I’ve never felt so weak in my entire life. I want to quit smoking so badly but every time I try I only find myself obsessing on wanting a cigarette. My roommates smoke, my friends smoke and it seems like we all want to quit but end up caving for one reason or another. Does anyone have any advice that could help me?

I understand your pain. Its all about standing up for yourself. Like high schoolers, its like giving in to peer pressure, but on yourself.

I have been addicted to many things and cigarettes were the worst. If you’re a cold-turkey kind of person, try that and see how it goes. If not, bum when you are drinking alcohol ONLY (social smoker) and limit yourself to only 1 or 2 per social-smoking nites.

Here is how I did it:
1. Do NOT buy a pack of smokes. If you have them, you will smoke them. Bumming from friends and strangers constantly gets old quickly and they will eventually be annoyed.

2. Don’t even think about it. The more you think about it, the more you want one. When you think of smoking one, think about how your throat feels right then, think about gross crap like mucus and phlegm and tar… ew.

3. My boyfriend helped. He quit smoking and stayed strong while the rest of us continued. Every time I would smoke he would be very, very, very upset. He is worth more to me than smoking cigarettes.

4. Buy lots of gum.

5. When you quit, realize that it will take a long, long, long time to not want one… but even then, even my 80 year old grandmother still has dreams about wanting cigarettes and she quit 20 years ago.

6. When you do quit, you will feel ill, you will feel tired and down and cranky and pissed off and crazy. This will pass. Do not give in!

7. This next one is entirely dependent on your personality…. if you like the social habit part of things, partake in the social habit part. If it is too difficult for you to stay social without wanting to bum, then don’t partake. You may lose friends over it, but what kind of friends are those?

8. Sooner or later you won’t feel like the only one not smoking… my group of friends quit one by one… and the last one standing outside smoking felt very alone.

You can do it! You can do anything…. trust yourself.

I have been trying to quit smoking for months now and I always manage to buy cigarettes. I keep making excuses for myself which leads me to buy them and I always feel left out from a group of people who are smoking and I’m not. I have the gum and went one week without buying cigarettes but I still scabbed smokes. I really want to quit for my healths sake.

Stop thinking that quitting is a difficult thing, we have an anti-smoking culture so people think of smokers as a great evil rather than victims of an addiction, this culture effects how we approach quitting. People think that if smokers continue to suffer in order to smoke that they must enjoy smoking thus quitting will deprive them of something so will be difficult, when logically the fact smokers suffer should make quitting easier. Did you know there are laws in place so methods that don’t require willpower are restricted, being told constantly that you need willpower and quitting is difficult you believe it too and that is hardly motivation to quit!

I seriously recommend EASYWAY it has a 90% success rate and once quit very few start smoking again, there is no weight gain, no moodyness, and no feeling deprived. Easyway is easy as there is no willpower required, instead it helps you understand the nature of the addition to overcome it and feel positive from day one. It deals with the mental addition rather than the chemical, after all smokers can go all night without being woken up by cravings, nicotine may be highly addictive but the cravings and withdrawals are minute, it’s all mental. A lot of it is common sense that the addiction cancels out, sure you know smoking will kill you horribly and costs you a fortune but you still continue, that darn addiction is overriding your own brain. Easyway gets rid of the addictions grasp on your logic and deprograms the brainwashing about quitting being difficult or social dependancy on having a cigarette in your hand, then you quit successfully and happily without any ill effects. The course comes in different forms, you can get a book from Amazon for practically nothing, I tend to buy copies for £3-£4 to give away, the books also give you 20% discount off the clinics. The clinics offer the same information but more support, they are £220 but you can go as often as you need and they offer a full money back guarentee. http://www.allencarrseasyway.com

There are of course other methods, tips to help you quit, most are about as much use as, well, as continuing to smoke is to your health. Some methods work for some people and not others, but with the right attitude anything can work. If you go cold turkey try drinking coffee which feeds the caffeine addiction so takes the edge off the nicotine addiction, the bitterness also puts your off smoking, and coffee helps clear what will be coming off your lungs. Bitterness of range juice and dark chocolate can also put you off smoking, don’t use lollipops as although they keep your mouth busy it’s positive reinforcement – your body is craving nicotine so you are rewarding it with candy. Avoid quitting with friends as if one fails then it gives you an excuse to give up too, but by all means find a support group. If you find yourself laying in bed reflexting on how much you want to quit get up and write it down as in the morning you’ll forget those thoughts. There is a mouthwash you can use which is like the bad tasting nail polish used to stop biting nails, it’s sprayed onto your tounge to make cigarettes taste horrible, but it makes everything else taste horrible too. Herbal cigarettes totally help as they keep your hands and mouth busy, the problem is that you can’t smell them but everyone else can, they don’t smell nice, so use them when you’re alone. There is nicotine replacement, lozenges, patches, gum, inhalator, these are expensive but if you live in the UK you can get them free on the NHS as long as you go along to smoking clinics that monitor your progress – if you fail you have to wait six months before you can try again. You can also get drugs like Zyban, again free on the NHS, these drugs act on your brain to stop cravings, you start them a few weeks before you want to quit. My friends parents used a similar drug to Zyban and were so disgusted by cigarettes that his father threw up at the mere smell of his cigarette tin.

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I really want to stop smoking before it takes a toll on me in any way. I hate the smell of cigarettes on my clothes and the transfer from my sheets to my bedding. We don’t smoke in our home except the bathroom. The main problem is I’ve tried to quit before (I smoke half a pack a day) but my DH smokes two packs a day and when he smokes when he gets home it makes it hard for me to quit. What do I do and/or what’s the best way to quit?

First thing is give yourself some self confidence to quit the smoking. After that you should know what are the problem when smoking and advantages of quitting smoking, then say the way. Some easy way is to use whenever willing to smoke means chewwing gum, and tablet is available it gives the effect of smoking. Take herbal anti smoking products. When mind is ask to smoke take small pencil and imagine that it is cigarrete and smoke it. Definitely you will stop the smoking habit. ok all the best try these tips now itself my dear friend.
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