Reply #47: Cold Turkey BUT I had gum and patches ready if I needed them.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

Never used them but it helped knowing they were there.

Smoked for about 20 years and have been clean for 5.

The other part of my plan, and the biggest change from failed attempts, was that I didn't take time off. I'd always figured the stress at work would make it toughter so what always happened in earlier attempts was I would quit on a Friday, make it through the weekend and fall off the wagon on Monday morning because I anticipated I couldn't make it through the work week without the nicotine. The time I was successful I set a Tuesday as a quit day, dove head first into the stress (I warned my boss and coworkers) and after 4 days of cleaning the nicotine out of my system the weekend was easy and I didn't dread the following Monday.