It's an expensive and humiliating death. Quit now before it's too late. Hardest thing I ever did, but damn glad I managed it.

Could not add a word to the above, and I, too, am glad I quit (after 27 years of smoking and five years of gnawing on nicotine gum---the medicals aren't joking when they say nicotine is the hardest drug to renounce).

A friend had cancer. He survived. Many I know haven't. That was my motivation.

I started smoking at 14 whilst doing the morning paper round.....ah...those Woodbines in the fresh early morning air....
went into the army at 15...up to a pack of 20 a day....then at 21 I changed to a pipe.....Flavour, Taste, Smell...it was nice...and more like a hobby than an addiction....even though people said that I was too young to smoke a pipe...I didn't care..
Retired from teh army at 40...came to thailand....sometimes enjoyed the Burmese cheroots....when i couldn't get my favourite Clan pipe tobacco...I would roll-my-own with Samson...using the little machines and rizla filters.....licorice paper makes a nice change

I just stopped one day....and have been without for about 12 years now.

I think that the commercially produced cigarettes are the most dangerous and addictive.....they put saltpeter in them (same as in gunpowder)...that's why they carry on burning in an ashtray when you aren't pulling on them.
Pipe tobacco is more pure, without chemicals....as are rolling and cigars...so i think they are easier to give up from..

My advice is to change to a pipe or rolling your own cigarettes...then you are on cleaner tobacco...then it is easier to stop from them

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Set up a goal. Imagine something you would like to have...let's say..a joystick,and r/c airplane, whatever. Calculate how much money you spend on cigarettes, and in how much time you "smoke" the price of your goal.

I never even tasted a cigarette..ever. why?
1: it smells bad

2:my parents are doctors, so I've heard some "nice" stories about the consequences.

3: I calculated how much money I would spend on cigarettes, and I wondered how many nice things could I buy instead for that money



I hope this helps

Stare at jugs instead:

Organize your life so that it suit your cigarettes "quitting"... for instance I haven't went out in pubs, coffee-shops etc. for a while when I quit.
Those are dangerous places to be when you are getting rid of that nasty habit.
Later on when you aren't thinking of smoking so much, you can go there.

And no, slowly stopping wont work... I tried it.
One day I just said no.

I haven't smoked for 8 years since that day.

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Originally posted by raaaid:

btw by the threads i start you should know what kind of cigarretes im talking about

Am I the only one that cought that?

Sorry all this is an old thread bumped by a spambot advertising.

As its been bumped though how did raaide get on with quiting anyone know??

These days many pubs (on both sides of the Atlantic) in a number of countries are non-smoking. If in northern climes perhaps the best idea is to start going to pubs in winter, and then you'll be forced to smoke outside in the freezing cold, and that'll put you off the nasty habit...

Luckily I never felt the urge to start smoking.

im still trying to quit

but when tobacco companies add ammonium to cigarretes to make them more addictive its very difficult

im even consideing switch to rolling tobacco and wash the amonium out and let it dry

anyway im on my way i reduced from 25 fags a day to 12

manwhore......... JUST KIDDING!


I need to quit cigarettes too unfortunately. Cold turkey is the way to go as it involves pure willpower.

Try the nicotine gum. I quit cold turkey in 1993 and went through agony for months---constantly thought of cigs, had stomach cramps, and the whole bit. One night I was out with a date and a sprinkler kept hitting the window behind her in the restaurant making a spray which looked like a big cloud of smoke. Just this set off my craving! I resumed smoking after about three months. I quit again in '97 using the gum and it did the trick---though I was using the gum until 2002! I will suck up second hand smoke whenever I can. I miss nicotine.

I woke up one morning after 16 years hard, deliberate smoking and decided not to have a cigarette till I got to work. Once I was there I decided to postpone it till my tea break. Had my tea and left it till lunchtime. Had lunch with no cigarette. Quite stimulating, and I liked the buzz. Finally at 9pm I thought ‘Well, I’ve done quite well, I’ll just have a quick puff as a reward’. I’ve rarely felt so stupid. That was 14 years ago and the last cigarette I had.

Followed the same postponement strategy the next day and didn’t tell anyone. I deliberately had tobacco in the house, and could have cadged tobacco off anyone around anyway, but when I was desperate in the first few weeks, with itchy teeth, I just postponed a smoke by telling myself that I could have one later if I was still desperate.

Certainly in the early days and weeks it was hard, but I’d flicked a switch in my head, and what worked for me was just telling myself that ‘at the moment I am not smoking’.

Finally came out to my mates and colleagues six weeks later, none of the b*ggers had noticed I wasn’t smoking, and gave my (now dried-up) tobacco away to someone who was sadly desperate.

I’m still a nicotine addict - a couple of times a year I yearn, for about 30 seconds, for a slim panatella – it’s just that I don’t smoke.

Good luck stopping…