I've only smoked for a few years, but I'm afraid if I don't stop soon I'm going to cause some permanent damage to my lungs. I'd like to use a method to stop that doesn't involve patches, or drugs. Patches didn't work for me anyway. Also, reducing my intake doesn't work. I need something that involves going cold turkey. It's amazing how much smoking physically effects your brain. I can feel the changes when I do stop. Also, are there ways to clean your lungs quicker?
I am not sure what they are called but you could Google "magnets that help you quit smoking" really that is the only thing I could suggest to aid you in quitting that does not involve patches or meds of any sort. There is also a "laser treatment" that has gotten some pretty rave reviews but again I quit cold turkey and a year later wanted one as bad as when I first put it down. So, I suggest you find something to aid you in your feat. Good Luck!
I think you should not stop smoking all of a sudden it might cause nervous disorder or in extreme cases inability of the part of the body to work. If you want to quit smoking do it gradually and not in a whole.
Hi, my uncle used to be a smoker too and my aunt had a hard time to let him quit smoking. What he did is substituted bubble gum and candies every time he craves on a cigarette and I saw it help him but of course, self-control also will be a great factor to do that.
This is exactly the way I did it after many years of smoking and it didn't cause anything bad to happen at all. I just reached a "that's ENOUGH!" moment and never touched them again after that. It's difficult for a few weeks but I'm very stubborn.
Quit with a friend. My wife and I did that when we started having kids and didn't want them to be exposed to second hand smoke -- before it became known as a hazard. We just stopped, threw out all the smokes in the house. We also cleaned for a week in our spare time. Every time we opened a drawer or a closet we hadn't used in a while, the smell of smoke came out. After a couple of weeks, we were fine. Every once in a while, I still crave a smoke -- and it has been 36 years since I quit.
I remember that most of my classmates are chain smokers. I have seen them putting a candy in there mouth. When I asked them why are they doing it, they said that candy can satisfy there cravings on cigarettes thus limiting the intake amount.
YAY! How very wonderful for you! That's just so inspring! It's only been 4.5 years for me, but I know I won't be starting again. (Couldn't afford it now anyhow!) And I know what you mean about still craving it... for me it's when I walk past someone who's smoking usually. It's like a sharp intake of breath and a thought that I "need" one and then remember "oops, nope, I don't do that any longer!"
I don't think candy or gum works for people who are truly addicted and have been for a while. That's more of a "put gum in your mouth instead and you won't want a smoke" thing, but when it's an addiction, gum really doesn't do anything and the craving remains.
Hubby and I quit when smoke hit a buck a pack, so you can guess that it was quite a while back. I was never a heavy smoker, I was content with two or three cigarettes a day, but my husband smoked a a pack a day. Quitting was difficult for him for a couple of weeks, but as he felt the benefit in better breathing and not getting winded it encouraged him to stay with it.
That's always one of the first discovered benefits, yes... the fact that we can actually know what it's like to breathe again. The second is probably actually being able to taste food again.
I don’t really know if that would work because I have never been a smoker for all my life. I just got the idea from my friends.
It's also a bit of a buzz when you realise that your cravings are not as insistent and hard as they had been; it really empowers you, I think.
Yes... very true. They never really go away completely, though... well I can only speak for the first 4.5 years. But sometimes when I go past someone or a group of people who are smoking, there's that intake of breath that comes with that particular addiction and there's a fleeting thought that "oh! it's time for a smoke!" Luckily it goes away just as fast as it came.
If you want to quit, quit. If you don't really want to quit, don't. Wouldn't work anyway. You have to want to quit. Then just do it however it suits you.
Katharina, you're right. After all these years,even, I can still feel the spot between my index and middle finger where the cigarette was held...I guess that never goes away as well.
Every day, put the money you would have spent on smoking into a large jar. Have something you really want to buy as the goal. It will encourage you as you see the $$ amount climbing.
If one can afford to do this, at the price a pack is now, this is a very good idea. And if I'm not mistaken, I just heard of still another tax put onto cigarettes recently. Was it over a dollar a pack, I think?
Katharina, The idiot in the White House, banking on the stupidity of the American people, signed into law the largest tobacco tax increase in history. It's $1 a pack on cigarettes....but a 2000% (yes, thousand) increase on loose tobacco. It's to pay for childrens healthcare, in theory. It will never work and is doomed to failure.
chew minty bubble gums instead of smoking all the time.. sometimes it is not important what you do to stop yourself from smoking too much, the most important thing is that you have to put in your mind that you're really eager to quit smoking.. you have to true and inspired.. be honest to yourself..
