Stop Smoking

[o_O]

I'm a fan of the cold turkey method. If I were you, I'd go and get all of those cigarettes, and snap them in half and throw them away, that way there's no danger of you lighting up again.

[Big D]

Going totally cold turkey, just quitting all at once, works for some people... but it's often pretty hard. You've gotta fight the full force of the addiction, whereas a gradual reduction generates less stress, but takes longer.

[SeeDRankLou]

Getting rid of the cigarettes you have doesn't mean that you can't just go get some more, that won't work. And cold turkey is rather difficult to do. When I was trying to stop smoking, I started with the cold turkey method. I tried three times. I would just stop, but it was so bad that I would just pick it up again and I would start smoking more that I did before I tried to quit. Go with the gradual reduction as Big D said, it's easy and it works very well, even if it does take a little time.

[muchacho]

go buy candy cigarettes, they taste good

[CloudySky]

Why? What's the reason? What's a life without silly and stupid things we can do? The ocean of boredom...

[Rye]

The nicotine gum, maybe? The kid people chew when quitting, so that you slowly get used to not taking nicotine.

[Ouch!]

He said no nicotine gum or patches.

I agree with Big D, it's a lot easier to slowly ween yourself off of them than stopping cold turkey. Also, like others said, don't go/do anything that you associate with smoking for a while. If you have friends who smoke... er... don't know what to do about that.

[Rye]

Oops, didn't see that. Sorry.

I think that you should just keep yourself busy, then. If you're too busy and occupied, you won't think of smoking when you're trying to quit.

[SomethingBig]

Pocky and YanYan are the best choices. Man, they are so good.

[DocFrance]

SUNFLOWER SEEDS! Best way to ditch the habit. They're also good for you.

[The Wandering Zero]

Or, you could acknowledge the fact that the air we breathe every day has more cyanide and pollutants in it than a cigarette, throw good health to the wind, and live it up because you only get one chance at this thing called life (and nobody cares who believes in reincarnation, until you have rock solid, undeniable scientific evidence, stfu), so you might as well do things you enjoy. I, happen to enjoy smoking cigarettes, I like to blow the smoke out in smoke rings, I like to let it roll out of my mouth, I like just about everything about cigarettes...

<.< But if you are going to quit, cold turkey is the answer. Just remember, you are no longer physically addicted to nicotine after three days, you just have to work on telling yourself to stop.

Much harder said than done.

Also, don't listen to these people, putting other stuff in your mouth is just going to make you want to smoke more. When I say cold turkey, I mean you just stop and when you think about a cigarette, do something else, don't think, "What can I do other than smoke a cigarettes? Oh, chew on some gum!" Try something more like, "I think I'll go and play a video game." Getting irritated? Pop in Halo and try going through the Library on legendary without dying.

Nobody is going to denounce you just because you failed quitting. Anyone who has been a serious smoker (at least up to a pack a day, if not more) knows that quitting isn't something you just do. It's a pain in the ass and makes you want to kill everyone around you in a very violent fashion.

[Peegee]

xD not everybody has homicidal tendencies

[The Wandering Zero]

No no, everybody has homicidal tendancies, it's just that very few are as open about them.

[Leeza]

I'd have to agree with Wandering Zero. I used to smoke for a little while, but I quit on a dare. There was no way that I was going to go back on a dare so I had to quit cold turkey. It was hard, but I was able to go through it. After that it was actually easy to keep from having a cigarette as long as you kept the <i>big picture</i> in mind. Now I can't stand the smell of someone who has just had a smoke. Yuk.

[BatChao]

It's a pain in the ass and makes you want to kill everyone around you in a very violent fashion.

Haha, yea, I agree with that. I remember my roomate tried to quit before (or at least cut down), and he gave me his packs of cigs and told me to only give him three a day, so I held onto them for him and gave him three a day. It worked okay... but the worst thing is that all our other friends smoked all the time so whenever we saw them, my roommate would ask to let him smoke some of theirs (and for some reason or another I find it that smokers never really want each other to quit...) so they always let him smoke theirs. This one time my roommate had already smoked all three of his for the day, and my other friend came over and was smoking and my roomamte asked if he could smoke some of his cigarette, and he was gonna let him, but I reminded my roommate that he couldn't because he had already smoked three that day. But my roommate wasn't having any of that, so he went for the cigarette, but I blocked him from it and told him again that he couldn't. I kept blocking him from getting the cig and then he got all crazy and pushed me away really hard, grabbed the cig, and smoked it before I could stop him. After that, I learned never to get in the way of a smoker and his cigarette... ESPECIALLY if they are really irritated and trying to quit, or they might kill you.