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My husband and I are both pack a day smokers. It costs too much money and it makes us feel like crap, but we can't seem to shake it cold turkey.
What helped you quit?
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My parents both quit and they have been smoking for 30 years. ALOT of smokes too! They used Chantix and the patch. Don't try to do it cold turkey. It doesn't work for most people! Use the pills and the patch. That does seem to help alot of people! There is also Welbutrin if that works for you!
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CHEW CHEW CHEW GUM! all day long CHEW
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I tried many things:
Nicotine Gum.
Patches.
Chantix.
Smoking "less"
But after about 19 tries I've been able to quit cold turkey - been smokeless for about a year now.
Keep trying, it takes a smoker an average of 7 serious tries to quit smoking.
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Go to your doctor, they can give you something to help. (like a patch, etc.)
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Ive never smoked but I hear the health department gives out free nicotine patches.
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chew gum and fruits and vegies make it taste SOOO MUCH NASTIER!!!!!
EAT 5 furits and 3 veggiwes a day and ull stop in 4 weeks!!
thats wat happened 2 me!
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we are in the same boat that you are.
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i have the same problem, it tastes like crap, makes me feel like crap, yet i cant seam to stop
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we helped people quit just by using certain foods. you can chew on a cinnamon stick, drink grapefruit juice, and a few others. the main thing though is gonna be will power and determination.
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I am getting hypnotized in a week to help me stop - it re-programmes your brain so that you don't have the cravings anymore!! You should try that! or get the nicotene patches, they help your cravings to be less.
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The pills (I forget their name. your doctor can prescribe them). They didn't take away the craving but made it more bearable.
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You have to really want to quit.
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Keeping really busy. Catch up on some cleaning. Cold turkey is actually a lot easier and with the other's support, you can pull through. If you need more help than that, ask your doctor about Chantix or something.
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suckers and gum
that helped me stop.
and then once i started doing that they just didnt taste as good as they use to
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Put down the pack and never, EVER pick it up again
I quit cold turkey, including quitting drinking and doing cocaine the same day, 26 yrs ago. Yes, it was hell. No, I dont miss it.
You have to quit…you are killing yourselves and you both know it!!
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where do you usually get em.
tell the employs to not let you buy any.
idk you might end up buying it somewhere else
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My mom was a smoker. She went to her local doctor and he prescribed her Chantix. It works wonders! She quit smoking in about a week.
When she tried smoking one, she said it made her nauseated, like it didnt even taste good anymore.
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The gum really helps…. and drinking cola when you feel the urge. As well as chewing regular gum when u need it. Also don't buy a pack!!! If you don't have it then you wont crave it. Trust me your taste buds will come back and you will enjoy life and others will want to be around you more. You'd be surprised how bad you really smell because you have become immune to it.. Your sweat will not be as bad either
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Honestly? God. I told him over and over that I didn't wanna smoke and I needed help, that I couldn't do this on my own. I am now an ex-pack a day smoker and I'll have maybe a couple cigs a month with an alcoholic drink! It also helps to smoke less and less, then after awhile you won't want it anymore. Other than God I don't know what definitely helps. I do know that you gotta wanna quit though.
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I never started but, when I tell people that my dad used to smoke and he caught lung cancer and went through Hell before he died, I think it gives them an incentive.
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Stop buying cigarettes, for one thing. As long as they're in the house, you're going to be tempted to smoke them. Keep gum in your mouth all the time - until you get to where you don't feel the need to smoke anymore.
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I don't know if this will help. I did quit ONCE for two whole years (craved them the whole time)……the way I did it was keep cigs in my purse so they would be in reach…..that made me feel "secure"……and it worked BUT I ended up working with someone who ONLY smoked ONE a day at about 4:00….and I thought to myself — "hey, I'll smoke ONE with her at 4:00 everyday and that will get rid of my cravings" — hell no…..I started right back up again. I've been smoking many many years and at this point I WISH I wanted to quit…….good luck though - many people do it. I KNOW IT'S HELL THOUGH.
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Am in the middle of quitting myself just now, smoked loadsa stuff for years. Main thing you require is willpower. You want to stop ? your the boss , you stop. Am chewing that nicorette gum, dont think thats great either but it is helping me a wee bit. Stick in , its got to be worth it. All the best.
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My dad bought a lot of regular sugar gum when he was quitting. So instead of smoking he constantly chewed gum. He has been off smoking for almost 10 years and no he did not become addicted to gum. Another method may be hypnosis. Ellen Degeneres said that's what she did. I hope it all works out for you.
"After the worse there's always a better"
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My other half and me quit 3 1/2 years ago now. He went to the docs and got zyban on prescription and had quit in less than a month!(he smoked up to 60 a day) I quit through willpower and sheer stubbornness!!!(maybe to prove a point to him!) And lots of chewing gum(another filthy habit Ive had to quit, lol) Good luck
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There are a lot of helpful things you cant get on the NHS If you are in the UK? my sister got Champix http://www.champixinfo.co.uk/ she found it really helped and has quit for over a month now.
My fiance and I have found cutting down better for us, I know you said it didn't help you, it didn't us at first but we found it better to know that we could have a cigarette at some point rather then thinking we could never have one again.
We are down to four a day now and hope to make it less. it is true it can creep back up as we have in the past, but if you want to quit then you just have to be really strict with yourself.
Good luck and consider going to your doctor for advise. xxx
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Cannabis.
Buy an ounce, smoke it instead of tobacco. Being stoned helps with the withdrawal and such. For the first 72 hours try not to have anything planned because that's obviously the hardest time. Just hang out and smoke up. By the end of the month you will be cig free. Considering there are no withdrawals from the cannabis its actually not that hard. By the second week of not smoking cigs but still tokin a bowl you will cough up some of the blackest most nastiest stuff, its really self motivating. Good luck!
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Chantix for 9 weeks—
I quit April 19th and haven't had one yet—do not want one either!!! I couldn't do it cold turkey either…just set your mind to it and try Chantix…..
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Hi, well I don't know your opinion on medications but I am on wellbutrin for depression. And after like 6 months I was down to half a pack a day. I used to smoke 2 packs of newport 100's 25s. 50 a day. of 100's! ya I know thats bad but any way now since I have been on the medication for a year I am down to 1-3 cigarettes a day. Only when I am with other smokers or drink do I smoke more. I know I can quit but I am waiting for something I am going through right now to end before I quit. Just something you could consider. Hope you do end up quitting. Good luck to you both!
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well you could realize that ya it does cost a lot of money. And smoking cigarretts is like smoking death sticks. You can easily get cancer. SO PLZZ TRY TO QUIT!!! you can keep trying and soon it'll work. Chew gum and that'll be good!! Like the first person who commented chew ALLL the time. it costs way less. If you can buy ciggarets and a liter all the time you can buy a pack of gum every day for new!!
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i never started..