Posted on 02/16/2007 10:09:41 PM PST by KoRn
Quitomzilla helps you quit smoking while you surf the web or wait for new emails, showing the cigarettes, money and time you have saved since you quit.
I wouldn't think it effective, because it keeps reminding the smoker that he wants a cigarette.
I quit a couple of times, once for two years, but the problem was that I had quit, and was fighting to stay quit.
An ex-smoker is always looking for an excuse to restart, it can be a dating breakup, or a lost job, or his wife and children killed in an auto accident.
I haven't smoked in twenty years, because the last time I quit, I didn't quit, I simply became a non-smoker.
It made a huge difference, I wasn't resisting something, because it no longer had any significance to me, since I wasn't a smoker it didn't bother me when other people smoked, when people offered me a cigarette, I didn't say "no thanks I quit", instead it was simply "no thanks I don't smoke".
My advice is don't play mental games, the next time the impulse comes over you to become a non smoker, then run with it, and make it real, and keep it to yourself.
Good ideas, and I can see the point in what you are saying. Rather than obsessing over not smoking and constantly thinking about it, people should just stop smoking and forget it. I do like to check and see how much money I've saved from time to time.
"people should just stop smoking and forget it."
Stopping smoking is difficult, but by directing that mental energy into reinforcing the idea that " I don't smoke" instead of the countless resisting of impulses such as desiring a smoke when you wake, or are going to bed, or during a bathroom break, or after a meal, or after sex, or when trying to kill a block of time, or when you walk into a room.
It is easier to have one thought to focus on, " I am not a smoker, so it means nothing to me", I think this also shortens the worst initial withdrawal period, and makes it easier to not backslide (since there is nothing to go back to).
Exactly, I'm shedding pounds and losing the cigarette habit... That epilepic seizure has done be some good guess? sheesh...
Since my last siezure about 4 months ago or so, I have lost about 30 pounds and now i only smoke about 6 cigarettes a day, before I was smoking over a pack a day.. hmmmm
flopping around on futon(couch) like a fish must have shook/fixed(or broken) something in my little pea brain... ;)
Thanks for this post.
I 'quit' Feb. 7th.
I became a non-smoker after reading your post. It really does take the temptation away.
When an urge would come, I say, "Why would I do that, I'm not a smoker". I don't even use the word 'anymore' as 'not a smoker ANYMORE'. That reminds of when I use to be one.
Very cool, I e-mailed our posts to my friends that smoke.
Tried Chantix and after three weeks gave it up because of the side effects. Four days later came across whyquit.com. I have no idea why or how I ended up at that website, but it made all he difference in the world to me. I quit two days into reading that website. I think the key was having the needed information to help put quitting into perspective. How long are the cravings? How many per day? What’s the difference b/t a craving and a trigger? How do you break triggers? How long is the nicotine in my body after I quit? What are the side effects of quitting and how do i handle it? What are the effects of alcohol, caffeine, and stress upon nicotine and smoking?
Quit cold turkey. No Chantix, no NRTs, no gum, no mints, no tricks.
Smoked for 32 years! Was at 2 packs per day on the weekdays and 3 packs on weekends whenIi'd ride my harley and pop open a few beers.
Current Quit Stats for me...
5 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes Cold Turkey QUIT!
244 nicotine delivery devices not smoked
saving USD$ 45.75
Life saved: 22 hours, 22 minutes
My new Motto? NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF
“NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF”
Excellent site, I am saving it in favorites for friends.
It gets easier especially after the first two weeks or so, but your mind will play tricks on you and somewhere in your brain is a little piece that is searching desperately for a trauma, or a stress that justifies lighting up.
The firmer you are that it is over, and that lighting up is no longer an option, the quicker the weakness passes.
Great move
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