anyone here ever quit smoking?

[CChaos]

I quit cold turkey 7 years ago after smoking for about 6-7 years. I was up to almost 2 packs a day of Marlboro reds. I spent a year in Vermont after college and my wife (then gf) and I decided to move back around NYC. We spent a few weeks living with her parents while we looked for a place and that's when I quit. It helped to be in a place that I didn't associate with smoking. Every year or so I'll buy a pack of smokes and have a few or smoke the pack. Sometimes I miss it but I'll never go back. It's going to suck because it's physical as well as mental, but once you get past a week or two you'll be fine. Good luck!

 

[Gage]

I quit smoking 2 1/2 years ago on my first try. (I had been smoking for about 8 or 9 years.) When I decided to quit I asked my doctor what would help and prescribed wellbutrin (an antidepressant) for me. It helped SOOOO much. Don't ask me how it helps, I have no idea.

Another thing that helped me is changing my behavior patterns. For example, I liked to smoke after I ate, so when I would eat instead of sitting down and chilling out, I would immediately do busy work until the craving passed.

I still have a craving for a cigarette every now and then especially when I'm stressed or p*ssed off or drinking. But then I remember how nasty they make me smell and how bad my breath stinks when I smoke and that changes my mind. (What a nasty aftertaste!)


*Edit*-- Here's another wierd thing that helped me. I keep a pack of cigarettes in the freezer. I don't want them as long as I know that I can have them whenever I want. As long as I know that they're there I'm cool but if they weren't I would probably crave one like crazy. It's bizzare I know, but you gotta do whatever works. Of course that pack has been in the freezer for over 2 years and probably would make me barf if I tried to smoke it.

*Edit 2*-- I smoked a pack and a half a day of Marlboro lights for 8 years.

 

[Mill]

I used to smoke about 1-3 Cigs a day(not packs). I haven't smoked more than 4-5 in the past few weeks. I only smoke now when I drink and even then not much...

 

[WhiteKnight77]

I first tried Marlboro reds 30 years ago, I was 12 and they were .35 a pack, got busted by the parents and didn't smoke again til I was 16. Smoked about a month and put them down. Fast forward to 1982 and started smoking all over again. After 16 years and trying to quit after seeing last surviving Grandma nothing but a bunch of skin and bones lying in a coffin after dying from emphazyma (sp), I tried to quit (1998), but ended up smoking even more than I did prior to that. 4 years later I finally quit with the help of the patch. I quit cuz I want to be around long enough to spoil my now 17 month old nephew really good. I haven't had a single smoke in 1 year and 12 days. I don't miss smoking one bit and can even smell things that I hadn't been able to smell before.

 

[Mamoose]

If you have a friend that also wants to quit then make a large wager $,shake hands,sign a contract whatever,whoever smokes first pays up,it worked for me many years ago! Of course I then had to ween slowly off cigars

 

[Lucky]

<----Smoker who had quit for 6 months until he started a new job in January with an office next to the indoor smoking room


There is a new (experimental) quit smoking drug out that has phenomenal success rates and very minimal sides effects. Trials went so well that the FDA allowed it to skip some testing. It's not publically introduced yet but if you call around, or ask your doctor, you might be able to get into the next phase of testing because it's now undergoing widespread clinical trials. 50% were able to quit with it after 7 weeks, compared to 16% with placebo and 33% with welbutrin/zyban.

Pfizer's new drug was inspired by a natural remedy tested by doctors in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s. The Soviet doctors had tested a chemical called cytisine, derived from a weed sometimes called false tobacco, as a pill to help smokers kick the habit. They reported that cytisine partially activated the nicotine receptors in the brain without being addictive.



http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/17/news/companies/pfizer/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

[cjsh]

I guit smoking when my wife got pregnant. Then hang out with non smoking people.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: Fausto1
This is a shot in the dark since I'm not a smoker, but perhaps working some exercise into your daily routine would help? Nothing like a nice shot of endorphins to take the edge off, right?

Can any former smokers back me up on this?

Not really... infact it can have the opposite effect. When you're working out, you're stressing your body... and you actually have a craving for a smoke after the workout (same principle as to why some people need a smoke after sex).

YA most pro athletes smoke after the game