Quit Smoking..

[Samarkadian]

Topic par wapas aao ... how to quit
well lemme tell u an incident

I got a very gud firnd ... he is a south indian, i met him in Bangalore, Honeywell itself. Damn gud guy. He used to smoke a lot, almost a pack a day... he told m not gonna stop... i enjoy it ... for months i kept on saying quit quit ... he didn listen .. one day he realized he shud stop it and he called me and said i will quit from monday( the day was sat) and i was juss making fun of him ki how come such an addict quit it at a sudden. Monday came, whole day he didn smoke whole week gone then month ... and he doesn have allergy with smoking other... he accompany them stay there till they finish their fag but never smoke even a single puff ...
he always says ki this one puff is very critical ... agar ek liya toh fir wapas aadat lag jaayegi ... now its 5 months gone he hasnt smoke.

So, guys this is a true incident and i have seen ... its all abt determinition. If u say i will stop it slowly... no way ... jab pressure aayega tab fir badh jaayegi .. stop it ekdum. Jat ke liye kuch asambhav nahi.

All the best guys

Good incident DK.Cause and effect work at very miniscule levels, with or without our awareness.Cigarette smoking cant be related with mental health.Simply it is the same addiction as does shopping . Both are harmful economically.Tobacco consumption is age old, but rating smokers as sinners is surely a bad idea be women promote it or men.

I found quitting smoking very easy by quitting it hundreds of times.
I believe a positive motivation always lacks in making a smoker's mind to say good bye to sticks.Criticism always put smoker in taking it again and with more intensity. Taunts, victimisation easily put a person in defending mode.Funny but true.

A positive motivation without victimising the smoker can be a good approach.
I believe men have invented smoking and many other things including maha-addiction which is shopping [] so lets keep God out of this business.

Lets try to put some motivational incidents here rather than discussing problem and exagerrating it as we always do here.Subject specific not person specific, I hope this will help more than bakar-bakar.

Cheers!!

[spdeshwal]

This Deepawali, it would fifteen years, when i had given up smoking.
It was my wife who forced and helped me to quit smoking after a 18 years long struggle. It could be hundreds of times i had broken a pack and many a times picked from the ground and smoked the 'tote'( small piece).

My wife is very tough headed jatni. Strong point of her personalty, no dilemmas. han to han , naa to naa.

It was morning of Deewali in 1993 and I ask her to accompany me to a friends place to give some sweets. For some reason she said no. I requested her many times but her resolve of not visiting that family became stronger and stronger . I was getting irritated. Suddenly an idea came to my mind. I told her, " I would quit smoking if you accompany me today" She quipped, " Such keh rahe ho"?
I said, " yes, believe me"! " Fer kadde haath nahi Lagaana hai"

Dosto, believe me, since that day i haven't touched a cigarette!
I had been helped by quite a few people including family members and friends in those initial tough days.

For example, after a month or so I was visiting a friend in Mumbai.
We were traveling towards Mumbai airport and my friend Jagjeet Sansanwal pulled a cigarette pack from his pocket, half removed fag from the pack and offered me. I should tell you friends here that Jagjeet was not only a good friend but also a person of strong personality. Saying no to him would have been hard , if he had insisted second time. The next moment his hand was out of window. When he pulled his hand in, it was empty.

Here I must advise all those friends who want to give up smoking, do it today.
Giving up smoking today, makes this itself a special and important day.

Secondly, tell as many people as possible that you have given up smoking, so that you wouldn't lit a cigarette in front of them.

Change your living and work environment if possible.
Start giving Reward to yourself ( shabashi) from the day one and share with others!
Try to pat yourself, saying to yourself, " After how long , I haven't smoked today, for two days, for one week or two weeks)

Visualise yourself in a better healthy body and mind after you would have given it up!

I sincerely wish for all those who want to quit smoking.


Listen to this Bhajan and make a resolve today:

Jaise suraj ki garmee se jalte hue tan komil jaye tarwar ki chhaya
aissa hi sukh mere man ko mila hai mein jab se sharan teri aaya
...
...
...

Fullono mein tarrono mein
Patjhadd baharono mein, mein naa kabhi dagmagaaun



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi3WPxg17hg


I hope, you can and you will do it!




Cheers!

[sunitahooda]

Just curious to know>>>> Would you like to be married to a beautiful girl or ugly ?Byah ka nyota de diye jai suthri paayi chhori to.....:D:D

Are u sure they all were Jats ?
Smoking is quite common in gals ... m amazed that u gals never saw and were surprized to see that. Here, i see the most beutiful gals smoke more. Dunno they are beutiful coz of smoking or just a coincidence :D .. hahaha
And u know they know how to make rings of the exhaled smoke. They are fast lerners and experts of this field. I can say gals are second to none at least if smoking is concerned... hehehe




ooommyy god ... beautiful image of gals ... hahaha
madam ji koun si duniya mein hai aap Ladkiya agar harami pane par aati haina toh ladko ko kosso door chodd deti hai ...

Ismein koi nayi baat nahi ki ladkiyan smoke karti hai ... smoking is injurious to health so its applicable for all the genders(including eunuchs :D) ... but yeah i heard biologically its more harmful for gals ... so again god is lil bit linient abt smoking towards boys.

Topic par wapas aao ... how to quit
well lemme tell u an incident

I got a very gud firnd ... he is a south indian, i met him in Bangalore, Honeywell itself. Damn gud guy. He used to smoke a lot, almost a pack a day... he told m not gonna stop... i enjoy it ... for months i kept on saying quit quit ... he didn listen .. one day he realized he shud stop it and he called me and said i will quit from monday( the day was sat) and i was juss making fun of him ki how come such an addict quit it at a sudden. Monday came, whole day he didn smoke whole week gone then month ... and he doesn have allergy with smoking other... he accompany them stay there till they finish their fag but never smoke even a single puff ...
he always says ki this one puff is very critical ... agar ek liya toh fir wapas aadat lag jaayegi ... now its 5 months gone he hasnt smoke.

So, guys this is a true incident and i have seen ... its all abt determinition. If u say i will stop it slowly... no way ... jab pressure aayega tab fir badh jaayegi .. stop it ekdum. Jat ke liye kuch asambhav nahi.

All the best guys

[choudharyneelam]

Just curious to know>>>> Would you like to be married to a beautiful girl or ugly ?Byah ka nyota de diye jai suthri paayi chhori to.....:D:D

hehehehe.....these guys need to be dealt by some strong personalities like u....otherwise they don't know how to praise or keep mum...:D

and it was nice reading about u Deswal Sir, that u also are not into smoking habit.....sometimes sharing one's own experience gives a motivation to the other regarding the same

[Nishantrathi82]

This Deepawali, it would fifteen years, when i had given up smoking.
It was my wife who forced and helped me to quit smoking after a 18 years long struggle. It could be hundreds of times i had broken a pack and many a times picked from the ground and smoked the 'tote'( small piece).

My wife is very tough headed jatni. Strong point of her personalty, no dilemmas. han to han , naa to naa.

It was morning of Deewali in 1993 and I ask her to accompany me to a friends place to give some sweets. For some reason she said no. I requested her many times but her resolve of not visiting that family became stronger and stronger . I was getting irritated. Suddenly an idea came to my mind. I told her, " I would quit smoking if you accompany me today" She quipped, " Such keh rahe ho"?
I said, " yes, believe me"! " Fer kadde haath nahi Lagaana hai"

Dosto, believe me, since that day i haven't touched a cigarette!
I had been helped by quite a few people including family members and friends in those initial tough days.

For example, after a month or so I was visiting a friend in Mumbai.
We were traveling towards Mumbai airport and my friend Jagjeet Sansanwal pulled a cigarette pack from his pocket, half removed fag from the pack and offered me. I should tell you friends here that Jagjeet was not only a good friend but also a person of strong personality. Saying no to him would have been hard , if he had insisted second time. The next moment his hand was out of window. When he pulled his hand in, it was empty.

Here I must advise all those friends who want to give up smoking, do it today.
Giving up smoking today, makes this itself a special and important day.

Secondly, tell as many people as possible that you have given up smoking, so that you wouldn't lit a cigarette in front of them.

Change your living and work environment if possible.
Start giving Reward to yourself ( shabashi) from the day one and share with others!
Try to pat yourself, saying to yourself, " After how long , I haven't smoked today, for two days, for one week or two weeks)

Visualise yourself in a better healthy body and mind after you would have given it up!

I sincerely wish for all those who want to quit smoking.


Listen to this Bhajan and make a resolve today:

Jaise suraj ki garmee se jalte hue tan komil jaye tarwar ki chhaya
aissa hi sukh mere man ko mila hai mein jab se sharan teri aaya
...
...
...

Fullono mein tarrono mein
Patjhadd baharono mein, mein naa kabhi dagmagaaun



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi3WPxg17hg


I hope, you can and you will do it!




Cheers!

Hope it will help someone to quit smoking really its one of the worst thing to smoke.

[brahmtewatia]

any idea about quitting this 'royal' habbit.:rock

those who have quit can share their experience.

Those who want to quit can commit here and start progressing.

Others can speak about economical=dependence of country on tobacoo.

Many can also speak how not to quit.:eek:

Most of folks can hate those who advocate it here.lol

it could help many.

@ ritu: Nice idea for men who are married..emotional blackmail really works.:rock it sounds very efficient tools to tame married men.

@keshav: Keshav, do you mean i do smoke.?

@manoj: Very good..spread this around in your circle..jaise mandir mein nem thuwate hain waise it works as well.:d aur dobara pakda jaye to ? Pani pani kar do guilt ki balti bhar ke phenk do....apne aap line per :p

@ braham ji: I'm happy. :d


@ys: Very informative sir...


@neelam: Gaana to ek aur accha hai..mai fikar ko dhume mein udata chala gaya.....mai zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya...stressbuster....for a while...marte to non smoker pujari bhi hain....its unfair to judge smokers as sinners...

@vineeta: Yes fruits.....cheeku is best substitute.


@rajeev: Sir..world will not defintely come to an end but the bill of lung specialist would give sleepless nights And a thought of admitting there.

@ pragya : Very inspiring story.. Govt yahi will power dikha de to ye thread hi na chale kabhi...thats another point..but personaly will power is the key for anything n esp for this addiction...

We found two good examples of quitting this habbit as inspiration,

deshwal and dahiya sir.....

Its nice both of you quit it sirs, but how did you control the urge.? And initially how much time you required to come out of withdrawal...?
Any medication?
Just family n friends support?

How do you feel now?

Deshwal sir surely you have gained a decent amount of weight after quitting.

@keshav: Bhai pajjame/kacche chek karne kaise pahunch gaye ya sirf wild imagination? ,ya khud ka experience ? ..:thappadsharm ki koi baat nahi hai bata do

lets try to put some motivational incidents here rather than discussing problem and exagerrating it as we always do here.subject specific not person specific, i hope this will help more than bakar-bakar.

..........

[brahmtewatia]

dear ( summer :D )

p.s. (pre-script) 1: since there were no smileys left, so i continue here cos u've gobbled all the smileys. the usage of smileys was imperative in this post of mine :p
p.s. (pre-script) 2: subject - offense taken against the usage of word bakar-bakar
p.s. (pre-script) 3: reference - yr. above quotes (1st one being the title post)
p.s. (pre-script) 4: refer p.s. (post script)

the contents of this post nd yr. abv. quoted posts r self-explanatory. luking at the title post nd the usage of words there-in, i guess anyone can infer tht this is not a vry serious thread... confirming my viewpoint further, i wud request u to refer to yr. abv. quoted post no. 2 abv. (#post 20 in the thread) where u... yr.self seems to be applauding the efforts of ppl doing bakar-bakar :p

pls. justify (if u feel like ) the usage of word bakar-bakar :D

p.s. (post script) 1 : pls. take it on a lighter note
p.s. (post script) 2 : sorry for being off-topic :thappad:D:D:thappad

[Samarkadian]

This Deepawali, it would fifteen years, when i had given up smoking.
It was my wife who forced and helped me to quit smoking after a 18 years long struggle. It could be hundreds of times i had broken a pack and many a times picked from the ground and smoked the 'tote'( small piece).

My wife is very tough headed jatni. Strong point of her personalty, no dilemmas. han to han , naa to naa.

It was morning of Deewali in 1993 and I ask her to accompany me to a friends place to give some sweets. For some reason she said no. I requested her many times but her resolve of not visiting that family became stronger and stronger . I was getting irritated. Suddenly an idea came to my mind. I told her, " I would quit smoking if you accompany me today" She quipped, " Such keh rahe ho"?
I said, " yes, believe me"! " Fer kadde haath nahi Lagaana hai"

Dosto, believe me, since that day i haven't touched a cigarette!
I had been helped by quite a few people including family members and friends in those initial tough days.


I hope, you can and you will do it!




Cheers!

Deshwal Sir, this is really inspiring and motivating in the sense that you were not being victimised.Positive motivation really helps.I can sense the lucky pride in writing about your life partner.Family support really matters else we all know bad and worst of smoking.

[Nishantrathi82]

I think govt. is also taking the look of our JL that's why they decided to impose fine on smoking at public places, i hope that will provide some help to the people who wants to quit smoking.

Article from Times of India.
NEW DELHI: Desperate to catch a smoke? From next month, you'll have to head for the road or a park. In an interesting directive issued by the Union health ministry under its Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008, that bans tobacco consumption in all government or private buildings from October 2, the road or a park does not come under the definition of a public place.

Instead, public places have been defined as small cafes, restaurants, schools, pubs or discotheques, stadia, airports, hospitals and bus stands.

Those caught smoking in these "public places" will be fined Rs 200. But according to health minister A Ramadoss, the amount will be increased to Rs 1,000 in the future.

Organisations, which allow employees to smoke within their building premises, will in turn have to pay Rs 5,000 per employee caught smoking.

Hotels having 30 or more rooms and restaurants having seating capacity of 30 persons or more would have to create a separate enclosure for smokers and a separate ventilation arrangement as per the Act.

"Smoking on the road or the park will save others from the wrath of passive smoking. We will empower NGOs, besides train ticket collectors, bus conductors, school headmasters to impose the fine. States like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat have already promised to put the regulatory mechanism in place," Ramadoss said.

He said that 250-300 million Indians consume some form of tobacco. And around 14.1% of school-going children have started to smoke.

"Research has shown that smoking would kill 10 lakh people in India annually from 2010. At present, we estimate that 40% of India's health problems stem from tobacco use. So a smoking ban is essential to save India's future. A similar smoke-free policy introduced by England and Scotland last year saw 45,000 people giving up smoking in just 10 months," Ramadoss added.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/3464490.cms

[prashantacmet]

god n'vr wanted us to smoke, otherwise he wud have installed chimney on our heads. :D:D

ha ha ha ha ha ha..................crux of the thread !!!!...........

[Nishantrathi82]

India, home to nearly 12 crore smokers, has finally come up with a concrete tobacco cessation plan. Over the next two years, the health ministry will set up 100 tobacco cessation clinics across the country.

Manned by a clinical psychologist and a counsellor, the clinics besides counselling chain smokers on behavioural changes will introduce them to meditation techniques which will help them quit smoking besides putting them on Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

The ministry is also planning to make it mandatory for the country's 275 medical colleges — both public and
private — and 600 district headquarter hospitals to start similar cessation clinics.

"In the next two years, India will have an additional 1,000 tobacco cessation clinics. These clinics will
run 4-6 week cessation and counselling programme for early and chain smokers," Union health minister A Ramadoss said.

In a meeting chaired by director-general of health services Dr R K Srivastava last Friday, four hospitals in Delhi — Maulana Azad Medical College, Safdarjung hospital, Lady Hardinge and Ram Manohar Lohia hospital —
decided to become smoke free and start the clinics.

RML is also starting a workplace cessation model at Nirmal Bhavan home to the health ministry, where smokers can come two days a week to find out how to quit smoking.

A recent survey said the quit rate in India is abysmally low — 2%.

Till now, the WHO and the health ministry together ran 18 cessation clinics in 17 states. The first such clinic came up in Delhi in 2002. Since then, 40,000 smokers have visited these 18 clinics with a quit rate of 15%-20%.

Increase this rate and quit smoking

[rathee.sandeep]

abe ye to galat baat h naishant bhai aapki
mainne to aaj tak nahi peeyi
naa hi muje peene vaalo se koi dikkat hai

maine to ye lines unke liye likhi thi
jo jyada hi kammiya nikaal rahe the
cigrette se juddi hui cheejo mo
kuchh log yahan pe aisa behave kr rahe the jaise
dunia ki sabhi prblms cigrette se hi hai
mera kehne ka matlab hai ki
jo jo problm cigrette se hai
ve baaki cheejo se bhi hai,jinke saath hum log reh rahe hai
ye baat theek hai cigrette ek buri adat hai
bahut jyada buri

Sahe hai dost log apne satisfaction k liye kuch na kuch dhood hee lete hain jaise ke Drink karne waale kehte hain k Shiv g bhi to bhaang peete thee but dost it doesn't mean k woh aadat sahe hai but anyways Cigratte packet waale bhi likhte to yahee hain k its injurious to healh. Aur bhai sahe me its not a good thing u have lot of other good things to eat and drink. Lekin bhai apke marji. But i can't stand with a person who smokes its horrible:eek:

[anilsangwan]

Bebbey tu behosh na huyi jehreelee fukaadd soongh ke....... :rock
Mera te jee likkddan ne ho jaya kare jab koi bagal mein baith k "BAADALL Banawann" laag jaya kare....... :D

2. I was invited by my friend to spend some time with her at Vertex(BPO) near Hewitt in Gurgaon....we were on the terrace....an ordinary looking girl came....with Khadi bengali kurta and while cotton salwar....i said Such simply dressed employees work in a BPO? and she smiled> abhi dekhtey jao kya hota hai....and next momemet the gal took out a packet lit up and smoked so fast that we failed she had a ciggy....so its just they do BUT THE HIDE

[choudharyneelam]

Nishant, u r right that some sector of govt. is trying to overcome this health hazard, but there's another sector of that govt. which is always looking for revenues from the supply of dreadful products

alcohol comsuming is such a bad addiction which is killing not only the individual but also the society.....and govt. is not in the favour to put any ban on such productions (but had asked the manufacturers to sell such products with some advisable msg, and the decision is left on the buyer then).....so, neither this govt. can be praised nor it can be demoralised for the same, as its completely one's own decision (to live life or to move around like half-dead)

[dkumars]

Just curious to know>>>> Would you like to be married to a beautiful girl or ugly ?Byah ka nyota de diye jai suthri paayi chhori to.....:D:D

I want beautiful one ... sone pe suhaga ... may be she will accompany me aur agar piyaak mil jaaye toh jannat hi jannat ... yooooooo :rock

[dkumars]

Deshwal Sir, this is really inspiring and motivating in the sense that you were not being victimised.Positive motivation really helps.I can sense the lucky pride in writing about your life partner.Family support really matters else we all know bad and worst of smoking.

Samar abhi diwali door hai .. ye nahi toh agli lekin chodenge Diwali par hi

[rajivsp]

I found quitting smoking very easy by quitting it hundreds of times.
I believe a positive motivation always lacks in making a smoker's mind to say good bye to sticks.Criticism always put smoker in taking it again and with more intensity. Taunts, victimisation easily put a person in defending mode.Funny but true.
Cheers!!

Exactly! For me it is also very easy not to smoke. I enjoy smoking so never thought to quit it. But in flight or train or in singapore when I don't get a chance to smoke, I don't feel like dying for it. And it was same when smoking was allowed in AIR INDIA ( only int. flight giving this privilege to their passengers) and indian buses/train.

But why govt. want to play this choohe-billi ka game. Just ban Cigarettes/Bidis production in India when they are so much worried of future of India. And Smoking is such a big disaster. After all Revenue is not so important when future of a nation is in danger.

You can smoke here, you can smoke there. tobacco cessation clinics to get rid of this habit ( in Europe my english friends called it Addiction). Nicotine Patches.......

There is big difference in European and Indian Populace, There is no guarantee what is successful there will work here too. And also in cigarettes, in west they use roasted Tobacco but in India Raw tobacco is used.

[spdeshwal]

Samar abhi diwali door hai .. ye nahi toh agli lekin chodenge Diwali par hi

Aagli Deewali tak, ek kilo tarcoal aapke lungs pe aur jum lega!
Jee sa karda karke, iss Deewali ne hi chhod de!


Cheers!

[Samarkadian]

Aagli Deewali tak, ek kilo tarcoal aapke lungs pe aur jum lega!
Jee sa karda karke, iss Deewali ne hi chhod de!


Cheers!

Deshwal ji, Dev kisi Baba se nam lega, phir chodega..Agli Diwali to bahana hai..:D

[ritikarathee]

yeh post padd kar kisney smoking chhodi hai....:D...otherwise..yeh post total waste hai :rolleyes:..discussion karney se kya hota hai.......Samar tumney shruu ki thi yeh thread...tum kab smoking chhod rahe ho