Reply #15: I can only tell you what worked for me. [View All]

[Cleita]

Number one, and any ex-smoker will tell you this, you really have to want to. Now I quit before there was any help like nicotine patches. I did cold turkey sort of. I promised myself I would smoke every Sunday all I wanted to, but never during the week. No matter how bad the cravings got, I could always look forward to Sunday. Then I stopped smoking on Sunday after awhile with no problem.

When I realized I could get past one Sunday, then I promised myself I could still smoke the next Sunday as long as I didn't smoke the rest of the week. Eventually, I passed several Sundays with no need to smoke and haven't smoked since then.

Just a word though. This wasn't the first time I tried. I had a life time of trying and relapsing. Once, I gave it up for good I realized I could never, ever smoke again, no matter what.