health How Can I Quit Smoking?

[Lomachenko]

in my experience, quitting cold turkey was the best method to say goodbye to smoking. the gradual method of removing cigarettes stick-by-stick in my life wasn't working. i just had to shock my system into saying goodbye to nicotine

Agreed. This is what I did 7 years ago. After trying to quit for years. I was on a 2 week withdrawal right after quitting. Since then ok na.

[cloudsolv]

For me Nicorette (Nicotin gum) helped. I take 1 gum whenever I crave. I only used 1 pack of gums and after that totally no more smoking. Of course the biggest part is self-control and discipline. It's been more than a year now and still smoke free.

[Omg090]

I started smoking when I was 13 years old and I'm 25 now. I've been clean for 2 years already. Had my general physical exam and had a different doctor, after asking me if I smoked and told her how long I've been smoking. I was told "sayang" and was shown personal experiences with patients that smoked. Then and there, decided not to smoke anymore, just stopped it. No withdrawal symptoms, nadda.

 

What I can say, mas masarap nga talaga kumain, I can workout longer, better sex life and in bawas gastos since recently ang mahal na ng yosi compared sa naabutan ko na 25 pesos lang per pack ng Marlboro, so afford pa mag west lights or dunhill.

 

So para makapag stop mag yosi, need lang talaga yung "will" yung "gusto" mo talaga mag quit. Gagawa ka kasi ng paraan para hindi na makapag yosi.

Edited September 12, 2017 by Omg090

[woodshighlander]

psychological attainment and do another hobby

[skitband]

ako i started quiting by shifting to vape and then eventually nung nag vavape na ko i totally quit smoking and then later on i stop vaping by selling my mod after nun i totally quit smoking and vaping. easy as that

Edited October 15, 2017 by skitband

[Lukesolo]

For me, i quit cold turkey. After smoking for more than 20 yrs average

Ing abt half pack of marl red a day. Syempre mas marami nayoyosi pg umiinom. Been clean for more than 7 yrs now.

[Chulapeg]

In my case, I just kept trying. Madaming setbacks yan for sure pero you just have keep on trying. Nung una, days lng balik yosi na agad, tapos weeks tapos months... subok lng ng subok. pinakamahaba ko was 1 year... then kala ko ok na, biglang napapanaginipan ko na bigla. Ayun setback uli... pero subok na huminto uli... now mga 2 years nako di nagyoysi.

[Soo-yeon]

Imagine all the harmful effects yet you can't still bring yourself to quit? It means you have a really low EQ.

[Robmeister]

I've been a heavy smoker from 2nd year high school until after graduation. So bale 6 to 7 years I have been smoking heavily. On my 4th to to 7 year of smoking, I had a GF na smoker din so mas naging smoker ako, which is 2 packs per day lalo na pag nag iinuman mas masarap mag smoke so basically ang lakas ko mag smoke.

 

Then I had to enrolled to a GYM on Jan 2009 as part of my self health awareness. The first few weeks hirap na hirap ako, So my gym trainer asked me to stop and gave me the negative effects of smoking while going to the gym.

 

So I followed my trainer's instructions and literally, the next day, I stopped smoking. Stopped it like I was really a non smoker. No withdrawal syndrome etc. It is now 2017, I am a non smoker for 8 years. (I had smoked Medicinal bong pipes that you can order from some Arab restaurants maybe once or twice but it is not considered as a tobacco and it has health benefits)

 

The reason why I want to share my story from the beginning is to say that quitting smoking is not that hard. Sabi nila mahirap, yung iba kelangan pa ng rehab or therapy. Well for me that is B.S. Nasa utak lang yan at sa kagustuhan mo mag quit. Well I am a living proof ng from 7 years of smoking, the next day from 2009 upto present, I have never touched a cigar nor my lips has.

 

So sa mga gusto mag quit. Do it now, its not hard., its not too late, just focus and forget. it is fulfilling I'm telling you guys.

[Kevin Kwan]

Imagine all the harmful effects yet you can't still bring yourself to quit? It means you have a really low EQ.

 

i apologize, but that's not really a fair thing to say

as a former smoker i do not think my EQ changed from my smoking to non-smoking days

i feel healthier but emotionally i'm still the same person

Edited October 18, 2017 by Kevin Kwan

[Soo-yeon]

i apologize, but that's not really a fair thing to say

as a former smoker i do not think my EQ changed from my smoking to non-smoking days

i feel healthier but emotionally i'm still the same person

 

Paki-research na lang po meaning ng emotional intelligence (EQ or EI). Usually as we mature dapat tataas yun ability natin to control our emotions. Kaya nga may lumabas din na study na pag bata ka pa mataas na EQ mo, mas malaki yun possibility na maging successful ka financially ng mas maaga.

[Kevin Kwan]

Being a smoker has nothing to do with EQ; it has a lot more to do with subconscious programming from a smoking environment. If you have friends, family, and other support groups who smoke, then the chances are, you'll be a smoker too.

 

Whether or not you REMAIN a smoker, that's when "EQ" sets in. If you have a deep desire to quit smoking and live a healthier lifestyle, then you'll slowly find yourself distancing yourself physically from friends, family, co-workers, etc. who smoke.

 

I believe that the best way to quit any negative habit is to find support from other people who have the lifestyle you want. This goes for virtually any addiction. This is why a lot of ex-gamblers, ex-sex addicts, ex-drug addicts, etc. end up in Church groups because people there tend to live "cleaner" lives.

 

I've been through this cycle. I had many addictions until I started hanging out with other people. My addictions changed - from drinking to working out. From drugs to relationships. But once I stopped hanging out with positive support groups, my addictions returned.

 

Addiction is a part of human nature; it stems from the longingness to connect to something. For some, it's nature. For others, it's friends and family. For others still, it's God, work, or vocation. Smoking is just something that's not sensible for me. I don't want to end up in a hospital having undergone a triple bypass for atherosclerosis, or worse yet, lung cancer. That is a pain I would not wish upon my worst enemy.

 

 

thank you yerba_mate

i rest my case

[lawhandyman]

if there's a will, there's a way. just do it gradually so it won't be too hard.

[blue+george]

same on food and cravings. diet. have a max no. of sticks per day. then reduce it monthly. keep to your schedule. and as my old prof used to say... it takes 21 days to make or break a habit.

 

yun psychological feel na may stick ng cigar sa mouth and pag hithit ng cigar, well... tiis tiis na muna sa menthol candies... and drink lots of water.

[Kornholio]

Do a cold turkey when quitting to smoke...pero mind you dapat prepared ka sa withdrawal kasi ubo't sipon abot mo, then of course dyan papasok yung will power mo to quit and dyan din papasok yung temptations lalo na pagnag-iinuman kayo ng barkada mo.