HELP quitting smoking

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I have been reading posts on here for quite a while now, every so often someon will say they quit smoking. HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Those of you who don't smoke might think, well, you just don't. I am 27 and have smoked since I was 19. I have a three year old son who I don't want to pick up the habit from seeing mommy do it. I am in the wellness field and studying to be a medical massage therapist and I don't like the idea that my clients, who are coming to relax and potentially learn about their own health, would smell cigarette smoke on me. I want to quit, I know all the bad things in them, and due to them, heart, skin, lungs, the taste...I hate it!!! But....I can't quit. I WANT TO...but it is very hard. I have tried tapering....I have tried SF candy to replace, gum, visualizing, focusing, tried will power....but I will think "I won't have a cigarette.....(repeat)", and before I know it I have lit one and it is half

gone. I need to quit, I want to quit. Who has quit out there that has some little tips. My boyfriend (who LOATHES my habit) got me "Quitting Smoking For Dummies"....sorry, that didn't help.HELP!!!Jesica

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Jessica,

I have quit smoking after 15 years. I had tried everything...from hypnosis to the patch to classes to filters and I would say that every time I quit and restarted I understood more and more the power of addiction. So I truly know what you are going through. I think what really helped in the end (I haven't smoked in four years) was having the doctor put me on an antidepressant. I know that doesn't fall within the "alternative" part of this group but it really worked (please forgive me). There is a dopamine rush (or some type of feel good hormone release) that happens when you inhale nicotine. The antidepressant helped with the intense, long-term cravings. I eventually tapered off the antidepressant (after two years) and now I'm off of both. I can say now I really have no desire to smoke.

 

BTW, I also found that I had to cut ties with smokers. I started smoking in college where going to bars, working in a restaurant (in the 80s) and seeing people smoking were all around me. Seeing people smoke sent an automatic trigger to smoke to my head. Now, I hardly find myself in a position where I am with people who smoke and that environmental change helped a lot also.

 

I hope this helped you and best of luck!

Jennifer

 

 

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Jesica Van Den Heuvel

Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:25 AM

HELP quitting smoking

I have been reading posts on here for quite a while now, every so often someon will say they quit smoking. HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Those of you who don't smoke might think, well, you just don't. I am 27 and have smoked since I was 19. I have a three year old son who I don't want to pick up the habit from seeing mommy do it. I am in the wellness field and studying to be a medical massage therapist and I don't like the idea that my clients, who are coming to relax and potentially learn about their own health, would smell cigarette smoke on me. I want to quit, I know all the bad things in them, and due to them, heart, skin, lungs, the taste...I hate it!!! But....I can't quit. I WANT TO...but it is very hard. I have tried tapering....I have tried SF candy to replace, gum, visualizing, focusing, tried will power....but I will think "I won't have a cigarette.....(repeat)", and before I know it I have lit one and it is half gone. I need to quit, I want to quit. Who has quit out there that has some little tips. My boyfriend (who LOATHES my habit) got me "Quitting Smoking For Dummies"....sorry, that didn't help.HELP!!!Jesica

 

 

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Hi Jesica, Good for you.......you WANT to quit smoking, that's half the battle there. What helped me when I quit was using the patch for 2 weeks as well as having a plastic straw in my mouth to battle the hand to mouth habit as well. After about 1 week of using the patch I realized my smoking was more of a HABIT than an actual craving for a cigarette. It will help if you make yourself aware of your smoking habits and hiding your cigarettes in a drawer to make it inconvienent to just light up will draw your attention to the fact you want a cigarette. At that point you can determine WHY you want one and use a variety of methods to curb it. You could try writing down your reasons for wanting one and what triggered it, nervousness, stress, boredom, etc and find better ways of dealing with it or wearing a large rubber

band on your wrist and snapping it whenever the urge hits to remind the brain you don't want to be doing this. You can write yourself words of encouragement to tape on the mirror, or in a folded note carried in your pocket and view them often. I viewed my cigarettes as a crutch, something I needed to have with me at all times. I found for me it worked much better to just hide them and force myself to realize why i wanted one rather than just throw them out. When I found better ways of dealing with my triggers, the urge to smoke lessened and I was able to toss them out in the trash and never go back. That was 4 years ago for me and I smoked for over 30 years. You can do it too! Good Luck, Lynda Jesica Van

Den Heuvel <cre8ive1978 wrote: I have been reading posts on here for quite a while now, every so often someon will say they quit smoking. HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Those of you who don't smoke might think, well, you just don't. I am 27 and have smoked since I was 19. I have a three year old son who I don't want to pick up the habit from seeing mommy do it. I am in the wellness field and studying to be a medical massage therapist and I don't like the idea that my clients, who are coming to relax and potentially learn about their own health, would smell cigarette smoke on me. I want to quit, I know all the bad things in them, and due to them, heart, skin, lungs, the taste...I hate it!!! But....I can't quit. I WANT TO...but it is very hard. I have tried tapering....I have tried SF candy to

replace, gum, visualizing, focusing, tried will power....but I will think "I won't have a cigarette.....(repeat)", and before I know it I have lit one and it is half gone. I need to quit, I want to quit. Who has quit out there that has some little tips. My boyfriend (who LOATHES my habit) got me "Quitting Smoking For Dummies"....sorry, that didn't help.HELP!!!Jesica New Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC for low, low rates.

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Jesica,

 

There is a 60 day online study group that assists with helping you kick the habit God's way, it is free it is www.settingthecaptivesfree.com, they have all type of courses that we tend to battle with. Great scriptural reference references and a mentor to assist you as you journey through the class. I pray this helps you.

 

Lynn

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Jesica,

What I notice in your message is that you want to quit, you need to quit, etc. These are all future events that indicate that you and are all negative thoughts. The only thing that I have to offer is that you need to change your mindset. I have two different types of lung disease and never smoked. Last year, after a hospitalization one of my doctors hugged me and said, " I really didn't think you would make it." All of a sudden a light bulb went on in my head and I realized that I was not utilizing all the things that I had come to believe in. I was told I could not work and would have to go on disability. I applied and like most people was turned down initially.

 

When I got the second letter, I turned to my family and told them that I could not go on trying to prove to people how sick I was and still try to heal my body at the same time. Our minds don't work that way. I am creating a website and do have a few things posted already. One of them is the Affirmation I used to change my mindset.

 

As long as you think negatively you will continue to smoke because the more you think about it the more you want it. You have to rewrite your inner dialogue that you have with yourself in your head. I was on oxygen 24 hours a day and now I use it only at night and my health has improved to the point that my doctor (I changed doctors, also! I thought if he does not thinks he cannot make me healthier, he will not be motivated to use any of his knowledge to help me heal) has allowed me to return to work.

 

The Affirmation may seem silly and that it does not have anything to do with smoking or quitting, but you need to remove the "words" from you mind as completely as you can. Your inner truth knows what to do, it is just that you need to convince your conscious self that the "smoking self" needs to go away. By learning to let the healthy self come foward, your "smoking self" will begin to shrink.

 

The Affirmation is a self running slide show, timed to advance by itself. It takes about 15 minutes at the most. Watch it as often as you can and definitely before going bed at first. As you change, you will find that the words will pop into your head and do battle with the "smoking self". Do not get discouraged if you fall off the wagon once in a while, it does not mean you failed, just that you are experiencing a bad moment or self indulgence. There is no music or voice and it is best if you read it out loud to your self, it will help you focus on the words. Do not worry if you do not believe it at first, your inner self knows that it is true. Be in the moment. Don't worry about any time but the present. Those thoughts are just negative stumbing blocks that might or might not happen, so allow your "Healthy body" to come to the surface and you will learn that the "other body" ( that word is now gone) is now a remnant from your past.

 

http://challengeyourhealth.com/Afirmations.htm

There is only one Affirmation there. I thought I would be creating other ones but so far, one size fits all.

 

Believe in yourself,

Vivian Markley

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Hi, Jessica, I have a few ideas for you...the first is that you must quit cold turkey. If you don't, you will always be depending on that last cigarette. My dad quit cold turkey and so did my brother. Here is more help: Quit Smoking Altogether With Ice Cubesby: Junji Takano Many have tried to stop smoking, but most of them failed to do so, aren’t they? It’s because the brain of a smoker is programmed to request another nicotine substance just like the symptom of prohibited drug users. Here are methods of people who tried: Drinking cool water; deep breathing; drinking vinegar kelp; chewing mint candy; drinking hot beverage; physical exercise; brushing teeth and others. After they did these, they still failed, didn’t they? The reason why stopping smoking is so difficult is in the mechanism of the brain system itself. In the brain, the

information transmission substance called acetylcholine is present. When the tobacco is inhaled, the nicotine works in place of the acetylcholine, activating brain to wake up. Whenever you stop smoking(nonpresence of nicotine), the acetylcholine will inform to seek for smoking. However, this time, for sure, you can succeed to stop smoking. Here’s how:Do you remember when the flower is dying, and placing it in the cold water, will make it stand straight again. We understood that acetylcholine in the brain has similar phenomenon. We tried to wash face with cold water, and place an ice bag on the head and to the face. All of these have something to do to minimize smoking but not perfect. Finally, we tried to chew ice cubes in the mouth. And it was very effective. We can stop smoking, yet brain was clear. That’s it, so we came to conclusion. Whenever you want to smoke, just chew a piece of ice cube, then you can perfectly

stop smoking. After a week time, you will be a nonsmoker successfully. Tip: Carry a small thermojar with ice cubein it wherever you go. In the car, train, bus, or in the office, wherever you go, ice cubein a thermojar will do the trick. That’s all. Your brain is always fresh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A man said that lemons would work in the same way as the ice cubes: Philip Day, the well known health researcher, tells how he managed to kick the smoking habit. He carried around a bag of lemons all the time and when he got the urge to smoke, he sucked on a lemon for at least a minute. Within a month his brain had been reprogrammed to associate the craving with a nasy bitter taste and the cravings ceased ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another person said it is a good idea to drink a lot of filtered water every day to flush out the toxins from th enicotime. The less nicotine in your body, the less you will want to smoke. She also says to avoid eating red meat and caffeine which both contains taurines which spikes the urges to smoke. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many other smokers have used EFT to quit...here is more info and you can get started for free (one of the videos shows almost instant disappearance of the desire to smoke: http://www.emofree.com/default.htm Hope these help! Message: 2 Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:25:13 -0800 (PST)Jesica Van Den Heuvel HELP quitting smokingI have been reading posts on here for quite a while now, every so often someon will say they quit smoking. HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Those of you who don't smoke might think, well, you just don't. I am 27 and have smoked since I was 19. I have a three year old son who I don't want to pick up the habit from seeing mommy do it. I am in the wellness field and studying to be a medical massage therapist and I don't like the idea that my clients, who are coming to relax and potentially learn about their own health, would smell cigarette smoke on me. I want to quit, I know all the bad things in them, and due to them, heart, skin, lungs, the taste...I hate it!!! But....I can't quit. I WANT TO...but it is very hard. I have tried tapering....I have tried SF candy to replace, gum, visualizing, focusing, tried will

power....but I will think "I won't have a cigarette.....(repeat)", and before I know it I have lit one and it is half gone. I need to quit, I want to quit. Who has quit out there that has some little tips. My boyfriend (who LOATHES my habit) got me "Quitting Smoking For Dummies"....sorry, that didn't help.HELP!!!Jesica

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2 parts lobelia

1 part chamomile-

 

Both of these are available in capsules. I would suggest making a

tea out of it. Sweeten with honey or stevia. To help with

cravings. The EFT and teas worked for me.

 

 

-- In , Jesica Van Den Heuvel

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> I have been reading posts on here for quite a while now, every so

often someon will say they quit smoking. HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Those

of you who don't smoke might think, well, you just don't. I am 27

and have smoked since I was 19. I have a three year old son who I

don't want to pick up the habit from seeing mommy do it. I am in

the wellness field and studying to be a medical massage therapist

and I don't like the idea that my clients, who are coming to relax

and potentially learn about their own health, would smell cigarette

smoke on me. I want to quit, I know all the bad things in them, and

due to them, heart, skin, lungs, the taste...I hate it!!! But....I

can't quit. I WANT TO...but it is very hard. I have tried

tapering....I have tried SF candy to replace, gum, visualizing,

focusing, tried will power....but I will think " I won't have a

cigarette.....(repeat) " , and before I know it I have lit one and it

is half gone. I need to quit, I want to quit.

>

> Who has quit out there that has some little tips. My boyfriend

(who LOATHES my habit) got me " Quitting Smoking For

Dummies " ....sorry, that didn't help.

>

> HELP!!!

>

> Jesica

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Believe it or not, the world's most common weed,

plantain, can help with this.

 

I can't remember the name of the quit-smoking aide

that some doctor made from it.

But you can just get some dried plantain at a health

food store or from a herbalist and make a tea or

tincture yourself.

 

Do this, drink lots of water, and tap, tap, tap!

 

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