How do i quit smoking when i still want to smoke? -
My body is telling me that i need to quit but my mind wont let me. Its getting harder to breathe and i-m feeling pains in my chest everynow and then. And my habit is getting worse even tho i-m still not a heavy smoker. only about 3-4 a day. I-m 17 and Ive been doing it since 14. please help
I smoked anywhere from 2 to 4 pks a day for 25 yrs when I finally stopped smoking in 1989. I was 18 when I started - couldn-t begin to tell you how many times I tried quitting.
I hate to be a pessimist but as long as you still want to smoke, you won-t be able to quit. The habit to smoke is too strong to break if you-re not fully committed.
How did I finally quit? I had chronic bronchitis for 2 yrs - it finally stopped responding to medication. My desire to be healthy - alive finally outweighed my desire to smoke. And, because smoking isn-t allowed in many places, it was pretty easy because I stopped associating places with smoking.
How about not smoking in a car? Don-t date girls who smoke (2nd hand smoke is all its said to be). I spent a lot of time around a friend who smokes - started wheezing; seldom see that friend now.
Why do you want to quit? Smoking is the great, I love it!!
There are several medications out that will help you quit. You can also join a support group to help you. Thank about your health, how much money you will save, your family-s health, how you smell and less trips to the hospital in the long run. You can do it if you want to. Good luck.
Check out these websites:
How to quit www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm
www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0…
Quitnet www.quitnet.com/
www.quitsmoking.com/
www.smokefree.gov/
if you work and can get the new pill out thats great.. i am doing that now. but your so young you need to stop this try gum and whatever else to stop.. talk to friends that dont smoke and hang with them that will help.. keep busy too so you dont think of it.. i am so addicted to them so i understand this.. i been smoking from12 yrs old to now 48 yrs old..2 times your again.. please please quit.. i have to use neubluizer and inhalers and breathing machine.. and you will get to this point if you dont quit now.. it will take years but then damage is done.. as for my damage it wont get worse but never better... so quit. i am trying with the new pill.. i think its going to work.. been on it one day an already they tasting bad and i just been burning them and just taking puff now and then.. some can quit in 1 to 6 month.. you smoke with this pill.. it blocks the thoughts of needing them.. i wish you luck............
if it-s getting harder to breathe and you have pain in your chest, obviously your body is not saying quit - your body is saying keep doing it -- Your mind is saying quit - but you don-t want too. STOP SMOKING - you really want to carry the oxygen tank with you and be winded by the time you walk from your recliner the 10 feet it takes to get to the door to greet your 12 your old grandchild who lights up a smoke and sits with his cool grandparent?
well um, yeah, okay, whatever, have fun.
Remind yourself of how many more years you will have to live if you quit now and how grisly and painful your early death will be if you keep smoking. I-ve known people who get lung cancer, and even if you-re the 1% who don-t die from it, it-s a terrible and painful thing to go through and you-re never the same. QUIT SMOKING NOW.
Uhmm maybe its killing you thats how, find the willpower. I have never smoked but im sure you can cut back slowely every week or 2 cut down. or daily. Why does the government allow this when it kills people and thats it... Ohh wait the money they get in taxes....
start small. maybe start buying a lighter brand of cigs or try an herbal blend ( go to herbsmoke.com). also, try researching pictures of lungs after years of smoking. by looking at em, you might get turned off to cigs. or you can have a set thing you do every time you feel the need to smoke. do something productive instead like exercising. running is good. itll get u breathing better although it will be hard in the beginning.
It-s called being physically addicted to nicotine...
Of course you want to smoke. The only way to quit is to have the will to recognize the negative effects it has upon your life and overcome the physical urge.
It-s difficult to do, but it isn-t complicated on how you go about doing it.
If you only smoke 4 cigs per day and have only been smoking for 3 years it really can-t be that tough compared to the real smokers out there who accomplish it.