((( The Stop Smoking Cigarettes Thread)))

Claireack

Bizarro wrote:

just quit and get fat like the rest of us.



mmm cheese steak

A little on the cuddly side already, want to get skinny so that it won't matter how much I eat.

Drowned Out

I'm coming up on 18 months nicotine-free....yes, I'm fat. yes, I STILL have cravings....totally worth it.
I smoked for 20+ years, well over half of my life...Get back on the horse BD, if I can do it, anyone can!

chadwick

good for me
i haven't touched a smoke in months
this is exciting
i do not even ever want a cigarette
it has even came to me hating myself for ever even looking at cigarettes

fuck you cigarettes
you bastards
i hate you all

Pearl Drummer

chadwick wrote:

good for me
i haven't touched a smoke in months
this is exciting
i do not even ever want a cigarette
it has even came to me hating myself for ever even looking at cigarettes

fuck you cigarettes
you bastards
i hate you all

+1

chadwick

cigarettes are evil
please can we all quick?

anything is better than smokes
heroin... you are better off being a homeless junkie
true fact

one of my doctors looked me straight in the eyes and told me i would be better off being a heroin addict
than being a tobacco user

HEROIN, HERE I COME :twisted:

Claireack

chadwick wrote:

cigarettes are evil
please can we all quick?

anything is better than smokes
heroin... you are better off being a homeless junkie
true fact

one of my doctors looked me straight in the eyes and told me i would be better off being a heroin addict
than being a tobacco user

HEROIN, HERE I COME :twisted:

You know it's weird you saying that, but in my job I meet a lot of medical people and on more than one occasion I have been told that giving up cigarettes is harder than giving up heroin. Obviously I can't compare the two, having never taken heroin.

whispering hands

I can attest that that is true, I've quit smoking heroin, but I'm still smoking cigs.. there's one fact for sure!!

Jukee

So i'm going to try quitting tomorrow...I've done it before for 3 yrs back when I was younger. My dad said he'd pay for my car insurance if I did so that was a big incentive. This time my incentive is to buy a car with the money i'll save by not buying smokes. I'm going to wait a month or so to see if I can do it and then start shopping around. The plan today/tonight is to smoke my brains out.

Happy New Years!

PearlOfAGirl

Jukee wrote:

So i'm going to try quitting tomorrow...I've done it before for 3 yrs back when I was younger. My dad said he'd pay for my car insurance if I did so that was a big incentive. This time my incentive is to buy a car with the money i'll save by not buying smokes. I'm going to wait a month or so to see if I can do it and then start shopping around. The plan today/tonight is to smoke my brains out.

Happy New Years!

Good Luck! You also have a great a couple of great incentives!!

I know you can do it Jukee!!! :thumbup:

81

beer is harder than cigs to quit.

Jukee

Thanks HSB

Well it's been since 1:30am New Year's since I've had my last one. Fortunately it's been easier than I thought it would be the last two days but that's probably because I haven't hung out with anybody who smokes yet. Today will be the test. I'm going to visit my cousin and she and her husband both smoke (in the house to boot ).
I just have to keep telling myself...I'm strong, I can do this! I feel so much better already, no heartburn, no heart palpitations and my mouth doesn't taste like shit all the time.

Black Diamond

Jukee wrote:

Thanks HSB

Well it's been since 1:30am New Year's since I've had my last one. Fortunately it's been easier than I thought it would be the last two days but that's probably because I haven't hung out with anybody who smokes yet. Today will be the test. I'm going to visit my cousin and she and her husband both smoke (in the house to boot ).
I just have to keep telling myself...I'm strong, I can do this! I feel so much better already, no heartburn, no heart palpitations and my mouth doesn't taste like shit all the time.

Oh awesome! You can do it!!!

pjtaper

foul ass plant... hindu kush time

dr0ptheleash

Good luck to you all. I am faithfull!

ZiggyStar

Four years ago today I quit a ten year 25+ a day habit.

Music For Rhinos

ZiggyStar wrote:

Four years ago today I quit a ten year 25+ a day habit.

What method(s) did you use to quit?

ZiggyStar

Music For Rhinos wrote:

ZiggyStar wrote:

Four years ago today I quit a ten year 25+ a day habit.

What method(s) did you use to quit?

I'd never tried to quit before. Never wanted to. I loved smoking so much that I used to smoke in the shower each morning and sometimes at night too. Generally every morning though because I would shower as soon as I woke up. The last thing I did every night was smoke a cigarette in bed....had a big ashtray full of butts next to my pillow. So fucking filthy now that I think back about it. I used to use an entire asthma inhaler in a week sometimes and had the most disgusting hacky cough at the end for months and months. I sounded like a dying old man hacking up a lung each morning.

Anyway, I was pretty confident I could do it cold turkey but my bf wasn't keen and we both wanted to do it the same way so we knew how each other was feeling etc and could help each other. So we bought patches and did it exactly how the packet said. I didn't want any excuse to fuck up. It was a 12 week program -- 4 weeks x heavy strength, 4 weeks x medium strength, 4 weeks x light strength. We got to week 5 and onto the medium strength and we both forgot to put one on in the morning....and neither of us realised until the afternoon when we rang each other and said "Fuck! Have you even thought about a cigarette or the patch?!" and neither of us had. We did a few more days and forgot again...and then realised we didn't need the patches anymore.

On the day we quit, my bf bought a computer game and I bought 2 tv boxsets. He sat in the office playing computer games for a couple of days and I printed thousands and thousands of flyers for my business which I had to sign, fold and envelope. The computer game and flyers occupied our hands and kept us sane in the first few days. It helped so much. Otherwise we would have just been sitting there staring at each other and wanting to do something with our hands. I also refused to smoke weed in the form of a joint for a whole year. I was too scared it would make me crack.

I still love the feeling of smoke in my mouth when I smoke weed. If I get told I definitely only have a few months to live, I'm buying a 20 pack of Marlboro reds, grabbing a bong and going out in haze of smoke!

But seriously, quitting is best thing I ever did.

justam

Ziggy, that's such a good story about how it could be done! Doing it with a partner was a great idea.

pjtaper

I agree... when I quit, I rolled a ton of VERY THIN, ALL PAPER pinners... I would smoke one every time I wanted a cig, pinners are so harsh there is no way I'd want a cig after I was done... I then went back to water filtered pieces only.

PearlOfAGirl

Jukee wrote:

Thanks HSB

Well it's been since 1:30am New Year's since I've had my last one. Fortunately it's been easier than I thought it would be the last two days but that's probably because I haven't hung out with anybody who smokes yet. Today will be the test. I'm going to visit my cousin and she and her husband both smoke (in the house to boot ).
I just have to keep telling myself...I'm strong, I can do this! I feel so much better already, no heartburn, no heart palpitations and my mouth doesn't taste like shit all the time.

I'm so proud of you!!! You definitely have the "will power" to overcome this horrible, disgusting habit!!!

I'm here for you Jukee :thumbup: