Filthy Fags !

Scratchface

I've been trying give up the fags for years with no sucess. As Oscar Wilde said, I can resist anything but temptation ! I've tried everything from accupuncture, hypnosis, nicotine gum ( ugh ) and the patches, which I might get half a day out of and then take it off and have a few smokes in the evening.

Has anyone any other suggestions on how to quit or any personal experience on how they quit. I know cold turkey is probobly the final sollution, but if there was an alternative I would love to hear it.

Thanks in advance for any fortcoming help / advice.

ErinGoBrath

Hi Scratchface,

I'm not lying when I tell you after reading the Allen Carr book 'easyway to stop smoking' I permanently stopped smoking and didn't experience any cravings, illness, weight gain etc.

Allen Carr book on Amazon

I'd really really encourage you to read this before taking any further advice from anyone. It's a superb method and pain free.

I believe Allen also has a day clinic in Ireland where you can get the entire course in just a few hours.

Best of luck!

junii

None of those things you mentioned work unless you have the willpower. From reading the above post, you don't.

If you really are determined you shouldn't even need any of those things. As for where you get determination from...well, I know that I only got it after years of smoking and ignoring my health which in turn affected my self esteem. I eventually said f*** this and decided to change my life around completely... That was only a few months ago. Things have been going well.

junii

ErinGoBrath wrote:

Hi Scratchface,

I'm not lying when I tell you after reading the Allen Carr book 'easyway to stop smoking' I permanently stopped smoking and didn't experience any cravings, illness, weight gain etc.

Allen Carr book on Amazon

I'd really really encourage you to read this before taking any further advice from anyone. It's a superb method and pain free.

I believe Allen also has a day clinic in Ireland where you can get the entire course in just a few hours.

Best of luck!

Poor guy has contracted cancer I heard.

KTRIC

Scratchface wrote:

I've been trying give up the fags for years with no sucess. As Oscar Wilde said, I can resist anything but temptation ! I've tried everything from accupuncture, hypnosis, nicotine gum ( ugh ) and the patches, which I might get half a day out of and then take it off and have a few smokes in the evening.

Has anyone any other suggestions on how to quit or any personal experience on how they quit. I know cold turkey is probobly the final sollution, but if there was an alternative I would love to hear it.

Thanks in advance for any fortcoming help / advice.

I heard that Oscar loved the Fag's aswell :rolleyes:

Scratchface

Hi Erin,

Thanks for the reply, unfortunatly I read that book a few years ago without sucess, I also attended his clinic in a hotel in Tallaght a few years ago. I think I stayed off them for about an hour afterwards. It wasn't Alan Carr himself, it was one of his diciples who was a bit of an evangelist.

Mabey I just don't want to give them up !

iregk

Well thats not true. Conciously you don't want to give them up but sub conciously you do. Something made you come onto this board and ask the question so that means there is something inside you that has had enough.

Patchs and gum are only delaying the inevitable. The best thing to do is to stop! A chap in here is reading a very good book and it helped him to stop, pray its not the Alan Carr one but I'll get the name shortly.

ErinGoBrath

I'm sorry to hear that the Allen Carr book didn't do the trick. I hate to sound sceptical but if you read and more important understood the points he's making you should succeed.

I'm 3 years on an stronger than ever!

Best of luck with whatever you do.

abetarrush

Ha, i thought this thread was about gay people at the gym or sumthin :P


Yeah, all ye need is willpower. you wont push urself as hard if ur usin patches n all, cos you'll let them do all d work

Jus go cold turkey, get the Quitter's cough, then get over that

good luck!

Chucky the tree

Have you tried excercise? thats what got me off them originally. After only running for 5 minutes on a treadmill and being close to puking put me off the smokes big time.

I found lollypops in the at first to be a big help. Having something in your hands and mouth helped with the physical side of it(plenty more Oscar wilde puns there!)

clarkwgriswold

I agree with the exercise route.
Patches and willpower to get you through the working day. Every time you want to smoke in the evening, run until you almost pass out. You'll get fit, loose weight, save money and quit the fags. You can't lose.

Scratchface

Thanks guys for all the suggestions which I intend to incorporate into my new quitting programe. Firstly, I will dig out the allen carr book again. I think I may have read it in a half arsed way in the past. Patches during the day, ( I find it hard to get them to light ! ) and a run or cycle in the evenings. I do a lot of driving during the day and eat the fags in the car, so i'm thinking of changing job's. To anyone who has giving up, have you noticed a major change in your health and sense of taste and smell. I don't want to end up like dear old Oscar, sucking fags for the rest of me life !

junii

After giving them up I realised the smell is atrocious. When your a smoker you tend towards passing off how bad the smell really is but its awful and everybody notices except you, trust me!

My appetite improved when I gave up the fags and I found myself looking forward to eating. Fags really stint your appetite. Overall health probably better too, I feel much better.

Giving up fags was part of a bigger thing for me though. I wasn't just giving the fags up. Giving them up was a tactic in a bigger overall strategy for me.
I really wanted to turn my whole life around and I know what I want my life to be like now. Think of it as a vision.

I want to be healthy, competitive in life, raise my self esteem and become a better, balanced person whos found peace in life. It has taken me years to realise this is what I really want. I have wasted the last 5 or 6 years of my life...not looking after myself...messing with drugs and I look back and it kills me to think of how much time Ive wasted. Im only 21 now btw.

I don't think I would have been able to give up the fags standalone. I needed to change my lifestyle.

Scratchface

Hi Junii

Thanks for that. I know the smell thing is bad, on your clothes and hair. It smells bad to me, but must really stink to a non smoker. Mabey I should think like a non-smoker, should help. Don't feel you have wasted
the last six years, at least you sorted yourself out at 21, If you had left it untill you were 41 you'd be really pissed off with yourself.

junii

Scratchface wrote:

Hi Junii

Thanks for that. I know the smell thing is bad, on your clothes and hair. It smells bad to me, but must really stink to a non smoker. Mabey I should think like a non-smoker, should help. Don't feel you have wasted
the last six years, at least you sorted yourself out at 21, If you had left it untill you were 41 you'd be really pissed off with yourself.

You just need to think deep and come up with a really good reason to give them up. That will be your motivation and when you find yourself tempted keep reminding yourself of this. It must be something that has value and deep meaning to you, something you will defend to your death should anyone try to question it. You must not let tempations establish themselves as thoughts in your head. This takes care of one aspect of it. Then theres the spontaneous spur of the moment type situations. Basically, you just have to avoid these like the plague. You will suceed if you really want to do it.