Quitting Smoking Advice Needed
Choban @ Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:23 pm
Thanos Thanos:
My sister (45 years old) has been warned by her doctor to quit smoking ASAP. She's in relatively good health overall, but the smoking's contributing to some intermittent but very severe pains caused by adhesions left behind by an abdominal surgery a few years ago. She's not an idiot and knows she'll have to quit sooner or later. But she's also worried about everything from gaining weight to losing the relaxing effect of nicotine that she claims to 'need'.
Has anyone here quit smoking?
Any advice you can give that I can forward to her to help ease the transition into a non-smoking lifestyle?
Thanks in advance to all of y'all!
Has anyone here quit smoking?
Any advice you can give that I can forward to her to help ease the transition into a non-smoking lifestyle?
Thanks in advance to all of y'all!
The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.
Choban @ Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:40 pm
$1:
The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.
Author is Allen Carr
Brenda @ Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:58 pm
Choban Choban:
$1:
The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.
Author is Allen Carr
Didn't he die of lung cancer?
MikeRoger @ Mon May 09, 2011 11:30 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I quit about a year and a half ago, after having a small stroke. Cold turkey. You can quit cold turkey, if you have a good enough reason. I can recall coughing on second hand smoke as a small child in the back of my Dad's '63 Dodge Monaco. I didn't start smoking until I left my parents house, not realizing I had become addicted to the second hand smoke all my life.
Both my parents smoked, and when each of them died from smoking related illness, it wasn't a good enough reason for me to quit, even though I knew I should. But losing the feeling in the left side of my body for about 10 minutes did the trick for me.
I dropped the smokes right then, and never looked back. The excuses your sister is giving are BS. Nicotine is a depressant, so having a smoke just brings her up to feeling 'normal' again. It 'relaxes' you because you feel like shit, and only calms the craving. She'll only gain weight if she replaces the nicotine craving with something else like 'food'.
No one ever died from not smoking. It's not that scary. A couple days of feeling cranky, then 6 months or so wanting a smoke whenever you see someone with one. Then you start to wonder what the fuss was all about. Remember, the first symptom most people get that they have heart disease is they drop dead on the spot. So it can never be too early to quit smoking.
Both my parents smoked, and when each of them died from smoking related illness, it wasn't a good enough reason for me to quit, even though I knew I should. But losing the feeling in the left side of my body for about 10 minutes did the trick for me.
I dropped the smokes right then, and never looked back. The excuses your sister is giving are BS. Nicotine is a depressant, so having a smoke just brings her up to feeling 'normal' again. It 'relaxes' you because you feel like shit, and only calms the craving. She'll only gain weight if she replaces the nicotine craving with something else like 'food'.
No one ever died from not smoking. It's not that scary. A couple days of feeling cranky, then 6 months or so wanting a smoke whenever you see someone with one. Then you start to wonder what the fuss was all about. Remember, the first symptom most people get that they have heart disease is they drop dead on the spot. So it can never be too early to quit smoking.
I am working on quitting. I have been cutting down for 3 weeks preparing to just stop on coming saturday. Wish me luck.
raydan @ Tue May 10, 2011 5:37 am
Luck, I wish you. 
Brenda @ Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:48 am
I'm thinking spamming e-cigs is not one of your better decisions.
Buh-bye!
Freakinoldguy @ Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:49 pm
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elizagomez599 @ Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:21 am
There are pills that help reduce cravings by affecting chemicals in the brain. They may also make smoking less satisfying if you do pick up a cigarette.
atmos @ Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:03 am
I quited 4.5 years ago , I am telling you man its not easy to quit smoking habit easily but it was painful for me to quit i did by the help of acupuncture ..Yes you read it correct it is very painful but this therapy really works fro body. 
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:19 am
To the previous two posters
you may want to remove your links from your profiles or you`ll get punted.
olypoly @ Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:27 am
After watching a couple of friends pass away from smoking and looking at pictures of oral cancer did it for me ! I quit cigs and tried the gum and e- cig I quit everything in 2 month's. I changed my lifestyle with lots of walking and swimming. I have saved a lot of money !
LisadelGiocondo @ Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:30 am
Thanos Thanos:
My sister (45 years old) has been warned by her doctor to quit smoking ASAP. She's in relatively good health overall, but the smoking's contributing to some intermittent but very severe pains caused by adhesions left behind by an abdominal surgery a few years ago. She's not an idiot and knows she'll have to quit sooner or later. But she's also worried about everything from gaining weight to losing the relaxing effect of nicotine that she claims to 'need'.
Has anyone here quit smoking?
Any advice you can give that I can forward to her to help ease the transition into a non-smoking lifestyle?
Thanks in advance to all of y'all!
Has anyone here quit smoking?
Any advice you can give that I can forward to her to help ease the transition into a non-smoking lifestyle?
Thanks in advance to all of y'all!
Take it one day at a time. I quit smoking 20 years ago and that was what I did.
herbie @ Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:27 am
Make sure anyone else in the house helps. Quit for 2 1/2 mos but the old lady didn't. Left ashtrays of half smoked butts around... just too tempting.
Started again last week. Now I have to quit all over again.
This was my fail the last 3 times, people around me smoking.
Yogi @ Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:30 pm
herbie herbie:
Make sure anyone else in the house helps. Quit for 2 1/2 mos but the old lady didn't. Left ashtrays of half smoked butts around... just too tempting.
Started again last week. Now I have to quit all over again.
This was my fail the last 3 times, people around me smoking.
Started again last week. Now I have to quit all over again.
This was my fail the last 3 times, people around me smoking.
I'm calling BULLSHIT!
The responsibility is totally on the quitter. Quitting smoking is no different than quitting drinking. I did that over 30 years ago because I wanted to! Peeps around me didn't quit. I didn't expect or ask them to quit as well. It has to be a personal CHOICE. Same goes for quitting smoking. You will, and you will be successful if you choose to be! I have been a daily smoker for almost 50 years.
Last week my surgeon told me that I am going to have to give up smoking as it does restrict blood flow & could be the cause of some of the numbness in my lower extremities. I realized that I really can quit if I want to as being in the airport all day I only went out for a smoke 3 times & then went thru security of course then no smoking at all for a couple hrs waiting there, 40 mins waiting on the plane,then of course another hour & 45 till I got out of the airport. 1 smoke & then no smokes for the ride home-another 1 1/2 hr. No gum, no chewing on my lips, Really, just the mindset that "I can't smoke right now". So, I have determined that right now I smoke because I want to & will quit solely for the same reason.
Freakinoldguy @ Tue Dec 23, 2014 2:19 pm
Yogi Yogi:
herbie herbie:
Make sure anyone else in the house helps. Quit for 2 1/2 mos but the old lady didn't. Left ashtrays of half smoked butts around... just too tempting.
Started again last week. Now I have to quit all over again.
This was my fail the last 3 times, people around me smoking.
Started again last week. Now I have to quit all over again.
This was my fail the last 3 times, people around me smoking.
I'm calling BULLSHIT!
The responsibility is totally on the quitter. Quitting smoking is no different than quitting drinking. I did that over 30 years ago because I wanted to! Peeps around me didn't quit. I didn't expect or ask them toquit as well. It has to be a personal CHOICE. Same goes for quitting smoking. You will, and you will be successful if you choose to be! I have been a daily smoker for almost 50 years.
Last week my surgeon told me that I am going to have to give up smoking as it does restrict blood flow & could be the cause of some of the numbness in my lower extremities. I realized that I really can quit if I want to as being in the airport all day I only went out for a smoke 3 times & then went thru security of course then no smoking at all for a couple hrs waiting there, 40 mins waiting on the plane,then of course another hour & 45 till I got out of the airport. 1 smoke & then no smokes for the ride home-another 1 1/2 hr. No gum, no chewing on my lips, Really, just the mindset that "I can't smoke right now". So, I have determined that right now I smoke because I want to & will quit solely for the same reason.Sorry Yogi but the fact remains that not everyone is as cranky or stubborn as you.
I quit drinking 25 years ago and never craved another drink but quitting smoking was a nightmare. Both the wife and I quit smoking in 1990 for 10 months, were miserable the whole time and consequently went back to smoking. I guess we weren't ready to quit which is the big thing because you won't succeed unless you really want to. It took us decades more but then we both finally quit 4 years ago and haven't looked back. So, in one sense you're right that it is up to the quitter but, a proven fact. Temptations cause lapses and have for every addiction from food to drugs so, if you can avoid them you'll increase your chances exponentially
It would go along way for Herbie's wife to quit with him because to beat any addiction you need support and the the most effective support is usually the handiest one.
So, good luck to both you and Herbie in your quest to quit smoking and if either of you wants to talk about it feel free to PM me I may not be able to help but at least we can vent together.
BTW when I quit I used the patches and stayed on the high dose for a couple of weeks longer than the box said, same with the medium patch and it actually helped because it broke the habit part of the addiction before trying to kick the physical part. I never had to use the low dose patch because one day I was out in the shop and realised that I'd forgot to put a patch on but wasn't craving the nicotine so that was it.
Cheers good luck and have a Merry Christmas.