Anyone Ever Stop?
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- thompson0
excersise is critical.
get to a gym, go for a walk.
I started jogging.... i would smoke at work then go for a jog, in a way I was telling my body "this is only going to get harder if you keep smoking"
eventually I stopped cause I wanted jogging to get easier.
also, besides excersise, when the cravings get too strong indulge in something sweet, even little indulgences, helps your mind get off the nicotine craving when you feed it something else...
my indulgences.... junior mints and dark chocolate
- johndiggity0
cut caffine out of your diet. it makes you want to smoke to calm yourself. it's like a mini speedball.
- ********0
for a while I experienced 'conditional addiiction" when I bartended 2 nights a week. During the other 5 days I never even thought about smoking--but the instant I hit the bar I was compulsviely reaching for the cigarettes
- rabattski0
doing patches or nicotine chewing gum is not a smart option. it still keeps you addicted to nicotine. it's just a replacement, not a solution.
cutting down on cigarettes is not smart as well, by doing the "i did good now i can reward myself with a cigarette" you make it even more harder on yourself to quit completely.
on another note, if you have stopped smoking, kicking the nicotine habbit effects your stomach, it causes the exact same feeling as if you would be hungry. a very uncomfortable feeling. you should be aware of that and not interpret it as a hunger feeling and start munching. you'll gain weight fast.
kicking the habbit itself is not that hard, it's the being "brainwashed" about smoking bit that makes it harder.
- e-pill0
i stoped smoking successfully.
i just ended it , it took a real long time, its all mental, i smoked marlboro reds 3 packs a day everyday for 17 years. i tried many times to stop unsuccessfully, the problem was the environment i kept, my wife still smokes, she would put lit cigs in my mouth when i was trying to stop, it was hellish! i smile now! ask dopepope he knows i tried so hard, my secret is this: it took another for me to see that i could stop. one of my close friends who smoked closely as much as me said in february of lastt year that in april when he runs out of the cartons he had he was going to just stop. i thought to myself, if this kid who does what i do can do then so can i. and i have not had a single craving since. i actually cant get near cigarette smoke. dont get me wrong, i absolutly love smoking cigs, i never in my life felt so at ease with a cig in my mouth. it was the ultimate realm of me. you have to want to stop. if you dont want to you never will. you can get tempted everyday when you stop. and remember its stoping not quiting. just end it and finish it and move on, dont count the day the weeks or the years, when you end it that way it just is, not a major moment let it go and smoke weed. get out of the nicoteen and light some
DMT and chew some mdma.smile! oh you cant, because you have yellow brown mucus coloured cavity teeth!
- cosmo0
don't stop ppl, we shall hold hands and walk into the belly of this beast.
- e-pill0
mal good luck with the patch, but when you stop paying that cash for it, and start focusing that moolah toward better boodah and just not patch and no more cigs you will be fine, i hope you d o this, the wife did the patch when i stopped n she started smoking cigs again and dont wannah stop smoking cigs...a shot of whiskey, a phat joint, 2 nicoteen patches on fresh skin areas, and some acid and times square.
- vburo0
smoking less gradually helped me enormously. so i guess it's really personal.
i have never read any book or all that sort of bollocks.
everyone has different reasons, different physical condition and different lifestyles.
just follow your senses.
- rabattski0
well yeah it can work for some, like the patches and all. it all just boils down to the person to find out what the best way is. in general however is cold turkey the best way.
don't call it bollocks vorm you're generalizing it way too much. yeah ofcourse there are people in it for a buck and they would tell you just anything as long as you keep writing those checks.
however that alan carr book is really good, simple and cheap. it has an enlightning bit in the "why you keep smoking" dept which gives a better insight and makes it easier to quit and to keep motivating yourself.
this is the 3rd time i quite. 3 months now. and it's forever. the first time i quit for 2 years, the second time i quit for 4 years. everytime it's different though. but that book helped me out a lot.
- rabattski0
e-pill, you should def. read that book as well even if you already quit.
- vburo0
that's great rabatts!
but to me it's bollocks..
personal eh?
;)
- idol0
make your life busy, if its slow youll be bored and start to smoke again. just fill up your day with things you need to do. hang out with friends more, play rec league sports, get a part time job at like a skateshop or something, go skating. start filming skaters and making videos... have fun
- e-pill0
i hear the both o you, i will never go back, i know it, its not just me saying it either, i have bad blood. meaning many people in my family have cancer, lung cancer, emphazema you name it...all from super heavy smoking. my reality...did i stop early enough? will my constant weed smoking continue to strengthen the inevidibility of cancer? i smile, you know why? because i have clean white teeth BABY!
- rabattski0
shut up janne! i'm gonna force read you that book and you're gonna cry so hard afterwards and thank me on your knees that i made you read it you bitch. :)
- kodap0
I tried.
I failed.
sorry that didn't help much
maybe start trying to smoke only at the window or your balcony. hide your ashtrays and avoid buying cigs
the best I got is a 50% decrease on cigarretes and my budget. not bad for someone who's been smoking for about 9 years.
it takes a lot of self-discipline.
daft eh?
- tomkat0
I successfully never started smoking.
cause its a disguting piece oh shit habit.
- kodap0
it's a powerful patience friend.
I can't imagine waiting for someone/someting more than 10 minutes having nothing to do. a cigarrete helps me through at least more 10 minutes without losing the grip
- superjuice0
dont be a quitter
quitters have no friends
- vburo0
asshole!
:D
- rabattski0
superjuice, i think when push comes to shove the smokers are the ones who'll lack friends.