Into the breech once more
quote:Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do. I've done it a thousand times. - Mark TwainIn 1998 I quit smoking because the woman who moved in with me had asthma. When that relationship blew up I took up the smoking habit again.
Once more I've quit smoking, it's been about 30 hours since my last one.
Wish me luck on staying quit this time.
Once more I've quit smoking, it's been about 30 hours since my last one.
Wish me luck on staying quit this time.
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Dont start again!
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quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
quote:Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do. I've done it a thousand times. - Mark TwainIn 1998 I quit smoking because the woman who moved in with me had asthma. When that relationship blew up I took up the smoking habit again.
Once more I've quit smoking, it's been about 30 hours since my last one.
Wish me luck on staying quit this time.
Good luck...and stay away from the chew/snuff. I've been hooked on the snuff since quitting the cigs.0 -
Hang in there, Henry. Good luck in kicking the habit, and know we're pulling for you. 0 -
It'll be a year for me next month; I wish you luck. 0 -
Try to hang in there; a little difficulty now will spare you (and loved ones) a mountain of agony later in life.
Lung cancer from smoking killed my dad's sister before she was 60. I also have an uncle who quit 10 years ago after 35-40 years of heavy smoking, but even so he's now suffering from emphysema and has to use a nebulizer.
I hate cigarettes.0 -
Take a stroll through a hospice ... chat with a few of the doomed hovering on the brink there.
Give it up![8D]0 -
Good Luck Henry, it gets a whole lot easier after about the third day, but you already knew that.[:)] 0 -
Henry you need this.[:D]
http://www.nicoworldwide.com/0 -
quote:Originally posted by D@D
Henry you need this.[:D]
http://www.nicoworldwide.com/
Thanks for that suggestion and all the other support from you guys.
I've got gum. The problem is that I don't want to stop eating and the nicotine doesn't seem to curb that. Today is the first full day without smoking and I keep wanting to go back to the kitchen.0 -
I quit a few years ago.
If you really want to quit then you can.
If deep down you aren't sure then you are fighting a loosing battle.
Don't start eating to occupy your hands.
Find something else to do. Go for a walk, clean a gun, do something, anything.
By the way if you think quiting now is hard you should see the people in the hospital that can't smoke. Some of them should be sedated so they don't go insane.
It always made me sad to go to the VA hospital and see all the Vets sitting outside smoking.
Some with O2 bottles.
There comes a point when they should just be left to hell alone and let them live out their lives as best they can.
But the PC crowd need to control as many people as they can.
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Sic em' superman.I quit 2 1/2 weeks ago.I'm using the patch and the dreams are just starting to really kick in.Had a great one last night,woke up twice and picked up right where I left off when I fell back to sleep.Get some help and a program,patch,gum,get your teeth cleaned(I'm in tommorow)give yourself some incentive.This is what the wife threw down to me. 
Withdrawl sucks but odds are you'lle experience it anyway during chemo/radiation treatments.Not to mention I'de hate like hell for the wife and daughter to have to "sell the farm" to pay for my bad decision and the return they get would be to watch me waste away.It's also a legit.excuse to go off once in awhile.YOU CAN DO IT. Best:ST0 -
I hope for your sake that you are able to quit. My grandpa smoked for thirty some years and it finally cot up with him. He spent the last three years of his life having to think about every breath to try and get air. He died one of the worst deaths you could possibly imagine. He literally suphicated to death because he couldn't get any air. The worst part of it is that he was still only in his mid sixties when he died.[:(]
If that isn't bad enough, just to give you a idea of what is really in your lungs right now, Listen to this. I delivered a frig to a house where you could tell they smoked(the smell was terrible[xx(]). I put in a nice small white refrigorator. A year later they come in to the store and want to know if they could trade that one in on a bigger one. So i go out to look at it to see if it is still in good shape. To my amazement thier frig was no longer white. It was a DARK DARK YELLOW. All from the smoke residue over that year period. It took me days of scrubbing and i still couldn't return it to its nice white color. Instead it was just a Pale Yellow. It took weeks for that terrible smell to go away.[xx(][xx(][xx(]
If all that built up on the outside of the frig just from two people smoking for a whole year. Think of how much of that has to be coted on the inside of your lungs right now!!!0 -
GO HENRY GO! I "cold turkeyed" off Kool regulars 20+ years ago. A week of bad then no problem. What a STUPID, disgusting, and offensive habit. Look around, you don't see many oldsters smoking, there's a reason. Take Zipperzaps advice, if that don't stop you, nothing will. 0 -
I went to a Smoke Stoppers class several years ago. They told us the PHYSICAL craving ends after 3 days. The IN YOUR HEAD craving lasts longer.
So, once you make it 3 days, are you gonna let that little cancer stick rule your life?
Here's some more incentive. Put what you're paying for cigs everyday into an empty coffee can ..... Let that be your NEW GUN SAVINGS PROGRAM!
Good luck!!0 -
quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
quote:Originally posted by D@D
Henry you need this.[:D]
http://www.nicoworldwide.com/
Thanks for that suggestion and all the other support from you guys.
I've got gum. The problem is that I don't want to stop eating and the nicotine doesn't seem to curb that. Today is the first full day without smoking and I keep wanting to go back to the kitchen.
Grab the celery. It's about the only thing I know that takes nearly as many calories to eat as you get out of it.[:D]0 -
I absolutely disagree with substituting any other delivery method (patches, gum, etc.) for nicotine in place of smoking. It will defeat you in your attmept because is just prolongs the addiction. You don't need any quitting "aids", just make up your mind. The facts are that it takes a certain amount of time for the cravings to go away. Twenty-one days is one of the major hurtles. After a year or so, for most people who stay completely off nicotine, the smoke and even the odor of cigarettes will make you ill, helping you to stay clean. 0 -
Congrats on the first step, deciding to quit!
If you are serious about quitting and you really are ready to do it I have some excellent information for you. I was a psychology major in college and part of my thesis was to develop a plan to aid people in quitting smoking. It works really well when a person truly wants to quit, but you have to understand the psychology behind it first.
First off remember, smoking is an addiction. Just like any other drug, nicotine takes a few days to get out of your system. After the first 3-4 days of not smoking, you are battling the habitual patterns not the nicotine addiction. Smoking is a series of physical habits, and these habits create a 'psychological dependency' on smoking, far more than the chemical dependency.
People often misinterpret the "relaxation effect" from smoking to come from the cigarettes. Let's look at the realities of the relaxation ruse. Nicotine is a stimulant, not a relaxant or depressant. A stimulant speeds up metabolism, not slows it down. So what actually cause a smoker to relax after lighting up? Deep Breathing. Any athlete, performer, weekend warrior knows that deep breathing helps to put your body and mind at ease. To relax all one has to do is practice deep breathing clean air, not the toxins and poison that fills each and every cigarette. Smokers actually credit their cigarette for the temporary benefit they get from deep breathing.
A second factor in the "relaxation effect" is that it is the habit itself, expectation and association with relaxing situations that are a big reason a smoker feels relaxed after a smoke. Most smokers do so in social situations. Having a drink with friends, after a meal, after sex, etc. These are all relaxing situations that the smoker mistakenly thinks the cigarette itself is relaxing him.
The biggest issue to tackle after the nicotine has cleared your system is dealing with the habits you have developed in the past. The oral fixation of having the cigarette in your mouth, the habit of having something in your hands, the habit of having a smoke after drinks, sex, etc.
If you have read all of this and want to chat about specific exercises to help you rid yourself of these physical habits and break your addiction to smoking, feel free to msg or email me and I would be happy to help out.
Best of luck on your efforts to quit. It will be one of the best decisions you ever make in life.0 -
Hang in there Henry....It gets better as time goes by. Break out of old habits where a smoke was part of the ritual. 0 -
Thanks again for all the support. 40 hours and counting.... 0 -
Good job. I'm in the process of quitting, again. I haven't had one since Teusday around 1500.
Keep up the good work and GOOD LUCK!0 -
Henry you dumb ass! You started again? [:0] 0 -
You could try what I did for the first 2 days- spent my time updating the inventory in the explosives magazines. NO PROBLEM not lighting up there![:0] Good luck! 0 -
Henry I somked for 40 years. If I could quit, I promise anyone can. Next month will be a year for me too.
Hang on, hang in, you can do it.0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Henry I somked for 40 years. If I could quit, I promise anyone can. Next month will be a year for me too.
Hang on, hang in, you can do it.
Agreed He Dog, and I sure don't miss trying to find a place to smoke without getting shot by some smoke Nazi and having to make sure I had an unopened box or pack with me when I go out or travel.[:)]
Hang in there Henry, you're actually through the worst of it.[:)]
CJ7, best of luck to you also!0 -
72 hours - no weight gain noticable on the bathroom scale yet but it sure is hard to stay out of the kitchen.
I went grocery shopping this morning before breakfast, that was a mistake...0
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