I cut myself right down from 20 to 5 a day over the space of 2 weeks before quitting completely. I did that by pushing off all the cigarettes i enjoyed the most. First one in the morning ones after meals. I pushed them off by an hour 1st day, 1 hour 15 minutes 2nd day, 1hour 30minutes 3rd day. On the 4th day as a reward to myself i added another hour to those wait periods, figuring i dont want to smoke so it is a reward. I bought the last one of the evening in earlier night after night too. In the 2nd week of that i started only smoking the cigarettes whilst i enjoyed them 3 or 4 drags after lighting up they were run of the mill so i'd stub em out till later. I gave up on the request of my smoking cessation counsellor. She measures my carbon monoxide levels every appointment. My first reading was 44 right in the middle of the danger zone. 2nd 3 weeks later was 10 a tremendous improvement. 3rd after quitting completely was 2, even her CO level reads 3.5.

Not easy but theres a lot of help for you out there if you want to stop. I'm using zyban/bupropion. It seems to be working for me. only you can find your way.

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I have not read all the threads but:

I quit smoking using the book Allan Carrs Easy Way To Quit Smoking. The best part about the book is that you continue to smoke during reading the book, and have your last cigarrette at the very end. It has been 6 months for me now and I have been exercising 3 days a week at least, it has taken about that time to be able to really breathe freely again.

I smoked for 10 years and tried several times with no success, this book was just fantastic for me and I have never looked back on that pointless habit. All you have to do is be willing to quit for good.

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Honer Special20 Harmonica

Is the Allen Carr book the book that humbler acts is promoting. All about using love and reaffirmation to get your addiction to do what you want it to?

Congratulations on 6 months free.

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Thanks If I could describe the book I would say it is the "Absolute truth about nicotene addiction", nothing more, nothing less.

This book totally exposes all the myths about cigarrettes and the reasons why people smoke, it has no fairy spiritual healing or health scare tactics either. This book just provided quality material for me to quit smoking for good. It was written by Allen Carr, who was a smoker that smoked something ridiculous like 60-100 cigarrettes a day, so it is not written by some doctor or academic who has never smoked before.

And that is the book right there, quit smoking for good. When I was told about this book, when I purchased this book and even when I was reading this book I was completely skeptical the whole time. No way was I going to believe that I could ever quit smoking for good, and never again feel deprieved of nicotene.

The book said that I could quit smoking for good and it did exactly what it said it would do, all it cost me was the same amount of money I would spent on cigarettes in a fortnight.

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Fender Highway One HSS Stratocaster '09
Modified Fender Champ600
Honer Special20 Harmonica

Hang in there. Dumping any additive drug out of your life for ever is a super-cool-hip-tremendous thing for any human to accomplish.

"What are you going to do with your one, precious, wild and crazy life...today?"
(Dr. Mrs Carl Sagan, wife of the author of Cosmos.

Strato,
That's quite a recommendation. I read a fair bit on how nicotine (a natural pesticide) attacks many areas of the brain and alters brain chemistry. The only way it really gets you hooked is by denying us dopamine. Once you accept the fact that your going to feel like crap for a few months but will put your mind straight, its the only way forwards.

JSJH
I have that book upstairs, i've owned it for as long as i can remember. I think i'll dig it out again.

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Here's a silly question, wil the guitar's name be Ashley, Mary-Kay or Olson?

Ah John.E. You know its not possible to name a guitar before you play it.

I was considering freedom or liberty as a name.

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Let Freedom Ring! That's my vote.

John.E