BE STUBORN. i have stopped and start for 4 years to go cold turkey again get a note pad and write down three times you really wanted to stop like in the moment. my first one was walking up the stairs and being out of breath (25yo) playing sport and when my piece of shit car broke down(£££) and every you get the craving get the book out close your eyes and go back to one of these moments in time, cravings last for 3-5 mins max and its good to time them sometimes once your confident it wont be murder watch the second hand tick.

On eBay their are pads that you stick to the bottom of your feet while you sleep thats what im going to try next!

thats a lot of typing im going for a smoke. GL

Stop being such a god damn pussy.

>>2613
Have you ever quit, you awful twat?

Just remember that it's not a part of your life. You've made a decision, and that decision is final. Your life does not revolve around cigarettes -- even if it used to, it doesn't now, because you're not a smoker. It's not a part of your identity. Stop buying cigarettes; it's not who you are. Nicotine will leach out of your system after three full days after your last smoke. The rest is all in your head.

You are a human being, not a dog. But there is a part of your animal nature that wants to press the little button and stimulate your dopamine receptors artificially. You are a civilized human being, not an animal. You have control over yourself. You can beat this habit, because that's all it is: a habit. It's like biting your fingernails or doing anything else that's not worthwhile. The biggest part of quitting for me was finding something to do with the little seven minute increments throughout my day, and finding something to do with my hands.

You've got to make it as taboo for yourself as it is for your body. Picture each cigarette as sucking the dick of your own rotten corpse, in the ground before its time; or a dog eating its own vomit; or something equally terrible -- not like you're browsing /b/ or it's a thousand miles removed from you, it's you, in that moment, right then. It might help you to know that tobacco is a bottom-feeding kind of plant, like shrimp or pigs only without the delicious; and it's used to scavenge heavy metals from the soil, and some of those heavy metals are radioactive. You're sucking on a superheated straw and the other end is in some radioactive waste.

Most of all, though, find a way for you to realize -- not trick yourself, REALIZE -- that it is simply not a part of who you are or your identity, and that in fact it never was. You took a temporary detour off the path from who you really are and now, no matter how long it's been, you're returning to the "you" that never needed that shit in the first place.

Also, go running or swimming or biking or something to get clean wind in your face and down your lungs. You've got to find something to do that will energize you and realize how fucking good it feels to really BREATHE.

All of those strategies combined are how I went from years of pack-a-day smoking to clean. I would wish you good luck, but that's bullshit: you don't need luck, you're powerful enough to do this without random chance.

take up harmonica, don't carry or buy cigarettes and when you feel the need to put something in your mouth (besides cocks), just pull it out and start playing.

Just realize that although the withdrawl symptoms feel terrible, cigarettes don't make you feel better.

They cost money. They make you sick. They make people think less of you. They make you smell.

It's not a good trade... your head may feel a bit foggier, and you might be a bit grouchier than normal, yes. But you'll breathe better, you won't wake up with sinus headaches every morning. You won't have to get up and run outside every hour. If you're single, you won't have to worry about every guy/girl you meet "not being into smokers." You can use teeth-whitening products and actually have them work. You'll have $50 extra in your pocket EVERY SINGLE WEEK, treat yourself to a movie or a dinner out during the week. You don't have to worry about disgusting you're non-smoking friends with second hand smoke, stinky cars and houses, and ashes/butts everywhere. All the anti-smoking evangelicals will also SHUT THE FUCK UP for once, so you won't have to sit through horror-stories and cancer-scares at every lunchbreak anymore.

When you really stop and think about it... its amazing how much you put up with when you smoke. Sure, it has its moments, but its so universally destructive and expensive that you have to realize it isn't worth it.

That's how you quit... you see the worth in not smoking. No patch, pill, hypnosis or tension-ball-squeezing will get you through the pain or make quitting any easier. Eventually you'll choose not smoking over smoking... life is shit no matter how you slice it, so you might as well be considerably healthier and a bit richer while you are miserable.

Good luck, mate... I'm quitting smoking too, I need to be able to breathe since I'm getting back on my weightlifting regimen. You want hell, try being sore from deadlifts, fighting cravings, and listening to the most boring work drivel all at the same time. I'm convinced that's what hell's like, but also that I'll be better for it. I'm tired of being the gross, fat smelly embarrassment of every beach vacation.

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you OP. My gf keeps constantly nagging me to quit.

I used to go to some cessation classes run at my unviersity. They were actually really helpful. They were a little gay, sitting in a circle, telling everyone why you hate smoking etc. etc. But after those classes I quit for over a year (the longest I ever quit for). So bear with me, because this is a little touchy/feely, but it seems to work.

The thing that really helped me quit was triggers. The girl who ran it said everyone has two smoking triggers. One trigger will help you quit, and the other will make you start again. Finding just one of your triggers is no good. You need to know what both of them are, and deal with them. So the thing that can help you quit could be the health benafits, picking up chicks, the nasty shit that is inside the cigs, or for me, the cold hard cash that I just can't afford to blow on fags.

Once you have found you "quitting trigger" you need to focus on that. Maybe get a poster of what it's doing to your lungs, or what I did was get a jar, and put £5 in it every two days (roughly what I was smoking at the time). Watching that jar of cash build up really helped me. I used to take the cash out the jar at the end of the week and blow it all on booze or a video game, or something that I enjoy, but couldn't usually afford.

The next step is to find your "starting trigger". This is once the immediate phisical cravings have gone, the psychological trigger that gets you back on the fags. It could be something simple like the smell of smoke, or missing the relaxing feeling at the end of a hard day, or in my case, the social aspect of it. Especially now when you have to go outside for a fag, I miss the little side groups the smokers would form, meeting random people and having a chat with them when bumming fags/having fags bummed off you and simply the excuse to leave the room for 7 minutes when someone is talking about some boring ass shit. The way I got over that was to have one of my best friends quit with me.

This is great, because it means you can support each other, and help each other out. Little things like a quick text saying "Christ, I really want a fag right now" and getting one back saying "Don't you fucking dare or I'll cut your balls off" really helped. The only downside is that if your buddy starts smoking again then you are much more likely to start up too. So make sure you pick a buddy who has at least as much willpower as you do.

Another thing that is important is to not go into this half-heartedly. Throw out all your lighters/ashtrays/rolling papers. Everything.

tl;dr: Just find out what works for you. Best of luck.

Buy cigarettes, but have your fiance cut them so that you're smoking a shorter length. As time goes on, make it shorter. I've never had a smoking habit but this is applying weight loss through diet principles to smoking.

>>3158

This probably wouldn't work. If you have the willpower to actually manage your cigarette smoking honestly, you have the willpower to quit entirely. Withdrawal symptoms suck, and as soon as you start smoking less you'll notice them. You may be smoking less of a given cigarette, but before long you'll just be smoking half a cigarette twice as often.

Trust me, I've tried cutting back, gum, patches, candy and those squeezy balls filled with sand... sure, when you're still smoking or on the patch, the withdrawals aren't as bad, but then again you're still smoking.

Just quit. For about a week life will suck, just chalk it up as a shitty week. After that it gets easier... usually if you just wait a few minutes the withdrawals go away. I've been clean for slightly over a month now, and I can breathe better, the black circles under my eyes are fading, and I really only crave cigarettes when I'm drinking too much or in the evening when I'm playing video games alone. All I have to do to get rid of it is to have some water or go work out for a little bit. Oh yeah, and I can make it through a workout session without dying.

Yeah, smoking really fucks you over. You know it does but you just keep doing it... just get off them. They really fuck your life up in a number of small ways.

try this
http://get1.smokingeverywhere.com/?&subid=639898&yep_seq_id=16227596

i'm going to order some, seems like a nice solution.

i quit in march, cold-turkey. i had been a smoker for 13 years

i prepared 2 packs in advance (about 4-5days for me) and listened to Alan Carr's "easy way to quit smoking" audiobook along with a subliminal message quit smoking mp3.

i put these on my ipod and listened 24hours a day. i dont know if these actually helped or if it was the deliberate preparation and planning, but it worked.

fair warning: no one ever tells you that the entire world around you smells bad. at first i thought it was me, but it isnt, and besides, the sheer number of different nauseating smells couldnt possibly come from one source. the only place that smells good is home depot and the bakery.

>>3158
This would simply lead to chain smoking midget cigs.


You have to keep off them for a solid year or two before you really stop craving them.

Just make sure you're never in a position where you have access to them. When I quit I didn't go inside a gas station for months. Also, fill your time when you'd normally smoke. End of the day or 15 minute smoke break? Suck on a hard candy, anything.
>>3144
>Another thing that is important is to not go into this half-heartedly. Throw out all your lighters/ashtrays/rolling papers. Everything.

Excellent advice.

I quit back in July, and have been clean with no cheats since then. I don't get the urge to smoke anymore, and I smoked about a pack to a pack and a half for over 10 years.

What did it for me was getting rid of all urges in my house to smoke, taking a long weekend, and getting the first 3 days out of the way all by myself, just worked out a ton and played games for 3 days.