quiting

[sodapopinski]

quiting smoking sucks bad. has any one else gone through with it?

[JoyMonkey]

I haven't smoked since January 17th. So far it's been going fine, I haven't even had a drag. My wife quit at the same time but she caves in every time she goes out for drinks with friends. I think it makes things a lot easier if you don't draw attention to the fact that you've quit and keep it out of mind as much as possible. Stop thinking 'I haven't smoked in X days' and start thinking 'I don't smoke'.

[Shape D.]

quiting smoking sucks bad. has any one else gone through with it?

yes about 9 times. I'll probobly do it again soon.

[shmokes]

Quitting smoking is easy.  I've done it hundreds of times.


(really I don't smoke.  I just heard or read that somewhere and thought it was funny)

[lcddream]

yesterday was the end of week four...

the first 3 days are tough, then you think you're in the clear until about day 10...then you start panicking again....hold that out till about the 2 week mark then it should be reasonably smooth sailing. Just be steadfast.

good luck

ps: it helps me to think about the huge deposits of tar i probably have in my lungs from smoking a pack a day for 12 years, and the future possibilty of having to get a treachaotomy(sp?) in the evening of my life if i keep it up 

[lokki]

I was very sick a couple of weeks ago (flu) and was in bed for 3 days. I did not smoke during those days, and the cravings where pretty bad. But after I felt better. I realized I had probably gone through the worst of it and decided to try quitting. I have now not smoked for two weeks. it is still kind of weird. I still check my pockets for cigarretes and lighter when I leave the house. But hopefully i will kick the habit this time.

Been thinking about buying nicotine gum or something like that. but physically I don't think I have needed. Most be mainly psychological for me right now.

Good luck

[Crazy Cooter]

I quit smoking cold turkey about a year ago.  Easy as pie when you have chewing tobacco to "ease" you off.

Now how do I quit chewing?

[Daniel270]

My wife used to smoke (started at 16)...

right after she turned 19, she quit cold turkey.... she's 24 now and hasn't smoked once since she quit.

(Edit --  I just realized how kinda off using the words "cold turkey" sounds... makes for a slew of bad puns... )

[GGKoul]

I like cool turkey subs.

[missioncontrol]

I've been a smoker for 14 years......


I tried at the begining of the year and was unsuccessfull

[Stingray]

I quit probably 15 years ago. Hard to believe it was so long ago. At some point I decided that the nasty things were making me sick and were probably only going to keep making me sicker. Tossed out the cigs I had on hand and haven't smoked one since.

-S

[J_K_M_A_N]

I have quit for 3 years last September. It was hard at first but think of the money you are saving. That is why I quit. That and the wife nagging me all the time. I still would like to have one but I am noticing how bad it smells when people at work go out for one and come back in. It gets better but I don't know that it ever goes away completely. Good luck.

J_K_M_A_N

[sodapopinski]

I'm debating whether cold turkey is the way to go. This is only my 3rd day but extremly painful. The savings defently is a plus
in alberta cigs are 10$ a pack, damn government. about 150$ a month. 1800 a year. Thats the price of my arcade machine!!!

[tommy]

I did quit for a week after along weekend of drinking and smoking i was so sick, but in the end i started up again....as i puff on a cig. 

[lcddream]

I'm debating whether cold turkey is the way to go. This is only my 3rd day but extremly painful.

definitely just keep going if your at day 3...once you smoke again you'll be drawn right back in...might take a week but itll happen

[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.  ), 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]

Now how do I quit chewing?

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]

I still would like to have one...

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

[Gunstar Hero]

Good on ya man.

Be strong, you can beat the habit, and you'll be better (and richer...$10 a pack???) for enduring the pain!

[Harry Potter]

Haven't quit myself but am planning to stop in July.

For the time being, I have a control method. I only smoke socially. In the 1.5 years I've been smoking, I've had one by myself maybe 2 or 3 times and have gone for a week or two without having or wanting one. Going for longer requires more self control, of which I have zero. 

[Shape D.]

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

 

[DrewKaree]

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[M3talhead]

If you can go long enough without smoking to have "The Dream"*, then you're ok.




*("The Dream" is the one where after the first week or so, you wake up in the middle of the night (or next morning) and cant remember if you actually had a cigarette the day before.)

[DrewKaree]

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