New Years Quitting Smoking Support Group

Sun_Fortune

Who's with me??? By tomorrow, I'll have pulled out every hair of my beard. I'd rather be in LC land than this.

yuichi

Go jog around the block and eat fruit. and indulge in other ways.

I "quit" the beginning of summer '05, and have had a total of 6 ciggs and a few drags here and there. i also eat a lot more now.

Gnat

I quit smoking by getting extremely drunk...you know, throwing out all the rules...mixing beer with liquor...champagne...jager...and also (this is the key) smoking excessively. Like a pack or two in one night. you must get sick and poison your system so that even the thought of smoking makes you want to vomit. That will get you like two or three days of Guaranteed no smoking...the rest is up to you.

~Nat

Sun_Fortune

I quit smoking by getting extremely drunk...you know, throwing out all the rules...mixing beer with liquor...champagne...jager...and also (this is the key) smoking excessively. Like a pack or two in one night. you must get sick and poison your system so that even the thought of smoking makes you want to vomit. That will get you like two or three days of Guaranteed no smoking...the rest is up to you.

~Nat

BeardedD

You have to leave town and go to the country or something, anything to take you out of your smoking element. Worked for me.

behemoth

i quit smoking in October after 8 years of about a pack a day

you have to want to quit

thats it

if u want to quit, you will

guaranteed

yuichi

You have to leave town and go to the country or something, anything to take you out of your smoking element. Worked for me.

that or being umemployed for half a year.

no work = no stress = less urge to smoke

behemoth

You have to leave town and go to the country or something, anything to take you out of your smoking element. Worked for me.

that or being umemployed for half a year.

no work = no stress = less urge to smoke

ehhh no money either to buy cigs?

yuichi

You have to leave town and go to the country or something, anything to take you out of your smoking element. Worked for me.

that or being umemployed for half a year.

no work = no stress = less urge to smoke

ehhh no money either to buy cigs?

naw, you always have money to buy ciggs!

hobo_d

You have to leave town and go to the country or something, anything to take you out of your smoking element. Worked for me.

that or being umemployed for half a year.



no work = no stress = less urge to smoke

yes, wish i was lucky enought not to work





im on day two tho, (after 10 years of 1/2 pack to full pack a day)

Unknown

There's some book out there that people swear by which might help you, written by this guy.

http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/

BigSpliff

Hmmm, maybe I'm not the best example, but with the cig prices in NYC, you may as well work on your ganja game and use the cigs only for rolling spliffs. That way a pack lasts me nearly 2 weeks.

Also, a good way to get over the initial need to smoke cigs is a blowout weekend in Amsterdam involving smoking at least a 1/4 a day. 3 days worked for me and I never lit a cig after that. Use alcohol to get you motivated to go out in the evenings.

PS: I also learned why they call it Dutch Courage

Unknown

There's some book out there that people swear by which might help you, written by this guy.

http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/

Worked for 2 of my friends. Day 2 myself...

K.

Mondeyano

I just quit two months ago and I feel great. Keep up the fight batches. I took Zyban (pdf) which helped a truckload. I had already tried quitting 5-6 times, included is one other time using Zyban which didn't work out. Really took the edge off and when I stopped taking it I continued not getting the massive cravings I would have if I hadn't taken it.

canonical

Here are some tips that helped me quit:

1) Reward yourself. Everytime I didn't buy a pack of ciggs I would go and buy a record or something I needed that was physical which I could keep (books, comics, movies, whatever).

2) Get athsma. I was living with this girl who had a cat and I was allergic to it. I would wake up and not be able to breath. This got me thinking to what it would be like dieing of lung cancer and I scared myself into not smoking.

The weird thing is I worked in cancer research for 2 summer and smoked the whole time.

Junior

Fuckers keep on upping the age you can stop without any permanent damage to your lungs. If I can reach the next milestone without it being changed I'll be quitting then.

To be honest my main motivation for quitting would still be hygeine related rather than health related.

misterc

There's some book out there that people swear by which might help you, written by this guy.

http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/

Worked for 2 of my friends. Day 2 myself...

K.

Day 3 myself. Recommended by a construction worker who smoked for 30 years and hasn't touched one in 3 after he put the book down. The key thing I've got from it so far is I'm not 'quiting' or 'giving up,' b/c I've never gotten anything from it in the first place. Sounds like mumbo jumbo, but I think it might actually work.

Delay

i quit smoking 5 years ago, and i'll extend my secret to you. DO NOT TELL ANYONE. just do it. every time you tell someone, you are subconciously relieving yourself of some of the burden. if someone offers you a cigarette, just say, "i dont feel like it", but do not tell them you quit. do it for yourself.

On_the_Red_Clay

i quit smoking 5 years ago, and i'll extend my secret to you. DO NOT TELL ANYONE. just do it. every time you tell someone, you are subconciously relieving yourself of some of the burden. if someone offers you a cigarette, just say, "i dont feel like it", but do not tell them you quit. do it for yourself.

This makes more sense than the Carr book. I smoked right trough it... and continued smoking. (no desire to quit)

matamatic

count me in..
been smoking for a little over 3 years. Up to almost a pack a day.
Damn do I want a smoke right now!!

Mike_Bell

I'm down. To quit, for the 3rd time in the past 3 years.

flatblackplastic

i'm gonna quit tomorrow

AlGarth

I'm on day 2.
I like the ideas and concepts by Alan Carr that I got from his website.
I wonder though....how come all his renowned clinics are only in strange and foreign places?

aimhighshootlow

i been smoking for many years.
i am trying to quit. i decided i would finish my pack left over from newyears eve.
one left.
i have cut down alot over the past year.
the time i smoke the most is when i am making beaters.

its gonna be hard.good luck to all trying to quit.
stupid cigarettes,stoopid wonderful cigarettes.

Lazer

Haven't had one since 8 AM Sunday morning. Too drunk to continue drinking, too drunk to eat breakfast w/ the crew, NO voice = no more desire to smoke. No really, I had thought about it before NYE but that shit was the last straw. I'm going on the patch too if I need it. Still can't talk, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much yelling, smoking, drinking on NYE, fewww.

sabadabada

the most important thing, and I know because I've quit about 20 times in the last 15 years, is to not beat yourself up if you breakdown and smoke one. Its really hard to stop cold turkey, so if you have one dont adopt the attitude like "all is lost" just keep trying. After a while you just wont smoke as much and thats good. I still smoke one every couple of days, but when Im not smoking, Im not thinking about it. Although now with school, i find Im smoking more when Im studying as a "break".

Mondeyano

i quit smoking 5 years ago, and i'll extend my secret to you. DO NOT TELL ANYONE. just do it. every time you tell someone, you are subconciously relieving yourself of some of the burden. if someone offers you a cigarette, just say, "i dont feel like it", but do not tell them you quit. do it for yourself.

That's so true. Besides doing the drugs I didn't tell anyone that I was quitting. I've just recently (after 2 months of not smoking) began telling people that I've quit and that's only if they really ask. Besides you haven't really quit after a few days of not smoking so it's best to NOT TELL ANYONE, just keep at it (quitting).