DrugBuyers.Com: Need To Stop Smoking....

Well, I guess i'm just iron-willed (HA HA HA) because after a 15+ pack-or-more a day of Camels, trying tapering and patches and gum and all the rest, until I stumbled across a miracle-cure that was 100% infallable and now, several years later, i can even 'bum' a social smoke from smoking friends, smoke 1 or 2, and not AT ALL crave or need to buy more. I probably smoke less than a dozen a month, and those are mostly from the old bad habit my friends & I had about smoking a cig after a joint. Anyway, what was my miracle cure? I stopped buying them. I can't smoke what I can't have, and although it wasn't the very easiest thing I have ever done, it wasn't that darned hard. I was a vegetarian for 10 years. Giving up that food was a lot harder than smoking, and that wasn't that hard to begin with. Here's my general suggestions for people who are quitting soon (as Yoda said, there is "'do' and 'not do', there is no 'try'" and IMO if you're still at the "i NEED to quit" stage you're not mentally ready to quit. You have to WANT, not need. Needing is doing what you're supposed to. Wanting means you actually desire that change in behavior. WANT to quit and you will. Ask almost anybody who has been diagnosed with a smoking-related terminal disease and you will see how easy it can be with the right motivtion) is to do a lot of what is mentioned in the posts above, such as mentally focusing on all the negative aspects - the foul taste it leaves in your mouth and on your breath, the cloud of stink that you are constantly surrounded in, the cost-drain on the wallet (more money for grow supplies!) etc, and always try to keep that in your mind how much they suck and how they will probably effect your health in the future. Another "tapering" trick I used was to switch down from Regular smokes to Lights to ultra-lites because even though they say that all cigs are basically the same level of bad, IMO if you pick a very light smoke you at least eliminate a lot of the 'harder hitting' feelings and taste that the full-flavored versons have and you get used to smoking cigs that don't taste or feel nearly as strong. Also teach yourself to smoke but not inhale if possible. I know that sounds impossible (um, mr ex. prez?) but it can be done. Just inhale a small toke into your mouth and blow it out immediately. Some will enter your lungs but nothing like if you took a deep drag and held it in. I easily combined this method with the moving to ultralights and of course trying to smoke as infrequently as possible, not to mention when I really felt like a smoke I would roll up a big fatty of trim/leaves and that would usually help the urge pass. The hardest part, the VERY hardest part is the psychological urge to grab the pack and light one up. Just keep something on hand that you can hold and chew on. Even if you do gain a little weight (I didn't) at least you can diet and lose it. It's a bit harder to replace lungs.

Now, I smoke no cigs most days but on some days i'll have up to 5 or 6. On average I have a half-dozen a week or so, which my doctor even told me wasn't that bad for my health when you consider all the pollution etc we deal with outdoors in everyday life. He said don't get carried away, but 1 or 2 a day wouldn't put me in the grave any earlier. I guess it fallls under 'everything in moderation' ...

Just my 2¢ as a once-time hardcore smoker, now a very casual one

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