Stop Smoking

[wandering_hibby]

I have decided to finally give up smoking. I've been on between 20 to 25 a day now for a while. Managed to cut down to only four yesterday which I thought was pretty good. Plan to ween myself off them so by Saturday I wont have any. What ways did other people go about it?

[ancient hibee]

What I did was-

stop buying

stop taking freebies(even if it's "just one")

keep thinking that there's practically nowhere you can smoke anyway

[Phil D. Rolls]

Ask at your GP about smoking cessation classes. You have a much better chance of succeeding, and you'll get nicotine replacement patches free. Don't be despondent if you don't succeed this time, it takes most people several attempts to give up.

[EH6 Hibby]

Ask at your GP about smoking cessation classes. You have a much better chance of succeeding, and you'll get nicotine replacement patches free. Don't be despondent if you don't succeed this time, it takes most people several attempts to give up.

:agree:

I went to the classes, although I used Champix rather than the patches, just depends what you'd prefer. I found the classes really helpful though, I don't think I would have stopped without them, I've been stopped for 9 months now.

[Hibbyradge]

Buy this book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633).

Read it. Do what he says and you will stop. Easily. And forever.

[ArabHibee]

Buy this book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633).

Read it. Do what he says and you will stop. Easily. And forever.

:agree:

I also took Zyban tablets. They made me like this :panic::paranoid:for about a month but the best thing I ever did.
2 and a half years and counting.

[heretoday]

It's not easy and when you have a drink or a cuppa you really miss them. I console myself with the thought that I'm going to start again when I'm 80. By that time you'll have to get fags on the black market I reckon.

[Tomsk]

Filled Rolls is right. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

I had about three or four serious attempts before I finally kicked them. I have not had a fag now for about five years. I didn't use any patches or take any courses, just went cold turkey so to speak. But whatever works for you is best. All the best.


:smokin

[wandering_hibby]

Been speaking to a few people about the smoking cessation classes and think I'm going to go for them, past couple of days I've managed to cut right down. I know it's probably just my mind playing tricks but I do feel the benefit already.

Just out of intrest is it true that Latapy used to smoke?

[Riordans Boots]

Buy this book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633).

Read it. Do what he says and you will stop. Easily. And forever.


Or if you are female - you may have different stress patterns. So these books are written for women.:wink:


http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=easy+way+to+stop+smoking+for+women&x=13&y=16

[(((Fergus)))]

The problem with smoking for me was that it was filling a "hole". When I stopped, and I tried several times just through will power and/or that book (i.e., mind over matter), I found myself craving more food and drink (alcohol). I decided that fags were the lesser of these three evils and so went back onto them and the bingeing of food and beer stopped. Am I alone in this or have others found they resorted to other things?

[ArabHibee]

The problem with smoking for me was that it was filling a "hole". When I stopped, and I tried several times just through will power and/or that book (i.e., mind over matter), I found myself craving more food and drink (alcohol). I decided that fags were the lesser of these three evils and so went back onto them and the bingeing of food and beer stopped. Am I alone in this or have others found they resorted to other things?

:agree: I probably put on about a stone in weight after I stopped smoking, substituting fags at night for biscuits and chocolate. Yes, it pissed me off, but I've lost about half of that stone. It did cross my mind a few times about starting again but I'm glad I never.

I now look back and think of the times when I would be smoking (first thing in morning, after meals etc.) and can't quite believe I used to do it and for the length of time that I did.