I quit smoking cigarettes twice.
The main thing is to make yourself believe that smoking is the most disgusting thing ever.
I even quit for one month while working in a tobacco store.
That took some serious willpower but I did it.
When I worked there, I smoked so much because I could...it was a tobacco shop. You could light up anytime you wanted on the job. I eventually got to the point that I smoked so much, I burned out on them big time. I had to quit.
After about a month, the smokes started to call to me from the shelves...
They would say,
"Smoke us...you know you want to...tear open our packages, rip one of us open and puff away...doesn't our packaging and the logos on us look so tempting? Marlboro...Winston...It's easy...you can do it...Smoke us" They literally surrounded me.
I haven't smoked a cigarette since around December of 2001.
It was then that I switched to cigars and have been smoking them ever since.
Many people tell me that cigars are worse. Maybe, but I do not crave them like I did cigarettes.
I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. The craving was
always there.
Now I only have one or two cigars a day if any at all.
I smoke the pipe tobacco filled cigars with the plastic tips.
Phillies BlackMax:
But like I said, make yourself HATE smoking with a passion and after a week or two, the cravings will subside.
In my opinion, cold turkey is the only way to do it.
Forget that gum and those patches. Do it through sheer willpower. That way, when you do quit for good, you'll feel so much better about it.
I ditched cigarettes for good. (too bad I replaced them with a similar vice)
They absolutely and completely disgust me now.
The secondhand smoke from them smells like s**t and I don't miss the ashy dirt of it all.
Even thinking about smoking one makes me gag.
Now, I have to get motivated to quit cigars.
I think it will take a complete lifestyle change to give them up for good.