Official: QBN Smoke Free Thread
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- bobkat0
Im on the Champix, and have no desire for a cigarette. Weird dreams though. All am doing a bit of a FebFast - so not drinking until March. All seems to be working fine at the moment!
- fugged0
That's nuts - I crushed out what is hopefully my last smoke last night. I ran out, too lazy to go get another pack, and said to myself, "fuck it. why not quit."
I even went out on a smoke break today with the smokers and just stood and talked. What's weird is I didn't even crave it. Of course I'm going to have to stop drinking for a bit, because I know once I get a few drinks in me, it's probably game over. But quitting drinking too wouldn't be so bad right now either...
Godspeed brutha.
- fooler0
I never really started. I watched my grandfather carry around an oxygen tank his past few years of his life before dying of emphysema and my father smoked until he had a heard attack in his late 40's. That's enough to make you never really want to start.
- monNom0
once you get free of it, don't let your brain talk you into 'just one smoke', as that single cigarette starts the slide back into smoking again.
brains are crafty. don't let them outsmart you.
- zoozoo0
just stand there and dont inhale like clinton
- Clinton used to each hash brownies at Oxford, according to his peers.mikotondria3
- but did he inhale?zoozoo
- or should you say "swallowed"?fooler
- he admitted to swallowing, but not inhaling.zoozoo
- fooler0
I'm thinking of picking up the nasty habit just so I can take 5-10 minute "smoke breaks" every 45-50 minutes like the rest of my coworkers.
Or since my "habit" is drinking should I just do shots in front of our office for 5-10 minutes every hour all day long?
- rson0
About 3 months ago I was up to a pack and half a day! I slowly weened myself down to 3 a day. This is the first day @ work smoke free. *pat myself on the shoulder. Now, I just have to wait for an RFP to hit. That will be the real test.
- albums0
Would vaporizing tobacco make it any more healthy? Or even work?
- i've tried it, be careful with dosage as it can be intensescarabin
- It's stil the same poisonous shit. Tar, chemical additives - tobacco itself is very toxic, in any form.mikotondria3
- ouch.albums
- i don't smoke, it was just a suggestion/questionalbums
- mikotondria30
Sometimes I think I miss it - certainly the little routine to break up tasks, and getting outside every hour or so. The expectation of a nice little bump, the taste of some nice tobacco, at the right point in the cigarette - not the start, or the short end, somewhere 2/3 to 1/2 way down. Outside, after not having had one for slightly longer than normal. Thick, rich, golden, slightly earthy, puffs in deep and huffed out with a little smoke-play. Ahh...the perfect smoke.
Then I remember the sight of a full ashtray, and making it worse, the stench of it. The anxiety if I couldn't get to where I could smoke - the infinite scheming and calculations of air-travel, in and out of security. The sick feeling if I couldn't smoke for hours, then rushing to try and get that satisfaction, but only getting nausea and the horrid, bitter, acrid chemical taste, stench and grimy hands, $9 a pack, blast through them all and feel sick. Thinking about cancer and somehow wishing it away, trying to climb stairs and not having the breath. Coughing, and coughing cloying black things into the sink, knowing my lungs are brown and black and every one of my miles of capilliaries and arteries are smaller and my blood is thicker, and straining my heart, and filling me fuller of low-density bad cholestrol. Being a slave and convincing myself I was exercising my right to smoke. Wishing there was another way to not want to smoke, that wasn't actually smoking because in the end that's what really made me want to quit; when I realised that I only smoked to stop myself wanting to smoke. Fucking idiot.
I got the Chantix, followed the instructions to the letter and it worked. Weird stuff, but it stops you wanting to smoke - what you do with that new-found freedom is up to you, but it allows you some thinking space that was previously taken up with addiction-satiation. I recommend it.- That was fucking deep and well-written. Aces. Inspiring prose.dMullins
- sea_sea0
i tried to quit, then life happened.
- scarabin0
smoking is fun
- i_monk0
Finding out someone smokes is like finding out they drink out of lead cups or had their son circumcised. It's 2012.
- fooler0
do you smoke after sex?
- akrok0
way to go.
- 7figures0
Haven't been sick, not even a cold, since my last smoke 7 months ago...
- dMullins0
rson, I'm with you. For Lent, I'm doing four segments of 10-day fasts, ending with 10-days of quitting smoking, which will hopefully platform into a full-on quit. Best of luck, mate. The hardest part is telling yourself no.
YOU CAN DO IT!!
- what else are you fasting from so to speak?aanderton
- in my experience, you'll never quit if you think of it as a 10 day stretch. it takes about 8 months before you actually feel comfortable. try the patch if you really want to ride it out -that's almost a guaranteed couple of months.ahandfulofdust
- i feel.dMullins
- zoozoo0
i do not smoke much anymore.
it got old.
once in a while though... i enjoy a good smoke