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Giving up cigarettes

Any tips?  What about this vaping, how can you tell if the fluid is not contaminated?  Is there a standard?  What is available to help?The last time I tried a cigarette it was coming out of school and getting them from the ice cream van outside, but need advice for somebody else.CheersSarah x

Sarah Felstead ● 3135d7 Comments

The council offer a service to help https://oneyouhounslow.org.uk/how-to/stop-smoking/

Samantha Christie ● 3112d

There are many reasons why people smoke and there are many ways of trying to give up. I started smoking when I was 15 and I kept going until I was 66, smoking between 25 and 40 every day. I tried acupuncture, hypnosis,group therapy, patches, chewing gum, nasal sprays and will power but they all failed. About three years ago the results of a medical scan for something else (now resolved) scared the hell out of me and I turned to vaping. I'm still addicted to nicotine but I have no desire to smoke another cigarette. Vaping was the answer for me. There is a need for some regulation in the vaping world but how do we ensure that the big tobacco companies (BAT, Reynolds, Philip Morris etc.)don't gain control of the vaping market while they continue to flog their old poison to other parts of the world?

Jim Storrar ● 3133d

I used patches the first time I stopped (that lasted 13 years) and nicotine gum the second time (that's about 3 1/2 years now)

Guy Lambert ● 3134d

Thanks all.  I have ordered the book.....

Sarah Felstead ● 3134d

I stopped smoking thirteen years ago having smoked 20+ a day for ten years.  No patches, no nicotine replacement.  I read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking, smoked my last cigarette and that was that:https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Way-Stop-Smoking-Revised/1405923318/

Paul Scullion ● 3135d

I gave up about a year and a half ago and was a heavy smoker and have not had a single puff since yet but I admit I would have found it hard without using a vapour device insteadI use a Vivid brand available from Morissons and the whole starter pack only cost £20 and the refills cost £5 so far cheaper then a pack of fagsFunny thing is I still love the smell of fresh smoke but detest of it stale and can now smell a smoker from 50 paces

Paul Fisher ● 3135d

I think giving up all depends on how much the person concerned really wants to do it. My brother in law used patches, both me and my husband just packed up, although I wasn't a very regular smoker, my husband was a very, very heavy smoker. But he had the cough to end all coughs and was virtually drinking Liqufruta cough medicine whilst still smoking. As our doctor pointed out there's nothing anyone can do unless/until you pack that in. That was almost 40 years ago and he hasn't smoked since.

Vanessa Smith ● 3135d