Cold turkey for me. It's been about 3 years since I've touched a cig. I'll admit I have become a cigar smoker (no more than 3 a month usually when I'm partying or with friends outside) but luckily I don't inhale them.

I quit cigs b/c I couldn't breathe when I woke up in the morning. Hacking up what felt like a lung. I just had to stop or I knew this would progress on even more and get worse.

I'm so glad I did Good luck!

 

have you tried the wonder drug Chantix?

joking only

i used to give a 'help quit smoking' think to people who wanted it as a church function. one of the more odd things was that they said take a glass of grapefruit juice when you just wake up in the morning as it changes the taste in your mouth and helps fight the psychological urge to smoke. they recommended it just after meals too IIRC. it's been a while. but the point was to stop your oral fixation craves by jarring yourself at moments when you routinely would want a smoke, and i remember grapefruit juice was one of the things that seemed to help people.

anyways, best of luck. we'll be rooting for you from behind the computers!

 

WELL I am on day 6. THANK YOU ALL for the advice. I have tried all these different techniques. I think just reading this and THINKING of good ways to quit... has taken my mind of actually quitting myself haha


I tried Chantix a year ago. Due to the bad side effects, i quit taking it early. Since i didnt finish the cycle... I had the STRONGEST craving for cigarettes then i have ever had!

Chantix is not a good drug. I believe it will kill you before the Cigs do. And the Side Effects are WORSE on Chantix then just quitting cold turkey.

This is no joke, if you were a little sad... well Chantix made you REALLY sad.
....if you were happy... Chantix would make you like....retarded happy!
.....if you were mad.... (this is the biggest problem) CHANTIX would make you RAGE!

This drug is evil. I thought of it this way..... The brain is like the ocean. We only have like 10% of the ocean really explored and mapped. Even thought there has been a TON of money spent on oceanic research. THIS is the same with the brain. There is a lot of money on medicine (of course). So, even though the human brain is STILL not 100% researched and mapped, a company makes a drug that "Blocks Nicotine Receptors in the Brain." How do you know its not blocking anything else????

Sure, this drug has been labaled "safe" or whatever. Because it appears to work fine.... IN the parts of that brain that we actually know what they do!


So if you want to be like this Take Chantix!