whats the easiest,most inexpensive way to stop smoking?
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Agreeing with the rest, cold turkey is the best. If you have the will to quit, and really don't want to smoke......don't.
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stop smoking without it \nyou don't need that  ,just be strong
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The most helpful thing I did was to reprogram my brain.... Instead of saying you are giving up smoking, say "I don't smoke". What you tell your brain, becomes the truth. Sounds funny, but it worked for me. You can also change some of your habits. If you always smoke after a meal then do something else to take it's place. Keep in mind that you are adding years to your life by achieving your goal.
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First, I cut down to about 6 per day. Then I just stopped cold turkey. I didn't tell anyone I was quitting until weeks after my last cigarette. That way, I wasn't constantly reminded of it. I worked in restaurants, so I acted really busy when the other people in the kitchen went out for smoke breaks. No one asked me about it for three weeks. Quitting was so much easier than I ever thought it would be. It's been two years. I haven't cheated, and I don't want to. I get sick much less often now, and when I do get a cold, it just lasts a couple days. I really support the cold turkey method, but you have to find a way to get cigarettes off your mind while you're quitting. Good luck. Someday soon, you'll be happy to know you're a nonsmoker.
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Many years ago when I desperately wanted to quit smoking myself, a friend gave me the following suggestion, because that was the way she quit herself, too. I did it and it worked. I will now tell you how.\n\nThere is only ONE sure-fire way to quit smoking and that is to become absolutely DISGUSTED by the mere idea of having another cigarette. When you can feel thoroughly repulsed by the thought of lighting-up, you're ready to replace the smoking habit with something better for you. \n\nSo how does one DO that, you ask? "how do I get THAT grossed out by my cigarette habit?" It's actually quite easy. Don't cut down on cigarettes at all, in fact, you have to increase your 'dosage' all of a sudden, all in one sitting. \n\nDo this in an enclosed room so there is hardly not much air circulation, have as many cigarettes on hand that you normally would smoke over the course of a whole day, and begin smoking them one after another. You cannot allow yourself to take a break from them, you must smoke them ALL - one after the other. The smoke should be allowed to infiltrate EVERYthing - your hair, your clothes, your bedsheets. Don't take a shower before you go to bed, don't change the sheets either - allow yourself to smell exactly what all non-smokers smell when smokers are puffing away on the vile stuff around them. You must give yourself the full impact of the disgusting odor - it is especially important that you can smell the stink of cigarettes in your bed pillow and your hair as you are falling asleep later. \n\nThat really ought to do it. Everytime you think about having a cigarette after this experience, you should feel a strong repulsive YUCK! come over you. This may seem rather extreme - and it is - but if you want to quit ...
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20 Quick Tips to Help You Quit Smoking\n1. Believe in yourself. Believe that you can quit. Think about \nsome of the most difficult things you have done in your life and \nrealize that you have the guts and determination to quit \nsmoking. It's up to you.\n\n2. After reading this list, sit down and write your own list, \ncustomized to your personality and way of doing things. Create \nyou own plan for quitting.\n\n3. Write down why you want to quit (the benefits of quitting): \nlive longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell \nbetter, find a mate more easily, etc. You know what's bad about \nsmoking and you know what you'll get by quitting. Put it on \npaper and read it daily.\n\n4. Ask your family and friends to support your decision to quit. \nAsk them to be completely supportive and non-judgmental. Let \nthem know ahead of time that you will probably be irritable and \neven irrational while you withdraw from your smoking habit.\n\n5. Set a quit date. Decide what day you will extinguish your \ncigarettes forever. Write it down. Plan for it. Prepare your \nmind for the "first day of the rest of your life". You might \neven hold a small ceremony when you smoke you last cigarette, or \non the morning of the quit date.\n\n6. Talk with your doctor about quitting. Support and guidance \nfrom a physician is a proven way to better your chances to quit.\n\n7. Begin an exercise program. Exercise is simply incompatible \nwith smoking. Exercise relieves stress and helps your body \nrecover from years of damage from cigarettes. If necessary, \nstart slow, with a short walk once or twice per day. Build up to \n30 to 40 minutes of rigorous activity, 3 or 4 times per week. \nConsult your physician before beginning any exercise program.\n\n8. Do some deep breathing each day for 3 to 5 minutes. Breathe \nin through your nose very slowly, hold the breath for a few \nseconds, and exhale very slowly through your mouth. Try doing \nyour breathing with your eyes closed and go to step 9.\n\n9. Visualize your way to becoming a non-smoker. While doing your \ndeep breathing in step 8, you can close your eyes and begin to \nimagine yourself as a non-smoker. See yourself enjoying your \nexercise in step 7. See yourself turning down a cigarette that \nsomeone offers you. See yourself throwing all your cigarettes \naway, and winning a gold medal for doing so. Develop your own \ncreative visualizations. Visualization works.\n\n10. Cut back on cigarettes gradually (if you cut back gradually, \nbe sure to set a quit date on which you WILL quit). Ways to cut \nback gradually include: plan how many cigarettes you will smoke \neach day until your quit date, making the number you smoke \nsmaller each day; buy only one pack at a time; change brands so \nyou don't enjoy smoking as much; give your cigarettes to someone \nelse, so that you have to ask for them each time you want to \nsmoke.\n\n11. Quit smoking "cold turkey". Many smokers find that the only \nway they can truly quit once and for all is to just quit \nabruptly without trying to slowly taper off. Find the method \nthat works best for you: gradually quitting or cold turkey. If \none way doesn't work do the other.\n\n12. Find another smoker who is trying to quit, and help each \nother with positive words and by lending an ear when quitting \nbecomes difficult. Visit this Bulletin Board and this Chat Room \nto find a "quit buddy."\n\n13. Have your teeth cleaned. Enjoy the way your teeth look and \nfeel and plan to keep them that way.\n\n14. After you quit, plan to celebrate the milestones in your \njourney to becoming a non-smoker. After two weeks of being \nsmoke-free, see a movie. After a month, go to a fancy restaurant \n(be sure to sit in the non-smoking section). After three months, \ngo for a long weekend to a favorite get-away. After six months, \nbuy yourself something frivolous. After a year, have a party for \nyourself. Invite your f
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I think you know very well that how to give up cigarette. i.e. strong will power.\nStrong will power..just spread your finger when you hold cigarette it will fall down..hahah..If you want any medical help try a nicotine chewing gum, definitely it would assist to give up smoking but it also required strong will power.
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You know its time for a change.  You can't just change this habit.  Its about how you are going to deal with the stress that comes up in your life.  You got to face your problems without running to some instant fix.  *the cigarette*  \n\nSecond, you got to take a proven route.  Look up Smoker annoyomous in your area.  Take the patch or gum.  You need someone that will support you in your tough times.  Maybe someone who also stopped.   When your tempted, remind yourself about the things  you hate about smoking.  So expensive.  The bad lungs.  Whatever reason you want to stop.  Remember it when your tempted
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First and foremost, you have to really want to quit for good; and you have to actually quit—not just cut back.  Set a date a couple of weeks in advance and mentally prepare yourself for it. \n\nMake a list of reasons why you want to stop smoking and keep it with you.\n\nIt helps to realize that most cravings last for less than four minutes.  If you can fight through the first few days, then the first few weeks (using toothpicks, peppermints, etc), you'll begin to notice days and even whole weeks without a craving.\n\nI would advise AGAINST the patch and the gum.  The long term success rate of those is extremely low.\n\nI've found Wellbutrin (Zyban is the same thing) to be the most effective craving control method.  After 6-12 weeks on that, I didn't need it anymore.\n\n16 months smoke free.\n\n//
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January 1, 1987 I had my last cigarette at 1am, after smoking a pack-a-day for over 20 years. Try the following. It will work. You don't even need good luck.\nLocal hospitals offer week-long programs to make you quit smoking. Then you'll need this trick to not go back to it: Just don't have that ONE CIGARETTE!\nPeople buckle under the intense urge for a cigarette and think that their problem will go away with one cigarette. But that just makes the problem go away temporarily, only to come back with a higher intensity.\nQuitting smoking feels like a loss of a loved one because to the brain it is just that - a loved one. So be prepared for the longing and the pain. Just endure it. It won't kill you. Actually, it will make you live longer.\nAdapt a new lifestyle i.e. eat fruits, go jogging, etc. Do whatever, but once you have gone through the week-long quit-smoking program, DON'T HAVE THAT ONE CIGARETTE NO MATTER WHAT. If you have that one cigarette, you fail and if you don't then you succeed. It is that simple. You do need that week-long program to launch yourself into the wonderful world of non-smoking though. \nOne more thing: you may need to keep the company of non-smokers for a while i.e. at least one year.
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This method works for me, I quite smoking 2 years ago\nand is the only money back guaranteed.\n\nGet the Facts\nEasyway, founded by Allen Carr in 1983, has the highest independently verified 12-month success rate (75.8% for a smoker completing the program) of any quit smoking technique and a 90% satisfaction rating. \n\nCompare Easyway to other methods and see for yourself why Easyway is called “The Cadillac of quit smoking methods.” \n\nThe Allen Carr Method\nHOW THE METHOD WORKS\n\nUsing psychotherapy, the method works in the opposite way to the “willpower” method. It does not concentrate on the reasons the smoker should not smoke : the money, the slavery, the health risks and the stigma. Smokers know all that already. Instead it focuses on why smokers continue to smoke in spite of the obvious disadvantages.\n\nIt is fear that keeps smokers hooked!\n\nFear the smoker will have to give up their pleasure or crutch. Fear the smoker will be unable to enjoy life or handle stress. Fear the smoker will have to go through an awful trauma to get free. Fear the smoker will never get completely free from the craving.\n\nThe Method removes these fears \nSmokers quit with the Allen Carr Method as happy non-smokers, not feeling deprived but with a huge sense of relief and elation that they have finally achieved what they always wanted….\n\nTO BE FREE!\n\nWhat about the terrible withdrawal pangs from nicotine?\n\nThe physical withdrawal from nicotine is so slight that most smokers don’t realise that they are addicts. What smokers suffer when they try and quit using other methods is the misery and depression caused by the belief that they are being deprived of a pleasure or a crutch.\n\nThe Allen Carr Method removes this feeling of deprivation. \nIt removes the need and desire to smoke. Once the smoker is in the right frame of mind and they follow the simple instructions, the physical withdrawal from nicotine is hardly noticeable.\n\nNo Gimmicks!\n\nThe Method does not use any gimmicks, useless aids or substitutes. No nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, tabs, inhilators or nasal sprays! No needles! No lasers! No drugs! No herbs! No shock treatment! \n\nThe Allen Carr Method is successful because:\n\nIt removes the smokers’ conflict of will. \nThere are no bad withdrawal pangs. \nIt is instantaneous and easy. \nIt is equally effective for long-term heavy smokers and light smokers. \nYou need not gain weight. \nYou will not miss smoking. \n\nMedical Endorsements\n\nA personal view from Professor Judith Mackay MBE, JP, FRCO (Edin), FRCP (Lon), World Health Organisation Advisory Panel on Tobacco and Health\n\n“I have no hesitation in supporting Allen Carr’s work. Many clinics use some of his techniques but it would appear that few do it in quite such a successful package.” \n\nCarole Johnson, Coronary Heart Disease Prevention Unit, Tyne Tees \n\n“his success rate was such that, when budgets allow, we continue to use Easyway for work with specific groups and individuals.”\n\nDr Anil Visa BSc, MBBch., FRCA, Consultant – Royal Hospitals NHS Trust – Royal London Hospital\n\n“I have observed the Allen Carr method at first hand and have found it to be very successful and I wholeheartedly support it as an effective way to quit smoking.”\n\nDr William Green, Head of Psychiatric Dept, Matilda Hospital, Hong Kong\n\n“It is a remarkable fact that Allen Carr, on his own admission a non-professional in behaviour modification, should have succeeded where countless psychologists and psychiatrists holding postgraduate qualifications have failed, in formulating a simple and effective way to stop smoking.”\n\nDr Martin Jarvis, Principle Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research \nFund and Reader in Health Psychology, University College London\n\n”...I am more than happy to testify to Allen Carr’s enduring involvement and to recognise the value of the kind of behavioural and cognitive support he provides.”\n\nDr PM Bray MB CH.b.,
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Have you tried the American Heart Association?  I don't know of a free program.  Talk to your doctor.  To quit on your own, ask yourself why/when you need to smoke.  Once you determine that, replace that with something else (not food), like walking, etc.  I wanted a cigaret at the computer, after my meals, or when I was stressed.  Good luck!
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you can try it cold turkey, but that is pretty hard....depending on how long you smoked for.  if you have the will power give that a shot.  i have heard a couple of stories about the patches giving people horrific night mares.  check out this site.  its from the Philip Morris USA site.  it may be helpful for you
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lung cancer\nheart deceases\njust stop smoking, no other way, all other therapies and stuff have for only aim taking ur money
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the question is How addicted are you? I gave up by reading the book How to stop smoking and stay stopped for good by Gillian Riley. I went to the smoking cessation clinic who prescribed me patches and lozenges. It was hard, i know someone who could stop for days at a time yet couldnt completely give up! It is hard yet its well worth it and four years down the line i can have a fag every 6 months yet its just not the same, yet im £1000 a year better off and i dont cough and wheeze in the morning and the numb feeling in my toes has come back. My ex is looking at having his legs amputated as the blood flow and oxygen dosnt reach his toes, still he smokes. the sooner you give up the better. if i can do it you can too!
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(m)\n\nScientists confirm that there are two ways of quitting: immediately or gradually. Filtrim uses the proven method of gradual nicotine "fading", which means that it helps you reduce your habit before you stop smoking for good. This is different than using the "cold turkey" method of quitting, a method whereby you quit smoking very suddenly ... and experience very unpleasant withdrawal effects and powerful cravings as a result. \n\nFiltrim changes how your cigarette burns and filters and actually cuts down nicotine and toxins. Cigarette by cigarette, you control and reduce what you smoke. You cut down on smoking until you’re ready to quit by progressing through Filtrim’s 4 stages. Go at your own pace, or follow our 8 week withdrawal program and spend 2 weeks per stage. Slow and steady is the name of the game ... Filtrim allows you to quit smoking slowly, step by step.
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http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page\n\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Persuade--People-Close-to-You-to-Quit-Smoking