smoking, dirty addict

[moondogg]

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If you can quit cold turkey, great. However, it is not the "best" way, if you want to define "best" as highest successful quit rate. As I said in another thread, there is a direct correlation between the number of different modalities used to help and the quit rate. Nicotine replacement, Zyban and counselling have an additive effect on the likelyhood of successfully quitting.

The single most important factor is a desire to quit. Most people who eventually suit smoking had at least one failed attempt at quitting in the past, so don't be discouraged if you don't succeed the first time.

And please, don't believe those who say that cold turkey is the only/best way, because they are absolutely wrong.

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Please provide link to your source for this. There are a lot of ways to define "success" when quitting, so I'm curous how much that research included the tendancy for relapse months or years later.

[Freerollin`]

I quit on Nov. 6, 2001, after 10 years. My method was to cut regular drinking straws into cigarette sized pieces and have a bunch of them with me at all times to chew on and draw on. It made me feel better.

The "fog" lifted for me after about 2 weeks or so.

[Losing all]

Try #2 failed, so did 3 and 4. You say no to that little voice hundreds of times a day, 1 yes and it's over. fast forward to today: I haven't had a smoke or a drink since Dec 15th. It hasn't been easy, things started to somehow get worse around week 3, but I think I've got it licked now.

I don't have much advice (really long walks and binge eating worked for me). I find this clean living to be for the [censored] birds, but I guess it's for the best. If I can do it anyone can.