Quit Smoking? -
I-m 40 years old - have been smoking for 25 years. I was just diagnosed with COPD. I need help to quit. Im an epileptic so I can-t chew the nicotine gum or take any pills or use the patch. This is going to sound so stupid especially to non smokers but I feel like I-m losing my best friend. Can anyone give me advice on how long this sadness will last - when won-t I crave one anymore?
To quit smoking is one of the most challenging ordeals a human can take. But it can be done provided there is strong motivation and will power. If you-re religious at all, try prayer--a lot.
Meanwhile, do the following:
1. Brush your teeth immediately after every meal.
2. Take high concentrations of vitamin C and drink grapefruit juice if you-re able to do so.
3. Get rid of all smoking materials--i.e., ashtrays, cigarettes. Clean out your car and your clothes from smoke residue.
4. Place encouraging notes throughout the house after each day passes without a cigarette.
5. Don-t allow smoking in your home. Be polite, but firm to your smoking friends.
6. You may have to stop drinking alcohol and coffee because those two beverages always go hand-in-hand with a cigarette. On that note, avoid going to bars and lounges--smoke is heavy there.
7. Ask for support from sincere friends.
8. Keep busy by exercising (walks, jogging, hobbies. Learn to play a wind instrument).
9. Eat nutritious snacks such as carrots and fruit.
Unfortunately, it may be months, even years before your craving for a cigarette stops. Psyche yourself up to detest cigarette smoke. That, along with running helped me to quit after 25 years.
Be aware your temper will become short and your impatience with things will be long until you bring yourself under control.
Good luck and don-t give in to the temptation to light up just one cigarette. You-ll blow everything you-ve worked for in that way.
Gitsliveo . . ., you have strong motivation because of your little girl. Stop smoking for the betterment of both of you. I wish you much success. You can do it because you have a strong reason to do so.
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the best way to quit is just stop abruptly. You will need another occupation the replace the habit. If you feel like you need a cigarette you might want to try exercising. It is the best thing to replace it with since if you jog for instance your lungs will be full of fresh air and even if you wanted to you won-t be able to smoke and you will feel much healthier. The first couple of times you exercise you might feel a burn in your chest...it-s something your lungs didn-t get for a long time, a lot of fresh air. it will pass after a while. Find another best friend, exercise and a healthier life. Paying attention to the progress you make, the way your face will gain more luminosity, how energetic you-re going to be is going to get your spirits up again and make you more ambitious to get rid of smoking
If you like animals you might want to get a cat. They will sit in your lap and purr and be your friend. It will take time to make a quality people friend and don-t rush it. Time is on your side. Remember even though it felt like the cigarette was your friend it really wasn-t. Painting or getting into art and discovering who you are without cigarettes - the real you will be a reward to look forward to.
replace your best friend with a new one, exercise. get out there get active, run, walk when you feel the need to smoke...stop and smell the roses and fresh air. I gave up smoking 25 years ago and replaced it with running.now the smell of a cigarette makes me want to vomit. Life is to short and when you quit and can smell and taste again you will realize what you have been missing all these years....You can do it !!!!!! Replace the craving with a new one, one for health and fresh air
To be honest the first few weeks are the hardest, after that you start too feel good again, but then the minute you are around someone that is smoking, the cravings return, you have to have the will power to tell yourself that your going to stop smoking, that you don-t need it,and be strong. Hypnotism also works really well in helping people to stop smoking, so you might want to find a psychologist or psychiatrist in your area, that specializes in hypnotic therapy.
It will be better you get a doctor Advice first. I know a friend of my who stopped smoking after she had been sick and went to emergency due to her asthma. Every one at work told her to
stop smoking if she want to be around to raise her young boy, She has been smoke free close to six month. May be ask your
friends to help you. In my opinion you are the ultimate decision
maker, if you wish not to suffer stop. May be take a slow the approach like restricting where you smoke like no smoking in a car, in your house and etc. Pick up a hobby that will occupy your mind. If you keep positive attitude. You can do it. Good luck
This will be hard to do, you just have to make up your mind that you are going to quit. Some people do it cold turkey and others start by cutting back and don-t carry your cigaretts with you at home, leave them in another room, where you have to get up to go get one, they say that if you can wait five minutes when you think you want one that the craving will pass. Keep your hands occupied doing something. Start by setting a limit on how many cigarettes you are going to smoke in one day, and space them out so that you don-t smoke more than what you set your limit at, and each day try to cut back by one or two cigarettes, when you get down to five or so a day start smoking 1/2 of a cigarette everytime you smoke and save the rest for later, then cut the five cigarettes back to four and smoke 1/2 at a time, this way will take longer but you won-t feel like you are deprived, when you get down to one or two a day throw the cigarettes away you have made it! If you are buying them by the carton, start buying them by the pack . Keep hard candy around and have a piece of candy instead of a cigarette and chew gum, I had a friend that quit and she carried a piece of celery or a carrot around with her and would munch on it, kept something in her hand and something she could nipple on instead of lighting a cigarette.
Cigarettes are very addictive just like cocaine, it is a hard habit to break, and you will always in the back of your mind want to lite up, but once you have quit don-t give in to the desire. When you go to a resturant set in the non smoking area. If you carry your cigarettes in your shirt pocket, replace the cigarettes with a note on a recipe card and write on it smoking is killing me, and I don-t need the nasty habit, I will be saving money by quitting, take the money that you would normally spend per week on cigarettes and as you are cutting back put the extra money away for a vacation fund or something that you really would like to have and when you quit go on vacation or buy what you really want. On the note you write to carry in your pocket you may also write I will kick this habit, my breath will smell better and my clothes won-t smell like smoke and my house will smell better.
Lots of advice on your question but you will find one of the suggestions that will work for you.
Good Luck, and never give up!
Sorry dear, you will always crave them. Good luck.
Remember please if you don-t quit please turn off the oxygen before you smoke.
They say it takes 21 days to break a habit.
I hope I-m not spoiling anything for you but you-ll always crave one, this is about choosing not to smoke. If you had a friend who was always hurting you would you keep him around? Of course not.
So next time you want a cigarette choose not to have it. Think of this as getting out of an abusive relationship.
hypnotism is meant to be great.I go cold turkey but it takes allot of will power and not good for some.
if u really want to stop smoking, u have to to admit that u have a problem...if u realize it then u could step on the second step on how to quit smoking... there are several of them listed so il not list it anymore....
the thing is, its ur health and its ur body. nobody will be concerned more in ur health more better than u.
if ur bestfriend is truly ur bestfriend...she/he will be supportive of ur inclinations fr a change especially if it could better ur health.
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