need help to quit smoking

if anyone out there can give me some suggestion's on how to quit. please tell me. i have to quit or i don't get my surgery...  please help

This is probably not the healthiest way to quit, lol, but to quit, I chain smoked until I got sick to my stomach, and threw up. It made me not want them! Linda Vicory

well gal...its not easy to quit. I started with CHANTRIX...the first week could smoke with the pills...the second week...no more smoking....I have to say...it did work ..but I quit taking them the 3rd week cause I thought was causing my joint pain...but instead I  tore a ligament in my knee....so I have not started the pills again...but I DID cheat on the smoking last week. now I have been smoke free for 2 weeks then 2 days smoking...now off again....then back on this week....3 cigs per day for a week...NOT GOOD...I need to go back on Chantrix.  that is the best way to stop...have heard nothing but good about that....my doc won't send in insurance approval till I am smoke free for 2 months...what is yours telling you? So back on chandrix tomorrow and hopefully can be approved for surgery before my 50th birthday the 27 of October! Hang in there and IM me on yahoo if ya want to talk about the smoking thing!  I could use some encouragement on stopping smoking too. [email protected]

Jewels... I was a 30+year smoker and at the time that I quit, I was a 3 pack-a-day'er. I am probably more proud of quiting smoking than the weight I've lost. I know that it is a tough battle. For me though, it was a mental battle more than anything I think. I recieved 2 scripts from my doctor. One was for the 'patch'. My insurance would only cover the generic form. The 2nd was for Wellbutrin. Wellbutrin is an anti-depressant but it contains the same active ingredient as the pill that is suppose to help you quit smoking..only the insurance will cover meds for anti-depressant more redily than smoking cessation. It takes ~2 weeks for the Wellbutrin (as well as most anti-depressants) to get into your system. So...I set my quit date after being on it for +2 weeks. I made that date on a Monday so that I knew I would be busy at work all week..to give me a head start. That Monday (July 19, 2004), I started my day off by putting on a full patch and not having a single ciggarette. After doing this every day for a week, I started cutting a little bit off the patch each day before putting it on. Each day, the amount I cut off was a little bit bigger of a piece. On August 19th, I went without the patch as well. I stayed on the Wellbutrin until after my RNY (september 2004). I haven't touched a cigarette since July 18, 2004. I would advise anyone quitting to: 1.  Get assistance from your doctor. 2.  Have a support system in place. A guy at work REALLY helped me through that time period! 3.  Remove temptation. I gave my lighters to my kids (who both smoke). I had no cig. of mine (hubby smokes).

4.  Keep you goal in mind! For me, it was being able to have the RNY. I continue to stay off of them because I was too much of a slave to them and refuse to become a slave again. 5.  Change you other 'habits' that went along with smoking! Do you 'always' light up at a certain stop sign on the way home from work? Take a different route home! Do you always smoke at the computer? Make that a 'no smoking' zone and drink water while you are chatting instead. Good luck! Sherri

Look up the American Lung Assoc. and see if they offer a hypnosis class.  I went to one of there classes and stop smoking. This was over 20 years ago.