MAN, does quitting smoking SUCK

[abcdefz]

If you don't smoke already, for pete's sake don't start.

It's been almost two months now, several times a day a have semi-serious cravings... of the "maybe I should just get a pack" magnitude.

Fritggidy frack.

:mad:

[CrankItUp!]

Its Hubba Bubba chewing time for you dude ! (y)

[zorra_chiflada]

i know it sucks. i was supposed to have given up last year when in had pnuemonia, but i still sneak one in occasionally. :(
i'm so stupid and weak, i deserve to die of emphesyma :(

[CrankItUp!]

You guys need to stop sucking on those cancer sticks - seriously ! (y)

[zorra_chiflada]

i know.

[abcdefz]

You guys need to stop sucking on those cancer sticks - seriously ! (y)



I've stopped sucking. Now it does.

[CrankItUp!]

You can do it if you REALLY try ! My father was in the hospital about 4 months ago ( he's 67 and started when he was only 15 ! ) and the doctor said that if he persisted to smoke - that part of his tongue would have to be removed ! He's been chewing bubble gum ever since. (y)

[abcdefz]

Well, it's been....








*checks watch*





















































51 days or so. You'd think much of the knee-jerk habituation/addiction reflex would be gone by now. :mad:

[zorra_chiflada]

You'd think much of the knee-jerk habituation/addiction reflex would be gone by now. :mad:

they say that, but i really don't believe it. i think the cravings will stay for months, maybe years.

[abcdefz]

they say that, but i really don't believe it. i think the cravings will stay for months, maybe years.


That's reassuring. Thank you. :D

[CrankItUp!]

But you live so many more healthier years - if you quit. (y)

[paul jones]

I've said this before time and time again on the board

If I could get a fucking amazing blow-job instead of a cigarrette I would not want nicotine ever again

[zorra_chiflada]

That's reassuring. Thank you. :D

thinking about the good things about not smoking helps:
you can breathe better, you can taste things, you don't stink, you don't have to go stand outside in the cold every half hour, you don't have to spend your money, you'll live longer and you'll look better! :)

[CrankItUp!]

I've said this before time and time again on the board

If I could get a fucking amazing blow-job instead of a cigarrette I would not want nicotine ever again
Get out the ol hoover then dude ! :D

[paul jones]

Get out the ol hoover then dude ! :D


fuck that ! I need lips and teeth and tits I can stoke

[CrankItUp!]

Get a love doll then and go fucking crazy with it ! :p

[enree erzweglle]

I'm sorry to hear this but I appreciate so much that you and others
have posted about it because those accounts might keep some people
from starting to smoke. Certainly, accounts like that have kept me from
starting.

I have a friend who was a several-pack a day smoker for ~20 years.
She had appendicitis and had to go into the hospital. While she
was in there, she got sepsis and had to stay in the hospital for several
weeks. That broke her smoking addiction. However, slowly over the weeks
following her release from the hospital, she sunk into depression and
she had never had problems like that before.

She had a theory that the depression was related to the abrupt way
she stopped smoking. She seriously considered going back to smoking
to see if it would relieve her depression. She struggled with that decision
for several years--she didn't want to go back to smoking only to get
re-addicted and find that it did nothing to relieve the depression.

She never went back to smoking and she's still fighting her depression. :(

[adam_f]

Good luck, azzy az. Think of the money you're saving though. Cigarettes are what, 4 or 5 bucks a pack. Adds up.

[Freebasser]

What if he steals them?

[YoungRemy]

theyre even more like 7 or 8 bucks where i live.

i had to quit, it was too expensive, and MAN are people BUMS when cigarettes are expensive. i was bumming out half my pack when i decided it was time to quit.


its been 6 years in november...


its easy, you just DONT SMOKE no matter what the circumstance....

[enree erzweglle]

its easy, you just DONT SMOKE no matter what the circumstance....
This is what my parents did in the mid-1970s--they gave up completely
and didn't go back. My ma "smoked socially," but my dad always had
a cigar going. They were maybe able to give it up so easily because they
had good incentive (theirs being when my dad's doctor told him that he
had to stop smoking or he'd die).

I think they (and you) were lucky, being able to let go of smoking so easily.
It's more difficult than that for most people.

Maybe there's more to addiction than we know/realize right now.

Or maybe it's largely about incentive--getting incentive and then
remembering it for the rest of your life.

Maybe addiction affects people in different ways.

Because from what I've seen, it's anything but easy for a lot of
people to just stop and to not resume doing those addictive things.

[TonsOfFun]

They should make smoking illegal. It'd be cheaper to buy a pack then.

[ChrisLove]

Good Luck abcdefz - here are some things that helped me (I have currently quit for 2 years having smoked for about 8)

- a Hot chick. I liked would go near me if I smoked - getting her to like me was the initial inspiration (and Im still with her so it was worth it). I guess that kind of depends on the right circumstances but still you never know.

- Telling lots of people you are doing it - so you would feel bad about letting them down!

- Take advantage of your new lungs - I had been a sporty kid but by 25 did not sport at all - now I dont smoke, I can breath and I am playing softball, soccer, basketball and squash on a regular basis!

- Nicotine gum/patches - for the first few months(but I found I only took around 1/2 bits of gum a day when the pack recommended 10)

- Setting goals - Stopping smking forever seems crazy o at first I was aiming for a week, then a month, 6 months etc. After a yearI found I didnt even want a cigerette any more.

- Here is the biggie......

You know those places/situations where you just have to smoke? Im talking about the pub or the cafe or wherever - DO NOT GO THERE!
I stopped drinking for thre months when I stopped smoking because I knew the booze would make me smoke. I stopped hanging around with smoking friends. I would not let myself get into situation where I thought I might be weak willed. You can find other situations to see friends (I dont imagine you are a big boozer but Im sure the same applies to coffee or whatever)

Im sure everyone has their own way of dealing but anyway good luck man.

[abcdefz]

Good Luck abcdefz - here are some things that helped me (I have currently quit for 2 years having smoked for about 8)

....You know those places/situations where you just have to smoke? Im talking about the pub or the cafe or wherever - DO NOT GO THERE!
I stopped drinking for thre months when I stopped smoking because I knew the booze would make me smoke. I stopped hanging around with smoking friends. I would not let myself get into situation where I thought I might be weak willed. You can find other situations to see friends (I dont imagine you are a big boozer but Im sure the same applies to coffee or whatever)

Im sure everyone has their own way of dealing but anyway good luck man.




Thanks -- I appreciate it.

To address your last couple of paragraphs --

You're insightful about this -- but what makes it hard is that so much of my downtime/home life involved having a cigarette in hand. It's hard to just be in my apartment, since that's where I actually smoked the most.

If I want to watch a movie... I want a cigarette.

If I want to paint... I want a cigarette.

If I want to read... I want a cigarette.

Etc.

Yowza.

Oh well.

I certainly get more biking done, and I can go far in city traffic and such without being out of breath. That's cool.

[Kid Presentable]

I've been off them for two years.

Started at 11.

Go wherever you want. If you tell yourself you have to do something, and beat yourself up, you're enabling failure.

Deciding you don't want to do something is all it takes.

Sadly, it's that simple.

Good Luck. (y)

[abcdefz]

Deciding you don't want to do something is all it takes.






I don't want to blink.

I don't want to blink.

I don't want to blink.

--- Damn.

[wavin_goodbye]

good luck.


*tries the blinking thing*

[enree erzweglle]

6) Imagine dying from smoking...
These sorts of visuals work nicely for me as do
their opposites. In this situation, for the negative that
inspires me toward the positive, I might see an old me
in my mind's eye and I'm lugging around and am
hooked up to portable oxygen. For the positive, I
might see an old me like my dad--spritely, lithe, and
walking so fast that I have to run lightly to catch up
with him. That's incentive for me.

I know that this is weird, but when I see magazines
or ads with photos of things that I want to do or be
or just continue doing or being, I cut them out and
tape them around my place. My friends laugh but
looking at them--even when I don't realize that I'm
looking at them helps me to stay on the right track
for difficult goals. I did that for my first marathon and
for my second one, I hung around pictures of me
in training for that first one. It became a tradition
that I'd always hang photos around from my previous
training runs and that just works for me.

Right now, I should find and hang around the place
photos of someone who is content--ecstatic even--giving
office hours three times a week. :)

[CrankItUp!]

And getting paid for your efforts while you're at it. :)

[QueenAdrock]

I heard there was a 3-day stump you had to get over, in order to "kick the habit" for good. Which I found is bullshit. I've only smoked 2 cigarettes in my whole life, but my friend smokes about a pack a day. She decided to stop to try and get her ex-boyfriend (non-smoker) to come back to her, but after 4 months decided it wasn't worth it, and started back up again because she felt like it. I just remember how good she smelled, and how nice it was to hear her laugh without a horribly phlegm-y hacking cough following the laugh.

She can still run longer than I can, though she needs a cigarette break every 10 minutes. And she plays the trumpet. And she's loud as hell. So I think it has to do with her having much, much larger lungs than me. It'll catch up with her though.

I really do wish she'd just quit because I refuse to let her into my car with cloth seats with her stinky-ass clothing...seriously, it's so disrespectful. It's like if I went into her car, blew a huge fart, and got upset when she rolled down the windows because I felt she was insulting me.

ANYWHO - good luck A-Z!! I know you can do it! Just think of how much healthier and hotter you'll be! It's a fact: 83% of UMD students said they'd rather date a non-smoker. Just think of how much just-barely tail you can get once you quit. (y)

[Cap'n Crunch]

smoke a joint instead