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Quit Smoking Mission Diary.

Chantix sounds like fun! Now I want to be smoking addict so I can quit!

BDM, I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but in the UK there's a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars. I don't know if there's a ban written in law against smoking in other public places, but shops, offices and public transport don't allow it. You can still smoke in the street, in parks or in your home, though.
 
There is no point in using any sort of product to help you quit smoking. You just stop smoking and that's it.

It's not easy but all you're doing is not smoking 1 cigarette every single time you want one. The whole thing is a chain reaction so just stopping cold is the best way.
 
Speaking as someone who spends every working day inputing the details of people that have stopped smoking, those who do it alone though cold turkey are in a tiny minority.

There are some people for whom that will work my wife being one of them, but then she was only on three a day by the time she did quit, and she had an excellent reason to give up (being pregnant)

The vast majority quit though nicotine replacement therapy, not just patches, gum and the inhalator is popular too, although the champix is pretty good for some people, its a pill, and much fewer side effects than the old zyban pills.
 
Mentalist said:
There is no point in using any sort of product to help you quit smoking. You just stop smoking and that's it.

It's not easy but all you're doing is not smoking 1 cigarette every single time you want one. The whole thing is a chain reaction so just stopping cold is the best way.
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That's how my Dad did it...twice. He smoked in high school and in Viet Nam (who the hell could blame him???) but quit cold turkey when Mom was pregnant with me. (Mom smoked all through BOTH pregnancies, go figure). He said he replaced smoking with exercise. Every time he felt like smoking, he'd do 20 or 30 push-ups or sit-ups.

He'd been smoke-free for over 25 years when he picked up a cigarette at a party as a joke...and got a pack-a-day habit for 6 months. He once again quit cold turkey.

I bet it's hard, though. I think you just have to be "that" type of person. Dunno what "that" type is. I mean, I am addicted to junk food, there's no 2 ways about it. I feel and look better when I'm in shape...and yet I still overeat and eat the wrong stuff. I can't imagine if I was chemically addicted to something. That's why I've never even fooled around with cigs, I know I'd become addicted.
 
I've been smoking since I was 13 years old. I smoke on average 25-30 a day. Sometimes more.

I know what it's like to be a smoker and don't have much experience of being a non-smoker. But the best advice I've heard and what seems to fit my way of operating is a clean break. You either go the whole way or don't bother at all. Substituting cigarettes by "coming down" with doses of nicotine doesn't seem productive to me. Maybe it would work for some other people but not for me.

This guy seems to speak the most sense to me:

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That guy makes a lot of sense, and boils it down to the core issue of addiction. The point that the cravings between cigs are just as intense as the cravings when you completely quit seem spot-on.

I just thank God my parents told me over and over that they'd paralyze me if they ever caught me smoking.
 
Just one thing if you do quit Menty, dont make the mistake a lot of people do and think that the occasional cigar doesnt count.

One cigar every now and again, leads to a cigar fairly frequently, and then one day you cant find a cigar, so you borrow a cig off someone and bingo, your a smoker again.
 
This should be easy. Send me all of your money. You will no longer be able to afford to smoke. Should you start cheating by smoking OP's, you will have to start selling your possessions and sending me the money from that as punishment. When can I expect the first payment?

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Dude, I believe you can do anything you set your mind to. Period.

I smoked regularly in college, and for a few years after. But my need to smoke dwindled on its own, and I basically stopped many years ago.

These days, I average about a pack or two a year. Occasionally after a night at the bar/s, I'll feel like a smoke while walking home. I currently have an open pack in the house that is a couple of months old. All but one or two of the cigs are still in it.

I don't ever have the desire to go back regularly because I notice the difference in how I feel after a night of drinking & smoking (like crap), as opposed to drinking only (fine).

ALTHOUGH...these days, I've considered taking it up again to see if the myth is true about it keeping one's weight down. I've become a big blob this year working froim home...(don't worry, not thinking seriously about it, just fleeting thoughts)
 
I don't think starting smoking will cause you to lose weight, it's just that a lot of people have to replace one addiction with another and if they quit smoking they start eating.
 
Cassie said:
I don't think starting smoking will cause you to lose weight, it's just that a lot of people have to replace one addiction with another and if they quit smoking they start eating.
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That's the thing -- one of my current addictions IS eating LOL.
 
but one needs to eat!

tonight I made roasted garlic and herb sole with baked potato and salad consisting of field tomatoes, cukes, lettuce, red onion as was for me, with Caesar salad dressing for the minions. There were choclate cip oatmeal cookies for dessert for thems as wanted em, and I had a glass of a new piont noire released from somewhere I cant remeber the more I drink it.
 
we will discuss our addiction to TK and you will be strengthened.

ok, maybe not.


but still! Keep going!
 
Good luck Menty-- perhaps I'll join ya.

One of these days, maybe I'll actually stay "quit". But I'll only quit smoking cigarettes... if I quit smoking anything else, it wouldn't be pretty. :laugh:
 
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