Quitting Smoking!!!!!

[Deicide]

Fuck, fuck, fuck... It has been around 6 hours without a cig... I'm dying to smoke a cig, shit... Any effective way of warding off this craving?! I'm trying to do work, but this shit is driving me insane.

[Left Leanings]

Fuck, fuck, fuck... It has been around 6 hours without a cig... I'm dying to smoke a cig, shit... Any effective way of warding off this craving?!

Yes. Have a smoke lol.

No, seriously. One suggestion peeps come up with, is to clean your teeth. Apparently, smoking isn't quite so satisfying just afterwards, so see if that staves off the craving.

I started smoking in my late 30s, and I don't want to quit. I just really enjoy it :)

[Deicide]

Yes. Have a smoke lol.

No, seriously. One suggestion peeps come up with, is to clean your teeth. Apparently, smoking isn't quite so satisfying just afterwards, so see if that staves off the craving.

I started smoking in my late 30s, and I don't want to quit. I just really enjoy it :)

There's a massive contradiction. I go out and run everyday, yet I still smoke, so it's rather redundant.. time to quit. I managed to quit for 3 months.. but then went out, got drunk and cigs are just too awesome when you're pissed.

[Left Leanings]

There's a massive contradiction. I go out and run everyday, yet I still smoke, so it's rather redundant.. time to quit. I managed to quit for 3 months.. but then went out, got drunk and cigs are just too awesome when you're pissed.

Yeah fair play to you bro.

Well done on quitting for 3 months yeah. That's pretty cool if it's really what you want.

I've stopped a few times, for a up to a couple of weeks. But it's only cos smoking makes my teeth go black. My dentist says it's an hereditary inclination in some peeps to get discoloured teeth through smoking. And the only real way around it is to quit, or wait for the 6 monthy dental check up and polish n scrape lol.

I use smoker's toothpaste, and that helps a bit.

I don't get physical cravings for baccy. I just enjoy it that much, that I simply just simply think fuck it, I'm getting me baccy and making a rollie.

But if you into physical fitness and stuff, then yeah, why not quit. Good luck yeah, and keep us posted on how it's going :)

And yep, roll ups and cigs are the shit when you're pissd lol :)

[Ele'ill]

I quit about 5 months ago (I think?) but I was at a point where I just needed to get my health back in shape cause things weren't going well because of other drugs. I've recently quit drinking (seriously) too. You have to really want to quit. Know that you can get cancer at a young age and you can get other health issues at a young age. This is what motivated me to quit before things got too bad. I've quit and am using that money to get tattoos and am still saving money (that's how stupid expensive that habit is).

I quit when I got sick with some upper resp. infection. This might not work for you because I know two people I work with who end up smoking more when they get sick. Nobody can help you it isn't possible so don't expect it. Just find a way and do it.

This timeline interested me because I like instant gratification and this shows you how your body is healing in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after you quit.

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

http://www.stqp.org/quitsmokingtimeline.asp

[Nox]

My dad quit smoking after 20+ years of it, he said whenever he had an urge to have a cigarette he'd grab a can of beer. Not the best advice in the world but it worked for him.

[Zealot]

I quit cold turkey about a week ago and I haven't really had any cravings :) That's just how awesome I am.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

I quit in the new year after about 10 years of smoking, for financial reasons and because of my then 9 month old son.
..but had a lil lapse and smoked a pack this weekend while my other half was away...so yeah, it's hard

[ForgedConscience]

Casual smoker, don't really have problems quitting atm. Last cigarette was a week ago or thereabouts. It's nice to wake up in the mornings with one though.

[Goblin]

Get some nicotine gum bro

[Left Leanings]

Casual smoker, don't really have problems quitting atm. Last cigarette was a week ago or thereabouts. It's nice to wake up in the mornings with one though.

Yep. That morning cuppa and a roll up is fucking amazing, I gotta say :)

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Stronger than me, I've tried to quit a number of times but nicotine patches and gum just don't seem to work as I feel like Pavlov's dog wanting that satisfaction of the whole pipe ritual of loading it, lighting and smoking it that I've become used too.

[Deicide]

I haven't smoked since making this thread. I even avoided going out this weekend. But damn, I still want one of those little glowing red beauties. :drool:

[ridethejetski]

Quitting is for losers.

[Small Geezer]

I'm on day 2 of quitting. Using patches. I've been a smoker for 11 years and was really heavily addicted. I was just sick of the poor health; coughing, nose running, shortness of breath.

Smoking is a fuckin terrible addiction.

I reccomend for everyone to give up, even if you're not heavily addicted. Chances are, you will become so.

Also, alcohol gives me a terrible craving for cigarettes. I think giving up booze for a good 6 months at least (if not longer) is necessary to give yourself a chance.

[Prometeo liberado]

Quitting is for losers.

Goddamn right! Do you know how good that smoke will be after you've not had one for what, 6-7 hours, a weekend? Take that long sweet draw and the world just melts away..........so long.

[Left Leanings]

I haven't smoked since making this thread. I even avoided going out this weekend. But damn, I still want one of those little glowing red beauties. :drool:

Keep going strong, Bro. You're doing well, if quitting is what you wanna do :)




Goddamn right! Do you know how good that smoke will be after you've not had one for what, 6-7 hours, a weekend? Take that long sweet draw and the world just melts away..........so long.

Yep. I love my baccy me, for sure. Quitting isn't for me, but for those that want to give up, fair play to them and all the best :)

[brigadista]

go swimming - gets the shit off your lungs really quickly-


cant help with the cravings - but good luck with it stay strong -your doing great - don't give up!!!

[homegrown terror]

last time i quit, i just got too broke to buy them myself, and told all my friend not to let me bum one. i quit for eight years, then started back up when i started working at a gas station and was around them all the time :(

i've been wanting to quit again, but my family doesn't need to suffer through the guy i turn into when i haven't had one.

[Small Geezer]

Day 3 now. With the help of almighty Stalin I will conquer this terrible affliction.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Day 3 now. With the help of almighty Stalin I will conquer this terrible affliction.
the physical withdrawals are pretty much done, or will be in the next day ... at least in my experience (quit smoking 3 times)
from here on out it's pretty much a mental craving from the habit ...

so yeah, you can do it

[homegrown terror]

aaaaand i'm trying again....not cold turkey this time. my girlfriend is helping me: when i buy a pack (have been a pack a day smoker) she's locking half of the pack up and not giving them to me till the next day, then gonna go to making a pack last three days, then four, then hopefully none at all.

[Althusser]

Stop smoking. It's bad for you.

[homegrown terror]

Stop smoking. It's bad for you.

not to mention gives money to some of the worst-of-the-worst corporations out there.

[Small Geezer]

so yeah, you can do it

Cheers for the encouragement.

[Ned Kelly]

Stop smoking. It's bad for you.

Cos it's that easy.

[Small Geezer]

Caved in like a fool. Didn't really dig it that much tho. Stalin is not almighty. Just cos I had a presentation to do the next day and I runned out of gum.

Tryin again today tho.

[Deicide]

I'm still going strong! No gum, no patches, pure will power, raaawwwr...

I was around smokers today, I came close to caving in, luckily I didn't.

[homegrown terror]

day 4 of smoking half of what i usually do (ten per day). by day 7 i'm gonna try going to 1/3.

[Hammilton]

If going cold turkey is tough try cigars or pipe smoking? It takes more time and effort, and pipe smoking is undeniably cheaper though you really should have five or six pipes and rotate through them.

I've smoked cigars on a more or less daily basis since I was about 20. Well, it wasn't daily for the first couple years, but for the past four at least. Anyway, I've never smoked indoors, so in winter I was more or less screwed. I might have a cigar if i was shoveling or snowblowing, maybe if I was hiking or something, but otherwise, it's just too cold to spend an hour or more sitting outside smoking. I'll relight a bowl, but a cigar? never!

I used to go to the bar and play pool so I could smoke in winter but they made it illegal to smoke in bars here too, so I have to go to the casino, which is a pain in the ass.

I've known a lot of people who switched to cigars and had success in the long term, but it seems like everyone I've known to go cold turkey ends up failing after a few weeks or months.

Whatever you can do to make smoking a bigger pain in the ass will help, I'm sure.

[Small Geezer]

The trick to staying true is to remain vigilant against smokerist revisionism and purging the entire party of all traces of smokerism.

Study the works of famous anti-smokerist Marxist-Leninists to deepen your ideological commitment to the road of anti-smokerism.

[Ele'ill]

I don't remember when I quit and will intentionally never figure it out cause this time I'm never going back to smoking.

[Art Vandelay]

Stop smoking. It's bad for you.

What!!! This is news to me comrade, thank you for this little nugget of wisdom; if only I had known........(breaks cigar in half and chucks pack of tobacco into garbage).

[Ele'ill]

What!!! This is news to me comrade, thank you for this little nugget of wisdom; if only I had known........(breaks cigar in half and chucks pack of tobacco into garbage).

It's bad for you though.

[bcbm]

i fell off the wagon after being tobacco free for five months. then i got a cold and felt like hell and have been coughing really nasty for a few days. i think i will quit again

[Ele'ill]

i fell off the wagon after being tobacco free for five months. then i got a cold and felt like hell and have been coughing really nasty for a few days. i think i will quit again

That's the only time I've been able to quit, good luck. I've been getting bad cravings again and it's been like four or five months, why does this happen?

[Small Geezer]

This guy told me that you can't actually give up smoking. Seriously. I took it quite hard. So even though I'm a man of will, you just can't fight that sort of thing. So I'm smoking again.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Keep smoking. YOLO :D
I have tried to quit, but it didn't work out. :rolleyes:

[Small Geezer]

Good on you mate, you can do it. Keep smoking!

[bcbm]

That's the only time I've been able to quit, good luck. I've been getting bad cravings again and it's been like four or five months, why does this happen?

idk but that is how it was for me too

[ed miliband]

i swear i always used to hear that the first three or four days are the hardest, after that you're fine? cos i can do those days with ease, on the fifth day i want a smoke.

it's a weird sorta "addiction" because it slowly creeps up on you. i can quit for days at a time, and i have numerous times, and then i'll be back smoking.

[Ele'ill]

I smoked one today while waiting for laundry and it did nothing for me at all. I'm glad I didn't buy a pack.

[Small Geezer]

Quit again. It's day 2. I was getting grossed out by it big time. Making my nose run and all that and sore throat.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

That's the only time I've been able to quit, good luck. I've been getting bad cravings again and it's been like four or five months, why does this happen?
It's been about 8 months for me, my most recent quittage anyways ... and I get the occasional craving. Mostly fleeting "Mmm ... cig" thoughts when I see others smoking or I'm in a situation that reminds me of when I would stop for a second and pull out a cigarette ... like before / after eating at a restaurant.

You mentioned smoking one and it didn't do anything ... I hit my friend's cigarette a couple of weeks ago, got the brain-jolt feeling for a second. It reminded me of how little cigarettes do and made me glad I quit ...

[Deicide]

Still not smoking. I haven't had any alcohol since I've quit, I'm avoiding it like the plague. I've joined a gym now too. Stay strong people.

[Ele'ill]

I'm thinking about starting again just cause my future is already messed up and because they taste good after a while.

[Small Geezer]

Please don't. It will be harder to give up! They will taste shit again and you will wake up in the morning feeling like you have had 10 ash tray cocktails.

[Igor]

I quit smokes a good while ago and replaced it with snus which is a lot more cost effective in terms of nicotine and won't fuck up my lunges. Shitty habit still though.