So i'm trying to quit smoking.

[Ner'vod]

I smoked two packs a day for more than twenty years - I quit a few years back and I'm not even tempted now. The main thing for me is what others said - if you don't really want to quit you will find some excuse to start back up (I'm depressed, angry, happy, celebrating, bored, etc.)

I carried an unopened pack of smokes on me for several months. It made me think each time I wanted one that I was choosing not to, it wasn't because I couldn't.

Also, cinnamon toothpicks. Hundreds of cinnamon toothpicks.

Hang in there Bro - it can be done if you really want to.

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[hansen-dennis@hotmail.com]

I do actually have a good reason for quitting. First off i cant afford it anymore, mainstream reason yeye. Secondly I've been getting some weird problems breathing at times, it feels like my heart or lung is cramping up every time i take a breath.

So yeah thats the main reason.

Also funny story from just now:PI went to the 7-11 around the corner to get a soda and i didnt realise i was next in line so i just stood there smiling at the cigarettes, untill the girl behind the counter told me i was next:DFelt like an idiot : /

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[Marburg]

Well, every smoker has a good reason to quit. Expense & health are the most common ones (and they don't work)

If those are your main reasons, then you are flat-out gonna fail this time around...But on the bright side, this is good practice for your next attempt soooo, it's not like you're truly wasting your time. Failure is the best teacher.

Look at your thread title: "So I'm trying to quit smoking" ...might as well've called a do-over right there.

On the bottom line, people who try to quit are people who simply aren't ready to quit.

If you're still smiling at tobacco products to the point of zoning out in line on the packaging, then you are still in love with the habit.

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[Ursus]

Marburg how long did you smoke and what was your habit

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[Warlord]

So have you got a tip for me? I'm on day 3 and i really feel like having a smoke right about now.

Discipline, all that is required.

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[ryoken]

All i got to say is find a reason to quit. My father tried several times, and always came back to it. Until he finaly found the best reason to quit. That was cancer, and he was dead less then a year later. So find a reason no matter how minor, before the biggest reason "cancer" shows up to kick your arse.
Also smoking makes you more tired, ages you faster(i have seen old wrinkled looking 30 year olds) and it makes your clothes, and everything near you stink. I have also heard after you stop smoking food tastes 10 times better as your taste buds come back.

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[Ursus]

I've been a smoker twice. The first time I just up and quit cold turkey and stayed off them for a couple of years. It was easy. That was when I was in my 20s.

When you are older and smoking is part of everything you do, it is much much harder to quit. I wanted to quit for a few years, couldn't smoke in restaurants or bars, getting burn marks in the furniture and the car, expensive, turned off the ladies... it just interfered with my lifestyle. But it is extremely hard to break the habit when you have been smoking a cigarette every 20 minutes for 20 years running.

It's not just will power. There are a bunch of tools available to you, use them, find what works, incorporate multiple tools if you need to do so. The objective is to quit, not to impress anonymous forum clowns with your vulcan-like powers.

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

Look at your thread title: "So I'm trying to quit smoking" ...might as well've called a do-over right there.

On the bottom line, people who try to quit are people who simply aren't ready to quit.

There is no try, there is only do.

This is basically the same as when someone says, "I'd like to thank you for helping me." My response is, okay, then why don't you do so? Instead of just liking to do so? Yes, it's commonly spoken this way, but that still doesn't mean that it's correct to do so. Simply say, "Thank you for helping me."

It's all a part of intent and shaping things by seeing them as completed. In this case, instead of saying "I'm trying to quit smoking" - which conveys, as Marburg says, that all you're committed to do is trying, you need to say, "I'm quitting smoking", which shows you're committed to quitting. It's a small, but vital difference.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[hansen-dennis@hotmail.com]

Could i have this locked please?
I was asking for tips and advice things that helped other people lay off the smokes.
Didn't want people to analyze my topic title and posts and telling me what you believe i mean by looking beyond the words....

And to those adding to the pot with suggestions thanks. The part about carrots really helped actually. Going through the first bag now;)

And for those talking with no experience backing up the words. I cant say anything else but try before you start lecturing about it. Try telling some intense gamer he cant play computer/console any longer.

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[Marburg]

Marburg how long did you smoke and what was your habit

I started smoking cigs when I was 12, sooo...30 straight years of the habit. I've tried quitting with multiple methods, but the reason why each attempt crapped out over the years is because the commonality each of my quitting attempts share is the fact that I fail at dealing with the underlying motivator of my addiction.

I'm on week 2 of quitting this time around, but for the record, it's nothing to be proud of. Getting over the physical addiction time and again is easy...still a bitch & a half, but an easy few days in comparison to the psycological addiction where I always fight the rest of my battles. In all reality, I know it won't last this time either because I'm honest enough with myself to know that I, to this day, still enjoy the act of breathing smoke...& although it's a smart step in the right direction, I'm still just a smoker only going through the days lately as a wannabe non-smoker.

Man, If only I'd have thought of eating more carrot sticks when I was younger, I'd not have to worry about my baseline addictive behaviors today. Why didn't anyone just tell me that??:P

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