I wanted to smoke for seven {7} years! It ain't easy!!
quitting smoking and pool
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I wanted to smoke for seven {7} years! It ain't easy!!
As mentioned the craving only last a few minutes & its the other stuff in cigs that are most harmful not the nicotine. Google e-cig forum lots of help there including vendors etc. I use one & have cut my nicotine level way back. I tried other ways but it never worked. Give it a try, I quit smoking the first week I owned one. Make sure you buy a back up. If one fails or needs charged you'll probably revert to smoking.
Rod
Good luck.
Nicorette gum worked for me. I was a pack-a-day smoker for 40 years (began at 16 and quit at 56..three years ago).
I'm still addicted to nicotine. The gum is just a replacement for cigarettes, but it's a replacement without all the health effects. My stomach aches are gone and my dentist has cancelled a very expensive and time-consuming procedure because my gums have improved.
BTW, Costco has a generic version of Nicorette gum that is about 1/2 the cost.
Nicorette gum worked for me. I was a pack-a-day smoker for 40 years (began at 16 and quit at 56..three years ago).
I'm still addicted to nicotine. The gum is just a replacement for cigarettes, but it's a replacement without all the health effects. My stomach aches are gone and my dentist has cancelled a very expensive and time-consuming procedure because my gums have improved.
BTW, Costco has a generic version of Nicorette gum that is about 1/2 the cost.
Does chewing tobacco count? Lol. Quit, and after 30 days, you won't even know you quit. That's what it takes. 30 days. If you Ned to, quit pool for 30 days, if u can't be around the smoking. Try to find a non-smoking place. Stay out of bars for at least 30 days.
stopped smoking
everyone can quit smoking is it just another choice in life
I stopped smoking 2 years ago 2 packs a day 35 years of smoking
It is not impossible to quit.
MMike
everyone can quit smoking is it just another choice in life
I stopped smoking 2 years ago 2 packs a day 35 years of smoking
It is not impossible to quit.
MMike
Dam'n things went to $.35 a pack, that's all it took for me. Wasn't easy but
glad I did it.
glad I did it.
Try to progressively deacrease the number of cigarettes you smoke during the day. I smoked 15 cigarettes a day for years, now I'm down at 4 a day. I don't feel the need to quit smoking now.
my grandfather is 88 years old now, he quit smoking when he was 55 or something like that, he says he still dreams of smoking. He also says after coffee he still has desire of smoking..
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Just noticed this important thread and wanted to add a few tips.
Keeping a card in your pocket on which you've listed plenty of reasons not to smoke (per the above advice from Dr. Helmsetter via Plainbutt) is a vital key that people, myself included, have used to quit successfully. I read similar advice in Herbert Brean's best seller guide "How to Stop Smoking" back in the late 1960s. In my own case I found that writing the reasons on the blank back of a business card made it very convenient to always have it handy in a shirt pocket.
Additionally, as with the post about drinking a glass of water (not always convenient) and the mention of ingesting Tic Tacs: in Brean's book he advises that smoking is a very oral activity that, via subtle changes in the blood sugar, and slight hormonal stress signals, the smoker's body regularly demands fulfilling (about every 20 minutes on average).
Brean's very effective yet simple tip is to unfailingly have packs of Lifesavers or generic equivalent candies within reach, ready to pop in substitutionally whenever you'd normally habitually feel like lighting up.
Most folks will go through about 4 packs a day of the substituted candies for about the first 2 weeks, then you'll be able to switch to sugar-free versions soon thereafter as the urge to smoke surprisingly diminishes.
If you're a pack-a-day (or more) smoker, as I was from my teens till mid-thirties, you're by the end of the first month amazed at how good food actually tastes when you've stopped smoking. And this by itself gradually takes care of the oral urges as you look forward to good-tasting meals and snacks.
The Lifesavers can literally do what their literal meaning implies. (And that's a great context in which to view using them for at least the first month or several months, until you've beaten what we all know is such a self-destructive activity.)
Arnaldo