My social habit has become a half-pack a day habit with recent work stress. I am going to get a box of patches this friday (I have f, sat and sun off and work from home on mondays so i figured it would be perfect timing). I was wondering if any of you who want to quit wanted to for some sort of accountability club? I have a hard time doing things alone and none of my friends are smokers and I am sick of hiding it and smelling like a freaking ashtray. Anyone in the same boat?
I got hypnotised, worked like nothing I've ever tried and fail with before. It's been 7 months and counting since my last cigarette. I'd suggest looking into it.
My (One Session) Stop Smoking Hypnosis sounded something like this. Now as you sink deeper and deeper relaxed, farther and farther down, all the sounds fade away in to the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. Listening carefully to the sound of my voice for all of the suggestions that I'm going to give you take complete and thorough effect upon you,mind,body and spirit.Relaxation,comfortable and cool relaxation.During this time you sink down deeper and deeper.You relax more and more, you enjoy life more and more,you feel more and more comfortable in every way and your beginning to loose the desire for tobacco in every and any form, for it's starting to leave and very soon you will be surprised and amazed to find out that you no longer require tobacco in any form.So,from this moment on,it's going to be very easy for you because you've lost the desire for tobacco in any form,at any time,at any place,under any conditions,in any situations.As you count in your mind from 50 to 1 you sink deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.Not only have you stoped smoking but you've lost the urge.You have reached an important fork in the road of your life today.I want you to imagine that you are standing at that fork.As you look down the road that leads to the left,you notice that it is a cold barren unfriendly road.This is the road of a smoker.This road leads to pain,suffering and early death. As you turn from that road and look down the road to your right,you see a beautiful road. The sun is shining brightly in a deep,rich blue sky.The trees are full of leaves and the grass is lush and green. This is the road of the non smoker. And as you begin to walk down this road you feel a warm gentle breeze playing in your hair.With each step you feel yourself feeling healthier and healthier,stronger and stronger. This road leads to a long,healthy,happy life. With each step you feel more and more alive, more and more convinced that no one could ever again make you go back to that other cold,dreary road of a smoker. You choose life, the long, healthy strong life of a non smoker and no one can ever change that. Congratulations, you are now a non smoker, and will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life. EMERGE
Thats about what my hypnosis was like, although mine was a group seminar and we all smoked our last cigarette during the hypnosis... during what was very close to what was described above we were told to smoke our last cigarette inhale and than cough it out... i was thinking "yeah right, I havn't coughed from a cigarette since I was 14! Its been 10 years, I'm not going to cough off a cigarette!" wouldn't you know I did...and so did just about everyone else in the room. It was a gross sound, the sound alone would make me want to quit smoking. I think people who go to hypnosis to aid them in quitting smoking really need to WANT to quit. I went into it thinking everything else I've tried has failed, this HAS TO WORK! I was desperate to quit smoking but couldn't ever do it, hypnosis is what I needed to get me in the right frame of mind to break the habit that I loathed to begin with. If you find one of the group seminars that I went to (they travel) I only paid $40... that's the cost of a carton of cigarettes if not less (depending on where you live). I also got a card so that if I feel I need to I can go to any seminar and get rehypnotized for free. Sounded like a good deal and it definately was.
awesome congrats! I quit cold turkey, without replacment thearapy Friday afternoon and haven't had one since...and it's Sunday afternoon here!!! I am sooooooo proud of myself but I still want a cigarette really bad... I am going to call in sick to work on Tuesday because I know that stress will push me to buy a pack and I think by Thursday it will be out of my system a little more.
Good for you! That is great! The first few days are the hardest to get through I think. Taking off work might just be a good idea to keep anxiety and stress levels down to a minimum.
What if you can't escape the stress? I'm a college student and when I'm not in school, I'm working. Ive been smoking since I was twelve, pretty common in our area and especially with the crowd I was in then. I want to quit while I'm still young and able to avoid the health conditions of long term smoking. Does any one else know of another way other than hypnosis? Like I said, I'm in college, so that means I'm broke and I understand that my addiction is costing me a lot of money in the long run. I want to find a way to quit without having to miss a few meals and still have heat Hypnosis sounds like a great idea and it sounds like it really works. I'm scared that I'll fail if I just quit cold turkey. My friends who don't smoke say just quit because they don't understand the addiction and my friends who do smoke (young and old) have tried many ways to quit and failed. I'm scared of failing.
Thank you so much for the support! I just wanna quit and never pick one up again. I have quit before but never this fast or without replacements. I am just determined and embarassed when I go workout and start coughing. I already can breathe better, I started wearing perfume again and I feel so much more attractive! Plus i feel like I really care about myself and i did a really nice thing for myself by quiting
The patch, slap two of those puppies on if you have to. Don't do the gum I was addicted to that for about a year and it tore my fillings and crowns off.
You're never going to know if you don't try. How does it go? "If at first you don't succeed try try agian" I think you can be much stronger than you think. Usually people surprise themselves with their strength. You just have to WANT to quit bad enough and BELIEVE in yourself. After all the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I'm smoking 10 year and stop when i read the-easy-way-to-stop-smoking-review.com Also, i give this book to my sister and several my friends. All they stops! It's really works. And it is easy! Good luck.
