As the year 2003 came, I told myself that I would quit smoking...
Ive already failed :(

Ive tryed many methods and yet they all failed, my last resort will be nicotine gum, but i would probly get addicted to that as well.

Its becomming an expenzive habit for me since here in Alberta, Canada, smokes are up 10$ a pack, thats almost 15$ american currency!

What are some of the weirdest or extreme ways that you or your friends have quit smoking.

First off, I think you might have your currency exchange wrong... I quit smoking almost a year ago. I was a pack-a-day smoker. First, for 2 months, I just slowly cut back to the point where I was only at 3 or 4 smokes a day. Then I went 2 days without smoking, then I'd have one or 2, then go for 4 days without smoking, then have one or two, then I just stopped smoking. To make sure I didn't weaken, I'd spend all my money as soon as I got it so I couldn't buy any smokes in a moment of weakness. It worked for me! Good luck!

Don't tell yourself you are going to quit. That puts too much pressure on yourself. Tell yourself instead you're going to take a break. I would get up in the morning and instead of grabbing a cigarette I would tell myself to wait until I took a shower. After the shower then I would say wait until after breakfast. After breakfast it would be wait until I'm in the car, and so on and so on. Take small steps. I kept a full open pack on the coffee table and an empty glass bowl beside it. Every morning when I got up I would toss the money I would normally spend on a pack into the glass bowl. After two weeks I knew I had it licked.

if you really want to quit, you can. if you have the slightest worry about what you'll have to do with your hands when you're on a party, or waiting for the bus, or what you'll do if you meet someone you like that smokes, you'll fail. first, make sure you really really want to quit. that's the key to it all! good luck!

I agree to the above stuff. Also, go to the local place you buy cigarettes from, and tell them to not let you buy them anymore :D

I decided that I would only have a cig after a meal.

I'm down to 40 meals a day...

Seriously I'm trying to stop, but it's sooooooo dam hard.

Heh hell yea its hard , I told myself that plenty of times but I still do.

I have slowed down tho =)
For me I can't smoke when I'm drinking something or eating something. So I just make sure I have a lot of gum around.

A full proof way about going about quitting.....Don't start smoking in the first place!!

How can you quit if you havent started? err

My point exactly

I think the fact that you posted this shows that you are already part of the way. :)

i find when i try to quit, i tend to smoke more......

like you canadian, i promised to quit this new years. i've fallen off of the quit smoking wagon so to speak myself. (or have i gotten back on the wagon?) anyway, not smoking is so hard! there are lots of methods and advice from everyone about how to quit.

we explored some of them in a radio show my sister produces check out her website www.likehumansdo.com (http://www.likehumansdo.com) under kicking the cig butt...like humans do. there's an image of the smoker's body. its enough to make you quit for at least a few hours (i wouldn't smoke for quite awhile after i saw this.) maybe i should revisit it myself.

try replacing the green smoke :m: with tobacco. sometimes i pick up my pipe instead of the cigs when i need to smoke. also try to mock smoke or pretend smoke. hold it, inhale like normal, just don't light it. this definately helps me extend my non-smoking times.

although none of these have successfully worked for me because i just love smoking. but i'd hate to have that smoker's body so i'm going to quit! (give yourself pep talks throughout the day about not smoking too.)

i believe the answer is truly in behavior modification, and changing the way we think about smoking. if you think its nasty, it stinks, it contains urine, i'm killing myself with this slowly; every time you smoke maybe you won't smoke as much.

good luck my smoking buddy!

I successfully quit in June.

You have to realize you have a fucking shitty crack habit that does nothing for you. At least with crack you get a buzz. You're paying through the nose for a subcrack drug that doesn't even give you a reasonable buzz. what a piece of shit you are for fucking around with it for this long you goddamn asshole. stop it. STOP IT. You are in the fucking grips of a corporation that has your gonads by the wallet and your ass in the cold, smoking under what little shelter you can find, acting cool cuz it's fun to smoke... being the good little fucking slave that the fuckers want you to be and WHAT DO YOU FUCKING GET FOR IT? Cigarette butts.

That's how I did it. That's almost exactly what I told me.

I live in Canada, 10$ a pack. When I quit I didn't even know what to do with my extra money!!!! Over 6 months I saved enough to buy a new computer, a Nomad Jukebox 3 (20 gig mp3 player) and a dvd burner!!! I never woulda been able to do that if I was still smoking!

After smoking for like 15 years? no like 14 or 13 maybe. 18 to 32.... just into 33 actually. blah. fuck, I'll be 34 in june. gack.

I used to smoke a pack a day and had to give it up about 6 years ago. I had such a shocking addiction to it, but the only thing that worked for me was Nicorette Gum. I was chewing and chewing and chewing until I found that I had an addiction to the Nicorette's then. It took me a year or so to wean myself off the chewing, but I beat it. I tried to blow bubbles with the stuff but was unsuccessful. :D

I'm really trying to stop, the problem is when I haven't had a cig for a while my tolerance weakens to the idiots in the world and I feel like smacking them, my only fear is that I might actually do it. Don't you find when stopping smoking, it seems there are more idiots on the road than usual, it's harder to queue and patience is just a mere word. Little annoyances in the world appear as huge as mountains.
Has anyone seen that film "Falling Down" (Michael Douglas), well I'll put it on a par with that

oh, you also gotta be willing to be an ass to everyone for about a month. that's about how long it takes. then pangs for a while. now, cigarettes gross me out a bit, i really really don't want one. ick. everyone once in a while for about a half a second it seems like a good idea.. and then I'm like.. (see my first post above)

We've all heard about how bad smoking is and what the long term effects are, but as great as it would be to stop, I know a lot of people who just would rather smoke then not. Silly perhaps, but it becomes a habbit, something to do to speed up time, for some people it is a part of themselves. And even if they wre not longer addicted, they would continue, simply out of habbit. You need to wake up, the addiction is only half the battle! You yourself play a leading role in it too. So try it, try doing new things, try all of the new medicines, I believe in you! You can stop!

If you don't want to quit, then don't. It's a personal decision.

Well, take refuge in this: one day the tobacco companies are going to go down really really hard. I say that we all burn down the fields. Then they will be screwed.

How cool would that be!?!? :D :D

i wouldnt MIND smoking tabbaco is great!! its just they gotta add all them chemicals to them to make you addicted... then they hand out the patches and the gum made by the same companys...
cleaver devils they are.... mabey i should smoke tabbaco thur a bong or a nice hooka like the indians did... smart fellows

mabey i should smoke tabbaco thur a bong or a nice hooka like the indians did... smart fellows

Great story about that. Take a brand new bong from the store... load it brimming with tobacco and go wild in front of your neighborhood police department. Its hilarious... cars start honking, and the cops just look at shake thier heads. It is a wonderful feeling.

LMFAO
I GOTTA TRY THAT!!!!!!!!

:D too bad i live in the netherlands.. can't try that here!

My husband and I just quit smoking- we quit with the help of the new nicotine-free cigarette made by Vector tobacco- called Quest (level 3). They are made from real tobacco which was genetically altered to produce no nicotine. They taste ok- and the best part was having something to grab, light, and smoke during the first 3 days of withdrawel- which weren't any fun. We'd recommend these to anyone. Good luck!

Are they expensive? I wish I had those when I quit. I went through 3 packs of toothpicks in 2 days, lol!

Not so expensive really- in US currency about $27 a carton including tax- which is comparable to Marlboro. My husband and I burned through a carton and a half of them before we laid them down altogether- so about $35-40 to quit... not bad- and not hooked on some other form of nicotine either (patch, gum etc.) I'd say not too unreasonable of an expense for 2 people to quit- under $50- and we were done in 3 days. Went out to eat for $15 to celebrate- grand total then- just under $50.

I always thought that would be most useful. When I was quitting I bought a pack of colts (mini cigars). I don't know how much nicotine they have, but you don't really inhale em anyway. That helped some.

another all natural cig to try is called American Spirits. I've smoked these and they aren't as good as the regulars but don't contain all of the chemicals added to camels et all. there's an add in the latest times magazine offering a free carton if you call an 800 number. so you could really try them for free.
haven't heard of that other nicotene free cig but i'm going to check that out. sounds like a nice alternative to all the patches, gum, pills, etc.

One of the times I tried to quit (not the succesfull one) I tried smoking natural smokes, they were green, lol... After 3 days of smoking em I was up all night throwing up, almost broke some ribs I was puking so hard... I didn't smoke again for 6 days, lol. But I did eventually. I succesfully quit cold turkey a couple months later.