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I know 5 long term (25+ years) smokers who succeded in quiting using this method. Its an addiction like any other. Both physical, and psycological.
If hanging out in the bar, or kicking back with a beer inspires you to lite up, then you have to avoid placing yourself into those situations which work against your willpower.
The after a meal cig, the after sex cig, and the first thing in the morning cig are the hardest ones to let go of!
Gotta ask,have been married for 36 yrs,what the after sex cig??
I've dipped many a tin of Copenhagen. Started when a tin was $0.35 and quit when it got up around $6.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
If cost was a factor give your wife $1.00 from your razor fund every time you light up.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
She told me if I bought another handgun she was leaving ...... and I miss her sometimes ....... :hmmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
I get that for some people, going cold turkey does not work, or rather is very uncomfortable.
But as someone here already mentioned: how about making a daily ration of tobacco in whatever form you use, and then doing a bit less every other week?
My apothecary told me that he once got a customer off codeine addiction that way without the guy noticing. He always bought a couple of bottles per week, which is legal as it is otc. When the company stopped making that brand, the apothecary told the guy that he knew the recipe and could make it for him. And unknown to the guy, he reduced the dose with a couple of 10s of micrograms every 2 weeks, until all he was taking was pure syrup.
At that point he was going to tell the man, but the man got admitted to the hospital for something unrelated. In the hospital he got no coughing syrup, and suddenly discovered that he could stop cold turkey without a problem :)
If it works for codeine addiction, it could work for nicotine as well, without messing up your brain chemistry with anti depressants.
A slow weaning process does work well, as was mentioned, reduce one cigarette daily a week at time. And, truly, this works well with any substance one could come to depend upon. Once you're at six or seven cigarettes, or the chew equivalent, daily, the body washes out about that much nicotine in twenty four hours. After that there is no decrease that the body can detect as an "absence of the drug" producing withdrawal symptoms. Any "Joneses" that are left are psychological.
It seems there is a collateral industry that developed to get people off the substances the other side of the industry has gotten them dependent on. The folks who just quit, seem to stay quit longer and more often than those who struggle long and hard with chronically unsuccessful external treatments. The quitters seem to simply decide they are done and live with the decision.
Then again, telling someone to quit when they have a lung cancer seems cruel, and they happily smoke through their oxygen infused tracheostomy tubes.... until the end. ;)
When I quit, the doctor gave me Wellbutrin. It did help, but it had the nasty side effect of making me less antisocial.
i decided to quit on my 37th birthday after 23 years of smoking the last decade was 2 packs+ a day... it took me 2 months to get cigarette free, it will be 10 years next month... i used a low dose patch for two weeks at the end. smoked a couple nice cigars until a year ago but now do not even feel inclined to do that now.
it takes time and i was not pleasant when i gave up the cigs.... i look at the prices now though and say thank God i quit when they were only $4 a pack ( $10.50 when i last noticed)
E-cigs.. works like a champ!