How did You give up smoking?  

I am a biatc* when it comes to a lack of nicotine. I become snappy with everything and at everyone till finally someone tells me to smoke a cigarette. I am in the same boat as you with trying to quit smoking. My family is cancer prone( long history of cancer in my family) and that scares me the most about smoking. So I am really interested to see where this discussion goes.

It was hard I wont lie, but once I decided to quit I just went & quit cold turkey. Then I cleaned my house so it didn't smell like smoke all the time. After that I decided that I needed to stop hanging around people that I knew would smoke around me. Next whenever I got the urge to smoke I would either pray or go out & walk around for a bit. When the urge got really bad I did both. The most important thing to remember is to keep yourself busy. As long as you are busy you wont think about smoking. It's going to be a hard addiction to fight, but I know you can do it. I know you can because I did. I will of course keep you in my prayers.

It was really hard to quit smoking. I saw how my grandfather do a lot of way to stop him from the smell of cigarettes. He buy a lot of menthol candy too.
Me, i focus myself on exercising, i go to the gym. After that it is my own will to stop and my mom also inspire me because she doesn't like smoking and i don't want to offend her when she see me again.

My dr. gave chantix and believe it or not it does work. however if you don't want to gain weight you might want to go for a walk or increase your activity in some way for awhile.

I gave up smoking 7 years ago I used to smoke 60 a day, I used the 24 hour nicotine patch, yes you will gain weight to start with but after about 6 months your body adjusts and you go back to your normal weight. If you just say to yourself all you are really doing is lighting up money because after you have smoked your cigerette you have nothing left and your money has gone, it does not help your health either. Go for it you have nothing to loose and everything to gain.

you rewrote to me but my answer is stop thinking about giving up and do it and stop worrying about the weight gain, I gained a stone in weight when I gave up it is only your body adjusting to life with fresh air after about 6 months I lost it and went back to what I used to weigh. I used patches but only for 1 month as I had an alergic reaction but since I have given up I have never looked back and I am sure if I had not given up when I did I would be dead now. Just think when you light that cigerette how much money you are setting light to because that is what you are doing if you think about it because what are you getting from smoking nothing except the possibility of lung cancer, after you have smoked a cigerette there is nothing left so you are really just lighting up money. New Year Give It a Go it just might save your life. Good Luck