what is the best way to wuit smoking?

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves.

Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one. Beware - alcohol will weaken your resolve.

Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.

It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.

We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.

When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.

A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.

Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!

We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.

After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.

All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.

My friends had great sucess with Zyban. You'll need a perscription from your Dr. though. My Mom made a chart that she posted on the wall in her kitchen. Following the chart she was allowed 2 ciggatettes every hour for the first week, than one smoke an hour for the second week, then one smoke every two hours, and so on. She smoked two packs a day when she started this, and she is now done to half a pack a day, and holding steady for 6 months now. She'll be cutting down again to nothing in the new year. She has been smoking for over 40 years, and is doing well with the chart.

This is the way I did it 20 years ago -

Wean yourself down to the lowest tar and nicotine available. That was Now cigs 20 yrs ago, but I'm not sure if there's others now.

Set a date of when you will quit

Before that, dump out or get rid of all ashtrays and cigarettes. Throw the trash out.

When the day comes, have the last cigarette and destroy any unsmoked ones or "halfies".

Change the "triggers" which would lead you to light one up. Sometimes these are hard to solve - as in a family member smokes.

Don't listen to that little voice inside that says "one won't hurt - you can quit again". You didn't quit if you have one.

I came up with a saying I would tell myself all the time - "minutes turn into hours, hours turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years". Now I can add "years turn into decades".

One of the most successful ways to quit smoking is a program called quitsmart, developed by a professor from Duke University. The program combines weaning off cigarettes by smoking fewer and fewer and switching to weaker brands until weaned. Listening to relaxing hypnotic tapes is also involved.

http://www.quitsmart.com/

As of Monday, allow yourself only three cigarettes a day. The following Monday, cut yourself down to two a day. The following week, allow yourself only one and make it last you the whole day. Make the following Monday your quit day. This way you are gradually weaning yourself off by cutting down on your nicotine intake and your body gets used to having less and less. You also don't feel as deprived as you would if you were to go cold turkey. You should consider snacking on pistacchio nuts or sunflower seeds as it gives you something to do with your hands and mouth, which is often a big part of the habit for many.

http://www.angelic1healing.com/

the best answer would be not to ever start smoking!

Cigarettes are more addictive than heroin!

try a hypnotherapist..you can't be hypnotized unless you want to be, and you also have to want to quit as well

if you don't, it won't work

The cost is about $40.00 there are seminars on this..check your weekly ads. they are also guaranteed to help you quit and not gain weight when you are not smoking. If it doesn't work. they will continue to do it for free until you do quit

but the most important thing to remember is YOU have to want to quit!!!

stay in smoke free places,start by not smoking out side stop buying stop bumming.pray alot.it's the worst addiction on earth cause it's legal.oops now the congress will write a law and it will cost 100.00 per pack! government has taken big money from cigarette co for year but don't let them know you know this they think we're all stupid anyway i've got 2 weeks smoke free...and i can't find the extra money i'm supposed to have saved by quiting......most of all keep your sense of humor..and stay away from sweets or you'll raise your bloodsugar not to mention the weight gain

Valium and lots of it!!! You take Valium for a week or so and it will be easier to quit because you won't be nervous or jonesen so much, that's how I did it-- my doctor actually suggested it and I tried it and it worked. When you take Valium you will not care about smoking, I didn't anyway!!

You gotta stay away from people that are smokers for a while. You really just need to quit cold turkey. Just throw them down and don't look back.

I smoked as much as I possibly could until I got sick of smoking. Do not cut down ever. Just stop all together after you get sick of it.