Smoking

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Hey everyone. I'm 16 yrs old, and have been smoking for 4 years. I finally decided to quit, and I've managed to get rid of every last cigarette. I've been trying to find a semi-easy way to curb the cravings. I can do fine most of the day, but once the thought of having a cigarette enters my mind, I go nuts. Does anyone have a suggestion for any type of help. I appreciate all feedback.

gum, lollipops, cinnamin (sp) sticks, or wear a rubber band around your wrist, every time you have a craving snap the rubber band

I just want to wish you look on it.. I have quit several times.. I basicly quit a week ago... All I gotta do is go.. Eh.. Don't want anymore.. and thats it

at first when I only smoked for maybe a year it wasn't hard to quit. In fact I went well over 5 months without any, but once it got back in my head it was like a wave. But thanks for those suggestions, I think I'm going to try that rubber band idea.

I can't see exactly how the rubber band thing will work, i think it'd make your craving worse. Basically it would be an anchor, like when you train a dog when its done something good you use a clicker type thing and give it a treat, basically the dog associates the noise to getting a treat.If you do the rubber band when your craving the anchor will be the crave, so lets say you don't need a fag but you do the rubber band, you'll just start craving.You need to asociate the rubber band thing with something other than smoking. Anchoring is a phycological technique used to stimulate thourghts and feelings, the technique can be used to make you feel good too.An excersise you can try is basically picture a time when you felt happy and confident or something then when your feeling it flick the rubber band. You have to do it fairly often so the association takes place. Like with the dog and the clicker it needs to be done regularly to keep the asociation.Once you got the asociation covered and you then get a crave, then flick the rubber band and the feelings of feeling confident and happy will come rushing back. I'm just using the confident and happy thing as an example, since i don't smoke i can't think of a better asociation but generally people smoke when there lower than normal so its just an educated guess of what you could use.But you can very much anchor any feeling etc with this principal, it depends on what you wanna anchor.Also you can anchor lots of things to different things. Its a natural thing and we do it during social interactions. When you get touched in certain places you feel good don't ya, like if someone strokes your leg you get horny, its coz it's anchored very much naturally.I'm not gonna go into more detail but its an interesting subject to look into but if i do it'll just confuse some people.

Just a little update. Smoke-Free for almost a month. Woo Hoo!

Well done!

Cool.. I got addicted to cigs.. Was smoking for a week or two.. I had to have one everyday.. So i ran out.. havnt had one since sunday... First day sucked.. but then it was easy.. Bought cigars instead of a pack of cigs tho, I like cigars much much more... But these.. Can't smoke alot.. cause they cost more $$$.. so I keep them to a minimal... One a month...

Thats how I got hooked. You really should consider stopping. Also, technically, you're not supposed to "inhale" cigars considering that they have at least triple the amount of crap in it as cigarettes. But yea, bottom line, you may think its easy to quit because I know I did, but I always had to have one. My biggest test so far was just the other day. A friend drove me to school, and he had two packs of Malboros with him. He asked me if I wanted one, and normally I just say yea and have one (thats how I always get hooked again), but this time I said no thanks and that was it. I feel much better not having smoked it too.

i'm a ex- smoker, i still smoke occassionally but i try to think of something to get me through my urges. i tried gum but then i got addicted to it too. i have a addictive personality , i was also born addicted to all drugs except herion. my birth mom did drugs when she was pregnant w/ me.i graduated high school May 21st, 2004. i'm a miracle child, i was not suppose to live past kindergraten, that what doctors told my granma when she was in the delivery room .any suggestions what to do know?

LMAO AandC4evr are you addicted to posting the same thing in every forum too?

Havn't had a cig for like .. umm.. week? two weeks? I forgot.. I even have some.. I'm just not smoking them.

I threw out all of my remaining cigs over a month ago. I've been smoke free for over a month, and to be honest I feel so much better than I've ever felt. I get better sleep, can concentrate more, and have WAY more stamina and endurance than I used to. Quitting smoking has been the best choice I've made this year.

Good Job Daimon Link. My dad did the same thing, got drunk and started smoking again. So my advice to you is to stay off the booze for a while too. lol.

good job buddy lets see if you can make it a year

the ciggertets the have lots of crap are the ones those Amercan Trash ones like CAmel and Malbor. the imported ones like Dunhill and Export A are 100% Nautral High Grade Tobbacco. if you want a really good smoke get Djarm Blacks they are cloves and dont smell at all they are cloves. but stay away from cheep amercan trash ciggerets they are not even tobacco any more they are just fillers along woth 45,000 other ingreadents.
there is this kid at school who smoks 3 King Edwords and inhals them full force hell be dead in about 10 years if he keeps that up

any cig, no matter what kind it is, or where it's from is harmful for you

i knowbut who reall cares we are all going die of cancer at the rate we are destroying our planet. like the people in Mexiko and Chia they dont need to smoke they all ready fuck up there local environment so they have no one to blame but htem slevs same with the people of the middle east (not all but a good amount) they dump toxic waste in the water and are getting sick from their on fult, no one to blame but them selves who cares?! if any people are not happy with this then i am sorry i am very anti republican/big bussnes such as the oil & logging industries they dont care any one but them slevs and makeing a profet or gaining from what would be of big consiquecen 2 the other party. I know this is not a politc place just wanted to get this out i would make an ass of my self if i said it in person with people watching.

Hey..Pronatalist would call this progress!!!!

what does do you mean