Which quit smoking method is the best? -
I am thinking of quit smoking till the end of 2008 and I would like to ask which method is the most effective. I have been a smoker since 1998 but I think that now i am ready to give up.
The best quit smoking method is the one that works for you. There are many ways to give it up but noone is the best. What might work for one person, may not work for you.
I have tried cold turkey and nicotine replacement therapy but i finally quited smoking with zyban pill.
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Hope this helps.
I know Alan Carr (who at one time smoked 100 cigs a day, before he quit) wrote some good books about how to quit smoking.
You can look at when you are most likely to smoke, and then find ways to handle those situations like a non-smoker would. Don-t think of it as -having to give up- your smokes; think of it as losing something unpleasant.
You can use patches or gums to help with the nicotine cravings, but keep in mind the the physical cravings will wear off within just 2 days or so; the psychological cravings need more time to work through. Have some hand candies, chewing gum, or lollipops on hand to help with the need to put *something* in your mouth when you do have a craving,
I personally don-t trust any quit smoking method that deals only with physical nicotine addiction. I tried several times to quit using patches, gums, herbs etc but none of these worked.
Smoking is more of a psychological addiction than a physical one. If you really want to quit you must discover the reasons why you smoke and then eliminate or change these thought processes. As soon as I dealt with my psychological reasons for smoking I quit, first time and more importantly for good.
Once you deal with the psychological side of smoking it makes the quitting process easy, no matter your level of addiction.
Quitting smoking does not require any patches, gums, herbs or anything like that. These methods are expensive, time consuming and simply do not work. All that is required is a bit of motivation, self belief and determination.
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setting a goal is a good start. i tried all sorts of stuff over years (including zyban, which didn-t work), but the following did the trick for me.
-i swore all through my late 20-s that i would quit by the time i was 30. i said it would be my present to myself. the advantage of a goal that is not too close (like the end of the week) is that you give yourself plenty of time to try things, you don-t have to beat yourself up so much when you slip, and when you finally quit, you don-t feel so much that you gave it up before you were ready to.
keep in mind that with each attempt to quit, your likelihood of success increases (shown by studies). so give yourself the time and the freedom to find the way that works for you without being so hard on yourself (-i was going to quit today but i screwed up and smoked one!-). again, a LONG-TERM goal is a great thing.
-i quit drinking. the two go hand-in-hand. i know that if i have a drink, i will have to have a smoke, so i just quit drinking first, and quit smoking several months later. drinking and smoking affect you in a way that neither one does alone, so doing one encourages the other. likewise, quitting both works well. the fact that i don-t want to smoke makes me opt not to take a drink.
-quit smoking in one space at a time. the car used to be my little smoker-s heaven, so i when i stopped that first, stopping completely was less difficult.
-dum dums pops rock! jolly ranchers and gum are nice, but lollipops have the advantage of the whole hand-to-mouth thing that smokers get hooked on.
and finally
-i got really really sick. that-s right, i had allergies and bad flu and kicked that and got pneumonia a month later. i felt so horrifically bad and i couldn-t breath without pain. i didn-t want to smoke, couldn-t smoke, and didn-t like contemplating that this is what my grandmother-s death of lung cancer at 56 might have felt like.
seriously, some time when you are SICK as a dog and know it will last at least a week, take advantage of that. you feel like crap anyway, withdrawal surely won-t make you feel too much worse. get it over with. if you need comfort, go to your smoking place and eat a lollipop.
good luck. stay determined, and you will succeed.
Self hypnosis finally got me to kick the habit. It doesn-t wok for everyone but I tried other methods and none worked.
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