Quitting need help !!!

[persephone]

If this isn't in the right place then someone who can, please move it.

Please give me ideas on what to do to get past the cravings.

I'm attempting to stop smoking, the cravings are now getting worse, and I'm going crazy... Crazy to the extent that I'm really not thinking properly and just made myself look very silly

I have two assignments to get done and I can't focus. It would be so easy to light up and say I'll stop again after I've written them, but I've made it 6 days and I'm not going to give up on giving up.

Sugestions please.

[gmc]

Every time you want to buy a packet of cigarettes instead take the money and throw it in the canal. Financially the end result is the same and you will be healthier because of the walk down to the canal.

Personally I gave up when i was twelve. Tried it, threw up never touched it since. Tried a pipe but decided posing was not a good reason to smell like an ashtray.

[koan]

Good luck!

If it comes down to it, get one of your mates to lock you in your room and deliver your assignments for you. Punch your pillow. (always a good idea). Let all the energy from the craving out of your body so its not stuck in there bouncing around. Scream, unless you have touchy neighbours.

If you make it through. Stop. Remember how horrible it was to quit. Imprint that on your mind and never light another one again. You can never have "just one smoke" again. And this is a good thing.

[MiwSher]

You've made it 6 days? Congratulations! I'm trying to quit smoking as well, but I have been using the nicotine gum. Tried the patch but I couldn't handle the ultrapsychotic dreams. I admire your will power. I can't go cold turkey.

Drinking very cold water (preferably with ice in it) whenever you have a craving may help. It does for me somewhat.

Hang in there!

MiwSher

[KlatunIckto]

awwwwwwww hec go ahead enjoy life is short here have a cuban ceegar' lmao

[persephone]

Originally Posted by gmc

Every time you want to buy a packet of cigarettes

I don't want to buy a packet, I just want to smoke. Funny though, I went into a shop yesterday and an automatic thing happened while I was paying for a magazine, I asked for 20, my mate shouted at me and the shop kepper laughed, as I went very red.

Originally Posted by Koan

If you make it through. Stop. Remember how horrible it was to quit. Imprint that on your mind and never light another one again. You can never have "just one smoke" again. And this is a good thing.

Thanks, and I was thinking, at least when I'm doing all that health promotion I can relate more with it now.

Originally Posted by MiwSher

You've made it 6 days? Congratulations! I'm trying to quit smoking as well, but I have been using the nicotine gum. Tried the patch but I couldn't handle the ultrapsychotic dreams. I admire your will power. I can't go cold turkey.

I'm on patches, not going cold turkey, but I'm only using the 16 hour ones, my thinking was I never smoke in my sleep why do I need 24 hour patches.
Reading all the leaflets from Nicorettes though I should be on the microtabs, for the amount I used to smoke, I think that might be why I'm craving so bad at times, I've reduced the nicotine more than is comfortable according to them.

Good luck to you too by the way.

Originally Posted by KlatunIckto

awwwwwwww hec go ahead enjoy life is short here have a cuban ceegar' lmao

[greydeadhead]

Hang in there.. the cravings will lessen. It took me 8 trys to actually quit smoking and I smoked for the better part of 20+years. One thing that helped me was that I tried not to do things that led to me lighting a smoke. That is prolly difficult in your case.. especially if you light one when you were stressed or completing work for school.. Anyway.. hang in there.. you can do it.. and you will feel better later on.. have a great day and be well...

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by letha

Please give me ideas on what to do to get past the cravings.

I'm attempting to stop smoking, the cravings are now getting worse, and I'm going crazy... Crazy to the extent that I'm really not thinking properly and just made myself look very silly

I have two assignments to get done and I can't focus. It would be so easy to light up and say I'll stop again after I've written them, but I've made it 6 days and I'm not going to give up on giving up.

Sugestions please.

I stopped a few months ago. No-one *needs* to smoke. You know this. If
you stop, your inner mind will try to get you to start again. It will say "just
one", or "You've been without for a while, you deserve one now, just one",
"You are stressed, a cigarette will help, after all you haven't had one in a
while", that sort of thing. You will have to become slightly schitzoid, and laugh
at that part of your mind. You know, in yourself, that you do NOT *need* to
smoke. If you were cut off completely from tobacco, say on an island, where
there was *NO* 'baccy available, well, you might *think* "Oh! I'd quite like
a smoke, but there isn't any tobacco or cigarettes, so I can't - never mind" -
you see? It would be impossible to get any, you *could not* borrow one
from a friend, go to the off-licence or shop or supermarket - you would not
worry about it so much, because you *and* your mind would *know* that
it was impossible to get any! So try to imagine that sort of thing. When your
mind tells you "There's a packet of cigarettes on the table, one won't hurt"
then catch yourself, and laugh at it - why is it telling you that? You know you
don't need it! That was a silly thing to try and get you to do! And you were
*so* nearly caught!! Hah! Not that time! What a ridiculous thought, you are
giving up!! That means you will *never* smoke again. Never. You're just going
to stop. You can live without it. You did before you started, and will again. "Just
one, it'll help you concentrate" - Bugger off you stupid thought!! I've *given up*!
Think it! Every time part of your mind tells you you'd like a smoke, and suggests
a plausible excuse, think how stupid it is! Why is it even suggesting such a
thing! You've stopped smoking! You will not smoke again! *Think it!*

I should lay off the patches too. It's only a bit of nicotine. No harm in that,
but you don't need it. The longer you keep it up, the harder it will be to avoid
having a fag, with all the gunge that you (yes, you!) make *yourself* breath
into your lungs. One won't hurt, will it (Bugger off stupid thought!!). You've
smoked for a while. Your lungs aren't pink, they are black. The sooner you
stop, the sooner they can start to clean themselves up a bit. You are likely to
live a bit longer. You are very likely indeed to improve your life. Will you be
out of breath climbing up the stairs when you're 40? On oxygen when you're
60? Skin all wrinkly and pasty-looking? Pah, balls to all that. You don't need it.
You'll look a bloody sight sillier if that happens. Remember, you've stopped.

[Peg]

There was just a thing on television. Check out http://www.quitnet.com It is a support site for those trying to quit smoking.

[gmc]

I see they are going to ban smoking in some public places in England, that might help as well, breal the conditiong, drink, smoke, party.