Supposedly I quit smoking. My wife thinks I quit, my kids think I quit, but guess what. I couldn't. I did for one day and now I still smoke and I need to know how to hide it from them, I want to be a good example, and I dont want my wife to smell it on me
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Well, I think you should quit. If you can't then TELL YOUR FAMILY! It's not like they will hate you for the rest of your life. Two choices: you tell them, or you quit. It's for your own good. You'll thank me for this.
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Credentials: I used to be a heavy smoker (3 packs/day, menthol). Quit previously 3 times. The last time took. Non-smoker for over 15 years.\n\nFor me, the hardest part about quitting was removing all of the associations around smoking. Example, whenever I had a beer, I had a cigarette. Whenever I finished eating, had a cigarette. You get the idea. I purposely and deliberately "weeded out" all the associations I had with smoking until I only had a few. In other words, I consciously did not smoke after each of these other co-occurring activities, until the urge was diminished. Once this was done, I had already reduced my smoking to a few cigarettes a day. To completely quit, it was a combination of negative imagery and getting the flu. I imagined coating my lungs with a thick goo of tar and nicotine while I smoked. I was never able to smoke when I had a cold or the flu, so after 5 days of various orifice purging, I realized I could probably go another few days without. Bottom line for me: discipline of living how you want.\nAs for the stress, good time to involve yourself in a very detailed kind of hobby, like model rocketry or exercise like biking. If you can weather through the first few days, you'll start to feel the benefit of being able to breathe without getting winded, and smell wonderful scents of nature and/or aromas of baking and cooking seemingly for the first time! Good Luck!
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ANY method works if it happens to be the one you're using when you finally, and truly, reach the decision to kick (the) butt.\n\nWent through 2 hospitalizations for pneumonia before quitting cold turkey. 50 plus years of smoking must have made me dumber, because it took that long to realize that I quit smoking everyday - for one-third of the day. Why couldn't I go one hour without a cigarette during the day, but I could go 8 hours without one at night? If I could quit for 8 hours every night, wasn't that proof that I could quit forever?\n\nOh yes, I tried the quit-in-stages programs (have one cigarette on the hour, etc.) and the water and the.........etc.,etc.\n\nNothing works until You are of a mind to let it work. So, as the fellow said in the movie "Cool Hand Luke", You need to get your mind "right", and the ensuing determination will lead to success.
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Why don't you try an ethnographic study of a group trying to quit smoking.\n\nYou could take a video camera to a smokers support group and interview people- make sure they know it's for a class project. You might be able to get family members outside the meeting or in the meeting.\n\nFor the project, write up your experience, the answers you recieved, and if you have to do an oral presentaion you have the video. \n\nGood luck!
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I will so delighted to answer your request!  I have smoked since I was very young and now I am in my sixtys and I never thought that I could go without smoking too.  I tried the patch; Inhaler, accupunture; Gum; I quit for 38 days about 2 years ago but I found an excuse to go back to smoking again and I had made a promise to God and it made me feel so guilty.  I did not try again until Sept 6th of this year and after going without a cigarette for 4 days I found myself calm and surprised at myself.  I haven`t smoked a cigarette since and its been 2 months...I was a chain smoker and smoked for over 50 years.  Do it with hard candys and regular gum because I believe the nicotine patch and ihaler and eta are just teasers!  Drink alot of juice and water and chew on carrot sticks...I find it also a close friend came down with Lung Cancer March 3, 2006 and had 1/2 of rt lung removed that made me start thinking also....Just remember you can do it!!!
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I quit smokin 5 months ago ..I gained at least 10 pounds more...I didn't think I was eating more....but the food does taste now....I never realized it had a taste....I still worked out but I am actually thinking of starting to smoke again...I want to lose my weight again...and nothing else is working! Sad but true...the only thing stopping me is that  I hate the smell of smoke on ur clothes...I didn't think I smelled bad...but now I can smell a smoker a mile away! its nasty...and I must have smelled like that too....and here I was puttin on nice perfume and everything! good luck too u...
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Many years ago when I desperately wanted to quit smoking myself, a friend gave me the following suggestion, because that was the way she quit herself, too. I did it and it worked. I will now tell you how.\n\nThere is only ONE sure-fire way to quit smoking and that is to become absolutely DISGUSTED by the mere idea of having another cigarette. When you can feel thoroughly repulsed by the thought of lighting-up, you're ready to replace the smoking habit with something better for you. \n\nSo how does one DO that, you ask? "how do I get THAT grossed out by my cigarette habit?" It's actually quite easy. Don't cut down on cigarettes at all, in fact, you have to increase your 'dosage' all of a sudden, all in one sitting. \n\nDo this in an enclosed room so there is hardly not much air circulation, have as many cigarettes on hand that you normally would smoke over the course of a whole day, and begin smoking them one after another. You cannot allow yourself to take a break from them, you must smoke them ALL - one after the other. The smoke should be allowed to infiltrate EVERYthing - your hair, your clothes, your bedsheets. Don't take a shower before you go to bed, don't change the sheets either - allow yourself to smell exactly what all non-smokers smell when smokers are puffing away on the vile stuff around them. You must give yourself the full impact of the disgusting odor - it is especially important that you can smell the stink of cigarettes in your bed pillow and your hair as you are falling asleep later. \n\nThat really ought to do it. Everytime you think about having a cigarette after this experience, you should feel a strong repulsive YUCK! come over you. This may seem rather extreme - and it is - but if you want to quit ...
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do you realy wanna quit smoking or is there part of you holding you back.coz with me, i know it would be right to stop but part of me just does not want too. someone else lights up and its a chain reaction i want one too
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Hey Jen !\n\nthis christmas I will  be smoke free for 5 years.\n\nI quit cold turkey,but I did a lot of preparation before hand.\n\n1st I mentally prepared myself for the task at hand.\nabout three months of telling myself everyday how bad they\ntasted and that soon I was going to stop.\n\n2st I cut down to 1/2 pack a day for about 6 months.\n\nat the begining of the 7 month I cut down to 6 a day\nfor another 4 months.\n\nthree before lunch - three between lunch and bedtime.\n\nI stayed away from a lot of party,s\n\nbut when I was out drinking,I usually drank more.\nBUT I held off on the smoking.\n\nthen for next 6 months I cut down to 3 a day.\n\n 1 somtime before lunch - 1 somtime before dinner\nand 1 some time before bed.this was the toughest part.\n\nit was really hard to get through these months.\nbut I knew and I kept telling myself if I get through\nthis I can get through anything.\n\nchristmas was coming so i set my date.\n\nthen 2 weeks before christmas I got the somach flu real bad\n\nI could,nt eat drink or smoke.\nfor two weeks i was so sick.\n\non christmas eve I had a smoke,and almost upchucked.\n\na few days later I tried again but was horrible\nI had my last smoke that new years.\nthree puffs and threw it a away.\n\nI am now a free man !\n\na fatter man but a free one.
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Well all I have is personal experience.  Smoking - been smoking since I was 11, forty years ago.  Had a heart attack in February. But I wasnt a heavy smoker, a pack lasted me two days or more. But I quit, cold turkey. \n\nCould drink beer better than anyone anytime anywhere. 12 pack to a case a night. Pretty dependant I was. Put my wife thru hell on earth.  Quit...cold turkey.  Non Alohol since june of 2005.\n\nI guess the answer is the reason to give up.  If that reason is dear to you, you can quit.  My health no smoking, my love of my wife and family, no alcohol.  Dont be afraid to give a "addiction" or me ultamatum.  Now depending on what the addiction is....it is true what has been said, no DENIAL.  If you need support groups then so be it.  But you can be the best support group he has.
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I too am trying to quit smoking.  I was smoking full flavor 100's and smoking about 1 1/2 packs a day.  I have lowered to lights shorts and smoking now only about a 1/2 pack a day.  My suggestion would be not to grab a cig as soon as you get up in the morning and everytime you eat.  Try not to pick one up just because your bored or think you need one.  Wait until you just can't take it any more and you HAVE to have one.  Pay attention to how often you smoke.  If you just had a cigarette 30 minutes ago, make yourself wait another 30 minutes.  Also, set a goal that by a certain day you will be a non-smoker.  And write down the reasons that you want to quit.  Post the goals and reasons on the fridge or somewhere that will remind you constantly why you are doing it.  Good luck sweety!  You can do it!
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If you are not committed to quitting then it won't work. You have to make the decision to stop, and mean it. Write down the reasons that you want to quit. All of them. Post them on the fridge with the kids pictures.\nI would not suggest the "Air" cigarettes because you are ot breaking the habit part of this. Use a patch or gum, wean yourself off of those as you are able. You will find the desire to go through the actions of smoking are very, very strong and probably the hardest thing to change in the beginning. So give yourself time to get beyond that phase using a nicotine delivery system that will keep you satisfied physically while you work on the emotional and mental parts of it.\nI used both gum and patch. I prefered the gum because it allowed me to "do" something. Since actually getting a smoke out, lighting it and having to go through all of the stages was an involved process I opted for another 'process' to fill in.\nThen I eventually switched to regular gum. It worked. But now I carry gum like I used to carry cigs! It is cheaper, smells a lot better, doesn't make me cough, I can chew gum in a movie theater and can go places and do things that I couldn't before because of the smokes.\nI quit several times, but each try was more difficult than the ones before. So if you make the attempt to stop, try to make it work that time. If you fail, then try again. Don't stop trying. It is worth the effort. I promise.
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She already knows that you support her in not smoking, the only thing that you can do is continue to let her know that her smoking hurts you and that you would support her efforts to quit. Don't berate her, it will only make her resent you. The final decision is hers and hers alone. Many people successfully give up smoking, but it takes tremendous willpower and there are probably even more ex-smokers in the world than smokers.
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I have tried several things patches, gum, cold turkey etc.  I quit for 3 months and during a stressful period in my life I started again.  This time I just threw them away and instead of buying more I've  made a vacation fund.  I usally go through two cartons a week, so every week I  put $60.00 in a little trash can I bought.  A trash can is symbolic of me throwing my money away on smokes.  By this time next year I will have enough money to take a nice little vacation, be smoke free, and be able to breathe again!!! I hope it works...one day at a time.
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I used to smoke Cigs. I quit in 1994. I now smoke anywhere from 1 - 8 cigars per day. BY CHOICE. If I'm in my house and smoke bothers you there is a choice. Hold your breath until I'm finished smoking or LEAVE.
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the question is How addicted are you? I gave up by reading the book How to stop smoking and stay stopped for good by Gillian Riley. I went to the smoking cessation clinic who prescribed me patches and lozenges. It was hard, i know someone who could stop for days at a time yet couldnt completely give up! It is hard yet its well worth it and four years down the line i can have a fag every 6 months yet its just not the same, yet im £1000 a year better off and i dont cough and wheeze in the morning and the numb feeling in my toes has come back. My ex is looking at having his legs amputated as the blood flow and oxygen dosnt reach his toes, still he smokes. the sooner you give up the better. if i can do it you can too!
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cold turkey is the way to go - i am on day 93 today.  counting the days since i have had a cigarette has gotten me through a lot of cravings as well.  i tell myself that even if i smoke just one, i have to start again at day zero.  it has been a big deterrent - and i feel great.  i am also planning to have a party on day 100 - and maybe keep on having parties every 100 days for the rest of my life if i stay smoke free.  it's really just a great excuse to have people over.