Today’s goal will be to start the New Year out with a resolution to stop smoking cigars for good or at least cut WAY down. I realized the other night that I somehow forgot to include this one on my 2010 New Years Resolution list. As a matter of fact, I some how managed to smoke a whopping 5 cigars on New Years Eve itself! Whoa, talk about a black lung!

I felt the pain the next day too, and so ever since I have decided to either completely stop or cut way down on puffing the stogies. Just today I realized after my usual stress of the first day back to work after a wonderful vacation to central Florida, which was really craving another cigar. This is even after remembering how I felt the day after I smoked all those cigars.

So I have compiled a list of 5 ways to quit sucking down the cancer that will hopefully help me and others to quit for good.

• Cold turkey- This method is my personal favorite, it is what I used to completely stop smoking cigarettes about 5 years ago. It takes tremendous will power, but can be done. You just have to create a greater reason for quitting in your mind than the many reasons that WILL come up for you to “just have one more.”
• Nicotine gum- It is what I am currently chewing to curb the craving. I bought the expensive gum about 9 years ago, and occasionally chew a piece. Now, I know that it is probably way past the expiration date, but hey the shit was expensive, and it still works!
• Nicotine patch- It’s like the gum, but a patch that you do not chew. PLEASE DON’T CHEW IT! You will not have pleasant results.
• Chantix- A stop smoking pill that makes the nicotine cravings go away, and makes the cancer sticks taste real nasty. Nuff said.
• E-Cigarette- Relatively new to the “stop smoking scene”, but has gotten great reviews. It is basically an electronic cigarette that looks and feels like a real cigarette, but you are only inhaling the nicotine vapor that it produces. I even heard it has many different flavors, making it a tasty treat too! If I were full blown smoking again, this would be my #1 choice.

These are my favorite 5 ways to the many approaches to quit once and for all. If you smoke, you may want to make this goal your goal too for the New Year. So take one more smoke then squash it for good. (Just kidding, don’t do that, well the one more smoke part anyway.)