Quitting was the hardest thing i have ever done up to that time. It took two or three tries until I settled on cold turkey quitting. I have been smoke free for more than 15 years now. It can be done.

Just keep trying. If you fall off the wagon, don't beat yourself up about it, just try again later. I have finally lost my taste for it to the point I don't even want to try just one anymore, because the last time I did, it made me feel sick, and who needs that?

All encouragement appreciated.

I had quit the entire time I was married then started again with all the divorce stress. Quit again for several years. Then my daughter who lived with me started smoking and I started again. I have a stressful job and an hour and a half commute. No excuses for it but I just won't be successful quitting now. The daily outrages of the Trump administration don't help.

different thing. the patch, the gum, the nasty nasal spray just made me more addicted to Nicotine.

CHANTEX finally did it for me. been quit 10 years and no problems. I can be around people's smoke and it still smells good but not enough to want to smoke it.

You get a months worth of pills and you start off with the lower dose pills and then switch to the higher dose. It made me sick when I switched to the higher dose but the doctor said I could split them and take then until all gone. I am very happy they worked.

buy herbal cigarettes. When you are about to cave smoke an herbal. I did for a month. I probably averaged a few a day. I tricked my brain into associating a nicotine crave with those awful herbal smokes. All of a sudden I had no desire to smoke anything. And have hardly had a crave in 9 years. Vibes. Best thing you'll ever do quitting smoking.

I'll call Kaiser on Monday.

part of your brain has been chemically separated from the pleasure centre of your brain. You stay on it for 3 months or so. When you give into a crave there is no satisfaction. There is no point to cheating so you don't. You then have separated smoking nicotine from any pleasure. Then when you go off the drug and use only herbal smokes you trick your brain into thinking cigarettes are disgusting. When I threw out that last pack of herbal smokes I would feel disgust for anyone I saw smoking. It was so great to be so done with cigarettes.

By vaping.

I don't have the wheeze any more and it's easier to go up stairs. I also don't smell like cigarettes.

Most people gradually cut down on the nicotine concentration in their vape juice, but I love nicotine too much and I don't want months worth of mini-nicotine fits.

Find a local vape shop, find out about it, and give it a try. At the very least, you can vape in places where cigarettes aren't allowed (like airport and airplane restrooms and nonsmoking hotels).

And I haven't smoked since. Maybe you should Google for smoking cessation, hypnosis and see what you get...

I mean a real one? Google?

at hotels in cities on a monthly or quarterly basis. They advertise on the local radio and/or television. The doctor who hypnotized the group that I was in was named Dr John Gullo from Tampa Bay, Florida. I'm sure he's retired now but there are other hypnotist who help people control their eating habits and help them quit smoking... It costs $49.95 then but I'm sure it costs more now. I still gotta think that even if it costs $100.00 for a group session that it comes out cheaper than a Chantix program that takes several weeks to complete.

You should give it a try...

Google psychologists for your zip code plus hypnosis and see how many names come up

Now one stick per day, outside, when things settle down. 9 more minutes...

A hair under $10 a pack here, according to the signs behind the counters at the gas stations.

Connecticut. We have to pay more in taxes to subsidize red states that then offer tax breaks to Connecticut companies.

Yay...

They raised the price to $14 a carton and I gave it up cold turkey, that was 23 years ago.

The nicotine addiction lasts only for a few days. That is to say, you are over the nic part in a few days.

The habit part is much harder and longer lasting.

E-cigs can help a lot with both. Move to zero-nicotine e-cigs after a few days.

I'm done, really done. I don't even use the e-cigs anymore.

I've been cig-free for four years now, after a 30-year addiction.

Best of luck to you.

for me, too. I still vape now and then, but I go days without it. I didn't find it difficult and I didn't really want to quit, just felt like I should. I was never quite sure if my quitting was for real or not. I always thought my big test would be when one of my parents died. Well, my father passed in February, and the thought of a cig never crossed my mind. I never really thought I'd get to that point.

but usually the smoke juice tastes nasty within a couple of weeks and they switch to pleasanter tasting juices, I understand cherry is particularly nice.

What happens is that smokers no longer keep smoking down to a butt because the things are expensive. They just take whatever they need and put it down. That tapers them down without their even realizing it.

I think that's why so many people have had good success moving to nicotine free juice after a while, letting the habit part go (or not letting it go) at their own speed.

I still use a tobacco-type juices after 6-1/2 years, plus a cola flavor - but I'm prone to a bit of obsession. I make liquids for several friends, and much of the fun with e-cigs is experimenting with different flavors to suit different folks.

One of the main things I've learned is that different folks have different depths of dependency and chemical addiction and that's true for other addictions such as alcohol, over-eating and drugs. For some, it is easy and for others it may take years to shed nicotine cravings. The key to success is patience. One thing that shocked me - as you said - was that with time, most vapers taper their nicotine level downward on their own, almost as if it is instinctive!

Two things that helped my success with e-cigs:
1. I figured I could spend the same amount on e-cig parts and liquids as I did on cigarettes (which as considerable), and
2. I helped others get started on e-cigs (takes a lot of patience) because I felt I owed society a payback from annoying so many people for over 50-years with my second-hand smoke, LOL.

(Machine shop).

They can't smoke indoors, but they can vape all they want, so several of them do. The stuff is either odorless or sweet-smelling. Some have slender ones about the size of pens, others have blockier ones that they can fill from a bottle with a eyedropper.

More of them smoke; they're the ones outside shivering in winter.

A guy in my department does both; I guess he still needs a couple of smokes a day even though he vapes.

Remember, it's not the nicotine that's the problem, it's all the toxic shit in the smoke.

I fell off the wagon and have been trying to get back on.

My problem is I'm an addict and an alcoholic and I just don't do anything a little. I was never this way until I turned 25. I was rock climbing and I fell and needed surgery to repair the damage to my knee. I got addicted to painkillers and my life has never been the same.

The accident was my fault and there is this moment before I made the stupid decision that led to the fall where I could have gone in another Direction. I've always considered that moment a turning point in my life because if I had not made the decision I may not have become a drug addict because I wouldn't have encountered the pain pills. Maybe I would have had a problem later but up until that point I rarely drank I couldn't smoke. My relationship with my first wife was excellent we were engaged to that point. My career was going well everything was very good for me.

I'm in a good place now. I've been sober for nearly twelve years and I helped others in need. I've been married again for 7 years and we have a lovely daughter whom I absolutely adore. Still I look back at that moment and I wonder

Anyway quitting smoking is such a bitch because unlike other drugs and alcohol smoking becomes a part of your everyday habit. It is interwoven into your normal everyday activities which makes it much more difficult to stop because you're changing a normal routine.

I just turned 27 years of ODAT. Always had the problem you mentioned with anything that feels good and as you said, smoking was a constant companion of drinking. After quitting alcohol, I continued smoking for over 20 years - in part because most people I worked around smoked, and also because I thought it was OK to continue something that (I thought) was rewarding. It's a wonder I didn't die of emphysema.

In early 2011, I was going through between 2 and 3 packs a day and quit smoking almost overnight using an e-cig. That was back when they were only available from a few on-line shops and absolutely no local outlets. I really wanted to quit though, because I was hurting and also hurting those around me.

So, I ordered a bunch of stuff from an outlet in CA and got lucky - it worked! I was shocked at how effective the e-cig was - it mimicked having something in my mouth and hand, killed the nicotine craving and provided a "throat hit" like a cigarette. Some of us just can't do cold-turkey. Within a few months my wife and son quit smoking too, using similar stuff I had used.

I highly recommend you try it if you're interested. I wound up helping maybe 200 to 300 people quit just by helping them get started. I made the e-liquids myself and helped folks decide what works best for them with their devices. Just like with alcohol, I think helping others made a big difference in my staying off cigarettes. The main thing is to choose components and liquids that work well for you, be patient with yourself, and keep it simple!

Let me know if I can help.

to continue to smoke. Only if you enjoy it of course. In moderation. If we win the 2018 election, you can always quit then. And if we lose, I suggest 2 packs a day. Along with 1 or 2 bottles of booze, or heroin.

I was sitting in the doctors office with my wife when the doctor told her she had terminal lung cancer. She was a heavier smoker than I was, but from that instant on I never smoked again. This was after hundreds and hundreds of failed attempts to quit over a span of about 40 years. But in that instant it became real. In that instant I suddenly realized the truth of smoking and lung cancer, and like they say, the truth set me free. Instantly.

That was 5 years ago... haven't smoked a cig since.

My dad and mother-in-law died from smoking related emphysema.
It isn't a nice way to die.

A pack a day since summer of 1984. I'm guessing I've smoked the equivalent of a brand new car with a full warranty and a years worth of gas to boot.

Around my area, I'm down to sidewalks behind my office, my apartment, and my car as the last refuge of this pleasure.

After smoking for 33 years and never even thinking about quitting, my sister got me a cheap0 starter ecig. The first moment I tried it my brain said, hey , you can do this. Never had another regular cigarette after that day.
It is so much cleaner and cheaper. Noticed a huge difference in my breathing almost right away.
It feels like i get all of the enjoyment but without the harm!