The starting point of all achievment is desire! The greater the desire, the greater the achievment. Maintain a positive attitude and tell yourself you CAN quit.

I remember trying to quit for years. Finally I just crushed a freshly opened pack in my hand and never looked back. You have to be somewhat defiant about it...also keep in mind that people who smoke cigarettes...die...from tobacco related illnesses...lung cancer...emphasema, heart disease!

Although some say they work, the problem I have with them is that you are feeding the nicotine habit...not breaking it...in my opinion 'cold turkey' is the only way...but that's just what worked for me. The key is determination more than anything else. Good luck!

I always giggle when you Brits say that...it has a different meaning here...

Here is some timely inspiration:

Cigarettes Rob Smokers of 10 Years of Life

LONDON (Reuters) - Cigarette smokers die on average 10 years earlier than non-smokers but kicking the habit, even at 50 years old, can halve the risk, according to half a century of research reported on Tuesday.

Findings from a 50-year study into the dangers of smoking showed that if people quit by the age of 30 they can avoid nearly all of the risk of dying prematurely.


"Cigarette smoking reduces the expectation of life by 10 years," said 91-year-old Oxford University Professor Richard Doll who discovered the link between cancer and smoking.


"It is clear that consistent cigarette smoking doubles mortality throughout adult life -- middle and old age. It is also clear that giving up smoking can eliminate a very large part of the hazard," he told Reuters.


Doll and Bradford Hill confirmed the link between smoking and lung cancer in a landmark study published in the British Medical Journal on June 26, 1954.


Half a century later, Doll and Oxford University Professor Richard Peto report the 50-year results from the same study of 34,439 British doctors in the journal.


"This study is a remarkable achievement. Studies that last 50 years are highly unusual in medicine, and it's even more unusual for one to have an author who was there at the beginning and after 50 years," the journal's editor Dr Richard Smith told a news conference.


"It has taught us a great deal," he added.

Doll, who had smoked for 19 years before giving up, had planned only a five-year project but the initial findings were so intriguing he carried on for five decades.

"I gave up smoking at age 37 when I saw the results of our first study. They were quite convincing to me," he said in an interview.

The early results from his second study confirmed that smoking causes lung cancer and suggested that it also causes heart disease.

"We thought we'd better carry the study on for a lot longer and see if smoking causes anything else and by goodness it does," said Doll.

"By the time we did the 40-year follow-up...we found there were some 25 diseases which smoking seemed to cause and that the mortality was about double with the consistency of smoking."

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Im 100% behind you Stamford,wish I could do it.
I keep trying but then just as I give up something comes along and kicks me right up the arse.
Stick with it,you can do it.We have faith in you.

Really? I've been on it for a month. i'm down to the smaller Step 2 patches now. I find they work wonders!!

Yep, don't become a barman!

Seriously though when I (tried to) quit lots of chewing gum helped, also staying away from other smokers is a good idea when possible

Good luck dude, I completely sympathise with you

It's a mind association thing, you don't smoke a fag when you're chewing gum, so if I'm chewing gum then I wont want a fag.

I'd just like to say I'm going to try and join Stamford and give it up, more for financial reasons than health issues but that's not the point.

Wow, maybe we should start a club, Barman, we've already got three members, you, me and permakid.

Well done mate.

Day 3 for me now - feeling pretty good.

OK then...

lol, really not for me then

True, I've heard that there are some 200 chemicals added to tobacco.

Lol, I had a ding dong with the future Mother-in-Law, which is enough to drive any man back to the fags (Americans please note: Not those type of 'fags').

Anyhoo, back off the evil weed this weekend.

I actually did that once, I called someone Sarah instead of Susan!

Perhaps the worst thing is that I don't know any Sarah's, I didn't get her confused with someone else, I actually genuinely forgot her name - how bad is that!

Ooops!


ps: Thanks for your support Kismit

Ah, Kis, why break the habit of a lifetime!!

Could be worse, Barman, you could have called her 'Brian'!