Originally Posted by
Metalbestos
Mick , any tips or tricks to kicking smoking? I have slowed down but after meals and while driving I always seem to want to light up. Just Curious if you went cold turkey or gum,mints,patch,hypnosis . Idk I have been preparing myself for this day . Sadly I do enjoy smoking for some reason . I think it really helps settle my stomach after meals or if fighting some acid reflux .
Cold turkey. Woke up one morning and started going on the computer. Lit up and said "this is BS". Put it out and never lit up again. I didn't keep track of the date but it would have been around the end of 1995. Went against all the popular "tactics". Threw away the rest of that pack and the nine packs in the carton I'd just bought. Threw out all the ashtrays (although I found out years later the wife saved one - as a memento, I guess). Told the wife on condition she not make a fuss and never mention my quitting to me. No patches, gum, groups or that crap. Patches and gum are just another means of getting nicotine into your system. If you want to quit - then quit. I'd just bought my acreage where I wound up building our house. I treated myself to an expensive chain saw as soon as I figured I'd saved the price of it (over $700 in 1996). Kept telling myself that if I started smoking again, all I'd gone through to that point was for nothing and I'd go through it again to quit. One piece of advice - find something else to do for those "triggers" (times that you'd usually smoke). Like I told others - it had to be when
I was ready to quit. People who kept harping at me just made me more determined to keep smoking.
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