Here is a suggestion:

Smoke a fat-ass joint every time you feel the need to smoke a cigarette. That will do it.

Im using those patch thingamebobs,it isnt easy but it really does help.

You can get them on prescription from your doc Lewis

Go on give em a try

Much love Pochacco

What are the symptoms of lung cancer?

Lung cancer develops very slowly, and usually takes many years to show signs. If a person is exposed to carcinogens, the cancer will start its development immediately by multiplying cancer cells and spreading throughout the affected area, but will take many years to develop symptoms. The symptoms of the cancer depend upon where the tumor is found along with other factors. Some symptoms of lung cancer are: chest pain, chronic cough, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, fever with an unknown origin, wheezing, and recurring infections. Sometimes the person, if they have the disease, will cough up blood.

What causes lung cancer?

Smoking is considered the number one cause of lung cancer. The more time and amount a person smokes, the greater risk there is for him or her to develop lung cancer. If a person quits smoking, then the susceptibility to lung cancer slowly decreases as new normal cells emerge to replace abnormal cancerous cells. Also, second hand smoke may lead to the development of lung cancer. About 80% of people who develop lung cancer are smokers, or were smokers at one time.

My dad said that when he quit smoking, he asked God to take away the desire, quit cold turkey, no patches (this was the '70s) and never looked back.

I haven't tried it, but I know people who have and have been successful with it... what about Zyban?

On a lighter note. My little sis said something so funny in school yesterday. She was learning about smoking dangers in school & mentioned I was giving up. The teacher said 'dont smoke or your lungs will look disgusting' to which she replied 'they are lungs, they look disgusting anyway'

You might try to catch a cold, a big one, so you're having trouble breathing, so it's making you cough your lungs out if you smoke. Throw away your cigarettes. Try to maintain the cold for about 3 weeks. That's 3 weeks not smoked then. After it's over, don't buy new cigarettes, don't ask them from someone else et voila.

Thanks Lavish !! Just what I needed !

Fhunkin said:

Yeah I'll second that. Nothing puts you off like a cancered lung

Addiction is NOT a disease. It's a choice.

teller said:

How do you know it's not a disease?

ConsciousContact said:

It's the conclusion I reached after studying the various approaches...I found one author, Jack Trimpey, who's radical model and cure made perfect sense to me--it was consistent with what I understand about human nature and the brain.

Unfortunately, the Alcoholics Anonymous group HATES Trimpey and his approach, and he hates them back, which has set his efforts back by at least a decade.

It's all very controversial because so little is known about free will and how to use it, and having a "disease" of addiction seems so much easier because it absolves the addict of any responsibility for the choice to use, plus it holds out the hope to the addiction itself that he/she might have a pleasant "relapse" in the future.

When I go to quit smoking, I will be using AVRT (Addictive Voice Recognition Technique) to quit cold-turkey. No patches, no gum, no Wellbutrin (Xyban).