It can be done and easily.
I have spent years trying to give up and have tried every nicotine replacement going under the stop smoking clinics in fact in desperation they even combined two replacement things but I always failed miserably and often only managed 2- 4 hours without a ciggarette.  I have no will power whatsoever.
Every older member of my family has died of heart disease and my father has emphasema (sp) but still this didn't scare me into giving up.  My breathing was bad and wheezy and I was getting chest pains but still i couldn't stop.
I had been told I had a true nicotine addiction as I couldn't function in the morning till I had my first ciggie and would get out of bed and straight down and out the back door in my dressing gown whatever the weather to get my fix.
Then I heard about this book written by Allan Carr (not the comedien) called The Easy Way to stop smoking.
To cut a long story short I read it and now havn't smoked for 2 weeks and have no desire to smoke again.
It works on your mind and you realise it is nothing to do with nicotine withdrawl just your mind, and how you must never think you are giving up smoking as humans immeadietly crave something if they think they have to give something up.
He also says never use nicotine replacements as that just prolongs the suffering.  If you do it his way he says within 3 weeks even the hardest nut to crack will not really be thinking of having one anymore.  I have to say within 2 weeks I don't think about them hardly at all maybe once a day and even then I don't want one.
He also does seminars if you struggle with the book and he is so confident his method works you get a full money back garruntee if he fails to stop you.
It really has worked for me an been very easy to do.  You may say its only been two weeks but I don't crave and don't want a ciggie at all and thinking the way i do now I know I never will.
Honestly if you want to stop this really is a quick easy way to do it.

Woohooo way to go Bev!!! :-D  Keep it up, bloody brilliant!!!

My sister and her b/f read the book last year and the same worked for them. I read the book and nothing..

BUT i've done it by going onto the inhalator, tbh I got the stuff walked out of the shop and could smell the stench of smoke everywhere, yuck!!!
I didn't use anywhere near the amount you're supposed to with those, went on holiday with 2 non smokers and forgot about them.

I do crave every now and then, more when others are smoking really. I carry the inhalators around with me and sometimes feel the need for a puff on them every now and then..
Been 233 days for me, and the NHS website says I have saved £716 so far.

If you have an Iphone there is an NHS smokefree app which keeps tabs of the days you've been smoke free and also calculates the money you have saved too...

Well done!!  Really admire you!! :-)
Since becoming pregnant i have given up smoking and although i only smoked a few a day i really really miss them. Was ok and manageable for a while but now (at nearly 6 months pregnant) i am practically chasing people down the street if i can smell them smoking. I really hoped that after 9 months of not smoking i wouldnt go back to it once the babys here but i have a horrible feeling the first thing i will want to do once bubbas out is sit with a cup of tea and a ciggie which i know is stupid if i have gone so long without. perhaps i should get the book and read it too

I gave up smoking 4 years ago as I was having major surgery, I joined a quit smoking group and used Zyban tablets, they were brilliant, after a week and a half I didn't want a ciggy couldn't stand the smell of them.
My hubby still smoked and I hated him, didn't want him to sit next to me.
Then after 4 months I longed for one, I was miserable, lonely I felt like someone had died, my best friend something in my life wasn't there anymore,
I put on weight I was really low, you are right its all in the mind.
I did start smoking again after 5 months and do regret it.
I am planning to quit again new years eve, I am going to prepare more this time, I will get the book and Inhalater and hope it works.

Anyone else want to give up too? we could all support each other.

Lynn

P.S Well done all of you that have done it, Be proud.

Well Done bevb!
I've tried to quit a few times and I managed to quit for about a year by just stopping and telling myself I could have a ciggy any time I fancied but not actually having the ciggy. One day I just decided to start smoking again, not sure why (silly) and havn't really fancied stopping since, I'm remembering the book title now in case the urge to quit strikes again!

i havent smoked for a year now ( have given up and started many times before) but i agree its in your mind. you have to be in the right mind to WANT to give up. only YOU can do it. i always go cold turkey, its the only way for me

He does say in the book if you use nicotine replacement it just prolongs the nicotine withdrawl because you are effectively still cutting down and dragging it out.
Wheras during the night your body actually becomes nicotine free and you don't wake up with nicotine cravings while you sleep, so its all in the mind and just habit not your body craving anything.

That's fantastic well done Bevb you may just have given me the push I needed to get the book off the shelf and read it.

Good luck norman and anyone else giving it a go.

Don't try to stop before you finish the book, in fact it was 3 weeks after I finished and after another skim through it I stopped.
I also had to time running out of cigarettes right as well. I couldn't bear to throw any away, and I couldn't stop halfway through a day, so I had to keep smoking until it worked I ran out of ciggarettes as I had my last one at night. Daft I know but thats what worked for me.
I saw the stop smoking nurse doing her shopping the other day and she stopped and asked how I was and if I was ready to attempt again to stop. I told her I had stopped and she nearly had heart failure. I told her I used Allan Carrs book and she said she had heard it was good and very succesful.
Think she was pleased she could finally tick me off her failure list.

My sister read this and cured herself too.
Fantastic news and well done you  :) :) :)

Well done for you success.

I was the same as you, could go out in -10 lol to get my fix and nothing worked.  like you the patches made me worse.

I had hynotherapy and have not had a ciggie for nearly five years and no incling to try one.  I never thought I'd succeed and had loads of failed attempts.  The books don't tell you ill it makes you when you stop as your body adjusts to things.  i didn't get the bad chest though.

When i stopped i could smell ciggies/smoke at a 100 yards which i found quite amusing.  Even just from a window being open up the road.  There were some people that stunk of stale smoke which was horrid.

I have been well over a decade- don't miss it.... Mind you we/I have quit many times, hubby and I would roll smokes and he started leaving me less and less- eventually I quit and thought he did to until I found his stash- was suppose to be quit by the time we moved to our new house 8yrs ago

Hubby now has finally quit- he used The nicorette inhaler and it actually worked  http://media.well.ca/images/large/products/nicorette-inhaler_1255984270_LRG.jpg - he tried cold turkey, gum, patches ect nothing worked- I think because it gives you something to do with ur hands and the motion of putting something into ur mouth- he found he wasn't adding in new cartridge each time it ran out after a bit- eventually he never bought anymore and stopped carrying around the lil inhaler... here's a good picture and explanation about it: http://www.nicorette.ca/stop-smoking/products/inhaler.aspx

Congratts!! :-)

hi dollface,
did your hubby find it made his throat smart and make him cough?
i was a social smoker,20 on a sat night and that was it,then when i moved in it was 20 a day!Gave up when i was pregnant both times,but took it up within 8 weeks of each birth.im 29 now and fed up smoking,i actually dont tell my doctor i smoke,i did once,got a huge lecture and that put me off,i smoke outside,about 10-15 unfilltered roll ups a day,i am getting fitter with long dog walks and the wii fit but cant give the fags up,i tried zyban ages ago and hated it,tried gum,tried cold turkery,but the side affects were terrible,i was so so dizzy.I am fed up coughing in the morning,stinking like an ash tray(use alot of perfume and gum)i am also fed up being scared of getting cancer etc,i bought the inhalator to help me cut down(which i have)but it really smarts my throat and i cough like hell using it,is it normal and did your hubby find that,i thought if i persevered and just stopped the fags,would i get used to the inhalator and the coughing stop,it does work as i can feel the nicotine kicking in,i dont think i have a true addiction like my partner,he has one as soon as he is out of bed,if i did that i would be sick,also if i am ill,i dont smoke,where as he will
anyway,hope you can help lol
jo

> but it really smarts my throat and i cough like hell using it

Jo,
When you give up it often can cause a nasty cough and throat to start with whether you use aids or not. To start with it wasn't the most pleasant to use, but i quit and went straight onto these rather than wean myself off, maybe that is what you need to do. I wouldn't do the smoking and the inhalator at the same time. I had a puff on mine the other day and it really caught my throat and even though I needed it for habit's sake I knew that I didn't from the addiction side of things.
Do it, I said that I was going to quit before I was 30 and did that this year, my friend said the same before she turned 40 and did it this year too. She also has used the inhalator and its working for her, but she never mixed them together.

suejaw,when using the inhalator,do you suck it into your mouth and then inhale or just inhale as if on an asmthma pump,i tried the second one and golly gosh,my head was spinning and i nearly forgot how to breathe,flaming hell,more fun than fags this is !!!!

hi dollface,
did your hubby find it made his throat smart and make him cough?

Yes he found it harsh at first- but got use to it after awhile- said it was the best thing they thought of- he doesn't buy them anymore :-) so well worth it... He stopped buying cigerates and only bought these so he never mixed it. What he also liked about it was he could use them indoors lol so never had to go outside for a smoke and could have it anywhere lol but glad to say he is smoke/inhaler free now and I love it, so does he :-) Def was his choice I never got on him about it cause felt to quit smoking had to be something he wanted to do not something I wanted him to do...

Best of luck :-) Hope it works for you...

Hi Jo,

Just inhaled it like I did with a cigarette, have no idea about the pumps, but I guess they are really deep breaths on it? But no puffed away as I would a normal ciggy. Apparently you were supposed to go through mn of 6 cartridges a day, I never realised this and was on 1 1/2 a day to start with..

Its been 3 weeks and 1 day since I had my last ciggy.  I can't believe I am not really even thinking of them anymore either and if i do its very brief and I don't actually want one.
I can't believe i have cracked it so easily by using a book!  Yet everything the NHS offered me I failed with.
I'm pleased to report that although i was coughing and wheezing terribly while smoking, the cough and wheeze is completely gone now.
My next challenge is to lose  a few stone in weight.