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Aninator
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Quitting Smokers...
#5885773 - 07/21/06 09:06 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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a few weeks ago i remember there being a number of people who were quitting smoking cigarettes. Just wondering how all of you are doing now? It's been almost 4 weeks since i had a cigarette. I'm going strong but i gotta say i still want one. I wonder if the cravings really every will stop. But i am still pretty determined not to let another cigarette touch my lips.
how are the rest of you holding up?
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Yarry
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5885820 - 07/21/06 09:17 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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good on ya ani!
Im sure its a VERY hard vice to kick, but know that in the end it will be worth it! We've never talked but im totally here for ya, and if you need someone to talk to about it etc, im the only dude that doesnt smoke in my immediate family, so i know somewhat how it may be....
way to be!!
-------------------- Grumpy Old Man.
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splifner180
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Yarry]
#5885930 - 07/21/06 10:02 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I quit smoking about six months ago. I'd say it was pretty easy. I have about one cigarette every two months and even then it's a "hey, my best friend is sitting next to me and she's smoking, I think I'll have one" thing.
They never "call" to me. In fact every time I have one I'm sorry I did. Makes my mouth taste like a smurf took a shit in it.
splif
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Skunk420


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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5885940 - 07/21/06 10:05 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I always mellowed out to a few a day, I am still there, but I still drink some everyday, so i highly doubt it is gonna happen for me, cancer death, heart attack city like my grandpa..oh well.
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Eraserhead
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Skunk420]
#5886800 - 07/22/06 05:56 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I smoked a pack a day for 13 years, quit a little over 2.5 ago
If I am tripping around smokers, I REALLY REALLY want to smoke, but other than that I find them repulsive.
It took me about 6 months to finally stop wanting to smoke, after I had already quelled the nicotine addiction.
I'd have to say my MJ smoking increased dramatically after quitting ciggerettes, but that's just has to do the the whole being addicted to the proccess of smoking, holding something in the hand, inhaling/watching smoke be exhaled..
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Aninator
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Eraserhead]
#5887027 - 07/22/06 09:23 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yarry - Thanks for the support. It's comments like that help keep me going.
Eraserhead - yea i haven't tripped yet since i quit, i imagine that to bee the hardest part but again more cause of the smoking process rather than me actually wanting to smoke a cigarette. My MJ smoking has increased as well for the same reasons you listed. There is something relaxing about merely blowing smoking out of ones mouth. I guess it's the smoke i blow out is gonna have to get me high too instead of just giving me a head rush.. hahaha
So 6 months huh? I can do that.
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hobbitxkillyou
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5887046 - 07/22/06 09:38 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Keep it up Ani! My grandpa qiut when I was younger cause my sister wouldn't hug him, heh. But long story short, he's around lots of smokers at our hunting cabin and bars and stuff, and never bats an eye.
Course I don't know how long it took to get like that, but goes to show, it can be done!
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Eraserhead
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You'll be fine Ani, after those first 3 days of hell (the real withdraw) I decided I never wanted to go through that again, and vowed to myself I'd never pick them back up. I've never understood why people keep lighting back up even after they've managed to make it through those first 3 days. I've seen to many people quit and pick them back up, quit and pick them back up. I'm not gonna be one of them, and I wish you the best of luck in the same.
It's really nice not being a slave, thinking oh shit.. I gotta have a cigg before I go in there, crap, when will this be over so I can go smoke another one, I just ate, time to go smoke, I'm about to go eat, time to smoke, you get the idea. This means you get a LOT of additional free time you never realized you wasted on smoking them damn things. at a pack a day, the average cigg is about 5-7 minutes (for me) so simple math says you save 100-140 minutes every single day At 100/day that's approximately 25.3 full days of the year you spend inhaling/exhaling smoke, at 140/day that's 35.5 days.. holy shit....I never actually thought about this.
I don't bat an eye at smokers, other than when I'm tripping, personally, they just stink. Virginia slim menthol's, Benson and hedges menthol's, and Parliment menthol's are so fucking horrible smelling... people that smoke those need to be forced to sit face first in an incredibly flatulent pigs posterior for weeks on end
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Aninator
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Eraserhead]
#5887197 - 07/22/06 10:56 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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" after those first 3 days of hell (the real withdraw) I decided I never wanted to go through that again, and vowed to myself I'd never pick them back up. I've never understood why people keep lighting back up even after they've managed to make it through those first 3 days. I've seen to many people quit and pick them back up, quit and pick them back up. I'm not gonna be one of them"
That's EXACTLY how i felt. those hellish 3 days are enought o scare me out of smoking another cigarete again... WHY WOULD I WANNA GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN! i flet CRAZY!
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Krishna
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5887206 - 07/22/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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keep it up Ani!
i've got to make that move to quit myself. hopefully moving into a smoke-free (well, cigarette smoke free ) house in a few days will help with that...
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butane
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Krishna]
#5887218 - 07/22/06 11:06 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm on my very last pack. I've started to notice that my lungs are seriously not working as well as they were, and it really pisses me off. Physically, I have fantastic endurance, but I just can't get the oxygen anymore. My ability to move around and stuff like that is very important to me, so I have to quit. But I love them so much! God dammit it's going to be hard...
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Aninator
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Krishna]
#5887232 - 07/22/06 11:15 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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it does.living in my dorm room at school it was SOOO easy to go the day not having a cigarette it was just a matter of not going outside. you can do it krishna, it's all in the mind.
How did the rest of your tour go? i was so sad to have gotten that message the night of Jones Beach tht you weren't able to make it. I just kept thinking through out the Jones Beach show and the Bethel show how much i would've enjoyed hanging out with you there. What are you up to now?
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Krishna
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5887313 - 07/22/06 11:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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it went well enough, i ended up heading back to michigan, getting my sister's old car and picking up a friend, and then heading back out east. caught ratdog w/ sci, followed by ween, and then caught back with phil tour for 3 more shows. i thought a few weeks touring would satisfy that urge and allow me to get back to "normal" life, but instead it's got me thinking that touring is a feasible (and really fun) lifestyle choice. whoops
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deryl
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5887352 - 07/22/06 12:10 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I failed.
I like drinking too much to stop smoking.
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splifner180
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: deryl]
#5887981 - 07/22/06 04:00 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Good luck with the effort, AniNator. I know it's cliche but it was definitely a smart move for me. I've been a full-time cyclist for more than a dozen years now but I started to notice smoking was taking its toll.
Not only do I have an extra $150 every month but I can climb hills like I used to and my clothes don't all smell like butt.
splif
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Bowers
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Re: Quitting Smokers... [Re: Aninator]
#5888916 - 07/22/06 08:53 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I quit smoking in March of 2005, and I am still going strong. But the craziest part about it is, even after so long I still crave one every once and a while. But all depends on my surroundings. Like I moved out on my own shortly after I quit so my new place I relate to with NOT smoking. When I go back home and hang out with all my old friends, and do all the shit I used to do, THAT is when I crave one the most. Even more than when I drink, which I don't crave for as much anymore.
On the other hand once I smell smoke I am turned off, I find that really weird. That same smell used to make me want one like crazy. haha.
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