Why do you want quit smoking now?
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because u can get lung cancer or pass it down to someone else.
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Quitting smoking is not an easy task. Just like other additctions the person(s) must really want to quit. That is the first step. Then, trying the patch or the gum. If one can't use them, then everytime you want a cigarette, you wait until as long as you can. Believe me this will help reduce the amount of cigarettes and can eventually lead to quitiing. Finally, if all else fails, quit cold turkey! Since smoking is a hand and mouth thing. Try just holding the cigarette and chewing some gum or sucking on hard candy.
15841
Do you mean quit smoking?  If so, you can quit cold turkey by just stopping smoking.  Or you can try nicotine gum or the patch for your cravings.  Good luck and stay strong!
512034
I smoked for over 40 years and now I am suffering from something they call EMPHYSEMA, and I am on oxygen to help me breath. I discourage anyone who whats to take up the habit to really think it over. Do you really want to get up coughing in the mornings or wonder where your next smoke is coming from when you run out. No matches and you got to have a smoke no one around with fie to light your smoke up you get to where you think you will climb the wall. I can go on and on but I think you get the picture.
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20 Quick Tips to Help You Quit Smoking\n1. Believe in yourself. Believe that you can quit. Think about \nsome of the most difficult things you have done in your life and \nrealize that you have the guts and determination to quit \nsmoking. It's up to you.\n\n2. After reading this list, sit down and write your own list, \ncustomized to your personality and way of doing things. Create \nyou own plan for quitting.\n\n3. Write down why you want to quit (the benefits of quitting): \nlive longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell \nbetter, find a mate more easily, etc. You know what's bad about \nsmoking and you know what you'll get by quitting. Put it on \npaper and read it daily.\n\n4. Ask your family and friends to support your decision to quit. \nAsk them to be completely supportive and non-judgmental. Let \nthem know ahead of time that you will probably be irritable and \neven irrational while you withdraw from your smoking habit.\n\n5. Set a quit date. Decide what day you will extinguish your \ncigarettes forever. Write it down. Plan for it. Prepare your \nmind for the "first day of the rest of your life". You might \neven hold a small ceremony when you smoke you last cigarette, or \non the morning of the quit date.\n\n6. Talk with your doctor about quitting. Support and guidance \nfrom a physician is a proven way to better your chances to quit.\n\n7. Begin an exercise program. Exercise is simply incompatible \nwith smoking. Exercise relieves stress and helps your body \nrecover from years of damage from cigarettes. If necessary, \nstart slow, with a short walk once or twice per day. Build up to \n30 to 40 minutes of rigorous activity, 3 or 4 times per week. \nConsult your physician before beginning any exercise program.\n\n8. Do some deep breathing each day for 3 to 5 minutes. Breathe \nin through your nose very slowly, hold the breath for a few \nseconds, and exhale very slowly through your mouth. Try doing \nyour breathing with your eyes closed and go to step 9.\n\n9. Visualize your way to becoming a non-smoker. While doing your \ndeep breathing in step 8, you can close your eyes and begin to \nimagine yourself as a non-smoker. See yourself enjoying your \nexercise in step 7. See yourself turning down a cigarette that \nsomeone offers you. See yourself throwing all your cigarettes \naway, and winning a gold medal for doing so. Develop your own \ncreative visualizations. Visualization works.\n\n10. Cut back on cigarettes gradually (if you cut back gradually, \nbe sure to set a quit date on which you WILL quit). Ways to cut \nback gradually include: plan how many cigarettes you will smoke \neach day until your quit date, making the number you smoke \nsmaller each day; buy only one pack at a time; change brands so \nyou don't enjoy smoking as much; give your cigarettes to someone \nelse, so that you have to ask for them each time you want to \nsmoke.\n\n11. Quit smoking "cold turkey". Many smokers find that the only \nway they can truly quit once and for all is to just quit \nabruptly without trying to slowly taper off. Find the method \nthat works best for you: gradually quitting or cold turkey. If \none way doesn't work do the other.\n\n12. Find another smoker who is trying to quit, and help each \nother with positive words and by lending an ear when quitting \nbecomes difficult. Visit this Bulletin Board and this Chat Room \nto find a "quit buddy."\n\n13. Have your teeth cleaned. Enjoy the way your teeth look and \nfeel and plan to keep them that way.\n\n14. After you quit, plan to celebrate the milestones in your \njourney to becoming a non-smoker. After two weeks of being \nsmoke-free, see a movie. After a month, go to a fancy restaurant \n(be sure to sit in the non-smoking section). After three months, \ngo for a long weekend to a favorite get-away. After six months, \nbuy yourself something frivolous. After a year, have a party for \nyourself. Invite your f
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You will quit smoking when you SINCERELY make up your mind that you will be a non-smoker. Once your mind is really made up, you will quit. Also, stop asking "why can't I quit?" The question should be "How can I quit?" It's not a question of why because, in fact you really can do it. You just need the method.
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Personally I can't wait.  I spent fifty odd years smoking, and can now understand how my kids must have suffered in the back of the car.  I cannot understand how a whole family sitting on the next table too me would all light up as soon as they had finished eating, Bloody ignorant lot, not bothering about us or their youngster in the pushchair.  We have overcome that one now, we always go in after we know they will have gone. Poor child has got it all the time though.           I know ex smokers are the biggest moaners, but I can also see why,  I wouldn't smoke in a restaurant or cafe.      I gave up after getting up to answer the phone, the answerphone cut in before I made it. My mate thought I had been running, but I had only just got off the couch.When I heard the recording, I sounded like an asthmatic elephant. I gave up ( for the 4th time) the end of August '88 and not stopped moaning since.   \nI gave up the bottle around the same time,     I went to pay for some materials and my hand was shaking so much I couldn't sign a cheque. I made the excuse I had almost knocked someone over.  \n\n                 I'm so good, I start church soon!!!!!!!!\n\nDoubt it will stop many smoking, and this government know it.
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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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She has to WANT to quit, and if she doesn't, nothing you say can get her to quit. Smokers have an "I'll do it if I want to, dammit!" reflex that makes them get pissed off if you try to help them and they don't want help. This is true even if she tried to quit and then decided it was easier to keep smoking. There's not really a lot you can do other than drop the subject.
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1. decide you want to quit\n2. get patches, they work 8-10 week program\n3. alter behaviour and watch for triggers, (things which make you really want a cigarette)\n4. take it a day sometimes an hour at a time\n5 set up reward system\n6. Do some research on what transpires in a body even in the first 12 hours of stopping the smokes.  \nFinally:  The body and systems are very forgiving and rejuvenate themselves towards healing.  It is amazing to smell, taste, and not stink,,,,\n\none who knows,,,
164397
I do smoke.  There really are no benefits to smoking.  It is relaxing and it calms my nerves after a rough day.  I am orally fixated to it.  I love smoking, I love holding the cigarette, taking drags, I love everything about it.  I am addicted to cigarettes in everyway possible.  I actually started smoking in 7th grade because I had a boyfriend who smoked.  Then I smoked on and off all through high school but as soon as I turned 18 and was able to buy them I started regularly.  Also, a lot of people in my family smoke including my mom and dad so it was unfortunatley an easy habit to pick up.
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Smoking was always a "time-waster" for me.  If I needed to wait in line, or something repetitive or tedious was going on, it was always nice to have a cigarette to pass the time.\n\nThat waste of time was also one big reason I quit, though.  It seemed like I was often smoking when I could have easily been doing something productive.  In that way, I sort of viewed it as a form of laziness.
380381
Well, it would be much easier if you gave a reason.\n\nWithout a reason, I suggest you do not quit.\n\nSo, NO.
859472
I quit smoking about 5 months ago.  I started with the gum, but after about 3 days I had enough of it.  Then I quit cold turkey.  For about the first 3 weeks, I wanted to punch every living being in the face.  I was very irritable.  Then I started to calm down.  After about 5 weeks, I started to forget about cigarettes (believe me, you'll think of them constantly when you quit).  It got easier and easier.  However, don't relapse if you get stressed.  About a week ago, I started smoking again because I was so stressed.  I am going to quit starting tomorrow, but it's going to suck again.  Just stick with it!!!!!!!
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why would you want to?
886874
Dear e-mail friend as you are looking for help it means you really want to stop smoking,GOOD IT MUST BE YOUR FIRST STEP TO GO AHEAD,now look at yourself and say "I love myself and I'll win this battle by myself with my friends help".Good luck and think positively.
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A cigarette really can release stress.  Someone who quits for a long time and then goes through a tramatic ordeal is likely to remember the release they got from the cigarette, and is likely not to care at the moment about all the reasons they decided to quit.