Quitting Smoking Cigarettes

GermanKnight · August 05, 2010, 10:16:49 AM

I am only 22, but have been smoking almost everyday since i was 16 or so.

Time to give it up. im trying so hard to stop, but still have about 10 a day.

Anyone else have advice without taking medication for quitting? Its so bad for my health, yet i still do it. I quite other things much harder, it just seems like this habbit has got me in its devilish clutches.

PLEASE give me some words of advice

Anyone else trying to stop?

Lip, i seen some cigs in your mouth in some photos, whats your take on it?

bassadict69 · August 05, 2010, 04:13:26 PM

Spend some time reading up on this site... www.whyquit.com It is an awesome site, but did not help me much. Then again, I had been smoking since I was 16 & I was 38 when I found the site.

I quit using Chantix...after unsuccessfully trying every other method out there! The Chantix is God sent as far as I am concerned. I have now been quit over a year & never even have a small desire for a smoke. I can even drink & not think about smoking & that was always a heavy smoking time for me. Some people have side effects like vivid dreams, nausea, suicidal thoughts, etc. I had NONE!

I took it as the directions stated & by the 6th day on them, I did not want a smoke & have not wanted one since.

Stump bumper · August 05, 2010, 07:20:26 PM

I tried chantix serveral times and this last time for 3 months and it did nothing, no side effects or any effects at all.

My advice is to get away from anyone in your life that smokes and get a girlfriend that hates smoking then marry her, seemed to work for my ex friends.

bassadict69 · August 05, 2010, 08:33:22 PM

You still wanted to smoke with the Chantix?

That is wild!

The Chantix made cigarettes taste & smell even worse than they normally do to those who do not smoke. I cannot describe it...the smell was just outrageous & the taste was right up there also. Now that I am off the Chantix, they still stink, but not like they did while I was on it!

bassindude · August 05, 2010, 09:45:49 PM

I quit when I was 30, that was 21 years ago. The best advice I can give is to prepare yourself mentally to quit. It will be hard, and you will suffer. But in the end it is just a decision you have to make. Tell yourself you WILL NOT smoke again, and be true to yourself. It was the hardest thing I ever did, but you wont be successful if you're not really ready. Decide you're going to quit and quit, dont let any excuse make you backslide. When you do quit you will have to do everything at least once without a cigarette, that you used to do with a cigarette. some things more than once, but each time it will get easier. soon you wont associate things like eating, driving, drinking etc. with smoking. You can do it, you really have to want to. Dont do it for someone else, you have to do it for you. Good luck Jim

GermanKnight · August 06, 2010, 08:11:14 PM

I have been preparing, and i keep saying this will be my last pack, and i might go about 8 hours without one, then bam... got another pack cuz i get an OUTRAGEOUS headache, i get really really cranky, crankier than i already am lol.

To get away from everyone that smoked, would be me getting away from my parents, i need them and they need me right now..

Maybe its just not the right time to quite. I know that sounds like an excuse, but im sick of the wasted effort and telling myself im trying while smoking my "last" one that never happens heh.

Im gonna try one last time.

bassadict69 · August 06, 2010, 10:23:12 PM

Good luck to you...I know it is hard!

brobutch · August 06, 2010, 10:33:45 PM

Medicines help, the will to quit is very important, but the most important thing needed to stop any kind of bad habit is the power of God in your life. Without his power, it is virtually impossible to do something as hard as quitting smoking. When I turned my life over to him, drinking and a foul mouth disappeared immediately. He is really an awesome God and so many are not taking advantage of his wonder-working power to help them in this life!!!

zim · December 22, 2010, 08:56:46 AM

I see this has been up for a while and I hope ghermn knight is well on his way to quitting.
I can only pray none of you has to go the route i have to get off the ciggies.
Mid sept i had a major stroke. Lost use of my entire left side and spent 2 weeks in ICUand by the time i finished 2 more weeks in rehab i realized i had worked to hard to come back to to 1/2 of what Ionce was to pick up the smokes again. compared to what I've been through overall quitting was easy.
it really is mind over matter- best of life to you