10 Ways to Give Up Smoking - Try your luck!

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April 14, 2008 ||

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There are 100’s of ways to quit smoking but you don’t need to know all of them, if you really want to quit, just one is enough.

10. Books
For the price of a packet plus a little more for shipping, Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking 9penguin) helps you eliminate the psychological reasons behind your compulsive smoking. Carr claims to have been a 100-a-day man himself.

9. Acupuncture
A couple of needles are inserted into the earlobe, the idea is to touch that point where the carving hits. Mumbo-jumbo! But if you believe, it’ll genuinely help.

8. Patches
Release a steady dose of addictive nicotine goo into your bloodstream, getting you out of the habit of sticking little white tubes in your mouth. Ask your quack for a prescription on them.

7. Inhaler
Love the hand to mouth action of smoking? Inhalators are fag-shaped plastic devices loaded with nicotine cartridges, sucking on one releases a hit of mind-twisting vapor. Er, just like smoking.

6. NHS Smoking Helpline
You will be dialing the UK for advice and support, but this helpline (0800 169 0169) is cheaper thank hacking out cancerous lungs.

5. Gun
Delivers a nicotine hit when things get rough. Chewing the stuff properly is important, mulch gently until you get the flavor then "park" it in your cheek, so the nicotine is absorbed through the mouth lining.

4. Hypnotherapy
Eating onions as if they were apples might not help you give up smoking. but what hypnotherapy does do is alter the subconscious mind’s dependence on the habit. So there.

3. Cold Turkey
Even if you are on three packs day, you won’t require a Trainspotting-type "sup chicken soup and nail the door shut" approach. Most people give up this simple, cheap way.

2. Laser Treatment
A low powered laser stimulates "energy points", releasing your body’s natural pain relief. Medically dubious, but you are paying thousands just to fly to the State or the UK for this malarkey - which should concentrate the mind.

1. ZYBAN
This pharmaceutical precision marvel suppresses the part of the brain that provides the buzz when smoking. Genius! Except that side effects include nausea, headache, dry mouth and blurred vision.