What should you do when your girlfriend or boyfriend want you to stop smoking and you are finding it difficult to quit?

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You already know that smoking is bad for your health. Your friends care about you and have asked you to stop smoking. What you have to do then is to stop. Yes, it is difficult to quit. But not impossible.

I had been a smoker, and it took me three tries to finally stop smoking. So do not give up if you have tried only once. Keep trying and try various methods that might be able to help either from a local smoking helpline, or else take nicotine gum/use nicotine patches.

The way I stopped smoking, and I have seen others on TV do the same thing. I substituted the end of a ''pen'' for my cigarette. Every time I wanted a cigarette, I picked up the pen and did everthing with the pen that I would do with the cigarette.

Smoking itself is not the only thing that is addictive. Everything pertaining to the cigarette is also addictive. Like lighting it, puffing it, flicking the end off, and blowing out after puffing. so then...

Say you need to smoke. Put you hand into your pocket and pull out the pen. Put the pen cap, into your mouth as you would do a cigarette. Make the motions of lighting it, puff as if you were puffing to light the end, etc. Take puffs, inhale, flick the end.

Do this whenever you usually smoke. After dinner, in the bathroom, waking up, with coffee. It works!!!

Keep doing this, hold it in between your fingers. Do it for one day. Then go to sleep. Do it one more day when you wake up. Only think of one day at a time.

I also kept an unopened pack of cigarettes in the laundry room. This way I knew that I could get a cigarette if I really needed one. If I did not have the pack, I would go nuts thinking that I want a smoke and do not have any in the house.

Do this, and let me know how it works out. I quit in this way, and I have never had the urge or taken a cigarette again in 20 years.

Let me hear from anyone who tries this method. I will help you continue. Try it .

First answer by Redbeard. Last edit by Sondra C. Contributor trust: 11 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 17 [recommend question]