I have a serious disease that requires to not smoke, of course i still smoke,,, stupid me.... i have tried several times and no luck, i have tried hard candies, cinnamon, I cant afford quit smoking aids such as niccorette and things like that. please help i am at my wits end. I really need too and want too quit any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have asthma, and yet I smoked for seven years before I learned I was pregnant. I quit cold turkey right then and there. My love for my unborn child was greater than any addiction, and I wanted what I new was best for my child. After he was born I began smoking again due to some unbearable stress. I made sure to smoke outside, change my shirt wash, my hands and face before touching my child. When I became pregnant again I knew I could stop smoking cold turkey. This time it was harder, but I had to fight the urge to smoke, and the longer I went with out one, the better I felt. I was able to convince myself that cigarettes would make me sick, physically, and that was all I needed to over come the addiction.

My advice certainly is not to get pregnant, but if you have a serious disease that requires you not to smoke than you should quit. You love for yourself, and those that love you will be all you need to overcome the addiction. Start small, set goals and make those goals. i.e. one hour, then two, then three, until you can go a full day, then two days, then a week, then two weeks. You'll be amazed by how quickly you can kick the habit. Once you do, what ever you do don't go back. That may sound a Hippocratic, but that is what you got to do. GOOD LUCK!

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I smoke about a pack a day and the cravings are making me go crazy. Should I get the gum, the patch, that inhaler thing, or something else...

my ex boyfriend a smoker of 30 years quit because I was allergic to cigarette smoke.

I told him to take herbpharm avena licorice tincture and some other things that I got from the quit smoking page of the book by linda rector page called heaslthy healing.

He only did the avena licorice and he successfully quit. furthermore, he told me he had no cravings at all for over 5 days. I was amazed as when I quit an 11 year, three pack a day habit 33 years ago cold turkey, I had continual cravings I had to fight for weeks.

If you can make it a week without smoke, you can do it I feel.

Here is what the product looks like and for the additional help in the book get it here or maybe if you want to send me your email address I can look it up and send it as an attachment. I am having problems with my printer but I think I can still upload documents but cannot send them through yahoo answers email as it does not allow for attachments.

here is the product he used that helped him quit with few cravings

http://www.myvitanet.com/av1ozherphar.html

se emy best answer here for more info

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060801123548AA8TKb8

jhere is that book I mentioned with the quit smoking advise and herbal things etc and it is my most used an valuable book on healing a wide variety of illnesses/diseases./problems and worth the money..it may be cheaper on amazon

http://www.healthyhealing.com/catalog/ProductFamily.aspx?id=115&srcID=8&srcTarget=Department

she may also sells a product for quitting smoking but I would try herbpharm with it or instead of it

keep trying till you succeed. I had my dad die of lung cancer and it is not a good way to die before your time and two uncles die of smoke related ills, My brother tried to quit many times finally succeeding with hypnosis and smoke free over a decade. My dad also quit after many tries, unfortunately, soon after he was diagnosed with lung cancer and die in his 50s.

Keep trying if you should fail and eventually you like millions of others will join the ranks of the smoke free and save tons of money and vastly improve your health. Gppd luck!

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The plan to quit smoking is a really tricky enterprise. It comprises willpower and resolution solely to be in a position to control the longings that can go with the withdrawal stage. See, as a smoker makes an attempt to clean his body from the nicotine that he consumes, the body would continue to go looking for nicotine for it to be in a position to function correctly. This craving will urge the smoker to just continue smoking so that his body wishes can be satisfied. Here is where his focus and strength of mind should come in. He must fight off the desire for him to start a non-smoking life.

Some smokers who are on the method of giving up resort to drugs to help them in the withdrawal stage. A couple of drugs that are publicized by media are offered to the general public to help defeat the need to smoke ; and they're built to give pleasure to the brain in a rather similar way the nicotine is affecting the brain. Due to these drugs, the smokers will feel precisely the same feeling as if they had just finished a stick ; so as a consequence, there's really no requirement for the smokers to puff a ciggie. Regardless of the help that you can get from drugs, you still need to put under consideration that you still have to exert effort for you to overcome the enticement to smoke. Be reminded that the initial few days of your renunciation would actually be the hardest, so you ought to be prepared to face the problem. To be able to do that you need to try your very best to stay clear of things which might make you think about smoking.

As an example, you might like to avoid places where you'll encounter plenty of smokers, because you may be nearly convinced to join their fun. For a few of the people, they try and replace a gasper with fitter foods life cinnamon sticks or celery just to satisfy the have to have something pushed between their lips ; and if it's your hands which hunger for for something to cling to, attempt to replace the cig stick with a pencil or anything that might take its place. If you're the sort of person who associates smoking with drinking, then you may wish to avoid consuming alcoholic drinks also.

Keep your intelligence of the concept of smoking, and keep yourself busy so that you would forget the enticement to smoke. If in spite of all your plans to avoid smoking, you're still hungering for a puff, you might like to try these few tricks just to fulfill your pining : Light a matchstick rather than a gasper, and pretend it's a gasper stick that you're holding.

This trick may cheat your cortex, and it may gratify your urge if it doesn't, you can always treat yourself with a refreshing bath. Think of why it is you are giving up, and stay centered. Remember your objectives, and consistently repeat to oneself you're powerful enough to win this struggle against smoking. Don't think a single stick will have no effect on your struggle to stop, or you might start from the beginning again. And, don't be frightened to ask for your family's and friends' support, because in your journey to quit smoking, you want a robust supportive system.

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You'll have to ask your dr. about that one. But personally, I think getting pregnant is probably the very best way you can quit smoking.

Moms have a huge maternal instinct, and never, ever want to hurt their child. Smoking, not only prenatally, but after birth too, has been proven time and time again to injure children.

I think, if you want to take care of your baby, you'll do anything...even quit smoking.

I'm proud of the way you're confronting this problem. I can already tell you'll be a great mom.

TX Mom

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nothings working... not quit smoking aids.. not self help books.. I don't even enjoy smoking anymore.. but it's always feel like I need one...argh.

Perhaps you can find some useful tips in http://www.quitnow.info.au .

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I know Walmart has little clinics inside their stores, can I go to one of those to get a prescription to help me stop smoking? I work for Walmart and don't have insurance yet, but am interested in the Chantix help quit smoking aid...or getting info about it. I have been a smoker for about 20 years.

Today is 2 months of not smoking for me thanks to Chantix. These people above saying you have to want to quit and that is the only way, are fully of it. I had wanted to quit many times and have bought countless boxes of nicorette and had never made it a day before. I made up my mind one day at work I was going to try Chantix and stopped by my doctor on the way home. The visit to get the prescription was $80 and the first months supply from the Pharmacy was $120 with the $10 rebate that comes with it now. After the first week I didn't quit completely like you are supposed to but I cut down to a couple a day. At the end of the second week I quit completely and haven't had a cigarette since. I filled my second month supply since you are supposed to take the medicine for 3 months, which was another $120, but a week or so into the second month I cut the prescription in half down to 1 pill a day. After a week or so I quit taking the pills. I never stopped drinking coffee or going to bars and drinking and didn't change my life at all except for the smoking. Chantix really works. As far as insurance covering it, find out what insurance provider you will have and find out if they cover it, but there aren't many that do cover it. I smoked for 15 yrs a pack plus a day.

I cannot use any stop smoking aids, ie the patch or gum etc... any good methods on how to quit smoking?

Make sure you surround yourself with support from before your quit date arrives. I found online forums most useful as we were all experiencing the same thing. I'm proud to say I'm now over 3 months quit.

Good luck with it and below I've provided a link to one of the great sites I found most helpful.

I was recently diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma and sometime in the near future I'll be meeting with an oncologist and starting treatment. I want to quit smoking to help my situation, but I don't know the best way to go about it. Quitting cold turkey would obviously be a good idea, but I honestly don't think I'm capable of doing that. I've used patches successfully before, but it took a matter of months to quit that way. I'm not very familiar with nicotine gum, prescription stop-smoking aids, or anything else that may be out there. I'd like to quit a.s.a.p. to avoid becoming sicker during treatment. I'm also concerned about interactions between a stop-smoking aid and chemo/radiation therapy, if my method of quitting did need to take place while I was being treated. Any suggestions or info would mean a lot...

Ask the oncologist office what they would suggest..here are some links on Hodgkins and some books for info...Stay AHEAD of any nausea with the anti-nausea pills (if given to you). Once you are nauseous, you won't even want to look at a pill.

Adult Hodgkins

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_Hodgkins_disease_20.asp

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?rnav=cridg&dt=20

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/hodgkinslymphoma

http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=7085

http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=8312

http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/types/hodgkinslymphoma

3 books on disease symptoms and treatments

you could also get these books on ebay or amazon or a half price book store. (last two are very similar)..
1.Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
2.Handbook of Diseases (Lippencott)
3.Professional Guide to Diseases (Springhouse)

Like what brand of the patch works best. Does the gum work? Do the perscriptions work best?

I used the patches and was successful. The cheaper brand of the patches have the same ingredients as the name band so you can save a few bucks. Good luck!

I have several things I need to do and am not sure which order or the best way to do it. I need to do the following
Loose 50 lbs
Quit smoking
Quit taking Effexor.
I am not sure in which order I should do this. I KNOW quiting Effexor will be a long process. I have done this before and it took months. (Like 6)
For quiting smoking, I will be doing it cold turkey. I will not be using any of the quit smoking aids. (for financial reasons)
Does anyone have any advice for me as to the order I should work on this.
Thanks so much!!
Effexor dosage is 75 mg.
Thanks

go for losing weight first of all, maybe being a fitness fanatic will help you quit one of the other two, whatever you do, make sure you take medical advice first and do it safely
best of luck xxxx