Quit smoking help and advice

[laststraw]

I'm finally ready to quit smoking for the money it will save, but mainly for the health benefits. I'm tired of waking up every morning hacking. Has anyone here quit smoking or had someone in their family quit? I know there are tons of methods to try, but I was hoping to get some first hand accounts from people of what worked and didn't work for them.

[corn18]

I never thought a book would help me stop smoking but after I finished this book, I never smoked again.

http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0615482155

Might not work for everyone, but it worked for me.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I had quit in 1992 for the same reasons and have never touched another cig. I had quit cold turkey. It was tough quitting. At the time I don't recall having available the patch, gum, or pills. There certainly wasn't e-cigs back in the day. Use what ever method works for you and get that monkey off your back.

[a1nipper]

I quit smoking two years ago by switching to an electronic cigarette. Nice juice and ecigs @ vaporgod. Started at 24 milligrams nicotine and slowly worked my way down to 8 milligrams. Gave up the ecigs in October.

[Leo]

I just woke up one day and realized that I want to be healthy and wealthy and smoking is not part of that plan. I thought smoking for several years was enough and I'm done. I quit couple years ago by switching to an e-cig and I used cartridges without nicotine for about couple months. It was tough but if you really want to quit, you will.

[ua_guy]

From what I've seen with friends, a lot of things work or don't work. Chantix seems to have a good success rate.

As I've been that friendly support for a few people, I've realized that a lot of the effort of quitting smoking is actually changing the underlying habits and circumstances that cause you to smoke. If it's work stress, or a bad situation at home, or if you have issues with anxiety that cause you to smoke, I think dealing with those triggers is the harder part than actually fighting the physical nicotine addiction.

[snafu]

DH quit smoking after one hypnosis session. It was instant, never missed it, no effort at all. Nearly everyone we know who were still smoking the month the patch was available quit within two weeks of using the gizmo since it was paid by our provincial medical plan. I've one friend who smokes occasionally, when things go really off the rails.

It has become socially unacceptable to smoke. The marketing ads they used emphasized how badly people/their clothes smelled, bad breath, burns in expensive clothes and fender bender accidents due to distracted drivers having dropped the cigarette on the seat.

If you're hacking coughing, every cigarette is turning your lungs black like the miners last century. Go visit someone in your largest hospital who is being treated for emphysema. It's pretty ugly! The people who love and care about you must be horrified by your smoking. I suggest you start immediately with whatever method appeals to you. If that fails you, try another and another and another until you succeed.

[SavingSteve]

I think everyone finds a unique motivation to quit. Yours may be ditching the cough. My motivation was to stop wasting money on smoking. At one time my wife and I both smoked. When I started adding up the cost my jaw dropped. It was absolutely shocking.

There is a great story in the book "The Millionaire Next Door" about a man who's parents smoked for 40 years and how much cash they would have had if they had invested the money in the tobacco companies instead of buying their products for 40 years. This story got me looking at how much I was spending and a few weeks later both my wife and I quit!

Whatever motivates you, whatever gets you motivated to quit, take that at use it to your advantage. Once you get through the first 3-5 days it gets a lot easier.

You can do it!