If you have then what methood did you use? Im planning on trying to get off the smokes at the end of the month but i have problems in using the traditional aids like patches smokers gum and the pills for various reasons, so if you can help you will help a (potentialy if i dont give em up) dying man from his fate

I smoke and never will stop.

Cancer or car accident? I don't bother my two grey cells with that question.

Sorry for I'm not helping.

But read between lines. Your path is irrelevant if your will is strong.

Heh i know what your sayin, im the same id rather not give up, ciggarettes have served me well for almost 11 years andf i enjoy smoking but i need to cut my outgoing funds dramaticly and smokes costing what they do (arround £4.50 in the uk) and me smoking 40 a day its the most logical to kick

Hmm... I caught pneumonia and was too sick to smoke- by the time I was up to it again, I'd lost interest. Guess I didn't notice the withdrawal symptoms what with being half-dead anyway. I don't suppose that's very helpful either. Sorry.

Everything I've read suggests cold turkey, with no patches or gum, is the most effective for *permanently* kicking the habit. I'd also imagine that having a "buddy" quit smoking with you, so you can complain to someone who really understands, would help.

[Edit: And something about the whole "quitting smoking" attitude you usually get from nonsmokers compels me to add: you know what WON'T work? Making smokers smoke outside in the freezing cold, publically humiliating smokers by snatching away their cigarettes or by fanning the air and coughing conspicuously in a smoking-permitted area, making cruel remarks about how people with lung cancer somehow deserve it, and otherwise making smokers into an oppressed underclass. It not only makes smoking seem *more* appealing, because it differentiates us from the intolerant, but it also makes us want to blow smoke at you. Rant over. :D]

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Sprite, amazing, I quit in a similar fashion. I had Mononucleosis (sp?) at 30. Very late. Very serious. I was out of the water for 6 weeks. When it was over, I just didn't pick them up again. The illness had such a profound effect on my liver, I can't drink alcohol any more. Or take Tylenol.

I don't recommend this method. I agree with Extremist, if you have the willpower, you will stop.

Good luck.

I have stopped smoking 12 times already. Piece of cake :lol: <FONT size="1">(MUAHUAHUAHUA...Cough..Hack...Choke...Gasp...Wheez e)</FONT s> :lol:

Smoking is a sign of weakness. Hmm, no that's rubbish. Hmm, there is research underway to develop vaccines vs. smoking - following this theory smokers are ill, very ill. Anyway, I don't care and I don't smoke - unless I'm very drunk (what I rarely am) and then I smoke cigars ... so what was my point ... hmm, OOOOOOOOOOH: :idea:

:p"JUST SAY NO!:p

[Just added a few extra effects to that evil laugh ;) - BTA]

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Edit: You tend to edit away the joy from my life the last days :p

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I heard of this. Cut some cheese into stripes about a size of a cigarette, put them in a pack with some cigarettes for a day and then eat one when you want to smoke. After several hours of vomiting violently you will never want a cigarette again.
But mind you, I never tried it!
/me lits up another one


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Hah Stereophobia I hear you. I once quit smoking for a while just because I couldn't afford it. No patches, gums etc.

Nowadays I quit about every hour. :p

PS: Well said Sprite. My feelings exactly. I find it ironic that the leader countries in the world have to spend incredible funds towards campaigns and alienating smokers and drug addicts, had declared war on china just because they refused to buy opium from them.
They don't care about what their tobacco companies do in other countries though. I bet they encourage the companies efforts. That's the way capitalism works..

Ways to kick the habit (from The Onion).
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Avoid doing things you associate with smoking, such as drinking, eating, walking, and being awake.
<LI>Get thrown in jail, where cigarettes can be acquired in exchange for painful favors.
<LI>Lobby your elected representatives to pass a $6,913 tax on packs of cigarettes.
<LI>Write a rap song about how smoking is not cool. Perform at local elementary schools.
<LI>Avoid thinking about the rich, full flavor of Benson & Hedges.
<LI>Join a stop-smoking support group. Be sure it's one that meets on a different night than your other six groups.
<LI>Teach yourself a valuable lesson by dying slowly of lung cancer.
[/list]

I finally quit about a year ago and the only way for me was cold turkey. Every other method (gum, tapering off, etc.) resulted in me smoking again within a month. It was difficult physically only for the first few days. After that it was just the associations that were difficult, like when I'd get up in the morning and have my coffee, I'd want the smoke to go with it. It is nice to be able to taste my food again, though.
One thing I did do was save all the money that I would have spent on smokes and used it to buy the down comforter I always wanted but told myself I couldn't afford...Good luck to you Stereophobia :)

I tried to stop last year but not really with all my heart, so I didn't stop. And I probably won't stop for some time, although there are some seriously disgusting commercials showing on TV about smoking.
Bah, what do they know... :)

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Heh the best (and least sucessful, amost contrary) anti-smoking ad i ever saw was:

"Smoke, no-one lives forever"

also am i the only one that gets sudden cravings every thime they show an anti smoking ad?

I've had to give up "giving up" many times.... Problem is like most smokers I do enjoy it. Hard to kick then, coz I struggle badly for motivation.

I think although the physical addiction is real, it's the psycological addiction that's hard to kick. Thus I think motivation is the real key. Mine is low on that score unfortunately.

Every ciggarette you smoke has a finite chance of causing cancer - even the symbolic "last one".

This should be motivation enough...

I quit smoking about two years ago, and I smoked a lot.
One thing that really helped me, besides strong will, was that book by Allen Carr, really, it did !.

I really don't mean to be offensive hear but your all silly. Why would you put a white stick in your mouth and burn it and then inhale the smoke. Can you imagine how much you'd wish you'd quit before you got lung cancer. WHY! I just don't see how any person could do that to themselves...
Sorry but it's just....stupid.

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Z, it might have something to do with the fact that is stimulates and drugs your senses. Make you relaxed and at ease.

Why do you drink alcohol, to get addicted and diseases? I mean.. that's just stupid.

Why do you eat candy, to get fat and bad teeth? I mean.. that's just stupid.

The list could go on

I just want to say that I'm never going to smoke because I've already got enough smoke in my lungs from my parents. When I was born(I dont know this for a fact but I have pretty good reasion to think so) I was under weight and very sick. I almost died a few times. I think it's messed me up pretty bad in my head but I'm now just thinking that. I have a lot to blam on smoking. My parents have smoked enough that I know that they wont be around much longer.

Reclently one of my old friends started to smoke. Lot's of us have given up on him. we call him turtle(long story). Anyways i found a pic of a turtle with cancer. I said that thats what he was going to look like if he kept smoking. The turtle looked like a gene experment gone wrong. He had groths all over him. Well it's inspired my friend to try and stop smoking. He hasnt smoked for about a mounth.

The best way to stop smoking is to never start.