A good support group is the best help you can get.
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The results are similar, statistically, because most any addiction is “finally” ended, with no more relapse, when the person finally simply decides to take control, and quit, in spite of the pull of the addiction and with or without medical/drug support.
Some people will use medical/drug support to help them get to the point where they will take control (because they believe they need it); and some people will go it alone. But success comes with sustaining the decision to quit (take control of the choice) and, at least statistically, the success and relapse rates are about the same.
However, it is a statistic, and therefor IT DOES NOT MEAN that the medical/drug support is not helpful IN SOME CASES.
Just quit cold turkey.
If not, you will just keep paying those extra taxes, but for a shorter amount of time.
Considering the taxes we pay, we smokers should soon become the darlings of the government- and therefore of the media.
I’d quit smoking tomorrow but murder’s still illegal.
People looking for a easy way out are not yet motivated to the point they will quit for good. Go into it with the attitude quitting will be tough. Very, very tough, but it only takes a few weeks to get over the hump.
And don’t try and quit anything else at the same time. Drink, eat - whatever. One thing at a time.
For anybody trying to stop smoking.
The nicotene gum and patches did nothing for me. I was chewing the gum and smoking at the same time.
I smoked 3 packs a day for years.
I stopped smoking in may 2011 and have not smoked since. I use the electronic cigarette. Works for me. At first it was costing me $80 a week (not much difference from smoking real cigarettes) but I managed to bargain around for different brands and got the cost down to about $30 a week.
I have had no desire to smoke real cigs. The e cigs are working for me.
I disagree with your conclusion. It seems to me that if you have an equal chance of long-term success with either method, that you should choose whichever method is most effective for you, personally. If you want to quit smoking and cold turkey works for you, then go for it. But if you relapse with a cold turkey approach, you have the option of either trying it again or trying one of those products.
Quitting smpkling is miuch easier if ou realize that for the first week you will have WITDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
Insomnia, nervousnes, yes- you will be crawling the walls
Prepare for it with some sleeping pills at night and valium during the day and in ONE WEEK they go away
(but you have to go 100% cold turkey- no cheating or it is worse)
Best way to quit smoking is to change your mindset. Smokers want to quit but fear trying for a variety of reasons. Erase those thoughts and focus on the positive things and the benefits of quitting. Then, just quit for tomorrow only. Once tomorrow is over, quit for tomorrow again. And repeat the process. Take it a day at a time, don’t brag to family, friends, and co-workers, and note the day you quit. Each day that passes is one more day away from that day and one more huge feather in your cap. And, finally, be proud of your daily accomplishment. Feel good about yourself!
I see they no longer have a website, but Amazon.com has it. Amazon
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
Obama's new tobacco tax went into effect.
It was a better quitting tool than nicotine replacement.
For those that say kicking the smoking habit (Note: habit, NOT addiction) is as hard as stopping herion I say BULL!
Believe me, stopping a hard drug addiction (pain meds, herion, meth, cocain, etc) is magnitudes of difference harder than breaking the smoking habit.
I know from experience.
Coming up on seven years as an ex-smoker.
One morning I got up, threw away my caigs and ashtrays, put the lighters in the toolbox and camping gear, and was very nervous and testy for about a week.
No gum, no “mints”, no nothin’.
Got into a fight on FR within the past couple years about whether it is possible to break an addiction through sheer willpower.
I maintain that either (a) it is possible, or (b) enjoyment of tobacco and distress at its absence don’t indicate an addiciton.
A pill called Chantix worked for me and I have had no desire for a cigarette in more than 4 years. I smoked and took Chantix until I realized the nicotene was doing nothing for me and that was it, never another desire. I loved the dreams. Great entertainment.
I never tried to quit smoking but knew for years I had to one day soon. My dad died of COPD in 2001 so I was aware of the illnesses smoking caused. I came down with the flu two years ago this March and couldn’t even think about food or smoking. After 3 days I figured the nicotine was out of my system so I kept at it, one day at a time. I read online how one’s stomach would be upset the first 2 weeks of not smoking so that was great for me - I could never smoke on an upset stomach. So far so good but I have no more vices to give up.