Posts Tagged ‘quit nicotine’

Quit Nicotine for good

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Click here to see how I finally quit smoking cigarettes for good

Hey guys, Alex here…

This is my story on how I quit smoking cigarettes.

Why I quit smoking? Well, I’m in my mid 20s and started cigarettes as a teenager. Maybe you’re in the same boat? Anyway, I honestly LOVED smoking until problem signs started creeping up on me. Waking up in the morning short of breath, and wheezing was the one that really made me rethink my habit. If I was wheezing and coughing at 25, what would I be doing in ten years? 15 years? You get the picture…

I realized…if I don’t stop now, I’ll wake up one day – still a smoker – with worse problems than I had now.

So I began my mission to find a solution, and through trial and error found out what didn’t work, but more importantly found the one thing that help me quit smoking forever. I wanted to share my story because I know how many people struggle with nicotine addiction like I did. I hope you can benefit from my story.

Over the past year, I tried all the standard methods you hear about — nicotine gum, nicotine patches, perscriptions to quit nicotine. However, I always ended up bad in my pack a day routine. The patches really weren’t bad, but I got tired of them making me lightheaded. As for the gum, it tasted awful and gave me stomach cramps!

I started thinking about the nicotine inhaler. It made sense…I mean, don’t smokers get hooked on the repetition of smoking? Then I saw a video about something called an electronic cigarette.

(Off to the right side of the page is a link to the video I first saw about ‘e-cigarettes’.) —->

I realized then that, if they worked, my goal to quit smoking forever might actually be attainable! There was a lot about the idea that got me excited:

*No smell of smoke
*Free of the dangerous additives found in cigarettes
*ability to step down strength of nicotine from high/medium/low/nicotine free

I wasn’t crazy about the fact that it was a newer technology, which meant I couldn’t find one down at the corner drugstore, so of course I turned to the Internet where they are readily available. I found some discussion groups where members had successfully used the electronic cigarette to quit smoking, and found a company that had a low cost trial of their electric cigarette. It’s been several months since I quit cigarettes, and I’m not looking back anytime soon!

I hope you found this info useful, hopefully the time and money I spent finding a solution to quit nicotine can save you the time, money, and hassle.

To see the electronic cigarette that helped me quit smoking for good, click here to check it out.

Why is it so hard to quit nicotine?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Today I want to talk about something important…

Why is it so tough to quit nicotine?

Finding out how to quit smoking should be simple enough, right? I mean, there’s a ton of stuff out there that claims its the best. And based on the commercial I just saw for a ‘quit smoking drug’, 40-some MILLION Americans smoke, so you would think there’d be a quick solution, right?

Seems like Well, I can only speak from personal experience but if we think about the way smoking hooks you it’s pretty ingenious. You get used to routines: having a cigarette with your coffee in the morning, or when you’re driving in the car. How much do you smoke when you’re out at a bar?… I’m embarrassed to even answer that one. :-)
But its not just the nicotine and other chemicals that get you hooked, is it?

But is there something more, Yeah I think there is.

It’s the repetition of holding something in your hand and the social aspect of a smoke break with coworkers (or with friends outside class.) That’s why the nicotine gum and the other stuff never worked for me…there were things about smoking I MISSED that I didn’t get with the gum or the nicotine patches.

But I could be wrong… what’s your thoughts on this? How will you feel when you finally do learn how to quit nicotine and be done with cigarettes for good?