Help! I'm trying to quit smoking.

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I know there's multiple threads about this anyway, but here goes. I'm 17 years old, I've been smoking cigarettes for about a year now, and I'm trying to quit. I know there's a few people here who have quit, and I just want to know if any of you have any advice on how to supress the cravings when they come. Any and all help is appreciated.
 
Have you read vat_man's story yet? If not, you should do a search through some of the smoking threads and read it.
 
just stop. Lock yourself in a closet for 3 days, having someone come and get you when 3 days r up...
 
Ask your doctor if you can have one of those special...devices that are shaped liked cigarettes that help you quit?
 
Originally posted by Sage
Have you read vat_man's story yet? If not, you should do a search through some of the smoking threads and read it.
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Yes, I have read his story, very sad indeed. All the more reason to quit while I'm still young.
 
Some people have told me that chewing lots of gum helped. Either that, or picture a dirty lung exhumed from a dead smoker....that did it for me, I admit.
 
Personally, I think the most important question when you try to stop smoking is "(1)Do I really wanna quit smoking and (2)why?"

If the answer to the first question is "YES" and the second something like "because I dont want to do this anymore" instead of "my parents/girlfriend wants me to stop smoking" then you can make it.

My tips is to decide a day when you will stop, like two weeks from today and then use some nicotine-medication. Personally I tried the chewing **** but it made me ill, I think my stomach couldn't handle them. I like the pads better.

I tried to stop two times but still haven't made it.
(My answers are: 1 - yes and no 2 - both for myself and what other thinks of it)

So, I'm still smoking :D Good luck Sublime!

/D
 
I don't want any nicotine substitutes, I'm going cold turkey. After smoking a pack and a half last night, I haven't had one since, and I've had a craving all morning. I'm gonna reward myself if I make it through today.
 
Originally posted by SublimeDood10
I know there's multiple threads about this anyway, but here goes. I'm 17 years old, I've been smoking cigarettes for about a year now, and I'm trying to quit. I know there's a few people here who have quit, and I just want to know if any of you have any advice on how to supress the cravings when they come. Any and all help is appreciated.
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Good luck, man. Just remember, any pain or stress you feel is temporary. Keep telling yourself you don't need to smoke, and you're strong enough not to. It'll be worth it.
 
I've been smoking for over 2 years now, I'm 16. I had quit for about 3 weeks, then I found out my girl cheated on me, then I went back, biggest mistake ever. Anyways I went cold turkey, you get some shakes the first few days, but after that its easier.
 
So 17 and 16, isn't it illegal to purchase/smoke cigarettes until you're 18???
 
Originally posted by DODGE the VIPER
So 17 and 16, isn't it illegal to purchase/smoke cigarettes until you're 18???
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Yeah, but do you realize how easy it is to purchase them while you're underage? So many places don't ID, and you can just get someone to buy them for you.
 
Originally posted by DODGE the VIPER
So 17 and 16, isn't it illegal to purchase/smoke cigarettes until you're 18???
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Haha, good one. It's too easy to get my hands on them, which makes it harder. Right now I wish that law was enforced.

To those who do smoke: How did you get started?

For me, I did what a lot of people do and had them when I drank occasionally, then I'd start having them to help hangovers, then I'd start having one every once in awhile at work, until it just got out of control. Seriously, to any of you younger people, don't start if you haven't already. No matter who tells you that it's easy to quit, they're wrong. I was addicted after less than a pack, and quitting is no fun.
 
Originally posted by SublimeDood10

To those who do smoke: How did you get started?

Seriously, to any of you younger people, don't start if you haven't already. No matter who tells you that it's easy to quit, they're wrong. I was addicted after less than a pack, and quitting is no fun.
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Yep...good advice...dont start smoking. I started on my own. I was sitting in my living room one night (late after my parents had gone to bed) I saw my dad's cigarettes sitting out so I smoked one. Coughed alot, then I saw my mom's, something a little easier so I smoked one of them. Smoked ever since then. Now I'm on Newports.
 
just do what ever you have to do to quit now, like before you're 20...it's incredably hard to quit when you're older (i had to use anti-depressants and quit caffeine and alcohol for a while to do it), plus, i think you're more reseliant (lol, not sure what i was trying to spell there) when you're young...
 
i don't smoke, but my dad and mom used to. they both went cold turkey. my dad went thru hypnotism, everything. nothing worked. what got him to quit was the price. :) but even if i did smoke, it doesn't really effect me. my dad is very healthy, and my grandpa went to his deathbed in his late 80's smoking. it just doesn't really effect us.
 
Ah ok, yes, that's what I was thinking...I don't ever want to smoke though because of all these horrible things happening to people...like my grandpa died of cancer, but not from smoking, and I know that's something I don't want to go through.
 
Try to think of something positive. Something that you're actually going to get from not smoking. I know that, you know, not-dying is a pretty good thing to get out of it, but what you should do is divert the smoking resource to something else. Something big. Like a car, or a new stereo, or whatever you want.

The trick is that if you are smoking a pack a day, and a pack costs $5, then every day you put $5 in a jar. This jar will fund whatever you're saving for.

Then, when you get to the money required to buy the thing you're saving for, you will have actually achieved something, and made all the cravings, and suffering worthwhile.

And the other thing is that every day you can count your money, and feel proud that you've saved it, by taking this decision.

I don't want to sound flippant, but what I'm trying to say is that you should make the health benefits secondary in your head, because now, when you're young, you don't feel the damage you're doing, and so there's no reward for not doing the damage.

It all comes back to reward, actually. You have to come up with something that's more rewarding than the smoking itself.

Good luck. :)
 
i personally got free from the chains of tobacco with super mind-control.... just everytime i thinked about smoking just said "NO! No! NO!" but you need a strong mind to battle against cigs....
and now i'm happily free... of course there's this headache thing, when you can't have cig in your mouth, but then i thinkd that it's because tobacco, so i don't mind it.....

strong mind control!!! same thing as in diet....
 
another trick (that works, i can vouch for it) is don't count the days since your last cigarette, you don't want to focus on the fact you can't smoke anymore, cause then you'll feel deprived, and make it harder...what you want to do is forget you ever smoked, stop being a smoker, join us non-smokers, hug a tree and be happy...
 
Originally posted by craig
another trick (that works, i can vouch for it) is don't count the days since your last cigarette
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Yeah, that's good way... cos if you count them it's still in your mind... and when it's in your mind you can't get free from it... :)
 
I'm going on 48 hours now, and I've fought off many a craving today. I got rid of my after-school craving by chewing gum like a mad man. I even made it through a massive cigarette craving after I fought with my girlfriend, I think I might actually be able to do this.
 
o i forgot to add that i would NEVER smoke. it gives me headaches to smell it, i would never inhale smoke, i wouldn't stick a disgusting cigarette in my mouth, and i like my respiratory system.
 
Update: Initially, I made it about two weeks, then I relapsed for a short period. I'm giving it another try, I haven't had one for a week now, and I think I can actually make it this time. I think the thing that did it for me last week was when I tried to take my weekly 8 mile run after smoking a bunch the night before, I coughed up so much crap after that run, and I realized I was going to have to either kick running, or smoking. I picked to stop the smoking obviously. I figure if I keep up my running schedule for the rest of this summer, some of the damage might be undone. Oh well, I think I've made it this time. I'm past the point where I need a cigarette, and almost past the point where I even want one.
 
Congrats man! I'll be on week two this Sunday morning...for being Nicotine free!!! That's after 17 years of nicotine consumption.

Tell ya what, if you have the urge, get a hold of me first, and I will do the same. We'll be a support group for each other. :D

They say that nicotine addiction is compared to heroin addition.

:cheers: and congrats again!
 
well there's this lady at work who's been smoking for 40 something years adn she quit in three days using some crap called smoke-away ....the only downside is that you have to stay away from caffeine__for like 30 days or so....if you can handle it great but most people cant...
 

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