AmyRae - first you have to decide to quit. If you don't make a serious committment you your quit you're just lying to yourself. I quit hundreds of times - but never seriously. I'd always cheat a little - then a little more - then be smoking again.
Set a quit date. Whether that's today - 2 weeks - a month away. But - once you set it - begin to seriously prepare. Make it non-flexible - on ________ I will quit smoking forever. Or as I see on here often - Not One Puff Ever!
Start working towards your quit. I took "places" away. I usually would smoke on my front porch. So - I made myself walk to the end of the drive. Then the next week - no more smoking in the car. Then at work - I made mysef walk completely across the street. By making smoking inconvenient I got to less than 1/2 pack a day. Then I went cold turkey.
I've used patches, gum, wellbutrin - pretty much all the aids. Of them, for me, the patches worked best. They kept that panicky feeling at bay. But - I usually would slip every time I went from stage 2 to stage 3. I realized, for me, just stoping and suffering through a few days worked better.
Read up on how bad cigs are for you. I went to whyquit.com and found it helpful.
'til later,
Kevin
18 days and counting!
