Stopping Smoking, any advice on this?

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I long ago swore off Marlboro's and Camel's unfiltered (yum yum) but came to find a cheapie cigar "Backwoods Sweet and Aromatic" a much better ( see worse substitute) than cigarettes.

Well the time has come to quit even those vanilla tasting smoking gems.
Being tired of taking a walk inthe woods and huffing after a couple of hundred yards, and not being able to taste food, and it just annoyed me that I still smoked.

Any suggestions? I can beat the after a meal smoke, I can beat the wake up and smoke smoke. I can beat the drink and a smoke thing.

Any suggestions on how to get that cigar taste out of my mouth though?
 
It's like when you bring a kid into a store with you -- he wants you to buy him something, but he really doesn't care what. He'll beg for the first thing he sees or thinks of, but if you say no he'll beg for the next thing he sees -- it's all the same to him, just so he gets something.

Your inner child wants something after a meal, after waking up, etc. and the first thing he thinks of is a cigar, but that's only out of habit. Tell him no you can't have a cigar, but you can have an Altoid or a cup of coffee. I quit almost two years ago and I'm still carrying Altoids in my pocket, and I laugh at myself, but it's just the easiest way to deal with it. My inner child is trained now; he doesn't even want a cigar any more, but he wants an Altoid. I could say no and I suppose I will eventually, but for now it's easier to give him an Altoid. There's very little sugar in an Altoid; it can't do him any harm.

If you don't like Altoids go to the candy store and buy a bunch of hard candy, all different kinds. See what works for you. Or maybe you don't like any kind of candy -- a friend of mine chews on rawhide made for dogs to chew on, rolled up like a cigarette. Whatever works....
 
Thanks Cougar, last night it was "How can you not smoke?" So it was time for a Jalepeno instead of a cigar. So the more I wanted a cigar the more I ate jalapenos.

did I mention that it is a bad idea to brush your teeth after eating a pepper?



Thanks for the advice C.A.:thumbup:
 
I quit smoking by using the patches for a few days (they made me sick), then going cold turkey. I smoked for over 20 years. I have been quit for over 4 1/2 years.
 
how many cigars do you smoke a day and after you get up, when do you smoke your first? Do you inhale?

Co-incidentally, I did an online survey for Nicorette gum today!
 
Forget about the nicotine subsitutes like the patch gum and lozenge. They do NOTHING to break the addiction. It's like switching from bourbon to beer. You MUST go cold turkey. It's the only way. Use SmokeAway. It doesn't contain any nicotine and it blocks the receptors in the brain that crave it. The stuff worked for me. I took it for five days and gave the rest away. That was over two years ago and I'm still smoke free. There was willpower involved, sure. But SmokeAway helped me through those critical first few days (and nights).

It is one of the few "infomercial" products that actually works. Try buying it locally at CVS pharmacy but mail order it if you have to. They really sting you on shipping and handling, so check local pharmacies first. New Graham Pharmacy may even be able to send you a SmokeAway kit with your next knife order. :D

Don't mess with the nicotine subsitutes. They are a sham. You MUST get all nicotine out of your system.

Good luck in your quit. It gets easier. The smell of cigarette smoke becomes offensive instead of inviting. I smoked for fifteen years.
 
Go look around the oncology ward of your local hospital, then when you feel like a cigar/ cigarette remind yourself it could land you in there way before your time.

I watched someone die of cancer. The last couple of years of their life 50% of it was in hospital being pumped full of poison to try and keep them alive. The last few weeks of their life imagine a zombie from evil dead and make it real. Thats what its like. Black fingernails, cold dying black hands, black lips, a few tufts of hair, red eyes, black tongue, receeding dying gums, terrible rasping gasping breath, unimaginable pain from every movement, the look in the doctors eyes as they try to help but know they cant do anything but keep giving morphine and wait...

Is it worth that for a suck on a bit of dried leaf?


Cougar's suggestion sounds good to me. I lost a load of weight with a similar strategy. Your body thinks it wants to eat or smoke (or whatever) you just have to force it not to, retrain yourself. I dont need dessert, I have a coffee instead. You dont need a cigar, have a coffee instead. Its pretty unpleasnt but the end goal is more than worth it. I'm sure giving up food is easier than giving up tobacco however, its nowhere near as addictive! You have to want the end goal. If you dont truly want it you will probably fail, if you do want it and really try you will succeed with or without nicotine gum/ patches

Good Luck
 
I used Zyban and the patch.

I did exactly as my doctor told me to do, and that was start taking the Zyban 7 days before I stopped smoking. On day 7, I got up in the morning, and applied my first patch. (Also what the doc said to do.) I took the Zyban and used the patch for 12 weeks. At 12 weeks, I discontinued both, and have been smoke free for 5 years next month. I smoked for 23 years.

I noticed right after I quit that the cravings were gone, and even the smell of cigarette smoke made my stomach turn.

This plan worked for me, and will work for others as well.

Screw cold turkey. I tried it, and it didn't work.
 
I'll give another vote for the patch,I went through the whole process and it worked great for me.Almost 7yrs now.Good luck.:)
 
I agree with screw cold turkey!! I did the patch thing, then they made me sick, then I cut the patches in half, they still made me sick..... Then I just didn't smoke. I was obviously READY to quit smoking! I smoked a pack and a half for 20 years. Proir to this, I HAD tried cold turkey, and didn't work for me, AND, to be frank, I was evil!!
 
I quit smoking cigarettes a little over 5 years ago after 27 years of smoking. I don't miss them at all, but I do miss smoking cigars. Back in the days when I still felt poserful urges to smoke I used to pop a cinnamon altoid, or take a short walk, or even fire off a series of yoyo tricks - anything that got my mind off it for a few minutes.
 
After 2 packs a day for 25 years I went cold turkey. Went for a walk every night right after dinner and for most of the day kept a bar straw in my fingers that I could "puff " on to keep my fingers busy. Worked great but it was tough. That was 15 years ago. Good luck!
 
All I would add is that to some any of the nicotene delivery systems can also be addictive. Working in a pharmacy I have seen a number of people who have given up smoking only to get addicted to the gum, patch, or inhalers. I guess those at least don't have the health risks associated with smoking though.
 
The main thing is that you have to want to quit and be ready to quit. If not, you will always find a reason to have a smoke, and then you're right back where you started.

The patches and gum do work as nicotine replacement, but that is just to get you over the hurdle of not having the smokes in your hand and mouth all the time. It's best to wean off of those too.

I'm coming up on two months now and made up my mind I am done.

Do an internet search on quiting smoking. Lots of sites with good advice and plans to follow. Set a date to stop and get yourself psyched up for quiting.

Good luck. You family thanks you.
Alex
 
I tried the patch but had to give up on them...they just would not stay lit!!!!!LOL..

anyway..switch to the crappiest stinkiest brand of crap tobacco you cant stand..

I was a Merit smoker myself...switched to Virginia slims ultra light menthol 100s ..the thought of smoking one of those was enough to make me puke...

thats how I quit..

Ren
 
Cold Turkey for me. . .Twice
It worked for 6 months the first time, and I ended up starting for no good reason.
I quit again some years ago, and I have not kept track of the time.
Keeping track of the time is like shooting yourself in the foot.
When you quit, you are supposed to quit for good.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Cold Turkey for me. . .Twice
It worked for 6 months the first time, and I ended up starting for no good reason.
I quit again some years ago, and I have not kept track of the time.
Keeping track of the time is like shooting yourself in the foot.
When you quit, you are supposed to quit for good.
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Same thing happened to me. First time I quit it lasted six months but I screwed myself by starting to have a cigar on friday night out on my porch. Then it became twice a week, then 5 times a week, then every night, then every night followed by a cigarette...

Second time around I went cold turkey, mid-day, mid-pack, mid-cigarette. I became enraged at my weakness and lack of cojones to do what I knew I had to do to save my health and I just stubbed out the cigarette I was smoking outside my doctor's building and threw it and the rest of the pack away. I've never gone back to smoking and never will. In terms of my health it is by far the best thing I have ever done.
 
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Here's Sharon Stone lighting one up in "Basic Instinct". It's enough to make you sick to see this and ought to be motive to quit, dear.
 
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Now If You'l Excuse Me I Gotta Go Rent The Dvd Of Basic Instink. Hopefully My Hand's Fine Motor Control Can Handle The Pause And Zoom Controls. If Not I'm Filing A Lawsuit Against My Brain.
Fare Thee Well Ms. Cindy
I'll See You Hither Or Thither
Please Wave As I Have A Severe Lack Of Self Esteem Due To A Goiter On The Tip Of My Nose That Swings All Over The Place When I'm In Public. Hearing The Bell Ringing Salvation Army Ladies Shriek At My Appearance The Way That Victorian English Gentlewomen Shrieked At John Merrick, The Elephant Man. I Watched That Movie Last Night And Supposedly His Twig And Berries Weren't Deformed Or Or Anything, Just Think Of The Lumps And Bumps That Coulda Been There For her Pleasure. Whew I'm Rally Weirding Me Out Now So I Better Leave. Farewell And All That, I Say
Mumbling Disturbingly, I Remain, Vampire Gerbil
 
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