30 Items We All Should Quit Buying, As Pointed Out By People In This Online Group

I've finally managed to kick them after 30+ years with the help of a vape. I know it's not a perfect solution, but it's the closest I've come. Hope to transition off of it eventually. Friend of mine just put his down after three years of vaping, coming off 40 years of smoking. You do need to spend a decent amount and get a good one though, the first couple I tried were useless.

They are using LSD to help people with depression with better results then the depression drugs. It has to be therapist led to actually work, but they think it works because depression is an "in your head illness" where you are stuck in one way of thinking but don't want to think that way. They are starting to study using it to treat disorders like anorexia, so I wonder if smoking will get treated the same way in 10 years.

Believe it or not, that mental/emotional addiction is actually physical. It’s the nicotine affecting your hormones, and making your body send signals to your brain that you’re going to die if you don’t get some nicotine into your system. If you can wait out that hormone manipulation by the substance, you can break your addiction, or at least be able to control it by adding motivation and willpower into the mix (maybe one day someone will develop a successful anabuse, without adverse side effects, for it). Thing is, the longer you were addicted, the longer it will take. Be patient, and keep your mind occupied with anything but cigarettes. I wish you success!

This will sound crazy but... Switch your addiction to something more positive with a similar motion. I knew someone who had the mental addiction, and the hand to mouth movement was huge. They started to eat lollipops. It sounds crazy, but for them it worked. Driving the car, lollipop with the windows down. Going outside on the patio with a lollipop. For them it worked.

Talk with your doctor about the drug wellbutrin. I quit "cold turkey" while taking it.

Try The Easy Way by Allen Carr. I smoked for years a pack a day and never thought I would ever be able to quit. Both my husband and I managed to quit after reading the book. No fear tactics and he actually tells you to Make sure you don't try to quit while reading the book. Good luck!

If you haven't tried the Alan Carr book/cd yet, do. A lot of people I know have quit with it. One had tried everything else.

Hope it will gone, Buddy..

Sometimes the subject of dependency can only be replaced with another dependency. Healthier dependencies can be chewing gum, mints, jaw exercises etc. I quit smoking while I was pregnant but picked it up again and it was hard to quit with my husband at the time being a regular smoker. After my divorce and picking up a regular cardio routine, it was much easier

I did it through gradual reduction, quarter-pack-per-day minus one, quarter-pack-per-day minus two...one week at a time. Got down to one cigarette per week and that was it, 35 years ago after being born smoking and picking up the habit in college.

My advice is to suck on a lollipop or to (if you're comfortable) masturbate with a vibrator. The dopamine hit is the same, but it doesn't harm your body as much.

I tried for years an years then got insurance and got Chantix, worked, a week later I was completely done with smoking, couldn't smoke without vomiting. That was a terrible week but well worth it. Has a lot of side effects but mine was only nausea. I recommend but really keep an eye on yourself and how your body is handling it. Smoked for 15 years, was trying to quit for 10, took one week on Chantix. Happy I did it, watched my dad get down to 70lbs then spend a week slowly suffocating before he died of COPD. Not easy to quit at all, it was killing my father (former pro-athlete and soldier) and he just couldn't stop even after decades of trying. I fully understand, feels impossible to stop.

Please keep trying Jenn. I did it, anyone can!

I have 30 years clean and sober. 26 years free from cigarettes. The thought of using or drinking almost never occurs and when it does it is fleeting. To this day I will occasionally get a craving to smoke and I actively have to clear it from my head... it's absolutely mind blowing how powerful and seductive nicotine addiction is.

My brother said the thing that helped me quit. He said, “I still miss it. I want a cigarette a couple times a day. When I’m having coffee after lunch, when I’m reading the paper. I want one. It does not go away. It helps me, now, 20 years later. I still want one. It helps me feel like I’m not failing, that I didn’t really quit. Say it out loud. It gets easier.

Switch to marijuana.

Its so hard. It took me a long time to quit. The hardest was the ritual. I didn't know how to just...do my day without it. Like going to bed felt weird without having a last cigarette. I did it by weaning off them slowly. I allowed myself, say, 8 cigarettes a day. Whatever, and whenever I wanted them but only 8. I'd set them out on the kitchen counter so i could see them dwindling. After a couple weeks, I went down to 7. A couple weeks later, 6. Eventually I was down to just one, and at that point I didn't bother because what was one cigarette going to really do for me. It was hard - and there was backsliding ("Ugh I just had a rough day, I'll go have one whatever" "Oh everyone at work is going out for a smoke.." ) And eventually I just let it go. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life. Keep trying. I never thought I'd be off them, I couldn't even remember what life was like without them. You can do it, and we ex smokers ALL believe in you.

Out of curiosity, what did they help you with? I've been interested in trying this myself.