Smoking

[focusedrage]

I never used to get sick. NEVER. Then I started smoking. I was ok for about the first year of smoking, but now I am getting sick all the fucking time. Pharyngitis (caused from smoke/pollution/ect.) and something else, I cant remember the name, that comes from a combination of things, the main one being SMOKING. As I type this, my nose is stuffed up/irritated, and my throat hurts. Which is the same thing that was happening to me when I was sick the time before. I dont wanna go to the fucking doctor again, luckily I have some kick-ass nasal decongestant to use. But here is my point. SMOKING SUCKS ASS...DONT START GODDAMNIT!!!!!!

I regret the day I was introduced to a fucking cigarette, but yet, it is so fucking hard for me too quit. I have strong willpower in most every area of my life, but put a pack of cigarettes in front of me, and I'll fuel my pack a day habit. HELP!! http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

Anyone have some good idea's on how to quit? Preferably w/o spending 100 dollars...

In other words - what are some methods I could use to quit "cold turkey" And dont say "just dont buy them" cause that doesn't work when you live 1 min. from a gas station, and I have already fucking tried that.

I think cigarettes are the devil. And if I wasn't so addicted, I would pray for them to all burn in hell!!!!!

FR

[Koliedrus]

It's not an easy process as you well know. I can't tell you how many full packs of smokes I threw out only to buy more a few days later.

My decision to really quit was brought about by a number of factors. Since they're related directly to me and the circumstances of the time, the details will be less than helpful. However, I think I can generalize my thoughts a bit.

When Mrs. Kol and I first met I had a two-pack habit. She didn't (and doesn't) smoke and she said nothing to deter me from my vice. At some point, she mentioned that she would like me to be around to watch our grandchildren grow up. She's very proud of her Irish heritage and I love her deeply, so on the day before St.Patrick's Day, 1996, I took one last pull. We discussed my upcoming withdrawal symtoms and I made her promise to do her best to understand when I lashed out verbally or behaved irrationally and to remind me of the source of my condition as well as the reason I quit.

In a nutshell, it worked. I haven't smoked since. As a fringe benefit of our discussion, she asked me to apply the same method to her bouts with PMS.

Now we have children, I stand a greater chance at living to see them have children of their own and a great number of potential arguments have been avoided by each of us reminding the other that the anger is a temporary condition fueled by chemical imbalaces.

'nuff said about that.


I also went searching for a quick answer that I could copy/paste but decided against it. The references and support groups are too numerous to single out.

Go to ask.com and ask "How can I quit smoking?"

If you need a reason, you can share mine.

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[focusedrage]

thx for the thoughts - though I am only 20 - and have no plans of marriage or kids in the near future, I can see how the grandchildren thing can be great motivation. I dont know if I could use the same as of right now. I'm just tired of beings sick all the damn time, and I wanna quit...but it is just so friggin hard, cuase I'll go for bout 20 or so hours, and then go buy a cigarette, cuase I'm not feeling to bad. Alos, the wierd thing is, I dont have mood swings that much when I try and quit (although, I haven't gone over 24 hours since I started w/o smoking, so..hey, that could be why) - but I do get headaches....

FR

[Koliedrus]

You, sir, are welcome.

Planning for a relationship is like planning for a car wreck. Both circumstances happen when you least expect them.

If you survive either one you're doing well.

My son is in my arms.

More later.

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[estero]

<font color=pink>Focus, some words of advice. The craving for a cigarette will go away whether you have one or not.

HOw to quit? Just don't smoke. I've been smoke free for months now. I have had relapses but really only because of habit not addiction.

Oh, and another thing, STAY AWAY FROM NASAL DECONGESTANTS!!! I had an addiction to it, and I'm not joking. It got so bad that when I used it, it no longer worked and my nose, inside was swollen. I couldn't breathe at all. I had to go to the doctor and he gave me something to ween myself off it.

Its the fucking devil, I'm serious.

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[Lightbulb]

When the urge comes...

Take the cigarette out of the pack and place it upon the table in front of you.

Look at it.

Describe, out loud if you like, what it is. It's a tube of dessicated tobacco leaves, blended with tar and various chemicals, tipped with a filter. Be as specific as you can. If you don't know the content of the cigarette, research it so that you can quite clearly state what's inside.

Smell it, as you examine the cigarette dispassionately. You will feel an urge to smoke it. Wait. Continue to describe the cigarette, and what happens when you light it. Imagine in great detail the combusted end of the cigarette leaching smoke through the tobacco, through the filter and into your lungs. Examine your memories of what happens after the first drag in the morning.

Describe, from your research, how nicotine makes its way across the barrier between the atmosphere and your bloodstream, through the lungs. Research the vocabulary, so you can describe the process quite clearly. There will always be more detail you can add, but be a concise yet accurate as possible.

Continue to describe the process as the chemicals are carried in to your bloodstream and make their way around the body. If you don't know the medical effects of nicotine on the cardio-vascular system, research them too. You should be able to describe the long term and repeated effects, perhaps with some statistics for sections of the population.

Don't expect to be able to do this straight away. It will take a few days of resonably committed research to assemble the data and to formalise things in your mind.

Once you have completed your verbal dissection of the cigarette, break it in two and put it in the bin.

Do this once a day. Try to add more detail every day. Don't use words like 'bad' or 'unhealthy', merely describe, dispassionately, the journey of the chemical cocktail as it makes its way from the living tobacco plant all the way from harvesting and manufacture, through to inhalation and excretion from your body. You will probably want to spend a week or two researching this thoroughly. Examine the history of tobacco.

Each day, as you describe what a cigarette really is, as it lies upon the table in front of you, examine your feelings towards it. The sensation that you want to pick it up and put it in your mouth, light it and smoke it. Don't condemn yourself for any of these feelings. Observe them.

Pick the cigarette up and break it in two. Put it in the bin.

If you feel an urge in the middle of the day, agree to wait until the end of the day for your next cigarette. Take the time, in the evening, to describe once more the entire process that is a cigarette.

Pick it up, break it in two, put it in the bin.

When you have enough data and have spent enough time on the subject that you can trace the isolated molecule of nicotine from its manufacture by the tobacco plant from sunlight and water all the way to its excretion from your own body, examine your feelings towards any cigarette.

This should take you around two to three weeks, if you are sufficiently committed to the research. It is important to keep an eye on how your understanding of the cigarette changes from your first tabletop description before you have done any research all the way to the end of the process, after you have studied the subject for some time.

Get back to us.

[Faceplant]

i just ran out of ciggarettes...fucking snow has the stores closed.

fuck you.

[King Bastard]

Lightbulb, this may just work, and if it does, expect much hatred from me. Not aime dat you, but in general....


And I wil let you know how this plays out.

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[Koliedrus]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

One more year down, all the rest to go http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[FunkaY]

Ok this chick at my last job used this method to quit. It's pretty disgusting, but it worked on her :P

Light up a cig, take one drag.
Then put the cig in your ash tray and lean yourself over it so you breath in all that secondary smoke..mmm..yummmm..you gotta breathe it all till the cig goes out. So then smoking will make you feel like you want to spew and you wont want to do it http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif

YAY FOR SMOKING!!!!!!

Fucked if I'm going to quit that way.

[Koliedrus]

I helped a bud of mine quit. Well, temporarily.

I asked him if I could bum a smoke. He looked at me all cockeyed and said, "I thought you quit?!"

I just shrugged, grinned and looked at my feet. He tossed me his pack (4 or 5 missing), took one out, jammed it in my nose, put it back in the pack and shook it up.

He called my mommy bad names so I had to knock out some of his teeth.

In another instance, I bummed one, gave the pack back and crumpled the cig much to the dismay of the previous owner.

"You wasted a perfectly good cigarette!!!"

*chuckle* "No I didn't."

Then I decked him before he could call my mommy ugly names.