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Arcadiac:
Physical tobacco addiction symptoms go away pretty quickly, the ritual part, smoking after eating, with a cup o'coffee in the AM etc. takes a bit longer.
Of all the addictions I've struggled with (I'll be clean and sober for 15 yrs this Thurs. ;D), tobacco is the easiest for me to pick up on again.
One of the main things I had to do was stop buying the damn things and tell everyone around me that I was quitting so they wouldn't let me bum one off of them.
Every adult in my immediate family has died due to some form of addiction, generally lung or heart related caused by smoking.
I've not smoked in about a year and a half, diagnosed with borderline emphysema. A month after I quit I didn't need the inhalers and haven't had to use them since.
Decided that I wanted to be able to breathe, if nothing else to stay around a few years longer just to piss people off. ;)
Bottom line if you're really done you will be successful, make the choice, go thru withdrawal and you'll never have to do it again.
Best wishes, I'm rooting for ya!
ARCADIAC!
Bones:
I give up every couple of years. I give up for like 2-3 months at a time, but always end up back on them.
I think in every instance I have been drinking and end up buying a pack. Then the next day the pack is still 1/2 full so I finish them off. Before I know it I am buying packs again and the wife is saying-"are you smoking again"?
The last time I gave up was Feb 04 but started up again in may 04.
I sleep better when I give up.
Tailgunner:
Last time I quit was about 10 years ago. After the first few days it wasn't so bad, but about three months later I was jonesing hard for a smoke. Wasn't much longer and I was smoking again.
Haven't quit again *yet*, but I've since found out I really need to. I don't have any lung issues, but I recently found out my blood pressure is through the roof and if I don't make some lifestyle changes I'm looking at a major heart attack. Lost an uncle a few years ago to the same, he was 52 and I'm almost 40 so it's no longer a matter of whether I want to quit or not. Frankly I enjoy smoking a great deal, but I'm not quite ready to check out and given the choice I'll just have to find some other vice. ;)
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 28, 2005, 01:28:20 pm ---
Now how do I quit chewing? ::)
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Go to Sam's Club (insert CostCo or BJ's, depending on your area) and buy the big 16lb bucket of sunflower seeds. That way, you'll ALWAYS have a pack handy. Whatever you used as a spitoon when you dipped can be used for the shells. DON'T eat the shells. The workout and motions you'll go through shelling them will help you.
Nothing will remove the cravings, but the oral fixations have so many solutions that if you can't find one to help you with THAT part of quitting, you aren't being fair to yourself. They've got flavored toothpicks all over the place, sunflower seeds, cripes, chew on a friggen Bic pen to keep your mouth busy.
Move over to cigars to ease out of it too. I get looked at like I'm crapping on someone's front lawn in broad daylight if I light one up in public ::) and they last so much longer....all of these things will reduce your smoking, which may make it easier to quit in your own gradual way.
The gum flat out sucks. Anyone who tells you that'll help....needs to be forced to chew that crap on a daily basis. The patch....I'm having a hard time keeping 'em lit ;)
Stingray:
--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on March 28, 2005, 04:58:21 pm --- I still would like to have one...
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Sadly, I don't think that ever goes away completely. Most of the time I have no urge to smoke at all, but even after 15 years I get the occasional craving for a smoke, usually it's after a really stressful day at work.
-S