Well that didn't work

[sombrefan]

Caved in, bought 10 Malboro lights. Would appreciate any tips on giving up smoking. Anything bar chopping my hands off deemed acceptable.

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Do you have patches? Gum? If so, then your staving of the physical craving and so it's all in your head that you need a cigarette and nothing bar will power is going to stop you, if you don't have these things, then go get some!

Oh, and I hear the nicotine inhalers are good, because it gives you something to hold.

[gingerpig.livejournal.com]

I used patches
Not the 24 hour ones cause they give you weird assed dreams.

Once the craving's gone, it's better, and then it's just something to do with your hands...

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

willpower baby

[theloa.livejournal.com]

I guess patches and gum and such are the only thing that works for some people. I used my singing as motivation. Kept telling myself that I need all the advantage I could get and that I needed to be able to look my teacher in the eye. This is what I know about quitting:

1. You have to really want to
2. It's no different than if you wanted to quit drinking
3. You take it one day at a time - say to yourself: "today I'm not going to smoke"
4. You'll feel like you lost a friend or an appendage - this feeling will fade
5. It's tough but you're tougher
6. Talking to fellow quitters really helps
7. Don't envy people who still "get" to smoke. They still have to go through what you're going through. Or die trying.
8. Find something to do with your hands. I knit.
9. The craving *will* pop up from time to time but continually further apart.
10. Don't get discourage if you can't do it today. Just do it another day. You'll know when that day comes.

[iamdigitalis.livejournal.com]

Will power. Its the way I quit.

[eachman.livejournal.com]

The way I did it, Simon, was to stop buying them.

I never planned to stop. I ran out on a Fridaynight in 1996 and thought it was stupid to go out and walk to the local pub just to get fags. So that became a game, 'let's see how long I can 'not buy' cigarettes'. It was easy for the first three weeks, then it became hard but then I stayed off them for six years.

I started again and smoked for almost a year (2002/2003) and then quit again, the same way. Not buying. Now I bum a fag off people once every 6 months or so, when I'm with someone who has them - very few friends of mine still smoke, so there's little temptation.

I'm not in a position to offer any useful advice.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

But you've got my support.

[morrikerene.livejournal.com]

I just didn't buy them. Crossed the road from the shop I'd always go to - sounds weird but I've managed to avoid it for a good 4 months now, have some good flatmates to help by threatening violence to stop me from reaching said shop. Much luck.

I cant help....

[teggers.livejournal.com]

I seem to have picked it up again in the last fortnight