Apologies if this has been flogged to death but probably worth a refresh after the ban.
Has anyone given up recently? what's best, patches, gum or cold turkey?
I've set a date and i think i'm serious this time. Since the ban though i've found i really enjoy a smoke now when i'm out. Like a treat as i waited a couple of pints to have one

In the last 5 days I cut down from 20 ish a day down to 3 or 4

I'll go completly cold turkey very soon

Just kinda getting used to the idea

I'm also reading Paul McKenna's Quit Smoking Today....and listening to the Cd

Good Luck to you tho
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I quit last september after smoking 20 a day for over 20 years..you would think I would know better the kind of job I do..but it took something very tragic to make me stop..I tried the pateches for the first 4 days..but then did it cold turkey..

Must say apart from gaining some timber grrrrrrr..I have never felt so healthy..

I didn't set a date..I just woke up one morning and thought that I never wanted to smoke another cigarette..and I haven't

The hardest time for me is when I am out socialising...seem to think of them a lot then..but now the smoking ban is in place I hope I find it a little easier..

GOOD LUCK to all those that do want to try and quit..it really is sheer will power...

Good luck to anyone trying and keep it up hugglies

Im a bit of an anti smoking nazi since i packed them up 3 stone ago, but must confess its so great not stinking anymore and im a lot healthier too

Dont let the excuses get you down! Its so worth doing

from what i read on the subject, not planning to quit and simply going cold turkey is the best way to quit, within 3 days your body normalises all the toxins in your blood and muscles and you are then "free" its a case then of not relapsing
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well, i stopped smoking at the beginning of April just like that....(my motivation was i couldn't stand the smell of smoke on myself and my clothes anymore)

whenever i felt like i wanted to smoke i just put a normal chewingum in my mouth and chewed away...after a week caughing and feeling a bit crap, i started to feel much better and now i'm fine...

i suppose it's the strength of the motivation for quitting the secret to stop, whatever else is just a way to keep your mind off the siggies!!!!

Good luck women4me!!!!

Another vote for cold turkey here!

Patches, gum ............whatever placebo you wish to use, you'll need a healthy dollop of self-determination too, so you may as well just give up and not transfer your craving to yet another crutch.

tim

until 21st feb this year i smoked like it was going out of fashion, also, on the same day i smashed my ankle up and spent two weeks in hospital. i couldnt smoke and i havent smked since i was discharged from hospital they offered me patches but i didnt take them, thought if this is how i am going to stop i dont want to get hooked on something else

go cold turkey
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Not sure that many will queue up for the smash your ankle up approach to quitting smoking.

Glad it worked for you though.
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I was thinkin' bout gettin' myself locked up somewhere (even in my own apartment) for a couple of weeks, in order to quit. My will power in this case =s 0. I love smokin', but I know I gotta quit... Really thinkin' bout those 2 weeks after hearin' your story Foxy. Maybe that's the key for me, eventually.

I gave up 2 years ago. Considering how long I had been thinking about quitting but never getting much further than a day (apart from 1 week when I had toncillitis), it was much easier than I thought it would be. You hear crap like it is more addictive than heroin and crack - that is a load of bollocks. I gave up cold turkey and the first 2 weeks were the pretty hard but after that it got fairly easy. I told everyone I was going to do it so I had pride and ego to get in the way of sparking up for a bit. I chewed shit loads of sugar free gum.

I still get the odd craving now 2 years later, but compared to how superior I feel over those of you who smoke it's nothing

See thats the problem I dont think I wants to become a Smug Superior EX smoker!


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