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I have been smoking for ages.

Does anyone have a secret how i can finally stop?

First have the strength to want to stop. Second seek support. Third stop buying or asking for cigarettes.

Just wake up tomorrow and don't smoke anymore. It is just that simply. Just think you can quit something like smoking and you will stop. But you need a strong will to do so. Without strong resolve you will fail.

This is why addicts go to rehab (talking about drugs and other things which are worse than smokes). Because you can just wake up and stop.
It doesn't work like that, you're talking nonsense. I know because I smoke from time to time.

The willpower to resist even when you want it very badly.

Don't smoke and put your money to Bitcoin. 3 years later you will be rich.

Commit a crime, get sent to prison, beat the shit out of someone and go to solitaire confinement.

It will detox you.

Or better, Nemcoin.

Create a no smoke coin. You'll be so busy you'll never have time to smoke again.

To quit firstly you have to want to. Secondly just stop! It sounds hard but its the easiest way, after a week it gets a whole lot easier. No need for rehab its not crack we're talking about!

I once succeeded to stop for a couple of weeks after reading the book "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Carr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Carr)

But be careful, the magic may only work once. Everytime I try again nowadays, I start to read the book and think with every chapter: "Yeah, I know this allready".

You really should stop, its probably the badest and most sensless habit on this planet. Death by lung cancer is definitely one of the worst.

I've done more research on lung cancer after you mentioning it. Most of the time, when it is detected it is stage IV, and it is too late.
Hopefully we will see a breakthrough that can cure cancer for good!

I read a story on how a doctor learned of a treatment that cured a certain cancer in the USA. However,  the FDA won't recognize it because drug companies and doctors make more treating cancer rather then eliminating it.

I smoke about 2-.2.5 packs of Marlboro per day.

Had quit smoking, once.



If you're a nervous person, it'll gonna be much harder.

1) Don't think of cigarettes. If you have any packs in your house, throw them in the garbage.
2) If you're surrounded with people who're smoking, you're screwed. Ask from them to stop smoking in front of you, so they help you.
3) The key is: Will to stop smoking. Do you have any reason stopping smoking? If yes, it's going to be easier.


Before I quit smoking I got sick from cigs. I wanted to puke, whenever I inhaled smoke inside of me. Not sure why, but I wanted my brain to think that it's not good for myself. So, my brain was registering like that. BAD-STOP-SMOKING

There are gums, nicotine patches and other stuff which can distract you from smoking ( Yes, distract. Not make you quit. )



If you have willpower you'll quit easier than you think.


Now I'm smoking because of damn markets.

-TWC

Yes, I've read about some cure somewhere long ago. Drug companies would lose millions/billions if a cheap cure was developed (e.g. pills that don't cost much).

The real secret is: just don't start. I never smoked in my life it may be easy for me but I don't understand why people even start smoking. They want be more badass? More mature? Smoking is just disgusting habit. Everyone knows that, so why?

Why do people do drugs, why do people drink alcohol?
The same goes for both.

I'm a chain smoker before, but did change because of determination and the fear of having a lung cancer. Just replace your cigarette to other alternatives, like candies (something sweets) or just make yourself busy, so that you can't think of smoking once in a while  ;)

Try chewing nicotine gum when u feel like smoking

It's not helping. As well as nicotine patch. Will power - your best chance.

I found patches and gum didn't do it for me, nicotine inhalers which have cartridges you change out is what worked for me - http://www.productreview.com.au/p/nicorette-inhaler.html

Been smoke free for about 3 years now, used the inhaler for 2 weeks to help with cravings, went cold turkey 2 weeks after that.  As others have mentioned you need to WANT to quit smoking, like REALLY want it in order to be successful.

I was pretty much a pack a day smoker for 10 years, quite 2 times before for about 1.5 years each time, this method seems to be the longest lasting for me.

Nicorette inhaler. Thanks for sharing this

Vaping! The answer is vaping! Go to a vape shop and buy a mod and start vaping. It's like an electronic cigarette but it works much, much better. You get tanks and fill them with liquid that has nicotine and flavoring in it. I converted to this very easily and am about a thousand times healthier. There is a lot of research being done and so far I haven't found a single credible study that indicated any harmful effects other than mild throat and lung irritation, and even those were far less severe than the same effects from smoking.

Interesting, this is the first time that I've heard about this.
Thank you for the share. There needs to be a lot more research done in that field.

Vaping works because it addresses more than just the nicotine component - it addresses the whole habit by mimicking actual smoking. Believe it or not you're addicted to holding cigarettes in your hand and breathing the smoke in and out almost as much as the nicotine itself.

With vaping you can start on a high nicotine level and work your way down (the liquids come in many different levels.)

Everything I have seen, read, and experienced seems to indicate that the tar and chemicals added to cigarettes are responsible for the health problems and general feeling of shittiness that occurs with smoking. It's not the nicotine.

1) Punch this into google: "innokin mvp 2.0"
2) Order it
3) when it arrives, throw your cigs away, make sure you have backup e-juice
4)thank me later

I picked one up about 7months ago. after smoking 10-20,. everyday since i was 15 and like 40 on the weekends, tobacco no filters

 try to do it when you got free time at home, don't go out drinking with buddies cause you might be tempted to smoke again. first couple of days are little hard, afterwards plain sailing.. You'll notice sense of smell coming back maybe smell the summer grass for first time, everythings fresher, food has more flavor, more energy you can run a bit without wheezing like an old man, no ash everywhere, NO coughing when you wake up in the morning.  hangovers are much less sever

started smoking real cig for the first time again 3 weeks ago, two drags and it tasted shit and dirty and just stubbed it out, took about 30 mins to get rid of the stench, realised vaping is the answer. I thought it was a bit gay at first like handbags for men but now, prefer it over cigs no doubt

no bullshit e-cigs are the best, all of these patches, gum bla bla pale in comparison
the actual physiological act of smoking you can get from this too.

Exactly. One of the best things is after you have been vaping for a bit, if you try a cigarette it tastes like dog shit and your hands stink and you can just smell the smoke on you and you will be like holy fuck have I been smelling like this the whole time I was a smoker??

I started on an eGo device that I got for like $20 at a vape store, within a couple months I upgraded to a vamo and now I'm using the itaste SVD. You can spend as much or little as you like, I kept upgrading devices because I wanted more features but it's not necessary.

The e-liquid is also waaaaaay cheaper than cigarettes. You will save a fortune.

For e-liquid check out Mt. Baker Vapor to start (it is cheap but not complete garbage) then when you you are ready for the big leagues look into Ahlusion, Heather's Heavenly Vapes, Suicide Bunny, etc. Just make sure you steer clear of any Chinese liquids, they are notoriously unreliable in terms of ingredients, contaminants, etc. Anything produced in the US / western Europe is generally fine. Ahlusion has a state of the art laboratory, you can see pictures on their site.

100% with you.  I picked a disposable up at a garage thinking fuck it why not,
realised 3 days later hadn't touched a cig even with them sitting next to me. did some googling on some e-cig subreddit, there was a ton of options, there's this whole community talking about mech mods, vg/pg's, variable voltage bla bla.. you can get lost in it. I brought ego, then onto innokin and settled happily.

If you smoke a cig now you can smell it in the room and on your clothes for hours just lingering like a walking ashtray.. kinda makes you sick to imagine that's what you smelt like, you feel so much cleaner inside and out after a while of vaping, like you're body has been through a car-wash and given a full service and a new lease of life.. you miss real cigs a t first, especially if you're drinking, but after a while you'll have no desire to light up again and black your lungs up.

Also a tip, if you start of with a disposable it can actually help more than one of these box shaped ones, because of the familiarity and resemblance to a normal cig, holding it in your fingers in the same way, leaning out a window blowing smoke etc.. it works as a psychological and physiological  crutch a bit better than a big dildo shaped device for some people initiailly

Yeah I did the same thing basically I had tried to quit a few times, one day I'm caving to the craving and I go to a gas station and I'm like hmmm I'll try this "blu" thing. For me it sucked bc it was really hard to inhale and I wasn't getting a good hit but it got me thinking. So I did some searching and found the e-cigarette forum and from there wound up at a vape shop a day or two later and never looked back.


For me disposables couldn't really satisfy but I agree that I don't understand the freaking box mods and crazy shit like that. I started out with a small eGo about the size of a fountain pen, then went up to bigger mods (but still cylinders not giant rectangles) because I wanted variable voltage and such.


...roflmao


One other thing, to the OP - if you find that with tanks of liquid you aren't getting as much "heat" or "throat hit" as you want/need initially, you can try something called a drip tip - you just put it on in place of a tank and you drop a few drips of liquid into it and hit it several times, then put more drops, etc. A drip tip gives you way more heat/intensity. I have used them on and off but after I got pas the initial phase I stuck with tanks mainly for convenience.

then i realized it wasn't the nictoine i was addicted to, but the people that told me to quit.  they were hoo i wanted to have sexx with

This. I usually smoke only when I'm stressed out at work. At other times I try to avoid it.

It's all about motivation, if you really want to stop smoking you can, I remember my father was a big smoker but once he had a heart attack and surgery, he stopped immediately. you'd better not let it get to that point, you might not have the same chance

Wonderful and unexplainable thing about stopping smoking is when one day you understand that you need it for nothing and you just stop doing that. Great experience!

Healthy living is important for everyone, quit smoking is very important

From what I've seen friends using "e-cigarettes" it seems to reduce their smoking, but doesn't stop it, it's more like a "healthier" substitute than anything.  Definitely worth giving it a go though because as others have said it's been very effective for them, but from what I'm reading it doesn't make you stop

The other thing that helped me, believe it or not, is deep breathing.  When I was craving a cigarette I simply took 4 or 5 HUGE breaths (as much as my lungs could hold) and this helped take a little bit of the edge off.

I hope you're successful in quitting, don't be discouraged if you don't succeed the first time!

Cold turkey is the only method that works
WOrked for me (on the seventh try)

Yet many don't live healthy, and many smoke.
Such words have no real meaning these days.

Many live in trashcan. Don't associate yourself with a crowd.

We want to see pics of your new setup after you visit a vape shop lol. If you don't have one nearby you can order online but if you have a local one it's really useful since you can go in and try a bunch of stuff first (they have disposable tips so you can try different mods and flavors of e-liquid without sharing germs.)

Just say STOP. This is not hard psychologically  but It's hard physically because you get addicted to smoking and If you smoke for a long time your body requires nicotine. And if you don't give It you feel bad, that's the problem.. Brains messes up..

This is not hard?
You're mistaken there.

It sounds easy indeed. But once you're addicted - it's not easy at all.

lol I love all the responses from people who obviously have not successfully quit smoking and/or never smoked to begin with.

its easy to stop it at the first 2 days i tried before but whenever im still up at night or get bored i always end up on lighting 1 to 4 sticks for 2 hours  :-\ really hard since you are fighting against yourself and urge

It is not easy to stop, but just stopping is the whole show. I Quit some years ago. I had failed in previous attempts. The time I was successful I just determined each day that I was not going to smoke no matter what. It got harder for the first 10 days. After that it got easier each day. Now, I don't even think about it. It can be done!  :)

This type of habits are really hard to deal with. Especially when you already got used to it - smoke when you're bored etc.

I've been smoking for quite some time now and can't drop it. And I don't really want to.

right now im minimizing my smoking habit im avoiding to go to my room after the several things im done with because i will end up smoking again while playing or watching some movies so instead of going to my room i'll make myself busy by talking to my husband's family or playing with my niece now my limit is 7sticks/day

I dont know any sure methods, but my dads been smoking for ages and what helped him so far would be going on hikes in malibu and other areas.

I guess its a matter of creating that mental strength, and feeling clean while you breathe that mt. air.

I noticed though he picked up another habit besides smoking, would be eating way more like eg: pistachios. Which I consider to be a lot better choice obviously.

I`d also try to recommend having a friend that smokes does not help, so avoid situations for you to smoke esp in social atmosphere.

they say that you can also avoid it by eating other foods after every meal or chewing some gums or candy instead of lighting some cigar
congats to your dad for a successful quiting on smoking

I'd say, don't bring any money with you. If you don't have enough money you will not even be able to buy more cigarettes how tempting it might be. If you do need money for shopping other stuff, calculate how much it would cost, and bring just enough. And remember to force your willpower to not buy cigarettes while you hand over the money.

my Grandfather 80+ year old still smokes regularly ..! still travels more than 6Km in hilly areas without any problem , I don't think if smoking is the solution of anything or is it  problem of any kind it is just a habit few people have..!

sometimes it depends on your diet and lifestyle even if you are smoking or not

smoking is not bad but if you do in excess and do nothing for his/her stamina then it will sure kill your lungs

yep just put a limitation for yourself like 5 to 6 sticks per day will be ok every 2 hours that is what i've done to minimize my smoking as i dont want it to be a habit

Yeah it all depends on your lifestyle and how much physically active you are ..! now days the technology is making us lame and lousy ..! Most of the people leave there house while driving their own vehicle then the y reach their destination and if they have to go to the 5thfloor they will take elevator so almost no physical work and then there is too much mental stress ..! no wonder the number of Fat asses is getting up high each day.

And apparently this thread has derailed from a conversation about ways to quit smoking to a debate as to whether or not smoking is harmful? How the hell did that happen...

well i have tried before i can light a 12 sticks in a day so i think its a good improvement for me to less it to 6 or 7 sticks a day

i didnt say that i will leave because i cant say it but atleast im trying to minimize it i will try next week to make it from 7 to 5 stick a day :)

If i can come down from being a chain smoker to 2 cigarette a day than I don't think coming down from 7to5 will be hard for you :)

hey rob why do you have to discourage me?? :D anyway im trying i did make it from 12 to 7 sticks and i will make it to 5 until i stop

It's not about strength or the resolve to quit. It's about finding something more important than smoking worth quitting for. I am a gambling addict on a long and psinfil road to recovery and my family is important to me. I am quitting for them.

There isn't much to discuss. Smoking any amount of cigarettes is harmful.

Just switch to vaping. It's way better and though I haven't bothered trying myself, I have heard that it is much easier to quit vaping than to quit smoking. It's also fairly easy to work your way down in terms of nicotine strength with vaping. I started at 18mg liquid and went down to 12mg after a couple months without any real difficulty.

i didnt like the vaping tho it makes me feel dizzy at first :D i dunno if you experience that also or its just me :D

You probably need to adjust the nicotine strength. If you are feeling dizzy or weird it's too high. What strength did you try? A friend of mine told me when he was doing 18mg juice he would sometimes feel naesous/jittery/dizzy if he was vaping for a long time, especially if he had not eaten recently. The same thing would happen if you chugged 3 or 4 cups of coffee in a short time span. When he dropped down to 12mg he was fine.

i dunno as i only try it with my friend vape last year and i dunno also if its the nicotine strength or the beer that er are drinking but im sure im not yet tipsy so maybe he is using a high dosage of nicotine

I smoked for over 30 years. How I stopped was each day I smoked one less and I quite taking them with me when I went some place.

My father use to smoke one pack of cigarettes every day. When finally he decided to quit, he used a chewing gum as a replacement for the cigarettes. But after a week he changed chewing gum for a hard candy. When he felt the need to smoke, he sucked a hard candy. After six months he stopped eating candy and smoking.

I just noticed this one... dude trust me that doesn't work, you just end up bumming smokes off people. And usually they are pretty sympathetic and give them to you easily (even though they're expensive now) because they have all been there.

Jody, your friend was probably vaping some high-nic stuff and/or a low quality liquid. If you use junk juices they will make you feel crappy. Super high nic + alcohol will definitely make you swoon if you aren't used to it, so you need to get the right mh/ml (most people start on 12 or 18.)

i've cut down to 4 cigs a day.. used to do 6-7 or so. i don't like the way i feel around non-smokers.. like i'm some dirty whore of a guy.

today i just smoke only 2 cig but this time i can able to stop my feel regarding cigarettes in other thing to motivate

I've cut it down to 2-3 packs of cigs per week at most. I smoke 1 when I work at night though.
I'm cutting back on this before I start to exercise again.

It ALOT HARDER then it looks.

I think a good bet would be cutting the amount of cigs you use daily in half and so on until your smoking almost nothing.  Spend time learning about the dangers of smoking so you can remind yourself how much the cigs are hurting you in real time.  Maybe spend money on other things that you would have spend on cigs?

Lung cancer is the main thing that worries me. If it wasn't for that I'd probably smoke a few packs a week. Now I only limit it to when I'm stressed out. Hopefully 2 packs a week won't damage my health too much.

I quit at the beginning of this year but sadly restarted. I hope I can one day kick the habit.

What made you start again. Seems quite an achievement to go so far then relapse.

darkbum, it's great that you want to stop smoking! The first thing to do is to find someone who wants to stop smoking too. It is easier to do smth when you have like-minded person. Or if you don't have one, be aware that it will take you a lot of strength of will.

Other people smoking around me at work. This triggered me to smoke one again.

It takes a long time to quit smoking. It's almost impossible to quit in one or few days If you have smoked for years, If you do so you would feel really bad because your organism is already "addicted" to smoking and needs It. Best to do is stop gradually taking less and less cigarettes  per day till you'll finally take none. This can take several months or even over a year.

Harder then most people think.

Social influence and other aspects.

There's a myth that even if you're exercising, then smoking is not a problem.

That is entirely false, smoking restricts the amount of blood and oxygen that can flow through the capillaries, too much stress on your body would lead to a heart attack if you're a avid smoker and you exercise/do physical activities.

Stop smoking slowly, cut the amount of packs you smoke in half every month, until you're almost done. Find another way to deal with stress, do yoga(which is much cheaper than paying $10 a pack), do some other thing that you enjoy to relieve stress, but stop smoking. Cigarettes contain hundreds of cancer causing carcinogens, as well as some crazy lethal substances such as ammonia, rat poison, lead, etc.

It's not $10 a pack, it is $2.80 a pack, so the money is not the problem. I don't think that it would, it rather could lead to a heart attack. I know a guy who smokes about 2 packs a day, he exercises a lot with me sometimes.

good job, keep going in the direction you want to go! :)

Why don't you try one of those e-cig things?

You can try to quit your smoking by not buying cigarette or any other smoking stuff but its almost impossible to quit your smoking. if you are not addicted to smoking you can make it less e.g if you smokes 10 a day slowly make it to 8  than 6 than 4 than 2...
like i smoked 12 to 15 a day but i try to quit it 4 times but never make it, then i tried to smoke less 1st i make it 15 to 10 than 10 to 6 and now i just smoke 3 or 4 a day...
you can try it may be you are able to quit it... :)

I found that 'quitting smoking' is typically doomed to failure. It implies a constant effort that you are struggling against. I tried a few times over the years to no avail. After ~20 years since my first cig I decided I was just 'a non-smoker'. It was a subtle change in mindset but its been about 3 months, no real issues. Ive even gotten shit faced and not smoked.
I'm thinking that the physical addiction must not have affected me and it was a lot more of a psychological thing.

This thread is full of 'advice' from people who have obviously never smoked (just stop, dude!) or those who have tried to quit and know just how bad things get when you deny yourself the thing you are physically, neurologically, psychologically, habitually, addicted to.

Let me explain something to you that non-smokers generally don't know and most smokers aren't aware of either.

Nicotine raises the level of Dopamine in the brain.

Ok, so?

Well, the dopaminergic 'anticipation' and 'reward' trigger is why you can't quit or, if you try, why you can't stop feeling that life would be so much better if you had one, just one, fucking cigarette!

Can I get a 'Hellz Yeah!' from the smoking section? Sorry, I couldn't hear it above the endless coughing and hacking up of phlegm, never mind.

Am I just trolling you at this point, OP? No, I'm going to give you a chance to truly give quitting a go, relatively painlessly too.

Will power alone *might* work, but you never really shake that feeling that a smoke would enhance every and any situation you find yourself in. Your brain has become conditioned to prompt you to light up at numerous 'triggers' in your everyday activities and even the very thought of having a cigarette will cause the neurological response of anticipatory 'reward' to kick in. So much so that if you don't have a smoke you'll experience a mood change of frustration and anger because someone, or something, is stopping you satisfying that compulsion and, by crikey, you're gonna rain down a world of hurt on them/it.

If you remove the dopamine effect from smoking, however, the quitting process is infinitely easier and more manageable, requiring simply the occasional reminder as trigger points crop up that you are no longer a smoker and you will learn new responses to situations, ones that do not require a cigarette.

Zyban - Wellbutrin - Bupropion

All the same thing, namely, the generic drug Bupropion. If you start to take it every day (following suitable advice from your clinician or medical professional), while you continue to smoke as normal, you will actually find that the number of cigarettes you consume each day begins to drop until, when you are at the point of realising you no longer have the physiological compulsion to smoke, you are free to take the final step of actually choosing to not smoke anymore.

Because Bupropion is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, it generally mutes the usual flood of 'anticipation and reward' dopamine that cigarettes normally elicit in a person, meaning that the, very very real, compulsion is no longer present.


That is how you quit successfully, by making sure that you go about it in a sensible, informed and practical way, dealing with the actual neurology of smoking, rather than beating yourself up for not being 'strong' enough to do it when, the truth is, we are all slaves to conditioning, in many aspects of our lives.

We did talk about that a lot earlier in the thread. I don't recommend e-cigarettes because they don't work that well, but a vaping device where you fill up tanks with liquid that you buy yourself, works really really well.

i love smoking don't want to quit :)

Dopamine suppressing drugs sound like a one way trip to depression.

I'm an earlier commenter and an ex smoker and I'm sorry but the advice of take these drugs and smoke as usual is probably one of the worst Ive ever seen.

Yes we know thats what your addicted to but the countless 1000's of people who have quit on will power alone will tell you it can be done. We're not talking about getting off crack here. Everybody has their different methods and what works for them but convincing people that "no your not strong enough you need some other drugs" feels counter productive.

Well yes this might actually work. I've only smoked 2 today, compared to the days when I smoke a pack or two.

Don't quit, just stop.

If you stop, then you can start again and not feel like a failure.

If you quit...well, nobody likes to be a quitter, and if you start again, then you're a double quitter -- a quitter that quits quitting.  Besides, if you start smoking again, then technically you never quit -- you stopped.

I think smoking cinnamon sticks helps people to stop smoking Cannabis. I dunno if it'll help you with cigarettes.

LOL, knowledge fail.

Wellbutrin is an anti-depressant.

Bupropion is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, it does not suppress dopamine, quite the opposite, it causes dopamine levels to remain higher for longer, thereby preventing the sudden 'flood' of dopamine hitting the synapses that a cigarette, or the thought of one, would cause.

Based on what, exactly? That you are well informed about the neurology and pharmacology of the issue or, as I suspect, that your knee just jerked through the monitor because someone suggested something that you don't agree with for no other reason than, well, you just don't.

The plural of anecdote is not 'data'.

Countless thousands may have quit with will-power alone, but countless millions have tried and failed because it *is* fucking hard, solely because of the reasons I have already explained. But, hey, good for you for quitting on will-power alone, just don't be *that* guy who harps on about it endlessly and claims that all a smoker has to do is be like you and just . . .stop.

I know some people who quit by using "laser treatment" (seriously, wtf?) and a few others who used a drug specifically designed to help people quit smoking but they reported some pretty weird side effects. One guy told me the drug made him occasionally become enraged near the end of the treatment.

I'd just give vaping a shot... it's simple and straightforward and it's easy and it works.

You are talking about Chantix/Champix which, while it can be extremely effective for some, does often result in some really bizarre mood issues and disturbing dreams for quite a number of people apparently.

That's why I recommended Bupropion, it has zero abuse potential, a wide safety margin and very little in the way of reported side-effects.

Vaping, which is no doubt 'healthier' than regular smoking, is still continuing the nicotine/dopamine reward cycle and, while the harmful effects of a plethora or toxic chemicals that are found in tobacco can be avoided to some degree, it is not as good as actually quitting completely.

Calm down, smoke another cig and chill out.

LOL , please point me to where Ive been " *that* guy who harps on about it endlessly" I've made one previous comment a few pages back. We're in an off topic section of a forum mate even if I wanted to be that guy , whats it to you.

anyway.

See the thing is about all the medical data, with one expert telling you this and one expert telling you that is at the bottom of it it doesn't really matter.

The ONLY thing you need to do to stop smoking is.... stop smoking.

How difficult it is to do that depends on a myraid of things but at the very bottom of it if you don't put a cigarette in your mouth and light it you've quit smoking.

So many pussys in the world now who need a concoction of pharmaceuticals and somebody whispering sweet advice in their ear to man up and achieve a goal you set yourself. I dont really care if you agree with me or not your opinion doesn't matter to me. I'll continue my smoke free life either way!

play basketball and realize that smoking is limiting your performance.
could be tangible to other things that makes smoking as counter productive

Firstly, don't block-quote an entire post, that's a noob move that clutters up threads.

Secondly, way to claim you're not being *that* guy as you post a reply that is exactly that, namely, you being *that* guy.

I don't smoke anymore. I quit a number of years ago using Allen Carr's 'Easyway' book. It worked but it was not 'easy', just doable.

Fucking hell, what an utterly vapid assertion. What do you mean "it doesn't really matter"?

Yeah, that'll be you being *that* guy.

Yup, *that* guy, again.

You seemed to care enough about my opinion to attempt to rubbish it. Perhaps you'd like to come at me with something resembling useful facts instead of that jerking knee you seem to suffer from. Careful with that, it appears to cause your foot to end up in your mouth repeatedly.

haha cryptodevil sounds so butthurt. Its a forum, relax, take a chill pill.

Unfortunately for you while the complexity of your language may help your e-peen, it won't help your real one.

What, are you five?

Try speaking like a grown-up and actually contributing to the discussion instead.

I agree, but if you can take an immediate step that cuts out most of the harmful effects, I think that's more productive than trying and failing to quit for months/years etc. Some people don't want to go on prescription meds to quit.

Also, it's way easier to work your way down while vaping. I started at 18mg and went down to 12mg after a few months and am dropping down to 6 currently. (Note that the mg doesn't represent how much you actually absorb into your bloodstream, just how much is present in the liquid per milliliter. The amount you actually absorb is much less according to the studies I have seen.)

smoking indeed is  bad for our health.

It's best to slower down then completely stop as you're bound to smoke again.

yes, smoker knows that but the Q is how to stop it?

do you have suggestion?

yes it is bad for our health. it causes cancer of the lungs.

I was a moderate smoker for years, i tried to quit with no lasting results. If you don't buy cigarettes, you will end up in bothering friends for random cig.
I tried to hang out mainly with non smokers, this helped me a bit, but wasn't enough.
At the end i tried E-cig. and that was the solution for me.

Now it's more than two years that i don't touch normal cigarette; vaping is 100 times better.
Yes, u still assume nicotine, but in this way u skip all the far more dangerous substances produced by combustion.


imaho it's worth to give a try  ;)

Throw all of your cigarette butts into a jar with water. Every time you want to smoke, take a good breath from the jar. It will eventually smell awful, and just recalling the smell of it will make you quit.

How to quit?
Ehh... don't smoke :D
And stick to it.

Ehh guys, it's easy to speak in this way if you never get addicted  :)

i am sure if i do this i can't stop my warm-ting  into jar !  it will sure full in few seconds

I've tried e-cigarettes but they make my troath hurt. A big plus to e-cigs is that the refills are really cheap but I can't stand the feeling in my troath.

If you are talking about like blu, logic, etc the disposable ones, those all suck. Don't waste your time. You need a $20-$100 vaporizer that you put tanks on and refill yourself with high quality liquid. The better liquids are like smoking silk.

If the e-cigarette you tried made your throat hurt it is very likely that either the nicotine level was too high for your preference or there was too much propylene glycol (PG) in the juice.  PG gives juice a stronger throat hit and VG (vegetable glycerin) is smoother with more vapor production.  Newer vapes also give you the option of changing the amount of voltage/wattage going to the coil, giving you much more control over the throat hit/vapor production you like best. 

I had a friend who made multiple attempts, and would be could do it for 4 months then pick it up again.

But what really made him do the 1 year mark, was he picked up hiking and I guess he found himself on those hikes.

I suggest to do the same, and thats pretty incredible especially smoking for several years now.

Doing cold turkey is hard, so take on chewing gum instead as well.

This is a thread/topic where you can guarantee a million different answers.

I won't speak for others, but provide an honest perspective.

I smoked about 1.5 packs a day, current Dollar value of about $25/day.... for about 20 yrs.
 
No amount of trickery, financial calculations, or health benefits I could use helped me care.

Finally, I found perspective...   I didn't own a flatscreen display, so I told myself...

1)  I want to buy a nice 42 inch flat screen tv.. .   I will use it for three months, then smash it apart with a baseball bat, and throw it in the front yard.      I will do this repeatedly.
I will watch the pile grow.    After a year, I will pour gas on the remains, and burn them to a crisp.
I will upgrade to 55' displays, and start again.

Well.. pretty fucking stupid way to waste money eh?

... but I was doing it already.. just with cigarettes. ..   

That was my personal revelation #1.

2)  I realized that my brain was chemically addicted to the nicotine, and any amount will power would be cancelled out by desire to smoke.    I also realized that I don't smoke in my sleep, so that effectively I already quit each day.. and chose to start again..  Why, when it can only get easier onwards from your last smoke?  ...   Life won't end...   What do you do with your hands when your not smoking?    The same things you do the other 90% of your waking day.

3)  I asked my doctor for a combo of Wellbutrin XL (time release), and Champix.     
     I was lucky enough that I didn't have any side effects, but only did the programs for about 15 days.


It worked..  I know have a nice TV (my personal reward), a nice Rum collection (Reward #2), and Bitcoins. (#3).

It's important to remember that you are not 'Quitting' anything.    You are making a personal choice, and rewarding yourself accordingly for success.

As I said, This is only my personal experience... I hope sharing it helps.

our body is so precious to destroy by smoking cigarettes.

smoking is the most dangerous among our healths.

Yet we destroy it using them, alcohol, drugs and other unhealthy thing.
But what can you do. Stopping isn't easy, changing isn't either.

 I smoke 7 years, It's very bad for my health

there are ton of e cig hardware and a wide choice of liquids with different flavors. You could gradually decrease the amount of nicotine till you reach zero. (well, i wasn't able to vape with zero nicotine, but i decreased from 16 to 9).
Don't give up only because the first unpleasant experience ! 

Are e-cigs effective to stop smoking?

Care to share what you did to quit?

7 years is a long time, so I`m sure your inisight can tell us on what can improve someone who hasnt smoke that long like a 1 year or 2.

Have tried the nicotine patches?

Do you smoke only when you are around friends?

E-cigarettes are not that good in my opinion. Despite being on the market for several years, many regulatory agencies and health experts aren't sure just how safe e-cigarettes actually are. Some testing suggests it's not only the nicotine that may be dangerous. Certain e-cigarette devices may also release metals during use - including tin in some cases - as well as other impurities known to be toxic and/or carcinogenic.

Nice, I like "You are making a personal choice, and rewarding yourself accordingly for success."
You did a great thing.

well, at least in my case, i quitted smoking and started vaping. It works for the majority; however, i know vapers that sometimes feel the urge to smoke again some analogic cig.

Acid would help greatly.

Just went 10 days without smoking without craving.  Could breathe so much better after that time.

You are strong, I believe in you.

WTF?! Dank? You suggest to kill cigarettes addiction with heavy drugs like acid? Yeah, that might help. I bet you won't think about smoking cigarettes during your sessions with acid.
To others: please don't listen to him. For Dank everything can be cured by heavy dosage of drugs. That is not the way it is.

imaho, despite the lacking evidence of absolute safeness in the long run, it's clear that if u compare them with normal cig. there is no contest.

http://ecigexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/V2-Cigs-vs-Tobacco-Cigarettes.jpg

http://ecigarettereviewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/smoking-cessation-success-rates-vs-electronic-cigarettes.jpg

Surely if you don't smoke nor vape, u r in the safest position.

LSD is safer than vitamin c.  It's non addictive and does not cause brain damage, yep.

are you on it now? ;)

It could induce a permanent psycotic state, this alone could outweight all the other benefits

Don't smoke and buy Bitcoin or vitamin ;D

Well I think that every person has strenght to quit with something.
Important is to be strong.
People with strong character will not have big problems to do that.

please try E-cigarettes.... ???

i am a smoker too, the only way i see how one can stop smoking is if he has a strong will , because it takes everything in you to not light a smoke when u r free got nothing to do , so just keep your self busy , keep your hands busy , plus always have something to eat like gum to keep your mouth and hands busy

Nicorette inhaler. Thanks for sharing this :D :D

The best way to quit smoking is find a thing that you like the most (games, sports, whatever). And do that when you feel like smoking.

Absolutely. I don't believe in reducing smoking. If you want to quit then you need to stop smoking and never come back to it.

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and when all that nonsense fails, you can pick up a mod and start vaping lol.

I don't know how to quit, but I do know that after my dad quit smoking, life becomes much much better for me, both physically and mentally. Think about those you love, and you will quit.

A cigarette is just a way to take nicotine.
If you can't stop smoking, just take your nicotine in a safer way.

Never smoked but is it really that hard to quit smoking?

I just switched from 12mg to 6mg a few days ago. It was even easier than when I switched from 18mg to 12mg. Get vaping folks...

 that is great  :D

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/search?q=nicotine&restrict_sr=on

I dont think he wants the definition of nicotine but rather to have quitting solutions.

Quit smoking & use nicotine as Nootropic: Will a Nicotine Patch Make You Smarter?http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-a-nicotine-patch-make-you-smarter-excerpt/

has he quit smoking already?

I think that it is one of the best method which can stop you to smoke!

We never know his last post on this forum is the OP of this thread. which says
" I have been smoking for ages.

Does anyone have a secret how i can finally stop? "
I don't know whether he quit smoking or quit the thought of quitting smoking..

you must have a strong desire to quit smoking

It's only a mind matter. You must have to want it and you can do it.

i know some people that stopped with the help of a book. have no idea what book exactly (and it was dutch) but maybe try to look for one in your own language that has some good reviews from quitters ?

also try to look for all the health problems they cause, there's so many reasons that can help you reconsider smoking on the internet :)

Its alot harder then you think, most people think thats all you need.

It takes awhile to get off something. Imagine I said stop jacking off to you and go cold turkey how long would you last?

I'm right now in the process of trying to quit. It's not easy, I keep thinking about it every 15 minutes...

Addiction is difficult, because for a large part its mentally. First prepare your mind. Its easy to fall into old habits and so easy to regret.
Ive heard many people use chewing gum as an alternative;

Alternative: move to a very cold country, where going outside to smoke freezes your *ss off  :D

when i finished smoking i would only allow myself to smoke a fixed umber of cigarettes a day. then every 3 days i would reduce the number by 1 until the time when i smoked no more. this worked well for me. tried other things before which didnt work.

Some people can go cold turkey. Others cant. I could not go cold turkey and actually, trying to do that over and over just made me miserable and relapse. Eventually I was able to cut down from 2 packs to 4-5 smokes a day, started chewing on sunflower seeds and toothpicks.... eventually I quit a couple years ago. Smoking lots of weed helped too.....

Can't be easy. I had a friend who smoked 3 packs a day and quit cold turkey. Insane. I've smoked 3-5 cigarettes a day for years, and I don't see that ending while I'm still working some crap job.... need my smoke breaks.

Do some research on how most smokers die and the amount of suffering they have to endure before they die.

This alone should give most smokers a very strong motivation to stop smoking.

If you have been smoking for many many years, then yes, there is no point to quit as the damage has already been done.

There is so much wrong in this post. Studies have actually shown that quitting by a certain age (sometime ~30) means you can reverse the damage done to lungs. And honestly, the fear mongering stuff doesn't help all that much.