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I've decided to stop smoking and need any help/tips that the combined wisdom of NSG can throw at me
I need to stop for financial reasons (£5+ for a pack of 20 :eek: ) and can no longer stand the horrible smell on clothes etc
Anyone else want to stop with me? Maybe we could start an NSG self help group??

I've decided to stop smoking and need any help/tips that the combined wisdom of NSG can throw at me
I need to stop for financial reasons (£5+ for a pack of 20 :eek: ) and can no longer stand the horrible smell on clothes etc
Anyone else want to stop with me? Maybe we could start an NSG self help group??

Jesus Christ! I thought I had it bad paying $2.74 per pack. How the hell can anyone afford to smoke there?

I've decided to stop smoking and need any help/tips that the combined wisdom of NSG can throw at me
I need to stop for financial reasons (£5+ for a pack of 20 :eek: ) and can no longer stand the horrible smell on clothes etc
Anyone else want to stop with me? Maybe we could start an NSG self help group??

What? More than 5 £ a pack? :eek: ... And I though that I was being robbed at 4.10 € a pack..

Anyway:
Option 1. Give up instantly. Throw away all the cigarettes you've left and your lighters. Play with a pen, chew liquorice roots as a substitute.
Option 2. Reduction. Built a timetable. Allow yourself let's say 5 cigarettes a day in the beginning (one after breakfast, one at mid-morning, one after lunch, one in the afternoon, one after dinner). Then reduce to 4, 3...

Some of the people I know were able to quit the habit: some with option 1, some with option 2.

Good luck.

Ouch, tough one, tried many times to quit tobacco, now it's finally going well.

Cold turkey always seemed to be the best way for me, although nicotine patches did help too. Brush your teeth alot, eat minty candy and lots of fruit. Go out running and eat chocolate. Basicly do anything to get your mood up. When you're nicotine depraved, your seratonine(I think...) levels plummet and pretty much everything in the world sucks. Warn your friends that you will probably be an asshole for a few weeks. Good luck!

I am trying cold turkey and am feeling fine at the moment. I am trying to think of clean lungs and a healthy bank balance (I also got out of breath playing with my 6 year old daughter and don't want anything to stop me being a good father - certainly not nicotine!!)

If you are going to try the patches, I found that the different strength ones were just different sizes but cost around the same. So when I gave up a two years ago I just bought the strongest ones and cut them into four pieces. Made it a lot cheaper as I found they really did help for the first two weeks. Good luck with it.

Get a hold of some really addictive RPGs. I reccomend KOTOR and Fallout. Whenever you have the urge to smoke, just go over and play one, and you will completely forget about smoking. Or sleeping. Or life.

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Get a hold of some really addictive RPGs. I reccomend KOTOR and Fallout. Whenever you have the urge to smoke, just go over and play one, and you will completely forget about smoking. Or sleeping. Or life.

In other words.... buy WoW.... wait.... that doesn't fix the money issues does it? :D

Still going strong although my body is saying 'did we skip a smoke break'

Ah well, I'll tuck into my sandwiches to take my mind off things

Do, or do not. There is no try.
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We pay € 4,- for a pack of 20 over here (the cheapest, almost non-name brand).

I quit every day (when I go to sleep) but the hardest thing is not to start again in the morning. I can make it without a cigarette for a couple of hours but in the afternoon I get really itchy for one and I don't have one by the time I eat dinner - well, crap, I tend to get real jumpy.

Good luck with your quitting smoking - I hope it works. I can't really give you any advice... I've tried various times and nothing really helped. The only thing that would keep me from smoking is a bad infection or cold.

If my past attempts are anything to go by I'll be a preachy reformed smoker tomorrow, and then back on them by friday

An honest question from a smoker here...

...I'm aware that it's very BAD to smoke cigarettes while wearing a patch.

...what if I'm smoking something else?? ;)

Want to quit smoking? Hang around me. I have helped many of my friends quit smoking. How?

Instinct. Whenever I see someone smoking, my natural instinct is to smother him with a rug. :)

Quick, get addicted to something else, like World of Warcrack, or heroine.

Quick, get addicted to something else, like World of Warcrack, or heroine.

After 14 hours I am starting to get get addicted to snack food and fidgeting in my seat trawling NS instead of working

After 14 hours I am starting to get get addicted to snack food and fidgeting in my seat trawling NS instead of working

Apart from the fidgeting that sounds like my life. And I've never smoked tobacco, evar. Well, except second hand.

I've decided to stop smoking and need any help/tips that the combined wisdom of NSG can throw at meAcute pneumonia. That or a bullet in the head. For the sake of your family, I hope you don't have one. If you're anything like me, you're about to make them regret the day you were born.

But good luck. I've quit quitting.

I actually never had a problem with cigarettes, but I know a bit about addiction.

prepare to feel like crap until all of the stuff is out of your system, maybe start over a weekend so you don't have to go to work feeling sickly.

make a list of all the reasons you want to quit, look at it often.

find something to replace the addiction, for example every time you want to smoke a cigarette go outside and read.

once all the nicotine is out of your system, whatever you do DO NOT smoke another cigarette, you will just have to start all over.

My window looks out over the smoking area outside our office. I am picturing those poor people out there slowly poisioning themselves with that sweet, lovely tasting, warming tobacco......i want a cigarette!!!

My window looks out over the smoking area outside our office. I am picturing those poor people out there slowly poisioning themselves with that sweet, lovely tasting, warming tobacco......i want a cigarette!!!

you could imagine all the people you care about gathered around your hospital bed waiting for you to die.

that keeps me from eating things I shouldn't.

that keeps me from eating things I shouldn't.Never worked for me. Just gives me an overwhelming urge to kick my ass for being pathetic, and knock some sense into my friends' heads for not doing something more worthwhile. I mean really.. If I kill myself smoking, I don't want a bunch of cunts to show up & look sad at my funeral. That'd be too crass even for me.

Get hold of a time-machine and stop yourself from ever starting.

Risottia's options were pretty fine, but I think instant quitting would give you worse withdrawal symptoms.

Just to add to Smunkeeville's post: Think of lung cancer, pneumonia, bad voice, testicular cancer, the stink, lip cancer, bad breath, no money, early death, impotence, and so on. Actually seen a smoker's lung on dissection, and it's as black as dark chocolate...

Think of something you really, really want. Save the money you would have spent on cigarettes so you can buy that something.

If you badly need help, you can consult a physician.

Good luck!

If you badly need help, you can consult a physician.How does that help? Is it on the off chance they'll go "Sorry mate, but you've got cancers commin outta your ears. Might as well quit quitting"?

They can help you plan out your quitting, if nobody else is willing to.

When you spend time reading all the good reasons to quit you start to think why you ever started

Thanks for all the good advice kind people - I will try and stay off them and buy you all a cookie with the money I save

How does that help? Is it on the off chance they'll go "Sorry mate, but you've got cancers commin outta your ears. Might as well quit quitting"?

That's basically what they told my uncle. So he shrugged and lit up a cigarette.

He didn't see any point in quitting if he was going to die from it soon anyway.

(Oh, and as a side note, I'll try to start a thread about the problems of science tomorrow so we can finish our discussion.)

Hm. I dunno. Maybe get some brain damage (http://sciencenews.org/articles/20070127/fob1.asp)?

Strange but true!

Does nobody know the answer to my question?? :confused: :(

How does that help? Is it on the off chance they'll go "Sorry mate, but you've got cancers commin outta your ears. Might as well quit quitting"?

Quit sayin' quit quittin'. It's weird.

I've decided to stop smoking and need any help/tips that the combined wisdom of NSG can throw at me
I need to stop for financial reasons (£5+ for a pack of 20 :eek: ) and can no longer stand the horrible smell on clothes etc
Anyone else want to stop with me? Maybe we could start an NSG self help group??

Switch to rolling tobacco. Cost half as much and has marginally fewer chemicals in. Also then you won't become one of those whiney sad little maggots called non-smokers. Have you ever heard them in an argument (look on BBC have your say on smoking). The anti smoking group sound so much like a load of petulant kids it makes me sad that these people have the vote.

Slartiblartfast, if you need motivation to stay away from smokes (you mentioned you had a kid right?), everytime you feel like smoking, just look at your 6 yr old kid and think about how much you'd like to see them finish university or accomplish something significant and how smoking might stop you from being the proud father.

i quit about eight months ago. before that i cut down gradually - no graded plan, just what i could deal with. then i stopped completely, any anxiety or stress i dealt with by drinking herbal tea and taking Kalms or other herbal sleeping pills. also chewing pens for the oral fixation probably helped although that wasn't a concious plan.

quitting smoking also coincided with starting to drink heavily and regularly. you've got to be careful to not substitute smoking for something else. or replace it with something benign.