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Almond Flour
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Shroomism]
#21907271 - 07/06/15 09:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: BAM!
THE COMPLETE NOOB'S GUIDE TO VAPING
That's just for starters for now
Thats sick, good work....can tell you really enjoy the hobby
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Hells yes I do..vaping saves lives And enjoy turning other people on to it.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Shroomism]
#21907589 - 07/06/15 10:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Better watch your back. Eventually big tobacco is gonna realize how much money you cost them and come after you.
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Cynosure
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My question: is day three really that difficult for you?
Mind you, my question is completely hippocratic. I still smoke. However, I've smoked since the age of 17 and have "quit" (stopped?) many times from 2 weeks to 25 months.. however, I've never found it to be difficult until day 7 or 10 (and only difficult then due to not being able to sleep). Though, even after a full year of not smoking I still returned. At month 12, I still felt myself "craving"--I truly believe it's a sensation that will never fully go away (also an assumption)--but the cravings were easy to overcome.. it was the not being able to sleep that always got to me.
I can still, to this day, go up to 7-10 days without noticing that I haven't smoked.
Care to share your experiences?
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I've gotten back on the ecig lately, too. I was on it for a long time in the past, but my old one broke. Went back to cigs for a while, then I finally broke down and ordered a new one. No intention of going back to cigs. Hoping to one day get off of nicotine entirely.
Damn though, it feels good to be off cigs even if I'm still on nicotine.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Cynosure]
#21907657 - 07/06/15 10:31 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's completely circumstantial for me. I mean day 1 is hell, 2 is a little better, 3 you can kinda start to see the light, but there is any number of things that can happen between day 1 and day 1000 that will drive me right to the store and back to smoking..
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Cynosure
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Shroomslip]
#21907672 - 07/06/15 10:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's intense. I rarely realize days 1-3; if anything at all, I feel more clarity in my day-to-day life.
I've noticed that 'circumstantial', in the sense of stressful situations, has never been a trigger for me.. yet more the feeling of being 'too tired to sleep'. Good to see how others experience it.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Cynosure]
#21907727 - 07/06/15 10:59 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Trying to quit smoking is absolutely horrible for me. For the most part I've been a pack a day + smoker for the better part of 2 decades. I was highly dependent on them. If I went more than an hour or two without a cigarette I turned into someone you tiptoed around and just generally tried to make yourself as non-existent as possible. If it was a pack of cigarettes or eating that day, I chose the cigarettes.
The physical withdrawal was pretty bad, but the psychological part of it is what really drove up the difficulty for me. When you're already all jittery and nervous feeling, and you throw in "can't go 2 minutes without thinking 'fuck I want a cigarette so bad, just 1 and I'll be okay'" things tend to get pretty difficult. Your will is saying "come on you can do this" and every other single part of you is screaming "why are you putting yourself through this, you can always quit later, no reason to suffer now".
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Shroomslip]
#21907764 - 07/06/15 11:19 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That surely makes sense! I'm sorry it has been so difficult.. and truly hope that we can both give them up for good. 
I've never been able to smoke more than 8-10 cigarettes a day (even when intoxicated).. I presume it's simply due to my physical limitations as it makes my lungs/throat start to hurt or my stomach will simply reject them by puking; so, even at my worst over the past 10 years, I've never been able to smoke even half a pack a day (American Spirits - dark green/menthol have been my choice for the majority).
It has always been physical for me from weeks 2-6 and then psychological (which is easier for me to handle) after.
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keep up the good fight. fuck cigarettes
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: sprinkles]
#21907903 - 07/06/15 11:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you are trying to quit. I'd just keep going cold turkey. No need to switch one habit for another. Ecigs are still nicotine vapor. I'd say switch to ecigs after you've failed over and over cold turkey.
I know a lot of people who have quit ciggs. Most of my friends used to smoke for years and have quit. There's a select few who have tried to quit and always relapse.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Gorlax]
#21907953 - 07/07/15 12:18 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd be among that number. I've tried to quit well over 20 or 30 times in my life, most attempts last about 2 days. A couple of the rare ones lasted a month or two. Only time I have quit when it wasn't forced (locked up) for a year or so, is when I first got into ecigs. I ended up relapsing because of severe stress, it was only supposed to be that one pack to get me through the next couple of days.
Quit again a little over 2 months ago. Although I really set the bar. I was still regularly using the ecig with 24mg juice while smoking a pack+ a day. Did that for quite a while too. At that point I didn't really feel like the ecig was compensating for the lack of cigarettes. I was just giving up 1 of 2 habits I had, so yeah I felt it. All the ecig did was keep a bit of nicotine in me so I wasn't completely losing it over a lack of cigarettes.
I ended up upgrading to a tank and sub-ohming, then I finally felt satisfaction and now I'm back to where I don't even want cigs. Although for the most part I am still vaping some pretty high leveled juice for a sub-ohm tank. Most people go for 1-6 mg with a lot seemingly feeling like even 6 is too much. I'm doing 12. I'm dialing it back now though.
Ecigs work, if you let them and you get the right set up. I highly recommend them. I don't look at it like trading 1 bad habit for another. There's 0 question in my mind that ecigs are by far the lesser of 2 evils. There's no reason to suffer from quitting unless you just want to.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Shroomslip]
#21908042 - 07/07/15 12:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yah. It would be the same as replacing smoking weed with vaporizing weed. The latter is healthier but together you are increasing tolerance as a whole.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Gorlax]
#21908546 - 07/07/15 07:24 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I smoked for 3 years as a young teen and quit around 18 years old. That feeling of "craving" a cigarette never fully goes away. Im 26 now and am back to using tobacco after 8 years being nicotine free.....however I use swedish snus.
You will NEVER walk into a gas station again and never be tempted by those smokes behind the counter. Hell to this day I still find myself wanting some smokes.
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Almond Flour said: I smoked for 3 years as a young teen and quit around 18 years old. That feeling of "craving" a cigarette never fully goes away. Im 26 now and am back to using tobacco after 8 years being nicotine free.....however I use swedish snus.
You will NEVER walk into a gas station again and never be tempted by those smokes behind the counter. Hell to this day I still find myself wanting some smokes.
Lol, I enjoy smoking, and I plan to smoke again for a period of time in my future (hopefully I can make it to a time where I can be a lazy old man).
I am quitting mainly to give my lungs a break for a year or two or MORE.
Day 5 now, doing well. Yesterday was very stressful, some family events took place, went to the store to get a pouch of Red Man Chew, took one tiny dip and holy fuck I dont think ill be getting into that shit. (def not smoking, but stress called for some nico) Sat next to someone who chainsmoked, no issues.
The most difficult step in quitting seems to be DECIDING TO QUIT. (rather than: "im going to try".
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Almond Flour
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MajickMuffin said:
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Almond Flour said: I smoked for 3 years as a young teen and quit around 18 years old. That feeling of "craving" a cigarette never fully goes away. Im 26 now and am back to using tobacco after 8 years being nicotine free.....however I use swedish snus.
You will NEVER walk into a gas station again and never be tempted by those smokes behind the counter. Hell to this day I still find myself wanting some smokes.
Lol, I enjoy smoking, and I plan to smoke again for a period of time in my future (hopefully I can make it to a time where I can be a lazy old man).
I am quitting mainly to give my lungs a break for a year or two or MORE.
Day 5 now, doing well. Yesterday was very stressful, some family events took place, went to the store to get a pouch of Red Man Chew, took one tiny dip and holy fuck I dont think ill be getting into that shit. (def not smoking, but stress called for some nico) Sat next to someone who chainsmoked, no issues.
The most difficult step in quitting seems to be DECIDING TO QUIT. (rather than: "im going to try".
I tried 1 pack of chew before. Beech Nut. That stuff is epic! Far too "Outlandish" and "Messy" though to be doing it everyday.
Fun as hell though, tastes amazing too
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So how did this go. Did you quit don't lie!! Lol
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: Devon420]
#21920421 - 07/09/15 03:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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i've managed to cut out my nicotine addiction, haven't used since counterpoint music festival.
I didn't use a vape to achieve this. If you are trying to remove your addiction, vaping is not the way to go unless you plan on reducing the mg of your e-juice or whatever. If you are still feeding yourself nicotine, you are still feeding the addiction.
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Re: Day 3, Quitting Smoking [Re: 404]
#21920468 - 07/09/15 03:26 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I never really intended to cut the nicotine. Put plainly, I wanted to quit smoking in the literal sense, I don't really care about the nicotine addiction. I wanted to get off the cancer sticks that were absolutely wrecking my body and costing me a small fortune. Sure we don't know the long term effects of ecig use, but I can tell you within just a few months of using one you'll regain pretty much all that cigarettes have cost you.
If you can quit it all, then more power to you. Some people can't. I can't. All the benefits I've gotten from switching to an ecig is well worth "just trading one addiction for another".
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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