Being in the navy you are highly encouraged to give up smoking and constantly tagged, i.e : Dirty tabber etc..
So i have taken it on myself to give up and have done for the past 5 days using electric cigarettes which so far i have found a good way to give up and push through the two week barrier.
What are other lifers experiences with giving up smoking and what did you use, also how hard was it for you?
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No real experience really. I'd only smoked for a week or two as a kid when I gave up, so it it was easy as I had no habit to break. I offered my mate a fag and he said, "no thanks, I've given up". At that tender age giving up seemed a very grown up thing to do. Being as I only smoked because I wanted to act like an adult, giving up was taking playing at being an adult to a whole new level. I never touched a fag again. My mate on the other hand took it up again the following week and hasn't stopped since.
Every time i got a cold i had the cough for 2 months so i was desperate to give up. I didn't use anything just sheer will power .
Only Downside is that i'm 2 stone heavier but that's probably more down to hitting 40 than giving up.
Funny thing is that i quite often dream that im still smoking . Can't stand the things now when i'm not asleep.
http://www.cact.org.uk/community/education-and-health/kick-the-habit/
Good luck.
The key is "YOU HAVE TO WANT TO QUIT MORE THAN YOU WANT TO SMOKE".
I wish you luck, if you succed you WILL put on weight, but so will your wallet.
As others have said you have to want to give up more than you want to smoke.
The craving intervals became longer and longer until after a few weeks, I could go through most of the day without a craving.
To me though the key is never to acknowledge that you have quit. I did manage to stop smoking a few years before for about three months only to let my guard down by telling myself and those around me that I had quit and kicked the habit. I remember being offered a cigar and thinking "no problem because I have quit cigarettes". I started smoking them again soon after. Now I say to myself that I am still a smoker but I have chosen not to smoke for my health and my family. I get a craving now every four or five years. It last for a few seconds.
Keep it up. They didn't have the quit smoking aids when I did it. If I can do it, anyone can.
When I found out I was going to be a Dad, I knew this would be the right time to kick the filthy habit.
Had a great last night with the cigs in an airport hotel in Kuala Lumpur, where you can smoke anywhere.
Then the next morning, that was it.
Read the Alan Carr book (Easyway to stop smoking).
He actually encourages you to smoke, while you read the book.
Was fairly easy in the beginning, but was always going to struggle, if drinks were involved.
Had acupuncture to try and treat my hay fever. Didn't really help a lot, but it did totally remove my cravings for cigarettes.
'That' feeling in your tummy, when you want a fag just disappeared from one day to another.
No more trouble breathing. Also, my tastebuds and sense of smelling has improved a lot.
Exercise much easier too.
More money in my wallet.
Best thing I've ever done (apart from choosing to support Charlton, when I moved to London in 1999).
I firmly believe that you are more likely to go back to smoking if you use the patches and the like instead of just giving up off your own steam.
It's a dirty disgusting thing to do , why would you want to out smoke into your lungs , sooner it's banned altogether the better
3 days is all it takes to get evry trace of nicotine out of your body, then you have 2 weeks of fighting cravings before your breathing and your heart regulates to that of a non-smoker. From that point on it gets a lot easier. It does take years for all accects of smoking to leave your body but it is worth it.
So basically anyone who really wants to quit should do it alone, all those no-smoking aids are just money making schemes, I read in a hospital that 80% of people that quit with nicotine aids will start again within 3 years and 80% of people that quit using just will power will never start again.
Good Luck Crazy, I hope you don't get too attacthed to the electric cigarette though.
Can't say I really understand that logic personally.
Went cold turkey - not easy but after 8 years it has most definately worked for me - family and friends might have noticed me being a bit of a nightmare but I honestly don't remember it being that bad.
If you try doing the patches then I would imagine you'll then need to wean your way off those too which will lengthen the process even more.
It was always easier to give up the first morning & last evening type cigs but my stumbling block whenever I unsuccessfully tried to quit was the social cigs - in pubs etc - guess that is now much easier though.
Dunno....I've never looked.
Cheers dude, you too !. Ive thought about quitting before but never tried.. have to admit that the cold weather has definitely helped so far.