I Quit Smoking
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- normal
About 6 days ago. The first 2 days were a bitch, alternating sweaty palms / feet, stuttering, attention span of a house fly, fidgeting, etc. Wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be and I have been a heavy smoker for about 8 years.
But the thing is everytime I finish a meal, or wait for something to render, or load, or whatever I used to have a cigarette. Now I can't. My whole pavlovian reward mechanism is all fucked up.
Anyone have any advice, similiar experience?
I'm a man of habits, but I've been breaking all of them and sending them to the shredder so what is a man of habits to do without any habits?
- stewardez0
my advice:
start smokin' again!works for me...
- JazX0
Your tough, leave them alone.
- Kuz0
one fag now then wont don u no harm. Cold turkey never made no sense to me. I quit smoking 3 months ago, and i'm doing great
*puts out fag*
First one in a week! honest!
- gruntt0
My neighbor, a recent quitter came by my apartment the other evening and asked for a cigarette. I took one out, placed it on the shelf and told him that he can have it in 15 minutes. He did not return but thanked me the next day.
Stay Strong.
- ad10
- wendell0
yes i feel about that. maybes you are now at the start of bad after no tobac-
i hope for you take it to the end of bad. then are still quitting. good for you>> i try many times in the year but i can not see so-oo far to quit it. i like so-oo much to sit at the fire stair at the job of me and take a coffee still and rolling with bali shag. so good. maybes only 7 in the day as well/many on the town on the weekend(typisch) or when i am free. i love tobac , smoking. there is not any free gold hanging for the men who quit!!!!!
- hiphoprelic0
Good job, bro. Be strong.
Humans seem to fill one habit with another. the thing is just to find habits that aren't harmful.
I have one friend who quit by eating sunflower seeds, but then the salt dehydrated him.
I once quit by nibbling on beef jerky when I wanted a smoke.
I have quit before but now am back in times of high stress.
- JazX0
Mind over matter. Forget about them.
- normal0
Yeah, it's all about the if I can make it through the next hour I'l be fine technique. Then you forget about it and everything is cool. Repeat if necessary.
It helps as well that since I've quit I've come down with this massive bronchial cough which reminds me that I'm basically a junky coming off the shit.
- mr_snuggles0
Move to Toronto where you can't fucking smoke anywhere.
*shakes fist at the government
- tny0
word jazx
- Hizzle0
thanks god. good luck this winter!
think Emphysema. what a way to go:
"Emphysema may begin with only a slight morning and evening inconvenience in breathing. Next, a short walk may be enough to bring on an attack of breathlessness. It may reach a point where every breath requires a major effort."
- normal0
Used to live in LA so I know exactly what you're talking about.
But the bans never really bothered me, what bothered me was the better-than-thou looks and fake coughing that passers-by would give you on the street. Or even kids pointing at you and saying, "Mommy that's a bad smoking man", "yes dear he is" like you didn't even exist.
- kodap0
good for you
- zaven0
I'm in my14th months without cigarettes.
It's hard the first three weeks, then you will be disgusted if you only smell someone smoking around.
you can do it!
- mr_snuggles0
The ban bothers me not just as a smoker but more as a citizen in a "democracy" I have as much of a right to smoke as people who choose not too. I think many places in Europe have dealt with this issue adequately and I feel it's infringing on my rights. In Toronto they're now talking about banning pitbulls, which bothers me equally, where are they going to draw the line?
- normal0
I also solemnly promise not to turn into one of those born again non-smokers.
- wendell0
what in canada what is that for something???? is it not a very hard land??? fresh air people maybe-e but smoking hard i think about that> what do we think on the "canada=canabis" button!
i was one time working together with a girl from canada (we were shit drunk one night on the town)- hheheh only forplay i think!!!*tricking!!not full sex but shit drunk . for me good/ok- i think--- to her NOT!!! all people in the job of her smoke !smoke completely! more on the town i think. in the car, which is a fun, even at skiing!Standing on skis and taking a blow i think makes many people merry, which it is! I do not have a car, but I smoke on ski tours(dope) to! come on c@n@d@! T@X C@TS!
- de4k0
stopping and starting all the time can be worse for you than light smoking.
be strong my friend and just quit.
the occasional pang for a smoke will never go away, but your health and lust for life will return.
as well as your taste buds...*pie tastes like that!?
- Hizzle0
I'd prefer that our citizens get smarter, get healthier, and take the load of our Medical system. You're better without smoking dude. Trust me. I've quit for three years now and I'm an Ox.