Reddit mentions: The best smoking recovery books

Hey, good luck with giving up. I gave up for about 8 years after reading this book, from being about a 40 a day man. Just for full disclosure, I did start again (as a rational choice, not because I felt I had to believe it or not- work related). But have stopped again, for a few weeks this time via the same method. It's really easy, and I found it almost impossible before reading that book. It goes into detail of the psychology of smoking and how the feeling of self denial is what triggers the 'cravings' for cigaretts. Really interesting to read, even if you weren't a smoker.

For me, I modify it slightly, I use a regime of nicotine replacements to work my way through the physical addiction part of it, mainly because I can't afford the downtime of having a day or two being grumpy and feeling off.

I start off on the 4mg niquitin CQ lozenges as you can tailor the nicotine dose easily by 'shaving' bits of the tablet off (makes sense if you use them), then go down to the 2mg one. Then I go to the 4mg micro tablets (as they are more discrete, but you can't control the dose so effectively), then the 1.5mg version of them, then the 1mg lozenges and, by then, it's easy just to wean yourself off. I'm sure I could go 'cold turkey' over it, but my view is if we have the technology to make it less unpleasant then why not use it.

Anyways, good luck with that, really, that book and a graduated nicotine replacement programe work well for me, to the point it's easy to give up this way (and, for me, I find it staggeringly hard any other way), so, should you have difficulties, bear it in mind. There is no real downtime, and, once you get used to the 4mg tablets you end up preferring them to smoking, as you get your sense of smell and, to some degree, health back even whilst on them. Good luck, and yeah, contrary to what many people say, you do get out of it and never look back. That always worried me when I was trying to quit first time.

TL;DR, good luck, but if you have problems look at that book I recommended above, and think of a nicotine replacement regime. I couldn't give up any other way, but if you've found one, awesome. It does get easier and within a few months you should have forgotten you were ever even a smoker ;) Then it's super easy :)

Why has nobody mention Allan Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking? OP THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF I smoked for 12 years, over a pack a day and tried everything, until I read this book. It was the only way I could free myself. It works, you'll quit and you will find it a PLEASURE to stop the moment you smoke your last one.

Please, do yourself the greatest favor you can and seek out this book. It's small, it's short (can be done in a day) and you will quit. Read the reviews to get some idea as to what it can do.

Good luck and all the best with the wedding and your marriage.

I'm still in school and one of my professors really changed my mind about legalization. I am 100% for decriminalization but I lack the ability to fully articulate what that policy without legalization would look like.


http://www.tiedc2014.com/
While far from perfect, this campaign brought up some really good points especially around increased emergency room visits, strains that have excessively high thc content, and possible social justice issues such as flooding lower income areas with marijuana dispensaries in the same way liquor stores are.

I know this may be an unpopular opinion but with the potential for marijuana use to be harmful on a developing brain or exacerbate existing but not expressed mental weaknesses, nationwide legalization may cause excessive damage.

I do not think marijuana is technically worse than alcohol or tobacco, but remember legalization entails not just marijuana being available but being actively marketed for commercial gain.


https://www.amazon.com/Reefer-Sanity-Seven-Great-Marijuana/dp/0825306981

Is a good book.


http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/opinion/2017/03/05/murphy-guadagno-marijuana-pot-legalization/98702300/?cookies=&from=global

A great article that addresses many parts of the issue in NJ.

hey this is long, so feel free to take your time reading this, just don't ignore it cause i'm about to suggest something to you that might help your addiction.

first off, i hope you're doing well friend. i may not know you, but i do care. if you're feeling suicidal, i urge you to talk to someone. this is from the reddit suicidewatch faq.

secondly, good on you for throwing away the cigs. if you're having trouble quitting smoking nicotine, i suggest reading the book "Stop Smoking Now" by Allen Carr. if you don't mind reading a pdf version, you can use this, otherwise you can get a copy on amazon for cheap here. the great thing about the book is that it's short, only 100 or so pages.

if you have doubts about quitting through reading a book, trust me, i had the same doubts. you don't even have to quit right away, the book tells you you can smoke as you're reading it. it was incredibly hard for me to go cold turkey, until i came across this book. i tried lots of different things (substitutes like gum, vapes, even more weed) to help me quit, all to no avail. then i picked up allen carr's book, and by the last page i was done smoking. i had no need for another one.

the other great thing about the book is that i believed it helped put me in the right mindset to quit smoking weed. it might not work the same for you, but i highly suggest reading this if you're having trouble with nicotine addiction. if this book doesn't help, then read his other book which is also very helpful, link is here. it's a bit longer, but it goes even more into depth and solidifies the points in his first book.

NOTE: make sure to pay attention to all the points that he makes in his first book, otherwise you might find yourself smoking again, meaning you'll have to pick up the second book. that's what happened to me, but the second book still helped me quit. i thought that i could smoke a cigarette during a night out drinking cause it had been months past since my last one...

everything one step at a time

Bit of advice, read this book, and go cold turkey.

I tried the whole weening off thing etc, and it never stuck.

I've had the most success cold turkey (done patches, inhalators etc) and nothing has come close to this book. It's only been two weeks, yes, but i feel the most confident i have ever been so far.

Any way, good luck to you

You're welcome.

I also thought of something else which might help you and your girlfriend understand each other better.

There is a very common misunderstanding between non-smokers and smokers, where non-smokers can't stand the smell of cigarettes and smokers don't believe them and see them as judgmental.

The answer to this is that in fact smokers' sense of smell is greatly diminished, they are used to the smell of cigarettes and also associate it with the pleasure they get from smoking (which is actually because they enter nicotine withdrawal).

Around two-three days after I crossed to e-cigs I started getting my sense of smell back. Food tasted much better, coffee was exceptional and also I could sense a smoker from a few meters away.
Because of that and because I get my nicotine from e-cigs I can't stand the smell of cigarettes and I can tell that somebody's been smoking even a few hours after they did.

Also, I read this book (well, the illustrated variant, since I was being lazy), and while I did not quit nicotine entirely, it did help me to stop seeing smoking as pleasure and rather as addiction.

See if you can get your hands on a copy on Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. This is by far the best and easiest way I have tried (and succeeded) for quitting the cancer sticks.

You could also head over to /r/stopsmoking.

Good luck champ!

Dad's Guide to Pregnancy for Dummies is a great for during pregnancy, planning for baby, delivery, & other stuff you didnt know to think about. My wife just enter third trimester this week and this book helped me. Good luck!

giving up doesn't have to be this difficult. actually it doesn't have to be difficult at all, in fact , it's really easy to give up with the right mind frame.

what will give you the right mind frame to give up easily is reading this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633


let me tell you this, it's the best fucking book i have ever read , and without sounding preachy, i urge you to give it a try.

it just turns out the addiction from smoking is nothing more than a psychological one which is fear based. a fear of what life will be like without smoking. the rest is a insignificant physical addiction which passes out of your blood in 2 days.

what keeps people smoking is the belief that it's hard to give up, when in absolute fact , it isn't. it's really fucking easy with the right help.

read that book.

Allen Carr's book did it for me. Have tried on and off for years but this is the only thing that seems to have worked.

Been smoke free for about 3-4 months (don't really even remember the date I gave up) and don't crave them at all. The book is really good at getting in your mind that there is no such thing as "just one" cigarette.

Try this book, it really helped me a lot!
And it makes it soooooo easy!

https://www.amazon.de/Allen-Smoking-Penguin-Health-Fitness/dp/0140277633

I'm free for 1 1/2 months

I like it when people make something that they know other people need. In this case I assume your father wanted one of those, and has great use of it.

If it were me, however, I would have given my father this.

I would recommend Alan Carr; I found it a huge help.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633

Can't offer much advice on the dealing with stress, but I would suggest you have a read of Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking - It will talk you through and make you realise that smoking actually doesnt help when stressed, it doesn't solve anything nor have magical powers to chill you out, that's just brainwashing and marketing. I stopped three days ago with that method, from smoking 20 Marlboro full strength a day right up until Sunday, haven't had one since nor any nicotine replacement and feel fine, don't miss them and am enjoying having quit.

His book has only 10 reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0825306981

Surely an ama of this caliber can do better!

Buy this book called Easyway to stop smoking and read it. It was the only thing that worked for me. And do not put it off thinking that you will have to stop smoking if you buy it. You can keep on smoking as long as you are reading it. In fact, there are certain places in the book where the author will ask you to light up.

The book points out that the willpower method that we use to try to quit smoking doesn't work. It only makes you feel like you are sacrificing something you enjoy and makes you feel deprived. This feeling of deprivation makes it harder for you to quit. Which is exactly what I faced. The real secret to quitting is to not feel like you are depriving yourself.

I do not know how it worked or why it worked (I have my retrospective theories, of course) but it did. As I was reading the book, it became harder and harder to smoke a cigarette. By the end of it, I was not smoking because I didn't want to. Not because I had to stop. It really worked for me. Hope it works for you too. All the best.

P.S. I suggest you buy the book and a 20 pack of smokes and start asap.

I have been a smoker for around 10 years..... A couple of years ago I watched my Grandma die from the big C (probably a result of smoking all of her life) and even after seeing someone I love go through hell it still did not stop me from smoking.

I hate everything about smoking tobacco but carry on doing it regardless.

Do you have any vices yourself? Drink? Drugs?

I hear a lot of people have luck with the Alan Carr book 'Easy way to stop smoking'. It is written by a man who smoked 40+ a day for a long time and is not based around scare tactics.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633

You should be able to find a PDF somewhere.

At the end of the day though, its up to your mom and if she doesnt want to stop herself she is not going to be able to do it for you or anyone else.

>Kevin Sabet, president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana

Hrm, who is Kevin Sabet exactly?

He wrote this book: Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana What is it about?

>In this book, Kevin A. Sabet argues that the United States should not legalize pot with all of its attendant social costs, nor damage the future prospects of pot smokers by prosecuting and jailing them.

Oh.

Well, at least the Smart Approaches to Marijuana organization isn't so bad, right?

Who are it's notable members and founders?

>David Frum, Patrick J. Kennedy, Kevin Sabet

Oh.

A bunch of conservative assholes who shill for big prison and other despicable shit.

Good luck, Andrew. If you haven't read it, I recommend Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking.

> scientific study of the chemicals in marijuana, called cannabinoids, has led to two FDA-approved medications that contain cannabinoid chemicals in pill form. Continued research may lead to more medications.

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> Syndros treats anorexia associated with weight loss in patients with AIDS, as well as nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy.

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> Epidiolex is one drug currently on the FDA fast track. According to a recent press release from GW Pharmaceuticals, a study of 171 randomized patients suffering from Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes found that Epidiolex decreased seizure occurrence, was relatively well tolerated among patients, and generated no unexpected adverse effects.

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> Cesamet, another synthetic drug that treats nausea and vomiting stemming from chemotherapy; Cannador, which is currently used in Europe and has demonstrated potential to relieve multiple sclerosis symptoms and postoperative pain management

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> Sativex, another GW Pharmaceuticals drug on the FDA fast track that treats spasticity caused by multiple sclerosis.
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People don't smoke the pills, the desired effect is not to get high from them. I have no problem with people taking derived substances approved by science. This isn't a win for cannabis, it's a win for science.

• http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/cully-stimson/pot-pushers-dirty-little-secret-fda-approved-thc-drugs-already-exist
  
• http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/00952990.2015.1135158
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Reefer-Sanity-Seven-Great-Marijuana/dp/0825306981/184-5737184-9153639?ie=UTF8&keywords=kevin%20sabet&pebp=1416947988599&qid=1416947986&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
  
  To be clear if cannabis was safe, they wouldn't need to derive anything from it, they wouldn't waste the money. It's the same as a fan of sports assuming they help their team win. They provide funding which in a roundabout way helps there team to get the equipment and professionals to win (chemicals in this analogy) but most of their rituals are waste (the plant parts not used in this analogy)

People I know who have managed to quit recommend Allen Carr's book.

(Wow, that was a really clumsy sentence)

Wrong. It's not day one.
It's the LAST day. Of you being a smoker.
There is no day one. You are not "starting" anything, you're just back to normal. Counting days is dumb and it could only mean "how many days I went through before lighting another one."
Just say fuck it and that's it.
I'm pretty sure someone already mentioned this book, if not - give it a read. It's not long and I highly recommend it. Here's a link to pdf.

Good luck.

Have you purchased a version of Writer's Market?
Here is a link to 2017: https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Short-Story-Writers-Market/dp/1440347751/ref=pd_sim_14_6?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1440347751&pd_rd_r=7HDBE3MGYF7WQJDPHT6R&pd_rd_w=jb23b&pd_rd_wg=Qtau7&psc=1&refRID=7HDBE3MGYF7WQJDPHT6R

2018 is not out yet, but it's linked within that if you want to wait for it.

Try reading EasyWay to stop smoking by Allan Carr. It's my 9th day without smoking after 3 years. I know 3 years isn't 28, but it's worth a try. It really helped me understand my addiction.

I smoked for 10 years and have been quit for a year now. Just read this book. You won't even miss smoking after you read it. http://www.amazon.com/Smoking-Permanently-Penguin-Health-Fitness/dp/0140244751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289210048&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Literary-Agents-2018-Published/dp/1440352666

https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Short-Story-Writers-Market/dp/1440347751

This may be what you need.

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco Affects Our Health, Pocketbook and Political Freedom--And What We Can Do About It

He has a 2nd book for people who have read the first and still went back to smoking. He also suggests to reread the first if having cravings.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smoking-Permanently-Penguin-Health-Fitness/dp/0140244751/ref=pd_sim_b_3/276-7832747-0908409

> ...und gebe Geld meistens für irgendwelchen Schwachsinn aus, den ich meistens sowieso nicht brauche.

Was denn zum Beispiel? Und unter welchen Umständen?

> Ein großes Manko ist auch, dass ich rauche. Und da im Monat bestimmt 100,00 € für Kippen drauf gehen.

Aufhören ist das Beste, Empfehlung dazu der Klassiker von Allen Carr, gibt's gebraucht für unter 10 Euro. Ansonsten ist drehen finanziell ne Alternative.

All the facts you need to know are in these books.

• https://www.amazon.com/Reefer-Sanity-Seven-Great-Marijuana/dp/0825306981
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Going-Pot-Legalize-Marijuana-Harming/dp/1455560731/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y96HN29D5BC25ZWB31V0
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Debunked-handbook-politicians-legalization/dp/163051229X/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y96HN29D5BC25ZWB31V0

This worked for me

Read this book

The only way to quit smoking

I cant recommend it enough, I quit smoking almost 5 years ago

http://www.amazon.com/The-Easy-Way-Stop-Smoking/dp/1402736592/ref=pd_sim_b_2

This book is magic. But she still needs to want to quit for her own sake, not yours.

EDIT: Also, being an ex-smoker I really doubt she's only smoking two a week... Something to consider.

You NEED to read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Smoking-Permanently-Penguin-Health-Fitness/dp/0140244751/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1318252675&sr=8-11

Helped me stop over 6 years ago -no cravings! Most important book I've ever read.

Read Allen Carr's How to Stop Your Child Smoking. His book for smokers was very effective at helping me quit--I'm not sure what he says in the book for parents, but he was a recognized expert in the addiction treatment world before he died.

I'm a little late to the discussion but hopefully this helps someone.

I only see one post about Alan Carr's The Easy Way to Stop Smoking and it is a shame because if you smoke or have quit it is immensely useful. It is a book, there is also an audio-book available. The book can be useful whether you've already quit, want to quit, smoke and don't want to quit. No matter your disposition after reading it you will see smoking in a completely different light.


You continue to smoke while you read the book, when you've finished the book you can decide to quit or read it again. I listened to the book once and still wasn't ready to quit so I listened again. After the second time through I quit and haven't had a cigarette in 37 days. I can smell things again, I can run further and faster, I freedive and finally broke my previous record of 55ft, now I can get to 60 and swim around for 10 seconds before coming up. I've saved over $200, I don't have a constant cough, and I don't smell like stale smoke.

The main points of the book are:

• You aren't giving up anything, you are in fact gaining a lot of things (better lung function, reduced cancer risk, etc.)
  
• Cigarettes do not relieve stress, they aren't necessary to make a meal complete; the only thing they relieve is the withdrawal from the last cigarette.
  
• The withdrawal is mostly mental, you may not believe it now but the physical withdrawal (for most people) is actually very mild. The mental withdrawal is what can be excruciating. If you think of it as "quitting cigarettes" you will see people smoking cigarettes and envy them because while they can have a cigarette, you are being deprived of one. That is not the case, they are compelled to smoke cigarettes to relieve the withdrawal the previous cigarette caused; just as anyone who is addicted to nicotine is.
  
• Every reason you think you need a cigarette is bullshit and this book debunks them all.
  
• Nicotine replacement and other replacements such as gum and toothpicks only prolong your pain, they aren't necessary and will only make you think about cigarettes even more. If you feel you must use them then do it, most things are still better than cigarettes.
  
  I quit cold turkey and all I had was a few times where I thought I would like a cigarette, the craving was easy to dismiss. I drank during the first week and unlike the other time I had quit didn't fail then and there, I didn't even realize I never felt like having a cigarette until the next morning. Buy the book - even if you read it and decide you want to keep smoking you will have a much better understanding of why you smoke.
  
  
  tl;dr - One time I stabbed a guy for a cigarette.

Novel & Short Story Writers Market 2017 400 pages of agents, magazines, publishers, contests, and conferences.

In the magazines and conferences sections they cover pay/prize amounts. There's a genre index. You look up your genre and it'll give a list.

I just got my copy and am using it to set up an assembly line of rejection letters. If I never get published I'm going to publish all the rejection letters in a book titled "This is how much I suck". I may do it anyway.

Read this
and
don't do it alone

I quit 2 months ago now - completely cold turkey. It wasn't easy, but it wasn't difficult. You have an addiction, and now it's time to stop that addiction.
Read Allen Carr's book - listen to the advice he gives in there - some will apply to you, some won't.

If you want to give up, if you want to break that addiction to the evil weed, you will!