What did you do to quit smoking?

My mom quit cold turkey. I think my brother did too. My mom quit a couple winters ago. She ran out of cigs but we'd just had an ice storm and she didn't want to go walking in it. Then she found out she had all this extra money at the end of the month since she wasn't buying cigs. She's an amazing woman. She was not supposed to survive her ovarian cancer that she was dx'ed with back in 1990. Well, she's still alive and kickin at 74.

So tell e-dog he'd probably have alot more money he could put to his hobby if he quit. Tell him you won't even bitch at him for spending cig money on rocks.

poke lotsa holes in the cigarettes with sewing needles, flush them down the toilet... I had many tricks when I was young (dad wasn't too happy with me back then) but he eventually quit cold turkey - my MIL did too - she couldn't afford to smoke anymore...

One day at a time is the best way

EDog a much better way to die is happy, bleeding to death because of a rock you cut open (but you got to see the inside of it first!) Oh, you've already done that!

LOL @ Takila ... that's what I was thinking when I saw his duct tape bandage.

I've quit a cold turkey a few times (for 1-3 years each time) then something would happen and I'd start back up again. I don't even like them, couldn't stand the way I smelled so I quit again last July and am determined ... never again. My hubby still smokes but when I quit I told him no more around me so he's had to make due with other areas, outside or one room upstairs. He smells like an ashtray .... yuck.

Anyway, this time around it's Wellbutrin (zyban). I wasn't even planning on quitting but doc put me on it for personal reasons and one day I realized I had only smoked two cigs the day before ... I'm like what the hell, just quit, so I did. For awhile I'd still get the urge to grab one so I got some lemon drops and would pop one of those in my mouth instead. The tartness of the lemon drop took away any urge to smoke. This was how my father quit some 30 years ago too only his was just the lemon drops, nothing else.

First thing you have to do .... no more smoking in the house. Think of your daughter, you want her to stink like an ashtray or take up the filthy habit?

Second ... don't carry them with you. Leave them in the garage where you have to make an effort to go out to have one, that gets old pretty quick.

Third, think of that bike ... good luck on getting it.

Takila, you need to add a stipulation to that agreement. He can't "quit" the day before, he's got to be off of smokes for at least 2 months.

Don't hate me earthdog, it's for your own good.

I used patches (1 hefty one per day) and a fake cig with a nocotine cartridge.

14 days - full strength patch (one per day) - 12 nico cartridges.
then
14 days - half strength patch (one per day) - 12 nico cartridges.
then
7 days no patch - 12 nico cartridges
then
7 days no patch - 10 nico cartridges
then
Till now - gradual reduction in nico cartridges - 5 per day now.
(The above is more or less accurate - maybe a day or two off the mark here and there)

Its a total doddle (if you actually want to stop).

I got to about 60-70 ciggs per day - I HAD to stop

No problem doing it like this - just taking my time and weeding it out

Hope that helps earth dog

I reckon its so easy with this - if I can do it anyone can.
www.nicorette.co.uk/products/inhalator.asp

Check it out - you may have the same thing over there.

Here ciggs are approx $10 us dollars per box of 20 - so at about 32 $ per day - I saved 11,680 USD per year
Good luck

YaY Mark, good for you for keeping on!! Those cigs over there must be lined with gold at that price. Hubby's still paying about $40.00 per carton ... he says he's trying but I'm not seeing it yet.

I quit cold turkey...the urges stay for awhile but I do not believe I will ever smoke again (It is starting to smell vile to me). My wife urged (no, she didn't force me, I have my own mind, but she helped make me feel I was disappointing someone who should be near and dear) me into quitting so she deserves the credit. I hated her for it at the time but now I see the light.

We all die of something, that is so so true, but I'd rather have some say in how I go and smoking (lung cancer) is not my first choice; wouldn't old age be preferable?

If you are observent you will see that there are less old people who smoke and fewer fat people as you get older; that's the one I'm working on now and it's just as hard to eat right as it is to quit smoking but I want to live longer that my wife and be the one who gives the gravy(inheritence) away; I guess that is selfish but it is inspirational too.

csroc

Well I was only 21 when I quit cigarettes, but I had been smoking since I was 9, yes I said 9. But at 21 I was up to 3 packs a day and coughing my head off every morning, sometimes so bad I could not stand straight. One morning I had enough, picked up the pack and threw it away. I still smoked cigars and pipe, but not nearly as often, sometimes not for years at a time. Finally about 3 years ago I quit entirely. My motivation was I didn't want to feel bad every morning, so I wanted to quit. I truly believe having a good reason to quit, and wanting to quit is the best way.
Terry