How did you quit smoking?

insightstudio

insightstudio

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I am completely hopeless. It's been four months that I keep going to sleep satisfied that I skipped the "good night's cigarette", yet as soon as I wake up the first thing I feel is urge of nicotine.

This is terrible, it's driving me crazy because I know that I'd rather not smoke, because it's bad. But still, that urge of nicotine is there, haunting me every hour or so. As I am writing this I can't wait to submit the thread to light my cigarette outside.

You see, in life, you have difficult moments. I am looking forward for an achievement that would allow me to relax and enjoy a few stressless days, hopefully allowing me to quit smoking during those.

It's all about a mindset, isn't it?

So... What changed in yours, when you quitted smoking?
 
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Get into fitness to give yourself incentives to not smoke. Don't want to fuck your lungs while your jogging, just makes it harder.

Once you break the cycle once, don't worry if you go back to it. It's a gradual process of getting a little bit more free psychologically every time. If you start smoking again, that's not a problem. Just try again the next time you feel ready. Eventually it will become easier the more times you try.

Try to quit when you really want to quit, not when you think you should quit.

Keep going until you do break away from it. I went from smoking every day to now smoking a pack once a month on a night out and throwing away anything I have left the next day. I get to enjoy it sometimes, but quit for 29 days of the month.

If all else fails get the injection. I've known people that smoke 30 years quit instantly from that thing. It just stops their brain completely from wanting it.

GL
 
davids355 said:
Have you tried any books? Thats a big part of the reason that I stopped.
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They are useless to me, and I'll explain why:

Given that our minds work differently, you might be the stubborn kind of guy. You see, whenever I see those ads or videos criticizing smoking and exposing the damage it does, I'm like "fuck that shit, I will never smoke again", yet 30 minutes later I still light up that cigarette.

I smoked some weed one week ago, and I didn't touch a single cigarette. I felt into a mindset that kept me "aware" of what smoking is and why I don't need it. I knew it was going to be just temporary, so I told myself "Hey, tomorrow remember about this mindset you're having". I wake up, the nicotine urge is there. I failed to it!

VSYNC said:
If all else fails get the injection. I've known people that smoke 30 years quit instantly from that thing. It just stops their brain completely from wanting it.
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This sounds interesting, I'll read more about it. But you're right, the sense of freedom of "rejoining" the smoker club (even if it's temporary) is brilliant, but my problem is a continuous fall into that "freedom of smoking".

gambit1983 said:
Quitting drinking did it for me
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I don't drink at all :) I think it's what made you quit drink that also made you quit smoking (not directly the fact that you stopped drinking, perhaps?)
 
There is a line in the movie "Dead Again" where the character played by Robin Williams said: "if you wanna stop smoking, just think of yourself as a non-smoker", or something along that line. Sounds simple but it worked for me.
 
Damito said:
There is a line in the movie "Dead Again" where the character played by Robin Williams said: "if you wanna stop smoking, just think of yourself as a non-smoker", or something along that line. Sounds simple but it worked for me.
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Mind-blowing!

Yes, quitting smoking implies insights into your sub-consciousness.
 
insightstudio said:
This sounds interesting, I'll read more about it. But you're right, the sense of freedom of "rejoining" the smoker club (even if it's temporary) is brilliant, but my problem is a continuous fall into that "freedom of smoking".
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Ahhhh just saw you say you don't drink. That's completely different then. If you drink you can say that you'll only smoke when you drink, really helps to break the daily habit of smoking which is the first step.

You might have to go full non-smoking mate. Look into the injection - it's expensive where I am though, like $1000. But from everything I've heard it's like a miracle cure for quitting from people I trust a lot.
 
It has been 4 years since I quit after having smoked for almost 15 years; 2 packets a day!

How? On one rainy midnight in Paris(August'2016) I was able to imagine my future self(early 50s) on death bed surrounded by my loved ones. Me and they both wanting to stay together but I cannot because I've been damaging my lungs with cigarettes and now being able to breath is a luxury, begging for few more days of life to enjoy what I have acquired in life.

No book, no chewing gum or nicotine replacement. Left in a moment!
 
It's always a trauma that makes people change.

Probably I am not stubborn enough like some people are.

I've been smoking for only 6 years, and I have had no health issues at all that convinced me to do the change.

I need to get out of my comfort zone.
 
insightstudio said:
I am completely hopeless. It's been four months that I keep going to sleep satisfied that I skipped the "good night's cigarette", yet as soon as I wake up the first thing I feel is urge of nicotine.

This is terrible, it's driving me crazy because I know that I'd rather not smoke, because it's bad. But still, that urge of nicotine is there, haunting me every hour or so. As I am writing this I can't wait to submit the thread to light my cigarette outside.

You see, in life, you have difficult moments. I am looking forward for an achievement that would allow me to relax and enjoy a few stressless days, hopefully allowing me to quit smoking during those.

It's all about a mindset, isn't it?

So... What changed in yours, when you quitted smoking?
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Over the years I quit and went back to smoking like 20x.

I finally quit during this pandemic. Haven't bought a pack since late February when I read that you need good lungs to survive the virus.

I quit cold turkey this time. Since I've quit like 20x before, I know exactly how it goes. Easy on first few days, gets rough on 2nd week, really really rough on 3rd week, then starts to wane and then after one month I forget I ever smoked.

Everything improves. Taste the food, smell the morning air, overall energy levels, everything. Smoking sucks in all possible angles. I have no idea why people smoke TBH.

davids355 said:
Have you tried any books? Thats a big part of the reason that I stopped.
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Yeah I tried smoking books but it's really cumbersome. I smoked a whole encyclopedia once and the plastic photo pages were especially nasty.
 
Ex smoker here.
Tried Alan Carr easyway to quit. But didn’t buy into the whole Nicotine Monster thing. I can’t add links here but go google “Joel Spitzer freedom from Nicotine” it’s old but I found it to be the most effective reading material on how to quit:

Nicotine Urges only lasts about 3 minutes. I used a stop watch to keep count every time I had an urge and it’s true.

Also rest assured that it’s only “tough” for the 1st 3 days and it gets easier after. And by the end of 3 weeks you won’t have any urge to smoke.

Theres also an app called Flamy which tracks the days you haven’t smoked.

Good Luck with your journey. The mind is a much quieter place when it’s not hounding you for Dopamine hits
 
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insightstudio said:
They are useless to me, and I'll explain why:

Given that our minds work differently, you might be the stubborn kind of guy. You see, whenever I see those ads or videos criticizing smoking and exposing the damage it does, I'm like "fuck that shit, I will never smoke again", yet 30 minutes later I still light up that cigarette.

I smoked some weed one week ago, and I didn't touch a single cigarette. I felt into a mindset that kept me "aware" of what smoking is and why I don't need it. I knew it was going to be just temporary, so I told myself "Hey, tomorrow remember about this mindset you're having". I wake up, the nicotine urge is there. I failed to it!



This sounds interesting, I'll read more about it. But you're right, the sense of freedom of "rejoining" the smoker club (even if it's temporary) is brilliant, but my problem is a continuous fall into that "freedom of smoking".


I don't drink at all :) I think it's what made you quit drink that also made you quit smoking (not directly the fact that you stopped drinking, perhaps?)
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think about it another way - first of all, if you smoke then you are being controlled by nicotine - it is stronger than you, that’s a simple fact.

You need to beat nicotine, get out of its grasp and become stronger than the hold it has on you.

At the moment you don’t have the power to do that, so there must be things you simply don’t know, about the process. So don’t dismiss anything, try the books. Even though you think it won’t work, you think you understand the process, maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Also I’ll say one more thing; when you get out of the grips of nicotine you’ll be thanking yourself forever more that you are no longer a slave to smoking.
 
I quit cold turkey. Its the best solution because no one is profiting in helping you. Try it out for a week. See what happens.
 
Within 2 days I will be 30 days without smokes.
It is all abou mind over matter. Whenever I feel like smoking I try to do something to forget about the urge.

For the first 2 weeks I kept the astray with burnt cigarette marks near me to remeind me why I am trying to quit smoking.

I used to smoked about 1 pack a day and have been smoking for 16 years. Best decision I've made to quite.
 
I'm glad to be here. Thank you all very much for quitting smoking.
 
Mean girlfriend would yell at me everytime I smoked. Finally I got sick of it snd just quit. Then she yell at me for other stuff :)
 
Get into running, replace the habit with a healthy one. When I was out of breath and coughin like a mf, after just few minutes of running, I realised that it's just not worth it. On top of that, you literally pay to harm yourself. It seems difficult at first, but once you see the difference in your well being, there's no going back... One more thing i would suggest is to associate smoking with bad times in your life, and being smoke free with sense off well being, happiness, being healthy, taking care for your body.
 
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