quit smoking?
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- comicsans0
Firstly, you really have to want to quit, not think it might be a good idea, really want to quit. Find your motivation, the rest is easy. Without motivation you will probably relapse.
The first week is easy 'cos adrenaline will carry you through. Identify what situations make you want to smoke and find solutions for those.
What helped me was deep self loathing at being addicted to cigarettes. Because I thought it might be a problem I switched to cigars (I said I wouldn't inhale but would allow myself a cigar whenever I wanted). I smoked 3 cigars in the first week and threw them away. Have not smoked, or wanted, a cigarette since.
- autoflavour0
start smoking crack instead.. its better for you, and less addictive
- eighteen0
oh fuck everytime i drink now i end up smoking at least one cigarette. IT SUCKS SO MUCH. whenever im drunk it's like i want to have that extra high because it's combination of upper's and downers, listening to hardcore dance music and really drunk right now it's sort of fucking with me
- cgregori0
Smoked for 15 years and for about 3 months I would just keep telling myself how stupid it is was every time I'd go out to smoke. Eventually it sunk in and I haven't smoked one since (19 months). And packs being $6 helped out to. Definitely don't miss it.
- airey0
just stop. i smoked for 8 years and was on about 1-2 packets a day. the longterm health issues and money spent meant nothing to me when i quit, it was the general fitness and chest pains more that grabbed me.
the key is to simply stop. and never smoke another one. i still feel like on now and then and it's been 8 years since. i generally think of myself as a smoker that doesn't smoke rather than a nonsmoker.
and most importantly, please don't become one of these anti-smoking douchebags that 'used to smoke but now i know better'. i hate those cunts.
- loool0
I smoked for 7 years...I quit 4 years ago...just avoid booze, then your character goes weak...you really need to focus on that shit, it's not something you do whenever you feel like it...it must become a way of life - no cigar and that's it...
it's fucking hard, but when you quit the food tastes better, even booze tastes better... I am dreaming about tobacco even now...3 years have passed, and I am not cured...it is an ultimate drug, no matter what anyone says...
you feel proud of yourself for a long time when you don't smoke, that's one of better sides of a story...but not for long, then you start realizing that you are just the same old piece of shit like you used to be, just a smell from your mouth is not as nasty...
- thumb_screws1
3 months off the cigarettes!!
Always wanted to be able to be an occasional smoker but have never been able to do it, i fucking love smoking too much. Used to smoke around 10 cigarettes on weekdays and double to triple that on the weekends, for about 12 years.
Been talking about quitting for years and think it was becoming an uncle that was the impetus to do it. Also the misses pointed out how badly they affected my behaviour. I could be in a serious conversation, someone would walk up and ask "come out for a smoke" and i would just ditch the conversation mid sentence.
Used the full strength 15mg patches for about 2 months and would pop a nicabate lozenge if i was out and really craving a cig. Also started running to help clear the chest out. Still early days but it seems to be working.
If you are on the patches make sure to take them off at night, i had horrible nightmares and fucked up dreams after getting drunk and leaving the patch on overnight a few times. Also found that the nicabate lozenges make your throat feel like its closing up.
Pro's of quitting:
The ability to drink ludicrous amounts of booze and hardly get a hangover, its crazy compared to when i used to smoke i would get crippling hangovers.Con's of quitting:
I never used to get sick but since i quit it i have been hit with the flu pretty bad a couple times. This has happened to a few mates that had quit too.- Really? When I quit, I stopped getting sick altogether. When I started again, at least 2-3 germs a year.DoTheMacarena
- yeah it doesn't make sense, i rarely got sick while i smoked.thumb_screws
- WhiteFace0
3 days without a smoke, the sleepless nights are killing me! How long does that last for?!
- 10 days max, then the nicotine is out of the system. if you last 2 weeks, chances are 50/50 you will quit for goodBender
- cool cheers, are you allowed a celebratory smoke after 2 weeks?WhiteFace
- sure, but then you are down to 1/100 againBender
- all the nicotine is out of your body in 72hrs, any cravings are just psychological after that. No more nicotine ever, I'm afraid...mikotondria3
- ..or you're back to square 1, another 72hrs detox, and learning to not cave to your cravings. 3 days is the hardest...mikotondria3
- I'm climbing the walls!WhiteFace
- hang in there mate, your lungs have begun healing themself already, you are now a non-smoker. Just think ! :)mikotondria3
- airey0
and the 'quiting isn't hard' line is bullshit. it can be hard for some people, not for others. take those self-involved comments with a grain of salt. some people get physical responses to quiting (like any addiction) and some don't. unsurprisingly it can be different for everybody.
a friend of mine found cigarettes harder to kick than heroin. he said at least you can't buy heroin at every shop on the walk to the bus stop.
- six0
well i had 3 beers n 3 cigs lol
oops :-(
- scarabin0
amazing.
phillip morris conducts a study to show the benefits to the economy of premature death caused by cigarettes
- any government that "accepts" a report like this is in serious conflict of interestprophetone
- 10 years old now but still crazyprophetone
- scarabin0
i quit, but LOVE smoking on ecstasy. between myself and my girl we can finish a pack in a night... so i did this "well i'll just buy one pack to smoke while rolling" and then all the positive associations it made with the ecstasy put it back into a desirable place in my brain. so that pack turned into another pack "just for the hangover" and then a third...
now i'm smoking cigars just to avoid buying a pack, but am weaning myself off of those
- so... don't smoke on something so rewarding as e. alcohol may have the same effectscarabin
- scarabin0
quitting isn't hard, it's just annoying.