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Stopping Smoking - The Simple Way


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Really good post Kiwi. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. I have the Allen Carr Book. Its great for supplimenting information from other sources and is particularly strong on positive thought. I agree with you however that you have got to want to stop smoking to succeed. No one magic book or technique or mystic secret is enough by itself. I am a cold turkey fan as well.....I really didn't get the concept of giving up a drug by taking the same drug but in a different form. Carr talks about habits at length, because a common view is that some people have to "break the habit" first. I have a habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road in the UK........I change that habit pretty damn fast when I go skiing in France! We are simply dealing with addiction here..... that is a personal view and is what worked for me. Before you bury me in posts defending NRT............if it worked for you then that's great and whatever you have to do to get of the fags is fine by me......I just wonder about the quit statistics re NRT on other sites and the cynic in me looks at the drug companies heavyweight advertising of gum and patches etc in the UK. I wonder how many people are addicted to patches.........I have seen recent posts here from people indicating that they have been taking NRT for many months (thought the longest was supposed to be six weeks or am I wrong there?). I suppose you can argue that patches are way safer than cigarettes..........but its still a drug addiction........and are you more temped to smoke if you run out of patches? Food for thought? Brent
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Bumpinup for Cold Turkey lovers out there, have a suck on this. :8o: [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 523 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 13,079 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $3399.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 74 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 20

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Hi there, The changes i've gone through 1 year on as a non-smoker is realy quite surprising & that i feel i've reverted back to my 'old self' prior to smoking, emotionally i'm experiencing things as a 16 year old again (i'm 36). A previous post by SHEVIE is quite true.... [quote] Don't expect a quick recovery. The general consenus here is you must be quit for a year to consider yourself recovered; you must experience all the seasons smoke-free. Medical research on the brain's recovery from nicotine addiction bears this out, that it takes 12 - 18 months for the brain to recover from the damage smoking did to it. But it will recover and that's the important part. [/quote] also, as i've mentioned before in another post...probably my best advice to anyone wanting to quit... [quote] "I will share a little secret with you.... When i stopped smoking i decided i was not going to smoke for 1 year, even if it killed me. I prepared to put my whole life on hold for a year for this quit. I prepared to be miserable & was even ready to accept all the destructiveness i was going to cause amongst family, friends & work collegues. Guess what... 1 year on & i'm obviously still alive, i'm still in the samejob, there are still a few people left who talk to me plus i can't believe some of the things i've accomplished this 'smokefree' year. I'm a quiet, unsociable, shy guy with no willpower who quit 'cold turkey', what does that say ! the point is..... how ready are you ??? seriously - do you really want to stop smoking ? [/quote] Remember smoking is simply an 'addiction to nicotine'. By choosing not to smoke we are living a life free of addiction, remember what that felt like ? ;) Hope this helps some of you. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 461 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 11,540 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2996.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 66 [B]Hrs:[/B] 3 [B]Mins:[/B] 21 [B]Seconds:[/B] 18

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[size=2]Steady on people, i'm sorry if you think i was knocking NRT, i honestly wasn't. I am definately not promoting or infact a 'cold turkey' fan, i am simply a fan of giving up smoking. I only stopped 'cold turkey' because i was just so sick of smoking. I did not plan my quit, if i had it probably would have been via NRT. I put this post here for those who want to know the methodology behind smoking, 'the simple way' post was meant to enlighting people & explain why we smoke, to aid in our quits. I only wish i knew all these things before i quit, it would have prepared me better. Brentw1, by our own investigations into why we smoked, we were just fortunate enough to 'see the light' so to speak early on in the in the peace to work, this may not work for others. howevere it is unfortunate that we all become the target of money & Big Business, hey, thats life. Groovekitty, be positive, hang in there & be strong, you have all the support from me. Please use my post for what it is, it's just there to help as this is everything i experienced in my quit. A close work collegue of mine & his wife both took took zyban, they havn't smoked for three years so NRT really really does work, another work college used 'the patch' , this also worked for them for (2 + years). lets face it some people say giving up smoking is the hardest thing we will ever do in your life, we need all the help we can get. be positive in all your quits, Good luck to you all, i'm sorry again if i mislead some of you. [/size] :confuse: [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 376 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 9,416 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2444 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 53 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 8 [B]Seconds:[/B] 2

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[font=Arial][size=2] Hi Everyone, i smoked for over 15 years, my family & grandparents all smoke, my father gave up for 8 years and started again, my brother has tried to give up 5 times without success (twice with hypnotherapy) but my in-laws remain smokefree from quiting over 10 years ago. I Quit smoking 'Cold Turkey' on 31 December 2004. Since then i've been surfing the net and reading books in the hope to discover the magical secret to quit smoking. In the process i've learnt about my addiction to nicotine & how dependant i'd become over it. I now realise how simple it is to become a non-smoker, you just stop smoking. If you truly want to stop smoking you will succeed, it's that simple. I gave up 'cold turkey' and ended my 15 year nicotine dependancy & it feels so good. I would like to share what i have learnt & hope that it will also help you to stop smoking for good. [b]Firstly, i tink it's important to realise we smoke because:[/b] [list] [*]We are addicted to a quick acting drug called nicotine which has developed a mental / emotional hold over us. [*]We associate smoking with moments of stress, love, joy, boredom, relaxation & sadness, so we smoked best at these times. [*]Within half an hour of finishing a cigarette the nicotine levels in the blood stream fall quickly to create withdrawl pangs. [*]Smoking 'tops up' the nicotine level in our blood stream reducing withdrawl pangs [*]Without withdrawl pangs we feel better equiped to take on lifes challenges. [*]Life is full of challenges. [*]Challanges are what makes life fun. [/list] During a quit we can suffer moments of anger and attitude, it pays to remember we also had these feelings as non-smokers. Smoking either suppressed or led us to avoid a situation. I found most of these 'attitude' bouts were brought on by feeling sorry or angry with myself for allowing my addiction to get to this, so i would take it out on others. Giving up smoking because we don't want to die of cancer, heart attack, etc has shown statistically not to be strong enough to enforce carrying out a quit. I don't want to rattle anyones cage but The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health report in the 1995 Information Please Almanac states that 30% of all cancers are caused by smoking..

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Wow, Great post! Thank you for taking the time to put into words everything a smoker-on-the-fence needs to know. (Almost don't need Allen Carr's book, now.) Cold Turkeys do it w/out NRT! Mc [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/31/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 134 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,014 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $536 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 13 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 30 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5
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Thanks Kiwi. Good post. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 4/15/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 272 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,800 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $952 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 37 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17

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There is no simple way! Some will find it harder than others and some will breeze right through. The important thing is to stay quit and let us guide you :) Keep Strong, Josie _____________________ The SSC Support Team.

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