I can't stop smoking

[swordpath]

I'm not concerned about getting off the gum. As long as I'm not smoking, I don't care if I chew the gum till I die.

Just as an experiment you should try replacing your nicotine gum with regular, sugar-free chewing gum. Maybe it's more of an oral fixation thing.

 

[jixmixfix]

When I quit smoking, it was easy because I never felt any addiction even while I was a smoker. I simply stopped. Now I only smoke them when I am in a situation in which a cigarette would be irresistible. Which is when drinking.

So I guess what I recommend is paying attention to when you really, really can't resist a cigarette, and then figure out creative ways to keep yourself from smoking for each of those situations. But really it will just come down to willpower. You have to remind yourself that you have control over your actions, and you can direct your mind, not be a slave to it.

Your mind becomes such a slave to them it really feels like something is missing when you don't have them.

 

[swordpath]

It will pass if you just get over the initial withdrawal.

 

[Tiltyred]

Just as an experiment you should try replacing your nicotine gum with regular, sugar-free chewing gum. Maybe it's more of an oral fixation thing.

No. It isn't. Chewing gum is cheaper and easier to buy in flavors that I like. It's not the gum, it's the nicotine.