giving up smoking

Toilet & Bowels · 03.16.2008, 05:50 PM

i'm in the process of giving up cigs, cold turkey style, it sucks, i haven't had a cigarette in two days. i don't want to give up but i set the time aside ages ago to do this so i feel like i ought to stick to it.

ugh.

schizophrenicroom · 03.16.2008, 05:54 PM

i know nothing of this area, so all i can say is good luck!

avantgarde1 · 03.16.2008, 05:55 PM

good luck man, i've tried countless times and i can never do it. i always end up smokin gmore. i really wish it was easier to quit.

davenotdead · 03.16.2008, 05:56 PM

good job mang. slay the nicotine dragon.

Crumb's Crunchy Delights · 03.16.2008, 05:58 PM

good luck my friend

tip: don't buy any and don't smoke anybody else's

Everyneurotic · 03.16.2008, 05:59 PM

some people here are going to quit because they are putting the ban (and it's jail time for the offenders).

i'm certainly cutting back since i only smoke when i go out, but i still don't feel like quitting. like every sunday, i feel like i had enough for a while and am not craving for a cig.

anyway, best wishes.

ricechex · 03.16.2008, 06:02 PM

I smoked about a pack a day until exactly 3 weeks ago. I have smoked drags here and there from my girl and a friend. So about a cig worth in 3 weeks!

Yeah, its tough. I agree, def don't buy them and keep your mind busy..

Phlegmscope · 03.16.2008, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Crumb's Crunchy Delights

tip: don't buy any and don't smoke anybody else's

yeah, eventually they get tired of your whining and refuse to give you a fag.
If you tend to smoke while drunk, then get drunk less regularly. eh?

jakeonguitar · 03.16.2008, 06:36 PM

There's apparently some CD audiobook thing that explains "the truth behind ciggarettes." It apparently makes smoking seem absoultely disgusting. Ive heard about it from some friends and relatives. I'd Google it. Maybe it'd help.

phoenix · 03.16.2008, 06:44 PM

You should definately stick it out.

Its unhealthy its bad for you it smells bad etcetc etc.

Randomly I do smoke if Im very drunk.. but its never become a habbit. joy. I really doubt it ever would.. my mother used to but quit.. my father has since he was 20 and the way he coughs now is almost enough to make me detest it. The smell is what makes me not ever want to smoke more than once a month if that.

phoenix · 03.16.2008, 06:45 PM

Plus there are way more fun things to spend money on and way more fun things to fill in 4 minutes with.

Toilet & Bowels · 03.16.2008, 07:01 PM

i haven't left the house in the last two days either, if i did i wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of going to buy cigs, and i've got the next two days off work to give my self enough time to get over the withdrawl cravings. i'm getting cabin fever though from staying indoors so long.

krastian · 03.16.2008, 07:12 PM

It's def. pretty hard to do. I haven't bought a pack in over a year, but still end up smoking a couple a month which is still better than a pack a day. I still fiend though!!

The best advice I could give would be to try and get really excited about quitting and look at it as a whole new chapter of your life.

This Is Not Here · 03.16.2008, 07:48 PM

I smoke, I want to not smoke, but I havn't really tried to quit seriously. I'm 18 and feel like I'm fucking myself up, and it all became clear recently when after a weekend's heavy smoking I proceeded to lay one of my friends, and kept goddam coughing when I was in bed with this girl. She smokes, so she understood, but it was precisely the most unattractive thing I could have done there.

I should be in good heath, but I wheez like a motherbitch when I walk up any hill. I smoke about 8 roll-ups a day, smokers, have I passed the point of no return?

Everyneurotic · 03.16.2008, 07:56 PM

anything more than 3 cigarettes a day leaves you with a habit or worse.

uhler · 03.16.2008, 07:59 PM

i never even tried to smoke, so i don't know how it is, but my brother quit cold turkey after smoking for two years. he told me it was very easy. but each person is different. good luck!

krastian · 03.16.2008, 08:06 PM

I started smoking when I was 12. Yee haw!!

!@#$%! · 03.16.2008, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

i haven't left the house in the last two days either, if i did i wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of going to buy cigs, and i've got the next two days off work to give my self enough time to get over the withdrawl cravings. i'm getting cabin fever though from staying indoors so long.

pox

here's a useful tip from someone who's quit, successfully many times (ha ha ha)

part of the soothing power of the smoke is not necessarily the tobacco itself but the fact that you enjoy a deep drag of the lungs.

so, suggestion-- when that monkey is on your back, take a drag of air-- just as if you were puffing on your favorite dunhills-- or whatever it is you smoke.

that's right-- smoke the atmosphere. just like kids pretend, you know-- but with the hunger of the addicted.

just try it. it's got me out of more than one difficult situations.

HaydenAsche · 03.16.2008, 10:13 PM

I stop and start again all the time. My suggestion, don't drink or do any stimulants. That's what always gets me started again.

alteredcourse · 03.17.2008, 12:53 AM

Its defiantely soooooo easy to light up when drunk/high .
I'm on + off too . It's nice when I reach a point after weaning off and just the smell of cig smoke makes me wretch . After it has thoroughly released its clutches on me .

i just hate the feeling of being dependant on a thing like that . The distraction of having a cigarette is so great and awesome and i genuinely love to inhale and smoke, but contrary to what is believed, cigarettes are so stressful on the body that they cause the depression rather than help alleviate it .

Good Luck on kicking the habit , T+B . Try not to focus on it too much . Walk in the opposite direction whenever you feel the need for one .

03.16.2008, 05:50 PM	#1
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,282	i'm in the process of giving up cigs, cold turkey style, it sucks, i haven't had a cigarette in two days. i don't want to give up but i set the time aside ages ago to do this so i feel like i ought to stick to it. ugh.
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03.16.2008, 05:54 PM	#2
schizophrenicroom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: behind you Posts: 10,807	i know nothing of this area, so all i can say is good luck! __________________ fuck i'm frustrated, freaking out something fierce, would you help me? i'm hungry and i stuffer and i startle, i struggle and i stammer til i'm up to my ears in miserable quote unquote "art"
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03.16.2008, 05:55 PM	#3
avantgarde1 the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 968	good luck man, i've tried countless times and i can never do it. i always end up smokin gmore. i really wish it was easier to quit. __________________ aka ZEROpumpkins
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davenotdead invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 7,784	good job mang. slay the nicotine dragon. __________________
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03.16.2008, 05:58 PM	#5
Crumb's Crunchy Delights expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: okie's in the pokie Posts: 1,352	good luck my friend tip: don't buy any and don't smoke anybody else's
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03.16.2008, 05:59 PM	#6
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	some people here are going to quit because they are putting the ban (and it's jail time for the offenders). i'm certainly cutting back since i only smoke when i go out, but i still don't feel like quitting. like every sunday, i feel like i had enough for a while and am not craving for a cig. anyway, best wishes. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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03.16.2008, 06:02 PM	#7
ricechex the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Princeton, NJ Posts: 582	I smoked about a pack a day until exactly 3 weeks ago. I have smoked drags here and there from my girl and a friend. So about a cig worth in 3 weeks! Yeah, its tough. I agree, def don't buy them and keep your mind busy.. __________________
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03.16.2008, 06:36 PM	#9
jakeonguitar bad moon rising Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California Posts: 181	There's apparently some CD audiobook thing that explains "the truth behind ciggarettes." It apparently makes smoking seem absoultely disgusting. Ive heard about it from some friends and relatives. I'd Google it. Maybe it'd help. __________________
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03.16.2008, 06:44 PM	#10
phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	You should definately stick it out. Its unhealthy its bad for you it smells bad etcetc etc. Randomly I do smoke if Im very drunk.. but its never become a habbit. joy. I really doubt it ever would.. my mother used to but quit.. my father has since he was 20 and the way he coughs now is almost enough to make me detest it. The smell is what makes me not ever want to smoke more than once a month if that. __________________ tiny and lost.
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03.16.2008, 06:45 PM	#11
phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	Plus there are way more fun things to spend money on and way more fun things to fill in 4 minutes with. __________________ tiny and lost.
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03.16.2008, 07:01 PM	#12
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,282	i haven't left the house in the last two days either, if i did i wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of going to buy cigs, and i've got the next two days off work to give my self enough time to get over the withdrawl cravings. i'm getting cabin fever though from staying indoors so long.
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03.16.2008, 07:12 PM	#13
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	It's def. pretty hard to do. I haven't bought a pack in over a year, but still end up smoking a couple a month which is still better than a pack a day. I still fiend though!! The best advice I could give would be to try and get really excited about quitting and look at it as a whole new chapter of your life. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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03.16.2008, 07:48 PM	#14
This Is Not Here invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kingston-Upon-Thames, London Posts: 2,586	I smoke, I want to not smoke, but I havn't really tried to quit seriously. I'm 18 and feel like I'm fucking myself up, and it all became clear recently when after a weekend's heavy smoking I proceeded to lay one of my friends, and kept goddam coughing when I was in bed with this girl. She smokes, so she understood, but it was precisely the most unattractive thing I could have done there. I should be in good heath, but I wheez like a motherbitch when I walk up any hill. I smoke about 8 roll-ups a day, smokers, have I passed the point of no return? __________________ http://images.google.co.uk/url?sourc...zLTl_B146tcuiw ~~Record of the moment~~
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03.16.2008, 07:56 PM	#15
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	anything more than 3 cigarettes a day leaves you with a habit or worse. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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03.16.2008, 07:59 PM	#16
uhler invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 3,615	i never even tried to smoke, so i don't know how it is, but my brother quit cold turkey after smoking for two years. he told me it was very easy. but each person is different. good luck!
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03.16.2008, 08:06 PM	#17
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	I started smoking when I was 12. Yee haw!! __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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03.16.2008, 10:13 PM	#19
HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I stop and start again all the time. My suggestion, don't drink or do any stimulants. That's what always gets me started again. __________________ rip
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03.17.2008, 12:53 AM	#20
alteredcourse expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,503	Its defiantely soooooo easy to light up when drunk/high . I'm on + off too . It's nice when I reach a point after weaning off and just the smell of cig smoke makes me wretch . After it has thoroughly released its clutches on me . i just hate the feeling of being dependant on a thing like that . The distraction of having a cigarette is so great and awesome and i genuinely love to inhale and smoke, but contrary to what is believed, cigarettes are so stressful on the body that they cause the depression rather than help alleviate it . Good Luck on kicking the habit , T+B . Try not to focus on it too much . Walk in the opposite direction whenever you feel the need for one .
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