cold turkey
and if you fall
get back up and try again (aliyah) :-)

3 days is how long it takes for most of the nicotine to get out of your system. You need to push past this. Piling on more nicotine isn’t the answer. I quit cold turkey about 10 years ago and I still get the occasional cravings……hang in there!

Well I am an ex smoker been quit since a RATT concert in 1999 got so drunk was sick for days could not stand to smoke a cig, let alone smell one again ,but i took all my old cigarette butts added water to them and let them sit placed them in a jar when i got to craving one id smell the product of it it turned my stomach so bad after doing this for 2 months had not smoked since used to be 2 packs a day good luck

A number of things would be good:

Make a no-smoking rule in the house, that way you have to go outside and be cold when you want to smoke.

Find a good book to read so you don’t feel like getting up to go out and smoke, and you can go into someone else’s world where that’s not a problem and forget what’s going with the addictions that nag.

Change the people you hang out with for a brief while, don’t make a scene about it(drama will make the situation too real and you’ll wish you smoked again just to end the drama), just stop callin them if they smoke, that way you won’t feel inclined to bum one from them. Just until you feel safer about cigarettes, then you can party away with your old friends a new non-smoking person.

I’ve never tried Nicotrol or the gum but candy is good. The mere act of sucking on something can take away the physical habit of sucking.

Now if I could only stop biting my nails :)

I quit COLD Turkey over a year ago.

You have to KEEP TRYING.

Keep in mind that it takes a good 4 to 5 attempts before you’re able to stick with it. Nicotine is a drug and right now you’re a drug addict, it’s about time you start thinking like one. Don’t look at the long picture when you’re quitting, look at the now. You need to wake up in the morning and tell yourself that “Today I am not going to smoke. I will do everything in my power to not smoke TODAY.” Don’t dwell on tomorrow, or next week or next month, what;s important is TODAY. Then the next day becomes TODAY, and so on and so fourth.

One trick that REALLY helped me was eliminating alcohol and caffeine from my diet for the first month after deciding to quit. The two are known triggers and are guaranteed to get you smoking again in no time. i know some people FREAK out if they can’t have that morning cup of coffee, they claim they can’t wake up w/o it…well, did you know that an apple is more effective in waking you up in the morning than coffee? Try it! You’ll see I’m right.

Wash all your ashtrays, toss out all your cigarettes and lighters, deodorize your car and house. Remove all traces that you ever smoked. Stock up on gum, NOT niccorette, just regular gum and drink LOTS of water…smoking dehydrates you and causes, ditch the cancer sticks and up the water and you’ll look YEARS younger in a matter of months.

Nicotine is out of your system completely in 10 days, although the first three are the most difficult. Try to schedule your quitting on a weekend, that way you’ll have the first few days out of the way with out having to deal with things like rush hour traffic and work stress. Once you’re past day three it’s all downhill, seriously! And once you’re past day 10 you know it’s all psychological, that the nicotine is out and it’s just mind over matter.

Get a “sponsor”. It’s said that quitting smoking is as difficult as quitting heroine. Drug addicts have sponsors, find someone to help you through the process, a former smoker that you can rely on when things get stressful and you feel like lighting up. It sounds silly but it works! They’ve been there and know EXACTLY what you’re going through! They can help.

Good Luck and keep us posted on your progress!

Great Question I personally was about to ask the same thing a few days ago.
I’m a current smoker as well but even tho others believe I’m addicted to smoking I personally don’t think so. Not to sound like I’m denying it or anything but i know myself well enough. As of right now i really don’t feel that cigarettes are much more of a harm to me than any other daily encounters I face during my day.
I firmly believe that one day I will decide to quit and will end up resorting to cold turkey, having said that I believe that my desire to prove people wrong and strong will are more than enough to help me quit smocking.
Addiction is simply the excuse of a weak mind. The human body and mind are made to endure obscene amounts of pain and stretch to endless limits. If people know how strong they really are and understand their life’s hardships they will see that they were able to live before they were introduced to cigarettes. If my body is able to simultaneously conduct millions of processes in order to sustain life, then my mind is more than able to do at least 1, that being quit smocking.

I tried nicotine patches and gum but they only worked for a short period, before I went back to smoking.

In 1999, I gave up a 15 year, 20-a-day habit by going cold turkey. Before that had 5 attemps to give up.

Not had a cigarette since and now can’t bear to be around smokers.

My two main triggers for having a cigarette were coffee in the morning and alcohol in the evening. So I gave up drinking both as well, to support myself.

In previous attemps to give up smoking, I had NOT bothered to give up the triggers. Once I gave up the triggers, it was fairly easy to keep off the smokes.

Since 1999, I have had about 5 coffees but I am drinking alcohol again.

Can you think of any trigger connections? If so, you may want to make changes to your lifestyle to avoid these whilst the nicotine is leaving your system.

What makes you smoke? Habit, stress, boredom, social pressure, family members?

If you try to establish why or when you smoke, you can make changes to support your withdrawal.

(i.e.)

Ban smoking from the house, if family want to smoke they must go outside.

Only go to bars that have a non-smoking policy.

Get friends to support you by asking them to avoid offering you cigarettes (and to say no, if you happen to beg them!)

Join forces with a buddy who also wants to quit and support each other.

Avoid unsupportive friends & family.

If stressed, learn some meditation and relaxing exercises, rather than reaching for a smoke.

If you smoke through habit or boredom, join a club or get a hobby to distract yourself.

Start an exercise regime. As you get fitter, it will make you more loathe to start up smoking again.

A lot of people will put on weight when they give up. Instead of reaching for a smoke, they reach for a donut, chocolate, sweets etc……….So try to have healthy snacks constantly on hand – nut & seed nibble mix, fresh fruit, rice crackers etc….

I have heard that hypnosis is good for breaking habits. Make sure you see a professional though.

They say if you can do something for 21 days straight, you can make a new habit or break an old one.

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