I have been quite for over 8 months now and i used the patch! You can get it at walgreens... and if you can afford to smoke you can afford the ptaches! Quite smoking , save that doe, and put it towards your health! I did and look at me now!
http://www.eroids.com/pics/this-is-the-4th-week-of-cutting-238ish-i-thin...

i have tried smoking those patches. nasty they taste awful.. all jokes aside for me its not that had to stop smoking till i have a drink. just cant drink without a pack of cigs.

Bro I quit smoking a year ago, it was time ya know,.I work at a hospital and most of the people I associate with are non smokers....so when ur the only one who takes extra breaks and come back smelling like shitty cigerettes...the pressure to quit really helps get the ball rolling. I started with that E-cig and that's worked for a month then I started to use snus while at work...once everyone caught on I was peer pressured to stop....bro peer pressure got me started...peer pressure got me to quit....plain and ssimple, I admit I am influenced by those around me, id be a fool to say otherwise...we constantly are forced to conform to social norms, so if ur really serious u need to surround urself with positive influence. They say "you are the company you keep." its a support structure type thing. Get ur friends to quit with you...start hanging more with thr friends who don't smoke...think about how bad it is for you as your in the gym trying to be healthy and shit...whenever I used to work out then light a cig afterwards...I just felt like GUH NASTY! LoL, dude its totally possible and relatively easy as long as you can get thru the retraining of ur habit. Do push ups everytime an urge comes, that electronic cig worked really good for the first month. But you have to train ur brain to associate smoking with bad smell, poor health, waste of money...ya kno? Learn to despise the cigerettes

My step father smoked for 40 years and tried the patch and gum and nothing..He tried actupuncture and stopped that same day. He hasn't touched a cigarette in 25 years..Try it!!

good luck guy! i used to smoke also, it was so fucking hard to quit but its been 6 mnths now smoke free , i used nicorette gum it really helped the electric cigs are pretty good to

I've never been a smoker but I dipped copenhagen for 20+ years. About 6 years ago it started getting on my nerves & I decided to quit cold turkey (wtf does that really mean?). I was a VERY ill Fucker for a couple months & it caused me countless arguments with my wife. But I overcame it & im very glad. I also did the same thing with drinking.........fuckem both!! Best of luck Pope. Its mostly mental.

Jab

i was a heavy smoker , 2 packs a say since i was 18, i am 35 now... i have been smokeing those electronic cigarettes and i havent had a real cigarette since last march... they work really good

The patches made me ill as fuck i had to stop em. There is a spray you spray in your mouth when you are craving and tbh for me it is working quite well im down to 2-3 a day from 40

Here's my experience with smoking.

Yeah it f#cking sucks, i smoked from the age of 14 to about 25 at which point i was getting through 50-60 fags a day, more at the weekends.

Tried all the gums and patches and sh#t, nothing worked. Then I met a guy at the gym who offered me some gear, i decided to have a proper shot at gaining some mass/getting fit and I gave up cold turkey in under a week. Sounds cheesy as fuck but at that point gear really turned my life around, i went from a 60 a day smoker drinking 2-3 bottles of whiskey a week and eating crap to being a 24/7 muscled health nut having the time of my life.

Anyway I'm getting side tracked here.......

The physical cravings were gone real quick but I never shifted the mental cravings though. Even 6 years later I was still craving a smoke all the f#cking time. Dreams were the worst, i'd dream about enjoying a nice pack'o smokes and when i woke up it was like i'd never quit.

'bout a year or two ago I started back up smoking cigars and it took a real bat to my health, after a few weeks i was on my arse, to the point were i couldn't do my job because i was getting so out of breath. At that point realised i had to give up and start training again. Things have improved a lot and weirdly for the first time in my life i don't crave smoking at all, which i put down to the health scare.

All in all smoking was about the worst decision in life I ever made, quitting was one of the best. A heartfelt good luck to all the bros trying to quit, hope you have it easier than i did.

Mate we have a drug down here in Oz called champix. It has had very good results for people wanting to quit smoking. You still smoke while you take the pills but after about 2 weeks when ever you have a smoke it makes you feel crook. So your body then associates the smoking to the feeling and you just stop smoking due to the ill feeling. The one pit fall is you need to complete the course of pills. Stopping early has a very high failure rate, however when the full course of pills is taken the success rate is very high. I feel the patches are of little benefit. You are still absorbing the addictive chemical of nicotine. So when the patches stop the smoking begins. Good luck with mate.

Cmon Pope, look what you've accomplished with bodybuilding, you can do this, its easy, its not like struggling through another set or making sure you get to the gym.
Just don't do it. Don't buy them, don't lite them. Chew Gum, play with a toothpick that's how I did it WAAAAYYYY back. When cigs hit $1 a pack that was that. Just think of all the extra money you'll have now for gear! ;-P Your probably smoking a bottle or 2 worth per week.
Here is a link with some ideas for free patches:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5139540_nicotine-patches.html

bro i know the feeling. back in 2004 i had a bad car accident that left me in the bed for 6 months. which also got me hooked on pain pills at the same time. mind you i was smoking at this time as well. i remember looking out the window and thinking my life has went to shit. so i took the next month i was down and locked myself away. quit pain pills quit smoking all at once. it was the hardest thing of my life. you can do it bro.

I quit in 2007 after 17 years of smoking. Get your mind right and feel determined...look at smoking as a weakness. Then you wait until Friday after work. Slow your smoking down as drastically as you can until you go to bed. Before you go to bed flush your remaining cigarettes (they will be too much temptation). Then try to sleep as long as you can the next day. As a matter of fact, try to sleep as much as you can that entire weekend. By the time Monday comes around you should be okay enough to go out into society without flipping out on somebody. Hard parts done, it only gets easier. Now...6 months from now you will start to stop craving cigarette. 6 months after that, when other people smoke it will smell like you just snorted old ash from an ashtray. Congratulations, you are now a non-smoker!!! Like I said, get your mind right and feel determined...look at smoking as a weakness.

I feel ur pain bro....it took my first born for me to stop smoking (cold turkey). I'm not telling u to have a kid tho..lol. Hang in there bro u can do it...

Freeze

I quit last year and there are programs where you can take smoking cessation classes and they give the patch or the gum for free as long as you go to the classes i found one at my local health department just something to look into

Get 2 patchs and stick one over each eye,it wont make you quit but theres no way your gonna find the packet of smokes lol

I smoke too,its the hardest thing trying to quit,good luck brother