doug, not a smoker but had a quick suggestion, ... lets say you pay $6 a pack of smokes and you smoke a pack per day.....get an old shoebox, tape it all up with electric tape so you cant open it and have small hole cut in the top, each day take that $6 you would spend on the pack of smokes and put it in the shoe box, when you have gone 1 year without smoking, open up that box and buy yourself something for your accomplishment...good luck:toast:
i quit cold turkey 6-7 years ago.
I would love to have a smoke right now... but not gonna do it.
what helped me was educating myself on why I wanted to smoke.
you're almost past the physical addiction, now you gotta get past all the mental stuff.
my head was programed to take a "smoke break" after I completed a task. hard thing to unlearn after all those years of doing it.
wish i still had the links to the websites that gave me good advice.
good luck
I would love to have a smoke right now... but not gonna do it.
what helped me was educating myself on why I wanted to smoke.
you're almost past the physical addiction, now you gotta get past all the mental stuff.
my head was programed to take a "smoke break" after I completed a task. hard thing to unlearn after all those years of doing it.
wish i still had the links to the websites that gave me good advice.
good luck
A new study finds that smokers who called a tobacco quitline were twice as likely to experience short-term success in quitting if they heard positive messages rather than negative ones, MedPage Today reported Jan. 8.
Researcher Benjamin A. Toll, Pd.D., of the Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues found that the positive messages were more effective in the short run, although the effects were not sustained, with abstinence rates evening out among the two groups after three months. "Multiple messages may be necessary for longer-term impact," the study noted.
The findings were published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
This article summarizes an external report or press release on research published in a scientific journal. When available, links to the sources are provided above.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/djp468
Researcher Benjamin A. Toll, Pd.D., of the Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues found that the positive messages were more effective in the short run, although the effects were not sustained, with abstinence rates evening out among the two groups after three months. "Multiple messages may be necessary for longer-term impact," the study noted.
The findings were published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
This article summarizes an external report or press release on research published in a scientific journal. When available, links to the sources are provided above.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/djp468
Smoke free and alcohol free for 9 years effective 02/21/10. Before, I was border-line alcoholic and 2 packs a day smoker.
Took a massive heart attack, hospitalized 2.5 months, at age 58 to get my attention. Have been a physical fitness nut ever since, running 4 marathons, 22 half marathons and countless 5/10ks. Believe me, I would have been a -950 dog to ever run a mile before my heart attack.
Don`t wait until you get a wake up call like mine to stop smoking!
Took a massive heart attack, hospitalized 2.5 months, at age 58 to get my attention. Have been a physical fitness nut ever since, running 4 marathons, 22 half marathons and countless 5/10ks. Believe me, I would have been a -950 dog to ever run a mile before my heart attack.
Don`t wait until you get a wake up call like mine to stop smoking!
