3 year smoker, how do i quit??!


Question: I'm 20 right now, i've been smoking roughly since I had just turned 17. Please, no need for lectures. I'm fully aware that it was the most stupid choice I could of made, all I need to know is what advice/tips to quit smoking you guys have. I tried quitting but it gets worse at work because most everyone their smokes and it becomes a social type thing. i'm ok when i'm at home since the cravings get a lot less. any help would be appreciate. thanks guy

Answers: I'm 20 right now, i've been smoking roughly since I had just turned 17. Please, no need for lectures. I'm fully aware that it was the most stupid choice I could of made, all I need to know is what advice/tips to quit smoking you guys have. I tried quitting but it gets worse at work because most everyone their smokes and it becomes a social type thing. i'm ok when i'm at home since the cravings get a lot less. any help would be appreciate. thanks guy
If you go with Chantrix, be careful. May cause a severe depression. 39 or so suicides from it.
I took time off, got driven to a cabin miles from anywhere. I had food, a phone, but no wheels. I fished, hiked, took pictures, paced, etc. but no nicotine for 2 weeks. After that it was tempting at times to go back to smoking, but I was able to fight off the urge. It took a year before the cravings went away. That was just my solution. You may not be able to get isolated that long, with school and all.
There are support groups. If anyone else in the Family smokes ,they should never do it around you.

I "quit" many times before I quit. Would turn into a bear. eventually someone would light a cigarette and stick it in my mouth just to shut me up. I finally realized that I never intended to quit, just to punish those who wanted me to.
After that I would crave one, but never got grouchy again.

If you really want to, you can just quit. Cold turkey, and fight it off. Don't do it in any stressful times- like final exams if you are in college.
i think you should replace the habit with something else .i takes time and willpower really so good luck Report It

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    • Chantix is helping a lot of people. Ask your doctor for a script.


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    I know exactly what you mean. I started smoking at age 12 and stopped around 13..
    What I did was just tell myself "I gotta stop, this is gross, its not attractive, im so young. I should be doing other important things"
    I suggest you do the same! It helps, it really does.
    And also, try not to watch people in movies smoke, cause that'll give you the urge, and you'll wanna smoke just because they are (it happened to me)
    Throw away all ciggarett packs..
    Chew gum..just regular gum, it keeps you occupied, and you can use it as a stress reliever.
    Or get a stress ball, if you get pissed off for some reason, cause smoking isn't the answer.
    This is all I reccomend, it helped me! and trust me, I was addicted. I used to get a craving now and then, but i simply told myself "NO, im not doing that again"
    Try it :)
    I hope it helps
    dont buy lighters
    Check this out.
    http://www.freedomlasertherapy.com/
    Just don't do it anymore. Just finish your last pack. To sooth another craving you would have to go the gas station and buy more. And what a pain that would be. Then feel really bad for yourself and think of the horrible things your doing to your body and how ugly it is going to make you, if you do smoke again.
    i started when I was about 31. I'm 36 now. I quit cold turkey, and I'm usually good until I try to go out drinking with my friends who all smoke and courteously ask me repeatedly if I need one.

    The last time I quit I was asked to smoke almost as if I were being initiated into a sympathetic cult of misery. I did so and it was obviously too soon and I realized I really DO HATE SMOKING.

    Besides the peer pressure, I think a major part of my inability to perservere was the fact that I wasn't completely deromanticized. Aspects of smoking were still attractive. Seeing others doing it filled me with this regret like "awww, man, see, they get to do it!"

    Now I think it will be a lot longer if at all because I don't like the way it tastes, feels, OR looks anymore. If I have really quit, then I can say its because I kept trying to quit that I have succeeded.

    If you stop trying to quit, you never will. It might be embarrassing explaining that you have started up again or that you have quit again, but your health improves for however long you manage to desist. Stop however many times is necessary and consider every moment spent breathing clean air a victory!


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