Who all is trying to quit smoking the cancer stix?

The latest trend in the UK is to freeze benefits of those sick & disabled to force people into low paid jobs. the fact there are no jobs means you just end up on unemployment benefit earning less than you can get on sickness benefit. Which equates to about £46 a week, I think looking after a disabled mother 24/7 with no holidays or days off is ample work for anyone & to be told by politicians making thousands, even millions that I can live on £46 a week as obscene. Just last week the Brit politicians awarded themselves a £10,000 expenses a year to maintain their websites. That's more than many here get to live on a year! Sorry, I've gone off on a complete tangent here, my apologies for that. But it does explain my extreme anxiety & why being forced to quit smoking out of poverty is just adding to my worries.

I'd love to quit too, but as you know I'm a walking wall of stress & anxiety & as soon as I try to stop it just gets worse. The UK is turning into a place where smokers are looked upon as bad as terrorists or something. Governments are pushing heavy duty no smoking campaigns making me feel like a leaper. Now they've frozen all my income & made me pretty much destitute I'll not be able to smoke anyhow. So I'm expecting to become a lose cannon in the near future so may be keeping a low profile in the near future.

I used Zyban to quit when I was pregnant. It really helped alot. I had smoked for 10 years and I quit instantly. It just made me sick to light up and it definately cut cravings too.

smoked for almost 30 years tried alot of times and had no luck in quiting till 8 years back. had to quit after 1st heart attack then started again when out of hosp. quit again couple weeks later when had 2nd heart attack but when out of hosp. guess what started again so i can tell you it was hard to quit for me. but when i had 3rd heart attack knew i was in trouble when doctor said i now needed surgery to fix heart. said 3 maybe 4 bypasses to fix me up pretty good. imagine my surprise when i finally woke up after close to 7 hours of surgery scars down my chest from top to bottom, scar down left arm from inside elbow down to my wrist 3/4 of an inch wide never did heal right. also the one's running down my leg from groin to ankle. so i finally was able to quit. mind you can't run to far anymore either, breathing is a little better since i quit.that was 7 1/2years ago now. sure hope this helps you to see where you might be heading. best of luck quiting and i know substitutes don't help but your own willpower will get you through if you want to quit bad enough.also close friends that don't smoke can help. and as an old friend once told me no-one likes to kiss an ash tray. good luck...

I quit smoking a little over a year and a couple months now... I really didn't smoke as much or for as long as you, but I did smoke a pack a day for a six year span... What worked for me was making a list of reasons that made me want to quit and everytime I wanted one I opened my wallet to look at the list... For me it was all mental, because I tried all those quit smoking things like the gum and patch... I know you posted this two months ago how's the process going?

I last smoked 10am Dec 14th 2006. I've not used gum or patches, but have them available. So now as of three weeks I am a NON SMOKER :) Three Gold Stars to me. Come on vistor.... it ain't so tough!!!

I wish i could help however smoking is like breathing for me, ive tried the patches, the chewing gum, inhalator all at the same time!! and still needed a ciggy after! if you get any good advice or find a wonder cure pls let me know

It's an expensive way to get it done by going to a massage or a spa. treat yourself the whole day.

i am tryin but cannot quit