Help to Quit smoking please!

I need suggestions to help me quit smoking cigarettes.
Any ideas on what I can do to take it's place?

 

I gave up on my own over a decade ago now. What I did was ~
* Know that smoking is weakness induced ~ discover your strength to overcome the weakness. It's like a prize fight for your life. Keep fighting the weakness, never give in, be stronger, stay on guard. Make each new breath a traing session for when you take up exercise or sport again. I now ride a racing bicycle 78 km (about 40 miles) in 3 hours every weekend, and that include 2 big hillclimbs. What a buzz down the other side!
* Take each new breath without smoke just like you inhaled with smoke, acknowledging the health benefits by doing so. Look to taste the clean fresh air with each new smoke-free breath, and enjoy doing it. Tell yourself that it tastes clean, fresh, and healthy every breath you take.
* Understand that each smoke-free breath is your gift of healthy life to yourself, your reward for being strong.
** Break the "light up" routine ~ I used to light up at specific times; getting in the car, having coffee, talking to someone. Break the sequence by doing totally different things to your usual old routine. When you feel like a smoke ~ go for a walk, or fix something, or get a model airplane to build or a project to get involved in. Flying kites is great. Anything outside and different to the old routine, because the "New you" can't have old habits. At work, try talking to a non-smoker or someone you've never spoken to before instead of going out and lighting up. Making new friends opens new possibilities and helps close the door on old habits, or discuss issues that you have no idea about so you can hear another viewpoint instead of smoking.

Be stronger than some crapass weakness!
Hope this helps mate
all the best and nothing less!

PS ~ that chunk of metal going through your head must hurt something fierce!

 

Avoid stress/conflict/arguments as much as you possibly can, that was my downfall Anger Management classes may be a good thing!

 

my aunt used to walk outside with the rest of us with half of an unlit cig and pretend to smoke. shes been smoke free for 2 years doing that

 

I would be TOO tempted to light it.
What type of thing I'm looking for is:

What to replace the oral fixation?
I'm a bit disabled and can't Excercise. So that's OUT.

 

matt:
To replace the oral fixation, nicotine gum helps, it helped me.
i've heard of chopping up some carrots and eating these each time you get a craving
drinking water helps...

I didnt do it very often but I used to smoke roll ups, and i would have sticks of filter tips that looked like a slim cigarrete..I would suck on those and puff as if they were cigs and soon I forgot about the habit of putting things in my mouth (you have to break that habit)

It's always good to get some facts right about smoking. During the first couple of weeks I did a lot of reading on the danger of tobacco and nicotine.
I also got a quit counter and joined a forum. anything helps! but you know, it's not impossible.

as someone mentioned before, the habit of smoking makes you be weak, as you indulge in soemthing that you dont actually enjoy but have to do in order to feel good (how come there are so many ex smokers and people who want to give it up, it's not a nice habit! no-one can enjoy smelling like an ashtray!)

anyway, i'll give you a couple of links, check them out:

http://www.woofmang.com/- excellent page, it has a message forum, everyone is very supportive, they will definitely help you a lot

http://www.xarka.com/freeware/ - download this quit counter, it tells you how long you have been quit, how much money and life you've saved, how many cigs you havent smoked etc and rewards you with funky pics everytime you reach a milestone

http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/images/downloads/factsheets/factsheet_3_1.pdf

 

i heard being hypnotized works.

 

Look at my signiture.

 

Try a lobelia herb tincture. it fits the same receptor cells as nicotine, therefore reducing cravings. you put a few drops under/on the tongue. also an herbal smoking blend might help. you can usually find all this at a natural health store.

Be Kind to Others, Kind to Earth, Kind to Yourself

 

Tell me more about this lobelia herb. Can it be bought in a dried conveinience form?