Quit smoking help

**Epiphany** · 22nd July 2005

My girlfriend is trying to quit smoking. Shes on about 15 a day at the moment and has the willpower of a dead gerbil. Does anyone have any hints or things that she or i can do to help her quit?
She uses those little plastic filter things that block some of the tar and nicotine and i moan at her whenever she smokes. I also saw that changing your daily routine helps but shes not in a position to do that. Where she works everyone smokes and when they do she does aswell. She tried the gum but said it was horrible and did nothing.
I saw these http://www.smokersstopshop.co.uk/system4.htm but �50 is slightly ludicrus seeing as they might not work anyway.

Any help is much appreciated

**Godscrasher** · 22nd July 2005

Go see your GP, he/she will prescribe you with a course of patches for free, they will do anything to get people off the tab's.

**burner1** · 22nd July 2005

This thread may be of interest if she got no will power mate, looking into trying it myself:

http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php?t=234053

**Crilly** · 22nd July 2005

Originally Posted by Godscrasher

Go see your GP, he/she will prescribe you with a course of patches for free, they will do anything to get people off the tab's.

They are not quite free you have to pay for the prescription. I tried the patches and they are great until you stop using them and then i was straight back on the little fuckers.

May i suggest a book by Alan Carr called Easy Way, basically it focuses on the psychological side of smoking, which is the real problem. I have spoken to a lot of people who have read the book and they swear by it.

**GhettoMoose** · 22nd July 2005

If she wants to do it she will do it.

Little will power or not, if you want somthing bad enough you'll find a way to do it

**God is a DJ** · 22nd July 2005

lol imagine paying a fiver for a box of sticks that make u feel sick for 10 mins

DJ

**Theone1** · 22nd July 2005

To have someone with you to go through this period can really help. If she has a friend who smokes (and wants to give up) or maybe yourself (if you smoke) that can go throight the exact same process with her throughtout this it will really help on the will-power and determination side.

Even if you dont smoke, you should continously support her, praise her progress and do what ever you can to show you are there for her.

**shadowdancer** · 22nd July 2005

is it really that hard to stop smoking ?

I've tried it (when out on the sauce) but I never get the feeling I would like to do it everyday.

I've read that some people have an addictive personality though, that wouldnt help.

as said, if she really wants to stop, then thats a big step.
can you go cold turkey from stopping smoking immediately ?
surely the want for a cigarette would go away after a week or so of not giving in and smoking ?

**Cenus_** · 22nd July 2005

I've just recently gave up (coming on 3 weeks now) and it is still hard as fuck.

Ephinay mate, does she want to give up? If she doesn't then shes got no chance. She needs a reason to do it.

**nordoff** · 22nd July 2005

Yep, main thing is to want to quit.
3 stages the way I treated it.
Knowing I should quit
Wanting to quit
Being ready to quit.

That and spending the first week drunk in a field.

**Godscrasher** · 22nd July 2005

I gave up in March, made a goal for myself, which was to buy a Toyota Supra, one month on from March i bought a Celica (knowing fine well i couldnt afford a supra so i went for its little sister).

At the point when i bought the car and i was going out with my mate's drinking, i was having the occasional tab, only when drinking! But that progressed to 2, then 3, then 4, then next thing i knew i was buying 10 boxes, with the money i was meant to be putting away for the car.

So if you are going to quit, make a goal and stick to it, and if a mate offers you a tab when out, say 'yes' take it and snap it in from of their face and throw it in the ashtray, that way they wont offer you a tab again, or will think twice about it.

Good luck to the missus anyway, it's all about willpower!

**Epiphany** · 23rd July 2005

thanks for the help guys. Shes said to me that she wants to quit but i guess i dont really know if she trully trully wants to quit or if shes doing it because i dont smoke and she knows i hate her smelling of smoke all the time. I just feel guilty nagging her about it or bringing it up