I say ‘cold turkey’, but I did actually develop a serious Fruit Pastille habit for about 6 months – had to work to limit myself to one bag a day, especially as I was supposed to be writing my Masters thesis at the time, and found it really difficult to concentrate for the first few weeks.
Made me chuckle 😆
morgs, keep going mate, no personal experience but know lots of succesful quitters, and all of them did it by just going cold turkey. Patches, gum etc all failed as when they tried to then remove the new habit from their life, they craved nicotine so just sparked up a fag again!
Oh, and whilst tempting, DO NOT think “well I’ve got rid of one bad habit, it can’t hurt if I indulge a little in something else”… Replacing nicotine for coffee will make you just as irritable, and you won’t sleep. Replacing it with food will mean you just gain 3 stone overnight. If you need a habit, take TSY’s advice, eat some fruit instead of smoking a fag. Healthiest thing for you, and I don’t know anyone who’s overweight cos they eat a lot of fruit!
Also, DEFINITELY worth giving up booze for a few weeks. Everyone I know who has quit, then had a couple of drinks inside the first month, has always ended up smoking again. Apparently the temptation is too great just to have a fag when you’ve had a beer, so just lay off the booze for a few weeks until you can trust yourself to have a few pints without wanting a fag. Good luck though, I’m sure you’ll fare better than binners, who every new year whips up a mass frenzied support cos he’s giving up the fags again, then when everything has gone quiet he slips back onto them seemingly… 😉