What helped you when you were giving up smoking?? What did you do when you got huge cravings? What did you do when everyone around you smoked?? Any tips/help is greatly appreciated. Really really want to quit!!!!
What helped you when you were giving up smoking?? What did you do when you got huge cravings? What did you do when everyone around you smoked?? Any tips/help is greatly appreciated. Really really want to quit!!!!
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I used the lozenges, mainly because it gave me something to do that wasn't smoking, especially when others were.
Truthfully, the only method that worked was the intense desire to quit - not wanting to do it anymore being stronger than wanting to do it.
I had alternative things to do when I'd usually reach for a smoke.
I 'wrote' a mental list of reasons I didn't want to smoke, so when tempted I said to myself - do I want: to stink, the horrible taste in my mouth, way it made my skin feel crap, lose the progress I had made? I told myself one less craving that beat me meant I won. I breathed through it & reminded myself it would go away & acknowledged it'd be a crap time.
It gets easier quite quickly, once you break habits. It does, however, get tough during times you'd normally reach for one, and, surprisingly, I started craving again a year later! Nothing was going to pull me back into it. Now, I hate it passionately. Can't stand the smell & even the thought of one makes me feel ill.
Good luck - you CAN do it. Just remember it's your choice.
1 set a date to quit. The first day of the next month is usually enough time to prepare yourself.
2 write down all the positive things about quitting smoking.
3 write down all the negatives about smoking.
4 put 2 and 3 on the fridge and read it every day.
5 when u quite replace smoking with a new habit. For me it was every time I wanted a smoke I took 5 long slow deep breaths. I also had nicabate chewing gum if a craving was bad. I have also started riding my bike as a new positive habit as well
I have just quit the above way on the 1st March and I have not had a smoke since and will not. My biggest reason for quitting was I'm 40, and I'm starting to notice a few wrinkles. Smokers age quicker than non smokers and I don't won't to look old and Haggard. Basically i quit cos I'm vain lols.