Anybody got any tips?

[Rafalution]

Anybody got any tips from experience of quitting smoking?

I want to quit and i've tried but i always end up going back to them time after time, i don't know how to and even though i was against it from the start i ended up starting. I've always said i'd smoke when i drink, my mate manages to do it, but i can't. I'm quite a heavy smoker and that's why i want to stop before it gets to a stage where i just can't stop. Any tips or info would be appreiciated big style and that i will even donate points if it gets me to stop. ;)

[Infidel]

just will power that's what i did

and put aside the money u have saved for summat to treat ureself.

[Rafalution]

just will power that's what i did

and put aside the money u have saved for summat to treat ureself.

I said on another forum, one in my sig and custom title (cheap plug) it was Willpower, but i've tried to keep my mind of them, but no i end up in the shop asking for 20 richmonds superkings. I just wanted to know what would be best for me to keep my my mind of buying and smoking a smoke. I don't want to try the patches as i don't want my grandparents to find out, and it's hard to do when i got people around me smoking so it's kinda hard to find the urge to join in.

[Infidel]

well it's willpower or nowt innit. everytime i see my flatmates light up i think crikey iw ant one of them, but i stop myself. if u aint got the ballsakcs to say no inside of ur head then u wont be able to pack it in.

[Rafalution]

well it's willpower or nowt innit. everytime i see my flatmates light up i think crikey iw ant one of them, but i stop myself. if u aint got the ballsakcs to say no inside of ur head then u wont be able to pack it in.

I suppose you're right. I got a few tips from a few mates, and i might end up going back to my old regime, smoke when i drink. I know it still encourages but if i can say no when i'm sober then i should be alrite. If i'm pissed i'll more than likely light up since i forget that i'm quitting, but if i can say no when i'm not drinking then everything should be alrite since i only drink once a week, so if i cut down from say 10 a day to 5 then i can work it down and down and eventually i will be at 0 a day maybe's the odd one where i just have a craving.

[ecfc girl]

Just go to places where you're not allowed to smoke.
Also, you shouldn't plan giving up. It said on the radio the other day that more people manage to give up totally when they just do it on the spur of the moment.
Therefore I'm not planning on giving up at all....

[Rafalution]

I don't really want to quit because it kinda messes with my mind always wanting to go for one and i'm sitting there punching the living daylights out of myself to stop. But's the constant being on my guard because grandparents don't want me to smoke, i know it's my life, but they care about me and help me out if i'm in money troubles, she has already said she'd stop giving me money when i need it if she caught me smoking.

[StretfordEnd]

Patches.

See your doctor.

[Rafalution]

No, but the last thing i want is my grand parents to find out because i might end up having money problems if i do get into that situation where i need them to help me out, they have told me i'd not get that no more because of them finding out, and have been testing me as of late. I don't know how to stop without having to go through patches, as it's more will power than anything.

[NFFC_1865]

Acupuncure I want to try it but i'm too scared of needles.

My dad once made me eat some tabacco when he found out i'd been smoking. :sick:

[Robin_L]

Everytime you have the urge for a cigarette, chew some gum or a boiled sweet instead. sorted

[Rafalution]

Everytime you have the urge for a cigarette, chew some gum or a boiled sweet instead. sorted

I thought about that, and i'm going to try it. If it doesn't work i guess i got to go find a gum of some sort but told that it's horrible taste and all that.

[NFFC_1865]

You could always chop your fingers off

[Robin_L]

seriously, you're onto a winner with my suggestion. Stret, Infidel, all these people are ex 40-a-day men and I'll wager they're all still partial to the odd cigarette or have 'substituted' (the biggest con in the book) for something like the occasional cigar. Talk to the non-smoker here, it's the winning solution :thumb

[Rafalution]

I guess the chewing as to work since it kinda takes your mind of wanting one. I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes tomorrow.

[Infidel]

i've not had one fag since iive packed in... nearly 2 months now. or cigar ior weed either. so there

[Jock]

Is there anything which makes you violently ill?

Say prunes just make you hurl: instead of using your willpower to stop you from smoking you use it to make yourself eat prunes every time you have a smoke. After a while your body will start to associate smoking with being violently ill and your cravings will dissapear.

[Rafalution]

Is there anything which makes you violently ill?

Say prunes just make you hurl: instead of using your willpower to stop you from smoking you use it to make yourself eat prunes every time you have a smoke. After a while your body will start to associate smoking with being violently ill and your cravings will dissapear.

Now i'm kicking myself. I was ill last month with sh*ts and sickness and i kinda lost it with the cigs, but i ended back on them. Now i knew i should of quit then. Damn. Oh well, i got to eat Asdas special made salads again now then.

[great white]

There exists nicotine chewing gum.....Nicorette I believe same as the patchs....supposed to be able to give the same fix....Since christmas I've cut down abit I'm on about 20 a day now....Was at ten for one point but I was such a stressed out/miserable/moody bastard that Val went and bought me a pack of 30 to shut me up.....

[Caress]

I'm one of these annoying bastards that smokes when I have the pint as a social thing, but other than that I don't smoke at all, though I used to smoke all the time. The only way to stop smoking is really will power and you having a good enough reason to not light up. If not then you are kind of stuck, I know I am, damn pints makes it so right to have a ciggy!

[15CharactersMax]

Don't buy them. If you haven't got them in the house, you can't smoke them. Keep an unopenable piggy bank by your door (part 2 shows you how to make one out of a balloon and papier mache). When you've got the money in your hand to go down to the local shop, stop at the door instead and force yourself to put the money in the bank instead. After you've been doing this a bit, smash the piggy bank and do something incrrrrredibly selfish with the would-have-been fag money. Niiiice.

[mickgrant]

Just willpower. Plain and simple. I decided in September 2004 to just quit after the pack I was smoking. So I did. No patches, gum, hypnosis. Just stopped. Didn't want to any more (although I knew I would again at some point). Lasted 15 months and I was out drinking all the time and didn't really miss it apart from the occasional time. Then I met this bird and she was smoking so I ponced a fag and it opened the floodlights...

At this moment in time, I don't feel like gving up.

Facing facts Raf, despite your grandparents not wanting you to smoke, you don't really want to give up and you really have to.

[Kelly_Owls]

if i cut down from say 10 a day to 5 then i can work it down and down and eventually i will be at 0 a day maybe's the odd one where i just have a craving.
Worked for me. I was on 5-10 a day. Not a lot at all really so I suppose it was easier for me than it will be for you.
I just thought to myself, right i'll either go outside in the freezing cold for a fag or i'll sit here and have a nice red apple in the warmth of the refectory :)

Good luck!

[Rafalution]

Well i smoked my last 3, and now going to try the old regime cut down. I'm going to try at least not have one till i'm drinking which should be around 5pm tonight, even then i'm not going to smoke one till i'm at least pissed beyond willpower to stop.