Quitting smoking

[BimboBob]

Start and stop when I like. Been 4 months off them until the weekend then had a few small cigars. Throat felt rough on Sunday afternoon so I'll stop again for a while.

I like a small cigar. And it annoys the missus.

 

[balotellishaircut]

I went cold turkey way back in 2001, I put some tab ends in a jar half filled it with water, I used to smell it every morning for 6 months and haven't touched a cig since.

 

[bluealf]

Cold Turkey, or ween off?

Vape worked for me, around 15 moths and then stopped the vape and for the month or so after it was the vape I was missing not fags, I had reduced the strength of the vape from 12 months onwards, so right at the end there was hardly any nicotine in it.

6 years now but the main thing to stopping is...

You have got to want to or it won't happen.

 

[bluealf]

E cigs, no problem. Been clean for over 2 years, tried a couple of normal fags in the meanwhile and they tasted bloody awful.

But why did you try them?

 

[bluealf]

that’s a joke right?

No, a mate at work is still sucking some kind of nicotine lozenge, he quit smoking 4 or 5 years ago but he still buys these lol

 

[Tuearts right boot]

But why did you try them?

I had an old packet of Golden Virginia and a couple of small cigars in a drawer, seemed a shame really.

 

[bluealf]

I had an old packet of Golden Virginia and a couple of small cigars in a drawer, seemed a shame really.

I would never dare to light up again, you just don't know what it will do to you lol

I think somebody said earlier on if you had 5 fags you will be back addicted again and I don't disbelieve that.

The closest I came to having one was because I kept my baccy tin on my PC desk, so there was some in the house but I would say no to them if tempted, (I used the same technique with drink and had 8 cans in the fridge for 6 months and it is 10 years for no drink.) but one day maybe 2 or 3 months in and on the vape, I had finished my tea and I automatically rolled one and had it in my mouth and was looking for the lighter when I realised what I was doing, took it out of my mouth and removed it from the desk, not sure what would have happened if I had kept the lighter on top of the box tbh.

I do get the odd pang every so often but no different on a hot sunny day thinking I could murder a cold Stella, the same thing would happen it wouldn't be just 1 it would be 10 lol

 

[york away to this!]

I stopped about 18 years ago from 20-40 a day. Two old biddies lived in the flat below mine. I had a panic call. Went down to help. These two had been partners since they met in the war. One smoked, one didn't. The smoker was dead on the sofa. I put her on the floor and gave her mouth to mouth and cpr until the ambulance came, which seemed like a hell of a long time. She still had a faint pulse when they took over and they took her away. After a while i went back upstairs and had a fag on the roof garden, put it out and stopped. (The old bid was doa at the hospital, suspect they just didn't bother once the ambulance set off...)
I've had a very occasional spliff or roll up at festivals since.

So just follow old smokers around, wait 'til they have a heart attack, then inflate the corpse for 15-20 mins. With a bit of practice it'll put you right off...

 

[Magicpole]

Quitting smoking is a piece of piss. I did it about 50 times. Easy.

 

[middlewichblue]

I used a hypnotist , havent touched one since (cigarette not hypnotist) for 16 months.