[Jhoffa_]

I have to go now, but I appreciate your assistance.

Thanks in advance.

[Xenalyte]

There's a cool little device (I'd have to look up the name) that's a little bigger than a pack of smokes. You put the pack inside it and close your hand around it, and these little needles in the bottom punch a hole in the filter of each cigarette.

The first week, you punch one hole. The second week you punch two, and so on. It's an eight-week course, more or less.

My friend who quit smoking with this device said it worked because by Week 8, she was dragging sooooo hard on the cigarette - and getting so little smoke and so much air - that she said the hell with it and chucked the last pack.

[Nataku X]

http://www.nicotinefreecigarettes.com/

[alisasny]

Bump me if you get any good advice...I am in a similar situation as you and just wish I could stop.

[Lurker]

Nicotine free cigarretes are like alcohol free beer, fat free cheese, and soft core porn.

I mean you can make them, but where's the payoff?

L

[jae471]

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but) I thought the "tar" was the carcinogen, not the nicotine. The nicotine is just what makes you keep lighting up.

[Rodney King]

You try chewing tobacco? Sure it's not good for you either, but it is a lot better than cigarettes. Of course, it is not as good for you as going cold turkey, but the difference is that you will be successful in the conversion.

[VRWC_minion]

http://www.nicotinefreecigarettes.com/

[Orblivion]

Here is the secret to quitting smoking. You have to want to. You have to really want to. And that's it. Whatever method you choose will work if you really want to quit. However, having said that, I would say the all around best thing to do is just quit cold turkey. After maybe a week the nicotine will be out of your system and the cravings will subside completely for all intents and purposes. Remember, it's not the smoke you crave, it's the nicotine. So the sooner you can be free of the nicotine, the sooner you can be free from smoking.

[discostu]

The problem I see with those it's you've got all of the physical damage and none of the high. It might help you kick the nicotine habit, but good ol' nic is out of your system pretty fast. The harder habit to kill the the routine, you'll still have that.

I quit during the holiday season. Since I hate the holidays anyway nobody even noticed my bad mood. I'd say if you really can't quit don't. When you're actually ready quitting will be easy.

[blackdog]

Don't feel bad. My wife wears a patch, chews the nicorette gum, swills quarts of coffee, takes Cloneziapam, Prozac,Alderall, and thank god....birth control pills. All the while she chain smokes.

Try mint snuff, I hear it works well.

[XBob]

welbutrin, a perscription tranquilizer allowed me to quit easily, finally after 30 years. No more craving of nicotine.

[VoiceOfBruck]

These gimmicks might or might not work, but one thing is in your favor--each time you try to quit, it becomes easier to quit the next time. So keep trying, and eventually you'll succeed.

Also, healthwise, less smoking is better than more (cheaper, too!). Some people can't quit completely, but can cut down significantly.

[lsee]

Congratulations for taking the first step. I have struggled with addictions in the past and can tell you that it takes a mind-change to stop repeating habitual behavior. We develop behaviors for reasons, usually to somehow meet a need we had in our lives at that time. The moment of truth comes when you take the behavior apart, examine it, and see whether or not it is meeting any of those needs NOW. When the mind figures out that the behavior is pointless, it becomes much easier to change that habit.

Here is a webpage (http://www.nowillpower.com/index13.htm) that kind of sums up what I'm trying to say. Even those who are able to quit cold turkey without much soul-searching had a moment when their mind accepted that they would not do that behavior anymore. Something convinced their mind and the behavior followed. How to quit smoking without willpower or struggle

I've never read this particular book, but this little section sounds like the program I had success with. Here's the truth. It's not about the smoking,it's about the wanting to smoke! Once you no longer have the urge to smoke, why would you? Once you reach inside your subconscious and pull that original decision to become a smoker out of the dark and examine it, you see what a foolish thing it is. From there, it's all downhill.

In my opinion, using substitute behaviors or gadgets or gizmos might help you quit, but unless the change comes from the mind, there will always be a possibility of relapse. I watched my daddy quit smoking when I was young and hopefully he will live to be an old man. I watched my grandfather NOT quit and got to watch him die from emphysema before he was an old man. I miss him.

[RightWhale]

Quit cold, just tough it out. When you quit smoking, the 3rd day is the hardest. Drink plenty of water. Don't eat any extra. Get past that and the nicotine craving eases up. It never goes away, but you don't actually have to light up again.

[headsonpikes]

Marijuana cigarettes are nicotine-free; if you lit one of those suckers up every time you wanted a cigarette you'd soon be free of the tobacco habit.

(/humor off)

[muggs]

There is a new (perscription) product out, a Nicotrol Inhaler
http://www.nicotrol.com/4_inhaler.asp
You get the nicotine and it's shaped like a cigarette, so it gives you something to do with your hands.

I'm thinking about asking my doctor for it but I'm worried I'll gain back the 36 pounds I just lost.

[snippy_about_it]

I see links below to nicotine free cigarettes and I took a look at them.

I recall recently seeing someone on tv, a representative from a cigarette company, they said soon they would come out with a nicotine free cigarette, this year.

The thing is, what I remember is it was a big tobacco company but I can't remember which one, not one of these in the links. I know it was from a manufacturer I would recognize as I am a degenerate smoker myself.

I'll ask my husband if he remembers and look around on the web.

[celeste_aida]

See the movie "Dead Again." You will quit immediately. Best of luck.

[kellynla]

As a reformed smoker myself I empathize with your habit. When I quit cold turkey in '79 my doctor told me that I would have to substitute one addiction for another. I started running every day first a half mile then gradually up to 5 miles a day. The first 6 weeks were tough. I played on my own ego and bragged to everyone in my office that I quit and would never pick them up again. I didn't. If I can quit any one can. And believe me it was very hard at first. I went through a pack of chewing gum a day and thought I was going to cough up my cajones while I was quitting. But I did it and believe you me I feel and look ten years younger. The only "cure" besides will power I know of is hypnosis. Best of luck and yes you can just never, never, never give up. After about a month you will be free and your lungs will thank you for it.

[Stirner]

I tried tobacco free cigarettes many years ago and couldn't smoke even half a pack. I finally did quit a few years later by following advice in a book I read (wish I could remember the name, but I can't). It had a list of every brand sold at that time sorted by nicotine content. The idea was to switch to a brand that delivered slightly less nicotine, acclimate to that for a month or two, and then take another step down. By the time I got to Carltons (at that time the lowest)I managed to quit after a few months on them. I guess you could get the same info from the packs. The secret is to move down in small steps. Good luck.