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[rusty1983]

Im about a week in my latest attempt to quit smoking. Got a rush of enthusiasm and energy over last weekend about it, I was gushing with positivity and even got drunk without smoking.

The week has taken its toll now and it got pretty intense yesterday. Ive now got flu symptoms and an empty, lonely feeling of despair. I feel like a child again!!!

Remind me again why Im doing this, or share your experiences!!

[richardlang]

I stopped (not quit) smoking for a week. I didn't want to break the news to my folks when I was visiting back in the U.S. I got back to Korea, smoked a few, and wondered I had ever started smoking in the first place, but then it started to get better after the third one. Now I'm back to my sweet spot again.

[seonsengnimble]

I'm about half way there. Instead of going cold turkey, I've gone halfway and will hopefully go all the way soon. I stopped smoking inside. I stopped smoking at work and on the way to work. I now smoke less than half as much as I used to. Now to cut it out completely. I plan to quit all together this weekend.

[lizlemon]

i went cold turkey but i was a pretty light smoker as it was. gained a ton of weight though!

[Perceptioncheck]

I quit cold turkey about seven or eight months ago. The first few weeks were a nightmare and I came close to lighting up again so so so many times. But I'm so so so glad I didn't because after those first few nightmare weeks the whole process was gravy.

Just wait those craves out. If I had a particularly bad crave, I would to go to http://www.whyquit.com and read stories about people who had died young from smoking related diseases and testamonials from people who've lost family members. Yes, I know it's maudlin and more than a little creepy, but it really helped me through those rough patches.

Quitting has honestly made me feel amazing and not only because of the health aspect. I know it sounds corny, but it's more the sense of achievement. . .I always thought I would live and die a smoker but quitting has made me feel way more in control of my own life.

Didn't gain any weight either.

*Preach over*

Anyway, good luck mate. PM me if you want to hear more preaching!

[djsmnc]

[conrad2]

Quitting smoking is so easy to do. I have quit ten times.

[mattwhy]

[seonsengnimble]

[eamo]

I quit in April last year after 25 years of regular smoking.

What worked for me was to set a day in the near future......a special day works best, like a birthday or something......then slowly condition your brain that this will be the day you'll definitely stop. When the day comes then start telling yourself over and over that you're a non-smoker. Brainwash yourself. It's hard, but if you can consciously forget that you smoked once and see yourself as a total non-smoker.....it can work.....I don't even miss smoking.

What does happen though is that you might get an underlying stress and find yourself being snappy and impatient.

The key to it all, IMO, is to re-train your mind and not spend every day wishing you could have a smoke. That's bound to end in failure.

[mattwhy]

[pkang0202]

I just got cigarettes mailed to me from my friend back home.

4 packs Camel Wides.
6 packs Camel Turkish Silvers.
10 packs of Camel Crush.


Camels are sooo goood..

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

Certain times are likely scheduled cigarette times.
.After a meal
.When you wake
.Before bed
.At the bar
.On the phone
.Work break
.Coffee
.Booze
.etc.

Reduce the control these have on you; for example wait 30 minutes after a meal to have a smoke.
Likely the impulse will be lessened and your impulse control improved.

Alcohol could easily derail you, consider staying away from it completely.

[rusty1983]

This has to be my 5th or 6th attempt to stop but this time round I havent wanted one whatsoever. I havent coughed up anything like this before either! Ive been doing yoga a lot recently and Ive intensified it since last week and I definitely think that is helping.

Ive got mood swings, but Im wondering if I have them anyway? Yesterday I felt a really intense loneliness/depression but I reckon I get that anyway! My brain attributes it to not smoking though, it is playing tricks on me. Likewise with the weekend coming up, Ive got some good plans for it but cant get excited about it because, I believe, my brain is playing tricks on me. Like I cant enjoy going to the pub without smoking.

DAMN YOU FEEBLE BRAIN!

[shifty]

I gave up in my early twenties and in any case was never any heavy smoker. However, my method is effective for all levels of withdrawal pangs..

The key is to acquire another mindset.

All negatives of smoking according to your experiences must be collated and kept at the ready for easy reference.

The ones I used I can recount now even after all the years.

1. No matches or lighter meant mawing ciggie into toaster and having face glow red against its filaments. The ungodliness!!

2. Fishing on a beach; no matches meant approaching a fellow angler maybe 2 km distant to beg a light, only for him to be a non-smoker. The indignity !!

3. Intermission at a movie and all the smokers making a dice for the foyer to hurriedly light up and the relief of the first draw so written on their faces. After the movie, again. Disgusting.!!

4 Running out late on a Sunday night and having to trek to that all night caf� on the other side of town to get a pack..

5 Spending MY hard-earned money to buy something that will ultimately and definitely wreck MY health. Crazy!!

6 A look of pity that enters eyes of the hardened non smoker when you light up.


Eventually I was so psyched that I knew I could never smoke again.

From day one I knew that even before a firing squad and the presiding officer offers a final smoke I would emphatically decline. I would take the cigar from him and break it in half.

Giving up was easy, straightforward�� a pleasure really..