Who wants to quit smoking?

[Ele'ill]

Me either.

But I probably should. Want to get a support group together on here and post our experiences as we go through it?

The reason this is not in the sports and health section is because that section is full of sports and not a lot of health.

I may even do a day by day report-


For right now though I'm going to buy my last pack of cigarettes.

Toodles

[Steve_j]

Me either.
For me thats the problem, i dont see the point in trying unless i really want to :(


For right now though I'm going to buy my last pack of cigarettes.

Best of luck, let us know how it goes.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I able to quit after heavily smoking for 2 months (pack a day). For some reason, I didn't experience withdrawal and I had not smoke for a month.

[Blackscare]

I love smoking.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I have the problem of knowing that I should quit, but actually not wanting to. I do enjoy smoking, I know that it will kill me off, but it gives me small moments of pleasure when life is at its dullest.

However, I was able to give up very successfully whilst using nicotine patches, I went for a long while without a cigarette as they literally removed the need for me to smoke. It was only when I got very drunk at a bar with my mate who smokes like a chimney when my non-smoking successes were over.

The things you need are:
- An actual desire to quit/hatred of smoking.
- Nicotine replacement - medication/patches/gum/whatever works.
- Dedication; self-righteousness and sanctimonious non-smoker rhetoric (tell all your smoker buddies how great life is now you've given up and how they should follow your example, this way you'll avoid smoking again in fear of looking like a douchebag).

All this comes from a smoker who has failed to give up on two occasions, take it or leave it.

[Ele'ill]

I've been smoking since I was about twelve or thirteen years old- minus four or five years when I was in my late teens-early twenties. Right now I start working (part-time job) at 3-4am and I really look forward to coffee and the cigarette.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I have the problem of knowing that I should quit, but actually not wanting to. I do enjoy smoking, I know that it will kill me off, but it gives me small moments of pleasure when life is at its dullest.

However, I was able to give up very successfully whilst using nicotine patches, I went for a long while without a cigarette as they literally removed the need for me to smoke. It was only when I got very drunk at a bar with my mate who smokes like a chimney when my non-smoking successes were over.

The things you need are:
- An actual desire to quit/hatred of smoking.
- Nicotine replacement - medication/patches/gum/whatever works.
- Dedication; self-righteousness and sanctimonious non-smoker rhetoric (tell all your smoker buddies how great life is now you've given up and how they should follow your example, this way you'll avoid smoking again in fear of looking like a douchebag).

All this comes from a smoker who has failed to give up on two occasions, take it or leave it.
:laugh::laugh:

[Scary Monster]

Nicotine replacement - medication/patches/gum/whatever works.

Wait doesnt nicotine gum give you mouth cancer which results in gettin your mandible removed? Lol i would rather smoke it in that case

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Wait doesnt nicotine gum give you mouth cancer which results in gettin your mandible removed? Lol i would rather smoke it in that case
I've not heard that, but a little birdie tells me that smoking is one very big cause of cancer.

[bcbm]

i'll have one or two when i drink. haven't bought a pack in a month or two. once i decided i really wanted to quit my mind seemed to step in and make cigarettes stop tasting pleasant and start being really disgusting. just think about all the horrible shit going into your body, possibly while high. worked wonders for me.

[Il Medico]

Meh. I don't see much of a point in quitting. I smoke so rarely I doubt that it is horribly detrimental to my health. (my current diet on the other-hand...)

[Tablo]

Wait doesnt nicotine gum give you mouth cancer which results in gettin your mandible removed? Lol i would rather smoke it in that case
I don't think the actual nicotine is what causes the cancer.

[Blackscare]

Actually, I was talking to a friend who recently went electronic. I was suspicious, but he let me try and I was happily puffing away. I thought there would be no "bite" to it, but then I realized that it was, after all, just a vaporizer and those things have always given me a feeling that was a lot like the "bite" of a cig, but more clean feeling.

Check it out, I think I'm going to order one soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette


The only thing that I don't like is you don't get the satisfaction of having smoked one whole cig. You just puff until you no longer want to. Then again, I also don't get that sort of sad feeling after putting out a butt.

[Small Geezer]

I quit smoking last night. Earlier this year I managed about 2 months but then relapsed when stressed.

I'm on patches now and it's not really that hard. The trick is to try and forget about it.

I've also taken a while off drinking but I will start again in 6 months.

I'm going to try (when my non-drinking period is over) to just smoke when I drink. I'll keep you all posted as to how successful that is.

Smoking and drinking, in my experience, are inseparable. Cigarettes are so fucking pleasurable when one is on the piss. And also for me there's a real old world charm about it that I can't resist, especially when watching some black and white Humphrey Bogart movie or some 60's technicolour escapism heroin bliss fest.

Oh the Irony.

[Os Cangaceiros]

just think about all the horrible shit going into your body, possibly while high. worked wonders for me.

That actually does work pretty good. A few months ago my friend and I were talking (while very high) about how they use embalming fluid to make cigarettes, and suddenly the cigarette I was smoking started tasting really foul.

That said, I'm still smoking, although only about one or two cigarettes a day. I tried wearing a (low dose) nicotene patch recently, and started to feel extremely nauseaus, so I've decided that I don't really have a problem with smoking (yet).

[synthesis]

Cigarettes are probably the last vice I'll give up. I'd like to cut back, though, to a quarter-pack a day or so, just because the cancer isn't worth $5 a day - $2, at most.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Word of advice, if you're going to quit, just do it, don't say "I will after this packet". When you read this, just chuck that packet you just bought away brother.

[Jazzratt]

I doubt I'll be quitting any time soon. It's not that I particularly want to die or anything, simply that I really enjoy it and don't much mind the dying (after all, the time comes off the end anyway).

People I've known to quit successfully have simply stopped. No fucking about with patches and all that wank. That may well not be the best way for everyone, though.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i dont really want to quit. im getting pressured to do so by some people(some who i highly respect as well) but i cant really get myself to do it. a full fresh cigarette is eye candy to me. i have to see that cherry topping...

plus i love smoking while driving and listening to post rock or something. drinking smoking and bullshitting are just too good too. fuck...

ill be a life long smoker :crying:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'm feeling absolutely no pressure to quit, especially since I can get Marlboro Reds for cheap...

[Qayin]

I started at 14 and I'm 17 now. I go on binges then quit cold turkey.

I heard of a place close by that sells Lucky Strikes, gunna go try them out ASAP

Smoking makes you cool you know...


especially since I can get Marlboro Reds for cheap...
Reds are nasty man.


I'm a Parliament full/ American Spirit Blue guy myself

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Reds are nasty man.

Get lost, they're the king of cigarettes. I can feel the tar building up with every drag.

[Qayin]

Get lost, they're the king of cigarettes. I can feel the tar building up with every drag. Whoa tough guy don't want any trouble..

My lungs are so outta wack lately
Gravity bong and hookah is to blame.

[synthesis]

Yeah, I've been buying the Special Blend Reds, just because they're $4. Usually it's Winstons, but I figure I can save about $30 a month by smoking these fucking Marbs.

[Raúl Duke]

I'm not smoking anything...but I tend to go for Dunhills, Natural Spirits, Benson & Hedges, or Marlboro in that order.

I also like "cigars" sometimes.

I never had a big habit per se (as in I never did a whole pack in a day, I had a more or less 3-5 cigarettes a day kind of thing) and right now I'm not exactly planning to go back to smoking tobacco...but who knows?

But the best is cannabis and I wish I had some.


i'll have one or two when i drink. haven't bought a pack in a month or two. once i decided i really wanted to quit my mind seemed to step in and make cigarettes stop tasting pleasant and start being really disgusting. just think about all the horrible shit going into your body, possibly while high. worked wonders for me.

oh dude...

Sometimes I get this negative subjective feeling about the cigarette I'm smoking when I'm high and it becomes more heightened if you mention that stuff about me when I'm high (but it doesn't turn the taste sour per se)...

Although such statements don't affect me when I'm drunk, I like to have a smoke when I have a buzz.

[BuddhaInBabylon]

in a week it will be a year since i quit. I smoked for ten years. You don't need nicotine replacement therapy, or self-righteous sanctimonious anti-smoking rhetoric to quit. You just need to find out what works for you. When you decide you want to do it, just do it. I bought this book called 'the easy way to stop smoking' by Allen Carr. It basically hypnotized me. But more than that, i just decided enough was enough. Smokes got to be around 7 bucks a pack here. Even at half a pack a day, that's more than a grand in my pocket at the end of the year.
I used to tell myself "the buddha never bought a pack of marlboro lights." and that helped a lot. Also i would think about R.J. reynolds and winston salem and the like...big tobacco lines the pockets of politicians and policy makers more than most corporate scum. I'll not pay them any longer to kill me and take away my ability to run as fast as i must to evade any force if i'm put in that situation.

[Blackscare]

I doubt I'll be quitting any time soon. It's not that I particularly want to die or anything, simply that I really enjoy it and don't much mind the dying (after all, the time comes off the end anyway).


Agreed. The quality of life in the last couple extra decades you get from not smoking is pretty shitty anyway.


Although, I think that by the time such things are a concern for me, medical advances will probably have a solution. Although if it's privatized at that point it may be too expensive. :(


Either way I'm fine with, really.

[Ele'ill]

Get lost, they're the king of cigarettes. I can feel the tar building up with every drag.



Did you notice a difference when they started putting that 'firecheck' glue based crap in them that's supposed to stop the cigarette from burning without frequent drags- to stop people falling asleep while smoking and burning to death?

I usually smoke American Spirits- I have a pack of PallMall Reds right now as a coworker owed me big fucking time.

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

It only takes 2 days to get through physical cravings. Then it is just a psychological issue. Just remind yourself that you don't need a cigarette (you won't die without it) and you can always start smoking again at a later point, but right now, your will to not smoke must prevail.

[Bright Banana Beard]

So far I am clean and I dont wanna smoke again, it crap. cannabis is the way to go

[Die Neue Zeit]

This thread should be sticked in Sports and Health. :thumbup1:

[Ele'ill]

I think the biggest trick that helped me quit for two years was the 'I can always go back to this habit later'

For whatever reason it really worked- it became a short term challenge and I quit cold turkey.

It was only later that I forced myself to start again through a series of bad decisions and idiot friends forcing me to.

[La Comédie Noire]

I started smoking when I was 13, quit when i was 17 started again when I was 19 and am trying to quit again at the age of 21.

My best advice is don't get drunk around people with cigarettes.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

I'm not smoking anything...but I tend to go for Dunhills, Natural Spirits, Benson & Hedges, or Marlboro in that order.

Dunhills :thumbup1:

[gorillafuck]

Wow, everyone on here smokes cigarettes.

[Qayin]

because we're cool

[Rusty Shackleford]

because we're cool
http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/smoking.jpg


A True Cool Guy, Gentleman, and Revoltuionary

[leftace53]

I was slightly surprised this thread wasn't made over into a "Whom wants to quit smoking", then I realized I was being silly.

I can't imagine smoking working well with asthma...

[Klaatu]

That actually does work pretty good. A few months ago my friend and I were talking (while very high) about how they use embalming fluid to make cigarettes, and suddenly the cigarette I was smoking started tasting really foul.


I don't know if they use embalming fluid (formaldehyde), but I do know that they add ammonia, in order to increase the effect of nicotine.

BTW, nicotine is more poisonous, mg for mg, than both cyanide and rattlesnake venom.

Congrats to all who have sucessfully quit the addiction. For those who have not, keep trying... we are behind you. :)

[Raúl Duke]

Dunhills (according to their site) and Natural Spirits are either very minimal (Dunhills) or allegedly none (Natural Spirits) in additive content; neither to my knowledge contains ammonia.

Doesn't mean they're healthier...but just putting it out there so people know if you don't like the idea of ammonia going into your lungs well some brands don't have it.

[Il Medico]

I was slightly surprised this thread wasn't made over into a "Whom wants to quit smoking", then I realized I was being silly.

I can't imagine smoking working well with asthma...
I have asthma. But then again, I smoke cigarettes like cigars, I don't inhale them.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Did you notice a difference when they started putting that 'firecheck' glue based crap in them that's supposed to stop the cigarette from burning without frequent drags- to stop people falling asleep while smoking and burning to death?

I don't know. When did they do it, and did they do it for cigarettes made in the EU? Although I will say that the Marlies I get seem to burn fine without frequent dragging.

[Raúl Duke]

I don't know. When did they do it, and did they do it for cigarettes made in the EU? Although I will say that the Marlies I get seem to burn fine without frequent dragging.

It's a US specific thing, to my knowledge.

Happened recently like maybe last year or early this year.

[Small Geezer]

Day 4 of my non-smoking career. Feeling alright.

[Vanguard1917]

Day 4 of my non-smoking career. Feeling alright.

The first couple of weeks are the hardest but also the easiest (in dialectical unity). Hardest because you physically miss the nicotine the most during that phase. But you're also usually at your most mentally determined to quit, which makes it easier to stay away. The trick is not to let your determination slip. Your body will take care of the rest.

Then there's always those nicotine plasters. Stick one on each eye every morning and you'll never find your fags.

[Small Geezer]

Good advice.