Stop Smoking, Helping Each Other to Quit

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I never tried that

[h90]

Good luck Scamp

Attention if your wife smokes, you'll have a bad time same as I have. Because of 2 pack Menthol LM, my wife is smelling terrible!!!!

When I married her, I did smoke myself, so I didn't know that......

Take up a sport, like "squash" - see how you feel after 30 minutes playing against a woman

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I don't have the balls.

BTW I am smoking my last cigarette right now.

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[The Nemi]

Is the registeration still open ??

Please sign me up.

Well am 26 now and have been smoking since i was 17. So its been 9 years approx. I smoke 25 cigg. a day (Marlboro Red)

Like many in here i also tried quitting but it not even lasted for more than a couple of hours. To be frank i have weak will power to quit. I would also like to say something which is not related to smoking....I also was to quit drinking coz i fear am getting too addicted.

Wish to be counted as a non smoker.

Thanx and best of luck to all.

Edited June 24, 2005 by The Nemi

[h90]

Sorry for you!

It seems malcom, stoped his interest in that project and left everyone alone.

But a few people stopped!

I stoped since 72 days. When looking back, it was not that hard.

Not sure what happened to the project, I just gave up on trying to give up 

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[aughie]

Just keep quitting Scamp, even if you start again and again so what. The longer you go without cigarettes the crappier you feel smoking again. Eventually you will succeed. I agree with Bilko smoking and drinking went hand in hand for me. I quit both and it was much easier to quit smoking completely. Change your routinues which envolve smoking or remind you of smoking. Create new habits which don't envolve old ones so you aren't reminded of smoking.

I probably said this before. When quitting there is an urge or a tickle to smoke that first cigarette. For me resisting the urge was easier than resisting the craving to have another after having smoked the first one. So I looked at it as not smoking the first one day to day. I looked at it as defeating one cigarette.

And like I said if you start smoking again so what. Keep quitting.

Good luck

[mpdkorat]

Nope Scamp. Stinky habit

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I have a few stinky habits including smoking. I wish I could stop, but I like it. I also like some of my other stinky habits too.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

How are you faring Scampy

[The Gentleman Scamp]

How are you faring Scampy

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SIX days without so much as a puff!

Oh yee of little faith.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Only asking

[Godot]

On my second day off (smoking), someone gave me a tablett called COMMIT (nicotine polacrillex lozenge...) 4 mg. Could suck on in for hours. A lot better that the chewing gums. Anybody knows if I can obtain something similar in Thailand?

[h90]

On my second day off (smoking), someone gave me a tablett called COMMIT (nicotine polacrillex lozenge...) 4 mg. Could suck on in for hours. A lot better that the chewing gums. Anybody knows if I can obtain something similar in Thailand?

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in my opinion it is better to not take it, to take it is the same as smoke between. Because your body does not learn to live without nicotin, so the fight and craving will never stop.

If you just not smoke 1 week and no replacement, you won.

Day 3 is the hardest than it is getting easier.

[jingjingna]

I agree with h90. It is best to go 'cold turkey' so to speak. I stopped smoking 9 days ago and am determined to stay smoke free from now on. I used to smoke 20 plus a day and had done so for the past 20 years.

The secret to success is will power..give it a try and good luck!

[gburns57au]

Best I have ever done was 2 weeks.....I find then I hit a wall.....the cravings send me around the twist literally....I would have killed for a ciggie....but part of my problem was living alone and boredom.....I think I would cope better with someone around to help distract me.

[chownah]

The secret in quitting is to never stop quitting....never stop quitting...even if you back slide...continue to quit...It took me about 5 years to quit...I was quitting the entire time even though I smoke alot during those 5 years.....quittting is one of the best things I ever did in my life....my quality of life is way way better after quitting....keep it up...never stop quitting...

[cobra]

my profile quote says it all,

[h90]

The cold turkey methode is really the best and pretty straight....

Jingjingna: be prepared that there are still situations in which you easily fall back to smoke, so be alerted. i am now 80 days without ciggis and there are still moments I want to take one, but not every day, maybe twice a week.....

Continue and good luck!

I agree with h90. It is best to go 'cold turkey' so to speak. I stopped smoking 9 days ago and am determined to stay smoke free from now on. I used to smoke 20 plus a day and had done so for the past 20 years.

The secret to success is will power..give it a try and good luck!

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[bdenner]

On my second day off (smoking), someone gave me a tablett called COMMIT (nicotine polacrillex lozenge...) 4 mg. Could suck on in for hours. A lot better that the chewing gums. Anybody knows if I can obtain something similar in Thailand?

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Cold turkey and heaps of will power worked for me some 21 years back but I also had 3 good reasons apart from the stinking breath and cost:

1 Health

2 The birth of my first child

3 Competition with a good mate who wanted to give up also, dare I say it, a couple of hundred dollars each into a kitty. We split it a year later and neither of us started again.

GOOD LUCK it will be worth it

[h90]

lol you are just a bad looser, who don't want to give the money for your friend, hahahahaha (just joking)

On my second day off (smoking), someone gave me a tablett called COMMIT (nicotine polacrillex lozenge...) 4 mg. Could suck on in for hours. A lot better that the chewing gums. Anybody knows if I can obtain something similar in Thailand?

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Cold turkey and heaps of will power worked for me some 21 years back but I also had 3 good reasons apart from the stinking breath and cost:

1 Health

2 The birth of my first child

3 Competition with a good mate who wanted to give up also, dare I say it, a couple of hundred dollars each into a kitty. We split it a year later and neither of us started again.

GOOD LUCK it will be worth it

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[Jai Dee]

An effective advertising campaign:

[Bizz]

Off them now 9 months Chownah is right if at first you dont susceed try and try again.Will power.chownah Posted 2005-06-30 22:30:28

The secret in quitting is to never stop quitting....never stop quitting...even if you back slide...continue to quit...It took me about 5 years to quit...I was quitting the entire time even though I smoke alot during those 5 years.....quittting is one of the best things I ever did in my life....my quality of life is way way better after quitting....keep it up...never stop quitting...

[barryofthailand]

I quit smoking again the first of this year, and am still smoke free. You need to do it for yourself, your children and your health. I smoked for 44 years, and when i moved to Thailand two years ago i developed a cough as a lot of people do. The latter part of last year it got so bad that i went to a lung specialist at Bangkok Pattaya hospital. I was lucky, no cancer or infazima, and now after six months of smoke free my lungs and broncial tubes are clear.

[philrjones]

Hi all,

Yes I think it's about time I gave up. Male 42, only been smoking for the last 8 years at about 17 a day. Ok, I promise to stop having these stupid cancer sticks, and I start tomorrow. I'll get patches tonight then I officially get started (stopping!) tomorrow!

Phil

PS Good luck to us all! Hey it's good knowing I ain't the only one trying to do this!

[The Gentleman Scamp]

TWO WEEKS and counting.

I did have one a few days ago after a big meal and a lot of wine but it was just because I fancied one in the same way that some people fance a gigar once in a while.

There was no craving.

[h90]

than it is not 2 weeks than it is just a few days!

1 ciggi brings you back to the start belive me, I tried it many times......

And often just one single ciggi (after the other)

TWO WEEKS and counting. 

I did have one a few days ago after a big meal and a lot of wine but it was just because I fancied one in the same way that some people fance a gigar once in a while.

There was no craving.

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[h90]

Good luck!

17 a day, how sweet, I was at 60 a day at the end

Forget about the patches, and make it the hard way, it is in total easier and faster.

Without patches it is hard for say 5 days (max at day 3) and than it gets easy.

With the patches you continue to be addictated (spelling??) to nicotine, so you only change the way of getting it.

(85 days now till I stopped)

Hi all,

Yes I think it's about time I gave up. Male 42, only been smoking for the last 8 years at about 17 a day. Ok, I promise to stop having these stupid cancer sticks, and I start tomorrow. I'll get patches tonight then I officially get started (stopping!) tomorrow!

Phil

PS Good luck to us all! Hey it's good knowing I ain't the only one trying to do this!

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[tayto]

Hi Bizz.Glad to hear you have also kicked the habit.

I am into my 40th day smoke free but it is not easy.

I have been on Quomen tablets,the same as Zyban,and they have worked for me.

Has anybody got a price on Quomen here in Thailand? They are 360baht for 10 here in Chiang Rai.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

How come it's okay for non smokers to have a cigerette once in a blue moon but if an ex smoker does it then they haven't really given up?

I quit two weeks ago and the two ciggies that I have had are ones that I fancied, I didn't CRAVE for either of them.

There is no such thing as being a non smoker if you used to smoke.

You will always be a smoker who doesn't smoke.

[h90]

the problem is the same as with alcoholism. There is something in your brain, only waiting for the alc or the nicotin. Almost all ex smoker (as well me) can not smoke just one. All the times I stopped before I just smoked one and one more and one more and fully smoked again.

It was always this first ciggi which killed the project, if I would not have smoke this first ciggi I wouldn't have started again.

There are two things: the biochemical one. And the psychologic: If you can smoke just one, than you can also smoke just two or stop it after 3 or just tonight and tomorrow you stop it again, but maybe after the ciggi at the coffee and thats the way you fully smoke again.

If you can do that "just one" I really admire you, but please report me again in 2 weeks if you could do or not.

How come it's okay for non smokers to have a cigerette once in a blue moon but if an ex smoker does it then they haven't really given up?

I quit two weeks ago and the two ciggies that I have had are ones that I fancied, I didn't CRAVE for either of them.

There is no such thing as being a non smoker if you used to smoke.

You will always be a smoker who doesn't smoke.

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[The Gentleman Scamp]

the problem is the same as with alcoholism. There is something in your brain, only waiting for the alc or the nicotin. Almost all ex smoker (as well me) can not smoke just one. All the times I stopped before I just smoked one and one more and one more and fully smoked again.

It was always this first ciggi which killed the project, if I would not have smoke this first ciggi I wouldn't have started again.

There are two things: the biochemical one. And the psychologic: If you can smoke just one, than you can also smoke just two or stop it after 3 or just tonight and tomorrow you stop it again, but maybe after the ciggi at the coffee and thats the way you fully smoke again.

If you can do that "just one" I really admire you, but please report me again in 2 weeks if you could do or not.

How come it's okay for non smokers to have a cigerette once in a blue moon but if an ex smoker does it then they haven't really given up?

I quit two weeks ago and the two ciggies that I have had are ones that I fancied, I didn't CRAVE for either of them.

There is no such thing as being a non smoker if you used to smoke.

You will always be a smoker who doesn't smoke.

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11pm - London - Scampy is drinking Bombay Sapphire gin and lemonade and watching the news with sombre respect.

My brother and his girlfriend don't smoke but have an open packet of Marlboro Lights (Not what I used to smoke) in the kitchen and a roof terrace outside.

Tonight I wanted a ciggie, more as an excuse to sit outside for a bit and think about today, but again I wasn't craving for one.

I hope very much that I can just have the occasional one.

I don't think it matters if I have a cigerette but it does if I buy a packet because then I am well and truly screwed, but I won't out of sheer principal.

I don't mind being an occasional smoker but the moment I buy even a packet of 10 then I will have truly relapsed.

But I won't.... Not in U.K. anyway.

[DavidUK21]

the problem is the same as with alcoholism. There is something in your brain, only waiting for the alc or the nicotin. Almost all ex smoker (as well me) can not smoke just one. All the times I stopped before I just smoked one and one more and one more and fully smoked again.

It was always this first ciggi which killed the project, if I would not have smoke this first ciggi I wouldn't have started again.

There are two things: the biochemical one. And the psychologic: If you can smoke just one, than you can also smoke just two or stop it after 3 or just tonight and tomorrow you stop it again, but maybe after the ciggi at the coffee and thats the way you fully smoke again.

If you can do that "just one" I really admire you, but please report me again in 2 weeks if you could do or not.

How come it's okay for non smokers to have a cigerette once in a blue moon but if an ex smoker does it then they haven't really given up?

I quit two weeks ago and the two ciggies that I have had are ones that I fancied, I didn't CRAVE for either of them.

There is no such thing as being a non smoker if you used to smoke.

You will always be a smoker who doesn't smoke.

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11pm - London - Scampy is drinking Bombay Sapphire gin and lemonade and watching the news with sombre respect.

My brother and his girlfriend don't smoke but have an open packet of Marlboro Lights (Not what I used to smoke) in the kitchen and a roof terrace outside.

Tonight I wanted a ciggie, more as an excuse to sit outside for a bit and think about today, but again I wasn't craving for one.

I hope very much that I can just have the occasional one.

I don't think it matters if I have a cigerette but it does if I buy a packet because then I am well and truly screwed, but I won't out of sheer principal.

I don't mind being an occasional smoker but the moment I buy even a packet of 10 then I will have truly relapsed.

But I won't.... Not in U.K. anyway.

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I can only recommend "The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently" by Allen Carr. (Not "The Easy Way ....", a shorter version he wrote previously).

I smoked for 20 years and never stopped for more than a week. I read (studied) the book for a week or so and havent smoked for over 4.5 years and never really missed it. I can guarantee you'll save the cost of the book anyway.