How do I stop smoking after 45 yrs? -
How do I stop smoking after 45 yrs? -
I-ve tried everything on the market, including all the new meds., but I can-t break the habit. my new boyfriend quit about 15 yrs. ago and he said ordinarilly he would not be attracted to a woman that smoked, but he was attracted to me right away. I want to keep him in my life, and I want to quit for my family - my health. HELP !!!Try to cut down first. The reason most people fail is because the nicotine in their system causes intense cravings that you absolutely cannot resist. Avoid buying them first of all. Then when you know you only have a few left, you will find yourself rationing them, in effect cutting down. There will be times that you only have one left late at night when you want one, but you save it for the morning because you don-t want to run down to the store in your Jammies and bunny slippers at 11:00 at night. If you can arrange a weekend campout, only take the minimum number of cigs with you to keep from losing your mind. You know what worked for me, I had a horrible cold and sinus infection for 3 weeks and couldn-t stand the smell of cigarette smoke. When the cold was over, so were the cravings because I had detoxed for 3 weeks. This only deals with the physical addiction. You may have to substitute other activities to counteract the oral addiction, like exercise, chewing gum, or whatever works. Even try making a deal with yourself that you don-t have to quit altogether. Its the finality of never that can defeat you too. I still have one occasionally, lets say a couple a month, but I don-t get enough nicotine in my system to rev up the cravings. Everyone is different, and some things that work for one person don-t work for another. Good Luck.go cold turkey but before you do, get an exercise program in line and get on a strict diet and stay on it.do not over eat or you will be sorryIt starts with a determination to quit. Make up your mind what you want - smoking or BF/Family/Health. Your body will get past the physical cravings after about a week of not smokin, and take about a month detoxing yourself of all the crap built up in your lungs and veins. The worst part is cutting out al the triggers, those daily habits that encourage you to light up. If you can keep yourself from lighting up when you have your coffee, or when you-re on the pc, or driving, or watching TV, or whatever else triggers you to light up, then you-ll decrease your mental cravings for smoking when those activities come around, and you-ll feel less anxious when you run low or out of cigarettes. Work on those things before you actually quit. It-ll hekp you cut down too before you quit. And when your habits of lighting up during all those activities fade from your mind, that-s the good time to work on quitting all together.Really the worst part of quitting is the psychological end, not the physical. Chances are, if you-ve been smoking for 45 years, you-ll crave a cigarette now and then after you-ve quit. But the cravings decrease with time. And just keep resisting, do things to occupy yourself until the cravings dissappear from mind. You-ll do fine, as long as you don-t replace the cigs with food and become a blimp. Exercise. But you got to have faith in yourself too, and make your determination work for you. Look at what you have to gain When you quit. That alone should be your driving factor. Not to mention you-ll feel SO much better health-wise, and probably will want to start an exercise program and get fit with all your gained energy.I quit, I smoked for over 55+ years, I was smoking 5 packs a day
I cut back a few every day for a week till I was thereMy mother was a long time smoker. She got laser therapy at Laser Concepts of America. She quit that day and has not smoked since then. TRY IT! You have hope.yeaha nasty death-remind yourself every time you light up.Honestly if you-ve been smoking for 45 years youv-e already damaged your body and there is no hope...you can give up but it won-t help.you might as well keep smoking and enjoy the next 5 years you have left.give all your cigs away. And buy cocaine wit the rest of your money. JK IDKYou-ve really got to make the decision to quit, and then just do it - no trying, just do it and don-t stop doing it. Focus on the reasons you are quitting, not on what you think you are missing.
But there-s not much point in tossing your cigs, if you don-t fix the underlying reason you smoke. So why do you smoke? Lonely, bored, fidgety, low confidence or self-esteem, caught up in peer pressure, an excuse to indulge in self-guilt and pity, or just an out-of-date habit you don-t need now?
Once you-ve quit for 48-72 hours, the nicotine is out of your blood and the rest of your addiction is in your head. The good news is that there are heaps of things you can do to replace your habit - and solve your underlying problems. Healthy snacks and things to do with your hands instead of putting a cig in your mouth, exercise, skills, hobbies and new activities to fill in your old smoking time, etc. All these make you feel good about yourself and give you the feeling of control over your life and future.
Have a look here:
http://www.quitguide.com
If you join up for the newsletter, you get a free guide to making friends without a cigarette in your hands, and the rest of the site is full of information to make quitting a breeze.Nicoderm CQ. It really works. I used it to quit YEARS ago - it stopped the cravings.i quit by gradually cutting down with will power and then using patches to brake the habbitWatch a good video for becoming a non-smoker.This is a rather tough question to answer. Actually, you can begin to use nicotine patches. If you choose this option, buy some lollipops to keep your mouth busy, which is part of an addiction (habit). If you have the money and wish to, join a program which helps you stop smoking.Just stop. That is what I did. Once you get through a few weeks it gets easier. I did it about 17 years ago.I did the patch(started about 41/2 weeks ago). It-s not so much the physical addiction anymore, rather the psychological that I-m having a hard time with now. I think it really comes down to how bad you want to quit, and then doing it. Talk to your doctor or even a support group. You can do it if you want to.i uit cold turkey after 10 years. its easier than you think, after 3 days the nicotine has left your system. after that its the oral fixation.be prepared to gain weight.I-ve smoked for about 15 long years and I quit cold turkey.It was very hard at the beginning but each day that went by not smoking became easier and easier.I felt really good after about 2 weeks.My mother died due to cancer from smoking she suffered so badly..by the time she died she weighted only 60 pounds total.That was a WAKE UP call for me.Its been 9 years now since I stopped and I-m glad I did.I would never ever forgive my self if i would end up dying of cancer
due to smoking and neither would you.So throw those dam cancer sticks away.YOU CAN DO IT!!!
I will support you if i have to! Good luck
Please remember where there is a will, there is ALWAYS away.