“Stopping Cigarette Smoking – You don’t really want to stop, or, you’d do this…”
I’ve never had to put any effort into stopping cigarette smoking. I’ve never smoked. When I was about 10 I tried half an inhale and that was enough for me. My parents smoked for a while as I was growing up and it sucked so bad to breathe that in all the time that I just never had the urge.
If I was going to tackle stopping smoking this is how I’d go about it.
I’m going to give you 3 ways to stop cigarette smoking that will work. There’s no telling how long the technique will cure you for, but it will last for weeks almost definitely. Months and years? Yes, quite possibly.
If I could give you three ways to stop smoking and each of these three ways could be completed in less than 2 hours, would you choose to do one of them?
I think that smokers generally don’t really WANT to quit. If I want to do something – I find a way to do it. If I want to stop something I find a way to stop it. If I want others to think better of me and not change my behavior then I talk about what I’m going to do or I halfheartedly attempt something to change the behavior and fall right back into it. That’s being human.
I don’t LISTEN to people that tell me they want to stop. I give them 3 ways to stop and watch their ACTION. Action tells it all. If they want to quit, they’ll quit after doing what I just told them.
I don’t believe that smokers want to quit and that fat people want to get thin. I just don’t BELIEVE it because we are too smart to not understand that something drastic needs to be done if the usual lame attempts are failing.
Supposedly smoking is a strong addiction. I haven’t experienced it but some experts have said that it’s the habit that’s hardest to break. Ask me if cigarettes smell good. Ask someone who smokes. Ask them if they really love the smell and taste. Some will say they do, most don’t. So why do they do it? Too many reasons to go into here. Let’s just concern ourselves with STOPPING smoking in one swift movement.
Below are 3 methods that should work quite well, knowing what I do about psychology and aversive therapy. The trick is to actually DO IT. Complete one of the following techniques and “Presto!” no more smoking for a while. Perhaps forever. You may need to repeat the technique, choose another one or create one of your own that is an even more potent negative experience.
Disclaimer: The following techniques are not doctor recommended, approved, or even suggested. These techniques are an attempt to use “Aversive Conditioning” a highly controversial psychological technique to quell your smoking urge for a period of time, possibly forever. It is NOT recommended that you follow any one of these techniques. But, if you do and you have success, please write in and tell us in the comments section.
Stop Smoking Instant Success Technique 1
Buy yourself 10 packs of cigarettes. Drink some strong coffee without milk or sweetener of any sort. Drink it slowly and swish it around in your mouth as you drink it. The point of this is that you will dry out your mouth after you’re finished. There won’t be much saliva left for what you’re going to do next.
Open all the packs of cigarettes and pull out 60 or 70 of them. I’m not sure how many you’ll need but I seem to recall that the world record for smoking as many cigarettes as possible at once was 100+. If you have a really big mouth you might actually pull-off a Ripley’s World Record using this technique.
Start by grabbing the cigarettes with your hand and molding them into a circle of sorts. I’m thinking you’ll need at least 40 to fill every space in your wide opened mouth.
Put as many cigarettes into your mouth as you can possibly hold. The goal is to smoke them all at the same time. Whatever you do, don’t cough or sneeze as you want this to be a one time deal. You don’t really want to repeat this, do you?
Smoke them down to the filter, and beyond. The key to this technique is that you really experience the full sensation of smoking. If you’ve smoked for years and are still smoking just one at a time you’re cheating yourself. You MUST have worked yourself up to a couple at a time by now – yes? You MUST have. One cigarette isn’t doing it for you anymore, and so you should experience what 40 can do for you. Should be the best experience, yes?
Try your damnedest to smoke down to beyond the filter and you’ll have a more successful stop smoking experience.
Note: This may kill you… but then, that’s success as you’ve stopped smoking – yes?
Total Cash Invested: $15-30
Total Time Invested: 30 minutes
Effectiveness Estimate: 9/10
Stop Smoking Instant Success Technique 2
Buy 4 packs of cigarettes. Sit in your vehicle with the windows rolled up (assuming you don’t have a motorcycle). If you have a motorcycle go into your home and find the smallest closet, empty it out and sit on the floor.
Start chain smoking.
Do not stop until one of the following things occurs:
1.) You get so dizzy that you throw up. Continue smoking after this happens for best negative effect.
2.) You get so nauseous that you can’t see straight, the car is spinning and you pass out. You might want to open the door before you pass out as there IS a limited supply of oxygen in a vehicle with the doors and windows closed if there are no vents open.
3.) You run out of cigarettes. Go back to the store and buy a few more packs and climb back in the car and start again.
Note: This one too – may kill you…
Total Cash Invested: $15-30
Total Time Invested: 30 minutes
Effectiveness Estimate: 10/10
Stop Smoking Instant Success Technique 3
For this one you’ll have to be a little bit creative. You’ll need to pair your smoking with something that is absolutely disgusting to you and the most repulsive thing you can think of.
When I was in Thailand it was easy as I could find waterbugs, silkworm larvae, hairy spiders, scorpions, huge Chinese cockroaches, or other repulsive things. In the states I’d have to find one of the few things that I find utterly repulsive to eat. I think raw liver, and raw eel are two “foods” that have the power to make me projectile vomit if they get within inches of my mouth. Either of those two would work.
So, you find something to eat that will make you so sick to your stomach that you get violently ill. Your mind will be ill too because you are forcing yourself to eat something that previously you’ve maybe never eaten. Most of the problem is in your mind about what you think you can and can’t eat anyway. That’s good because it’s your mind that we want to affect to kill the smoking habit.
If you can’t find just one ingredient that would make you sick, you should combine two or more ingredients that don’t go well together. My brother used to make sandwiches and videotape himself making and eating them. He would put together a sandwich with mustard, mayonnaisse, chocolate syrup, ketchup, pickles, jelly, peanut butter, sauerkraut, and anything else he could find in the fridge and cupboards. It made me almost get sick watching him do it. There must be many things that, when combined, have the power to make you sick. Try raw eel with a vinegar and raw egg mixture. That might work? Would work for me.
So – start by smoking 15 or so cigarettes. Chain smoking them. Then, you’ll want to alternate bites of your favorite food with sucks on your cigarette. You MUST eat something for each inhalation. Continue this until you become so violently ill that you cannot continue. If you do NOT get violently ill then you need to find some food stuff that does the trick.
Total Cash Invested: $15-40
Total Time Invested: 90 minutes
Effectiveness Estimate: 9/10
Stopping smoking for a couple weeks, months or years? Priceless.
Note: This one seems most realistic – and is a good negative smoking experience. Maybe don’t try the other two – they’re too harsh. If it were me? I’d do the most intense experience – so it would work. I’d be free of smoking that day. You think you would want to pick up a cigarette after that?
These three ways should work miracles of success with most individuals. If you want to make doubly sure or triply sure that it works, like if you’re really s-e-r-i-o-u-s about stopping smoking you can do the following…
After you initially become sick – there will be some point where you will start feeling better. At that time you need to could smoke more.
For some people getting violently ill works wonders after just one instance. I remember getting drunk on Tequila in Hawaii at a party while we were camping on the beach at Bellow Air Force Station on the windward side of Oahu in 1986. I didn’t take another drink of Tequila for 12 years after that. I had no interest in it whatsoever. That is the power that getting sick just ONCE has over most people when the experience is especially negative.
If you start to feel better after your initial sickness and can see that there might be a point in the near future where you could continue smoking then you owe it to yourself to continue the process of getting ill by smoking cigarette after cigarette. Maybe it will take you twice or even three times. Not sure.
I’m not a doctor either – so if you try this you try it on your own accord and please don’t drag my name into it. You SHOULD be OK doing this. Some may have long-term effects. Someone might even die from this. Be smart about it and don’t do something beyond the bounds of your own common sense. My idea of common sense, and the rest of the worlds is often at odds.
I think if you really want to stop smoking – and it’s a serious issue for you, you need to do something drastic to change. Do you need to do something THIS drastic? Up to you!
If you try any of these, let us know if you find success!
Best of Life!
Vern
Disclaimer!
The author of this blog is not a medical doctor, nor is he privy to any special knowledge about psychology or stopping smoking techniques that would make him an expert that could recommend to you what methods would work specifically to enable you to safely stop smoking. If you have a serious addiction like smoking that you wish to resolve, you should research extensively the possibility of using some extreme technique like one of those mentioned here or find another that smokers have used safely and successfully to rid themselves of the habit.
Persons with heart conditions or other conditions that are affected by the chemicals in cigarettes may experience profoundly negative effects as a result of following the techniques listed here.
Nobody is telling you that you SHOULD use one of these techniques, only presenting them here for your review and consideration. Your choices are your choices. We cannot make choices for you. ;P
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I have tried a version of what you advised. Several new years ago I sat down and started chain smoking back to back the strongest nastiest cigarettes I could find. Till I puked. Then I smoked more, till I was dry heaving. That was the longest I ever quit and when I started again it was for stupid (rebellion) reasons. This evening I did it again. And can confirm that (for me) the sickness I felt/feel makes me terrified at the thought of picking up a pack. I have 100% faith that I am done and will not start again. I know from my previous attempt that this aversion will wear off, but for me it got me over the hump of cravings. And that’s half the battle.
It’s a harsh way to get over the problem, and as you said – it might not work for a very long time. However, it should work for a while anyway – to get you over the cravings.
This is a bit out of date, but anyway, I felt like commenting. Not sure I could relate to the above ideas having helped me quit, But you know, Vern has said something time and time again that is faultless. “I know I wouldn’t let any addiction ruin my life – I’d do whatever it took to rid myself of it. If I tried many programs that are supposed to help and they didn’t then what am I left with? Succumb to it and live life miserably? Nope. I’ll do what it takes”. That’s what I did.
Now I won’t pretend to be some macho stallion of willpower. I nearly broke and caved hundreds of times. I’m not telling people to quit, but people that want to quit should just do it. I know how hard that is, trust me … but you can do it, honestly. I pretty much did the opposite of what Vern described, After not smoking for a day I ordered myself a take out and had a lovely couple glasses of wine with a rented movie, my fav! This was my reward for seeing it through.
That was just one day and was how I needed to look at it, I couldn’t bare the thought of not having that lovely, pleasurable puff of a Marlboro Gold (My FAV) ever again, so every day, I set the goal to just not smoke for that day. I found it easier to quit for one day, than thinking the rest of my life, because I would have been dragging within minutes :)
– To let you know, I have not smoked for 8 months now and I have no intention to ever start again. I do still look at it from time to time, but there is just no way I could let myself spark up. 3 days and the hard bit is done!
Thought I would write a small bit on what short term phases you will be going through.
Day1: Will be hard.
Day 2: Will be absolute hell (trust me).
Day 3: Will be day 1 and 2 combined.
Day 4: ….. Easy. ( No lies or tricks, didn’t even think about going to buy a puff. Yeah I still thought about smoking, I can’t deny that, but something inside me clicked. The death grip the tabs had on my system have gone ).
Within …
20 minutes Your blood pressure, pulse rate, and the temperature of your hands and feet will all return to normal.
8 hours Remaining nicotine in your bloodstream will have fallen to 6.25% of normal peak daily levels, a 93.25% reduction.
12 hours Your blood oxygen level will have increased to normal and carbon monoxide levels will have dropped to normal.
24 hours Anxieties peak in intensity and within two weeks should return to near pre-cessation levels.
48 hours Damaged nerve endings have started to regrow and your sense of smell and taste are beginning to return to normal. Cessation anger and irritability peaks.
72 hours Your entire body will test 100% nicotine-free and over 90% of all nicotine metabolites (the chemicals it breaks down into) will now have passed from your body via your urine. Symptoms of chemical withdrawal have peaked in intensity, including restlessness. The number of cue induced crave episodes experienced during any quitting day will peak for the “average” ex-user. Lung bronchial tubes leading to air sacs (alveoli) are beginning to relax in recovering smokers. Breathing is becoming easier and the lungs functional abilities are starting to increase.
5 – 8 days The “average” ex-smoker will encounter an “average” of three cue induced crave episodes per day. Although we may not be “average” and although serious cessation time distortion can make minutes feel like hours, it is unlikely that any single episode will last longer than 3 minutes. Keep a clock handy and time them.
10 days – The “average ex-user is down to encountering less than two crave episodes per day, each less than 3 minutes.
You can do it! The only real failure in life is not to try and fail, but to never try at all.
Wow, great comment Ben…
I look at everything like I do addiction… if you don’t want it – change it. If you are so weak inside that you cannot change the things that annoy you, that stress you, that hurt others, that hurt yourself… that’s a very sad state to be in. I think within all of us is the strength needed to kick any addiction. One must just TRY and never stop trying until it’s done. It’s THAT important. Too many people say – “I can’t… I can’t”. That’s BS – you can, you just are too weak to do it at the moment… It starts with your mind making a decision to do it. It continues when your mouth says you’re going to do it. It ends when you refuse to have your ass kicked by it.
Thanks again for your comment Ben – that’s one of the best comments ever on this site. Cheers man…
Hello,
I am a struggling to quit smoker and am just about to start my next attempt. Everything I have done to stop smoking has failed; talking therapies, nicotine replacement(thanks for the 3 day tip), fake cigarettes, cold turkey etc etc.
All the info regarding quitting is patronising, I know what it does to the lungs,throat,mouth etc. That is not the help I need.
So trawling the net for new tips, I googled “but I love smoking”(which is the main reason I can’t actually quit) and found this site.
I cried laughing.
One, these tips actually show what a desperate pathetic nicotine junkie I am.
Two, these tips are the life time of a smoker condensed into a few small hours.
Three, the aversion psychology is perfect.
No I will not be attempting the first two tips and I would not recommend them to anybody although I do threaten my teenager with the first one(stupidly I never thought of threatening them to myself).
I will now threaten myself with the first two as, possibly, maybe just imagining actually doing them will avert me, as I do feel slightly sick(or maybe thats the stomach cramps from laughing).
Vern, do not take offence at the smokers desperately lying to themselves and having a go at you. You placed plenty of “don’t actually do this” and other warnings and disclaimers. I personally thank you from the bottom of my heart,as a smoker, for making an issue which stresses my greatly, (the need to quit ASAP), into a comedy, (albeit I may just have a sick sense of humour).
You could be the next best thing to nicotine replacement. Have you thought of doing an mp3 recording of each tip(maybe in a slightly threatening tone) that quitters could play everytime they get a craving?
Seriously?
A very descriptive account of the dizzy, sick feeling? ( every smoker has had that after a few too many), then the vomiting with retching noises?
Aversion sound therapy?
Thanks anyway,
:)
I think it is not only highly irresponsible of you to submit such suggestions as you have done with these truely dangerous “strategies”, but why the heck are you writing on something you dont even have a clue about. Just to get a sense of reality (and possibly help build a sense of responsibility in you), try not eating for a week. Do that and you will know what the level of “urge” is for smokers. It is not a feeling you can talk yourself out of, you are in a state of “deprivation” and that is what it feels like for smokers. If you really want to help people with quitting smoking, take a little time and research. For instance, check into the ancient hawaiian philosophys, this gives a person a focus which is to repeat frequently when quitting smoking “there is that part of me that has never been addicted, has always been clean and no urges” to just focus on that truth until it feels like your there, Dont even mention the word cigarretted, as it is a que to desire. Or other more constructive and postive approaches.
Bottom line is I, as a recent x-smoker was personally offended by your diatribe. Smoking has become a much greater social issue then viable health one. And it has created a sense that smokers have to deal with today of feeling like 2nd class citizens. The fact that there is minimal evidence of negative effects of 2nd hand smoke when outside is rarely heard of yet, smokers sitting at a bus stop alone for 20 min cant smoke as someone might show up. Geez. This is particularly interesting when the bus stop is one block from the freeway. Some how, the polution is not an issue, just the one little cigarette and THAT PERSON.
I quit for health reasons, but had that not been the case I would have continued as it is MY LIFE, MY DECISION and if you dont like it……move. Thats they way it was for decades, now its not even an option for a smoker to move, he just has to quit!!!. Where is the rights and freedom for that person.
Thanks for writing. Eating and smoking are nothing in the same. Compare cigarette smoking to something else – like smoking crack if you like, but not eating. The two have nothing in common. Check into the ancient Hawaiian philosophies of what? Not smoking? Please send me some pertinent info on that – I’d love to read it.
You say that smoking has become a much greater social issue than viable health issue and then go on to reveal about yourself that you quit for health reasons.
You say…
“The fact that there is minimal evidence of negative effects of 2nd hand smoke when outside is rarely heard of yet”
And that isn’t the entire point, genius. The point is that it offends others to HAVE TO SMELL IT. It’s like smelling dog-stuff on your shoe. If a couple million people loved it – and always had dog-shit on their shoes, it would start to annoy you too I think.
My favorite part of your entire comment is the ignorance you reveal in these 3 lines…
“I quit for health reasons, but had that not been the case I would have continued as it is MY LIFE, MY DECISION and if you dont like it……move. Thats they way it was for decades, now its not even an option for a smoker to move, he just has to quit!!!. Where is the rights and freedom for that person.”
Here’s the problem with that – as it’s obviously taken you a lifetime to come up with that brilliant outlook on your living life with non-smokers and smokers around you.
If you smoked and the smoke didn’t waft over others – right, you can smoke your silly ass off – and it’s your life and your decision. However there are 2 parts of smoking that make it anti-social.
1. Smoke from you drifts into other people’s face where they are then made to deal with something you chose to do. It’s like if you were someone that liked to smell fingernail polish… so, wherever she was, she opened up the fingernail polish and just inhaled the great fumes. People around her don’t like it. Do you think that’s bothering others? Of course you do. It’s like ANYTHING that you did in public that caused offensive odors to emanate from your position. Would you want to sit next to someone smelling fingernail polish in a restaurant? At a bus stop? In your own home? Hell no. Ignorant smokers that haven’t thought much about the issue AT ALL, still hold onto this ridiculous idea that they exist in a vacuum of space where they are inhaling burnt leaves only for their own pleasure and addiction and it isn’t offending anyone else. Or worse, that it doesn’t MATTER that they are offending anyone else.
Here’s a clue Blipette… you’re NOT. You’re not in a vacuum… the smell travels all over the place. You can’t tell it where to go and who to affect. It affects anyone nearby when the air currents are right (or wrong).
It doesn’t matter if we’re comparing smoke smell to fingernail polish or gasoline… or burning rubber, or burning some other leave that stinks like hell, or someone that doesn’t shower, or someone that likes to urinate all over themselves and then not shower, or someone that has urges to light plastic on fire every 10 minutes to watch it drip and make a cool sound.
Here’s another clue for ya Blipette…
2. It doesn’t even matter whether you are actively smoking – you can STILL offend people with your smell after smoking. Smoker’s nose, is supposedly what happens when a smoker has smoked a good portion of his/her life away already and cannot even smell the difference between clean air and smoke smell. Smokers lose the ability to smell themselves. Well, this doesn’t suck for the smoker – but for anyone that must be close to him/her – in any social situation – it REALLY SUCKS. Sitting on a plane, bus, train, or in a carpool with someone that smokes heavily is no fun at all. The smell is rank, and it’s disgusting quite frankly. Great that you can’t smell it and think you’re cool as corn, the others around you are wondering WTF is your problem?
Bottom line is, I, having never smoked, was personally irritated by your diatribe because, though you’ve smoked – you still don’t have any meaningful insight as to your place in a social environment, a social society… the earth we live on. You want people to move away from you when you’re blowing smoke around the place… But, I don’t think you’d sit still for very long if someone was burning plastic next to you at the bus station. It’s another offensive odor – there are thousands we could choose from – cooked broccoli for instance. The smell sucks and nobody should be subjected to smells that suck continually, in different public situations. You shouldn’t be subjected to someone that likes to carry buffalo dung around on a necklace. If there were millions of people doing it in the USA – and you weren’t, you’d probably have issues with it.
Look at yourself and look at what it takes to blend in with society and not cause discord. Smokers are the problem. You have no rights to offend others.
You ask, “Where is the rights and freedom for that person.”
There aren’t any rights when it comes to your rights intruding on others. We all have equal rights. For decades nobody knew how to deal with the smoking issue – now, finally someone is “getting it” and restricting it in a way that makes sense – where it doesn’t offend others that don’t smoke. Smoking is a choice… to continue smoking is a choice… fix it and get with the program.
Fake email, nice… this is usually the case… anonymous people with a differing opinion…
Hi I am “fat” and I smoke. Don’t freaking put people down until you know their situation. Judge not lest you be judged! Now on another note heck no i will not try any of these methods besides being risky they are just plain stupid! And I will criticize if I want to it’s a free world and each person has their own opinion if he didn’t want to be criticized then he shouldn’t have put a comments section after such a post as that!!!!
First of all, yes, all of your quitting techniques might make a person feel sick and never want to smoke again. But that will definitely not last. If you are not a smoker, you will never know the feeling of craving for cigarettes. Your techniques might actually work for people who want to experience it or are thinking about starting to become a smoker. However, we, smokers, know the relief after smoking a cigarette when having a bad day or when you have nothing else to do which is the reason why it’s hard to quit. However you’re right that many people who smoke who say they want to quit, they don’t really want to quit. As an outsider, it seems simple and easy, but really, we all know it’s not.
I don’t mean to make it sound simple or easy, or downplay the amount of effort it takes someone to quit a bad habit long-term. I know it must be a killer craving to attempt to stop. I don’t really understand because I’ve not been there myself.
I am trying to show with this post that there is nothing your mind is incapable of. And, if your mind isn’t coming up with the right solution then you need to go a step further and WIN the battle. Many smokers have tried a dozen different “techniques”. They still smoke.
So, what’s the next step? Talk about how hard it is, or kick it’s ass? In my mind – there’s only one thing to do – KICK ITS ASS. Stop talking about it like it’s the winner and you’re helpless – just go kick it’s ass. The way you kick its ass is to try something stronger, something different, something that might sound ridiculous at first. Is there any doubt in your mind that this is what is necessary? More of the same gets you – more of the same.
First order change is applying things in the usual way to see if it works. Add something – see what results.
Second order change – is destroy whatever is giving you trouble by whatever means you need to, whether that means standing on your head and reciting Tibetan chants while smoking 16 cigarettes at once.
Smokers that can’t quit aren’t really serious – as I’ve said.
Pair extremely strong negative consequences with smoking – and you’ll stop. You can’t not stop if it’s truly negative results everytime you smoke.
Do this – make a promise to yourself that every time you want to smoke you MUST smoke 2 at a time. Double your pleasure. DO IT and see what happens – don’t ever go back on that 1 promise and you’ll stop.
You know why?
1st – it’s negative physically.
2nd – it’s negative socially because now smoking isn’t cool, you’re showing everyone you have serious problem. Even among other smokers they are not going to understand what the hell is wrong with you.
If you can’t even do this simple exercise, you’re not serious and you just need to start enjoying your smoking a lot more and stop fighting it.
You’ve already lost.
I quit six days ago – cold Turkey, after my best friend announced that she had lung cancer. I quit a few years ago when my four year old said he was going to smoke when he grew up. I quit when I was pregnant. It’s easy to quit when something is impacting the life of yourself or a loved one. But as time goes on, you begin to stop thinking about what it is that really made you quit. I think most of us know it is a horrible disgusting habit. It’s a co-dependency — you just don’t know what to do with yourself when you are not smoking. I hope I can make it to day seven. I will not use a nicotine substitute I believe that is a scam to keep you addicted, especially considering the nicotine is actually out of you’re system in three days! I guess the industry has to find ways to substitute you’re nicotine expenditure.
Wow – thanks for your comment! I understand about the relapses… all you can do is keep trying – don’t stop trying. When you realize you’ve relapsed – don’t just accept you lost. Try again. Easy to say from my point of view I’m sure you’re saying, but, really – are you going to win the game or lose it? You’re going to WIN it because you’re more powerful than any unconscious motivation you have to keep smoking. Kick it.
Really? The nicotene has left your body in 3 days – that’s good to know. It does seem ridiculous then that the nic substitutes keep you pumping with it for days, weeks, months after you quit… Seems to be delaying the process quite a bit. Realize that the mental game is the biggest part of it – not the physical withdrawal… the mental game you must win. What to do with yourself when you find yourself walking out the door at break time at work to smoke one like you always have?
Good luck to you – kick it this time – and for good…
Your stop smoking suggestions are quite risky. Nausea is a symptom of nicotine poisoning which can lead to death.
It takes approximately three packs of cigarettes (depending on the individual’s weight and amount of nicotine in the cigarettes) to get nicotine poisoning. You’re suggesting people consume greater quantities to help them stop smoking. Sure, they won’t be able to smoke when they’re dead.
That you are making these suggestions with no apparent medical training, or even any experience as a smoker is extremely negligent and dangerous. I hope your readers have the good sense to try some methods other than those you have suggested.
I wouldn’t have bothered to post this if I wasn’t concerned that your suggestions could put someone’s life at risk. Please stick to technology. You have no business offering medical advice.
Yes, as I’ve said in the disclaimers the suggestions I made are quite risky. Hopefully everyone that reads this can take that into account. That said, aversive therapy works. If you’re clutching at last straws and you feel like cigarettes or some other addiction is ruining your life – it might be worth it to you to take risks. I know I wouldn’t let any addiction ruin my life – I’d do whatever it took to rid myself of it. If I tried many programs that are supposed to help and they didn’t then what am I left with? Succumb to it and live life miserably? Nope. I’ll do what it takes. Failure is not an option. Waiting around for the medical community to come up with some sanctioned program that everyone feels good about could take 10 more years. 20? How long have they tried already? Aversive conditioning, aversive therapy has worked for many people – first time. In 24 hours you could stop. I like the power of that. Yes, some people will have a horrible experience and maybe kill themselves… as I said, it’s very risky and don’t try it…
sorry but if you do not smoke how would you know these methods work and im pretty sure 10packs of ciggarettes is more than $15-30. tho i am not from the states so wouldn’t know the pricing. and smoking acctually keeps a roof over peoples heads. its is a billion dollar business. but not everyone at the company is earning millions etc and also did u ever consider that smoking is africa’s main export…
Hi MM,
Aversive therapy works – one need not experience it to see it work on others.
I’m gonna chain smoke the strongest cigarettes I can find until I puke.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
I quit smoking 2 days ago and found the urge to smoke so I figured I would do some reading to get my mind off of it. Thank you for taking the time to post this Vern! Very entertaining And to all of you whom criticize him, cry me a freakin river!!!!!!!!!!! Pansy!!!!!BLAH BLAH I have smoked for 10 years, not that I am proud of that but I am proud of 2 days under my belt!!
Kick it’s ass my nameless friend! I know I’ve posted the stop smoking guide here – the free PDF – wait, let me find a link for it – it’s an amazing guide (not mine) >> Patrick Meninga’s Stop Smoking Guide >
Will people who fight others for trying to help- go do something else. If you cant respect yourself enough to stop smoking then don’t argue with others that are trying to help. Its a choice. I agree and trying to get people to beg you to stop is a way to get attention just like the attention u get when u light up that cigarette.Cool huh!! (thats sarcasm) I found depositions between tabacco companys agreeing upon there products effects.If you want to wait till you have emphysema or cancer it’s your choice. If you want to wait till your child picks up the habit it’s your choice: however there are consequences. Some people learn the hard way. If that’s what it takes.
What a waste of time, man. You see, all of these large dose techniques do not work for someone who has been smoking for a while.
When you catch someone on their first time, sure I believe all these techniques would work perfectly.
Smoking large amounts at once is not what people are trying to quit, they’re trying to quit the pack over the course of the day, not the hour.
Hi G,
Not sure what you mean – those large dose techniques don’t work for those that have been smoking for a while. They’ve gotta work! Are you saying you smoke so much that you can’t smoke enough to make you nauseous and throw up repeatedly?
If so, you’ll have to resort to more extreme techniques… burn yourself with fire every time you light a cigarette… just hold it under your palm for a few seconds and see if that’s aversive enough for you.
The point is – aversive therapy works. If you’re doing something that’s not aversive – FIND something that is. Can’t be that hard to find something that forces you into a state of mind that makes you hate whatever you’re doing to yourself over and over.
Can it?
Of course I’m joking about burning yourself with fire – you know that right? I am, right? lol… Please read my disclaimer on this page a couple times…
My father had a story about back when he smoked. Namely, when he decided he wanted to stop, he just did. This was after 5 years or so of smoking, and not casually. Cigarettes show up in all the pictures of him from that era.
Maybe he’s not a good example though. They always made him a bit nauseous. He decided that the (diminishing!) payoff from smoking no longer exceeded the nauseousness it caused.
I don’t gather that a cigarette makes most people nauseous, especially not when they’ve been using them for a while. Between that and a few other items, his experience probably doesn’t generalize well.
Great story – because that’s as difficult as it is sometimes. You want to stop, and you just do. Some people are incredibly strong minded like that. I am for certain things. For me, it’s exercise. If I was planning to exercise that day – it would take an act of god (or girlfriend) to stop me. I don’t care how I feel about it or what I think about it, I just go as if on auto-pilot.
Most of us aren’t that way though – hence the multi-billion dollar per year industry to help people STOP smoking.
I had a friend, Ivan. I say “had” because I don’t know why he isn’t writing me back anymore… but, I must have done or said something that struck him the wrong way. Anyway, Ivan used to smoke right before bed because it helped him sleep. It actually made him loopy man – like he was on drugs. If you saw his face after he smoked his one cigarette before bedtime you’d wonder – what the hell is he on?
He told me they were just tobacco cigarettes – but, there’s room for doubt in my mind!
Thanks for writing Nathan.
Yeah, nice theories there buddy.
But if you’ve never been addictedy, I really don’t understand how you could compare?
Were you a drug addict? Or something? Maybe I’d understand then.
Good theories, but ‘smoking yourself sick,’ is not the best thing to tell people, alot of your audience probably not being intelligent adults.
I’d guess most of the people that read this blog are intelligent enough to realize I’m half joking with these scenarios. I only say half joking because if it were me – I’d do anything possible to clean up my breath, the smell of my clothes, car, and house.
This is a good read. I’ve always said that if you really want to stop smoking put every cigarette you smoke (after deciding to quit) out in the palm of your hand. That’d get you to quit real quick.
That’s hilarious! I don’t think I’ve ever been called preposterous either.
I smoke, I’m not quitting, cause you’re right, I don’t want to! Some day, like when the Dr. makes me I suppose.
I don’t think I’ve ever been called preposterous, so thanks for adding to the list. I think whatever someone needs to do to stop something that controls their life is the answer. People try ‘respectable ways’ and they don’t work for all people. I think better to go to the extremes rather than be governed by a habit that affects you and those around you negatively, every single day of your life.
I challenge you to do something preposterous and end your smoking addiction in the next 3 days.
you are in no respectable way helping anybody…you are preposterous
Thanks brother dave… I know we have similar ideas about smoking! This very effective therapy can be applied to many other areas of life too… You know?
freaking hilarious AND effective. Nice ideas.
dm