Smoking: Kicking the Habit.

[Flatearther]

RoyalOrleans wrote:

Above all the obvious reasons, I am quitting because I can't stand the obligation of smoking day to day and week to week. Buying a carton here and a pack there, knowing and looking forward to lighting up as soon as I step outside or after a meal or after a good shit for that matter. No longer will I be a slave to the weakness of my character.

Are you totally and utterly INSANE, Sir?! Give up smoking? That's the rave of a certifiable LUNATIC! I gave it up 15 years ago and I urge anybody even thinking such a thing to abandon the idea!. Do you know what the most humiliating, embarrassing, painful, and even disturbing part of giving up smoking is, do you, hah? I'll tell you - NO BASTARD NOTICED! - that's what, smartypants! Like, I could see the red carpet, I had the speech for the Nobel Prize and the Oscar all ready - well, it never bloody well happened, did it, Pilgrim? I thought to myself - if they don't notice somethingf as cataclysmic as that, then - what ELSE don't they notice? Then I heard all this theme music from "The Twilight Zone" and I passed out from shame. Let that be a warning to all of you. Light up NOW! Cheers!

[RoyalOrleans]

Are you totally and utterly INSANE, Sir?! Give up smoking? That's the rave of a certifiable LUNATIC! I gave it up 15 years ago and I urge anybody even thinking such a thing to abandon the idea!. Do you know what the most humiliating, embarrassing, painful, and even disturbing part of giving up smoking is, do you, hah? I'll tell you - NO BASTARD NOTICED! - that's what, smartypants! Like, I could see the red carpet, I had the speech for the Nobel Prize and the Oscar all ready - well, it never bloody well happened, did it, Pilgrim? I thought to myself - if they don't notice somethingf as cataclysmic as that, then - what ELSE don't they notice? Then I heard all this theme music from "The Twilight Zone" and I passed out from shame. Let that be a warning to all of you. Light up NOW! Cheers!

 

Yeah... Flatty. I think I'll start smoking again, because your Aussie-arse told me to. Goddamn.

 

Yes, I am insane.

[Flatearther]

Good to see some madness in the method, mate - have one for me. Cheers!

[Ahhlee]

My mom quit smoking after 20 years when she turned 40. After trying every other technique under the sun to quit, including hypnosis, she tried the patch and that did the trick. Her own mother died relatively young of emphysema, so I'm glad she gave up that nasty habit.

 

My dad on the other hand smokes like a goddamn chimney and his health is starting to fail at age 57. He won't admit it of course, but I can hear it when he coughs and it's not good. He's going to miss out on too much too soon if he doesn't do something about it.

 

Congratulations on quitting. I hope you can stick to it.

[Lethalfind]

My mom quit smoking after 20 years when she turned 40. After trying every other technique under the sun to quit, including hypnosis, she tried the patch and that did the trick. Her own mother died relatively young of emphysema, so I'm glad she gave up that nasty habit.

 

My dad on the other hand smokes like a goddamn chimney and his health is starting to fail at age 57. He won't admit it of course, but I can hear it when he coughs and it's not good. He's going to miss out on too much too soon if he doesn't do something about it.

 

Congratulations on quitting. I hope you can stick to it.

 

I'm sorry but I just don't have sympathy for someone who kills themselves by smoking...Tell your Dad to stick a gun in his mouth and get it over with. He shouldn't make his family watch him die by inches day after day.

[Ahhlee]

I'm sorry but I just don't have sympathy for someone who kills themselves by smoking...Tell your Dad to stick a gun in his mouth and get it over with. He shouldn't make his family watch him die by inches day after day.

 

Actually his own father shot himself exactly that same way when my dad was 11. The selfish fucker left behind a jobless wife, 5 kids and a lot of emotional scars that never healed. I guess no way of killing yourself is a "good" way.

[Lethalfind]

Actually his own father shot himself exactly that same way when my dad was 11. The selfish fucker left behind a jobless wife, 5 kids and a lot of emotional scars that never healed. I guess no way of killing yourself is a "good" way.

 

When you have to watch your Father getting progressively worse, unable to breath, probably dying of cancer, terrible pain, terrible financial strain on the family...finally wasting away to nothing...all the while KNOWING he CHOOSE this route for himself with no regard to his family and the people who depended on him...come back and tell me if you still think that.

[Ahhlee]

When you have to watch your Father getting progressively worse, unable to breath, probably dying of cancer, terrible pain, terrible financial strain on the family...finally wasting away to nothing...all the while KNOWING he CHOOSE this route for himself with no regard to his family and the people who depended on him...come back and tell me if you still think that.

 

I remember watching my grandmother die of emphysema. She went through all of those symptoms because she chose to smoke. She actually paid lots of money through the years to die a very painful death! My grandfather who committed suicide also chose a route for himself with no regard to his family nor the people who depended on him in my opinion. I feel both ways cause the person to be separated from their loved ones by their own hand.

[RoyalOrleans]

You fucking morons! This thread was about me!

[snafu]

You fucking morons! This thread was about me!

So speaking about you are you still smoke free?

[RoyalOrleans]

So speaking about you are you still smoke free?

 

August the Twenty-second was the date of my last cigarette.

[vizcaya19]

Bad idea on the getting laid part On quitting smoking. After a good lay It's only right to light one up. Ahhh. this menthol sensation in the back of my throat is giving me the heebe jeebes!

[RoyalOrleans]

Bad idea on the getting laid part On quitting smoking. After a good lay It's only right to light one up. Ahhh. this menthol sensation in the back of my throat is giving me the heebe jeebes!

 

Now I have the lung capacity to jump back on for a third, fourth, fifth, et al go around.

 

Stay away from the monkey mints.

[China Cat]

as you'll see as you get to know me, as this is my first post...but If a post is more than 2 pages I usually respond, then come back to respond to subsequent replies....

 

anyway...I've been a smoker for 15 years....5 years ago I quit for the first time when I got pregnant the first time...cold turkey...never smoked...until after I stopped nursing and had my first beer...

 

after that I held it to only smoking while drinking....quit again 2 years later when I got pregnant again...same story...never smoked pregnant/nursing...but as soon as I was allowed alcohol I started smoking again.

 

I only smoke when drinking....but I drink at least 1 beer/glass of wine/night...so that leads up to about 3 packs/week...

 

not too bad...but the crazy thing is that I can go days w/out smoking if I don't drink...so why can't I just quit?

 

On a big party night I'll smoke 2 packs. I don't even enjoy it...it's just habit.

 

I can't even believe it's the nicotene at this point as much as the habit....

 

yep...pisses me off too! I can't even use the patch because I'd get more nicotene than I'm even used to!

[Lethalfind]

Do you smoke around your children??

 

I can thank my birth Mother for my asthma because she lived in a home where they smoked while she was carrying me.

 

The same can happen if you don't smoke while your pregnant but then smoke around them as children.

 

Hardly seems worth it, you get too smoke but your children can end up with respiratory problems for the rest of their life.

[RegisteredAndEducated]

R.O.... How is the not smoking going? I know it had to be hard this weekend...

 

I'm thinking about quitting too... never really thought about it before, but some important people in my life have started quitting.... I'm thinkin about jumping all up on that bandwagon.

[snafu]

R.O.... How is the not smoking going? I know it had to be hard this weekend...

 

I'm thinking about quitting too... never really thought about it before, but some important people in my life have started quitting.... I'm thinkin about jumping all up on that bandwagon.

 

It dose make it easier when you do it with friends and family. I smoked for about 15 years. maybe more. Quiting was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.

[RoyalOrleans]

R.O.... How is the not smoking going? I know it had to be hard this weekend...

 

So far so good. No backsliding at all. I just had to cut out my old haunts... like going outside.

 

I'm thinking about quitting too... never really thought about it before, but some important people in my life have started quitting.... I'm thinkin about jumping all up on that bandwagon.

 

It's entirely up to you, R and E. Just don't quit cold turkey... gradually wean yourself off of cigarettes. Don't switch to a lighter brand, either. Doesn't work... you'll smoke twice what you'd normally intake.

[China Cat]

Nope, don't smoke around the kids...only when having a beer which is after the kids are in bed...and I only smoke outside.

[phreakwars]

I'm thinking of quitting again myself. I really HATE smoking !! I quit a couple years ago... did it cold turkey, and was fine after the first week of jerking and shaking... after I got over the fits, I was starting to taste food better again... then one night, about a month later, I went over to a friends house to party with her, and was drunk as hell and she hands me her lit cigarette and told me to finish it for her while she was doing some other shit... well, like an idiot I did, and then I ended up smoking a couple more that night, and the next thing you know, I'm back to smoking again..

 

The only problem I have right now with quitting again, is I am afraid of how it will affect my job performance.. O.K. that might sound crazy, but, what worries me, is if I quit, I will have to contend with the nic fits for a week or so while doing delivery's... and I WON'T be a happy camper, that's for damn sure !!

 

Last time, I was working out of my home, so getting the fits there was not a problem... I'm just afraid I will turn very aggressive and bitchy to customers if I'm not all nic'd up.

 

Dr. Downs, please help !! I want to quit too !!

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[gotony]

I quit a few years ago also..cold turkey and i found it easy. A year ago i started back up and this time i smoke more now than i did before. I am afraid it is going to be extremely difficult to quit. I would love to, my fiance HATES the smell of smoke and it is getting colder out, he won't let me smoke in the car and i don't like smoking outside when it is cold. Maybe that is a good time to cut back!

[RoyalOrleans]

Dr. Downs, please help !! I want to quit too !!

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Willpower, my brother. That's all I can tell you. Fads, step programs, etc... do not work if you don't have the strength to endure.

 

Wean yourself off slowly, because when I have done anything cold turkey I always relapse. So take it easy at first. Don't buy anymore, either. Make your current pack seem like it'll take forever to burn.

 

Concerning your demeanor, control yourself. It will be a rocky couple of weeks to start, but once you get pass the first month... it's all gravy.

 

Be strong! Uh-rah!

[phreakwars]

I am proud to announce, that it has been exactally 12 days since my last cigarette.

 

I had hard cravings for a couple of days, and the first few nights I woke up with jerks and such from lack of nicotine, but since then the cravings have went away.

 

I am actually quite surprised, I figured by now I would have either started again, or that I would have huge cravings still.. But nope, no cravings what so ever.

 

One of the things I noticed is my sense of smell is much sharper, and my sense of taste has gotten stronger..

 

I can even tell who does and who doesn't smoke by the sick tar scent when I am near them.

 

So far, my personal goal is to celebrate Thanksgiving by giving thanks to being smoke free for over a month.. And, God willing, smoke free for the rest of my life..

 

Thank you Dr. Downs for your word's of encouragement, and for your inspiration to give up those nasty fucking cancer sticks !!

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[Phantom]

I'll quit eventually. Tried the other day. Learned the hard way that PMS and kicking the habit make for a very ornery Phantom.

[Lethalfind]

What are nic fits like?? Is there something else you can compare them to so I would have an idea?