Quitting Smoking

[Luke]

Anybody who has ever successfully quit before tell me your strategies, or something.

I've gone the past 24 hours or so now without one, and didn't really even cut back on cigarettes I just went one day where I only smoked about four and then I realized I should just quit so I had about 1 smoke yesterday and a bit of another one, now today I have no smokes.

I'm actually tempted to buy a pack and just have it around for when I really really need one, but this way is better I'd say...

But how'd you quit? How long until I start craving so much?

I know that's a stupid question kinda because my Grandpa quit over five years ago or more and he still gets cravings when someone smokes near him...

[SomaGuye]

I don't have any experience myself but I know my aunt, uncle and some of their friends have been off fags for a while now using these fancy doodads.

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 03:38 PM, SomaGuye wrote: I don't have any experience myself but I know my aunt, uncle and some of their friends have been off fags for a while now using these fancy doodads.

I have SOMETHING like that, but a cheap version.

A ten dollar one..

It doesn't make any smoke or anything which really makes it tough it just apparently tastes like a smoke when you puff on it and it looks like one but that's a bunch of bullshit it tastes nothing like it. I'm hopeless in quitting as I am with finding a real girlfriend :(((((

[Timmy]

My old man has been off cigarettes for a few years now - but he still chews Nicorette gum like a fiend. I don't think he will ever kick his addiction to nicotine - he just gets his fix another way now.

Those gums and patches are really expensive, though.

[Earfetish]

Cold turkey. I quit smoking successfully cold turkey like 2 years ago and I never crave them any more. Cigs smell like roses for a few weeks but it goes and now they smell nasty to me and I could never smoke a full one. I never have cravings, but I sometimes get in a situation like spending a few months in an office when I kinda would like to be a smoker again.

[RubberTrucky]

Getting pregnant helps. My wife quit smoking when she got pregnant. For some reason, even before she knew she was pregnant, she suddenly lost taste for a cigarette.

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 03:52 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: Getting pregnant helps. My wife quit smoking when she got pregnant. For some reason, even before she knew she was pregnant, she suddenly lost taste for a cigarette.

Hm, I'll have to try that.

[ColdRicePudding]

I tried to give up, but it doesn't help when the other three people I live with also smoke...
Kinda sucks.

[Pride]

Smoking is probably one of the hardest addictions to leave behind.

As for myself, I pretty much went cold turkey (I didn't smoke for a week straight). After the week I still found that the intense craving to smoke was still there and I was getting nervous from the sudden withdrawl, so I resorted to using "Nicorette gum." The gum gave me the tobacco fix I needed to stop smoking for quite some time.....Eventually though, I began chewing tobacco instead of smoking it lmao (personally I feel the gum created a new form of tobacco dependence in me). On the bright side I now don't smoke anymore (took a year and a half) and I don't even chew tobacco as much (I'm still trying to get totally free of it).

My advice would be to try and stay away from friends who smoke (as this creates a huge temptation) and also try using the patch.

Good Luck!

[Earfetish]

Oh yeah, I found one of the hardest things was keeping my hands and fingers (roll-up smoker) occupied, so I brought a yoyo around to play with and keep my mind occupied, but anything similar would do, it's just because I happened to own a yoyo. It's also basically essential to carry something else around to put in your mouth and 'smoke' occasionally, or just pick up straws and pens and 'smoke' them.

As far as I've heard, cold turkey is the only way to go. It's not going to kill you, it wont hurt, and you've felt a bit poorly and agitated before so it's nothing weird. Other people who try other methods seem to fail.

[Earfetish]

And by 'other methods' I mean the patch, gum, anything. Anything that does not deal with your underlying addiction to nicotine. Just stop smoking, and deal with the cravings. And don't start smoking them again when the cravings come back. Do it the old fashioned way and mean it.

[tox]

it's either about weaning your self off to a point that you can stop hard,
hitting a wall and saying no more
or go to the clinics that say that they have a 96% chance that their laser crap will stop your nicotine addiction

[Boss]

At 4/24/11 03:55 PM, EpicFail wrote:

At 4/24/11 03:52 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: Getting pregnant helps. My wife quit smoking when she got pregnant. For some reason, even before she knew she was pregnant, she suddenly lost taste for a cigarette.

Hm, I'll have to try that.

Want me to plant my jizz in your tummy EpicFail?

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 04:09 PM, Earfetish wrote: Do it the old fashioned way and mean it.

Trying man, I think the hardest thing about doing this is realizing that I really don't have a reason to quit besides being a slave to the government, besides that I don't have much reason at all... But I'm doing it!

At 4/24/11 04:21 PM, Boss wrote:
Want me to plant my jizz in your tummy EpicFail?

Kind of, ya.

[Makakaov]

First try smoking one-a-day because you're not quitting, bro.

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 04:42 PM, Makakaov wrote: First try smoking one-a-day because you're not quitting, bro.

I haven't had a smoke in 24 hours and I'm not quitting?

[Earfetish]

My motivation for quitting was not wanting to die before my parents.

[swaenK]

lol watch the movie Cats Eye, it may help you quit smoking.

[blah569]

For cannabis users, it's extremely easy to stop using. I haven't used cannabis in awhile, but I could stop cold turkey without any negative consequences after months and months of use (for urinalysis and what not).

;)

It's incredible for such an amazing thing to be nonaddictive.

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 04:53 PM, blah569 wrote: For cannabis users, it's extremely easy to stop using. I haven't used cannabis in awhile, but I could stop cold turkey without any negative consequences after months and months of use (for urinalysis and what not).

Yeah but I don't smoke weed / do any drugs.
I only drink, and I am soon to only drink and not even smoke.

There's no extremely easy way, even if you smoke weed it's hard because I've tried quitting before when I smoked weed and as soon as I smoked a bowl or a joint I wanted a smoke because that was routine, smoke after you get high.

[PuRpLe-KusH]

I quit because I luv my health, and h8 the taste of cancer !

[unowned]

At 4/24/11 04:45 PM, Earfetish wrote: My motivation for quitting was not wanting to die before my parents.

you can motivate yourself or do a better job by looking at the 25,000+ blunders you've made

[blah569]

At 4/24/11 04:57 PM, EpicFail wrote:

At 4/24/11 04:53 PM, blah569 wrote: For cannabis users, it's extremely easy to stop using. I haven't used cannabis in awhile, but I could stop cold turkey without any negative consequences after months and months of use (for urinalysis and what not).

Yeah but I don't smoke weed / do any drugs.
I only drink, and I am soon to only drink and not even smoke.

Alcohol is a drug though. Yeah that's true though man, it seems to be pretty common to smoke cigarettes after blazing.

[Luke]

At 4/24/11 05:10 PM, blah569 wrote:
Alcohol is a drug though. Yeah that's true though man, it seems to be pretty common to smoke cigarettes after blazing.

Yeah I know it is but I don't really consider it one I mean yeah it is but it's like buying something at a pharmacy y'know, those are drugs but we still pop a pill when we need to feel better. I drink a beer when I need to drink a beer. Makes no sense really but it's my own little way of looking at it.

There's street drugs, then there are drugs. I don't do street drugs or anything that alters the mind besides alcohol because at least alcohol's legal and I dunno.

And yeah it is routine to smoke a cigarette after getting high, not sure why but that's just how it is mostly.

[Earfetish]

At 4/24/11 05:05 PM, unowned wrote:

At 4/24/11 04:45 PM, Earfetish wrote: My motivation for quitting was not wanting to die before my parents.

you can motivate yourself or do a better job by looking at the 25,000+ blunders you've made

starting a highly paid, respectable job on May 3rd. Still claiming welfare and living at home?

[unowned]

so you got off the dole and now have a job that the consensus reality declares "repectable"

what a complicit little eichmann declares repectable is anything but

what a tool, this is what you and the rest of cattle think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hH3roM e4w

say hello to mr bernays in hades

[BrainlessDan]

Good luck, to bad i don't have anything to add since i never smoked. before.

Unless you count weed.

[Alchemist94]

Cold turkey doesn't often work, you'll most likely end up thinking you don't care about quitting and start again. Slowly cut down. 20 a day for a week, then 18 a day for a week, then 15, then 12, then 8, then 5, then 3, then 2, then 1, then none.

[mothballs]

I have no experience as I have never smoked (or done any drugs for that matter), but all I can say about addictions is that if you want to stop bad enough, you will. It's all about how bad you want it.

[Earfetish]

At 4/24/11 05:49 PM, unowned wrote: so you got off the dole and now have a job that the consensus reality declares "repectable"

I'll take that as 'yes, I am still making nothing of my life Earfetish. Have a nice joint in your own house and then shag your girlfriend. Enjoy your new job."

I'll be thinking of you when I do it too