Best ways to stop smoking

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Best ways to stop smoking

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It's been 10 hours now and no cigars. Please, if the is a higher being help me stop smoking....
Trying cold turkey.
This statement clearly isn’t in regard to weed (medicine).
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patches and gum help
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no easy way , I quit 30 years ago cold turkey, but smoked low grade cannabis to get me tough the times
good luck
It really is worth doing !
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You can do it. Look at your little finger - should something the size of this be in control, or you?

Figure that out and just stop. Never look back.
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Chances are, you will quit if/when a doctor tells you that you have an incurable lung disorder, so why not do yourself a favour and just quit now? I often thought it would be impossible to quit but found it really easy and immediately felt the benefits. I smoked for 40+ years btw.

It's one of those situations where once you have stopped, you'll wonder why you hadn't done it years before. Up to you.
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My father quit last year the day his M.D. told him he has stage I Emphysema. His choices were- 1- quit- 2- progress to the stage where he slowly suffocates to death on a ventilator.

Lung Cancer is supposed to suck pretty bad as well. Don't know if it is available in Cambodia, but that Champix/Chantix pill really does wonders. I smoked for 10 years, took that for 1 month and was off of it. It is some strong shit and re-wires your brain to not accept nicotine, thus rendering the cigarette useless in terms of feeding your nictoine addiction.

It is harder to do in a country where packets are $1 vs 8$ USD back in the State.

I just smoke a lot of weed now.... I still light up the occasional ciggy when I have the once per month Saturday night bender, but mainly, just smoke low-grade local weed when I have the time.
I'll give ya 500 Riel for it...
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badneighour wrote:It's been 10 hours now and no cigars. Please, if the is a higher being help me stop smoking....
Trying cold turkey.
This statement clearly isn’t in regard to weed (medicine).
Just curious...do you inhale them? Some peeps, like my Pa, never inhaled - just puffed...then you only can get cool types of mouth cancer...and your gums aren't very happy for sure..having no teeth is trendy these days...
Winston Churchill said, "Have a cigar, a glass of brandy, pet your dog and get a blow job daily for a productive and fulfilling life"
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I can't stop smoking when a carton of ara gold is 15,000 riel or 37.5 cents a pack. Back in Seattle I was buying a pouch of top and rolling my own smokes since a pack of marlboros was ~9 dollars. So the best way for me to quit is to tax smokes out of my price range.
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I had tried quitting smoking many times over the years. I had tried patches and gum and that drug Zyban.

Nothing worked until the day back in 2010 when my son picked up a tooth pick and put it in his mouth copying me smoking.

I quit cold turkey.
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Okay day two: Woke up this morning feeling better, with more energy still in the non-smoking- zone, thanks for all the replies. Maybe some exercise soon. Roll on one week
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