How do I quit smoking cigs?

if you really really want to, see a smoking cessation nurse, in your local doctors clinic. they’ll give you all the tools, but above all, you need to really want to with a large serving of will power!

will power’s it though mate…you can have all the nicotein supplements…but they only reaplace the nicotein, not the habit of it.

if you can’t see a smoking cessation nurse, then, get some NRT from your local chemist, huge variety of stuff available to suit your needs…and just do it, avoid socialising with smokers for a little while…just get used to being a ‘non-smoker’ in an environment where there’s less influence.

my hubby has given up, when he did he couldn’t even have a glass of wine, he assosiated alcohol with cigarettes, and when he stopped, he used patches, but they arn’t suitable for everyone (skin conditions etc)

find out what suits you, and giving up isn’t something you can do on a whim, you have to really decide to do it, pick a day (within the next week) and get your NRT, and stick to it.

if your friends smoke and they try and encourage you to smoke again, their not your real friends. say to your friends - clearly! that you are giving up, and you need their support - they are NOT to offer you cigarettes etc. however, don’t let them be all like ‘oh no, your giving up, you can’t have one’ becuase you won’t like being told what to do, even though you want to do it, and will resent giving up…

good luck, you can do it, two and half years ago you wern’t a smoker…you lived without it once upon a time! :OD

Its really hard but you should think about how nasty it is! I never smoked in my life my parents did but I know that it took my dad a long time to stop smoking!

There are a dozen ways and some work for some and some for others. You are addicted to nicotine and you need to reduce that addiction. When you buy a pack, but some razor blades too. Cut 1/4” off each cigarette and do this for a week. Next week cut 1/2” off, next 3/4” and so on. You’re reducing your nicotine intake slowly and you won’t feel anything. If you do, just make it two weeks for each reduction. Absurdly simple, but it will help - you need other resources too, like trying to keep away from unhelpful people who are jealous of your success.

There are a dozen ways and some work for some and some for others. You are addicted to nicotine and you need to reduce that addiction. When you buy a pack, but some razor blades too. Cut 1/4” off each cigarette and do this for a week. Next week cut 1/2” off, next 3/4” and so on. You’re reducing your nicotine intake slowly and you won’t feel anything. If you do, just make it two weeks for each reduction. Absurdly simple, but it will help - you need other resources too, like trying to keep away from unhelpful people who are jealous of your success.

thats good advice ethmer…