Quit Smoking.. FML

xentech said:
Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but I've been smoking probably an average of 10 cigarettes per day from age 14 (so that's 5 years of smoking) and show minimal signs of addiction. Periods of that I've smoked 20/day consistently and periods less but I'd guess that I've probably smoked an avg of 10/day.

I can go a day without a cigarette, it's not a massive problem for me. I go a day without a cigarette on a semi-regular basis (probably once/month) and although I'm agitated and craving the feelings really aren't that strong and are fairly easily ignored. Whereas some people seem to smoke for like half a year and are suddenly really addicted..

Why don't I quit you ask? Well I have cut down massively recentley but I don't think I could quit very easily for the simple fact that I go out on the weekends and most people, certainly all of my friends, smoke. Plus the fact that cigarettes are for whatever reason awesome when drunk doesn't help.
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When I smoked, I wouldnt smoke at work and would work sometimes 12 hours a day. Quitting still sucked.
 


megatabbers said:
I just got back from a 5 week vacation where I smoked like a chimney. Prior to that I hadn't smoked cigarettes for 17 months. Today (so far) is my first day of no smoking (not even a cigar).

So we're basically starting together. Let's ride it out. I'm doing fine w/ nic. gum and avoiding morning/afternoon coffee (that's my biggest crutch: coffee and butts).
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nice dude, good luck!

gbmack said:
Smoke weed instead?
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I gave this some serious thought, I can't smoke cigs when I smoke weed; but now I can't smoke weed at all without feeling like absolute shit - makes me depressed, start making to-do lists, re-evaluating my life and shit; pointlessly too cause my life rocks lmfao.



I've cut out coffee - and switched to tea since it doesn't have the same trigger for me, so far so good. I feel the odd craving, and started replacing it with food :D haha
 
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xentech said:
Plus the fact that cigarettes are for whatever reason awesome when drunk doesn't help.
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You're too young to probably notice, I really didn't suffer badly from hangovers til l hit about 30, but a booze hangover is bad enough... a booze plus a 2 pack of cigs hangover is absolute hell. Quit while you're ahead.

Navuud said:
I gave this some serious thought, I can't smoke cigs when I smoke weed; but now I can't smoke weed at all without feeling like absolute shit - makes me depressed, start making to-do lists, re-evaluating my life and shit;
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I've already spoken about this in depth elsewhere here, but yeah, that also happened around 30, after having been an avid pot smoker for a good solid 10 years. Getting old sucks.
 
Been smoke free for 15 years now. I was a hardcore smoker. Now I can't stand the smell
I chewed gum 24/7 for the first 5 years. Hang in there. Find some kind of substitute like gum - sugar-free so your teeth don't rot out.
I had quit drinking coffee and beer at the same time too for a good six months because they just went hand in hand with a cigarette
 
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3. You just need something to keep your hands occupied.
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There's this site I know ...

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Navuud said:
About 6 months ago I made a stupid bet. "I bet you can't grow your hair for 6 months, in fact if you do I'll quit smoking"


Today is 6 months...


11 hours without a smoke, anyone care to join me and see who can go the longest? cmon someone must have made this a new years resolution.

As a background, I've been at a pack a day for the last 2 years.



p.s. anyone who mentions allen carr's easy way i'll kick in the face.
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LOL well good for you. You feel like absolute shit but it's better in the long run, right?
 
A friend of mine got these fake cigarettes, and when she would usually smoke she would do the exact same thing as she usually did, but instead of getting a real cigarette, she grabbed the fake one, and pretended to smoke it for a few minutes as if it was real...the toughest thing she had with quitting times before was breaking the habit of actually smoking...
 
So who cared enough about you to grow their hair for 6 months? They might have saved your life, who knows.

Anyways, the easiest way to break a habit is to replace it with another one. When you get the urge for a smoke try reaching for gum, ice water, sunflower seeds, or something like that.

Has anyone here ever used e-cigs, or are they crap?
 
fun facts:

- Quitting cold turkey (also no patches or other "helpers") is the surest way to stay off cigarettes.

- PHYSICAL nicotine withdrawal symptoms are over in 48hrs. All withdrawal "pains" afterwards are due to the mental and social addiction that was built up over the years.

My wife quit over a year ago, and she still complains that she wants a cigarette soooob bad. Even she knows it has nothing to do with withdrawal, but with addiction.

That said:
The combination of a physical and mental addiction is what makes nicotine so dangerous and even more addicting than heroin. Hang in there!

::emp::
 
Use hypnosis ... a qualified hypnotist is the best way to quit smoking, even though most people would rather do everything else first.

The reason people have trouble quitting smoking is not because of nicotine, because the nicotine is out of your system fairly quickly (48 hours and they're good usually). It's because smoking is a powerful habit. And if you deal with it as a habit, you get much more long-lasting results.

If you're in the DC area we have a program that's very successful.
 
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