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Quitting Smoking
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Monday, February 21, 2005
How to stop smoking? -
How to stop smoking? -
Just keep trying and dont quit quitting - everytime you quit your odds of it being successful go up dramatically. It took me 4 tries before I successfully quit (5 years now.) I had tried the patch 3 times, gum, and welbutrin. The patch alone is what helped me be successful. I had surgery and that helped, and it was after becoming engaged and the idea of beign in a wedding dress with a smoke in my hand just wasnt acceptable to me. My husband (then fiance) had quite a beyatch on his hands for a few months but I got through and now am so thankful - especially since I have kiddos now - nothings more pathetic then seeing a mom with a baby in one hand and a smoke in the other. Find distractions, make some new goals and some big life changes and make that a part of it - take up moutain biking or a new hobby something to distract you. Oh I also pretty much quit drinking for about a year and gave up my coffee for awhile too since I didnt know how to do either without a smoke in my hand - I also avoided bars at all cost. Hanging around nonsmokers instead of smokers makes a big difference too. Rid of anything that reminds you of smoking or encourages cravings - I also kept chocolates and candies around for after meals. (Fortunately I didnt gain a bunch of weight lol) Good luck to you! And keep on quitting itll take.I am currently in the process of quitting and am taking Chantix which helps, but after being a smoker for over 60 years. the desire is still very strong at certain times. So far, in the past six weeks, I have slipped twice and had some cigarettes. but then went back to not smoking at all. I dream I am smoking or looking for a cigarette and I have to change channels on TV if they show someone smoking. The only thing I can tell you is to RESIST the impulse...drink a large glass of water, brush your teeth often and definitely after meals. Limit coffee drinking if you are a morning coffee person..I found that hot tea did not associate with smoking like coffee did. The desire only lasts a few minutes so if you can busy yourself when the urge comes, you will outlast it. Good luck to you. I am pretty much disabled with COPD after a lifetime of smoking so the sooner you quit, the longer you will live without lung problems. I decided to try to quit again (had already tried three times before in the last six ;years) as I finally realized that I am killing myself and I don-t want to be that stupid.I used Chantix, a pill. You take one daily as you are quiting and after you quit. It takes away the effect that nicotine has to hold you to it. You have to want to quit, because you will have urges periodically, but they go away in minutes and I have noticed that I rarely have any sense of that any more. It is prescription and costs about $100 a month. I have used the other quit smoking aids and this worked the best for me. I didn-t feel exhausted as I had with other ways of quitingHi there,must important thing is to create a cognitive thinking against. You have to create repulsion agaisnt cigarrete. For example, I hate the smell the cigarrette leaves on clothes; I hate it so bad that my answer to that is just repulsive against. My mind evokes that before I ever light it up...
I am a non-smoker but I tried to be one in my teen years as I guess everybody else. I guess I was just lucky my body and mind worked it out perfectly to stop right there.
If you manage to associate something that is discusting to you, it-ll help a lot... just like the day after a night-long party and lots of alcohol, yo feel so bad you always, always say: -I won-t do it again-. The problem is that our cognitive thinking does not go beyond more than a day or 2, or a week or 2.
Anyways, hopefully this will help. A good example of this -experiment- can be seen in the movie Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick. This one goes beyond boundaries.
Good luck.Everyone is going to give you different advice; the patch, pills, just stop, etc...
For me it took getting Bronchitis. I wasn-t able to get a full breath, I was coughing violently, and felt awful. When I looked at my cigarettes I started thinking of what it would be like to never breath freely again.
That was a month ago. I-m still feeling the effects of the bronchitis. If that is even an inkling of how it feels to have lung disease I will never smoke again.I used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day, that too in the worst possible manner of sucking the smoke deep in and holding it there. My blood used to smell of nicotine, whenever I cut myself.
Yet I stopped. Like that. More than 40 years back. Never touched it again.
Only way. Stop. And never allow any slip up.
Just DO it!
It is worth it.Actually u can-t quit smoking if u r addicted to it so i would say the best thing to do is to think that u can u can !!!!!!!!
You CAN quit smoking. Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term benefits for you and your loved ones. Studies have shown that you have a better chance of being successful if you have help. Tell your family, friends, and coworkers that you are going to quit and want their support. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out.# When you first try to quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Eat breakfast in a different place.Plan something enjoyable to do every day.Drink a lot of water and other fluids.
these are some of the ways u can quit smoking.
It will help u in some way
COME ON TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U CAN DO IT!!!!!!!
ALL THE BEST!!!!!!!!!Take Chantix:
http://www.chantix.com/content/Chantix_B…
My aunt-s friend smoked 3 packs a day and he found out about Chantix and started to use it and now, he hasn-t smoked in like, 3 months. He just stopped. He didn-t have the urge to smoke! Try it!
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How to tell him I need him to stop smoking? -
How to tell him I need him to stop smoking? -
I did somehting i am not proud of, i broke a dating rule and started seeing a smoker. It was fine until I fell for him. I mean, when we were just having fun I didn-t mind but now that I truely feel for him, his smoking scares me. I want to tell him that I can-t take it anymore ( the smell, the coughing, the phlem, the constant risk of cancer) but by letting him -get away with it- for so long, I feel I have set presedence. Just recently his chest has started to bother him and i want him to get a chest x-ray. I myself am immunosupressed from an organ transplant so being around him isn-t the smartest thing for me either. I also feel that he is playing russian roulette with his life, not to mention our relationship. We are talking about moving in together in a year or so when I get my finances straightened out and when that happens i can tell him that I won-t live with a smoker, but that-s at least a year away. I don-t want to invest in someone who is going to up and die on me.As I see it, if he does not stop I can:
1. leave now
2. leave after he gets sick
3. be his care giver while i see him go through chemo.
As you can see, I am quite emotional about this and fear that all he will hear is a crazy girlfriend. I need ideas about how to be calm about this and rational, and at the same time get my point across.
Thank YouTell him like you told us - that at first it wasn-t a big deal, but once you started getting serious...and that although you feel that you set a precedence, you feel stronger about the health risks - especially due to your transplant. Studies show that second hand smoke is just as bad if not worse than first hand smoke. And, with the symptoms that he is having, you-d think that he would WANT to quit. Nothing good comes of smoking. Honestly, I would think that a relationship with someone he loves is more important than a cigarette. Research his options for quitting for your discussion with him, if you want, but let him know that this is -do or die- for you. And, if you say that, you have to mean it. Good luck, I hope he ends up quitting....Let him know how u feel, and be prepared that he may not change. U must decide if u can live with a smoker, and never again ****** about it. If u cant let him go.Flat out tell him and do not forget to include you fear for his life and your relationship.My ex tried getting me to quit. I tried for a while, but about a year later, I decided I didn-t want a mother as a girlfriend so I told her she would either have to deal with my habit or leave. It was a mistake on my part to try to change for someone, and a mistake on her part for trying to change someone. I am so glad our relationship is finally over because I am, once again, Free to be my own person and live my own life.
But that-s not to say you shouldn-t ask him to stop. If you don-t want a smoker, then you should ask him to stop or let him know you-ll be leaving (if it-s that big an issue for you, which it is). You shouldn-t have to stay in a relationship with someone you-re not happy with. Just be forewarned, if he tries, but a year or so later he finds it-s not worth it, it-s just going to be that much more difficult to leave. I learned my lesson; couples need to set their expectations from the very beginning.white patches ankles white patches on tonsils white raised patches skin white patches on skin
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info@vitiligolife.comYou are a smart girl. Moving in with a smoker would definately be bad for your health. But is he already coughing a lot and having that phlegm problem? He may already have emphysema or be on his way to it. The unfortunate problem is that people usually do what they want. You can present him with the facts, as well as some really morbid pictures calmly or not, but in the end he will choose. Your major objective has to be to care for your own health.
If you want to present him with facts and graphic photos, the second site shows the lung tissue after emphysema and lung cancer, as well as describing about 20 other conditions associated with smoking.
The first site is kind of humorous, but still hits the point.