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I don't smoke, but someone I love does. She want's to give up, but it's a addiction, she has been smoking for 6 years now. Anyone got any ideas?
I don't smoke, but someone I love does. She want's to give up, but it's a addiction, she has been smoking for 6 years now. Anyone got any ideas?
3/10
too obvious
hyponosis
when will i learn to reply properly?
Anything
you like, he can't hear you!
my mum had hypnosis
to give up smoking and shes never smoked since.
she was a really heavy smoker too
stop buying them
at work
i drink out of a bottle of water. or go and get coffees in when i feel like smoking.
try and avoid pubs if there will be other smokers there (less of a problem once the ban starts).
^ this is working for me
early days though, and i still smoke when i drink...
working for me too!
although, this is only the second day...
Don't smoke when you drink
or you'll never give up
Friend
of mine tried the stuff, turned out he was allergic to it. Developed rashes and swellings and all sorts.
I'm sure it was just a one-off
You
make a good point
Tell her to wait for the smoking ban to come in
and her work will pay for her to get quitting help/patches and give her time off to get over it.
Here it is
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2114500.ece
TIME OFF TO GET OVER SMOKING?
WTF?
what a joke! is that true?
weird
i can understand people being given time off work for alcoholism / drug addiction, but smoking is hardly in the same league as far as effects go...
For some people
the withdrawal can be just as bad as 'drug' addiction
i meant more
in the way it affects your life when you're 'on' it, not the withdrawal.
although i was unaware of what you say. must be a tiny minority though?
I don't get it too bad
but I know someone who freaked out when she tried to stop to the point where you couldn't talk to her.
no seriously
that's a fucking joke. it's like letting them out for cigarette breaks. - it can be halfanhour-hour a day outside! what if i did that? and just sat outside for 'a rest'? i wouldn't be allowed.
fucking *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Nicorette gum for a week
then regular chewing gum for 2 weeks. It worked for me the first time, then I did the idiotic thing of smoking again but I'm off them again since yesterday.
oh yeah
you need will power too
for alternative remedies
someone suggested taking up origami to me, apparently its quite a good substitute, i havent got round it yet, otherwise, go see your doctor, theyll help (y)
allen carr book worked for Mr Slicky
try to have a distraction so every time she thinks of smoking do something that'll take the couple of minutes or more for it to pass..make tea, go for a walk, have a shower, have sex
make her remember how horrible it was when starting smoking, it is a struggle to actually start and makes you smell, with yellow teeth, wrinkly and suchlike
^this
it's a great book
How much is a box of cigs in England
They're €7.10 here
about
£5.30 or so these days
Don't
you come on here with your fancy foreign currency. I box of 10 woodbines here comes to £1 6s 3d
:)
show her this:
http://www.csmngt.com/smokers%20lung.jpg
or this
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/54500/54580HmPL_w.jpg
My Mum asked me to give up
She's never asked me before in the 12 years she's known I've smoked, but 3 days before Christmas she was diagnosed with serious heart problems, due in main, to smoking.
Strangely, for the first time in my life, I'm doing really well at this quitting lark.
woah
i gotta stop to.
zyban though,urgh one of the side effects is de-personalisation. and its fucking horrible. you foget who you are.
which im sure for some of you would be an incentive , but nah its nasty.
thanks everyone.