(Part 3) Top products from r/stopsmoking

> why wait?

Why wait, indeed! Good for you.

I've been reading The Willpower Instinct, and I know it sounds cheesy to turn to self-help books, but it's made quitting this time around a breeze. Granted, it's only been one day since I 'officially' quit, but the book made working my way down from half a pack to half a cigarette a day pretty simple.

A few great tips from the book:

• Apply the 10 minute rule. When a strong craving comes on, tell yourself, "ok, but in 10 minutes." Then at the end of those 10 minutes, do it again.
  
• Write down all the reasons you quit, then, just before a craving is scheduled to hit (like before your drive to work, or whatever triggers you), look at it the list and tell yourselves you'll have all those things (good health, better skin, easier time breathing, etc), or you could have a cigarette. Generally, your brain will side with whatever reward you promised it first. I usually chew Nicorette at the same time - just before the craving is due.
  
• Don't think about what you deserve (ie: I've worked hard, I deserve a cigarette). Instead think of what you want (I don't want breathing to be a labor).
  
  Anyways, here's the book. I'd recommend listening to it on tape, CD, Audible, or whatever while you're in the car, if car smoking is one of your triggers.

You need to change your perspective. Smoking is not relieving your anxiety, it's causing it. The only relief you are getting is the temporary relief from nicotine withdrawal. The thing is, the more you smoke, the more you want to smoke. When I quit about 6 years ago, I wrote down why I smoked, and why I wanted to quit. It became pretty obvious that I smoked because I was addicted to smoking. I was willing to smoke in the freezing cold just to ease the withdrawal. Does that sound like something enjoyable? Simply changing your outlook on smoking and ceasing to ingest nicotine is the best way I've found to quit. I've read Allen Carr's book on quitting drinking, and I'm sure the smoking book is similar. Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Smoking-Now-Allen-Carr/dp/1848373732

I didn't know about the book when I quit and I educated myself on http://www.whyquit.com. Quitting smoking is the single best thing you can do to improve your health. You owe it to yourself.

i would highly recomend reading this book as you start your journey. it will give you a lot better insight into stopping then just white knuckling it... biggest advice is focus on one thing at a time. you only have enough will power to diet or stop smoking. overloading yourself will result in relapse. you are young and have plenty of time for self improvement. take small well planted steps and you will be amazed at how far you can travel. GOOD LUCK

Here is a Google Sheets of my 4 day workout I am doing if it helps:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qC1na5K2oX6ObtO8LrErcRGDRltaC5o2Bcwm-Ko64TY/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to edit it or copy it over to your account or print it.

Weights: Depending on where you are with lifting right now - these are the up to 24lb Power blocks:

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Block-GF-SPDBLK24-Adjustable-SpeedBlock/dp/B000A6T9I8/ref=lp_2598805011_1_3?srs=2598805011&ie=UTF8&qid=1500681343&sr=8-3

or these are the 50lb version that can be expanded as you get stronger: http://a.co/e4WxgAW

I also purchased the stand for the weights to make life easier: http://a.co/1syQ1Rl

and this 5.1 bench: http://a.co/eSYlK2N

With this equipment, you can do basically the entire workouts on the sheet I made minus the dips which I bought another piece of equipment for because I love dips.

Don't know much about yoga but hope this might help

Oh, wow, there is: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Women-Stop-Smoking-Revolutionary/dp/1402765509

Maybe it won't be so uhhh.. british? as the original book.

Thanks for the insight, and good work on your upcoming 30 day chip!

Freedom from Nicotine by John Polito. It is available as a free pdf download at WhyQuit, http://whyquit.com/ffn/index.html , or it can be purchased in paperback or for kindle from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Nicotine-The-Journey-Home/dp/1478333022 .

With the power of habit, amazing things are possible.

Great book to read while quitting - https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X

Nice. Hope it is fun and useful :D

I'm actually not a huge reader... more of a listener.... but a book that comes up again and again is The power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. As you may have gathered, I kinda like the mindfulness concept (which is a component of DBT), and I believe Eckhart Tolle's book is to mindfulness what Allen Carr's book is to quitting smoking.

Check out this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Smoking-Stay-Stopped-Good/dp/0091917034/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320353179&sr=8-2

It worked for me for a while. I didn't do one step of it and that is where I messed up. But it was a great read and really puts how to deal with your smoking in a logical manner that accepts the cravings and doesn't try to have you battle with your own urges. I think if you did all the steps you will be smoke free.

Hope this helps.

May i recommend The Mind Illuminated. After meditating with Headspace (app) for 3 months and feeling stalled, I picked up this book and it's been revolutionary. Not taking anything way from Headspace, it's still great and got me to create the habit of daily sitting.

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Complete-Meditation-Integrating/dp/0990847705?ie=UTF8&keywords=mind%20illuminated&qid=1464278957&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Quit! And Stay Quit is a very effective textbook-style version of a cognitive behavioral approach. I read a bit of it before I saw EasyWay and both were very effective.

My therapist actually just recommended this book for me, I think it would greatly benefit you as well!

I hope someone who has actually read this chimes in but as far as I know, it’s a quit smoking book. The writer smoked for 30 years and wrote a book about how he easily quit and I see a lot of now non smokers on this sub that speak a lot about it. Here is the Amazon link.

The Miracle of Mindfulness appears to be by someone else:

• https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mindfulness-Introduction-Practice-Meditation/dp/0807012394
  
  When I google a sentence above, I get hits for "The Secret," which is by Osho:
  
• http://www.osho.com/iosho/library/read-book/online-library-practicing-meditation-smoking-2cb3c8b8-c1c?p=360d1cb4c838798b75f60d626b05225a
  
  Which is it? The passage is intriguing, so it'd be nice not to have folks buying the wrong thing!

in general nutrition seems to play a vital role.
How not to die speaks about this at lengths - Fantastic Book Btw

Nice im gonna give them a read. I wanted to also
read http://www.amazon.com/The-Hearts-Code-Tapping-Wisdom/dp/0767900952

This book is amazing.

The anger faded for me after a while.

I hate Alan Carr's book, and it never once worked for me. I find him too patronizing. I could imagine that if you read his books multiple times it'd be worse, as there really isn't a lot of information in it, just a lot of talking and pseudo-hypnotism.


Maybe try something written by an academic, dealing in facts and history (i.e. make yourself sick) (I've been meaning to read this one):
http://www.amazon.ca/Golden-Holocaust-Cigarette-Catastrophe-Abolition/dp/0520270169/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0


I'm looking at my quit differently this time. Cigarettes aren't merely a poor personal choice. They're a weapon designed to suck all the life, time, and resources out of me so that I never have the power to change the things in the world I'd like to change (and it's that feeling of helplessness that causes me to smoke, which is funny when you think about it).

I quit adderall when I quit smoking. I had to because addy just makes you chain smoke like you're running an unhealthy marathon. No matter what you're better off without the ciggs and without the adderall. My first week was pretty horrible in terms of concentration and productivity... but slowly it came back - the natural way. The main reason for quitting adderall (besides smoking) was the side effects of an enlarged heart. That did not sound cool to me.

I really do think ADD is in our heads. It's not a real disease. If you're having problems with productivity, read the Now Habit. If you're diets poor... go watch Forks over Knives. I'm becoming a believer that being shitty in life can be attributed to poor habits and poor diet. I didn't think I would be saying those things 3 months ago but here we are.