Hey I am trying to quit smoking and I was wondering if anybody has any tips or techniques that aided them in quitting. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Chewing gum work for me.

how many tries did it take you to quit smoking? did you quit cold turkey or did you use some kind of aid to quit? how many years were you smoking for before you quit? and what was your motivation to quit? also when you did quit how many month did it take you to actually give them up?

i started smoking when i was 17 and i barely quit 1 yr ago (in now 24). i didnt use any method or patches i just quit cold turkey. i never really had a bad craving i just smoked for fun and the occasional nicotine rush. my motivation to quit was watching my close friend and neighbor die from lung cancer due to smoking. they had to drill a hole in her lung to drain out the fluids building up in there. all her family and herself went trough alot of pain during this and watching her with nothing we could do was the worst. and i had a reality check and said i dont want to go through that. it was so painfull for her that i didnt want to experience any of it. plus i didnt want to burden anyone with my debt in the hospital and i dont want my husband to watch me die for something that could have been avoided. that was all the motivation i needed

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I just quit smoking (actually haven’t smoked in just over a week now) and I want to help my lungs repair quicker. I am in the stages of coughing up tons of mucus and it sucks, but I know its just a sign of healing. What can I do to speed up or aid this process?

Congrats! I have also recently quit and am now 7 days smoke free. I feel better than I have in years! You wont spend to much time coughing up junk, and alot of it can be accounted to the change of the seasons. I dont think there is anything you can do to speed up your "healing" but keep breathing in clean air!
I was a smoker for 20 years and am proud to say that I am a NON smoker for the forever future! Hang in there!!

Hi there,
I have been trying to quit for a while but have had some success with a ‘cut down and quit’ approach. Every time I feel like having a cigarette I get up and do something else as soon as the craving starts. I will have a glass of water, put a load of washing on, wash my face or ANYTHING in general to keep my hands busy. Doing it this way I am able to abstain from having one for up to three hours at a time. It is really hard to go cold turkey as there are certain receptors in your brain that go crazy when you don’t deliver their precious nicotine. If you slowly cut out half your cigs a day over one week then the next week you do the same again and so on and so on. I myself am now down to about 6 – 8 a day and that is coming down from a pack of 50’s a day!!! Good luck and keep in touch to let me know how you go. Also remember to kee calm and even just chew normal gum to get the saliva going in your mouth. Deep breaths are the key and saying "I can do this, you are my enemy (to the cigs), I don’t need you controlling my life….." something to that effect.
Cheers!!!

I quit smoking 7 days ago and it is really hard. I smoked for 12 years and to aid me when i have a big craving, i bought some of these copenhagen pouch things. One of the reasons i quit is to be able to run faster. Will using these copenhagen pouch things affect my running like smoking does?

its just as bad.

This is well over my fifth attempt to give up smoking, I’ve smoked for the past five years. That may not seem like a while but to me it does, and the habit is woven into my everyday life.

As most smokers know, it’s a rocky road ahead after quitting. There are so many triggers such as a favorite beverage that goes great with a smoke like coffee, after a meal, boredom, after an accomplishment, driving and of coarse stress and many other triggers.

If I am serious about qutting and staying with my goal, what can I do instead? I thought about crocheting or knitting?? Any good gums or quitting smoking aids that can be reccomended? I’ve heard about chantrix working well. The patch did not work for me. I am almost out of the two packs of nicotine gum I had saved from the last time I quit. What should I do when I run out?? What are some things I can do to take my mind off of smoking?

Thanks for your time and encouragement, I hope this road is less bumpy than the last time!

Next month I will be smoke free for 3 years. I smoked a pack and a half for about 20 years. Your right about changing your other habits that go along with smoking. I used to play online poker and smoke all day long. I went to the doctor to get help because I knew I couldn’t do it on my own. He prescribed Wellbutrin, and I was to take it for 10 days before quitting so it would be in my system. On the 10th day I still had 1/2 a pack left. I wanted to be in control of the cigarettes and not them be in control of me. I grabbed the pack, all the ash trays and lighters, and threw them in the outside trash. I only took the Wellbutrin for one month and have NEVER craved a cigarette since. This was my first attempt to quit smoking and it was a complete success. I knew I could no longer sit and play poker all day so I started working out (because I gained 8 pounds in one week!!) Within one week of quitting, I could mow my lawn without losing my breath. I always heard you have to replace one habit with another if you want to be successful in stopping. I only exercised for 6 months, which was great and when I stopped working out I still never went back to smoking. Also, sour candy works really great to give your mouth something to do. Jolly Ranchers are fantastic because they last a long time.
Anyway, good luck in your journey to a healthier life, and just don’t give up. I feel 100 % better now that I can breathe and my breath isn’t knocking people out…lol.

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Looking to stop smoking? There are many methods out there to try to help smokers quit. Some are free and others are not. What works for one person may or may not work for another. Let’s take a look at three free stop smoking aids that can help you kick the habit.

1)Smokers Anonymous

Smokers Anonymous is a great program to try and help people to quit smoking. What makes Smokers Anonymous so great is that the advisers are usually people who have quit smoking themselves. Therefore, they’ve been there and done that. They have the experience to try to help you be successful in your quest to quit smoking.

2)Starting a New Hobby

Sometimes something as simple as starting a new hobby can be effective in helping someone to stop smoking. People who picked up a hobby, like gardening for example, found that since the hobby occupied their mind so frequently that their urge to smoke was reduced. It is important to note, however, that you must pick a hobby which you are sincerely interested in. If the thought of collecting stamps bores you to death(I know it does me!), then don’t take stamp collecting as a hobby! You will probably end up smoking more cigarettes because you are so bored.

3)Finding a Smoking “Substitution”

Another easy to do free stop smoking aid is trying to find some sort of substitution for a cigarette. Often, when a smoker is stressed he or she will reach for a cigarette because it is habit. If the smoker can find something to replace the cigarette with, such as drinking a glass of juice, sometimes I can’t help break the smoking cycle. Other replacement ideas include chewing gum and exercise.

Hopefully, utilizing some of these free stop smoking aids will help you to break your habit. In the case that you are unsuccessful with free stop smoking aids you may need to resort to an alternative method.

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My brother has Bipolar, Anxiety disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. I also suffer from these disorders, I thought I would mention that because I feel I understand my brother more than anyone else. He desperately wants to quit smoking. He has to be in a certain "mood" to quit. The longest he has quit is two days, then his mood changes and he still cares but he is weak. He is on a lot of medications so he is not able to take prescription quit smoking aids. To make matters worse his wife is a chain smoker so he is around it and has constant access to cigarettes. I believe it is not just a nicotine addiction but also force of habit.

I supposedly have Bipolar and am on a lot of medications. I was taking Chantix and it helped a lot. But then I decided that quitting smoking was not what I wanted to do right away, so I stopped the chantix. I believe it is possible because I quit for a year one time.

I am a non-smoker. My boyfriend has been smoking for over 6 years and he said it’s almost impossible for him to quit. however, we want to get married and I have told him that he will need to quit before we get engaged or I can’t marry him.
He’s trying to quit now and I’m very happy. I don’t know much about quit smoking aids. He has a filter that he attaches to his cigarettes which makes it less harmless. I was wondering how effective these filters are?
Also, I want to get him something else that can help him quit. I’ve heard about hypnosis and some other stop smoking aids. Can anyone tell me which ones are better and where can I buy them?
sorry i meant to type less harmful. thanks for correcting.

First of all, best of luck to your boyfriend. Cigarette smoking is a form of nicotine addiction just like chewing tobacco. I HAVE SMOKED FOR FORTY YEARS and I finally quit.

Let me speak from my own experience and the knowledge of nearly sixty years of life has taught me.

Your boyfriend is now and will always be a nicotine addict just as I am. The differance is that I am not smoking. The fail rate for smokers is actually higher than persons addicted to heroin, meth, and cocaine. Nicotine is the single most addictive substance to to mankind. Nicotine addiction takes a lot of drive and willpower to maintain.

Now, for the ways in which to quit: Patches, gum, Chantix and anything that delivers nicotine to the human body will keep a person addicted. You would never give heroin to a heroin addict to help them quit, so why would giving nicotine to a smoker work? As for Chantix, though it does not deliver nicotine it does deliver its drug to the brain and tricks the brain into sending endorphins into the bloodstream just as if it were nicotine.

Consider this advice. In the US, pharmaceutical maufactures make untold BILLIONS of dollars profits by playing on peoples lack of knowledge. Smoking cessation aids are a big business and have made many execs wealthy. If hypnosis, drugs like Chantix and all the other charms happen to work for a person than thank God.

The awful truth is this, once you deliver nicotine to your body and you do this repeatedly, your body will then become addicted to the drug. I have not smoked in nearly two years and believe me, I have tried everything to quit. The best way to quit and the way in which is most successful is JUST STOP. Your body will have its varying degrees of withdrawl symptoms, but tell yourself NO withdrawl symptoms could ever be as hideous as dying of lung cancer, emphysema, pancreatic cancer and the list goes on.

Ask any former smoker how they FINALLY quit and odds are nearly all will tell you they did it cold turkey. It’s not fun and it was the single hardest thing I ever did in my life. One fact that a former smoker must always keep in mind is that you are NOT stronger than nicotine. It held you in its deadly embrace and you finally pulled away from it. All it would take is for you to take ONE puff and you could and likely will be smoking again. Your brain is not able to understand a span of time when you are a nicotine addict. To your brain whether you quit for a day, a week, a month a year of ten years…it is as though it was YESTERDAY. You could pick up a cigarette and light up like you never quit.

I speak from the life of an older man, fifty – six years old. Trust me, no smoker with any brains wants to continue to smoke. Nicotine addiction is beatable. Thousands of people in the US quit successfully each year. The mere fact that our geniuses in our government have decided to tax cigarettes should be a motivation to throw them away. The sad fact is that our wondrus politicians know how hard quitting is and so they have found a great revenue source to line their pockets with folks money from taxing cigarettes.

In my humble opinion the best website on the planet to quit smoking is http://www.whyquit.com. Look for the videos and yes, sit and watch them. This man knows exactly what smokers go through when they quit. I know for me that I can never take another puff!

I wish your boyfriend well and may you both have a long healthy, and smoke – free life.