How to quit smoking...

[Hecktix]

Post your advice on how to quit/start quitting smoking.

Please stick on topic, note this is about smoking tobacco, not cannabis or any other illegal substance.

My advice, is visit NHS websites :)

[Abbie.]

dont start in the first place !!

um but serious, just cut down, maybe if you smoke 10 a day, cut down to 9, then 8, then 7 etc.....

[LuketheDuke]

Look at your bank balance and realise what you could do with the riches youd earn by not smoking.

[//Tom]

Post your advice on how to quit/start quitting smoking.

Please stick on topic, note this is about smoking tobacco, not cannabis or any other illegal substance.

My advice, is visit NHS websites :)
Didnt we have 1 of these threads about 5 hours ago?


dont start in the first place !!

um but serious, just cut down, maybe if you smoke 10 a day, cut down to 9, then 8, then 7 etc.....

And yeah thats what technique I done when quitting, cutting down on **** and saving more money :) motivated me.

[Hecktix]

Didnt we have 1 of these threads about 5 hours ago?

It was agreed by several mods that it should be closed because it went a little too far off topic, but it was a valid topic and the user needed help so we made a new one.

Has anybody used like the patches & gum, what's that like?

[//Tom]

I tried the gum its disgusting leaves a bitter taste in the back of your throat, i woudn't advise it unless you can handle stuff like that.. lol

[buttons]

It was agreed by several mods that it should be closed because it went a little too far off topic, but it was a valid topic and the user needed help so we made a new one.

Has anybody used like the patches & gum, what's that like?
The gum is awful, I spat it out because of the taste and didn't go back to it but started smoking again, patches don't stop your craving but if you smoke with it on it'll make you feel sick so it will probably help you stop if you have the will power to keep the patch, I ended up ripping them off after 3 days :'( The inhaler is crap aswell.

I think best advice is stop hanging around with people that smoke for a while because that really did make me stop and when I hung around with them again afterwards I didn't feel like smoking & by reducing your amount weekly and smoking brands with lower nicotine. I only used to take out money that I needed so I wouldn't have extra to buy ****.

[drama]

err well I tried the e-cigarette which was okay, but it doesn't really give you what you need so I stopped, haven't tried patches or gum

[RandomManJay]

Well everyone is different and everyone will have a particular way of quitting. The NHS does have quite a lot of advice and techniques, but it's really just trying them until one fits. My mum was telling me that when she was quitting, an NHS advisor told her to start smoking again for the medication (chewing gum) to work and then she could quit, which in my and my mum's opinion is just about the most ridiculous thing to suggest, it may work for some, but my mum wasn't about to take that chance so didn't take the advice and just stuck to the gum she had and quit without taking it up again. She hasn't smoked in over 7 years. So my advice with that is just to try and if you don't agree with the technique, don't endanger your chances by following it, it's really your own way of using the technique that you're comfortable with which will prove to be most effective.

[Metric1]

When you really want to quit smoking, some a cig, take it out of your mouth and look at the filter. That filter was white when you started, now look at it. It's all brown and disgusting. Thats how I quit!

[--liger--]

I know they make that gum that is suppose to make you quit. Not sure if it works :/

But from what I hear people just kinda lower it down to like a half pack a week then slowly work it down

[beth]

i used to smoke socially and when my boyfriend asked me to give up, i didn't need any substitution etc.

i truly believe you have to have the determinition to give up. if you really want to, you will. you can't die from it, it won't kill you, you just have to have the drive.
if you think about it and you don't actually want to give up: you won't.

all about positive mental attitude baby ;)

[triken]

If you smoked that per day, then you might have some damage I would think. To check I would ask your doctor. He may send you to mri or something - stuff they do to check for lung cancer would be good.

I also heard that each day you don't smoke, your lungs begin to recover. You may never know how much they recover. But I guarantee you will feel better.

[Arch]

cut down how many per day by 1 every week :O