I'm going to be attempting to quit smoking again soon but I'm not sure which way to go about it.
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First mistake already! Don't attempt it...do it!
My advice is preparation. Pick a date and gradually say good bye.
Smoking is like have a friend, albeit a bad friend, and this can seem like a loss when stopping. The best comparison is a bad relationship, you know its bad but gradually as you think about it over time and you decide its not good and slowly prepare yourself for the 'jump'. You will always remember that person for a while as they were such a big part of your life, but over time the thoughts will subside and new positive thoughts will take over.
Patches will just replace the crap stuff with chemical grade nicotine which you will have to give up any way!
Nicotine will be gone from your system after 3 days, a bad habit can be changed in 3 weeks, and the rest is just beliefs you have in your head that you 'need' it at certain times.
I would recommend auricular acupuncture as it is proven to be the best means for addiction, hence why the govenment use it for addicts.
The Alan Carr book ' how to give up smoking' is also another successful way to remove the brainwashing you have had over the years. remarks like...' when you drive in a different country you manage to change a habit of driving on the wrong side of the road with out problems...so why is hard to stop smoking? Nicotine addition!
Remove the nicotine and there is noting to make you smoke 🙂
EFT can also help.
Best of luck 😉
INDO
If anyone out there wants to join me in quitting smoking.perhaps we could do it together.I will be using EFT and some bach flower essences(agrimony) and Reiki.We can pick a day to start and help each other along the way.
For me I have a shower in the morning put on fresh clothes and then pop out for a fag,back in brush teeth and wash hands to get rid of the smell,its just not worth it,I even used to wear a cap and coat to keep the smell of my clothes,just not worth it.
Will power make you smoke, humility stops it.
Meta
Well in my experience, it lasts about 5 days to stop craving for the cigarette. Then is all a matter of not finding any in the house because you will smoke it lol. And up to a month there is the sleepless nights and the depression After one month iI felt all cleared of the habit but it took me 6 months to actually realise I never want to be a smoker again, well kind of. Now I have taken upon drinking and eating but also cycling. I think is important for you to replace the habit with something else, but make sure is not bad for you, like a consuming positive hobby would be great.
it lasts about 5 days to stop craving for the cigarette. Then is all a matter of not finding any in the house because you will smoke it lol. And up to a month there is the sleepless nights and the depression After one month iI felt all cleared of the habit but it took me 6 months to actually realise I never want to be a smoker again, well kind of. Now I have taken upon drinking and eating .
Oh Joy!
This is what happens when you don't prepare yourself, sleepless nights and depression shouldn't even come into it!
Don't do it, if you don't want to, otherwise you'll suffer from all the brainwashing.
Three little letters E F T 😉
im off ciggs for 10 months after 15 years of smoking,
there is no short cut or easier way,
just stop smoking plain and simple,
no eft no accupuncture no patches,
just stop its the only way that works the best,
otherwise you just prolong the pain
...no patches, just strong will and determination...
Several people on my course are smokers and I hate it when I am working with any of them because the smell is quite overpowering, especially if they've just been on a smoke-break outside. I have posted about this before because I do think it's important that anybody in the "health" business should not be a smoker.
Several people on my course are smokers and I hate it when I am working with any of them because the smell is quite overpowering, especially if they've just been on a smoke-break outside. I have posted about this before because I do think it's important that anybody in the "health" business should not be a smoker.
I don't particularly like people who overly drink and talk about nothing else but the wine they consumed in the evenings or weekend - but would not expect them to give up their lifestyle due to my preferrences etc. Yes I smoke, and am always aware of my non smoking colleagues and their views. Do we have a right to enforce our preferences on our working team mates - could this lead to other things like people who indulge in "fatty Foods" - would they be shunned as well?..:(:(
Several people on my course are smokers and I hate it when I am working with any of them because the smell is quite overpowering, especially if they've just been on a smoke-break outside. I have posted about this before because I do think it's important that anybody in the "health" business should not be a smoker.
You wouldn't believe the number of doctors - especially anaesthetists who smoke. And nurses, physios ....even pharmacists!!! Stopping smoking is the best step you can take to improve your health - but being in the healthcare business doesn't mean you are any less human than the patients you are trying to help.
I speak as an ex-smoker I quit 19 years ago.
Has it been that long?
I was just browsing through some posts and I came across this one which had a refresh due to some recent remarks. It has been nearly 2 years now since I managed to unchain myself from nicotine addiction and I have absolutely no regrets what so ever, theres a great paradox in that when you are a smoker you really cannot see how horrible and disgusting the habit is its only when you've made the transition to a non smoker that you'll look back on it and say 'did I really do that?' but it definately has to be said that it is really hard to come through that assault course to the other side, when you make it though its a great feeling that you have to experience for yourself in order to fully understand all the benefits from stopping and for me the trick was to focus right in on the pain and grief it was causing me plus I remember saying to myself that there is never a right day to stop, you'll never reach a day when you wake up in the morning and say today is the day where I will reclaim my life and stop smoking. It isn't anywhere near as glamorous as that, the fact remains that it will never be as easy as that you klind of have to drag yourself kicking and screaming and just get on with it, its a mission but its most definately the best one to take yourself on. I used the patches to help me stop and they were invaluable to me I couldn't have done it by cold turkey because its only after 24 hours that the ugly beast rears itself for its true nature and lets you know how big it is so the patches helped to brake the back of it and take some but not all of the spikes off of it. This may sound a tad bit strange but I actually enjoyed the withdrawal symptoms because they were stimulating, my energy levels went through the roof I was embarking on 7 mile round trips on foot to the supermarket to get tea just because I could and I new that it wouldn't leave me tired for days after, I really took advantage of the extra energy that is one of the gifts given from stopping, within 2 months I was signed up to my local fitness centre starting out on a new venture which I am still enjoying now. I do understand that when you are a smoker its so hard to see how it will be on the other side when you take that jump but just know that it does exist and its a new life all together, it is just a transition!
I was just browsing through some posts and I came across this one which had a refresh due to some recent remarks. It has been nearly 2 years now since I managed to unchain myself from nicotine addiction and I have absolutely no regrets what so ever, theres a great paradox in that when you are a smoker you really cannot see how horrible and disgusting the habit is its only when you've made the transition to a non smoker that you'll look back on it and say 'did I really do that?' but it definately has to be said that it is really hard to come through that assault course to the other side, when you make it though its a great feeling that you have to experience for yourself in order to fully understand all the benefits from stopping and for me the trick was to focus right in on the pain and grief it was causing me plus I remember saying to myself that there is never a right day to stop, you'll never reach a day when you wake up in the morning and say today is the day where I will reclaim my life and stop smoking. It isn't anywhere near as glamorous as that, the fact remains that it will never be as easy as that you klind of have to drag yourself kicking and screaming and just get on with it, its a mission but its most definately the best one to take yourself on. I used the patches to help me stop and they were invaluable to me I couldn't have done it by cold turkey because its only after 24 hours that the ugly beast rears itself for its true nature and lets you know how big it is so the patches helped to brake the back of it and take some but not all of the spikes off of it. This may sound a tad bit strange but I actually enjoyed the withdrawal symptoms because they were stimulating, my energy levels went through the roof I was embarking on 7 mile round trips on foot to the supermarket to get tea just because I could and I new that it wouldn't leave me tired for days after, I really took advantage of the extra energy that is one of the gifts given from stopping, within 2 months I was signed up to my local fitness centre starting out on a new venture which I am still enjoying now. I do understand that when you are a smoker its so hard to see how it will be on the other side when you take that jump but just know that it does exist and its a new life all together, it is just a transition!
Well done!:)
Thank you
So if I was you I would start solo without any patches and see what happens. Besides I would say that you can be stronger or have more self-confidence when you do it completely on your own.