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What's your number one tip for quitting?

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Proud quitters and reformed smokers please take a few minutes to share your experience. If there’s one thing you would tell a quitting newbie, what would it be?

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Andyman

Go cold turkey. Grit your teeth and just do it. BUT first you have to want to stop yourself not other people wanting you too quit.

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kacmins2 Years Smoke Free

Drink fruit juices during the first week to avoid crazy blood sugar level roller-coaster. That one thing single-handedly ruined my first quit.

Cold turkey and whyquit.com download FFN (freedom from nicotine) best smoking cessation educational tool on the net!

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Hope48

Cold turkey and determination , you have to want to quit for the right reasons, it's been 7 years for me and it really is the best thing I ever did for myself, good luck

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RoisinO1Administrator3 Years Smoke Free

Cold Turkey and determination, almost 6 months smoke free and never looked back...

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gus607

As other have commented, cold turkey & wanting to quit. You will do it.

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