Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips !

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feeds@yuku.com (bugabug) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:22:55 GMT

Such great ideas from way back!

I love a bubble bath. So I picture myself relaxing in the tub surrounded by bubbles. I also just discovered peppermint tea. Very nice to sip on.

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feeds@yuku.com (cxb cxb) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:23:00 GMT

Showers.

Complimenting other quitters. (don't want to be a hypocrite!)

Reading whyquit stories, sending positive thoughts to those who have passed and those who have lost.

Meditation. Even if I only do it for 5 or 10 minutes, the effects can last the rest of the day.

Yoga balancing poses. Settles your mind and makes you feel strong!

Accepting that my mind is made up. There's no need for a debate. I...

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feeds@yuku.com (Just Hannes) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:44:00 GMT

I don't smoke.

That's how I handle a crave.

Go away crave. I don't smoke and I never ever will smoke again. Not even a puff!

I can even get angry at the crave.

Tss Tss now go away. Just like you make a cat go away Tss Tss GO AWAY!!!!!

The crave goes away.(Takes 2/3 minutes normal but my craves are so scared they go away faster)

In the end I...

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feeds@yuku.com (Nico Free Me) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:30:00 GMT

I have to agree with the shower tip. Another good one for me is a nice HOT relaxing bath.

John

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feeds@yuku.com (Meeshe) — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:39:00 GMT

I never avoided my craves by thinking about something else or doing something else. I confronted the crave. I would think about the nasty biological addiction I had and I would remind myself that this chemically induced nicotine crave would go away in 3 minutes. It wasn't ME who wanted to smoke, I wanted to quit.

And I could survive 3 minutes! If I could handle talking to my mother for 20 minutes, then I could handle--wait a minute, the...

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feeds@yuku.com (bdc880) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:38:00 GMT

I have read in a lot of posts, people asking what to do while driving as this seems to be a place we all liked to light up. In a world where smoking is so unacceptable, this for me was a safe haven for feeding my addiction. Now in my car, I have all my favorite CD's and when I am having a craving, I crank up one of my favorite songs and sing along. It takes my mind off smoking and also makes me feel happy and free.

BDC

35 days...

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feeds@yuku.com (nikki 1973 free) — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:29:00 GMT

Oranges - and lots of them:) I also found brushing my teeth after every meal was really helpful as those times were difficult for me initially. That minty taste is way better than the stinky dry throat and mouth we had as smokers!

When things got tough, I would repeat a few mantras over and over and over in my head until the crave passed, such as:

If I have a problem and choose to smoke - then...

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feeds@yuku.com (no4thewin) — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:54:00 GMT

Hot herbal tea. There's a nice selection to choose from and I decided on herbal cuz it has no caffiene and was a unexplored ave. of beverages for me that turned out to be a good thing:P

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feeds@yuku.com (MomTo5Girls) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:52:00 GMT

For me, it has been hard candy, icy cold bottled water, sugar free chewing gum and my kids. I've never smoked while showing my kids attention. I always smoked outside and they were not allowed to be out there with me. So, in addition to the candy, water, gum, one of my ways to cope is to get down on the floor and play with the kids. Or, sometimes right now I'll yell in a silly voice "Dance!!" and we turn on the radio and dance for a few minutes, no matter what anyone happens...

Re: Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips !

feeds@yuku.com (ZZRSteve GOLD) — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:03:00 GMT

Also, see:

Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator

Why am I still having...

Re: Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips !

feeds@yuku.com (nancy999) — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:38:00 GMT

Here are the ones that worked for me. Remember, everyone is different!

For lurkers: I did my first 72 hours over a long weekend. To insure the quit for myself, I made sure I would have NO reason to leave my house. I gave all of my cash, credit cards and car keys to my family for safe keeping. I big issue for me was always having them near and on hand (I'd count before going to bed to make sure I had enough ciggs ).

Read Read Read. For me, reading...

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feeds@yuku.com (sondrat123) — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:21:00 GMT

sandy -a nicotine addict who hasn't smoked or used nicotine for Twenty Three Days, 19 Hours and 40 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 1 Day and 5 Hours, by avoiding the use of 357 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $53.65.

I have been using a rubber band around my left wrist. When the "thought" comes to me or I get that empty, restless feeling that I'm missing something, I snap the rubber band to get my...

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feeds@yuku.com (John (Gold)) — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:42:00 GMT

It's been about 15 years since I quit smoking cold turkey. Have to say It was the most difficult thing I've done in my life. Think it helps to have, or develop, a stubborn streak about the situation--when cravings struck, I reminded myself the tobacco companies were literally banking on the addiction's hold.

No "tricks", other than putting a few butts and some water into a baby food jar. (Cutting...

Re: Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips !

feeds@yuku.com (John (Gold)) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:50:00 GMT

Don't Let Any Tip Become a Crutch

A crutch is any form of dependency recovery...

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feeds@yuku.com (CindyL 106) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:27:00 GMT

This is a slightly silly crave coping tip from a newbie....I bought some outrageously nice smelling, super soft (shea butter) hand lotion and took it to my office. Whenever I have a crave, I take a few minutes to put lotion on my hands. It satisfies the need to "do something" with my hands, smells great, and makes my hands nice and soft to make up for all the smoking years when they were dry, yellow and stinky

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feeds@yuku.com (John (Gold)) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:16:00 GMT

As you begin to dose off tonight you'll greet a moment in time when the conscious and subconscious minds come closest. I encourage you to use this window of opportunity, just before falling to sleep, to calm any remaning deep inner anxiety producing fears and to feed your mind the most positive image you can of a reclaimed life that is beginning to notice and...

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feeds@yuku.com (nosmokinvickie) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:54:00 GMT

I have been reading articles from this site and deep breathing as well. i am mostly just trying to keep my hands busy and i have been crocheting and teaching myself to sew plus i brush my teeth a lot... You don't want a cigarette after brushing your teeth!!!

Vickie

I have been quit for 6 Days, 21 hours, 55 minutes and 26 seconds (6 days). I have saved $16.59 by not smoking 82 cigarettes. I have saved 6 hours and 50 minutes of my life. My Quit...

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feeds@yuku.com (libby111605) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:34:00 GMT

The best thing for me is to come to this site and read - calms me right down!

Libby - 7 weeks, 3 days quit

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feeds@yuku.com (Joel) — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:10:00 GMT

I saw where a newer member wrote that she picked up on the idea of using cinnamon sticks to help her quit smoking and got the idea from a suggestion on our board. I only found a few strings that ever mentioned cinnamon sticks, and all of them that I could find except this one had the link to Crutches to Quit Smoking attached to them. While some...

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feeds@yuku.com (Rickrob53 Gold) — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:02:00 GMT

Joel posted a new thread: What was withdrawal really like? , and it made me remember some techniques that got me through some pretty intense craves when I first quit:

Water, hard candy, mental calmness, and deep breathing.

When a crave would strike, I'd drink a glass of cool water, suck on a hard candy (mint worked for me), sit quietly,...

Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips !

feeds@yuku.com (John (Gold)) — Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:16:00 GMT

Freedom's Best Crave Coping Tips!

Each of us have used our own little methods of passing the time during a crave. You may think...