edit: its not a an, i was going to quote whatever actual answers came up
Are you asking “What’s the best way to quit smoking?”?
There’s no one size fits all solution. Keep trying methods until one sticks. It took me a hundred goes to quit.
Thats not helpful
What ended up working tho. The previous part is not as helpful besides tempering expectations if you get my meaning.
Keep trying methods isnt always practical when you’re trying to help someone else with limited willpower and aifetime of addiction to deal with that. My dude isnt necessariky open to trying 500 different methods, i need top 3, probably top 2, please be sensible and pratical
You’re trickling information out about your poorly presented question then telling people who attempt an answer that they’re not helpful.
Cold turkey worked for me…
…that combined with my stubbornness and my worst enemy at work laughing at me and saying I’d never be able to do it.
It’s been ~20 years now…
I tried cold turkey a few times with no success. Patches gave me funky dreams but didn’t really stop the urges and ultimately were unsuccessful. I found vapes made it harder for me to breath than cigarettes so they felt like a step backwards. I tried Champix and quit for a year or two, but then picked it back up, then tried it again a few years later and it worked a treat. Coming up on 5 years with no cigarettes.
Champix
There we go. Something helpful to recommend :) Added
It does have some side effects and isn’t necessarily for everybody , but it definitely does what it says on the tin. You basically set a quit date for some weeks into the future and then smoke your brains out til then. The drug breaks the reward pathway so you start to find after a week or two that every cigarette does nothing and tastes bad, and you end up cutting back naturally. The course lasts for long enough to break the habit and then after that the will power to not go back is significantly easier. I believe there are some issues for people with mental health concerns due to the reward pathway fuckery, but your doctor should be able to advise when they are prescribing.
Except the top methods might not work for you.
I tried for years. I finally went cold turkey after finding this website. It really helped to learn that all nicotine is out of your system in 72 hours. After that it’s all mental. I basically just stayed in my pj’s in bed for that 72 hours and it got easier everyday after that. He has a recording for everyday of your quit and every struggle https://whyquit.com/joel/
This is why anecdotes are meaningless in medicine.
Well my dad died coughing up blood and I smoked for 20 years so I’d say it’s a pretty good program and the guy who ran the site helped a lot of people succeed. Learning the science behind the addiction helped me think about it more logically so it’s worth a look for someone who is trying to quit. Sorry that doesn’t mean anything to you but it means the world to me and my family.
The patch + realizing how bad I actually smelled as a smoker.
Not just after having a smoke; all the time. All of my clothes, even clean, smelled like smoke. My car reeked. I was nose blind to all of it.
2.5 years since I quit and I swear I can smell a smoker a mile away and it turns my stomach.
Smokers: we really stink, bad.
I used spite, self discipline and being angry at everything, including the tobacco manufacturers and the government raising taxes on it.
I quit cold turkey. I was alone for a few days, just sat at home being all huffy and puffy and then I got over myself.
I think the self discipline is the most important one. Just get a hold of yourself and do it, stop being a wuss about it.
Seconding spite. A tremendous amount of self loathing and self-flagellation helps too. Cold turkey is the most effective, least expensive, and quickest method. It isn’t easy and is by far the hardest method, though. Haven’t smoked in 23 years as of last week.
Yeah it is the most difficult method, but I think if you just prepare yourself to it, amp yourself up with “I know its going to be hard as fuck but fuck that I’m gonna do it” and it’ll be easier. Lots of fuck yous were said and cursing does help. Just make sure nobody you care about is there to be cursed at lol
Yup, hence the self loathing and self-flagellation. 😁
Waiter, there’s an ad in my AskLemmy 🤢
Moat effective seems to be weaning off, using the replacement products and slowly reducing nicotine dosages.
Though people are different, have to use lots of trial and error and try again and again. I used the least likely method of price increase to quit cold turkey.
Yeah, you have to find the thing that brings you that intrinsic motivation. I had lots of failed attempts,but for me it was eventually also money. Starting an expensive education, so I convinced myself I couldn’t afford smoking anymore.
The medicine, Varenicline. I saw a pharmacist on YT that said that, I don’t know.
Have you answered your own question with that brand name? Was dropping that brand name the point of your post?
Seconding champix. I was on it, and it really helped, but one round (two weeks) wasn’t quite enough, and when I went in to get enough for a longer treatment, champix had been pulled off the market, lol.
It’s now back again with a slightly different formula, so I’ll give it a new go.
