Advice for quitting smoking

[Slaughtermeyer]

One of my friends in the Philippines may want to stop smoking. Any advice I could pass on? I'm not sure if nicotine patches are available there but they probably are.

By the way, I'm due to arrive in the Philippines (Cebu) tomorrow and expect to continue to Bohol the next day. I'm at a stopover in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia right now logged in from an internet cafe.

[Harovan]

I quit almost 8 years ago. I first reduced from 30/day to about 10 for a few months (I smoked precisely every 2 hours), and after this quit completely. No chewing gums, patches or similar stuff. Worked for me.

[C0ckney]

if you can cut out the first one every day, then you've done it.

[Dinner]

Buy GPCs. If that doesn't make you quit nothing will.

[Harovan]

A colleague of mine did it by hypnosis. Cost a few hundred, but it was successful, painless and lasting (more than a year so far).

[BeBMan]

A year under hypnosis is completely unacceptable

[Harovan]

As long as the social insurance is paying...

[Dinner]

I saw a great clip about a woman who was hypnotized into thinking she was cumming. She really lost control and started dripping all over.

[Wernazuma III]

Best advice to quit smoking: quit smoking. It's mostly a question about how serious you are and you will power. I tried to quit by reducing, which didn't work for me since I didn't really have a drive to finally quit, so in the long run, the level raised again. Then I stopped quitting with nicotine gums for half a year, but that didn't do it. I was still on nicotine and a cigarette seemed to be so much better an alternative than that silly gum.

But when I was really serious, telling myself that I had to quit at all cost, I set a date, 31st May 2004, and never smoked a cigarette ever since. And I smoked two packs/day until that.

Don't cheat yourself, you don't need anybody or anything but your will to succeed.

[LordShiva]

Smokers caused 9/11.

[Spec]

Advice for quitting smoking

Throw your pack in the garbage, and dont buy anymore.




Spec.

[Spec]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Indian smokers caused 9/11.

Fixed.




Spec.

[Arrian]

Everyone is different, but if they really want to quit, they can quit.

For me, it was a slow drawdown. I reduced, reduced, reduced... bit by bit until I was smoking something like 1/2 a pack per week. At that point, there was nowhere to go but quitting entirely.

For others, cold turkey is the way. For still others, nicotine gum/patches may be required.

Anyway, the key is deciding that one wants to (or at least MUST) quit.

-Arrian

[Bkeela]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I saw a great clip about a woman who was hypnotized into thinking she was cumming. She really lost control and started dripping all over.

Um, is it on Youtube?

[Cort Haus]

"One of my friends"

Tell your "friend" that if they manage to stop smoking they'll face the second challenge of avoiding breathing smug everywhere. Being a non-smoker, after driving hybrid cars, is one of the major causes of smug, mmmkay?