getting smoking out the mind

[Mike111 0]

Hey,

Im tryna quit smoking (20 a day gone down to 10 and plan to stop fully for the weekend) and have tried in the past but never managed it.

It hurts the lungs so i guess i wanna stop in a way, but can't seem to feel as though life would return to "normal" without smoknig in a day - any ideas of how to get over it and to make sure i don't stop and restart,? Once one has stopped, is it easy never to go back again?

Thanks for your advice,

mike

[windcatcher 0]

first off, quit thinking about quitting thinking about it!

I suggest you reward yourself immediately whenever you stop yourself from taking a smoke. Also, maybe make a list with the pros and cons...
hmmm, lung disease, nasty teeth and breath vs. a small nicotine fix???

( just trying to help, I quit smoking a long time ago, but then again I was never addicted)

Most importantly I think, believe you can do it, and visualize yourself doing something other than reaching for a cigarette

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[Mike111 0]

I keep trying to think of work ive gotta do to try adn take my mind off the craving while it is happening.

the list idea sounds great, although its weird, when one thinks about those negative things it sounds terrible but the day after it seems ok again

[christelsabine 1]

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Hey,

Im tryna quit smoking (20 a day gone down to 10 and plan to stop fully for the weekend) and have tried in the past but never managed it.

1. Tell everybody, you're going to quit smoking.

2. Go to bed right now. Take a book and stop watching TV or talking to friends. Don't go out!!!

3. Good night.

4. Do not start with a fag next morning. If you used to drink coffee, forget it. Have a nice tea. Or the other way round
5. Do not sit around doing nothing. Keep yourself occupied. All day long. The 1st 3 day are the hardest: Work out, go for jogging, stem heavy girls....

After 2 or 3 days, you will discover some new taste in your mouth: You are going back to the roots, tasting food as it is - and not as something, the tobacco covered. GO ON. You are on a good way. Smokers do not taste any difference in food.

6. Call everybody to tell you're a tough, hard man, you will win. Take a fresh towel to wipe off the sweat. You will sweat a lot, man.

7. Go to bed earlier than usual. Avoid those damned situations, where you used to hold a damned Marlboro between your fingers, phoning to the girl in which you're acutally interested in... Forget girls for the next few days.
(Or men, depends on you)

8. 4 days later, you are on the road to win. Tell yourself every minute how good you are, you succeeded against that evil strong devil called cigarette - you will NOT give up after 4 hard days! That would mean wasted days! NoNoNo. You go on.

9. Do not shout. Calm down. People around you mostly are not deaf. It's you, missing the cigarette, getting angry against the world, NOT the others, man! You suddenly will discover, your pillow is no more wet in the morning: You stopped to sweat! You still are on the winner road to be a non-smoker sooooon!

Go on. BTW: Hopefully, you threw away remaining cigarettes? Deep down in the garbage can! Good. Good boy. Go on.

10. You start to sleep better. Your neighbours, too. Don't care about taking a few grams more, who cares? You're smoke-free.

Your fingers need to be busy. Take a pen instead of a cigarette. If you loved to smoke while drinking beer, drink wine/with water. Change old routines. Do not go out too much. Don't meet smokers. Don't let smokers enter your home. Never.

Stay smoke-free. Be busy, for many weeks, more than usual.

That was my program 11 yrs ago. I stopped from 40 ciggies per day to zero. In one night, reading Alan Carr's "Non-Smoker", it worked for me. I never touched a cigarette again.

Good luck. If you REALLY want, you will do it. And don't forget: You will have lot of money more to waste for jumps!

Good luck!

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[Mike111 0]

Thanks for the time of your post, there are definately lots of help in there. And i quit for 2 weeks before and noticed how much cash there was, so jump money is always needed!

Congrats on quitting yourself!!
Thanks,
mike

[Broke 0]

Yeah think about this... if you smoke like 6 paks a week at least in NY that's about the cost of a jump ticket...

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[NSEMN8R 0]

I'm trying to quit too. I figure it'll be easiest to quit a little at a time. First I didn't smoke on mondays, then after a few weeks I quit on tuesdays too. Now I only smoke on weekends. It's been about 4 months since I smoked on a weekday. I tried to quit Saturdays, but it's tough being at the dz. I need a smoke after jumping. I can't make myself pack without smoking first. The weather is turning to crap now though, so I won't be jumping for a while. I should have it beat by spring.

Good luck with it.

[weegegirl 2]

cancer sucks. chew on that one for a bit.

[tso-d_chris 0]

You can't think of smoking as something you are quitting. You have to think of it as something in your past. It is much easier to convince yourself cigarettes are something you don't want than it is to resist that urge.

The first few days are gonna suck. Don't go through them more than once. Unless you have to to stay tobacco free, of course.

Many people have nightmares about starting again after they quit. Don't let them get to you. They go away.

I don't buy into the save money bit. It cost me much more in food, etc. when I quit. My appetite went back to normal, and now I actually weigh a few pounds less than the many years I smoked tobacco.

And, for when that urge to light up just can't be resisted, think ganga. It is much better for you, and not physically addictive, but you still get to go through the motions. Plus the urge for tobacco will quickly pass.

Good luck.

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[SpeedRacer 1]

are you using the Patch? many in my family have quit using that.

It's weird. The people in my family who all smoked were all Baby Boomers or slightly older. My generation (born in the mid 60s to mid 70s) practically doesn't smoke at all.

They say that the % of smokers since 1980 has dropped by over ONE THIRD!! Maybe people are wising up.

or the older smokers are croaking off prematurely, as they are wont to do.

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[krkeenan 0]

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4. Do not start with a fag next morning.

Well, now you're trying to interfere with his personal life...

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[SpeedRacer 1]

some people bring up the weight gain thing if u quit

I say that is a short term effect. When I look at people in my circle of friends it is the smokers who end up being fatter.

The non-smokers are all into mountain biking & jogging & working out & whatever. So they wind up being leaner in the long run.

Cigs sap your strength. Altho non-smokers have better appetites (because they can actully taste & smell their food) the nicotine & the carbon monoxide sap your energy so you're more likely to sit on yr ass in front of the TV.

And anyone who knows their shit will tell you that exercise is more important than consumed calories in terms of keeping trim.

There was a study done on these girls a few years back. Overweight girls & healthy, lean girls. They found that the lean girls consumed twice the calories as the fat girls. But they got twice as much exercise.

THAT is why smokers tend to be fatties compared to non-smokers, even tho the non-smokers have better appetites.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

I started smoking when I was seven years old. By the time I was an adult I smoked twenty a day. I quit many times and started again. If I had one I was back to twenty a day within a week. When I quit the most recent time (about ten years ago) I had a jar on the refrigerator. Every day I put the price or a pack of twenty in the jar. Posted on the 'fridge was a list of stuff I wanted to spend the money on. I think tangible things like 'I-pod' are better than 'skydives' because you can look at it and smile. Of course 'plane ticket to eloy' is also tangible.
The one thing that got me through is headspace. Whenever I got the craving for a cigarette I remembered that I was no longer a slave, that i was no longer one of those losers. If some people today consider me a bit strident about cigarettes, so be it. This is the attitude that lets me have a better life.