can anybody stop smoking?

[Crowley]

Why?

If I remember correctly it had something to do with stress on her and the baby if she stopped while she was pregnant.

 

[The_MAC]

If I remember correctly it had something to do with stress on her and the baby if she stopped while she was pregnant.

I'm sorry, but I think the Doctor gave terrible and reckless advice. I truly hope the child is healthy?

You cannot tell me that pumping poison into your body, which a fetus also absorbs is better than a mother going through a little bit of stress from stopping.

 

[Akasha]

I'm sorry, but I think the Doctor gave terrible and reckless advice. I truly hope the child is healthy?

You cannot tell me that pumping poison into your body, which a fetus also absorbs is better than a mother going through a little bit of stress from stopping.

He's a healthy, happy, gorgeous little monkey

 

[Sl8er]

I'm sorry, but I think the Doctor gave terrible and reckless advice. I truly hope the child is healthy?

You cannot tell me that pumping poison into your body, which a fetus also absorbs is better than a mother going through a little bit of stress from stopping.

This.

A person I used to know, didn't do shlt when his woman was smoking while pregnant. (That's the reason I don't "know" these people anymore.)
The poor kid has endless health issues now.

I'd dump that doctor -and the woman if she continued smoking.

 

[SaiyanZ]

My dad stopped when my youngest sister was born as she had wheezing. He was 45 at the time and had been smoking all his life. He used to smoke several packs a day of that Texan brand. I remember 3 packs = 60 cigarettes a day. This was 20 years ago and he hasn't gone back to smoking and just retired whilst being quite healthy and fit for his age. I remember he used the nicotine patch.

 

[Muttley]

Get them to read Allan Carr's Easyway or go on one of the courses...
Worked for me and this was 13 years ago.
Hardest part is actually finishing the book/going on the course

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Thanks all, family member hates easyway, and hates when people complain about the smoking, and the smell and the constant coughing,

I honestly brought him the twisp cape machine so they can quit, doesn't seem to help one little bit.

If he wants its possible, nobody can force or encourage them? Am I correct?

Problem is I am paying for the damm things.... Even though its the cheap and nasty "sharp" ones....

Question for you guys, does self hypnosis make any difference?

 

[faniebraai]

Question for you guys, does self hypnosis make any difference?

Whether it's stopping a bad habit, or something like losing weight... it's all in the mind.

The easy fact is - if they deep down actually don't really want to, they won't.

 

[pieter's.gieter]

This. I stopped smoking after 10+ years, using those pills that give nasty lucid dreams. My dad who's been smoking for much longer has been in the hospital for a few weeks now, he had a stroke. He's not all there anymore, but he hasn't forgotten that he smokes. He often tells us to put the cigarette out for him and gives us his hand. There's no cigarette obviously but I think he's so used to it, he doesn't want to stop

That is weird my father also smoked and when he had his stroke the hospital weened him of the ciggies and he has not smoked since. My mother did make it clear to him that he is not to squander this get-out-of-jail-free card he has been given.

Thanks all, family member hates easyway, and hates when people complain about the smoking, and the smell and the constant coughing,

I honestly brought him the twisp cape machine so they can quit, doesn't seem to help one little bit.

If he wants its possible, nobody can force or encourage them? Am I correct?

Problem is I am paying for the damm things.... Even though its the cheap and nasty "sharp" ones....

Question for you guys, does self hypnosis make any difference?

Remember that old adege that the 12 step method mentions. The first and hardest part to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

 

[Arthur]

Remember that old adege that the 12 step method mentions. The first and hardest part to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

You guys are right about wanting to stop. If you don't want to, it won't happen.

I'm a smoker. I enjoy it immensely and don't regret starting. I know and understand the effects on my health. I am an addict. And I am not in denial.

I've made adjustments to my lifestyle to accommodate my smoking in these difficult and repressive neo-puritan times. For example, I never smoke inside the house, which is smoke- and stink-free. I do smoke in my office, which always has open-to-outside windows and doors, even in winter. I have TVs on all the stoeps and bedroom balcony just in case I want to smoke while watching the occasional doccie or sport.

So, I can fully endorse the observations above: I've never met anyone who's stopped smoking without developing a clear and firm resolve to do so.

 

[Dirtdiver]

It stinks. Worst thing ever, when people eat and smoke, what the........ Guess I will never understand, cos i never smoked or did "drugs"

 

[Spizz]

3 years non smoker after 34 years 20+ a day. Did the pills thing for 6 months. Being a diabetic its one of best things I have done.

Stopped now for nearly 6 years after 34 years smoking (started aged about 11, stopped at 45) Less at school obviously but 20+ a day for 25 odd years I guess. And I was one of those who 'couldn't' stop.

All it takes is the will. Learn than smoking is a habit, not an addiction and learn how to break the habit.

 

[Arthur]

All it takes is the will. Learn than smoking is a habit, not an addiction and learn how to break the habit.

You're right about the will. Without that it's pointless trying.

By the way, I'm addicted to the drug and I have an entrenched habit. Should I ever conceive the intention of stopping, it will require dealing with both.

I do occasionally stop during Lent. So I can go for a month or two without smoking. But I've never actually wanted or intended to stop permanently.

 

[The Voice]

Back on the drinkies after being "free" for 6 months - was vaping instead which worked a charm. Had more energy, was breathing and even sleeping better, was hitting the gym, could smell and taste things I handn't since I started smoking at the age if 12 - ****ing surreal! And I didn't stink or taste like a wet ashtray anymore.

And then the little bug started gnawing at the back of my head one day, and wouldn't stop. Until I gave it what it wanted. Honestly, I just wanted it to stop...

In 3 or so years of trying to stop permanently it's the longest I've gone without cigarettes. I've become a bit of a student, and figured out that I'm not addicted to the nicotine (have a vape for that), know it doesn't relieve stress, know I don't want to do it, know it's not the "habit". My brain apparently needs the MAOI's in the cigarettes - yes, you read that right: among the thousands of other things in cigarettes they also contain antidepressants! As someone who was clinically depressed almost 2 decades (and knows what it's like to come off Prozac), the effect is exactly the same. Also the fact that I started smoking so young my brain and body probably adapted to being poisoned as I grew and my body matured that I'm probably held together by tar!

I'm treating quitting differently this time though. Cold turkey never worked for me, so going to wean myself off of the stinkies, as I did with my meds, and eventually do the same with my vape until I get down to 0mg - and then I'll get rid of that too. The little annoying voice? Well, I'll figure out how to get rid of it, eventually.

I guess for the OP, the desire to stop has to be there. It's not something that can be forced onto someone - I reckon everyone is addicted to cigarettes for different reasons. Figure out what that something is, and you'll know how to defeat it.

 

[The Voice]

It stinks. Worst thing ever, when people eat and smoke, what the........ Guess I will never understand, cos i never smoked or did "drugs"

Food and drink masks the taste of the cigarette - it's psychological. No coincidence that heavy smokers usually love coffee or wine - both have strong flavours.

 

[genelock]

Thanks all, family member hates easyway, and hates when people complain about the smoking, and the smell and the constant coughing,

I honestly brought him the twisp cape machine so they can quit, doesn't seem to help one little bit.

If he wants its possible, nobody can force or encourage them? Am I correct?

Problem is I am paying for the damm things.... Even though its the cheap and nasty "sharp" ones....

Question for you guys, does self hypnosis make any difference?

if you want to stop smoking you will stop.In their case I wouldn't go cold turkey.they need to slowly wean off it

 

[Spizz]

You're right about the will. Without that it's pointless trying.

By the way, I'm addicted to the drug and I have an entrenched habit. Should I ever conceive the intention of stopping, it will require dealing with both.

I do occasionally stop during Lent. So I can go for a month or two without smoking. But I've never actually wanted or intended to stop permanently.

I think the drug has a much lesser effect than people perceive it to have, and I say this through my own efforts to step back and identify my smoking behaviour and dealing with it logically.

Stopping smoking in the house was a start, extending it to weekends was an extension, and eventually reducing the cravings by getting used to these steps (in turn) saw me then hopping in the car (for example) on a Monday morning and lighting up immediately, without thought.

This took place over a few years of course, but recognising and isolating the habit of lighting up at certain times made it actually quite easy to stop eventually. And of course, the times that I would almost give in after a few days or weeks was after a meal, or going to the pub.

All habitual smoking and all completely controllable if you recognise the symptoms and of course, IF you want to stop

 

[Geoff.D]

My father, who smoked 60 Gold Dollar plain cigarettes a day, stopped cold turkey, on the day a doctor showed him what my grandfather's lung looked like after they had removed it, when the old man became bedridden.

He just took the packet out of his pocket and threw it away in the hospital ( Bloemfontein) waiting room.

He never smoked again, no patches no BS just stopped.

The same with my wife. She stopped when she fell pregnant. Cold Turkey no fiddling and BS.

It is called will power!

Me? I never started ... That is also called will power not giving in to peer pressure.

 

[pieter's.gieter]

My father, who smoked 60 Gold Dollar plain cigarettes a day, stopped cold turkey, on the day a doctor showed him what my grandfather's lung looked like after they had removed it, when the old man became bedridden.

He just took the packet out of his pocket and threw it away in the hospital ( Bloemfontein) waiting room.

He never smoked again, no patches no BS just stopped.

The same with my wife. She stopped when she fell pregnant. Cold Turkey no fiddling and BS.

It is called will power!

Me? I never started ... That is also called will power not giving in to peer pressure.

Yeah, half the things said about quitting are baloney. When a smoker tells he cannot stop smoking what you really should hear hims say is... "I don't want to stop smoking"

It is just simple human nature though, changing who you are fundamentally as a person is hard and takes real intestinal fortitude to accomplish, regressing into past destructive behavior is much easier and takes no will power.

i also never started but that was a gift to my father who had only one wish for his son and that was that he should never be stricken with his fathers dependancies.

 

[The Voice]

I think the drug has a much lesser effect than people perceive it to have, and I say this through my own efforts to step back and identify my smoking behaviour and dealing with it logically.

Stopping smoking in the house was a start, extending it to weekends was an extension, and eventually reducing the cravings by getting used to these steps (in turn) saw me then hopping in the car (for example) on a Monday morning and lighting up immediately, without thought.

This took place over a few years of course, but recognising and isolating the habit of lighting up at certain times made it actually quite easy to stop eventually. And of course, the times that I would almost give in after a few days or weeks was after a meal, or going to the pub.

All habitual smoking and all completely controllable if you recognise the symptoms and of course, IF you want to stop

In a way this helped me, too. I used to smoke indoors - gross in hindsight as my Mrs has never smoked. Stopped smoking in the crapper first. Then indoors altogether. Cut my consumption by half.