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You would hopefully gain a new insight on your addiction. You would no longer want a cigarette even though you don't want a cigarette, nor miss them.
If you are still doing NRT gum you have missed a critical point or three. Read it again!this worked twice for me
The best thing about the book is you continue nicotine while reading it and quit at the end.
The kids I see vaping have likely never been pack buying smokers. Nicotine addicts all.
Quit 29 years ago after smoking for about 20. One day I blew my nose and all this black stuff came out. I thought "this can't be good". I bought a little gadget that weaned me off cigarettes over a month period. It came down to one a day and that would make me feel dizzy. When it came time to quit I didn't want to. Then I came to the realization that smoking is a voluntary thing that you can control; we don't go walking around and intentionally falling to break an arm/leg so what forces us to light up and risk getting cancer or COPD? That realization made me stop right then and there. For a few months I dreamed that I was smoking again and got really angry but when I woke up from the dream I realized "hey, I haven't smoked". Used to go to the casinos with my dad and since everyone smoked there, I tried buying a pack and lit up. Smoked one or two and threw the pack away. Haven't had the urge since then.
My mother was a heavy smoker for her entire life but I didn't start until I was 18. I created a very strong association with alcohol and nicotine during my college years. That was followed by extensive touring which only strengthened it. During the worst of it I was smoking over a pack a day. Many of the venues back then still let you smoke indoors. When I landed in NYC in 2004 I was still going strong but the prices for name-brand cigarettes (which I preferred) did begin to diminish my cravings. I managed to shave it down to only a few cigarettes a week by limiting my drinking.
It really wasn't until I moved out here to the west coast that I was able to quit completely. I just said you know what? I'm done. And it was enough. I just stopped. I have occasionally had a drag off someone's cigarette just to remind myself what I'm missing and yeah, it is a total turn off.
It really wasn't until I moved out here to the west coast that I was able to quit completely. I just said you know what? I'm done. And it was enough. I just stopped. I have occasionally had a drag off someone's cigarette just to remind myself what I'm missing and yeah, it is a total turn off.
Cigarettes, I don’t miss, but a pipe was truly a hobby as well as an addiction. Nowadays I miss the fiddling more than the smoking but yeah, I rarely think about it now unless someone starts a thread.
I would never want to have a serious girlfriend or a wife that smoked.
I don't mind dating them tho.
::COUGH COUGH::
I don't mind dating them tho.
::COUGH COUGH::
It was all about the nicotine. The fiddling was a smokescreen. The fact that you don't think about it shows that you got well out of the nicotine trap. Good for you!
I wouldn't mind betting the other times are when you have caught a whiff of someone else's smoke, and ''special occasions'' when you would have made up a ''special bowl''. In truth no occasions are more special for taking a dose of nicotine that keeps you wanting the next.
Nah. If it was all about it then I would have stayed with the cigarettes - a more efficient, though less pleasant nicotine inculcation device.
It’s a mental game. You have to decide it’s time to quit. Mentally. I can’t stress that enough.
Cold turkey. First three days are brutal. After seven days, the urges start to go away a bit, the physical addiction is mostly done by then. You are breaking a habit, so try and keep your hands busy. I practiced my bass. Smart phones are a godsend to keeping those digits busy.
After a month they will be a memory. No cheating or taking drags. Just be done and you will be. I quit on New Year’s Eve 2018, at the stroke of 2019. I haven’t had one since, and hate the smell of them now. I have absolutely no desire to want to smoke, nor do I have any urges. Honestly, they don’t even cross my mind anymore.
I can do anything and conquer and hurdles that come my way, because I choose to. Once I set my mind to it, I simply did it.
Cold turkey. First three days are brutal. After seven days, the urges start to go away a bit, the physical addiction is mostly done by then. You are breaking a habit, so try and keep your hands busy. I practiced my bass. Smart phones are a godsend to keeping those digits busy.
After a month they will be a memory. No cheating or taking drags. Just be done and you will be. I quit on New Year’s Eve 2018, at the stroke of 2019. I haven’t had one since, and hate the smell of them now. I have absolutely no desire to want to smoke, nor do I have any urges. Honestly, they don’t even cross my mind anymore.
I can do anything and conquer and hurdles that come my way, because I choose to. Once I set my mind to it, I simply did it.
Implies you had a free choice in becoming a smoker in the first place. That leads to the determined willpower theory of exercising the choice to quit.
That is a conundrum for otherwise sucessful people who can't face up to doing cold turkey. What they don't realise is you have to put more nicotine back in to crave nicotine again, and again...
All they have to do is put up with a few days of being bothered but they afraid they will miss smoking too much.
Just a little rant. My medical insurance company, United Health Care, are jerks. They are all big on having me quit, until I go try to fill or refill my Chantix prescription. I have found that using Chantix has totally enabled me to quit. I have not had a cigarette since June 30th, and I'm going strong. Of course, having them cover the Chantix prescription was a nightmare. I had to use two other meds first, which totally messed up my stomach, until they finally covered the prescription. Now, after 2 refills, they are saying that they only cover 90 days. I'd feel a lot more comfortable going for another month on it. It's not even been three weeks. So it looks like I'm going to have to pay full price, which is close to $300.00. Well, it's worth it to me. I'll pay the $300 to stay on it for another month. It's cheaper than the 4 cartons of cigarettes I'd have to buy if I were still smoking. And my lungs and singing voice will thank me.
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Everyone has different smoking history. The drug is the same. Few understand. If they understood they wouldn't have got addicted in the first place. I didn't know I was addicted until I stopped. Then I read Allen Carr's book. All became clear.
Then you agree with me, until you are mentally ready to kick an addiction, you will fail. Wanting to quit, and being able to quit via mentally preparing yourself for the battle are two completely separate mindsets.
