[jenniepepsi]

Hello all.

I have pretty much kicked the accuall chemical addiction to ciggarettes I had. I go for WEEKS without one and have no issues nor withdrawl symptoms.


However even after weeks of no smoking, if I go anywhere that there is a smoker, I feel that physical addiction to need to hold the ciggarette and suck on it. I just can't seem to find a way around it.

Its not really affecting my ability to NOT smoke. But how can I make these physical habits stop (the holding, sucking, inhaling, blowing out, ect)

I can't really stay away from it, as everyone at my moms place smokes and I can't NOT go over there because my daughter has a sleep over every weekend at their place.

And I've tried chewing gum, I've tried sucking on suckers and other candies, it just doesn't do it for me. :(

And I've tried those plastic fake ciggarette inhaler things, and all that does is burn my throat :(

[Catsmine]

I lit my most recent one three and a half years ago. I go through four packs of tic-tacs a day now, and I still have the oral fixation. I haven't quit smoking yet, I just haven't lit the next one.

[twinkiedooter]

I successfully quit smoking by visualizing that I was on the subway in New York City where you cannot smoke (even though it was a good 15 years after moving away from NYC). I would just keep remembering that I was on the subway. I'd pound the desk at work with my clinched fists or pound the kitchen table at home and kept saying to myself that I was on the subway.

After 2 weeks you should really have no physical cravings for a cig. What I think you have is the psychological craving. Have you tried any self hypnosis on yourself to see if you can stop your cravings that way? Self hypnosis is relatively easy. If you want some info on my techniques just PM me and I'll be happy to pass along to you.

[artlady]

I lit my most recent one three and a half years ago. I go through four packs of tic-tacs a day now, and I still have the oral fixation. I haven't quit smoking yet, I just haven't lit the next one.

You must have wonderful breath :D

[jenniepepsi]

Thanks everyone ;)

Yeah I know its just the psychological issue. I have tried self hypnosis/self relaxation whenever I get the desire. It helps a little. But as soon as I open my eyes again it's there. Lol.

Its probably something I'm going to have to live with forever. And ill just have to get the will power to NOT do it.

[passmeby]

I had a boyfriend a looooong time ago that was asian, and he had a family member in his native country send him these metal fake cigarettes... OMG, they were great! They were just right, right size, good taste and they didn't irritate the throat! I soooo wish I could find those, but all I can find are those plastic ones!

[zippit]

The only way I have ever been able to quit is cold turkey,they say that doesn't hold the best I agree.last time I quit was right after hurricane IKE came through.I got on a green tea kick and stopped any alcohol and smoking it was all good for two months and I gave in to a beer, then my wife smokes so that is like impossible.I started cigars and next thing you know right back where I started.
For nervous fidgeting try one of those squishy balls I forgot what they are called

[passmeby]

Were the plastic cigarettes you had the prescription kind?

[jenniepepsi]

No passmeby they were from the store, and you can buy little capsule things that you insert into it to get the niccotine. Let me see if I can find the product...

[jenniepepsi]

Here you go...

[passmeby]

Can I ask what store you got them at? I might be interested in trying them out! Or if you could give me their proper name so I could look them up online? Those are def not the ones I was thinking of!

[jenniepepsi]

Mmm aparently my hubby got it from a friend. And doesn't know where his friend got it from.

Wow. That's scary. Remind me never to take anything my husband gets from a friend :P who knows what it is.

[jmjoseph]

Jennie,

I worked with a guy years ago that satisfied the oral fixation of quiting smoking by cutting a cigarette length piece of drinking straw. Whenever he was craving that feeling, he'd suck on the straw. They're practically free and harmless. I quit 6 years ago, and know how tough it is. I'm pulling for you.

[jenniepepsi]

Thanks jm, I tried that. But it didn't work because it wasn't the same feeling. But I could try stuffing tissue in it for some inhaling resistance :P

[passmeby]

I tried that, but with a pen instead of a straw! I stuffed it with cotton balls that I put Vick's Vapo Rub on! Ah... but it didn't work unfortunately! But I was still smoking at the time though, I was using it to try to cut down, so it might be different to someone who has already quit.

[jmjoseph]

Why not just use a cigarette. But first, throw out your lighters.

[jenniepepsi]

Haha wouldn't work jm.

Unfortunately I grew up in the south (or at least my mothers version of the south) and I light my ciggarettes on the stove :P and its not a gas stove either :P its an electric one. The old fasioned coils and all :P hehe.

[passmeby]

LOL, I'd go for the toaster first if I didn't have a lighter, but there's been a few times I used the stove in the past! I don't allow smoking inside my house since my girls were born, so I can't do that anymore!

[jmjoseph]

haha wouldnt work jm.

unfortunately i grew up in the south (or at least my mothers version of the south) and i light my ciggarettes on the stove :P and its not a gas stove either :P its an electric one. the old fasioned coils and all :P hehe.

It should be: "fortunately, I grew up in the SOUTH..."

[jenniepepsi]

Lol I didn't REALLY grow up in the south. But I was raised 'southern' I grew up in Washington state but my mom was born and raised and spent most ofher adult hood in little rock Arkansas