quitting smoking: easier or harder than pill WD?

[troubleinohio]

I know alot of you have smoked (or still do)...how is different from quitting pills? is it truly harder? I mean I should know this because I have quit smoking before, but never for very long, i always went back to it quickly. I think the longest I ever made it was a week except when i was pregnant. Now that I am over 80 days off Vicodin, I am wondering how much different it will be to quit the smokes? Will it be harder or easier? I set my quit date for Saturday..meaning that Friday night at 11:59 pm would be the last time I ever light a cigarette. I really need to do this. I was supposed to quit over a month ago anyways but then i had all that drama with my husband going on and i just couldnt make myself quit when that was happening (yeah, stupid, always finding an excuse to use, right?) But anyhow I made up my mind and tomorrow will be my last day of cigs.  What should I expect and is there anythign that will help? is there a "thomas recipe" for nicotine WD?? LOL   Or do I just gotta suffer it out with no help? Im pretty nervous about this...i ended up probably picking the wrong week to do this, I have major PMS right now so my moods arent too great to begin with, LOL   but oh well, I picked the date and am stickign with it so will just have to deal with it grumpier or not. Just looking for any advice you veteran ex smokers may have for me though!    

[gizzy32]

im going cold turkey. trouble you are hilarious, yes i would have those patches stuck all over me and i don't need another overdose, 4 were enough, lol. i want this bad, i just have to pump myself up about it. since you don't have w/d's from coke, i know i will w/d from smokes. i gonna be one mean son of a bitc h for a couple days so im warning ya'll now, haha.

[allaboutmary]

I am lighting a cigarette and will contemplate this question.
Oh did you see the e-cigarette on the news the other day.  It is run on batteries and blows smoke.It's just to take care of the mental part of the addiction. It's brand new out and they cost 200.  I signed up for a free trial on the local news.  We shall see.

[VicUser]

How bad do you want to quit? I smoked for several years and wanted to quit while my wife was pregnant with our first son. I loved smoking, I enjoyed all aspects of it. I thought about quitting for about a month and thought about ways to taper off. This was way before patches, gum, ect one day I was by a pond and bent over and the pack of cigarettes fell out of my pocket and into the water. That was the last I smoked, it was hard for about 5 yrs not to give in. It’s been 24 yrs since I quit and at times a cigarette still sounds good.  

My advice, when you have decided that you really want to quit and throw away what you have left and stop. It’s hard but you can do it, just be strong.

[troubleinohio]

Gizzy i can see you now with 20 patches stuck all over your body, a couple hanging on your forehead covernign half your eyes even lmao.  Hey about the nicotine gum...i was considering that myself and just looked at some today at the store...cripes sakes the cheapest box they had was 42 dollars!!! i was like screw that!! that costs way more than cigs LOL  So Im not gonna use anything like that......and Id never try that Chantix...ive heard too many scary things about that, and i surely dont need to take a nother pill anyways even though "its not addicting". I will just do it the old fashioned way...COLD TURKEY.  I cant taper cigs either, just like i couldnt taper my vicodins. Im sure tomorrow I will be puffing my head off so bad, knowing its my last day that I'll be wheezing and coughing so bad by the night that I'll be on the verge of going to ER for not being able to breathe, lol.   So thats my plan... and btw, Im one of the worst hard core smokers...heavy smoker.......i go outside even when its 20 below zero out just to have a cig all day long. I used to even put my smokes waaaaay out in the back of our acerage and make myself walk 10 acres through the woods in the cold just to get my stupid cigs and even that didnt deter me...so that gives you an idea of how badly crippled I am by this addiction. Im really nervous about doing this since I am so horribly addicted. But i HAVE to... i have breathing problems.......really bad at times. And it will be a miracle if I dont die of cancer from these things. Im sure Ive done irreversable damage (Ive smoked for 22 years now!!!!!!!) So by quitting, Im hoping I can at least hold off the onset of cancer for awhile longer so i can live long enough to see my kids go through school for heavens sake!  Im tired of being a slave to these cancer sticks!      
PS-- that is a good idea about carring a picture with you of black cancerous lungs! I think i will print that out and keep it on me as a reminder when i get a craving! They havea lot of pictures and great info on WHYQUIT.COM if you want to check that site out. It has tons of tips, suggestions, info, support , everything. its a great site. I still havent gone through everything on it, its so large.

[gizzy32]

ive decided im setting a quit date to stop smoking. may 1st. im gonna do this, never tried, but man if could quit coke, this will be a catwalk. im gonna come on here and whine and complain, cause ill be ***** y for a few days, lol, so ya'll better be ready. haha. im gonna do this

[Oxy_Moron]

Wow, that's so subjective because it will be different for different folks. For me after 27 years of smoking, back in April of 2000 I decided it was time to throw my butt on the floor and stomp on it for good. I had 2 packs left from a carton and decided I was going to be quit by the time those two packs were gone. I took all smokes, lighters and ashtrays outside to the most inconvenient place I could put them and if I did go out to take a smoke, it would only be a couple of puffs. It turned out to be a great motivator because by the time the first pack was finished, I was tired of the whole thing and never even opened the second pack...the stale thing must be around here someplace still. Having to slog outside whenever I wanted to have a nico shot just wasn't worth it. I'm trying the same method getting off the pills--well, at least as far as tapering goes. The caviat here is when I started the addiction to the pain pills, it seemed like all my good judgements went outta the window, and I picked the butts up again back in '05. I guess like all addictions, you are never safe from going back to it, but I'm only going to try to tackle one addiction at a time...don't think I can put down the butts and the pills at the same time. Seems like human beings are the only animals that are happy and willing to seek out ways to purposely poison themselves...higher inteligence INDEED! lol!