Topic : Trying to Quit Smoking?

HI there! I just wanted to say that you have to first visualize yourself as 10-20lbs heavier. Don't think what you don't want but what you do want.

Do you like to work out? The best way to gain wait is to eat protein and lift. Have you tried it? I don't pretend to have to answer, but am concerned to help. What have you tried?

Hello There, i need you advices cause i'm really scared, cause i tried a lot of times to quit smoking but i can't help smoking, it's just so hard for me

I can't bear seing someone smoking near me, i juse can't hang out with friends without smoking cigarettes, i know it's dangerous for health, but it's so hard

and this is the biggest problem in my life, it makes me suffer, and i don't know what to do

I can bear one week without cigarettes but i cannot bear 8 days without cigarettes, the point is that i smoke just 1 cigarette a day, it means that i'm not so addict to cigarettes, but i can't go to a coffee and not to smoke and my parnets don't know that i smoke, even my sister cause it's forbidden for girls in our society

Hi,

What I am suggesting, is you take one day at a time. And don't look at the 8th day you can't take it anymore.Find some sort of replacement, for your desire,,,,,nicotine gum,,anything. And just deal with one hour then one day at a time. Before you know it, two weeks will pass and you haven't smoked.  I have smoked a many years and the outcome is not pretty. But I have managed to bring my desire under control. If you pick up just one after you have not smoked, for a few days, it's like you just started over. What might help is, a saying I learned on this board...N.O.P.E.------not one puff ever !!!!!  When you give in to that one puff, it never stops there. Go back and read the postings on this board about quitting and you will pick up some very helpful hints. Write back I care.

Linda

Two years, eight months, two weeks, five days, 12 hours, 15 minutes and 22 seconds. 29835 cigarettes not smoked, saving $5,773.38. Life saved: 14 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours, 15 minutes.

Anyone out there who's looking for a quitting support system I just wanted to let you know I'm here.  I quit about 6 years ago so I know what it's like and I know what the other side is like (non-smoker).  Let me know if you want or need to chat.

Good luck to all.

I think the common denominator is that for smokers, it is terribly discouraging that smoking is at best thought of as a mild addiction.  I mean "get real," would they suggest a hot-line or a weekly support group as viable treatment program for heroin addiction?  Or better yet, simple supply them with pamphlets or tell them to eat carrot sticks?  Here's the real kicker. Insurance companies, such as CIGNA, don't mind charging smokers a higher rate but they generally don't pay for smoking cessation programs. Any program or support group that focuses purely on the physical addiction and attributes anything else to poor willpower or lack of support is half-assed.  Find some other way to keep busy - what's up with that advice.  Look, I have full-time job that's very stress, I need to keep busy but whenever I stop, I can't concentrate so instead risking my job, I got back smoking. I don't have to find something luxury to find something else that doesn't concentration.  So many people think, particularly those who have never smokes (mostly in the medical profession) that in order for smokers to quite, they simply need a hug, or a support group, or to know they're not a bad person.  Or perhaps they think we're all idiots and don't understand the health risks and if they could somehow make us understand, we'd suddenly stop.  As someone who has watched both her parents die from lung cancer, as someone who has quit many times, who has tried the gum only to get addiction for two years going through a starter-kit per week, who took up the patch and ultimately ended up smoking while wearing the patch, I can tell you that a pep talk by a novice social worker or kinds words in a group of strangers has the opposite effect. No, I think at this point the only thing that will work is that I get frozen and woken up when they have a magic pill :-)

Please just consider how much happier you`ll be as a non-smoker,I am. I have light,smell and nosie sensitivity also with migranes. I have Fibromyalgia but what does one thing have to do with the other. They`re just more excuses. Sorry but your health will improve WITHOUT the cigs. It`s sad but I heard the wrinkles won`t go away tho but I hope they`re wrong about that. I going to stay smoke free just to see if it`s true.