you could lock yourself in a room and pee in glass jars for six months.....

keep busy!, don't give yourself time to think, cause then you may start thinking about ciggies, and tire yourself so when you go to bed, you basically fall asleep so then you dont have that little period where you think well you are trying to knock off at night.just dont let yourself grab another one, i know its alot harder than that, but thats what i did :).

also to anyone that maybe thinking of starting don't!. especially if you are really young like i was. not good

oh yea, i just remembered, this isn't wholey related to the whole quit smoking thing, but it's enough to put anyone off sharing cigarettes.....

because of those glorious things called "cigarettes" four girls at my school are currently in hospital with suspected meningitis [two actually have it], which means - that if one more girl goes into hospital, then the whole school has to go onto antibiotics to kill the bug, which isn't an easy feat really...1200 + girls being issued with drugs....fun....i couldnt' donate blood on tuesday because of this - i've been waiting to donate for 2 months.

moral of the story: cigarettes suck. don't smoke them.

M theory is: The only way you'll ever give up is when you REALLY want to... it's easy to START quitting, but then you keep changing your mind - and then you think about it too much - then you need it more and MORE until your doing it twice as much!!!!! I gave up for three whole days to the second - then couldn't bare it anymore (not to mention my friend purposely blowing smoke in my face) The only thing that helped was the fact that my ex and his (boy)friend (swear they luv eachother) refused smoking within a metre of their house and i spent heaps of time there - but as i said AGES ago (sorry) it'll happen when your body FINALLY accepts the fact that it has to go without for once! :-)

I quit in August, after ten years of smoking. I just decided it was time. The first few days were kind of tough, but I got over it, and I'm at the point now where I can even go to bars and drink it up without wanting a smoke. Here's how I was successful:

1. As I said, it was time. I'd made the decision to be a quitter, and that was the most important step.

2. I went to my doctor and asked for her recommendations. She asked me questions about what type of smoker I was, and we outlined a plan together. She gave me a prescription for welbutrin (a xyban knockoff that was covered under my insurance plan). The welbutrin replaces the dopamine that nicotine supplies to your brain, making it like methodone for smokers. Make sure you get a 2 or three month prescription at least, so that it has enough time to build up in your system. It cuts the craving part, the physical addiction, and it seriously works.

3. Anyone who's a smoker knows, though, that it's not the physical addiction that gets you --it's the _habit_ of smoking, the oral fixation, the "I always smoke when I drive, and I'm in the car so I must smoke" kind of thing. It's the mental patterns we create around smoking that make it very hard to quit. So my doctor sent me off to a hypnotherapist (which isn't covered by my insurance, but luckily for me I have a good friend who does hypnotherapy and offered to do it for free). A good hypnotherapist will find out what your patterns are for smoking, and help build your resolve for breaking them. It may take 3 or 4 sessions, but it works.

4. Given all of this, there were still times when I just wanted a cigarette. After my quit date, I still had maybe two or three cigarettes a week for the first few weeks, but since I smoked menthols, it was easily replaced by cough drops or strong mints.

Well, that's the plan I used. Above all else, I'd recommend talking to your doctor and setting up a plan of action if you really want to be successful. Doctors generally want you to quit smoking, and will do everything they can to help.

I tried to quit a few times. The I gave that shit up.

I've worked out that I just really like to smoke. So why would I deny myself this pleasure. The goods outweigh the bads at this stage - I may feel different when a lung fails... but I'll leap that hurdle when I come to it.

1) try an alternative like chewing gum everytime you wanna smoke.

2) i've heard putting tea leaves in smokes are enough to put people off smoking.

3) call the quit line

4) sign up to for "quit smoking" messages on your cell phone.

i smoked for over 7 years.
for 3 of those years i was 20+ a day.

i don't wanna sound like an infomercial here but i read this great book called "Alan Carrs Easy way to stop smoking".

i didn't even believe that a book could cure me but i read it anyway and it reversed all the psychological conditioning that i'd been brainwashed with over the years.

for only 25 bucks from whitcoulls or where ever it's way cheaper than patches (which didn't work for me when i tried on them - though i agree with NGEddie that the dreams are pretty fuckin' ace).

it's a real easy read - you could finish it in a day if you were an average, motivated reader.

free yourself. don't be a slave to the nicotine demon.