it may be time for another chaw…)

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old enough to know better
not old enough to care