re: How did you quit smoking cigarettes?

When I had success, it was patches. Don't try to hurry it until you get to step 3. One day you will wake up and forget to put a patch on, that's when you know you're done. The next 2 weeks are a little stressful, but you'll be fine if you make it that far. After that, never let a lit cigarette touch your lips because you'll be right back smoking like you never quit.

Cold turkey, 01-11-2011. Was pretty miserable for about a month or two stayed out of bars and places where smoking and drinking used to be hand in hand. finally don't think about it after about a year but it's funny when you're standing in a convenience store line and you're thinking do I need smokes? I did gain some weight...food tasted better my sense of smell got so much better. I figure the money I've saved since I quit is substantial.

Make it a point to stop smoking outside of working hours (in other words, never smoke at home). Since you don't smoke a ton, you should be able to pull this off with relatively minor cravings for a week or two.

You have to commit to this and be strong willed, especially if you've had a few drinks on a weekend or something. I once went 10 days without smoking because I was on vacation with my wife, and I had a solid rule that I never smoked outside of work. At work, I would smoke anywhere from 6-10 cigarettes a day. Had zero cravings on that vacation because it was just trained into my mind that no work = no cigarettes.

After you've got that mastered, you're gonna have to look like a douchebag for a while. Buy a quality vape system and pick some juice with the highest nicotine content. Puff it a few times whenever you're having the craving to smoke a cig. It won't kill every craving, but you'll find yourself smoking less and less until you may have a cigarette or two a week.

It's important to have the vape handy at the times that are most likely to trigger your cravings, i.e. in the car or drinking on the weekends.

Slowly you'll find that you don't even smoke cigarettes anymore, or you can go weeks without one.

Then, step your vape juice down to the next lowest nicotine level. Stay there for a couple months, use the vape when you have cravings triggered like usual.

Then step down to the next lowest nicotine content, then the next lowest, etc. until you're at 0%.

I've found that even at 0% nicotine, taking a few puffs on a vape will satisfy my mental urge when it's triggered - such as when I've had a few beers.

I still keep a vape around in my vehicle or somewhere handy, but I find that I barely touch it anymore. Also have zero urge to smoke an actual cigar or cigarette.

This is just how I quit and may not work for you. But it's been much easier quitting this way than I had ever expected or planned on. I also had smoked about a half a pack a day for 12ish years.

Didn't drink for a month. Found other things to occupy my mind. Went back to the gym to work off the anxiety.

Never really have liked cigarettes although have smoked my share. I do dip and should not. I was easily able to stop after spending time on the hospital for a week. Then stupidly started again months later.

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Just don't buy them anymore.

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This is actually a huge part of how I quit.

Just decided I needed to quit. Got a chantix prescription and after a week or so on the medication smoking didn’t do anything for me anymore. That was a couple of years ago and I don’t have any cravings for it.

Just didn’t buy another pack when I finished one. It was tough for a week or two, but haven’t really thought about it since.

That was 20 years ago and I’d been smoking for about 10 years.

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Every time you get the urge just beat off instead

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A pack a day for a month and his forearm will look like The Rock's.

I smoked from about 16-38. I hate to break it to you, I still have cravings 20+ years later (less serious though). To me, nothing beat a cup hot black coffee and a cigarette. That’s my vice.

That said, peppermint candy was my replacement. I’d go through a bag a day the first couple of months