quitting smoking (need advice)

[robertsona]

here's what you do

[gnr61]

From the 'addictive personality' perspective I'd have to advise against quitting cold turkey. At a certain point, even long after the initial god-awful days, your brain will just tell you it's fine to have a smoke and you'll be in a bad enough/stressful enough/drunk enough spot to do it because you've convinced yourself you can just stop any time. I've gone through some long problem patches with drinking, eating constantly and drugs at different points in my life and while I've cut all of those down to manageable or nonexistent levels I still smoke pretty heavily (also both my parents have smoked two packs a day since 5 years before I was born so I'm just around it all the time).

I DO recommend getting the e-cig now. No, it tastes nothing like an actual cigarette. But health-wise it's mostly harmless and it will keep your craving at bay as well as satisfying your hand-oral fixation which is an underestimated component of smoking. With the e-cig I'm betting you'll be able to cut your smoking in half right off the bat, then over the weeks you'll whittle it down to very few per day and rely less and less on it. That's how I quit my first time (starting as a four-year smoker, two years at a pack a day), and I'm confident if I hadn't gone to Europe a few weeks after I could have stuck with it haha.

Best of luck, man. It's never a fun thing =.=

[Syhto]

Whatever you are smoking right now cut it in half. Ration your cigs out. When that starts becoming easy cut it in half again. Then you can have the occasional cig, but not when you NEED it because of stress, just during ~relax~ time. I started realizing that they don't ~relax~ me at all they just keep you on edge when you don't have one haha. I smoked on and off a bit for awhile, now I just smoke black n milds occasionally. I quit cold turkey though. Since you've been smoking a long time I think a combo of the electronic cig and what I've suggested will help out.

Plan out happily/creatively how it will go down then take the first step with conviction. Both my parents were heavy smokers, my dad did manage to quit but he went rather cold turkey. I think it's easier to start cutting down to 3-4 cigs a day then to 1 then to 0. Maybe 3 a week instead. Take it slow and really analyze your relationship to them. Start experimenting with other means to get what you get out of cigs. Cause yeah they're unhealthy and expensive

nothin but love to ya man good luck

[robertsona]

and then that's it

[welsh_girl]

I quit for two years, sadly I caved in again.

Good luck, m0de!

[giganutsauce]

don't be a pussy, quit cold turkey

[ScarletSky]

One thing, do NOT get e-cigs. They're multiple times worse for you than normal smoking is.
You may as well down 2 packs of black'n'milds every day because after smoking a few of those for a while, your lungs will look just the same.

The only way I've ever found to be effective at smoking, is to just do it man. =S
No one else is gonna quit for you.

[fido123]

I have a few friends who couldn't go 40 minutes without craving a cigarette and they all just stopped cold turkey and they say it gets easier and easier as time goes on. When I was smoking and realized I was starting to get cravings I just stopped and after a few months I tried smoking one again and found it so disgusting I just really didn't want to at all.

[m0de]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Im cutting back alot. I went from 15 - 20 a day, to 5 - 6 a day. Gets a lil rough at times, but its for the better

[massflavour]

-get a small container appropriately sized for cigarettes
-hold like 3 in it at a time, smoke throughout day
-have willpower not to chip in to your pack of cigs which you are using to fill said container
-smoke 3 cigs spaced reasonably throughout day
if you went down from 15-20 a day to 5-6 a day then this could be another step towards quitting. i did this and eventually i couldn't even finish the three smokes i put in there, which in turn led me to have only one a day, which led to me not being able to finish a single smoke.
gl/hf

[CobaltWire]

Take A2P's advice. I use to smoke 1 pack every 2 days. Now I only smoke about 1 pack every other weekend. I'm almost completely out. It's hard I know, but crawl your way out of it. Take baby steps.

[-KIDTHONG-]

Look yourself away from all civilization. We pay $8-12 for smokes here. No advice though really :/ i haven't quit myself or tried.