Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
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Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by kiwichild
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by kiwichild
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
Have you ever tried to stop before?
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by Hutch
As with everything - it's horses for courses. In my case the only thing that worked was just stopping. Cold turkey. No patches, gum or ginseng tea. Only thing I did differently was go to gym and work out my anger on the weights and the cardio equipment.
Have you ever tried to stop before?
Have you ever tried to stop before?
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A book by Alan Carr called the easy way to give up smoking. Be sure to NEVER lend it out once you've read it though.......
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Originally Posted by hevs
A book by Alan Carr called the easy way to give up smoking. Be sure to NEVER lend it out once you've read it though.......
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Its like the Ring only in book form.......
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Originally Posted by kiwichild
I went a week without them once and felt so good but thought I could then just control and moderate my useage. That doesn't work though. I will give up regardless but thought it wouldn't hurt to get people's ideas.
Allen Carrs website:
http://allencarr.com/central/
Best of luck!
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by Sammy-G
Yeah the Allen Carr book is supposed to be excellent -comes with a tape as well i think. My ex used it give up and he'd been a 20 a day bloke for about 10 years, and he wholly recommends it to everyone now. I gave up before him and just went the cold turkey route. Although I did make an effort to change my routine - had to give up drinking tea for a good few months as couldn't do it without a cigarette!
Allen Carrs website:
http://allencarr.com/central/
Best of luck!
Allen Carrs website:
http://allencarr.com/central/
Best of luck!
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Originally Posted by kiwichild
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
Getting pregnant worked for me! I've never touched a ciggie since getting pregnant with my first child and I'd never been able to give up before, I'd found it impossible. So go and get pregnant?!!
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by milliewoos
Getting pregnant worked for me! I've never touched a ciggie since getting pregnant with my first child and I'd never been able to give up before, I'd found it impossible. So go and get pregnant?!!
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Originally Posted by kiwichild
Bit extreme :scared:
LOL! Had a feeling you might say that!
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also stopped cold turkey.... figured out when i was smoking and found other things to do with that time...
the Carr book is "ring" in book form..... it went round the smokers at my old work and almost all of them stopped!!!
the Carr book is "ring" in book form..... it went round the smokers at my old work and almost all of them stopped!!!
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Originally Posted by kiwichild
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
I am a hateful smoker, and fully intend to give up, but I am going to wait until the dust has settled in Oz. Too much stress at the moment, better to take it out on my health than on the hubby
For me, I just think about the money. I bought duty frees back from my holiday and didnt buy fags here for about 2 weeks, and I found I always had money on me, and hardly ever went to the cash point.
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Re: Quitting Smoking (Any Tips From Ex-Smokers Gratefully Appreciated)
Originally Posted by kiwichild
I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.
Seeing someone with Lung Cancer or even worse Emphysema (slow horrible painful existence) and then you would think why the f*** am I doing this to myself!!!!