I have been smoking for 35 years and would like to stop.
My problem is that I have tried previously and did quite well except for the bad temper and snapping.
Is there a way to stop dead without having the bad temper or short fuse?

What have people that used to smoke done to try and get rid of their short fuses and urges to attack anything that moves??

The only way mate is to buy plenty of polo mints and hope you have the will power to last the course.
I myself stopped smoking 10 yrs ago having smoked for 20 yrs so I know it ain't easy,but if you are really determined to stop then you will stop.
p s feel sorry for the wife mind lol.

Originally posted by royjames
The only way mate is to buy plenty of polo mints and hope you have the will power to last the course.
I myself stopped smoking 10 yrs ago having smoked for 20 yrs so I know it ain't easy,but if you are really determined to stop then you will stop.
p s feel sorry for the wife mind lol.
Thanks Roy ...I already have the wife covered......in the basement!
lol.
It's the poor dog I'm worried about!

I will stop though ...I guess that in order to stop smoking I will have to take a weeks holiday at a monestary.

I did it with Tae Kwon Do. Start the classes first - it starts clearing the crud off your lungs and you resent the smoking for choking you! The adranaline substitutes the nicotine. The martial art focuses your attention and improves your self control. Gives you something new to do that cigarettes are not an integral part of.

Originally posted by Strix
I did it with Tae Kwon Do. Start the classes first - it starts clearing the crud off your lungs and you resent the smoking for choking you! The adranaline substitutes the nicotine. The martial art focuses your attention and improves your self control. Gives you something new to do that cigarettes are not an integral part of.

I used to do Karate years ago with Stan Smidt who was S.A champion for some years.
I agree that it would take my mind off the fag but my work takes up all my free time as well as working time.....even now whilst I come in the forum I am still doing reports on the comp.

I have a stop smoking hypnosis cd that I aquired...I have never tried it but will see if it works whilst I am in the bed ready for sleeping.

My friend used to smoke like crazy, his tip is that when ever he gets a craving he tells him self he can only have a cigarette after he’s chosen a song he likes and sat down to listen to it. Sounded crazy to me but apparently nicotine cravings only last 3 minutes so if you can resist for that long (the length of a song) they go away. He also got rid of all tobacco in his house and made him self spend the money he was buying fags with on apples and other fruit, so that he always had something to eat and he didn’t have excess money.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
My friend used to smoke like crazy, his tip is that when ever he gets a craving he tells him self he can only have a cigarette after he’s chosen a song he likes and sat down to listen to it. Sounded crazy to me but apparently nicotine cravings only last 3 minutes so if you can resist for that long (the length of a song) they go away. He also got rid of all tobacco in his house and made him self spend the money he was buying fags with on apples and other fruit, so that he always had something to eat and he didn’t have excess money.

Thats ok but Eating all day would probably be worse for my health than smoking!.

that's the beuty of his scheme. Apples! can never have too many.

Originally posted by DerekH
I have been smoking for 35 years and would like to stop.
My problem is that I have tried previously and did quite well except for the bad temper and snapping.
Is there a way to stop dead without having the bad temper or short fuse?

What have people that used to smoke done to try and get rid of their short fuses and urges to attack anything that moves??



Tell you what did it for me, one word, The big C. I wanted to live and be able to breathe, not die, gasping for breath at 32 yrs, of age, from CANCER !!!!!!

As Roy James said, its the will power you need (although the polo's are a good idea)

I stopped at the beginning of September, few days on the Nicorette gum.. Now its down to sheer will power, my let down is when Im drinking the urge is strongest..

Its by no way easy, I won't lie I've had a couple here and there but at least Im not buying 20 every 2 days which I used too, £15 a week over a month does make a difference to my wallet :thumbsup:

Everyone is under instructions around me, My house mate doesnt give me smokes (no matter how much I threaten him :hihi: ) and nor do the people at work, and I won't 'willingly' buy a packet just for the urge of one smoke! :suspect:

:clap:

On a personal note, I don't smoke but have a close friend that has. He found that after a fair few years of smoking that patches worked for him and a lot of will power. Seriously, patches are worth considering.

One of the best ways to stop smoking is to do it gradually. First you lose one lung, then the other, then you quit. Easy! Only don't get cremated as that still counts!!
I'm thinking of starting smoking - any tips?:gag:

write to a tabacco firm and ask for some free samples

Originally posted by DerekH
I have been smoking for 35 years and would like to stop.
My problem is that I have tried previously and did quite well except for the bad temper and snapping.
Is there a way to stop dead without having the bad temper or short fuse?

What have people that used to smoke done to try and get rid of their short fuses and urges to attack anything that moves??

I smoked 30 a day for years. I stopped in two weeks AND ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE OF STOPPING. I haven't smoked for just over ten years, and can honestly say I have never craved/wanted one since.
Follow my previous forum post on this, Two other Forum members permanantly stopped by using this method, Mimicraze and SammyBoy. (He has posted below)
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12584&highlight=allen+carr
Dare to believe:thumbsup:

Originally posted by DerekH
I have been smoking for 35 years and would like to stop.
My problem is that I have tried previously and did quite well except for the bad temper and snapping.
Is there a way to stop dead without having the bad temper or short fuse?

What have people that used to smoke done to try and get rid of their short fuses and urges to attack anything that moves??


See your Family Doctor - before you suffer and die with the filthy, smelly habit.

They may prescribe NiQuitin if you have no side effects.

You will be surprised what you cough up from your lungs.

These are the things that work best for me when craving:

Eating, often when you crave your actually hungry but you'd normally light a fag when you get that sensation.

If possible don't leave the house or go near any people or shops that may have ciggies.

Drink lots of alcohol before going to bed eventually makes you forget you need a smoke and you fall asleep.

If you place yourself in a position where you physically cannot obtain cigarettes, after 5 days or so cravings die down. After a long enough time period nicotine will no longer be in your system. Thus you won't crave it. mmm nicotine.

Boredom often leads to smoking, get a good book or a magazine to read instead.

Don't start smoking weed; only costs more and doesn't do you any better.

Don't phone people and ask them to bring you cigs.

If you have to smoke try smoking something horrible like Camel or Cigars. They should soon put you off.

try the nicorette inhaletor...

or buy this
Coughing Ashtray (http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/COUASH_GADG.htm) :hihi:

Originally posted by draggletail
I smoked 30 a day for years. I stopped in two weeks AND ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE OF STOPPING. I haven't smoked for just over ten years, and can honestly say I have never craved/wanted one since.
Follow my previous forum post on this, Two other Forum members permanantly stopped by using this method, one being Mimicraze.
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12584&highlight=allen+carr
Dare to believe:thumbsup:

Thanks for the info.......I will see how it goes.......24 hours already...and I hav'nt thrown anything yet lol

Originally posted by J-Blaze


Drink lots of alcohol before going to bed eventually makes you forget you need a smoke and you fall asleep.



I have been doing that for years.....I find that social drinking also has an effect on smoking...you tend to smoke a lot more than when you are not drinking.

Maybe it's because you forget that you just put one out.......I am stopping the drinking at night after work to see if this has a reverse effect.

i'd say try to get rid of anything that reminds you of smoking and of course, stay away from smoky places. if the cravings get too much, get some herbal ciggies. they're so rank, you'll never want a smoke again!! (and they have no nicotine)

My grandad stopped when I was little...I think that made him somewhere in his 50's. He had been smoking since he was a teenager and aparently stopped because of me living with them...awwwww

Anyway he just decided one day to stop. But he used boiled sweets to sort out his craving and put on loads of weight, then he used snuff which my nan always said she wished he had stayed smoking.

Both myself and my uncle are annoying and stop and start as we see fit...I currently only get the urge to smoke when i drink. Smokers can't believe it and check to see if I so inhale. The most common comments I get is 'why bother'

I would suggest leaving food and other dirty habits out of yoru equation to stopping. So say for example when you get the urge to have a fag do something contructive like clean up, or do one of those little jobs you have been putting off like sorting out that small draer in the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom where everything gets dumped.

Eventually your house will be clutter free and you will have stopped smoking.

moon

Having never smoked I can't really comment on how hard it must be to stop. All I know is, my Dad smoked for over 35 years and one day just stopped! His motivation was wanting to live long enough to see how succesful his children become and of course, he couldn't bare the thought of leaving his wife to cope without him.

If you find it really hard to just stop, and have no motivation or technique that is helping, try smoking less and less fags.

Example: If you smoke 30 a day, cut down to 20 for a week, then 18 then next week, then 16 etc etc. Do this by waiting that little bit longer before having a fag. That should work :thumbsup:

I have just stopped after 20+years, I have tried everything in the past including the book mentioned by draggletail.

What worked for me was the Smoking Cessation Service, contact them here (http://www.sheffield.nhs.uk/stopsmoking/)

Basically you join a group, they explain all the different treatments, organise free prescriptions for NRT or Drugs etc etc, and then with the help of your group members you set a stop date.

Meetings are weekly and last 1 hr and with the help of the trained councillors and the help of the group peers, I found this a very effective method.

I am eternally grateful to the 2 support workers, for helping me live longer :clap:

Its a proven statistic that with the help of a support group, you are more likely to stop.

It may seem a bit poncy joining a support group, but try it, it worked for me.

:) :) :clap: :thumbsup:

As draggletail said, the Alan Carr book did the trick for me.

I stopped over night back in July after 20 years of smoking, and I haven't touched one since. I haven't had to make any lifestlye changes, haven't piled on the pounds and honestly don't miss cigarettes at all.

Good luck with it mate, and if all goes bad, PM me as I have got 19, 50 gram packets of tobacco that I bought just before I stopped that I could do with selling!!

Cheers,

Sam

Everyone is different there is no one method that works for everyone.

My Grandmother smoked from when she was 16 to when she was about 68. The one day she decided to stop due to financial and health considerations. She stopped and never started again.

Some people would do exactly the same but then find that the physical or mental withdrawl symptoms hit them harder than they can cope with. They just need to work out their own coping strategy.

If someone is determined and they have the right motivation they can give up smoking quickly (not necessarily easily though)

Originally posted by sammyBoy
As draggletail said, the Alan Carr book did the trick for me.

I stopped over night back in July after 20 years of smoking, and I haven't touched one since. I haven't had to make any lifestlye changes, haven't piled on the pounds and honestly don't miss cigarettes at all.

Good luck with it mate, and if all goes bad, PM me as I have got 19, 50 gram packets of tobacco that I bought just before I stopped that I could do with selling!!

Cheers,

Sam

I will let you know about the Packets of Tobacco..lol

Day 2 and all is well......I think that just stopping and working untill I am tired out will work.
Not much on the social; scene but hopefully in a few weeks I will be able to smell the air again and not the smell of stale smoke!.

May I say thank you to you all for your info and help!!!! I would just like to say that when there are people with positive views and encouragement, things tend to be a little easier to achieve.

Good on 'yer, DH and good luck:) :thumbsup:

I was fortunate that when I made the decision to quit I did just that, cold turkey. Not everyone can do it that readily I know and one method which has been proven to work is hypnosis.
But - the same criteria applies as with any other method, you have to WANT to stop.

allen carr allen carr allen carr!!!!!

Allen Carr did it for me.
I bought the book,read it in a day,and never touched,or wanted to touch one since!!

and permenantl;y using the Allen Carr method. That makes at least 4 forum members who have quite with his method. I even enjoyed it, woerd as it sounds. If you want to quit, go read his book and you will be happy that you never have to smoke again.

There are no scare stories, no will power, no unpleasantness, it is all about carefully deconstructing the reasons you smoke, the method removes them all one by one until you are free! It really is worth a go and demolishes all the reasons that people come up with about why giving up is difficult, and destroys the myth that will power is required (

incidentally that is why he is not allowed to advertise becasue it must say "will poer required" on the advert, but with the Allen Carr method it most definitely is not!)

(I know I sound a bit evangelical, but it is great - from 40 a day to zero, I have a fit and healthy life back)

My Dad was in his early thirties when he decided he wasn't going to smoke anymore. He had a young family, and I think it was simply that he didn't have the money to spend on cigarettes- although concerns about us children's health probably came into it as well.

He announced one Christmas Day he'd just smoked his last cigarette, and that was it. To the best of my knowledge, he's never smoked since.

So going cold-turkey with it certainly can work, but possibly the secret is in really WANTING to stop, then you will find something that works for you.

Just my thoughts.

StarSparkle

Originally posted by theflyingfish
and permenantl;y using the Allen Carr method. That makes at least 4 forum members who have quite with his method. I even enjoyed it, woerd as it sounds. If you want to quit, go read his book and you will be happy that you never have to smoke again.

There are no scare stories, no will power, no unpleasantness, it is all about carefully deconstructing the reasons you smoke, the method removes them all one by one until you are free! It really is worth a go and demolishes all the reasons that people come up with about why giving up is difficult, and destroys the myth that will power is required (

incidentally that is why he is not allowed to advertise becasue it must say "will poer required" on the advert, but with the Allen Carr method it most definitely is not!)

(I know I sound a bit evangelical, but it is great - from 40 a day to zero, I have a fit and healthy life back)

I will second that!
Positive brainwashing.

You need the trigger first, and reading the book should provide you with one.

Originally posted by theflyingfish
and permenantl;y using the Allen Carr method. That makes at least 4 forum members who have quite with his method.
The Forum members who have stopped smoking to date that I know of are Me
(Draggletail) you
Theflyingfish
Mimicraze
sammyboy
Mjlacey21
Uncleheed - Six in total. There may be more. If anyone else has stopped this way, why not post here, or on my original thread.
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12584&highlight=allen+carr
Keep the ball rolling:thumbsup:

Originally posted by draggletail
The Forum members who have stopped smoking to date that I know of are Me
(Draggletail) you
Theflyingfish
Mimicraze
sammyboy
Mjlacey21
Uncleheed - Six in total. There may be more. If anyone else has stopped this way, why not post here, or on my original thread.
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12584&highlight=allen+carr
Keep the ball rolling:thumbsup:
There is no doubt that the experience of giving up the Allen Carr way can make you a little evangelical - you tend to want to share it with others... :)

also,Mrs Heed quit using Allen Carr.

So thats 7

decision time .the doctor at weston park cancer hospital says mr xxxxxxx you might squeeze enough time out of you lungs to see your 11 year old daughter leave school if you stop now.ive cut back to 8 from 40 inside of a week.

Good luck, depoix. If you want to try Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking, you can get it on amazon for the price of about 20 fags :thumbsup:

Originally posted by draggletail
Good luck, depoix. If you want to try Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking, you can get it on amazon for the price of about 20 fags :thumbsup: cheers mate i,ll certainly take a look

Have a heart attack! Worked for me, got my attention like nothing else did. Tried 'cold turkey', the patch, hynotherapy, medicine, doctor's advice, none of them worked, but the intense pain in my chest did it! Happened August 29, 1996, in a campground in a little town called Drumheller, Alberta. Never lost conciousness, had to listen to my wife and kids screaming "Stay with us, Dad!"
You have no idea what you have until you come that close to losing it. Smoked 25 a day from 1954 until 1996, the reason I started smoking was because my dad wouldn't let me! Cancer killed him, and I was in the fast lane to the big 'C'. Have not had a smoke since, I am an EX-SMOKER. Don't miss it, never had the craving since.
Please, for your health, and the well-being of everyone who loves you STOP NOW, don't rationalize it, don't make excuses, just stop, PLEASE!!!!

I gave up smoking two years ago, I really was not bothered about giving up at the time; it was my boyf who wanted to, he made me read the Allen Carr book and I gave up, my boyf only lasted 3 weeks and still smokes now!

I think it was the challenge of beating him that actually made me give up! I still love rubbing it in now, the boyf has been promising that he will give up over the last two years and so far has not yet managed it, I just ignore him now when he says he gonna give up now!

Good Luck with it, I found being in the pub the hardest thing, but it gets easier with time!