Stop Smoking?

[Greextmacejex]

hi guys!
how can i stop smoking? i tried to quit many times now but somehow i start it again and again..
who knows some tricks? someone tried hypnosis or s.o. like that? i don't believe in a 'magic pill'
but there must be a way.
thx Greextmacejex

[oceanpearl]

hi guys!
how can i stop smoking? i tried to quit many times now but somehow i start it again and again..
who knows some tricks? someone tried hypnosis or s.o. like that? i don't believe in a 'magic pill'
but there must be a way.
thx Greextmacejex

30 years ago my boss told me that I didn't have the guts to quit smoking. I showed that SOB.
After quitting I carried a ful pack of Marlboro's around in my pocket until the beetles started eating thru the pack.
Quitting isn't really a physical thing, anyone can do it. Beating the mental addiction part takes some resolve. I beat the physical part by quitting for one hour and at the end of that hour I made a new resolve to quit for another hour. Those hours turned into months and years.
When I quit I was a salesman for a major cigarette manufacturer.

[Guest]

My friend smoked heavily from the teenage years until he was 61. He tried to quit many times using many methods.

His wife sent him to a hypnotist when he was 61. He said the hypnotist only talked to him and it was a waste of time and $100.

Interestingly he never smoked another cigarette after he left that hypnotist's office. Dead at age 69 from lung cancer spreading rapidly.

[msheda]

I used Chantix last summer, have been 6 months smoke free now.

While there isn't a magic pill, Chantix came close. Check it out.

[Slinky]

I agree, the mental aspect of smoking is much more difficult and than addiction to nicotine. If it were "just" the nicotine any smoker could quit w/the aids they have today.

And if a $100 hynosis session could do the trick as it did for Guest's friend (outside of his friend's cause of demise), man!!! It would be the best spent $100 any smoker could make!!!!

[differentdave]

hi guys!
how can i stop smoking? i tried to quit many times now but somehow i start it again and again..
who knows some tricks? someone tried hypnosis or s.o. like that? i don't believe in a 'magic pill'
but there must be a way.
thx Greextmacejex

I used to smoke for 20 plus years. I tried quiting a few times, eveon took once for a ear. MY last smoke was four years ago. I had help of a book.
BEfore I give you info on big, read this tibit.My sister quit using patch and hypnosis, she craved smoking though, missed if after meals, etc. 6 months she struglled being a ex-smoker. She read the book within a few days she was a non smoker.
The book is called the easy way method to stop smoking by Allen Carr.
http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Way-Stop-Smo ... 559&sr=8-1

The most recent prasie os from Nov 11th then the 5th, then the 3rd. THe book works is all I can say. I have applied it to other areas of my life aside from smoking (unhealthy relationships, beer, etc)

Best of luck and if your in the mindset to quit your already 90 there. THe rest is the easy part! Trust me.

[CamiTampa]

Chantax, 5 months this weekend. I managed to quit even with a wife that still smokes. I still want one if I get bored, so I don't let myself get bored. I dream about smoking. In every dream I get to have a cigarette I lose something far more valuable, "poetic justice?" Try the chantax. 25 years, over 2 packs a day.

In the past I tried hypnosis, patches and wellbutrin, none of them worked.
Chantax did.

Here's the secret: you ready? You have to be ready to quit. You have to really want to quit. Are you? If not, try anyway.

Good luck
Cami

[Snoredog]

Zyban is the only way to go in my opinion (same chemical makeup as WellabutrinSR) which is the antidepressant.

Like many I quit at least a dozen times, a stroke helped motivate me a bit more and also having one of the leading experts in the US as your GP for 20 years helped:

http://www.drquit.com

Smoked for 30+ years, quit in 7 days, hardest part was going out in my workshop after eating, place where I used to always have a smoke.

I took Zyban for about 6 months, continue taking it after you quit and it got me over the hump, by the 7th day I didn't even want a smoke.

Note: You also have to "ramp" up when you take it, first few days you take only 1 per day, then by day 7 you take 2 per day. Been about 7 years now since I quit.

[goose]

In 1975, when I was 25, a doctor told me that if I wanted to continue breathing I had to quit smoking......3-4 packs a day habit....

Well. I didn't quit. I stopped!!
Haven't touched one since and never even had the desire!!! But I knew that I wanted to....really wanted to!!!! Knew it for 2 years before.......breathing was just the incentive....
I didn't go out to a bar for over 6 months ( I knew that would be my downfall!!)

BUT, after so many years I can tell you this......
If you don't wanna, ya ain't gunna!!!! Period.
You can use all the patches or gum or pills or crutches that are made to suck $$$ out of addicts, but if you don't wanna, ya ain't gunna!!!! Period.
Ya gotta wanna. And no BS, I mean, really, really wanna!!

cheers
goose



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[JeffH]

I went thru the American Lung Assoc. program. Worked for me. I appreciated the honesty.

Best advice I can give is if you don't light one, you won't smoke. I know that sounds too simple, but I've discovered that most simple things work pretty good.

Check out their program. They are all over the country as far as I know.

[msheda]

In the past I tried hypnosis, patches and wellbutrin, none of them worked.
Chantax did.

In the past I tried patches also, but I couldn't keep them lit...


<<< ducking now...

[differentdave]

There was a cute episode of news radio where phil hartman started to use the patch. HE needed to go to the hospital because every time he wanted a cigarette he put on another atch. Was quite funny.
Hope everyone has a good day!

[sleepycarol]

My son was a heavy smoker -- probably 4 packs a day. Long story how he got there -- he tried to commit suicide and after he healed up physically, mentally he was such a mess that the doctor told us if he needed the cigarettes to let him have them as he was dealing with bigger issues other than the cigarettes. He lived with us after he was released from the hospital.

It took approximately 3 years after the incident when he decided he wanted to try to quit. My son-in-law at the time smoked and they decided upon a date where they would stop. Each one purchased a carton of cigarettes and the night before stayed up all night and smoked their carton of cigarettes. My son says that after that he lost his craving for the cigarettes.

My son-in-law didn't smoke for about 5 years and started up again this time with cigars. Most of the group he works with use cigars and the reason for the change.

My son is still smoke free and says he doesn't miss them at all.

[lvwildcat]

I was hospitalized 2 years ago with pneumonia. My MD came in room and basically told me how bad it was and I HAD to quit. OMG... I've been an ICU RN for 25 years;smoking is BAD????? for you? I've only had 2 setbacks-last year's Christmas party and a day I spent with a coworker after her 23 year old daughter died. Both times I felt so guilty that I ratted myself out to him.

[Bonnie]

Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do, staying off of cigarettes is hard. I have smoked all my adult life and quit many times, once for 7 years. Things, situations and stupidity caused me to start up again. I recently quit smoking and am doing great so far. I'm thinking this might be the final time. I've avoided situations where I would always smoke. I have given up:

1. driving my car
2. eating
3. talking on the phone
4. bars and friends
5. sex

Who needs the patch, pills or gum