How Did You Do It?

I am not a smoker, but i often hear people complaining about the hardness of quitting smoking; good news is: i also hear people who succeed. The successful ones say all you need is resolution! so good luck.

You enjoy the vices to a certain point of your adult life and get married and give birth to a child.As the young thing grows up your responsibilities too grow with the child.You come out of your selfcenteredness and start to live for your family.At this juncture your health becomes vital and you try to change your habits to have a healthier life for your family.So the quitting of smoking becomes the natural choice at this point if you are really serious and concerned.

I smoked for about a year when I was 15. I started b/c I thought it was cool and my friends did it. Due to some other problems I ended up in a halfway house for a month and I realized that no matter how bad things were at home (I had some problems at home at the time) I still wanted to be at home with my Mom and brothers. She didn't want me smoking though and so I tossed them out on the way out of the halfway house and never went back. Not bad for someone who was going through 2-3 packs a day. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

well, i am not a chain smoker, or a smoker itself. but i know of many people who happen to smoke a lot and then they stopped doing it. as a matter of fact, they are smokers and at the same time they are drunkards too. but later in their lives, which i happened to met them, they had changed already. they are not that what they used to be before. though they still smoke and drink, but there is this self control.. how did they do it? well, they didn't do it on their own. for if we do things on our own, we usually fail. we are bound to fail. but with guidance, proper guidance, we will overcome many things. and this time, that guidance came from up above. the gospel about JESUS CHRIST changed their lives. remember Zacchaeus, a tax collector who happen to met and encouter JESUS personally? where JESUS came into his house, and he believed in JESUS that time, and JESUS publicly declared that salvation came into his house? and then later on, Zacchaeus said that he will return to the people those things that he corrupted from them, 4 times higher this time because he is a tax collector. the same story is true to those people i know who are a smoker and a drunkard. here in the philippines, when you have those vices, your head and life is miserable as well. and the famuly is greatly affected. but the time that they RECEIVE and BELIEVE in JESUS CHRIST, transformation soon take place. changes follow in their lives, not because they are really good, but that nothing is impossible with GOD. i mean, whatever your or our addiction might be. GOD can free us all for all of these for JESUS had already overcome this world. so i suggest, that FAITH also can bring freedom, freddom from here to eternity. freedom that will really free us to do the things which are essential in our lives. search in the net about other lives as well, of how GOD is changing their lives too.. thank you !

Hi I am sheikh , If you really wanna quit the smoking I am here to help you. I have made as many as 10 peaple to quit the smoking , Now listen If you say , this is my last packet I will never purchase the new packet, you are wrong you will purchase again . If you say ,this is your last cigrate you will not light any more ,you will never quit.And if you wanna quit you take your present stock available in your pocket and crush them under your feet and say " I WILL NEVER SMOKE AGAIN " you will never smoke.

I used to smoking for about two years from 1996. But I didn't find any usefulness in it. It also caused some health problem like high blood pressure. So I quit it. Why do people do thing that has no benefit rather than harm yourself.

Iam lucky I never ever smoke, i have therefore safe avoided the need to go for a rehab to stop smoking-I feel so lucky about that considering what I see smokers go through!

Dad quit smoking sometime ago. Made him take Yoga classes. Meditation worked, apparently.

I guess people are different and while the topic is similar,there are no doubt many methods used. I tried to quit many times and I got acquainted with the addicting power of nicotine. After sever short-lived successes (longest was a year of being smoke-free), I finally quit cold turkey. No fuss, no wimpy whining, nada.

When I first got a hint that something is wrong to me. I never have a second thought of stopping. Smoking is bad for your health why wait to feel something different if you know smoking can really harm you. better quit now or never and choose to be sick for the rest of your life.

I stopped in 1992 through hypnosis. There was an add in the local paper that there would be a group hypnosis being held in a local hotel for $29.95. I had been wanting to stop and I gave it a shot and it worked for me. The man that ran it said it doesn't always work for everyone. He said you really have to want to stop. He said that some of us may light up in the parking lot if they still had the urge, and I did see some people doing exactly what he predicted. I'm very glad I stopped and never went back to it.

I've quit several times and just let a crisis drive me back to smoking. It's my way of coping with stress at first, but then it just gets to be a habit to pick one up and light it. I can tell you this much, what ever means anyone uses, the first step it being committed to the process. If you don't commit in the very depth of your being to quitting, NOTHING will work, so I guess will power has to play a part. Since I haven't managed to commit to the process this time I can't really help you in your research all the way through the process, but committment is always the first step.

Hi ldy, I thought I'd let you know what worked for me. I also took the pill Chantix. I took it for 3 months and it really worked. I didn't exactly do it right because I was supposed to have totally quit smoking altogether. I was smoking 1 here, 1 there. When I told my doc he told me either I stop totally or it won't work. So I tried again and it really worked. Chantix makes you hate the taste of a ciggarette so that you don't want to smoke it. The side effects are not real pleasant. It makes you a bit queezy and dizzy. I didn't have the extreme symptoms of depression and nightmares. I haven't gone back to smoking. It was worth it to me. I had smoked on and off for 35 years.

Well it takes a lot of will power to quit smoking.When i want to quit smoking i need it and by gods grace i was able to quit it.May be some mint toffees and bubble gum in pocket is a good idea.Pop one up when you need to take one cigratte.It worked for me and i feel it will work for you also.

I wish I could help you, but as I've never started smoking, I've never had to go through the ahem that is quitting. I am obese, and I've yet to beat that demon.

my husband quit when he found out I was pregnant with our first child. He used the patches. I am very proud of him for doing that.

Hi Ldyjarhead, I quit smoking about sixteen years ago after having tried and failed dozens of times before. The thing that worked for me was the nicotine patch, and I had almost no problem. Blessings.

Many are quiting smoking these days with the help of Patches,you can get this from your Pharmacy.I think this is still the best method as of today,apart from the renewal of heart or faith.

I used to smoke but not heavily during my younger years. I smoke because it is fad among my peer group. I used to work as a Manager. And my co-managers influenced me. But I quit it a long time ago. Because I know it will not do me any good. I just said no. And I was able to do it.

I am 51 years old and have been smoking since I was 9 years old. I have tried many times to quit with no long term success. The longest I have ever quit for was 6 months and then I started again. I have tried everything from cold turkey to hypnosis to the patch to acupuncture. Nothing a person uses is going to help them to quit. It is all willpower. You need to want it so bad that nothing else is important. I guess I don't want it bad enough because I am still smoking. I know I like my smoke and enjoy it. I think about what I am doing when I have one, not just have one out of habit. I consciously think about it when I want one and I try to put it off for awhile so that when I do have one, I enjoy it. Alrighty then, talk to you later, your friend Chris.