I need to kick the nasty, rotten, expensive, breath stealing habit! If you can share what worked for you please share.

No Tips? You lot all 'fagging away' then?

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?

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.

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.......

Why is that?

Its like the Ring only in book form.......

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!

Cheers, thanks Sammy

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?!!

Bit extreme :scared:

LOL! Had a feeling you might say that!

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!!!

I gave up earlier in the year for about 2 weeks. Then we got pissed about with the house and I started again.

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.

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!!!!