What helped you quitting smoking?

Getting pregnant!!! I smoked for 21 years and tried to give up several times without success, I needed a real incentive. I found out I was pregnant 13 weeks ago and gave up immediately, i haven't touched one since. I still crave, that part hasn't gone, but I just don't smoke. I read lots of material about the effects of smoking on babies in the womb and it really gave me the kick I needed to stop.

The other reason is of course my own health!! i want to be around to bring my child up and see my grandchildren!!!

Setting a date and chucking out all the ashtrays and on that date.

Nicotine spray ( I was hardcore).

Working with the nurse at my GP - she suggested the nicotine spray.

Getting 4 weeks supply of the spray on prescription for less than the cost of 2 day's fags. It made me think how much I was spending on smoking.

People I knew were getting cancer in their 40s and 50s.

Installing QuitTime on my old pc

http://www.mwilden.com/QuitTime/index.html

Moral support from friends and family.

The first two days were the hardest for me.

I'd wish you good luck but I don't think you need luck to quit -

you can do it.

2 years 10 months smoke free. No longer an addict, no longer a slave to nicotine.

Getting help to cover both the physical and psychological addiction has proven to work best. That's why good courses or programs have a better success rate, particularly long term. The small drawback is that it takes a personal effort to commit and do it.

Other methods, such as sticking on patches, gum, hypnosis etc require somebody or something to do it for you - not so effective and easy to blame that "It" didn't work, rather than blaming oneself.

Heaps of free info and a great program at http://www.quitguide.com/

Ireland they had anti smoking ads on that were quite graphic ,like they showed an infected lung full of tar .also a brain that was full of blood clots and named the age of the people that died due to smoking was a wake up call

Eating sugar free jelly when i felt like i need a ciggie or if i felt like i wanted to do something with my hands. Another thing to do, especially in the first few days of quitting, is to go on a cleaning rampage.

I went through every single nook and cranny of my room and had a proper clean out, and chucked out loads of stuff i didnt need. Doesn't sound fun, but when you get into it you forget about smoking! And when your finished you feel quite good about it lol.

Hi, i gave up three months ago after years of smoking. I am on the nicotine gum. I started with the 4mg first for six weeks then it went down to 2mg. Although i am coping quite well, my only worry is trying to come off the nicotine gum as i still rely on it. I obviously feel 100% better since giving up, but it's not that easy believe me. It's to do with having lots of will power too.

Good luck if you are thinking of giving up.

I tried loads of times with patches even tried Zyban from the doctors still smoked Then i tried the nicquiten clear patches ( havent spelt that right ) and they worked for me i have been a non smoker for 17 months now

It took me three times to stop smoking and the patches,I'd been smoking for 52 years,anyway I did it in the end and that was three years ago.

Prescription drug called Zyban - been stopped for over 5 years now

Watching my next door neighbor dying of emphysema on her sofa whilst gulping oxygen. She died that week and I quit the following week.