Official: QBN Smoke Free Thread
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- rson
Smoking is so 1990's. I have no idea why I started but, it is over. One day and counting :(
- fadein110
timeline
- sine0
quitting is for quitters
- 3030
- sine0
- mstocks0
I quit over 10 years ago. Smartest thing I have ever done. It's such a waste...
- plash0
- This book is fucking bullshit full of bullshit that everyone already knows.dMullins
- worked for me!ok_not_ok
- Get the Audio book it works better....kinda like hypnosis.ok_not_ok
- affirmation, either you buy into it or you don't. if it didnt move on but there are a lot who say it did work for them.plash
- worked for my wife and a couple of my mates. They're the only people I know who have read it.seeessess
- plash0
also congrats! i was a smoker for about 15 years, my body finally said no more and haven't gone back since 2010.
the old thread: http://www.qbn.com/topics/630077…
- detritus0
One day in?
Crikey, far too soon to start counting chickens.
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Quite what counting chickens has to do with quitting smoking, I'm not sure.
Anyway, best of luck to you.
- zoozoo0
i do not smoke much anymore.
it got old.
once in a while though... i enjoy a good smoke
- 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
- 7figures0
Haven't been sick, not even a cold, since my last smoke 7 months ago...
- akrok0
way to go.
- fooler0
do you smoke after sex?
- i_monk0
Finding out someone smokes is like finding out they drink out of lead cups or had their son circumcised. It's 2012.
- scarabin0
smoking is fun
- sea_sea0
i tried to quit, then life happened.
- 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