constructive stop smoking tips?

[jojojoanne]

anybody have any stop smoking tips please? obviously one tip would be don't! but other than don't? any tips?

[shylock73]

I did it this way and for me it worked. Five years ago I smoked 25 a day and had been doing so for 55 years so I decided thats it, and asked a mate who smoked if he would help me to pack it in by charging me 50p every time I was gasping for a fag and bought one off him. I soon stopped when he told me I was paying for his petrol for the week, and probably for his road tax to. I haven`t smoked since and he is still my friend and has also kicked the filthy habit.

[cazzz1975]

keep an ashtray full of old nubs and ash nearby at all times, the smell can put you off

[chiswisik]

Ask yourself if you would rather be health, or sick and die with health issues from smoking. And not forgetting the burden you will become to family members and friends, and the expense it would cost to maintain enough health to keep your head above. You choose. It's all in the mind.

[theonlyone]

We have 2 friends that smoke and they get through 3 packs a day between them , so if the average price is �5 a pack , �105 a week is a lot of money !!! That would be enough to make me stop , as that's lovely holiday , and a lot of retail therapy !!

[yogasun]

I think it helps if you identify the times in the day that you are most likely to light up, e.g. when talking on 'phone, having a cup of tea/coffee. etc. and find something to do with your hands, e.g. doodle or write something on paper.

I gave up 30 years ago and just stopped rather than cutting it down. Won't pretend it's easy but worth all the hassle long term. Good luck if you do it!

[Drisgirl]

I had a chest infection and had to go back to the GP as the antis werent working -I would have been as well saying to him -I need stronger ones cos I cant get a right draw out my fag.I was so embarassed at myself that I quit there and then.I didnt find it a problem whatsoever -quite liked not gasping for breath.That was 6 yrs ago.
Mind you I gave up easily each time I was pregnant so I suppose I needed a reason each time to do it (I always intended smoking again after I had the kids) or else I would have just become complacent.
I wont smoke again -it makes me physically sick the smell of a fag end.
Good Luck -you can and will do it-because you want to -that is the main thing.

[whiffey]

You have to want to and clearly you do.

Take a day off in which to do nothing but not smoke. Go out into the countryside, take neither fags nor matches, and just walk. Nicotine chewing gum helps a lot too, take a pack of Nicotinell fruit 4mg.

[mandimoo2]

alan carrs 'the easy way to stop smoking'. my boyfreind gave up 29 jan 07, after 20 years, and hasnt had one since.