Quitting Smoking.
- Started 17 years ago
- Last post 17 years ago
- 40 Responses
- decisionman
I want to do it.
If you smoked ... how / why / etc. did you quit? I need inspiration ...
And yes, I know the standard inspiration ...
:)
- decisionman0
And no brutal image posts.
Plz.
- _me_0
you'll save approx $2000 per year
- BuddhaHat0
The longest period I've had without smoking was because I got a sinus infection so bad it caused excruciating pain to smoke anything... stopped for 2 years cold turkey after that, so that method is highly recommended.
My uncle, a smoker of 40 years just quit using a pill called Champix. He said after a week or two it makes the smokes taste like shit, then after that it sort of removes the desire to smoke.
PS. what do you think standard inspiration is? I've heard 'cos women don't like smokers', 'cos it's killing me', 'cos it's a huge waste of money', 'cos everything tastes better', a huge variety of reasons...
- Peter0
Cold turkey. A really, really cold one.
Cause whoever heard anyone successfully stopping by gradually smoking less?
- VectorMasked0
you might wanna do it for your pee pee.
- !!!decisionman
- gotta keep the pee pee healthy.
That's a good reason to quit.VectorMasked
- ********0
What I discovered in the Air Forces was, to get a really nasty cold. If your lungs become ill and vulnerable and hurt even when you cough, even if you tried to smoke, it tastes exactly like poison, both the smoke in your lungs and the taste in your mouth. Like I said, exactly like a poison and you cant even taste cigarretes anymore. Though I never quit, this is the only logical solution to quit cigs.
- akrokdesign0
people who smoke stinks. you like to be the stinky one?
- I like to put my thing into the stinky one. That's another thread though.Peter
- gotta disagree with this. Some people don't smell like smoke. There's a difference between smoking a pack or half a packVectorMasked
- they still stinks like a California wild fire.akrokdesign
- pango0
this is what i always say.
Don't be a quitter! finish what u started!!
- decisionman0
No ... I donwannabethestinkyone!
- airey0
i stopped. that simple.
saying that due to the habit of having both hands active i drank 2 drinks at the same time.
lungs are going to be ok, the liver's fucked.
swings and roundabouts i guess.
- decisionman0
So you just ... stopped? No thinking about it, no possible reason?
You can't spell reaction without action ... :)
- airey0
and that whole chestnut "you'll save money if you stop" point is bollocks. nobody that smokes actually cares. they might pretend to but they'll never stop to save a few bucks. it's something that people who don't smoke wheel out or people like me who used to smoke discover about 8 months down the road. at least you'll have that to enjoy i guess.
- I heard a story about a guy who quit, had enough money to go on vacation ... was miserable the whole time :)decisionman
- hahaha.airey
- akrokdesign0
i just stopped, also. but thats was in my teens. :-) oboy, thats long time ago.
- WeLoveNoise0
theres actually a drug perscribed by ur doctor that makes you repulsed by cigerettes making u never want to smoke them again. but its too expensive.
so go to ur doc and say uv'e tried EVERYTHING and its what they give you as a final solution [and works really well]
good luck la
- Thank you!!!
That actually sounds really appealing ... I'm on so many other drugs right now, who gives a fuck :)decisionman
- Thank you!!!
- airey0
also, it's different for everyone but i still feel like one every now and then and it's been 9 years.
i'd recommend against watching a die-hard film for the first year or you'll really want a cigarette. john mclean makes me want to smoke. i don't think it's an oral fixation but who knows with my psyche.
- I could go without cigarettes ... but without Bruce??decisionman
- it's for a cause!airey
- blankeyecue0
i smoke at work..but not at home or when im with my family...
well good luck to you...- sooo, you're happy to fuck other peeps lungs just not your family. how very caring of you lol!airey
- why? do your co-worker smoke?akrokdesign
- Seriously aiery? You've said wise things ... up to this point.decisionman
- there's no wise here my friend. and my point, although hilarious, is still valid.airey
- airey0
a very simple solution:
pay a person (minimum wage, casual so there's no extras like insurance and super) to follow you around with a cattle-prod. instruct this new best-friend to jab you everytime you reach for a smoke. after about a week you'll either be too gun-shy to actually grab one or too damaged and in a hospital bed to actually be able to reach one.
- Not a terrible ideadecisionman
- But what if my burning flesh produces dangerous fumes?decisionman
- burning flesh will only make your eyes water unless you've been injecting chlorine.airey
- decisionman0
So I should not be a heavy drinker?
Then I'll only ... what ...
- ********0
you can smell and taste things agian