giving up smoking
 

i'm in the process of giving up cigs, cold turkey style, it sucks, i haven't had a cigarette in two days. i don't want to give up but i set the time aside ages ago to do this so i feel like i ought to stick to it.

ugh.

i know nothing of this area, so all i can say is good luck!

good luck man, i've tried countless times and i can never do it. i always end up smokin gmore. i really wish it was easier to quit.

good job mang. slay the nicotine dragon.

good luck my friend

tip: don't buy any and don't smoke anybody else's

some people here are going to quit because they are putting the ban (and it's jail time for the offenders).

i'm certainly cutting back since i only smoke when i go out, but i still don't feel like quitting. like every sunday, i feel like i had enough for a while and am not craving for a cig.

anyway, best wishes.

I smoked about a pack a day until exactly 3 weeks ago. I have smoked drags here and there from my girl and a friend. So about a cig worth in 3 weeks!

Yeah, its tough. I agree, def don't buy them and keep your mind busy..

yeah, eventually they get tired of your whining and refuse to give you a fag.
If you tend to smoke while drunk, then get drunk less regularly. eh?

There's apparently some CD audiobook thing that explains "the truth behind ciggarettes." It apparently makes smoking seem absoultely disgusting. Ive heard about it from some friends and relatives. I'd Google it. Maybe it'd help.

You should definately stick it out.

Its unhealthy its bad for you it smells bad etcetc etc.

Randomly I do smoke if Im very drunk.. but its never become a habbit. joy. I really doubt it ever would.. my mother used to but quit.. my father has since he was 20 and the way he coughs now is almost enough to make me detest it. The smell is what makes me not ever want to smoke more than once a month if that.

Plus there are way more fun things to spend money on and way more fun things to fill in 4 minutes with.

i haven't left the house in the last two days either, if i did i wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of going to buy cigs, and i've got the next two days off work to give my self enough time to get over the withdrawl cravings. i'm getting cabin fever though from staying indoors so long.

It's def. pretty hard to do. I haven't bought a pack in over a year, but still end up smoking a couple a month which is still better than a pack a day. I still fiend though!!

The best advice I could give would be to try and get really excited about quitting and look at it as a whole new chapter of your life.

I smoke, I want to not smoke, but I havn't really tried to quit seriously. I'm 18 and feel like I'm fucking myself up, and it all became clear recently when after a weekend's heavy smoking I proceeded to lay one of my friends, and kept goddam coughing when I was in bed with this girl. She smokes, so she understood, but it was precisely the most unattractive thing I could have done there.

I should be in good heath, but I wheez like a motherbitch when I walk up any hill. I smoke about 8 roll-ups a day, smokers, have I passed the point of no return?

anything more than 3 cigarettes a day leaves you with a habit or worse.

i never even tried to smoke, so i don't know how it is, but my brother quit cold turkey after smoking for two years. he told me it was very easy. but each person is different. good luck!

I started smoking when I was 12. Yee haw!!

pox

here's a useful tip from someone who's quit, successfully many times (ha ha ha)

part of the soothing power of the smoke is not necessarily the tobacco itself but the fact that you enjoy a deep drag of the lungs.

so, suggestion-- when that monkey is on your back, take a drag of air-- just as if you were puffing on your favorite dunhills-- or whatever it is you smoke.

that's right-- smoke the atmosphere. just like kids pretend, you know-- but with the hunger of the addicted.

just try it. it's got me out of more than one difficult situations.

I stop and start again all the time. My suggestion, don't drink or do any stimulants. That's what always gets me started again.

Its defiantely soooooo easy to light up when drunk/high .
I'm on + off too . It's nice when I reach a point after weaning off and just the smell of cig smoke makes me wretch . After it has thoroughly released its clutches on me .

i just hate the feeling of being dependant on a thing like that . The distraction of having a cigarette is so great and awesome and i genuinely love to inhale and smoke, but contrary to what is believed, cigarettes are so stressful on the body that they cause the depression rather than help alleviate it .

Good Luck on kicking the habit , T+B . Try not to focus on it too much . Walk in the opposite direction whenever you feel the need for one .

woo me too!

yeah good luck with this my boy, seriously. i don't even have the will to try so props to you for actually going through with it.

i smoked for about seven years-14-21 and a few of those years quite heavily-over a pack a day. but last year i set myself a date in advance and smoked a lot till then then quit cold turkey and have not touched one since-one year and two months ago.
the moral of the story is if you really want to quit, you can. the besst thing is to get used to drinking and taking breaks at work without a smoke and then youll be fine....

I am trying hard myself. I don't want help 'cause it is a personal challenge. It is so bloody difficult for sure.

Best of luck to you, T&B - being an ex-smoker myself, I know how bloody difficult it can be to kick the ciggies. Best of luck to you too, sarramkrop.

oh that I do a lot :D, and I never smoked a single cig

nice to see so many people have quit. however--

once a smoker, always a smoker.

that's my case anyway.

while i've quit (repeatedly), and no longer do i smoke (generally speaking), whenever stress attacks i feel compelled to take refuge in pack of smokes. some times i can resist, some times i make a temporary deal with the devil & i smoke away until my tongue starts hurting.

oh yes. i'm like a recovering alcoholic-- i'm a cigarette addict who doesn't smoke.

most of the time anyway.

i agree with you. i still have a craving for a cigg and identify myself with smokers. so yeah im a moker who doesnt smoke. but recently i have been taking a few steps back from friends thagt smoke and am enjoying the smoking ban in bars (except for the fact that whenever we go to a bar we simply sit in the smoking section)

well today was easier than yesterday.

oh god, that reminds me of when i was in school and me and my friends would go off property and smoke and then come back in...EVERYONE would bitch at me that i smelled like smoke and it was so annoying.

I've had a purchasing sabbatical from smoking this month. Because I still think smoking is great, but I do need to cut down (spending too much and I don't have any duty free). I've managed to only be smoking when drinking, which has been the weekends. I was surprised at how I'm not too irritable.

Keep yourself busy & exercise seems to be the winner. Already it's oodles easier to swim a few times a week without lung death.

I admire you quite a bit for trying to quit. Bless you much if you successed. (Deep breathing ought to be
tried).

hang in there. once the chemical aspect is done (1-2 weeks) then you just have to deal with behavior. and if you're in doubt bout picking up a cig a week from now, don't forget these last two and the utter hell it is to break free from.

also watch out for leperchans. those fucking little green turds just nailed me to the fucking sky. they have no fucking gold, their beer is shit, and the priestesses they may parade in front of you are made of fucking taffee.

do it, it is fantastic, you will not regret it. I quit for 14 months two years ago and it was terrible, the cold turkey thing nearly killed me, quiting out of spite will only hurt you, until you smoke again, which I did regretably for a year after the quiting episode. however, last summer I decided to quit on a smaller scale, to truly cut back, and so I did, smoking less often until I finally decided to quit. in other words, I suggest to ween yourself off of cigarettes slowly over a three month process. It has been six months and I have absolutely no desire to smoke tobacco, whereas the first time I burned to smoke a cigarette everyday day of that 14 months..

I smoked like 8 yesterday, but it was my birthday, so fuck it.

I smoke because I'm hoping for an early death, and I need something to cling to now.


there, ya bastards. I've gone and quoted the smiths. EAT MY EMO.

history repeats itself, life is a cycle. when tobacco was introduced from the new world to the old, many people were against it. in some places it carried even the death penalty to possess or distribute. one if the first was King James I who characterized the vile smoke of tobacco as being that "from the pit which is bottom-less" [ie, hades sheol and death]. For a brief period in Ethiopia in the 1880s, smoking tobacco carried the death penalty under Emperor Yohannes IV...

the single best way to quit smoking is to stop buying cigarrettes and throw away your cigarrettes and lighters and stop.

cold turkey is the only way to go. if you can make it 21 days you will be doing good.

I smoked for ten years and quit cold turkey. I did not smoke for several years then started again when my marriage was breaking up. I quit again cold turkey a year ago.

the teachers would try to catch you if you smelled in high school.

I wish you good luck Toilets & Bowels, it's not easy. I don't think I'd want to quit just yet, I wanna enjoy the pleasures of smoking a few more years before I do.