How can i quit smoking? -
please... help me...
You need something to replace that habit with another, like exercise, chewing sugar free gum, etc. If it-s something you do after dinner, take a walk instead or trigger the times you want a cigarette most and do something else instead. Also, the patch has worked for many people I know, too.
Study how much and where you smoke and don-t smoke, slowly cut down the same way you started, stay longer at places where you don-t smoke.
if you are determined, then it will not be a problem. initially you just have to avoid offers for smoking and don-t stay near a person who is smoking. if still you feel you need to smoke, take a chocolate or chewing gum.
you have to make the decision. once you decide, NO turning back.
basically, try to get your friends to help you. get rid of all smoking paraphanelia. ash trays... boxes,.. lighters... everything. out of your car, out of your home. out of site.
then whenever you get a craving, you must do something that gets you off the -pain-. one suggestion is to eat something (like carrot sticks). by doing this, yo uassociate smoking with eating something not too pleasant. also, try drinking water when you want to smoke.
the process itself will take quite a while, but the first 5 days will be excruciating.
and DON-T say -oh i-m just going to cut down-, because you will start again inevitably. -just one- because -one more- and then -one more- and it will eventually be a full pack or more a day.
good luck! get the support of friends who are willign to help
1. Die
2. Coma
3. Stop using cigarrets
(I vote on option 3)
I know it seems stupid, but I brought one of those e-books about how to quit permanently without any sort of nicotine replacements. For about a week I was convinced I had wasted my money... but it actually worked. I mean man did it work.
I-ve now been smoke free for a year and I never gained weight or used any replacements. E-mail me i you-d like the address to the site I got it from.
to quit smoking switch your habit to EATING..Eat healthy foods!
you had quit smoking....congrats....50% u quit when u decided to quit....25% when u asked how to in yahoo answers....remaining 25% u know its very simlpe....u do it own ur own....we dont want to take the credit.....congrats.
just quit...its hard but the only way i know how..if that dont do it try hypnosis. the patches and the gum
These are the things that helped me to quit smoking. Drink lots of water. Chew sugar free gum. Use a nicotine patch. Go for walks on your breaks at work or do something to keep busy. The first 3 or 4 days were the worst. I found this chart on the internet that I hung on the fridge that helped me understand that the withdrawal symptom I was going through were normal. It takes 48 hours to flush the nicotine out of your system. After that it-s all a mental struggle. I think that-s probably what pushed me the most to stay smoke-free is that it-s all mind over matter. Best of luck to you.
as u know,smoker are digging their own grave.
what u need to do is:::
-drink a lot of water.this can keep u in patient.
-make ur self busy.so u won-t have time to smoke.
good luck!
when there-s a will,there-s a way!!
Go go! chayo--chayo-
I am very glad that you are interested in quitting. Here is some great information for you to take a look at.
Jan. 26, 2006 -- Want to quit smoking? Now is as good a time as any, even if you haven-t planned for it, a new study shows.
In the study, more than 1,800 smokers and former smokers described their last attempt to quit smoking. More than half said they had made an instant decision to try to quit smoking without planning ahead.
Unplanned attempts to quit smoking were more successful than planned attempts. That is, those smokers were more likely to quit smoking for at least six months.
The study, published in BMJ Online First, comes from researchers including Robert West, PhD, a professor of health psychology at University College London.
Nicotine-replacement therapy and counseling should be immediately available to people who make unplanned attempts to quit smoking, write West and colleagues.
Just over one in five U.S. adults are smokers, according to the CDC. Smoking has been decliningdeclining in America for more than a decade. Most smokers make several attempts before quitting for good.
Quitters- State of Mind
The researchers don-t knock planned attempts to quit smoking. Planning ahead can help line up counseling, support, and nicotine-replacement therapy, which can help kick the habit, write West and colleagues.
Instead, they focused on the smoker-s frame of mind. Here-s how their theory works.
The smokers knew that quitting smoking would be a good idea, and it becomes harder for them to ignore that fact. Eventually, they hit a tipping point and decide to make a serious attempt to stop smoking, ready or not.
The smokers in West-s study, who live in the U.K., weren-t asked why they suddenly tried to quit smoking. Even a small trigger might have spurred them to action, write West and colleagues.
Imagine a rubber band that stretches farther and farther, suddenly snapping after one last little stretch. The rubber band represents smokers- growing tension about quitting smoking (-motivational tension,- as West calls it). The rubber band-s tiny, final stretch is their trigger to quit.
SOURCES: West, R. BMJ Online First, Jan. 27, 2006; online edition. WebMD Medical News: -Smoking Down in the U.S., CDC Reports.- WebMD Public Information from the Department of Health and Human Services: -You Can Quit Smoking.- News release, BMJ.
March 27, 2003 -- Here-s more ammunition to quit smoking: Men who smoke increase their risk of stroke -- especially a hemorrhagic stroke, which involves a burst blood vessel in the brain.
The finding appears in the March issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The study, which involved more than 22,000 male doctors, tracked the number of strokes for nearly 18 years. The doctors participating in the study also provided information on their smoking habits -- whether they never smoked, had quit smoking, or if they currently smoked -- and how many cigarettes they smoked daily.
About 12% of all strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, and 38% are fatal within 30 days, according to the AHA.
Smoking has already been identified as a risk factor for ischemic stroke -- which occurs when the blood supply to the brain becomes blocked. The researchers wanted to find out if smoking increased the risk of hemorrhagic strokes. Specifically, they look at hemorrhagic strokes that bled inside the brain -- called intracerebral hemorrhage -- instead of between the brain and skull.
Smoking seems to damage artery walls, making arteries more prone to rupture, writes lead researcher Tobias Kurth, MD, a Harvard researcher at Brigham and Women-s Hospital in Boston.
In 1982, when the study began, 50% of the study participants said they had never smoked and 39% said they had quit smoking. Almost 4% said they smoked less than a pack a day and 7% said they smoked at least a pack a day.
During the next 18 years, 1,069 strokes were reported -- including 139 hemorrhagic strokes.
Those who quit smoking had about the same risk as men who had never smoked. But current smokers had an increased risk of all types of strokes.
-Moreover, the more one smokes, the worse it gets,- says Kurth, in a news release.
For men who smoked less than a pack a day, there was a 60%-65% increase in the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage. But those who smoked more than a pack daily had more than twice the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage compared with men who never smoked.
Men who quit smoking seemed to decrease risk of these strokes, Kurth says.
Despite the numerous attempts at improving the prognosis of stroke patients, hemorrhagic stroke still has high long-term disability and death rates. These results add to the multiple health benefits that can accrue by efforts to quit smoking, write the authors.
SOURCES: News release, American Heart Association. Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, March 2003.
Nicotine: a Powerful Addiction
If you have tried to quit smoking, you know how hard it can be. That is because nicotine is a very addictive drug. For some people, it can be as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Within seconds of taking a puff of smoke, nicotine travels to the brain. It tells the brain to release chemicals that make you want to smoke more.
Quitting is hard. Usually people make 2 to 3 tries, or more, before finally being able to quit. Studies have shown that each time you try to quit, you will be stronger and will have learned more about what helps and what hurts.
Anyone can quit smoking. It does not matter about age, health, or lifestyle. The decision to quit and your success is greatly influenced by how much you want to stop smoking.
Half of all people who have ever smoked have quit.
Purpose of This Article
This article tells about how you can improve your chances of quitting smoking and overcoming your addiction to nicotine. It explains how you can work with health care providers to find the best way for you to quit. It tells about ways to avoid relapses and talks about concerns you may have about quitting, including weight gain. It also lists names and addresses of organizations that can offer help and information.
Help Is All Around You!
Many types of health care providers can help you quit -- your family doctor, dentist, or pediatrician; nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, respiratory and physical therapists; and others.
Programs are given by health care providers who specialize in helping people to stop smoking. Your regular health care provider can help you find a program.
Three Methods for Quitting
Experts say three methods work. You have the best chances of quitting if you use them together:
* Use the nicotine patch or gum
* Get support and encouragement
* Learn how to handle urges to smoke and stress
check out the following website for the rest of this article and information on each method of quitting as well as other information.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/6/1…