The Quit Smoking Thread.

[lalalemon]

i've found it's much easier to avoid smoking when I STOP BUYING PACKS.
although cigs are relatively cheap here (marlboro lights < 4.25), the money really adds up.

also, i refuse to smoke in my car- which is where i used to do it the most.

i really been able to stop smoking as much as i used to, but i still smoke maybe 5 cigarettes a week- more if i'm drunk. which lately i have been.

[rehtaFrey]

the longest i managed to quit was for a year. then i stumbled back into it and have been doing it on and off. i'm hoping to quit again come september. chest pains while smoking is a scary sign.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by lalalemon

i've found it's much easier to avoid smoking when I STOP BUYING PACKS.

wtf...you live in Louisville too? AND you're trying to quit smoking?

Wanna fuck?

[MaxPower]

Stay away from that Chantax stop smoking pill.
The side effects are not a good thing. Worse in some people than others

[264]

I quit smoking April 27th, cold turkey. This is my third attempt, the first was the patch, and the second was also cold turkey.

This time I did the "team" quitting. My girlfriend and I both quit at the same time. I think it helped to have someone call me a dumbfuck when I wanted to go get a pack of cigarettes.

A matter of note, this time around I wound up suffering from Shortness of Breath after quitting. Turns out quitting smoking can cause massive anxiety. So now I'm on Xanax. I also started drinking...

I don't know if I'm healthier now or not.

[lalalemon]

Originally Posted by Brad

wtf...you live in Louisville too? AND you're trying to quit smoking?

Wanna fuck?

fucking makes me want to smoke

[blackpussy]

to quit smoking cigs, start smoking pot and then to stop smoking pot, drink more alcohol and then to quit that start doing coke?

[Nebraskacountrygirl]

I smoked for several years, then got tired of it and "weened" myself off. I first started by not smoking in the spot that I smoked the most, my car. Then I cut down at breaks and at home. It took some time but I eventually got down to 1 cig a day and gave it up that way. I'm smoking again due to the divorce and bankruptcy and other issues. But I'll quit again someday.

A guy I know quit when he had been smoking for over 40 years. He got this copper bracelet thing as a gift or something and didn't realize that it was making the cigs taste bad and quit that way.

I heard that pill is bad for you, I know a bunch of people that were on it and they started to have suicidal thoughts and got off it right away.

Find a comfortable way for you to quit and then just do it that way. It's hard as hell, but it can be done.

[madeyeshawn]

My experience was catching myself going a long period without a cigarette. I got so caught up with a fun activity that I went about 12 hrs without realizing i didnt have a cigarette or even think about it.

So try to spend time around non-smokers, then when you get distracted enough and you realize you went x long without a cig try to keep that streak going.

Its a mind trick, sort of like cheating for a head start.

That was nearly 10 years ago, so that 12 hr period has literally turned into 10 years completely smoke free. (not counting occasion ganja use)

[The Antigreenjacket]

Originally Posted by marina

I wasn't a heavy smoker, and I didn't smoke for very long, but quitting was really hard for me, despite the fact that I had asthma, and at some points, couldn't breath normally without wheezing.

I asked a friend of mine who had quit for years how she had done it, and she told me that she prayed every morning for God to take the obsession away from her. I felt really stupid doing it, especially since I didn't really believe in God at the time, and I've never believed in that kind of God at all, but I wanted to quit smoking so I was willing to try anything.

The last cigarette I smoked was the end of a pack I found in my car on a Thursday of July, 2003. I'm not saying that God did it, in fact I think I'd just never wanted to quit like that before.

Coincidentally, the woman that told me that started smoking again a couple of years ago.

Seriously, Obamas going to make it harder to smoke in the military. There needs to be a re-alignment of what is right in the FDA. Smoking would be much easier if that filter wasn't on the cig.