quittin smokin

[contentinsanity]

Well I smoked my last cigarette today....

...I hope. Ive tried quitting like 20 times in the last 3 months or so and its really fucking hard. If you smoke you know what Im talking about...I wake up and by the time I get in the shower Id really like a cigarette. After I eat...when I drink any alcohol or coffee, when Im trying to go to sleep. Whenever Im bored...and its always in the back of my mind.

Sucks dick, like Ill try to cut back but I end up smokin up the pack just as fast.

So anyway I was just wonderin from people who have gone through this before. Whats the best way to quit, just all at once or try to slowly work youre way down? Ive been a little successful on that side of things like this summer I was smoking a pack a day and now its more like half that or less...but still everyday. It would be cool if I could quit and just get back to a party smoker, or on occasion and not feel like I have to scrape my lungs all the time.

oh and how long do cravings last?

thx

[AliciaisAlwaysPimpin]

i am trying to quit right now. what i am doing s making small term goals. i promised myself not to smoke til next sunday. if i can pull that off, im gonna go another week. smoking cigarettes seems like such a hard thing to do....but really if you just realize you have power over the cigarette, not the cigarette over you, it mkes it much easier. also its good to have a non smoker support you. i read anytime you have a craving for a cigarette just say "i am trying to quit" "i dont really NEED a cigarette" " i am trying to quit" jut keep sayin that over and over til the craving goes away.

i also read real cravings only last about 5 minutes at the most at one time.

just type in stop smoking" in a search ngine and you will get tons of information

[Nimble*Syd]

I vow to quit smoking every single day.

Last spring I quit for about a month. I was pretty damn proud of myself. But then I started again.

[r*marie.pdx]

don't give up!! it took me like 1897837387 tries before i could quit smoking, but i felt *so* much better when i did! i've been a non-smoker for a while now, and i rarely crave cigs (except for when i'm drunk ;) ).

i know the psychological addiction is incredibly powerful, but think about the money you're wasting on poisoning yourself, or how cigarettes make you smell bad, or how you're limiting your physical capabilities...there are so many more reasons NOT to smoke than there are reasons TO smoke..

k, i dont want to sound all preachy so i'll just say good luck and don't give up. your body will be much happier in the long run :)

[*Frog*]

Good Luck!! I wish you all the best!

[contentinsanity]

thx for the encouraging words people

Im just gonna limit myself to one a day I think for this week... then go from there or some patches or some shit

I dunno Ive only smoked like a year but I have such a fucking addictive personality.

[~*IrishFaerie*~]

I think the best way to quit smoking (for me) would be to just go cold turkey. It's a lot easier to do this when you are somewhere where it is really hard or impossible to get a cigarette. I've never actually quit or really tried to but I should. Damn it! All this talk has left me wanting a smoke and I don't have any......grrr......:mad:

[sothis]

honestly, i think a big reason why lots of people dont end up quitting is because they arent mentally ready. you sound like you are, so you can do it yo :)

[nate]

Well, I just (sort of) quit a couple weeks ago. The thing is I quit buying them. But I'd still occasionally bum one. But now my friends are getting sick of it so they're cutting me off. I only smoked one last week (and a couple drags of other people's). I realize I'm not there yet, but I'm getting close. The key has been staying out of situations where I love to smoke, like having a lot to drink with friends who chain smoke. It's tough being drunk and surrounded by smokers. I dunno. I'll let you know how it goes.

Peace. And the best of luck to both of us.

[Lady Legs]

You don't smoke pot anymore Chris????

Shit.

What ya do with the ghetto hooka? Heh!

[Headquarters]

good luck.. it took me a few years to quit.. the hardest thing is breaking the habit of smoking not as much the cravings, (for me anyway) i still want to have a cig in the morning with my coffee

[Super-Freak]

I quit smoking for a whole month now and I feel great. I have only had like 2 cravings seriously but I didn't smoke obsessively. My greatest advice, think of smoking as really friggin disgusting. Think about what it's doing to your body!!!! and drink more water!!!!

You'll feel much better about yerself when you quit and you can be proud for not giving into the ciggarette lifestyle and live more healthy. hey you'll live longer and look better.;)

[SpecialKBearz]

Yesterday, I decided to officialy quit smoking. the nurse at my school gave me some stuff to help. like squishy toys and gum
peace
keila :D

[AliciaisAlwaysPimpin]

Originally posted by SpecialKBearz
Yesterday, I decided to officialy quit smoking. the nurse at my school gave me some stuff to help. like squishy toys and gum
peace
keila :D


you actually have a school nurse? how come my schools were never that classy? i want squishy toys.

[Bots]

I dunno why but I never really had any problem with quitting. Some people I know have these massive craving attacks and say "I'll die if I don't have a cigarette"... it's pathetic. I never had those super cravings... Quitting was unexpectedly easy for me.. but I didn't smoke much in the first place.

I've been trying to get my girlfriend to quit and she's slowly but surely doing it. She's cut way way down. I think if you have someone that's constantly on you about quitting helps to... because then you have to think about it everyday.

I have an analogy for cigarette addiction... see the addiction is kinda like a camp fire... the more you smoke the larger the fire gets and the harder is it is to put out if you're trying to quit. You just have to throw less and less fuel on the fire and when it gets to a mangable size, stomp it out completely. Having something else you want to spend money on besides cigarettes also helps. If you don't buy cigarettes you won't have any to smoke, unless you bum them. There's a lot of places along the way to buying a pack of cigarettes where you can stop yourself.

[foofy]

thats kinda funny cuz i was just talking to my roommate about how i needed to learn to *start* smoking.

we were standing at the airport and there was this really hot girl smoking and i figure if i smoked too i could go over there and ask for a light or something. i think it'd be a real social lubricant for me.

unfortunately, nicotine straight up fucks me in the ass. more than one lousy drag leaves me feeling nauseous all night long.

any tips on how to start smoking? :D

[Nimble*Syd]

"Social Smoking" is how I got hooked in the first place. It's a bad idea.

[Vick_the_Vapor]

What I have found interesting is that addictions, as well as just about anything that equates to a personality trait (positive or negative), usually derives from a person's view of thier own image. Basically, if you close your eyes and visualize yourself, most smokers will actually see a cigarette in the picture. The more prevelant an item like this is in your own self image, the more of a hold it has on you, whether it be a negative thing or a positive one. In a polar opposite example, many parents close their eyes and see not only themselves in this picture, but also their children. Some people see themselves at their job. You get my point. So I read up on it a little and what I think you should try is this...

Everytime you have a craving for a cigarette (or anyything else), close your eyes and picture yourself. Whether or not you see a cigarette makes no difference, but what you do is imagine yourself doing something that you would rather be doing, like dancing, spinning, sex or anything else. It is really hard to keep your concentration on this techique at first, but the more often you are successful, the easier it becomes. One thing that you should remember is that you need to change what you are doing in your visualizing ever so often. Replacing smoking with only one other activity may get you to stave off the cravings, but your may overinvest in the activity that you substitute in for smoking. Basically it is like reprogramming yoruself.

God I hope that made sense. It has helped me prevent all sorts of possible addictions.

Hope that helps a little.

Peace.

[sothis]

something else:

dont hang out with people who are fucking idiotic "friends" who think its funny to try to get you to break your quitting rule.

it makes me so angry, ill be standing with someone and their friends will come up and be like "oh come on, you know you want a cigarette!" and eventually the person ends up giving in. so yea, dont hang out with peopel who cant respect and understand what a good thing it is you are doing.

[r*marie.pdx]

werd, sothis!
i can't even count the number of times that has happened to me. i think that people just get jealous that they're still a slave to some nasty poison while you're all healthy and addiction-free. misery loves company, right?
i have a friend who is convinced that i'm still a smoker, and no matter what i tell him, he *still* offers me cigs whenever he has one. it made things really difficult when i first decided to quit..
so to anyone that thinks doing that is funny, 2 words: fuck off.

[186k\sec]

i really like what Vick proposed, & Kitten's right too,
you gotta break old routines, even associations until you get over the hump - so to speak, - after a while though, smelling smoke will repulse you and is probably a great way to reinforce your decision to abstain.....not to mention the extra $$ & breath....

people who taunt you with cigs need to have em put out in their eye.

[groovinkim]

i'm quitting dec 25

we can mourn together

it'll be after 7 yrs

sigh

[sothis]

smelling smoke will repulse you and is probably a great way to reinforce your decision to abstain.....not to mention the extra $$ & breath....


also not to mention the fact that you will probably contract emphyzema or some other lovely disease and die before your time.

[TeknoAXE]

My grandpaw quit smokin' by chewing lots of gum. Not the most graceful way to quit, but hell, it did the job.

AXE

[contentinsanity]

yea 24 hours down

yea its not amazingly hard but it really is when youre always around it. Thats my problem w/ quitting most everything. Oh yea and I did buy some gum.

Thanks I got this shit down this time tho

[HexRei]

I smoked for about a year and then just stopped. I didn't find it difficult at all, I just made sure I had other stuff to do than smoking at all times...

It's strange, now, unless I'm really really drunk, the smell of smoke actually makes me sick and is grody.

[lisam]

yay (groovin)kim! that is good to hear you're going to quit, 7 years is a long time to smoke for someone your age, though i'm sure you are not alone, i've discovered hi school friends that smoked since age 15 or 16 and are now 21+.

i have major beef with smoking, i just hate it! so much that it's caused strife between me and my boy (for instance being grumpy and bitching at him for doing the "disgusting deed"). i wish there was an easy way a partner could help their bf/gf stop smoking without being a complete nag about it and/or causing the two ppl to be pushed apart because of it. i would love it so much if he stopped, but all i can do is wait until he is ready to take that step. and i know he can do it too, he has great support from myself as well as his group of friends, and best of all a lot of the above are non smokers which i would imagine makes quitting a lot easier.

i've learned that nagging does no good, prolly makes him want to smoke more, and that i just have to trust that he has it in him to quit and will do so when he feels it's time

*sends out stop smoking vibes to all those trying to quit*

[~*IrishFaerie*~]

Originally posted by 186k\sec

people who taunt you with cigs need to have em put out in their eye.

Werd! I remember trying to quit smoking cigarettes and pot. This was hard because everyone I hung out with was a pothead and a smoker. I would ask them to not do it around me and to support me in my choice to be clean. They took this as "Smoke around me as much as possible, blow it in my face, and don't take me seriously." This just stressed me out even more and made me want to smoke. People that do that shit really piss me off. It's ok because I stopped hanging out with them.

I still smoke but I really need to quit. Problem is that I'm not ready to yet...Oh well, my day will come! :rolleyes:

[northstarPDX]

once i quit cigarette for a month...and then i celebrated by smoking cigarettes...:D :cool:

[Alicimo]

Keila your're right ahhhhhh! smoking bad! maybe i'll go to the nurse and gets some gum too. :) i've been quitting for the past month and haven't been very good about it. support is always helpful. that and the yuccky pic in my health book. maybe i'll put a pic of it in my cigg holder. that might help. hmmmm <sighs>

smoking bad,

Alicimo

[PixieStar]

Yup I quit smoking with Keila. i've quit like three times, and it works for a while, but every few months I get started again. DAMNIT, it's hard!!! What usually works for me is to do something with your hands that requires your full attention. I make those gum-wrapper chains from the movie 28 days. So good luck yo!

[s1n]

start chewin.

peace,
kevin

[la.chica.de.verano]

Originally posted by HexRei
I smoked for about a year and then just stopped. I didn't find it difficult at all, I just made sure I had other stuff to do than smoking at all times...

It's strange, now, unless I'm really really drunk, the smell of smoke actually makes me sick and is grody.

i did the same exact thing. i guess i just never got addicted to them.

[Dave_Jumpers]

The patch worked great for me.
I quited for almost a year.
Untill I came to Portland where everyone can smoke at clubs.
I was getting second hand smoking without the tenderness of my own cigarrette in my mouth. I got my cravings back and fucked everything up.
* Click! *
* Lights a cigarrette *

-Dave-

[TriPtoNyTE]

I am in the process of quitting somking too. I talked to my doc about it and he gave me a prescription (i cant think of the name at the moment) and i also am on the patch. I realize that i am still addicted to nicotine, but i havent smoked in about 6 weeks, which is really good for me ( i was up to about a pack and a half a day and had been smoking for about 6 yrs). I had tried the cold turkey method a thousand times and never really gotten too far, and had friends who had used both methods to quit with mixed results.
The best advise i have been given and can give is that there should be no going back. It isnt safe to be that "every once in a while smoker". Isnt that how most of us started in the first place? Take a look at other addictions and the programs for quitting them. None of them recommend that once in a while thing.
As far as the patch/pill method, it fuckin ROCKS!!!!! It gives you a double punch approach to quitting. The way it has been explained to me is that the patch gives you that nicotine to calm the physical addictions, and the pill does somthing to calm the mental addiction. The pill will make you feel mad sick like you gotta throw up if you take drags from a cigarette and i assume that you will if you take too many drags. Some may argue, that you are still addicted to the patch, and sooner or later, you will have to quit that. They have this step down method that works pretty well.
Just my thoughts, do what works best.
Peace-
C.R.