Giving Up Smoking in General

I hate to admit that I was once a smoker, but I was, and this review goes out to all those "social smokers" like me who didn't tick the smoker box on surveys or when someone asked you if you smoked you stuttered your way through a pathetic excuse of "well, only sometimes..." or "no I don't smoke but only when I'm drinking". Yes my friends I was the denial smoker. I first started smoking at the age of 16. My boyfriend at the time was 18 and had been smoking for about a year. I honestly think I started to look cool and to make him think I was all grown up. Looking back it was all a pile of nonsense and I should have thrown away that ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, let me clarify this- I would not class myself as a hard core "smoker", I started smoking when I used to go out on a Friday night from the age of around 17 and would do that regularly for a good few years- but never smoked through the day. Then I moved away to university and started smoking through the day, but even then I didn't used to get through all that many cigarettes- maybe 4 or 5 a day. Then I just got sick of the money it was costing me so I stopped smoking and within a few weeks, when I would go to smoke I eventually would just have one drag and I just hated it, it felt wrong so I stopped altogether. Around 2 years ago, I dediced to ...  Read the complete review

After a visit to the doctors yesterday for a health check I realised that it has been ten years since I have given up smoking and I am now a truly reformed smoker when I get stressed I never think I would love a cigarette. I actually feel repulsed by the smell of cigarettes. Like many others I started smoking as a teenager when I was at school mostly so that I could look cool. I then learnt that I felt more relaxed after I had a cigarette and then my addiction began. My mother tried to stop me and even burnt my pocket money as a demonstration of what would happen to my money but as I was a teenager it was water off a ducks back. I was ...  Read the complete review

This has got to be the hardest thing ive ever tried/attempted and failed. Ive been smoking since i was 15, and now smoking a good 20 a day, which is really not good. plus on a night out this can increase to 30, even if i am standing outside in the freezing cold and rain. so, after being nagged enough in work, im finally got round to thinking seriously about giving up for good now, especially after talking to a lad in work whosmaoked 40 a day for last god knows how many years. He told me about a clinic in manchester called NEW WAYS CLINIC (details can be found on a goggle search) it costs £195, where you sit in a chair for 30 ...  Read the complete review

I gave up smoking on the 5th October 2009. I haven't had so much as a puff of a cigarette in this last month and quite honestly I do not miss it. How come then, the other 4 or 5 times I have tried to give up this year have been unsuccessful within the first few days? Let me share with you my key tips to what has helped me quit smoking. Tip 1 SET A DATE (preferably a memorable date) Honestly, before you even try to quit set yourself a stop date. Ideally this date will be at least in several weeks time. Even better, if you can then choose a memorable date, for example I chose the anniversary of my Grans death because this ...  Read the complete review