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- kelpie
today I will post in here when the gremlins try to persuade me that I need to smoke ciggies.
oh hai, I'm back from holiday. at work again. in despair ;)
- SkyPoo0
Don't want to sound like a sanctimonious cunt but the last thing you should do when stopping smoking is tell eveyone you're topping smoking. Its much harder to stop smoking when everyone you know asks you how you're getting on not smoking, reminding you of smoking every single time. Just keep it to yourself, don't make an announcement, don't make a ceremony, don't make outward pledges or vows, just tell yourself its time to stop and if anyone notices and comments that you don't seem to be smoking any more just tell them you're having a bit of break for a short while.
Really, its the way to do it. Takes all that pressure right off, and if you should waver from the path of abstinence you don't feel like a failure that may as well carry on smoking you can just say to yourself its okay I weakened but it doesn't stop me from leaving it behind again.
Your worst enemy as a smoker who is giving up is another smoker. The smokers you leave behind are devillish cunts who will want you to fail and start smoking again becuase that makes them feel better about their smoking. If you tell smokers youa re giving up they will make it very fucking hard for you in very subtle ways.
Just keep that stuff to yourself. Don't look for verbal rewards or support for fuck's sake. BE REAL MEN, YOU PAIR OF WEAK WILLED TOSSERS.
- <--- sanctimonious cuntSkyPoo
- I actually agreeMeeklo
- Yeah, it's true! You either need a friend who won't talk about it, or just stop talking about it to others, especially here, where membersJaline
- members will purposely try to remind you of what you are trying to leave behind.Jaline
- this is what i tell my friends if they see me smoking. plz slap me in the face without any question!!pango
- Meeklo0
I quit 5 years ago, and you know what?
if the day before you asked me, when are you going to quit?
my answer would have probably been:who says I want to quit? I like smoking.
one day, out of nowhere I started coughing a lot, my chest would make noises when I breath at night on my bed, you know the deal..
and the next day I woke up, and though, my throat hurts, I'm not smoking today..
the next day I did the same day, and then I was like, ok on friday I will start again.. and I haven't touched a tobacco cigarrete again since then..
I have to say I gain a lot of weight and just now loosing it..
Good luck quitting, but honestly if you are postponing the quitting day, or you are one of those that will try "to smoke less cigs a day" then you are probably not ready to quit yet.
- Dancer0
I don't smoke all week then the weekend hits..... every gets fucked up and I start coughing black shit up.... I think I need to stop drining with it – perhaps that will help?
- -k-Dancer
- This is pretty much my situation right now, I can go all week without even thinking about it and then I have a drink and smoke too muchset
- smoke far too much and wake up back at square one again.set
- Me too, I smoke when I drink, and every morning afterward the sober thoughts of smoking make me feel sick! £6-6.50 for 20 is also makes me sickuncle_helv
- ...20 is also makes me feel sick!uncle_helv
- Fariska0
What about a moderate habit? Like 2-3 a day.
And you can try to roll your own cigs, Takes time so you smoke just when you really want one.
- Meeklo0
also, on my experience.. its not phisical.
its all in the mind.The moments I smoked more were
1) to socialize with people I didn't know (party, bar, work, street, etc)
2) when drinkin (probably with other people)3) when you don't know what to do w/ your hands, waiting for someone, walking alone, etc
its all in the head, chew some gum instead... the worse moments are at the bar when drinking.. sometimes when a bit hammered I think, I would like just a drag.. but if you do it.. you are in it again, no matter what you say..
- SkyPoo0
Meeklo, similar tale to yours... I was a chronic smoker... the main reason I never got into drugs is because I knew damn well they would take over and kill me... I was a constant smoker. I smoked endless cigarettes until I met my missus and she smoked rollies, so I switched to rollies and I was smoking a large european size pack of Drum almost every single day. A whole pouch, every day. There would be a bit left in the pack every morning, sure, but generally 1 a day was my quota.
I eventually started visualising just what that would be doing to my body every time I took a drag. Not intentionally though, it just became this dreadful fear, a sort of realisation that I was mutilating my delicate intrenal organs slowly and willfully and it fucking terrified me. So Iw as a constant smoker, constantly terrified by it and eventually I just got too scared to carry on. I ran out of tobacco one day and my missus said she'd go to the shop and get another one and I just said "Please don't".
That was that. We both stopped, about five or six years ago. I also got to be a bit of a paunchy bastard and I am also just (hopefully) seeing that drop off, but fuck me I'd rather be a tubby cunt than a dead cunt with lungs like two chewed up toffees.
- good for you man..
I did my share of drugs but I dont even smoke weed nowMeeklo
- good for you man..
- kelpie0
a large part of this is to help me put on weight. Keep the fat bastard stories coming. you fat bastards
- SkyPoo0
You will definitely put on weight. But the thing is people really notice how healthy you look. One of the most bizarre things I found when I walked away from smoking was after justa few months people who maybe hadn't seen me for a while would look at me like they'd seen an apparition because I looked so healthy in comparision.
Heavy smokers look like death and when yous top your body begins its recovery very quickly and you visually spring back into healthy looking vital life... all nice skin of the correct colour due to good oxygen and blood flow. Eyes become clear and really glossy, your face looks more alert and animated, your hair goes well Pantene ProV, your breath smells healthy even if you haven't brushed you teeth... you come back to life basically. Its great. Girls practially throw themselves at you. No kidding. I had female friends who suddenly started getting fresh with me after years of just being friends with no hint of any attraction.
I would also recommend readin Alan Carr's first book and then putting it down and forgetting about it. One flaw in his book si that he promises that by the time you finish reading it you wont be smoking any more. That's setting you up for a fall. The point is Alan Carr will play on your mind and give you food for thought for a year and more afterwards and it will all contribute towards you feeling like you don't want to be doing this thing to yourself any more.
- Did I mention I was also chucking the rampant soulless sex addiction? damnkelpie
- BUT IT WONT BE SOULLESS ANYMORE!!! IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL AND MEANINGFUL!SkyPoo
- And besides, you just need to empty your bottles manually more often to cure sex addiction.SkyPoo
- Thereby swapping the 'sex addict' tag for a 'chronic masturbator' tag.SkyPoo
- hahaha, Pantene ProVJaline
- 23kon0
i've been thinking about getting the audiobook from itunes for the book by Allen Carr "how to stop smoking".
everything ive heard about this book is good, folk that i know have read it have stopped. im not a reader so the audiobook appeals to me.thing is, dont mind a toot of weed every now and then so i wouldnt want to be programmed against smoking.
one of my mates went to a hypnotist and requested "i want to stop smoking but i dont want to stop smoking joints when i want to" and she did her work and now he doesnt smoke, just toots whever he fancies.
- blaw0
Lots of luck, kelpie.
- Nairn0
Ugh, I'd essentially stopped smoking tobacco, but was happy to let myself have a few chugs on other people's tabs when I went out for drinks (Yeah - I'm one of Them). This, a few weeks ago, turned into a whole cigarette. The weekend after, 2 or 3 - the week after that 4, on a single night. Each morning after, I'd wake up and feel really, really grotty - hacking up in the morning with a dry trachea and gummy spit (mmmmmm). Essentially, a return to the bad shit I was happy to have left behind - and for what?
Thing is though, having quit and slipped back into mode when I'm drunk - I appreciate why I was attracted to tobacco in the first place - surprisingly, it can actually taste quite nice. I'd completely forgotten about the smells and the tastes of tobacco over the decade and a half I'd smoked.
Now, I've bought myself a pack of weenie Cohibas, so when I'm drunk and the insistent urge to smoke strikes - I savour a cigarillo instead. I'm not kidding myself that it's much better - but at least it's not going into my lungs (which is what made me stop in the first place) and damn if it doesn't taste good.
And yes, I look like a complete berk - but then, so do smokers stood out in the rain anyway.
- Sequencer0
Quit 5 years ago.
Best thing ever done.
- set0
I went out for a meal and drinks last Friday and for the first time in years I got drunk and didn't smoke a single thing, I was amazed at how fresh I felt the next morning. Definitely the way forward.
- Elfangio0
I stoped 4 yrs ago...yeah I also put some weight, but then I also needed anyway!
- moth0
If there were the opposite of health warnings on cigs, I expect there would be a picture of some smug cunt, in a pub, harking on about the lovely fresh air and generally looking down his nose upon those folk sheltering under the door frame of the pub. I guess the copy would be something along the lines of;
"QUITTING SMOKING SERIOUSLY INCREASES YOUR CHANCES OF BECOMING A SMUG CUNT."
- senseg0
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