Anyone here quit smoking before?

[SplishSplash]

you wont last 3 weeks

To be quite honest, I'm not so sure I'll last the next three hours.

[DiscoDave]

im beginning to quit smoking, although im only a social smoker, I only really smoke in pubs. Discluding the time i smoked cigars with my sixth form mates whilst punting. Ahh memeories.

Edit: My parents have both quit smoking. My Dad a right turn around when he just stopped smoking and then worked out of the gym. Seriously, he just stopped on the spot. No nicotine patches, no pills, nothing. Plus he suffers from Asma.

My mum has also quit, shes almost there but she smokes about 5 a week or something, which isn't too bad.

[random name]

Quit cold turkey two years ago after having smoked since I was eleven, not a problem. I still get the occasional craving though but it's nothing big, all in all I think it went a lot easier than I had envisioned.

[Fender]

my girlfreind smokes ..

Thought you broke up with that cheating lesbian?

[farad]

...I quit cold turkey for 12 years...picked em up again and have been smoking for 8 years now...I'll put em down again...

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

you wont last 3 weeks

To be quite honest, I'm not so sure I'll last the next three hours.

If you get a bad craving, drop for 20 push ups. By the time you're done, the craving is gone. Yes this works.

[axbaby]

i'll be honest when i see ads that say
don't start smoking because it's more addictive then heroine

i get angry because ads like that don't help those trying to quit.

the government isn't helping us trying to quit they are helping us trying to not start.

basically saying,
the tobacco companies have a solid base of
consumers .. we won't curb that but we don't mind telling people not to start.

cure diseases but can't come up with a pill to kill the urge to smoke???

non smokers will never get it .. so easy to say Quit Smoking ..it's a hell of a lot harder doing it .. i should know.

[inphlict]

I smoke once in a while but I never seem to get addicted, last smoke I had was about a month ago. Sometimes I buy a pack and just chain smoke it in a day or so, then I stop smoking for a couple of months.

[Dr_Watson]

i've got my last carton in the fridge.
i'm also going to have to quit.
unfortunately its not on my terms, so it will be a pain in the ass.
but i can't afford them anymore.
sucks giving up cable TV and smoking in the same month :/
i'd already started dissassociating some of my activities with smoking.
like i got a new car in november, and didn't want to mess with the nice clean smell of it... so i willed myself to not smoke and drive.
which was pretty hard at first since i have a 1h10min commute to school everyday.
but not i don't think twice about smoking in a car... which asside from the post-meal smoke was one of my major 'i need to smoke' activities.
i honestly think things like this will help.
cut back slowly... so you're not crazy stressed about it when you cut it off for good.
cut out one smoking activity at a time until you're out of activites you associate with smoking.
my dad quit in a similar way.
he would look at his watch when he had a cigarette, and say "ok, no more for the next 2 hours"
then after a week of a 2 hour limit, he extended it to 3 hours.
then to 4 hours, etc... until he didn't want them anymore.
i hear it also helps to go get a pack of extremely cheap and shitty cigarettes, so if you do break down and smoke one, it sucks ass and makes you hate them.

[Hannibal]

Try Nicotrel:

"You don't TALK to Nicotrel like THAT!"




http://www.bridgecoms.com/goodtimes/nic ... l?media=30

movie is about 8 megs, but it's the Rock's finest hour.

[inphlict]

I don't understand why they can't engineer some type of healthy cigarette. Or at least one that doesn't cause cancer.

[chopov]

Another incentive to keep up: tell all your friends and sidekicks that you are the toughest guy of them all 'cause you quit smoking. You will be uber pussy if they'd see you with a fag again...

[Kn0wFuRy]

This is my first try, I didn't smoke all day yesterday. It was okay, I guess.

But I'd really, really like a cigarette right now.
Fuck, I can't even think about it, this is kinda like when you're in love with a girl and you know she doesn't like you and you force yourself not to think about her.

If only I had some kind of substitute, like coke or sommat.

Edit:
Sometimes I think I should just give up cause I'm just not the kind of guy who doesn't smoke.

I just did a few months ago.

I had been smoking probably as long as you have been alive. =D

In any case, two things helped me the most, and yes, I have tried quitting before and failed.

1) Near constant prayer/discussion with God about the withdrawel symptoms and how I thought I was going crazy, etc., and other personal circumstances affecting the decision.

2) The logical realization that withdrawel symptoms are just your bodies way of trying to trick your brain into thinking it "needs" a very poisonous chemical that is most certainly does not. if we "needed" a smoke, we would either be born with nicotine or a means to acquire it.

Good luck and hang in there. It really isn't easy, but it is very possible and you will feel tremendously better, not to mention tasting and smelling better, and actually looking more intelligent. Plus you will not be limited in where you can go.

(Yes, this is Cathy posting.)

[tnf]

Whats the withdrawal you face like? Mainly psychological? How bad are the physical withdrawals from smokes?

Only withdrawals I've ever had was when I stopped taking my pain meds once my neck surgery was over and the nerve pain was manageable....that sucked, because I had been taking up to 100 mg of hydrocodone a day before and immediately after surgery...tapered down, which helped, but I had taken them long enough that there was definitely some weird psychological feelings, since my brain's own endogenous opiods (endorphins and enkephalins) had been suppressed for so long. I had a script for percocet after my last kidney stone blasting, and had no withdrawals after I finished them.

I don't know if cigs are this way, but for people who can't quit painkillers, the fear of withdrawal symptoms is often the reason they stay on them...

[glossy]

i smoke [tobacco], and i really can't see any point in giving it up at the moment -- apart from the whole "i'm teenage and invincible" attitude, it really does help with a lot of the stress and you get a little 15 minutes of freedom to yourself.

[Kn0wFuRy]

Whats the withdrawal you face like? Mainly psychological? How bad are the physical withdrawals from smokes?

Only withdrawals I've ever had was when I stopped taking my pain meds once my neck surgery was over and the nerve pain was manageable....that sucked, because I had been taking up to 100 mg of hydrocodone a day before and immediately after surgery...tapered down, which helped, but I had taken them long enough that there was definitely some weird psychological feelings, since my brain's own endogenous opiods (endorphins and enkephalins) had been suppressed for so long. I had a script for percocet after my last kidney stone blasting, and had no withdrawals after I finished them.

I don't know if cigs are this way, but for people who can't quit painkillers, the fear of withdrawal symptoms is often the reason they stay on them...

Heya, tnf....sup?

Well, nicotine withdrawel is bad. It has often been compared with with withdrawel from coke or heroin. There is a lot of physical restlessness and nervousness. There are many urges to eat even when not hungry. You feel like you are losing your mind. Depression is common. It is a nasty combination of physical and emotional things. You are in a state that often would have you almost ready to do anything for a cigarette after a time.

The worst tends to be over after the first three days, and physcial symptoms tend to last around 3 weeks or so. Emotional/habitual ones last a lot longer.

But smoking CAN be quit and the body is already starting to heal 20 minutes after the last cigarette.

[Dr_Watson]

Whats the withdrawal you face like? Mainly psychological? How bad are the physical withdrawals from smokes?

Only withdrawals I've ever had was when I stopped taking my pain meds once my neck surgery was over and the nerve pain was manageable....that sucked, because I had been taking up to 100 mg of hydrocodone a day before and immediately after surgery...tapered down, which helped, but I had taken them long enough that there was definitely some weird psychological feelings, since my brain's own endogenous opiods (endorphins and enkephalins) had been suppressed for so long. I had a script for percocet after my last kidney stone blasting, and had no withdrawals after I finished them.

I don't know if cigs are this way, but for people who can't quit painkillers, the fear of withdrawal symptoms is often the reason they stay on them...

i feel your pain... getting off hydrocodone was the hardest test of will i've gone through.
when i had my disc surgery a few years back (some may remember me posting the gastly MRI scans) i was hooked on lortabs for ~9months.
oh lord that was hardcore when i stopped taking them.
cigarettes have gotta be nothing compared to that.
even though i weened myself down to ~10mg / day before i quit. it was still pretty harsh.
didn't sleep for 2 straight days of crazy nerves, cold sweats, fevers, vomiting, violent shits, and a god awful "hunger" for the drugs.
all the while a bottle with 190 pills in it, taunting me from the kitchen.
that was fun stuff... was like trainspotting without the baby on the ceiling.

[tnf]

Whats the withdrawal you face like? Mainly psychological? How bad are the physical withdrawals from smokes?

Only withdrawals I've ever had was when I stopped taking my pain meds once my neck surgery was over and the nerve pain was manageable....that sucked, because I had been taking up to 100 mg of hydrocodone a day before and immediately after surgery...tapered down, which helped, but I had taken them long enough that there was definitely some weird psychological feelings, since my brain's own endogenous opiods (endorphins and enkephalins) had been suppressed for so long. I had a script for percocet after my last kidney stone blasting, and had no withdrawals after I finished them.

I don't know if cigs are this way, but for people who can't quit painkillers, the fear of withdrawal symptoms is often the reason they stay on them...

i feel your pain... getting off hydrocodone was the hardest test of will i've gone through.
when i had my disc surgery a few years back (some may remember me posting the gastly MRI scans) i was hooked on lortabs for ~9months.
oh lord that was hardcore when i stopped taking them.
cigarettes have gotta be nothing compared to that.
even though i weened myself down to ~10mg / day before i quit. it was still pretty harsh.
didn't sleep for 2 straight days of crazy nerves, cold sweats, fevers, vomiting, violent shits, and a god awful "hunger" for the drugs.
all the while a bottle with 190 pills in it, taunting me from the kitchen.
that was fun stuff... was like trainspotting without the baby on the ceiling.

Should have had your doc prescribe clonidine. Its a blood pressure medication that acts on the part of the brain that is overexcited during withdrawal. Its by no means a cure-all, but at least you can function while withdrawing.

[Dr_Watson]

i did my dry-out during a sweet period of hollidays + a shift change.
worked out pretty sweet, i had 9 days off and only had to use 4 vacation days. :icon14:

[VoxProminence]

im in the process of quiting myself, ive done a great job of cutting back, and honetly im tempted to just it leave it @ that. its getting pretty hard to go a whole day without a smoke.

its not getting any easier.

and my damn GF quit no problem. :<

[Chemical Burn]

It took me three tries but I quit cold turkey. I had been smoking for like twelve years. I've been clean for a year now. The only thing I really miss is smoking cloves. Regular cigs just smell like ass to me now.

That's the other thing, you'll smell better, your home and computer equipment will look better aside of the obvious health benefits. I couldn't fucking believe the amount of tar I washed off my computer case and monitor.

[Canidae]

I heard that MrWonkyEye just stopped smoking pole, cold turkey.

[Dr_Watson]

The only thing I really miss is smoking cloves. Regular cigs just smell like ass to me now.

thats actually my current problem.
i quit cigarettes for cloves in ~1999...
been smoking a 1/2 pack a day of them for the last 5 years.
regular smokes taste like dirt to me... no idea how i ever smoked them.
but cloves... i like them too much to let them go.



i'll miss you my sweets.

[glossy]

i just chainsmoked three after being too poor to buy cigs for the past 2 days.

*hugs winfield*

[Chemical Burn]

but cloves... i like them too much to let them go.

Do you find that cloves are as addictive as regular cigs, or is the scent and taste for you?