Reformed Smokers

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

How did you kick the habit?
Cold Turkey
"the Patch"
Hypnosis
Quit Smoking Program
Other


I've been trying to get DH to quit forever, especially now that cigs. are $3/pack for generics. I know it must be hard, but there's got to be a way. I'm trying to take away the priveleges of smoking in the car or in the house, but he is lacking respect for DD and I by not abiding by my request.

We both grew up in households where both parents smoked. One of us chose to follow their path and one of us did not. Spare me the lectures about the unhealthiness of smoking and the diseases it causes. I want to know which method of quitting worked for you.

 

[RobinMarie]

Zyban!

I tried the patch, cold turkey, behavioral methods .. I needed drugs!

 

[preshi]

I got pregnant, I don't think that will work for your hubby though.

I am dying for a cigarette though. I think for everyone it differs and you really have to want to quit. It really is going to take alot of will power for me to not have one after the baby is born, I come from an addictive background and really never thought I'd be sucked in like that, it's really rather scary esp since 3 of 4 of my grandparents died from smoking related diseases.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I congratulate anyone who has been able to quit, it must be one of the hardest things to do.

That said, I don't have any "advice" for you but just wanted to say good luck!!

My daughter grew up in a non-smoking home, and she saw what smoking did to her grandfather, but at age 18, AFTER she graduated from high school, she picked up the habit. She's been married 4 years and her husband smokes as well. They are now trying to have a baby and I had hoped she would give it up before this (she had a prescription from her doctor and it helped some, she went from about 20 cigs a day down to 5!) but I think she's smoking more now. She says when she gets pregnant she'll quit. She knows I'll kill her if she doesn!!

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

I just went Cold Turkey - no drugs, patches, gum...

I got a really bad dose of influenza and had the worst chest infection I had ever had - scared me to death so I decided then to quit smoking (not that I was smoking when I was ill!)

It was tough but I did it - the only drawback was I ate more and put on weight!

 

[nana2tots]

I'm addicted and can't help it, i have tried everthing there is to try, anymore ideas???????disneykid
it calms my nerves!!!

 

[grinningghost]

My Dad, the most set-in-his-ways Archie Bunker-like guy on the planet, who smoked for 45 years, one day decided to quit. Just like that. Cold turkey.

If HE could quit - I swear, anyone can. It still shocks me that he's been a non-smoker for 7 years now.

 

[Kitty 34]

Accupuncture....worked like a charm and only took 2 visits. No quitting urges AT ALL!! Good luck to your DH.

 

[Dizzy-Disney4]

Quit cold turkey 4 years ago. Hubby used Zyban.

 

[RoutemanDan]

Zyban and the patch together,took a total of 3 weeks to quit.I was a two pack a day smoker for 20 years and have been smoke free for 1 year and 8 months.It feels great to be free!Good luck to your Husband,it's not easy to quit.

 

[Nick@ VB+OKW]

Originally posted by RoutemanDan
Zyban and the patch together,took a total of 3 weeks to quit.I was a two pack a day smoker for 20 years and have been smoke free for 1 year and 8 months.It feels great to be free!

Good job Dan!!

 

[candykisses]

I quit cold turkey. I had half a pack left when I decided to quit and never finished it.

It was really easy. I wish I could loose weight that easily.

My husband on the other hand was a smoker when he went into the hospital. He was there for 4 months and couldn't smoke.

When he came home he decided to stay a non-smoker, but he still would like a smoke from time to time.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

A friend of my had hypnosis done and she quit and stayed off cigs.

My hubby used 'the patch'.

A cousin used Zyban.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

A want to add my CONGRATULATIONS to all of you who have been smoke free.

He hasn't tried any method - hasn't tried hard enough I should say. there have been a few times when he's had a serious cold/cough that would cause him to stop short-term, but never longer than while he's been ill.

Even being broke, scrounging change to buy a pack , when he was looking for work High stress from job-hunting, sitting in front of the computer for hours, boredom...all reason he smokes. Actually - I think the ashtray has more of the cigarette than he does. He may go through a pack and half a day, but most of the time they are sitting in the ashtray - wasting money! He gets nasty if he's been without one for more than a half a day. He also has a caffiene addiction, , further complicating matters.

 

[joats]

Both DH & I quit cold turkey.

My grandmother recently quit cold turkey after 60 something years of smoking. I believe that if she could do it, anyone can...I thought I'd never see her smoke free.

If you want something bad enough, you just do it I suppose....now, why can't I get the weight off using this philosophy?

 

[helenabear]

Cold turkey and one really supportive friend

 

[Dan Murphy]

Cold turkey, about 32 years ago. I had been smoking from age 14 or so to age 28, up to 2 packs a day. Tough for a couple weeks, now I abhor them.

 

[Serena]

A 70 yo man, a friend of mine, got a cancer scare. Luckily it wasn't cancer, but he quit cold turkey. It scared him so badly he never touched another cigarette. This was at 70.

 

[dvcfamily41801]

November 6, 1996 I had been married not quite a month yet and I called my DH and asked how old do you have to be to have a heart attack (I was just 27). I drove home from work and lit up what turned out to be my last ciggarette. Ended up going to the ER and they thought I had a blood clot in my lung and asked if I was a smoker and I was. As it turned out, I had pnemonia (sp?) but it was a very very scary couple of days.

It was a very long week when I got out of the hospital, I was not allowed to go out or do anything and being home in the house was so hard (I did not smoke in the house, but was climbing the walls)

I still have a ciggarette taped to my computer at the office from my very last pack. It has been moved so many times that all the tobacco is out of it, its basically just a piece of paper.

Do I miss it...yes, sometimes I even dream about it. But it was such an accomplishment I am very proud of myself as well as all the others that were able to give up such an addiction.

 

[Mishetta]

I lived in So. Calif & hardly anyone I knew smoked, so it was a 'bad' thing to be smoking...so I decided to quit. Well, it was too hard to go cold turkey (I tried) so I decided to ween myself off. I went from a pack, to 18 cigs per day, then 16 cigs per day, I did this for one week at a time till I was down to 3 cigs per day & I just couldn't cut another one out. So I just decided it was TIME...and I had those 3 remaining cigs in my glove box for years.

What really helped though was my own "behavior modification." First off, it was during that time that it become restricted from smoking at work (that was a great thing to help me). Then I noticed that after dinner I had to have a cig, so then I started to walk....right after dinner, I immediately left the house & walked & walked & walked as fast as I could. Also, I had to have a smoke while talking on the phone ~ so hardly spoke to anyone at great lengths anymore. (All my friends knew I was trying really hard.) I also used to love a smoke with my coffee ~ so I cut down drastically on coffee! Just gulped a few sips at breakfast time & that was it.

The key factor here was that I really, really, really wanted to quit. It didn't matter how much my Mom or any loved ones were on my case...it just made me want to smoke more.

Sorry so long but have something else I'd like to mention. My Cousin's wife (who's the sweetest thing you'd ever want to meet) has a beautiful 8 y/o daughter & she has smoked like a chimney for years & years. She has been diagnosed with emphazema & was told to quit smoking immediately. She just couldn't do it. Well, now she's in a motorized wheelchair & on oxygen 24/7. The doctors give her one year, max. Same story for my FIL but at least he's older. Very, very sad.