i'm a quitter!!

Congrats on making this decision chicks, you will feel much better for it. I smoked for over 25 years before I finally quit, and I find some people can quit a lot easier than others, I am one of the others. Because when I made the decision to quit and when I finally did quit, it took many times and years in between. So my first advice is, if you fail, even for 100 times, NEVER GIVE UP!!! Because if you are persistent, sooner or later it will kick in. We are fortunate in this day, to have so many options to help us quit. My first question though, is your partner a smoker? It will be a lot harder to quit if she does, unless she also is going to quit with you, then you can support one another. This brings me to what I feel is a big important issue when it comes to quitting,finding someone who will not only support you, but to keep you accountable and be there for when you fall. The next choice is how? Cold turkey? using the gum or mints? The patch? (I know there probably are other things, but this is what was available when I quit.) Now like I said, every one is different, you may have to do some trial and error before you find what works best for you. What worked for me, may not work for you, but I will tell you how I quit: It was a mixture of different things I did. I used the nicorette gum, (The original worked best for me, not the mint) BIG CAUTION here, if you decide with the gum, DO NOT CHEW IT LIKE CHEWING GUM!!! you'll get too much nicotine in your system and all that will do is make you sick. chew it slowly. I even had a special dish I used that if I chewed the gum just enough to cut my craving, but knew there was more nicotine in it, I would save it until the next craving. I also smlkoed, but alternated until I was only chewing the gum. Next I started using mint gum to alternative in between. For example, instead of chewing four pieces of nicorette, I'd chew two, and two pieces of mint gum. I slowly weaned myself off the nicorette and only chewed the mint gum. I also did more things, even coloring in a coloring book to help my nervous tension as the nicotine was being flushed out of my system. Drink lots of water and carrots, I heard carrots have something in them to remove nicotine quickly. I still chewed mint gum for about a year or two before I stopped and now I am smoke free and only occasionally chew gum.. I hope that helps, if I think of anything I forgot, I will let you know. Plus, you have mylot, if you feel the urge and need some support, you can even PM me and I will help you as best as I can.

I'm so sorry for you and your family. A lot of us in my family smoke, too, and I do worry about my parents, who still smoke. I used to pray that they would quit when I was growing up. Both of my grandparents on my father's side of the family used to smoke, but quit years ago, and they are both pretty healthy in their early 80s. With all the smokers in the family I guess it's no surprise that my sister and I started smoking. I started when I was 15 and am 28 now, smoking around a pack a day. :( I've tried to quit a few times, and though i know I really need to do it, it is soooo hard and I guess I really need to be ready if I'm going to succeed. It doesn't help that my hubby always has his cigs around, tempting me (that sounds like a big excuse, doesn't it?) Anyhow, I sure wish you luck on quitting. I will do it, too (hopefully soon)

If you think smoking might affect your life eventually, like those cancers eventually took your closest relatives life away, you should consider quitting it. I have many friends who doesn't believe in it, and they keep on smoking too. Anyhow, it might be good for your health, and take your mom's advice, quit smoking.

Hi CDS I just hope you will really quit this time, I don't have personal experience about quitting smoking since I have never tried smoking but last week I just post a discussion about smoking maybe you can get some inspiration from some of the responses here is the link http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2596962.aspx

OMG....CHICK do yourself a favor...please realize that with so many of your relatives passing from cancer its definately in our family history..I mean you obviously do what you want..but I wouldn't expect anyone to knowing with so much history to still press thier luck by continueously smoking.Don't take the chance of your parents having to bury a child because even young people get cancer...that would be horrible...perhaps there are methods of control that you haven't tried yet...Please think about this post treasury your life and those around you....be safe!!!!

At first I thought you had began quitting good things, but when I saw the topic about smoking and cancer I became very attached! Of course you should quit and we'll all be behind you so that you can move forward! Cancer is so terrible and heart breaking and you should do whtever to eliminate the risk of getting it! Start today and find very effective ways to quit!

Upon reading the title, I thought you are a quitter about your dream but I thought wrong. Well, I'm glad it has come to your mind to quit smoking. My Dad is a smoker before but he quit 5 years ago and he told me why. He don't want his children (including me) to see him smoking because its not good and he doesn't want him to become an example to us to do smoking. It makes me happy people trying to change themselves and wanted to quit unwanted stuff in their lives and that includes you! Good luck to you and I hope you will success...