Any tips?
Smelling like smoke really doesn't help my game....

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Cold turkey.

The only real way. I smoked for 4 months daily... then I just said to myself "I don't need this shit"

I quit cold turkey... I was never really addicted but the gym does help.

the best way is slowly quitting, worked for me, i started to limit myself more and more over time until i just stopped and forced myself to give up what little i was smoking. Lot of will power needed in the end but it gets easier the more days you go without it, maybe not the first week but after that yeah

the best way is slowly quitting, worked for me, i started to limit myself more and more over time until i just stopped and forced myself to give up what little i was smoking. Lot of will power needed in the end but it gets easier the more days you go without it, maybe not the first week but after that yeah

Dude, quitting smoking is easy! I do it like once a month

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The best way to quit (from people who have actually managed to quit, not my own experience) is the following:

Cutting down, changing to a milder blend and such don't work. Quit cold-turkey, but plan ahead. Set a date for your last cigarette. This should be a date somewhat in the future (a month atleast), preferably coinciding with some event (last/first day of the vacation, last day of school etc etc). Make sure you are focused on quitting THAT date, and just smoke as normal. When the day comes around, smoke a pack and wow never to smoke a cig ever again.

I'd also recommend "Allan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking", great book which makes you see the folly of smoking and makes you eager yo quit.

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Man is the pupil. Pain is the teacher.

or do the Bandler way:
doctor says: "You have to quit smoking"
rb says "Ok, I've quit"
(made up his mind and never picked up smokes again)
doctor wanted to give him all sorts of pamphlets, but all in all quitting anything is just about willpower.
And remembering to forget the desire for something you know you don't need.

so when you're ready to stop. you put smoking behind you. just as a vague memory, that before you may have used to smoke, but now, you have other things to do. Like have a drink of water.

Yes, the best method is to set the date of your last cigarete and. There is one good book by A. Carr if i've not mistaken, really good, cause it fucks the cigarette's reputation in front of your eyes

Cold turkey for sure. Its a bitch.. especially quitting only a few days before wrestling season started. Practice for the first 2 weeks absolutely sucked!

if you can endure the pain, A slap in the face every time you stick a cig in your mouth. Did this to my brother... he stopped after a month.

Note: This post is intended for smokers who are seriously addicted, as I used to be.

A year ago from today I was graduation college, and I smoked a pack a day sober and a pack an a half/two packs when drinking. I couldn't go two hours without intense cravings.

Now I havent had a cigarette in 4 months.

How I did it:

It took a lot of attempts. First, I made a pack to quit sober, cause its too hard to quit while drinking. So every sunday or monday (if I drank Sunday) I would start a new quit. At first I would get anywhere between a few hours and 3 days, but it would be a struggle. But after about 4 or5 weeks of this it became pretty easy to get a few days. Then, once I got over the 3 day hump I noticed I started to feel better... every time. After about 3 months of this (restarting every week but each week becoming easier), I was just like, f*** this, Im quitting for good. So I took 3 weeks off of drinking and had no problem not smoking, and the first few times I drank I didn't smoke.

I did have a few relapses and fell back into smoking for a weekend at times, but with no withdrawal effects after the weekend.

BIG HELPFUL HINTS when your quitting:

1) Workout. I started working out every day when I was first quitting. When you work out you dont want to smoke, and when you smoke you dont want to work out. Working out also sweats out the toxins making the withdrawal periods shorter.

2) Eat healthy. If you eat healthy, you think healthy and for some reason changing my diet really had an effect on my psyche. I went from a standard college kid diet to eating fruits, veggies, green tea, water, and very little soda, fast food, chips, etc.

3) Avoid trigger situations. Things like driving, getting out of class (graduating got rid of that one), after dinner, etc etc. Make a conscious effort to not smoke in these situations or avoid them altogether.

4) When you have an intense withdrawal, go for a brisk walk or do push ups. The cravings seriously last no longer than 5 mins.

Now, not only do I not smoke, but I am healthier in many other ways. My diet, exercise, and mindset is soooo much better than it used to be.

Hope this helps, gl!

When you quit chew on sunflower seeds! I heard those help. Become addicted to something less harmful like seeds!

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you know I've used the sunflower seed approach, i've used will-power, and i've used working out to get away from smoking.

What I would really reccomend is electronic cigarettes. It was easy for me to replace normal cigarettes with nicotine vapor, it feels just like a drag.

Its also better for you (you cut out over 1000 chemicals right away), it doesn't turn your teeth as yellow, no tar in your lungs, etc. You don't smell, it's very cheap, and you can use it anywhere.

Its important to understand, though, that you are still inhaling nicotine. What I advocate is buying an e-cigarette and using it to ween off. The replaceable cartridges go out after a while, but I find myself inhaling nothing for a few days rather than replacing with a new cartridge.

I would call this method the easy-way-out approach. Its convenient, you still feel like you are smoking, but eventually you feel like you don't really need it. One of my pitfalls in the past was quitting smoking, and then bumming one when some crazy shit would happen, then starting again. By using an e-cigarette, you can get your fix in one inhale and then put it down for as long as you want.

It is my theory that the hundreds of additional chemicals found in a store-bought cigarette add drastically to the addictiveness of smoking. By eliminating these, your only addictions are to Nicotine and the Ritual of smoking. Both of these are easier to defeat with e-cigs. You can even buy cartridges that don't have Nicotine in them, to ween yourself off everything but the Ritual, which is no longer bad for you.

will power's the only way in my opinion.

I had a buddy who quit smoking by wearing a rubber-band as a bracelet. Every time he got a craving he would snap that fucker against his wrist so hard it would welt. Said he only had to snap it like that for a few days. Apparently he quickly became conditioned to not get cravings because his mind equated it with pain after a short time. Seems reasonable I suppose.

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