How do you stop smoking when you have been told you are dieing from it ??

Set a date 4 months into the future and say you will not smoke until then. If you still want to smoke then, take it up again.

After 3 months you will find the craving has vanished. This worked for me. I wasn;t going to spend the rest of my life craving a cigarette. Nicotine patches help some. But the important thing is to not smoke at all while you are giving up. Throw them away now, and if you want, take it up again in 4 months.

My mum died of smoking related causes, and she was still asking people to take her outside for a smoke while she was in palliative care. Don't end up like her, it is not a pleasant way to die, and not pleasant to watch it.

Okay, you may not believe this, but I smoked at least a pack and a half a day of Newports and I've quit!

I started by doing the patch thing. I'd go all week and then I'd go back to it!

Finally, I stood in the store and said No More will I do this!

Jesus is THE reason I'm not smoking anymore!

The whole craving thing was gone! It would creep up, but would go away as soon as it came!

If you've never done it, pray for help!! It might not stop you on the first round, but it DOES work!

FYI, previous to this; I did the whole hypnosois thing and everything else!!!!

SmokeAway® - A product that seriously works. My sister was able to quit in 2 weeks. I believe nicotine is not the only thing keeping smokers from lighting up. I believe the drug acts as a central nervous system depressant that "calms" one down and for that reason, many rely upon cigarettes to survive day by day obstacles. I may be wrong but this is what it seems. Give that a shot if everything else has failed. I'm confident you can do it. Good luck

Ok, honestly. If you have been told that you are dying from smoking, isn't that enough of a deterrant? Think about your husband, sons and granddaughter. Are you willing to trade your time with them just to light up?

Nobody said quitting was easy, but you need to make yourself do it or you will die. I'm not sure how you can know this and still smoke. Try anything you can, the patch, the gum, therapy, rehab, counseling, hypnotism, anything is worth you saving your own life, isn't it???

I feel you. I am having problems stopping, myself. It sounds like you've got all the reasons in the world to stop, so there's no issue there. I can tell you this, though. If I don't buy cigarettes, I don't smoke them. It's just like with junk food - if I don't buy it at the grocery store, I don't eat it. I know it sounds stupid, but if you have them around you will smoke them. I would try my best to not get them in the first place. I think that's where the real victory is.

useing a comination of Zyban and the patch work well.

When asked why you smoke, you might have said, "I just like to smoke!" or "It's my choice to smoke."

The tobacco companies have promoted the idea that smoking is a matter of personal choice. As I see it, there really isn't as much choice as they have suggested to their customers.

Ask yourself, and be totally honest: Am I addicted to tobacco? Am I truly making a freely made choice when I smoke?

You might consider that you need to have a cigarette. Studies have shown that nicotine addiction is as hard to break as heroin or cocaine addiction.

In Nicotine Anonymous' 12 Step program, which sprang from the venerable Alcoholics Anonymous program, the first step is admitting to yourself, "I'm powerless over tobacco." Making this admission may seem trivial to you, but for many it is a very significant part of completing the journey to becoming a non-smoker.

By telling smokers that smoking is a personal choice, the tobacco industry has helped to keep its customers in denial about the true extent of their addiction. If smoking is a choice, then what's the rush to quit? The tobacco companies have used this spin to help keep millions of customers buying their deadly products.

Admitting that you're smoking more out of addiction than choice will help motivate you to go on to the next steps -- taking control of yourself and becoming a nonsmoker.

This admission will further serve you by helping you stay smokefree later. In the months and years after you quit, when temptations to smoke occasionally overpower you -- and they will -- remind yourself, "I have an addiction and I'm powerless over tobacco." Saying this to yourself in overwhelmed moments of desire will help give you the strength to say no to "just one" cigarette.

If you can make it for just five minutes without giving in, the urge to smoke be controllable or disappear. In this way, you'll be able to stay smokefree for life.

When quitting, people who are the most successful at living life typically get help, and plenty of it.

For example, they might read up on how to prevent illness, and go to the doctor when sick. In business, a businessperson will get a lawyer to write the contracts, a marketing firm to do the marketing, an ad agency to create the ads, an accountant to do the accounting – and so on. The fact is that people who are successful in life get help. Real men ask directions!

Sadly, eighty percent of smokers who quit do so without being in any program – and studies show that 95% of these self-reliant quitters fail, and go right back to smoking. It's the same rate of recidivism as with heroin. With a 95% chance of failure without a program, you may wish to consider getting some help this time around.

For those who have repeatedly failed at quitting in the past, it's comforting to learn that most smokers in fact fail several times before stopping successfully. Your past failures are not a lesson that you are unable to quit. Instead, they are part of the normal journey toward becoming a nonsmoker.

I certainly failed -- 11 times. Every time I failed, I lost a little more faith that I could really quit. So each time I quit, it got harder and harder to motivate myself to set a date. I had begun to feel it was hopeless.

My mission here is to restore your faith in yourself. You CAN quit. Even if you've failed several times in the past, understand that this is normal. You're not alone.

You need to get your resolve up, and try again. YOU CAN DO IT!

If that dosn't work crank down on the O2, your struggle to breath won't let you smoke.

Smoking is one of the hardest addictions to kick. This requires a doctor's supervision. Seriously. Either ask your doctor for advice on nicotine gum, patches, or other supplements to aid in smoking cessation, or go on the web. It CAN be done. Believe in yourself. You can stop smoking TODAY. You just have to want it bad enough.

If you have been told that it is terminal and will not get any better, then there is no point in giving up.

If you want to give up, just STOP SMOKING.

On the other hand, smoking while using Oxygen is dangerous. One day you will catch on fire.

Hey Nanny,

I think its not so easy to control/stop so easilly if u r addicted for something (like smoking). But when it comes on "Do or Die" condition, then nothing is impossible.

The easiest way can be chewing toffees/chewing gum/polo kind of stuff. I think replacing Cigs with such stuffs, can be helpfull, but chew it only when u feel like smoking.

And beware of not being addicted to any such thing in ur life ever.

Take care....cheer up...

Ashley.

Life is an incentive to make you want to quit. To quit you have to want to. That's the first step after that everything else is easy. Ask your doctor to help there may be something that he can give you. You can also try hypnotism.

I send the very best of luck to you and your family.