Here's how a friend of mine quit smoking

THEY JUST DID IT! Cold turkey!!

They got tired of the expense, the doctor's visits, the coughing and wheezing, the smell in the house, their mate's reaction to the smoke, yellow teeth, white tongue,getting sick all the time, friends not coming over because they couldn't be around the smoke, etc.

You can do it, too! Just make up your mind that you are tired of all of the negative things associated with this filthy habit, and that you want a better, smoke-free life.
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Cigarettes- BLECCH!!!

I haven't smoked a cigarette since 1973. I started back in the late '60's, mainly to try to fit in with the group whom I thought were the "cool girls", who smoked in the girls' bathroom in High School. Back then, there were no smoking areas provided for students. Possession of cigarettes could get you suspended for three days. Being caught actually smoking one could get you suspended for five days.

When I was 17 years old, my mother gave me permission to smoke in my room. This took the fun away, so I quit. I never really liked the habit anyway, and I hadn't learned to inhale at that time. So, quitting was an easy thing for me. My parents both smoked at home, and I was surrounded by what we now call "second-hand smoke". Funny thing, the 2nd hand smoke back then did not make me as ill as the 2nd hand smoke does now.

The cigarette companies must be putting chemicals into cigarettes to keep people hooked. If I sit around with a group of cigarette smokers breathing their noxious fumes for more than an hour or so, I am sick for two to three days. I lose my voice, my throat swells, and I feel nauseous. Cigar or pipe smoke does not have this effect on me. It must be come chemical in the cigarettes of today. I do not permit smoking in my home, despite some of my so called "friends" telling me that this is why they don't like to come over. If they can't respect my house rules, too bad! I guess they are not really my friends.

If I were President, I would make cigarettes illegal. They cause nothing but disease and death. I wish all cigarette smokers would just quit this filty habit right now!!

Some quit smoking techniques I have tried

I started smoking when I was about 17. I started smoking because my girlfriend smoked and kissing her tasted terrible, the only way to kiss her and it didn't taste bad was to start smoking myself. After a while, like most people I became addicted to cigarettes.

After a few years of smoking, one morning I woke up and reached over to turn off the alarm clock - instead I put my hand in a dirty ashtray. Needless to say that wasn't the way I wanted to start my day and I was discusted with smoking, so I threw away all my cigarettes and ash trays that very minute.

After a few years of not smoking I went through a real nasty breakup with a woman I cared about. I woke up the next morning hungover with half a pack of cigarettes left. I've been smoking again ever since.

I did try the patch at one point, but it simply wasn't strong enough when compated to the cigarettes, at least not for me. After a few days on the quit smoking patch I gave up and started smoking again. I tried the zyban to quit smoking too, but it didn't help at all, so I gave up on it too.

The one things that seemd to work good for me and was the cheapest tool I found was a small digital timer. What I did was set the timer to go off once an hour, when the timer wnet off I could have a cigarette. I followed that plan for about a week, and then set the timer to once every hour and a half, slowly weening myself off cigarettes.

After about another week, I switched to once every two hours, a week later every three hours. I did this until got got myself down to three cigarettes a day, one in the morning, one around lunch and one later in the evening.

I continued at three cigarettes a day for a couple months and after a short time I noticed that I would even skip a planned smoking time here and there. I got 99% of the nicotene out of my system and was quite conten with smoking only once or twice a day.

Sooner or later I'll quit competly, but I am still very proud of my progress!