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Just do it, and quit moaning. (I’m a non-smoker.)

A few things that are not mentioned.

Brush your teeth with Cinnamon toothpaste and use the cinnamon mouth wash. It cleans out the tastebuds

In the morning drink Grapefruit juice (not the ruby red stuff the regular stuff)

Suckers they help with the addiction to the hand to mouth motion.

And above all be patient with yourself, and celebrate the small successes.

I smoked for 35 years and quit many, many times.. the last time 12 years ago.

I think the best advice I can give is to not get discouraged if you fail the first time.. or the twentieth. Just keep quitting until you get it done.

I made a deal with a friend that he pay me every week the amount he would have otherwise paid for cigarettes. If, within one year, he missed a payment or smoked, I got to keep the money. If he made it the full year, I would pay him double.

For a couple pack a day smoker, doubling it makes it about five grand after a year. Obviously, it would be the non-smoker proposing this deal, and only for a friend close enough to you to make paying them $2,500 not to smoke a good deal.

Seriously, take up running/jogging. I did it about ten years ago and haven’t looked back since. Any cardio exercise will do. Another factor is outside influence. Even if you exercise and take up a distraction, if your friends/family still smoke around you, it’s not likely to stick. Commit to change your life. I was only able to quit when I was no longer around my smoking friends & family (for awhile anyway).

As someone who quit smoking successfully 6 1/2 years ago after smoking for 20 years, at 2 1/2 packs a day when I quit, I actually get asked this question a lot.

I quit cold turkey, after trying every other method you can come up with, from gum, hypnotherapy, aversion therapy, wellbutrin, you name it.

Things that I found key
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1) Don’t hang out with either smokers OR talk about it with ex-smokers. Ex-smokers will spend time talking about it. Honestly, if you’re starving, the last thing you want to do is talk about food. The same thing works for smoking. Nothing makes you want to smoke more than a self-righteous person telling you how they did it… except maybe hanging out with someone who is smoking right in front of you.

2) Don’t give yourself an out. Every time I’ve seen someone ‘fail’ at quitting, they’ve also had a plan for how they will fail… and how they will hide it from other people until they admit they are smoking again. Don’t plan to fail, or you will.

3) Change your routine. Smokers have to spend a LOT of time figuring out how to get that cigarette in. If you don’t find yourself with those gaps in time, you are less likely to consider smoking again.

4) Find a substitute that really works for you. For me, I carried Listerine Breath Strip packs in my pockets. Guess what – if you put 4 of those things in your mouth instead, the LAST thing you will want after your eyes quit watering is to smoke a cigarette with that extraordinarily minty fresh mouth of yours.

There’s more… but I should probably just blog it.

something that got me to quit smoking is seeing my uncle with throat cancer smoking a cigarette through his Tracheotomy….
pretty nasty

Thats why I am lucky my parents do not and never have smoked. I know there are a lot of people that do smoke out there. Smoking is a bad and unhealthy. There are many ways to quite smoking and these are some solid tips. My uncle currently is a smoker who has not quit unfortunately. But he has cut back some. Its a start but I also know people that I work with who have successfully quit smoking. It can be done with a little help and some guidance.

I’ve been smoke free for 6 months now. Setting a date was almost impossible for me because stress would always find me on that date and I would fail.

I just got to a point where I didn’t want to smoke anymore and was serious enough to destroy the pack I was smoking, get the patch, and weathered the storm.

Best move I’ve made in a long time. It’s not impossible, one just needs to really deep down want to quit.

Thank you Chris, my brother is a smoker and he needs to quit. These tips will help him stop and stay healthy. He was having a real hard time quitting, with all the symptoms, but now he will have a easier time quitting.

Thanks for posting this tips on your blog! I need to quit smoking it really is a problem.

I have so far gummed up 2 laptops to the unusable point

I found that throwing away all smoking paraphernalia ashtrays, lighters, etc really helps to keep your mind off of smoking. Also clean out your cars ashtray and start keeping change in there instead. I also just decided one day was the day. I destroyed about 5 packs of cigs. I ran them under water broke them up and threw them away. I felt more confident in my decision by taking that step.

Just quit. Just put them down and never pick them up again. That’s the only way I’ve ever heard of anybody ever quitting and never picking it back up again. Become a very stubborn person and just never pick it up again. One guy I know of quit because someone told him “I bet you can’t quit” and he said, “Oh yeah?” Took his smokes out of his pocket, and threw them out the window of a moving car never picking them up again. Or you could try praying. Another success story that I know of is someone who turned it over to God, and then stopped smoking and drinking all in one day and never picked up ever again. And never has he had an urge to do either one in the past 40 years of his life.
One thing you don’t want to do when quitting smoking, is pick up yet another bad habit to replace your old one. So keep your hands busy. Some people say that it’s an oral fixation that needs to be replaced with something. Don’t let it be food! Replace your bad habit with lots of exercise and be sure to drink lots of water. That’s one sure-fire way to drain that nicotine RIGHT out of your system in a matter of days.

I hope this helps, I will try to get my mom to stop smoking

i am ready to quit thank you for this guide thanks chris and other fellow nerds

I should pass this along to my mother. She’s been smoking since she’s my age and you can really tell. I think they’re all excellent ideas. Keep them coming :)

Great tips i showed the video to my dad and he said he will give it a try lol like thats ever gonna happen thanks chris for all the nice tips

Great vid… I’ve been saving up for a new hard drive for quite some time now, and suprisingly, not once did it occur to me to sell my old one. (Also even if it did occur to me to sell my old one, I probably would’ve forgotten to format it ;-) )

there are so many different programs out there to quit smoking that i think people get over whelmed by them

hey chris my granddad smoked and died from emphysema! I think that it is the worst thing that u can do to youre body ever! i mean u die at least 5 or more years earlier than normal any way love youre site (live.pirillo.com) later.

If you smoke slowly degrade from menthol to regular to lights and then once you get to lights start lowering the amount you smoke per day.

I know somebody who would purposefully plan when she would quit smoking, and when she would get back on it. “I’ll probably start again at aunt Julie’s because she always has them and I couldn’t resist”.

Yes, these tips are very helpful. I have an aunt that smokes and she is currently trying to quit and for everyday that she doesn’t smoke her husband puts a dollar in a jar. So far that seems to be helping because she has something to look forward to.

The best tip is not to start in the first place

but if you do then slowly smoke less and less each day or week

and evently stop

dont just go cold turkey

I find it astonishing that no one has mentioned Chantix. It’s a pretty new prescription pill that’s showing promising results for other addictions too. I used it to quit smoking more-or-less effortlessly. As for cost, I bought it sans health coverage for about the cost of a month’s worth of smokes ($120), which is pretty expensive as a one-time expense but is 100% worth it.

Thank you for your tips. Smokers need all of the hints and assistance that they can possibly get. Quitting isn’t easy. These tips should be passed on to anyone thinking of quitting. I hate to see people continue smoking until they get sick.

i think the one of the best tips is to never start. Especily if you have children because this is a very bad example for young minds.

Thanks for the video Chris, I emailed this to a friend who smokes and seeing you talk about it finally encouraged him to quit. So all you other people who want to try smoking, don,t. Its not worth it.

i had a lot of trouble quittin. first i took the wrong advice and started dipping skoal apple. it was worst because i would go through a can or tin a day. thats VERY bad.. so once i quit smoking because i switch for dipping and once i moved to a urban city where a can of skoal cost nearly $9.00 i couldnt afford buying a can everyday. so i cut back a lot and after goin without for a week or a little more, each time it felt nasty dipping and therefore i didnt do it as much. weeks turn into months and so after i just completly.

i used the gum for a while, thankfully my insurance company covered the cost. it does work dont let people tell you otherwise.

thank you so much you are the best

my mom is trying to stop smoking i well show her this

I can’t stand the smell of smoke. I have never tried it and never want to. I think the way laws are going, people are going to have to quit just to do their jobs.

Here in Tennessee, you cannot smoke in any public establishment unless it is 21 or older at all times (clubs, bars, etc..) As more of these kind of laws come into effect, people are going to be forced to decide between smoking and keeping their job.

I can see this law eventually being expanded to include the grounds outside a building, I get sick of walking through clouds of smoke going in/out of a place.

This kind of law will make many people quit, or at least cut back. I just hope it comes to many more states.

However, the easiest way to quit smoking is to never start.

Good stuff. I’ve got parents that have tried quitting every way from Sunday. It’s a habit that hooks you and makes life difficult. One undeniable truth is that if you’re married to a smoker, you need to quit together.

Both my mom and dad smoke and it gets on my nerves. When I am sleeping and they are still up I get woke up by the smell of smoke in the house. I absolutely can’t stand smoking. The smoke not just a bit but heavily, and they have a friend with lung cancer. I pray that these tips help because I don’t want my parents get sick from a senseless habit.

Thanks for the tips. My mom’s friend died from smoking cancer… Her teeth turned black and Uuuu discusting

Great Tips! I know someone who has tryed EVERYTHING and the one thing that worked was plain, cold turkey and he hasn’t smoked for almost a year and a half now! I’m really glad that Chris shared these tips for others!

Ya my mom smokes and after the first week of quiting it was easier for her but the struggle wasn’t over

I have been hearing alot about the laser therapy for quitting smoking. I know of someone who has had it done and for a couple months now they have been free of tobacco! And the other bonus is, is that they say if you have a smoke after the therapy you get another session for free.

Hey. I know someone who was my neighbor since i was a kid. He has smoked since he was a teenager and he is now in his 70’s. He quit smoking simply by sucking about 3-5 lollipops a day and eventually got to 1 a day. He said it was amazingly easy. I just thought i would add my two cents to your blog. Later bro.

I don’t smoke but I guess rewarding youself when quiting and replacing smoking with something else is probably good.

my dad chews gum to try and stop smoking

When I have calculated the price of cigarettes that keeps me from ever starting smoking. If my mom had never started smoking she would have saved roughly about $60,000. That right there would have put me in a really good out of state.

Hey Chris, I dont smoke, but some of family does. I try to stop them but sometimes they wont listen cause smoking is addicting. Now I am referring to my moms cuz. Once I saw this video I called him up, told him to check it out. Now he is doing the tips! Thanks Chris. I think you just saved his life.

I believe nicotine pacthes are like the “best” they helped me stop by feeding me amounts of nicotine until that urge went away and boom, i got healthier over the years… Also, i “punish” myself if i do get the urge by talking a cold shower… That cold shower was a bad punishment.. Cruel, but it did work!

Me & my wife have finally quit(again). Last time I went cold turkey for 5 years, but Trish never totally quit, so having her smoking in the house caused me to start back.
You would think that with her mother and my father both dying of lung cancer, she would see the light about the dangers of tobacco, but it didn’t.
For those who have never smoked, you can’t imagine how hard it can be.
This past Thursday I had to have 5 teeth pulled. My dentist said that it was mainly due to my smoking. The combined effect of the nicotine and the heat from the smoke was a major factor for my gums deteriorating. Isn’t that a pretty thought.
Well I have quit again and even though I am in extreme pain, I want a cigarette, but am determined not to start back again. I hope this time Trish will quit for good as well.

Wish us both luck!

Hey chris and everyone, my dad was a smoker and he got off with those patches. my advice to the smokers out there is really just to stay committed to it. If your going to stick to the patch then stick to it if your going to use the gum then use that. One thing that i saw with my dad was that he need to be reminded to keep the patch on and for how long. when i use to get up in the morning then i would make sure that he would have a patch on and had no smokes in his pocket to take a puff. The one day i was sick and didn’t wake up was the day he didn’t put on the patch and then we had to start all over again a few moths later because of that. then the second time he thought he could handle one puff and the day after he started. What I’m really trying to say is you have to want to quit to really quit if you don’t have that then have fun trying. this is not just from my experiences I’ve seen many other cases like my dads and like i said if you have a will you have a way! and just to add if you have been smoking for more then 10 years i would rec emend that you get some extra help with quiting (nicoderm) because from what I’ve seen just going on will power really doesn’t work when you past that 10 year mark. hope my experiences help many others.

Thanks for the tips. Smoking sucks. I was smoking while I read this. It’s time to stop!

thank you chris for this video i have been saying to myself i will quit tomorrow then the next day passes and i am still smoking after watching your video i put my fags in the bin and i havent smocked since thank you soon much

i hate people who smoke they annoy me

im addicted to using the computer but at least it doesnt give you cancer!!!

keep up the good work chris

Smoking is a horrible addiction. I don’t smoke personally. But I have heard that a good way to quit is to keep your mouth busy. Like chew gum, chew sunflower seeds just something to keep your mouth busy. But don’t chew tobacco.

Do NOT give up no matter how hopeless it seems or how much you want that smoke. Think about why you are doing, what you will get out of it, and how it will affect others. My dad managed to quit smoking my putting a picture of my sister on one side of the box. and me on the other, and when he opened the box it had a note reminding him his mom died from these, he managed to quit with nothing else.

All my family smokes apart from me and i have 1 brother 1 sister mum and dad they all smoke :( and im just the exception.

I see my family waking up looking like crap and just not as healthy as they should be, i think it comes down to a effort from the smoker to give up or turn into a coughing non talking ashtray.

These tips ar perfect please if your a smoker take the ime and give it a go on giving up.

I had a friend who used to smoke.He tried to use patchs, gums, and quit cold turkey.After 3 years of trying to quit he tried a magnet thing from tv.I thought that it wouldn’t work but then one day he called me and told me he hadn’t had the urge to smoke.I was so shocked.The magnets were called zerosmoke I think.

Thanks for the tips. Currently in the process of setting a time to stop after a friend recommended it to me.

Has to be the best decision I can make to save my health, and money.

I don’t smoke heavily but I’m sure these tips will help. Strange that you made this video the day I decided to quit…weird world.

Just dont start, problem solved

I think the best way to quit is just to take it one day at a time and set small goals until eventually your full goal of completely quiting is reached.

I would recommend that when you set a quit day you stick to it because you do not want to have any health issues or anything in the future. People that want help seek a friend or someone because they can help you with being able to keep you away from smokes you do not have to go through the battles alone. So that is another thought for everyone. Good luck if your quitting to smoke.

I think a good way to quit smoking is to get someone to help you and yell at you when you try or are temped to light up,,,,

Do it cold turkey! Both my parents smoke and I hate it!! They know I don’t like them smoking but I can’t convince them for nothing.

Beg,i always got sick from ciggy smoke.I go my parents to quit,it took a lot of begging though.

Thanks for sharing that letter because my grandpa has a smoking problem with cigars and my family wants him to stop so I’m going to tell him about these.

Thanks Chris,

BittenBagel

My first Ex Smoked for the longest time, (before he joined the army) I hated it, I couldn’t stand the sight of it, it disgusted me to no end, that I made a deal with him, for every time he had to smoke, even just once, he must immediately brush his teeth, and rinse his mouth throughly for a full 5 mins, and that was just to “COVER” the freaking smell of it (I have a heighten sense of smell, and I live around both parents that smoke). Eventually, he gotten sick of this routine and cut down on smoking, when he had to join the army, they said he either had to quit smoking or he would die within the next 2 years, it was really serious, he had been smoking since he was 11 years old, and was just turning 23 at the time and already he was on the verge of death.

My father had his Heart attack last year Friday, April 13, 2007. He didn’t start quitting till about 6 months ago, and from what I can smell, he already started back up. My mother too, would try to quit for the sake of my dad’s health, but would complain that one: “I don’t even inhale”, and I pointed out to her, that doesn’t matter, you’re releasing the toxins back into the air for EVERYONE TO INHALE! two: “I need it for my hands to do something” like she isn’t already busy doing her puzzles, driving, or whatever else she does, she doesn’t need to occupy her hands more than they are, three: “I’ve dealt with my grandchild all day, I need a stress-reliever”, wrong I DEALT with your grandchild all day, you just sat there complaining about how you want to smoke! She would find any excuse she could! For the sake of others, for those that you care about and those that care about you, QUIT SMOKING!

I quit a three pack a day habit five years ago – cold turkey. Before quitting I had picked a day, and I swear that I was out on my balcony at 11:30 p.m. the night before thinking, “No way in hell I’m gonna give this up tomorrow.”

Next morning came and I got out of bed and wondered how long it would be until I went out for my smoke. Then it was noon, then five and then I was pretty much done.

A friend of mine told me about “3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months”, which is essentially to be prepared for massive withdrawals on each of those days. Quickly I recognized that each point in time marked a previous failure in my attempts to quit. The cravings came, boy did they, but with this new information, I had a leg up.

One word of advice: don’t replace your cigarette habit with homemade nachos, otherwise you’ll be on a diet before you know it ;) Now, that was hell on earth.

My experience may be of interest? Having smoked for 30 years, I attended a meeting one night (this was 1978). At the coffee break, I was confront by 2 Royal Air Force doctors, who informed me that , in their opinion, I was killing myself. Driving home that night, I just said “right Lord, thats it”. I never smoked again.
Sadly it did not stop me from getting a heart attack in 1995- (who said God does not have a sense of humour!!!!.
Perhaps people do too much reflecting!!!!

Have a nice day

John Murphy
France

A person will only stop smoking when they really believe that they are clogging their arteries in preparation for a heart attack, destroying their lungs so they soon won’t be able to breathe, and pissing off everyone who detests having to breathe the disgusting smoke from some fool who likes to BBQ his lungs. Best way to help someone stop smoking is to tie a plastic bag over his head until he passes out. Next time he is caught smoking don’t remove the bag after he passes out.

Copenhagen and chewing tobbacco is just as bad. You can stop these nasty habbits by carrying around oatmeal in one of those plastic containers that Skoal comes in. Wash it out good and use the oatmeal as a passifier.

I quit after 19 years 2+ packs a day. Two things helped me most: (1) I immediately told myself I was a former smoker, someone who used to smoke but stopped, that I once smoked but don’t now. When I thought of a cigarette, I thought “Oops – I no longer do that,” (2) I put away all the stuff: ashtrays, lighters, matches, the packs, the cartons, the cigarettes themselves. You might think it ineffective, but it really worked for me.

After 35 years of smoking, it was easy for me to quit. All I had to do was, at 48 years old, be diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given less than a year to live. Really focuses the mind.

These comments miss the point. This newsletter arrives under the name “Lockergnome’s Windows Fanatics.” Excuse me, but quitting smoking has NOTHING to do with Windows, much less with any tech gadget, gizmo, or whatever.

(Neither, for that matter, does anything about Apple computers have to do with “Windows” fanatics.)

You’ve lost sight of your focus here, Chris. Get this crap out of your newsletters and keep them focused on what the end user subscribed to them for!

Now that I see the ad for “Nicorette” below this comment box, I see why you addressed “quitting smoking” in your newsletter. Obviously if someone pays you enough for an ad, you’ll do whatever they say.

Sad, sad, sad…. I may have to unsubscribe.

Realize that you’re going to have to make some changes to your daily routine like seeing your smoking buddies during break/lunch time. It sounds bad that you have you put all your smoking friends on a time out for a while but it will make quitting a lot easier if you don’t expose yourself to it for at least the first month or two.

switch to crack or meth you might die in 6months but at least you wont be a SMOKER!

u sound like the asshole the coughs annoyingly when im smoking at the bar, man up sissie, and ur not f-in allergic to tobacco dont be a twat

Are you flaming this video Nononononames?

There’s a reason why it’s hard to quit.
One thing is that sometimes you feel better when you smoke.
Or you just don’t like the withdrawal part.
Which doesn’t feel good.
Well if your smoking a illegal drug, that’s pretty bad.

In 1969, after 12 years of smoking two and a half packs of cigarettes a day, I found myself driving to work with only one cigarette in my pocket and more than 20 miles to go until the next store. I felt panic for a few minutes until I came to my senses and asked myself: Who’s running my life? Me or the cigarettes? I decided that I was the controller and I threw that last cigarette out of the window. That was a very bad day. After a few hours, while at work, the walls began closing in on me and I was experiencing the beginnings of withdrawal. My boss noticed my distress and asked what the problem was. I told him I had just quit smoking. He told me to go home which I did. The whole rest of the day was very painful.

The next day was better but still pretty bad. The day after that was even better and I knew that I was winning the battle. During the next five years I still had occasional pangs of desire but they decreased in intensity as time went on. Whenever I felt the desire to have a cigarette I would think back to that first day and knew that I never wanted to go through that again.

I’ve always been thankful that that first day was so traumatic. If it had not been, I’m sure that I’d have gotten back onto cigarettes. Based on my experience, I believe that it’s a great mistake for smokers to use pills or patches or whatever to make quitting easier. The more painful it is, the less likely it is that they’ll resume smoking later.

i stopped smoking by getting it in my head to “just stop” that may sound to easy because it is “just stop” keep saying it to your self and your will power will become stronger the more you believe you can “just stop”with no exuses,none of this crap about”but its to haaard.no complaints if really want to stop then stop if not then carry on.so my answer to all you people out there who want to quit smoking then first you got to quit thinking about it and STOP!!

I quit for the last time ten years ago. I agree with Tony. Keep quitting. That was probably the 20th-ish time I tried. What I’m about to tell you sounds a bit overboard, but it helped keep me on track. As soon as you feel like you are weakening, find something to do that points you in a positive direction. It’s ok to fail at times but don’t stop quitting. The list below is what worked for me.

1. I took the money I didn’t spend on cigarettes and put it in a jar every day. EVERY day… I didn’t put it towards gas or anything until I had accumulated at least a month’s savings the first month of quitting. This will physically let you SEE what you’ve been spending. This should be part of one of your main “goals” timewise. Every month or every two weeks use the money for something for yourself. No less than every two weeks though.
2. You will be more productive at work. I realized that when everyone else was out on a “smoke break” I did not have the same “break”. So I took time out to close my eyes or do a crossword.. or something that kept my mind off of it yet gave me a break. (if someone accuses you of goofing off, ask them how many smoke breaks they take a day, remind them that it takes a few min to smoke it, plus time to get to the “smoking section”, which these days (here anyway) is usually outside and away from any doorway in an establishment.
3. If you feel a craving coming on, and you are trying to quit by tapering, ask yourself if you can wait ten more minutes. Then find something else to do. I’d remember an hour later…then I’d ask myself to wait ten more min… I remember that did help me to quit in the earlier stages.
4. The first week or so was the hardest for me. Other times it was passing a smoking section or seeing folks smoke socially with a beer in hand. “I’m just a social smoker.” Ya… so was I. Don’t give in.
5. Drink lots of water, take note of your diet. It’ll keep your mind off the cigarettes. Limit your caffeine intake. I found that the more caffeine I had, the harder my cravings were. I have a coffee every morning now still, but then I had to restructure my java habits. Read labels before buying certain foods. The point here is for you to try to replace a bad habit with a good one. If you need to, chew sugar free gum; find a mint flavor you like. The berry flavors always made me crave. Sugar free lollies are ok also. Try NOT to replace a cig habit with a sugar habit. I did NOT gain weight at any point after quitting because I didn’t continue that oral fixation.
6. Be sure to have your teeth cleaned. These days you can get a good clean every six months and a three month interim cleaning. It sounds ridiculous but you’ll know what I’m talking about when you do it while you are quitting. You’re teeth feel so clean and it’s noticeable.
7. Get active three times a week at least. Enjoy it! If you have a basketball in your hands, you can’t exactly smoke a cigarette. Imagine if this were a lollipop. Can’t hold one of those in your hands while shooting hoops either. I don’t care if it’s badminton. Do something else with your hands.

If you haven’t guessed by now… I’m pretty retentive…I don’t smoke anymore and I have a little more money in the bank, even though I stopped holding on to that jar a long time ago…

The dumbest question is why do people start? i did, and still do.. unfortunately..

Why is this in Science and Technology………?

its a drink in england…. i think its called orange soda in america????
correct me if im wrong

mind trick for smokers: think of smoking.. now think of something you would not like to breathe in.. like a fart, bad breathe, or maybe a putrid Cigarette, now combine the two, and ask yourself how much to you want a cigarette now? combine this with pinching a particular part of your finger.

I quit smoking in December 1999 at the age of fifty after smoking since I was twelve. I tried and failed to quit repeatedly over the years before that, but the last time was different. The first thing was that I really wanted to quit. Next, I took advantage of an illness to help me get started (so I sort of cheated). I had one of those three day flues that really put you down for about seventy-two hours, then you recover fairly fast. After work on a Friday evening, I was feeling a bit under the weather, and I sat down in my favorite recliner and put my smokes on the table next to the chair, then proceeded to fall fast asleep. On Saturday morning I woke up and grabbed a cigarette as was my normal custom. I took one puff, and put it out because I felt so sick I did not want it. I spent the time from then until sometime Monday in a state of semi-delirium. When I regained my faculties, I decided to let the smokes sit on the table and see what happens. The following July (July 2000) I decided to throw then in the trash. I have not smoked from then until now, and I hope I never do again.

I was surprised at how easy it was to not smoke. I think the expectation that quitting would be so hard was one of the things that kept me smoking. Another was the fear of what would I do if I did not smoke, and the fear of the pain of quitting. None of that makes any sense now, but these were very real fears then. Since I spent the first three days in a state of delirium, I think I got to get past the hardest time when quitting without suffering through it, but if you can get through the first three days, I think you will be surprised as I was at how easy it gets after that. Finally, I think that the last time I tried to quit was the only one I actually wanted to do it. All the other times I tried, I do not think I really wanted to quit. This last time I decided I would quit rather than I would try to quit. After a while, it became a bit of a pride thing (I’d be darned if I’d let those things control me any more). Finally, no one was telling me that I should quit (other than myself).

For those of you who have quit smoking, or do quit in the future, remember how many times non-smokers told you that you should quit? Did it work? I bet not. I even bet the opposite was true. The more friends who do not smoke tell you to quit, the more you will keep smoking. Remember this after you succeed in quitting. Do not become a self righteous non-smoker who tells others how bad it is for them. If they live on planet earth, they have heard all the arguments against smoking already. If they bring up the subject, let them know that it gets easier pretty fast (a few days to less than a week). Be encouraging when they ask, but do not shove it down their throat.

My 2 cents

I tried quiting soft drinks and got addictived to energy drinks

if you can’t quit smoking, then just smoke electronic cigarettes.. its healthier for you

Can anyone tell me which lockergnome video has the “lime and the coconut” on it?

my sister is paying for the internet and we can only download 2 gigabytes a month so i was wondering how much of that 2 gigabytes gets taken up when i watch a video from youtube thats 100 megabytes and goes for 10 minutes? i think downloading a video off the net would take up more download space then watching a video from youtube right?

smoke till you get sick of it?

One word – CHANTIX.

My mums the worst with smoking, she DID stop smoking for almost a whole year, BUT she started again and has spent the last 4months trying to re-quit, i do admit it seems harder then it sounds so im not going to bug her about it, she personly using the patchs and it worked before hopefuly it;ll work again

um a normal 3min video would be like 9MB

Well, I quit in a fairly unorthodox way, and here’s how I did it:

I came down with a bad case of gastro/food poisoning. So I was lucky in that there were a couple of days there that I didn’t feel like smoking at all. I’d thought I’d leverage the opportunity and try a little Pavlovian experiment. Every time I threw up, I vividly imagined that I was taking a drag on a cigarette, and that it was the ciggie that was making me violently ill. The two things got firmly linked in my mind – so much so that for months afterward the slightest thought of taking a drag filled me with a wave of nausea.

That was my own little experiment, and this is the first time I’ve publicly shared it. No cravings, nothing, and I’d been smoking half a pack a day for six years.

Ahahahahaaa! I fell out of my chair laughing when I read this…

uh oh… Get FiOS. It’s AWESOME!

Wait, you’re room is 34 degrees Fahrenheit? That’s not good…

He use Windows too, you know..

lol he has a better life than you noob

Macs are good. They’re just extremely overpriced and plagued by a cult. The computers and the OS are fine.

new jersey has a good law, no smoking in public places, only outside, no more coughing :)

1) Hold your breath whenever you have cravings. The lack of air will starve your lungs and cause the same pain you relish when you inhale a cigarette. The lightheadedness that will follow is a plus, too.

2) Keep a filthy but empty ashtray around and sniff it whenever you have cravings. This is what you once walked around smelling like – 24/7. If you still have cravings, kiss the ashtray’s bottom, tenderly. This is what it’s like to kiss you, when you smoke.

Good health to you!

I’ve quit smoking for three months now. I had a physical head start. I fell violently ill with the influenza virus and was literally not able to smoke. After not smoking for about a week, I decided to run with it. I went so far, why put it to waste eh?

I quit smoking after 22 years…Some like me think we’re better alive than dead for our kids. For those who really want to quit, take up exercise and have at least one constant support person cheering you on…Someone who believes you can do it and not be skeptic about your choice to change. It also helps to stay away from smokers while you’re removing the habit. Hope this helps, Goodluck!

Amazing video. Amazed that a computer geek holds court on a smoking issue. What next, discussions on open heart surgery or how Concorde was built?
Very clever man you are. I have an interest in reptiles; it would be great if you could do a video on the life expectancy of crocodiles.

Pick a day. Smoke your last cigarette then stop. It really is that easy.

Google Allan Carr….You can stop easily

I am a day late and probably a dollar short, but as of today, I have been a non smoker for 4 weeks and 3 days. I used Chantix. There are horrible side effects, worst of all was the nausea that I had. Within the first few days, I cut my smoking in half. I wasn’t able to quit after a week of the meds, as directed, and was pretty hard on myself for awhile. After about a month, I was down from a pack and a half to less than half a pack a day. Then, all of a sudden, at about 6 weeks, I just decided I was done and threw the cigarettes I had left away. That was also the last day I took the medicine that made me feel so sick.

A lot of people say the first week is the worse, it was not for me. The first week was easy, it has been every day since then that has been difficult, but the pride in knowing I have beat this addiction after 20+ years (and I’m only 35!) will not allow me to give in to my desires.

Place a piece of Duct Tape or large paper clamp across
people that you are stopping smoking. The continual reinforcement will strengthen your resolve enough that after the crucial first few days you will be telling yourself you are stopping and have paid enough dues that you won’t want to go back. An added benefit is that you might meet some interesting characters during the process.
Good Luck
A non-smoker who may try this anyway

Place a piece of Duct Tape or large paper clamp across your mouth. When asked tell people that you are stopping smoking. The continual reinforcement will strengthen your resolve enough that after the crucial first few days you will be telling yourself you are stopping and have paid enough dues that you won’t want to go back. An added benefit is that you might meet some interesting characters during the process.
Good Luck
A non-smoker who may try this anyway

I think it was Mark Twain who said- ‘Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it dozens of times.’
This worked for me- every morning when I got up I told myself ‘Today I am not going to smoke. Tomorrow I might, but today I am not.’
I know this might not work for everybody, but I knew I could do the one day. It made it easier to manage that one day if there was the prospect of a ciggie tomorrow. But the next day, I would tell myself the same thing again. So I was never giving up smoking. Just having a day off. I’ve now had well over 2,000 days (6 years) off now after 30 years of smoking one of the strongest cigarrettes in the UK. And I don’t need to convince myself in the mornings anymore!

BF Skinner’s approach is called “functional analysis;” involves three aspects of behavior: 1. frequency, 2. situation in which it occurs, and 3. the reinforcement associated with the behavior. in relation to smoking, you’d keep a record of the amount of cigarettes you smoke per day, and the situations in which you smoked. most smokers smoke more in the presence of certain stimuli – once you’ve identified these stimuli, you can modify them to change smoking behavior. :]

i just did the same thing man, illness seems to be the only way i could get off smoking!

I quit smoking March 17, I had tried for years to quit and failed . How did I succeed this time? I quit after my………………….heart attack. I would have prefered to quit with out the HA, but between quitting after or not quitting at all I guess I’ll go with this.

My Dad has smoked since he was 19 and now he is 54 going to be 55 and now he has started to cough and he keeps promising me that he will stop,but he doesn’t and i can’t do anything about it.One day i hope he gets it through his head to stop SMOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HOW I HATE CIGARETTE’S!!!!THEY DRIVE ME UP THE WALL AND I’M ONLY 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad smoke’s and it’s a big problem for him and Mariah who ever you are,i know what it’s like to have a dad like that,so i feel you’re pain.