Quit Smoking Guide

Choosing the best way to stop smoking can be difficult, with so many options available. Whichever method you decide upon, you have to want to stop smoking, because no matter how effective the technique, it will not work if you really don’t want to quit.

You decision will depend on several things - your smoking habits, your personality and your bank balance.

First let’s consider your habits. If you only smoke a few cigarettes a day, cold turkey may work well for you, as it’s possible that you aren’t yet addicted to nicotine. However, if you have been smoking 40 cigarettes a day for years, the habit may be a little harder to break. Despite this, many people opt for cold turkey and it is certainly the cheapest option. However, it is not the easiest way to quit, as it involves unpleasant side effects and despite getting through the initial week, only around 5% of those who choose it are non-smokers a year later.

Your personality will also determine which method works best for you. For example, if you reach for a cigarette when you are stressed and like to have something in your mouth, nicotine replacement therapy in the form of gum might be a good choice.

Alternatively, if you don’t believe that you have the willpower to stop, you may find that hypnotherapy, which targets your unconscious mind will work best for you.

Price is of course an important factor, although it could be argued that if the method is effective, over time you will save a great deal more than the cost of treatment. However, some methods come with a hefty price tag and so you will have to balance the pros and the cons.

Some people find that a combination of methods is more successful, and choose counselling, either in a group or individually, in conjunction with nicotine replacement or anti-smoking drugs such as zyban.

With new methods coming on the market all the time, including the prospect of a vaccine in the next few years, it is important to research the options before reaching a final decision.

© Waller Jamison 2006

Waller Jamison qualified as an acupuncturist and reflexologist and her main focus now is writing. For more information on ways to stop smoking, go to Ways to Stop Smoking

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How do I stop smoking you ask? There are tons of experts out there but I honestly feel from experience they are going about it all wrong. I know becuase I tried eveything else.
First off the only thing that will help you stop smoking is your own willpower and sacrifice. Here are a a couple of tips that I hope can help you as much as me.

1. Do NOT set a date. I know this flies in the face of what everyone else is telling you but trust me, you are better off not doing it. I have tried and I am guessing you have tried as well and yet here you are reading an article on how to stop smoking. Enough said.

2. Don’t Quit. Huh? What did he just say? Ok, so technically you are “quitting”, but I have not had a cigarette in over 3 years and to this day my word to anyone who cares is I’m taking a break and will have one when I feel like it. I really believe this and also really believe this is the conrnerstone of my success.
The minute you start telling yourself “never again” it wears you down mentally and you will never stop. The last time I had a smoke was February 2, 2003. I had no intention of stopping. I had my first smoke of the day that morning and when it came time to have another one, I said to myself, “nah not right now.” And I kept doing that all along, never quitting.

Well there are a couple of tips that helped me a bunch and will help you as well. Keep in mind, after 3 days of being smoke free the nicotine is gone from your system. Any craving you get after that is completely mental. Now blow off that cigarette until later. That’s what I am doing.

Rich Nashawaty has been smoke free for over 3 years and is convinced anyone can do it. http://www.usfreeads.com/527968-cls.html

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Why and how you should quit smoking

53 years ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not an official Girlfriend).

Her mom smoked and worked during the day so daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared them with me. Both my parents smoked as well.

So off and on I got used to smoking; my smoking got a real boost when I became a sailor at the age of 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free when you were outside territorial waters.

Over time I started smoking more and more cigarettes and had to get up a couple of times a night to have another nicotine fix.

Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.

Going on an airline trip was sheer torture because I could not smoke for a couple of hours.

We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple of smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact that airplanes were already putting people in jail for smoking.

Over the years half of my mom’s family died of lung cancer.

My dad’s only sibling died of lung cancer.

My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a heavy smoker.

My dad got lung cancer.

After he got lung cancer he visited me; he was a pathetic skin over bones man now, wearing a corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN MY GARAGE.

My brother’s wife has breast cancer; my brother still smokes cigars.

I started having coughing spells at night and the vision in my left eye was deteriorating.

Me quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no willpower.

Because I knew I could not quit I never even bothered to buy Nicorette or any other stuff.

So after a whole lifetime of smoking I was going to die of lung cancer too.

BUT WAIT: the story is not finished yet.

On September 4, 2002 I was in Calgary browsing in a bookstore called Brown and Noble and a book jumped out at me.

The book was called “How to stop smoking” and had 385 pages in it.

I glanced at the first couple of pages where the author boasted that this book was the only way to quit smoking without any withdrawal symptoms or without the Patch.

I bought the book because I was curious as to what you could write 385 pages about how to quit smoking.

It took me 9 days to read the book.

On September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last drag and exhaled it through a Kleenex.

That was my last cigarette. I have never even thought about smoking.
People can smoke around me and I don’t give it a thought.

The book changes your Mindset.

The book is called “How to stop smoking” by Allan Carr, a British Accountant and is not available in the United States.

I no longer cough at night and the vision in my left eye is fine now.

Frank Vanderlugt
http://www.youwillquit.com

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