Really quitting this time!

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I've got to. No choice really. I get out of breath walking to my mothers and that's only about a quarter mile. I'm quitting smoking at midnight. I have a plan.

I'm giving up coffee and alcohol for at least six months, because both of those make me want to smoke. I won't even drink coffee flavored Monsters or those cold frappuccino coffee drinks in the bottle. I'll switch to Mtn Dew or Pepsi for the caffiene, especially in the morning. There's no need to substitute something else for the alcohol, but I won't even drink those "virgin" pina coladas or daquiris when someone is serving the real thing because it will remind me of it and trigger the urge to smoke.

I'm going to buy Nicorette gum and chew it after meals when the urge to smoke is strong, but otherwise I'll just suck on Altoids peppermints. I'm also going to get some incense and burn that so I notice a good, nice smell that I won't want to mess up with cigarette smoke (although I actually like how it smells after I've quit in the past)

Usually I quit with Welbutrin, but I can't get that right now, so it's going to be more painful than it normally is. Welbutrin makes me not enjoy smoking and not miss smoking when I don't smoke. I'm going cold turkey pretty much right now. No Xanax even to help take the edge off the stress. I can do this though.

I have told everybody that matters in my life what I'm going to do, and how I plan on doing it and told them that when I want to give up and I ask them for a cig to remind me how long I've gone without one and to try and talk me into giving it one more hour before I give in. Not to flat out refuse me, because that will make me hard headed and determined to do it anyway, but to reason with me.

I'm also going to try and avoid people a good bit for the next three days because that's the hardest time for me. The first 72 hours while it's getting out of my system and I'm going through the nicotine fits. I've apologized in advance to anyone who I might offend (all ya'll as well, just write off any snippy things I say as withdrawal) and we have no weapons here so there is no chance of me climbing to the top of a water tower and picking off the smokers out of jealousy. (which I think would be a great video game for people who are quitting smoking btw)

Wish me luck! I plan on staying up till midnight and then going to bed about five minutes after, so I don't smoke any more after that. For some reason I see it as "AT MIDNIGHT" not as "when I get up in the morning".

Good luck with this!

Good luck. I gave up smoking twenty years ago cold turkey. The first few days are the worst while your body has a physical craving for nicotine. After the first week that is gone. Then you have to break the habits... it becomes engrained that you have a cigarette with a drink or after eating or at various other times of the day. You'll get an itch for a smoke at those times but it passes. I don't think about cigarettes at all now.

The most difficult time for me was going to the pub with friends... it was very hard not smoking there, especially as some of my friends smoked and the sods were all too keen to offer me a cigarette... like they didn't want to lose one of their own. Just be firm and tell them you are a non-smoker.

A big part of giving up is the mental attitude. Don't think of yourself as someone who is giving up smoking think of yourself as a non-smoker.

It will make a big difference to your health. I was having difficulty going up stairs without being out of breath. After a few weeks of stopping smoking my lung capacity increased enormously.

Good luck!

Best of luck, Olive Oil ! !!

I enjoy a small cigar on the way to and on the way home from work. I know it's not good for me, but I enjoy it.
I hope you find the will power to quit.
Keep posting ! !

That is a mistake. You shouldn't try to use will power... it is a form of internal civil war. Part of your mind trying to subdue another part of the mind. It doesn't tend to end well. Sooner or later the dominated part of the mind kicks back and says "f**k it I'm having a smoke".

The key is to change your attitude instead. Think like a non-smoker. Keep telling yourself how disgusting cigarettes are. How poorly they make you feel. The high cost of them. The stink they leave on your clothes. Now look to the positive side and think how you will feel as a non-smoker, fit, healthy, more money in your pocket.
See yourself as a non-smoker. Study what non-smokers do with their hands when they have a coffee etc.

A good analogy is like the auto-pilot on a plane. You can fight the auto-pilot with willpower and try to direct the plane somewhere else (away from smoking); but the moment you are distracted and remove your hands from the controls the plane switches course and goes back to where it was programmed for... smoking. You need to change the setting of the auto-pilot - this means changing your mindset to think like a non-smoker, that way there is no internal conflict, no will power required.

When you stop smoking you need to change your attitude from:
a) I'm a smoker without a cigarette.
to
b) I'm a non-smoker.

You will be successful!!!And more money in your pocket and the priceless benefit of good health.Good for you!! !

Good luck with all that!

Best of luck with it. Hope it all works for you

Be aware it's going to be TOUGH!! Cigarettes are manufactured to be addictive so it's going to be rough... don't hate yourself and give up on your goal should you fall a few times.

Remember - even cutting down from a pack a day to 1-2 cigarettes is a huge reduction and a BIG step forward!!

Big thumbs-up from me, Olive! Go for it!

You never answered my last PM.

Good luck with quitting smoking! I have been smoke-free since last March.

I switched to e-cigarettes and haven't looked back. I can smell and taste things so much better now, have an enormous variety of flavors of e-liquids and nicotine levels to choose from, have no nicotine withdrawals, and no longer have smoker's cough or shortness of breath.

I started with a Vapor King starter kit http://www.vaporking.com/vapor-king-sta ... -p-83.html , and have since moved on to a joyetech ego-c from https://www.cignot.com/product_p/kit-ebc-all.htm

I get my e-liquids from http://www.myfreedomsmokes.com/categories/e-liquid.html

Another good source of e-cigarette info is http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/

If anyone has further questions about e-cigarettes, feel free to ask.

Me or someone else? I'll check my PM's in case I missed one!

The Knave ! !!

Best of luck

Good luck! I'd buy that video game .

I would too! I quit smoking in 2004 after many false starts. I wasn't a super-heavy smoker so Nocirette was too strong for me, so I had to just go cold turkey. Then I got upset at work and started back, but I gave myself and my daughter health problems so I only smoked at work, then I managed to get to where I was only having 2 a day and then finally quit.

But the weird thing is that I don't think I ever got all the way addicted. I had to have food or something cold to drink with my first cigarette of the day, or I'd get nauseated, like it was my first cigarette ever. And I never got to a pack a day, even after 17 years.