I just quit smoking!!
 

and I'm dying! I just stopped cold turkey, but if anyone has advice or suggestions for me, I'll gladly listen :D

Good for you!! I don't smoke so i don't have any advice, but my mom took that zyban and worked like a charm for her and she's been smoke free for 5 years.

When you feel like you want a smoke, chew on a piece of gum, or drink a glass of water or tea. And just think of ALL the things you can buy Chewy now that you don't spend $5 to $8 a pack... ;)

FE: $8.50 here in NYC. I'm going to start an envelope and will go on a monthly binge at Trixie and Peanut!

Wow! Good for you! That is excellent.

It's not easy, I know. I quit "cold turkey" as well back in December of 2003.

I promised my husband that it was a "stress" thing and that I would quit when I finished my Bachelor's degree. Well....I finished school to find myself still wanting to smoke. So it was REALLY hard for me to quit because I didn't want to. HE wanted me to....so I forced myself to not smoke. (I started when I was 16.)

It won't be easy, but it will be worth it. What worked for me was gum and candy. I kept a giant bowl of skittles in my house and ate those whenever I wanted a cigarette - and these days I really enjoy Jolly Ranchers and Smarties while at work. I think that's my replacement addiction: candy! LOL.

It took me about 8-9 months to not WANT a cigarette anymore. But after that, even when I gave in a time or two, it wasn't the same. I still fondly remember smoking sometimes....but I know if I ever had a cigarette it wouldn't be the same as it was b/c I'm not addicted anymore.

It has been a year and 7 months now (wow time flies) and I haven't wanted a cigarette in a long time! For a while, people smoking around me bothered me b/c I wanted one....then I was ok with people smoking around me....and the smoke didn't bother me. Now I'm at the point to where I don't even like the smell of it anymore, haha! It's great. I'm a new person, and so much healthier and happier.

Good luck! You can do it and if you ever need encouragement, I'm here to help!!!!

I'm not a lot of help because I was never a full blown smoker...about half a pack a day. I was habitual i would smoke when i drank, talked with friends, drove, and walked. I found hard candy was great (something that takes about the same about of time, suckers?). Also this may sound dumb but i pretend smoked for a long time. anytime i was in a situation where i wanted to smoke i would bum a cigarette, but not lite it, just pretend i was smoking it. it did help, but everyone thought i was weird.

GOOD FOR YOU!!!!! I don't have enough discipline to stop. Best of luck!

/me applauds!!! wooohoooo! good for you! My husband's a chain smoker and has a hard time going cold turkey. Hope he'll be able to have a stronger will power to stop :D we're all behind you!!!!

GREAT!! You keep going, then you let me know how you did it, 4.20 a pack here, and that is ridiculous,, I have to quit....soon,,,,,, Just not today...LOL..
No, thats great that you quit, Keep it up. :)

Thanks for the encouragement. You know, I always walked a pretty straight line, I only drink wine, never spirits and at the age of 34, I have never done any drugs, BUT I have smoked a lot for a loooooong time. About 20 years! This is it for me. I'm done. Not just for me but for my little boy. Plus I will save lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$ :D

I actually make stop smoking classes here.
Instead of writing everything in a post, I have tried to find some websites in english with good info and support - here you go:

http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact11.html
http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/
http://www.drphil.com/show/show.jhtm...n=&subsection=

A few things I will emphasize is - do not use patches, gum or any other substitute when quitting - statistically you have a much better chance if you go cold turkey!

Don't believe your brain when it tries to convince you of taking a cig - it will lie to you and tell you that "one puff doesn't matter", "you derserve it after a hard day" etc etc.

The craving lasts 7minutes - go do something else for 7minutes, do the dishes, drink water, go for a walk with your dog :) If you make it through the first 7 days, your chances of quitting for ever has doubled!

I quit in 2001 and haven't smoken since. Cold turkey. I still get the need for a cig now and then - seeing a movie where they smoke, sitting in a warm summernight under the sky etc. But what I do is I say out loud "Man, I really would like to smoke right now" and that takes the need away.

Do NOT tell yourself "I mustn't smoke, I mustn't smoke" - it's will fill your brain with thoughts of cigarettes...

YOU GO GIRL!

That's great news! Keep up the will-power and don't give in. Quitting smoking must be like an alcoholic in a way, because if some people give in and smoke one then they are back to smoking again. Good luck! :D

non-smoking section, please
 

Good for you. At one time I was the only person among my friends who did not smoke. I endured the smoking sections of every restaurant, train, plane, in the car and my own home when people visited..you name it. Suddenly, every last one of them quit over a period of year...

Now when any of the recovered addicts smell smoke they freak out...one goes into spasms of gasping..it is funny...how soon she forgot the times I had to hang my head out of her car window to breathe..LOL

This was said with great love...and humor!

Seven minutes, huh. i can hold out and do something else. My husband told me he would send me up to Boston to see this guy everybody calls "The Russian" he is a Russian hypnotist that can make you quit in one session. From gossipy conversations I have heard that this is how Matt Damon and Christy Turlington quit smoking.

Been there done that - lasted for a year and a half. Problem was I wasn't really convinced I wanted to stop, so I used a hypnotist, but then when I had a crisis I couldn't resist because stopping wasn't really my decision.
Bad idea...