Is anyone else trying to quit smoking for the new year?

I can give you some advice on this, because I went to a smoking cessation class. So first thing you want to do is, mark on your calendar what your quit date will be. See if you can find support groups as well. Now, there's a bunch of things you can use to aid you in quitting. There's a 2 and 4mg lozenge. Gum, patch, and Chantix. These are your quit aids.

When I quit smoking, I received a months worth of the 2mg lozenge for free since it was the class so that something you'd have to pay for, unless you happen to find a smoking cessation class. So then all you gotta do from there is follow the instructions for the quit aid you choose to use. As an example, so on the quit date you stop smoking cigarettes 100%. Now, when I got the 2mg lozenge the first week, anytime you get a craving to smoke, pop in a lozenge for 10 minutes.

Because I would go out on the front porch to smoke, I would go outside, pop in the lozenge for 10 minutes, as if I'd smoked a cigarette and then go back in. That still wasn't at 100% working. So I took a piece of paper and rolled up a tube, so that I could have the action as if I was still smoking, even though I wasn't. But I was able to trick my brain, while doing the lozenge. The second week of not smoking, do the morning lozenge but try to skip the next craving, next craving after that, okay do a lozenge. Third week, try to skip morning craving and the next, third craving do a lozenge. By the end of the third week I had found myself no longer needing the lozenges and I had successfully quit smoking.

I don't vape or smoke anything. 100% smoke free since March 24th 2015. That was my quit date. You can do it!!

UPDATE: Also, one thing you want to do is, stay away from social interactions where you go to smoke. So say you go to the bar friday nights and have a few smokes. Or wherever it is you might go to have a smoke, you have to change those routines because being in those places, could cause you to want to unconsciously light up. That was another tip from the instructor.

Day #3 will be the hardest. Cravings will come in waves. One wave will last for about 3 minutes. You just have to survive the next wave. Those waves will occur less frequently over time, and after a couple of months they will have almost disappeared.

I quit nearly 3 years ago. It was one of the easiest things I've ever done.
The reason I found it to easy? I didn't make a big deal of it,I didn't fear or rejoice at giving up..I gave up and decided to seldom think about it..and it worked.
Don't worry about giving up..just do it and move on.

If you are planning to smoke your usual way and then quit cold turkey January 1st Here's the new years resolution you are signing up for:

- You have to endure at least [c=BF0000]15 minutes [/c]of a craving before it fades off. If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day that means 15 x10 minutes of endurance. For [c=005E2F]1[/c] day. So you will have to repeat this every day. No failure.

While feeling like absolute crap. And if you go cold turkey. Here's the list of symptoms.

- You might get head ache, nausea, yoget mood swings, impatient, irritated, feel extremely fatigued and energy-less, you might lose or gain appetite, insomnia, restless syndromes in your legs etc, you might get stomach cramps, aches and cold sweat and puke and shake and feel [u]really sick. [/u]

My dad quit cold turkey. He puked cold sweat and shaked with aches and pain and was really really sick for three days. He felt like he was dying , but he endured through those three days and after that , he was no longer addicted to cigarettes and never had a cigarette since. This is a very brutal detoxing.

There's a milder approach that I think most people should do. And that is dosing down and include setbacks for a set period of time.

For example. My boyfriend reduced down to two cigarettes a couple of weeks before he could reduce down to 1 and finally to 0. He gave himself a certain time frame that also allowed setbacks. Let's say two months. So if we had a fight one day or there was some horrible news or he was having a breakdown, he could smoke 1 cigarette and still be holding his promise to himself and not have failed himself.
Which is the most [u]important[/u] part


The worst you can do is sign up for something you realistically isn't equipped to handle. And fail yourself and your promise to yourself.

The best is to adapt the process to the time and endurance level you know for 100% you will manage. And go from there. From one small success to the next til you reach the big one.

If you feel nervous I think you have aimed a goal higher than you realistically are capable of succeeding.

Just food for thought.

I totally agree with @beermeplease. I have quit for years on end and I know that it's all down to willpower - you have to [i][b]really[/b][/i] want to quit. The brutal truth is that I've never seen the point of replacing one addiction/habit with another.

Don't quit cold turkey.
Your body and mind are linked to a drug dependency.

Quitting anything cold turkey affects your body and mind in a different way. Its not a clean break, because whatever you quit this way will just be replaced by another dependency.

Work out the number of Cigarettes you smoke in a day.
Keep that exact number in one place.
As you smoke leave a slightly longer stub than you normally do and leave them in the ashtray.
This way you can see your 'progress'...or not as you go.

Same is true for any habit.
Booze; chocolate; weed; sugar; etc.
You're no going to accomplish it in a week, it will take time to ween your body's need off the substance You're addicted to.

I want to quit on New Years day too! All of this advice on your thread is helpful....Maybe secretly I could quit cold turkey this week without telling my family to get ahead of the game! No matter how much I absolutely love smoking, I really need to quit urgently. God bless you on your success on quitting, may it go well for you!

If your mind is made up to quit it's a breeze. Same with drinking. Wish you well

I quit April 7 2013 cold Turkey in house full of smokers

Yay you can do it!!! Will be good for you 🙂

rephrase your statement, don't say try or attempt.
say "your name" (not I) will quit smoking on January 1.
when your mind is right, your actions will follow.
good luck!

please just do it. i did 15 years ago cold turkey. best decision i ever made...unfortunately smoking is what killed my mom, and it was not a nice death....every time i see a smoker i think about how they will one day die from it. a massive heart attack would be welcoming compared to how my mom died. i wish you all the best and if i could convince one other person to quit then i served some purpose in life...

I want to quit on New Years day too! All of this advice on your thread is helpful....Maybe secretly I could quit cold turkey this week without telling my family to get ahead of the game! No matter how much I absolutely love smoking, I really need to quit urgently. God bless you on your success on quitting, may it go well for you!

U can do it. Smoking is bad. Un less its tire smoke

Just don't buy them anymore

You can do this!

I don't know of anyone who smokes through a cold with the coughing and the sneezing - so pray you get sick. I'm serious! That's how I quit over 15 yrs ago.

Good luck. I quit in 2001. After 3 days they say the physical dependency is past. Only psychological dependency remains. I didn't do it cold turkey. I cut back daily for over two weeks.

You got dis.

You can do it

Its a worthwhile effort. Remember, every single cigarette you dont have is good for your health.. And saves you in taxes..😷

No - but it might happen as an unintended side effect of something else I want to do...

Took me 8 tries before I could quit.

I quit cigarettes and coffee at the same time a long time ago.

This New Year’s resolution is to stop drinking beer.