Me, too. I still crave them but I'll just chew a straw or a piece of gum instead. I've single handedly chewed the stock of coffee stirrers in the office.
Here the best way to quit: Go to the gym, get on a treadmill, set it to speed 8.0, after realizing how pathetic it is that you're dead tired after 5 minutes of running you'll get the motivation to quit.
Today is my first day of not smoking. The doc gave me some prescription strength patches that ran 180.00. I sure hope these things work. Good luck to all those trying to quit.
LOL!!!! That is basicaly why I decided to quit this time. Although I don't feel to bad about not being able to run races anymore, photography is a recent hobby of mine, and there were many times a good shot required positioning that I couldn't get to or was toooooooo out of breath to steady the camera. That was the final staw for me. (funny, screw health, but get that picture!!!!! )
I would just trash them; then next time you are tempted to buy a pack, you'll just think about how you already trashed $30 worth of ciggs and won't want to waste money on any more.
The ones the doc gave me are 21mg patches. He said they work better than the OTC brands, they better for 180.00!!
I never did get the money connection. People spend $5 a day on a single coffee. If you want to quit to save money then I don't think you were enjoying smoking to begin with. It makes absolutely no sense to have money as your main motivation and then throw away material goods you paid for. Sounds pretty puritanical. Why not just give yourself 50 lashes everytime you think of smoking, lol.
I stopped about 14 months ago. I was a two pack a day smoker for a number of years. I had failed at quitting twice. In fact trying to quit was so miserable I promised myself I would never try and quit again. Well I did try again. I read the book called The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr. It will seem like a strange, silly or crackpot book at first glance to most people, but it really does work. I stopped, and it was easy. Truly. I was a relatively heavy smoker who failed miserably at quitting twice, and after I read the book stopping was a breeze. One of the best things I ever did in my life was read that book. I doubt I would have quit ever by any other method.
Not at all. Less than $20 for a book is nominal compared to the amount of money it costs for cartons of smokes, nicotine substitutes, and other less tangible costs of smoking. It will work if one has a true desire to quit, and takes the books instructions seriously and follows them. The author uses a lot of positive persuasion and uniquely illuminates aspects of one's smoking habit and reactions to nicotine that go unnoticed. Good luck y'all.
very similar story to me. I used this book as well and read about 3/4 of it before I quit (2.5 yrs ago). This book is definitely worth it, I've recommended it to others who have also found it worthwhile.
Quitting smoking was my New Years Resolution as well and so far it's been going strong. I started smoking September of 2007 and had my last cigarette Dec 29, 08. By that time I was smoking half a pack a day. Quit cold turkey and actually have made it through, or at least I hope. No longer get the cravings and I've got a support group of roommates/friends who are keeping me in check. Yesterday though I smoked two cigarillos with a friend and inhaled a bit, but they were of really bad quality and I have a bad case of phlegm today.
