How can i give up and not put on weight

[Muddlebubble]

Ok so this will be the 100000th time.

This time i actually can not afford it anymore and i have too.

Everytime i give up pile the weight on, im already about a stone over weight an really do not want to out anymore on.

I will be using the patches.
Any advice would be great

Anyone?

Using patches enforces the belief that you need a steady stream of nicotine in your blood. You don't - it's the tobacco and pharmaceutical companies who would like you to think you do.

Nicotine doesn't supply the body with anything it can't produce itself; smoking doesn't make you 'high' or relaxed or stop pain or send you to sleep or even wake you up. At most you get a small hit of adrenalin when your heart beats a bit faster - nothing more.

What does feel addictive is the dopamine rush when you smoke, because your mind has associated smoking with social acceptance or pleasure or relaxation or simply habit and has got used to doing this 'thing' 10, 20 or even 30 times every day.

Once you've got through the first three/four days of not smoking (or using any substitutes) the craving dies off remarkably quickly.

Have you tried the Allen Carr Method? If you can afford to go to the group (you get your money back if it doesn't work). If not I would recommend the book.

I think you're setting yourself up to fail with that mindset. You're associating stopping smoking with something negative not something positive.
I stopped just over a year ago and the way I did it was to look at pictures of mouth cancer and then every time I smoked I made myself think of the pictures and think about the horrors of having my tongue cut out or parts of my mouth removed due to cancer. It was horrible but I started to stub them out. I then just stopped, I'd tried vapes and patches before and failed, just stopping forced me through the 4 days of physical withdrawal after those 4 days it's all mental and emotional withdrawal which is just about mindset
Don't get me wrong it was tough, I'm 13 months in and I still occasionally fancy a fag.
As far as the weight is concerned I'm about 1.5 stone overweight but I was before I quit. I don't think there's been any change to diet although I should probably do something about it.
Good luck with quitting it's lovely not to be held hostage to an addiction. Not to be constantly thinking about my next fag.

I'm giving up completely shortly.

The issue is needing to have something in place of when you'd have a cigarette, and this usually becomes a snack. I gave up before, and would twiddle a biro in my hand to give me the feeling of something cigarette like, and also got a load of sugar free lollipops which I had every time I was missing a cigarette.

Also, apply sticky lipgloss, again gives you something to do and you don't want to eat because crumbs get stuck to your lips and it's yuck.

Find a low calorie drink too. Sugar free hot chocolate. Make one and have that when you would have had a cigarette.

I know these all.sound stupid but they really worked for me. My habit was a.cigarette at a certain time of day, in a certain place. So I'd have a lollipop at that time, stood in the same place. After a few weeks you won't need all the replacement strategies, but it's worth you trying.

Good luck x

Thanks everyone

Im on day 4 with patches.. yeay

I worry about the weight because everytime ive given up before i out it on and this is what made me go back to fags.

I completely get looking the pictures etc. Unfortunately i watched both my mum and dad die young from lung cancer so if anything you would of thought that would of done it