3 almost 4 months without a cigarette

[BW86]

:thumbsup:

 

[spaceman]

2 months

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

A month is nothing. You're not even close to done until you have stopped for at least a full year.

yeah well bohoo tootee doo 2u2
2 months is something
eat it!

 

[JohnCU]

awesome!:thumbsup:

 

[xcript]

Batman stole my packed lunch.

 

[Q]

Do you chew on straws? I heard some smokers do this to help stop the cravings

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: xcript
Batman stole my packed lunch.

Bastard! I'll call the TMNT to retrieve it for you.

 

[dotcom173]

Congrats OP, it's been just about 2 months for me now as well.

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: dotcom173
Congrats OP, it's been just about 2 months for me now as well.

feel better?
i do!
congrats man!

 

[dotcom173]

Ya i do feel more energetic and overall happier. It took me a while to get past the 'fun' of stepping outside with my roommates and smoking multiple times a day. It also took a while to stop wanting to smoke everytime i drive. But im sure im passed that, even though i do agree than im not officially quit until about a year has passed. I don't have cravings at all, unless im drinking, but thats not too often.

Hope everything works out for you too, its for the best.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

IMO, they exaggerate how hard it is to quit. It was a cinch for me. Have never missed it for a second, have never for a millisecond wanted to light up.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Stop keeping track. Try to forget that you smoked, stop thinking about cigarettes.

The more you think about them, the more likely that you backslide.

Congrats, but put it behind you and move on.

This.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: spaceman
i was a heavy smoker for at least 12 years...smoked for 18.
this is times 4 that i am quitting
i know whats at stake
there is no going back.
it will be the end of me if i do..i just know it.
now i have to try and stop eating so much........since i quit i think ive put on at least 5lbs.
im such a fat bitch

exercise? chew gum instead of eating?

Yeah, obsess with fitness, exercise, the gym. It's a positive addiction and you'll dig it. The endorfins running through your blood after a workout are unbelievable. It's a perfect antidote to any problem. It's like heroin.

 

[Kyle]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

IMO, they exaggerate how hard it is to quit. It was a cinch for me. Have never missed it for a second, have never for a millisecond wanted to light up.

It's different for everyone...for *most* smokers, it's one of the hardest things they'll ever do...

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Kyle

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

IMO, they exaggerate how hard it is to quit. It was a cinch for me. Have never missed it for a second, have never for a millisecond wanted to light up.

It's different for everyone...for *most* smokers, it's one of the hardest things they'll ever do...

It was like the easiest thing I've ever done. But I didn't tell the whole story. I had met a girl and I never smoked in front of her. One day she asked me in a way that embarrassed me greatly if I smoked. I stopped cold. But even after we split up a year or two later, I didn't go back to tobacco. I missed her 10,000 times more than cigarettes.

 

[Psynaut]

After three months the cravings became very infrequent, although quite strong on the occasions that they did hit. It was a full year though before the cravings stopped completely. Since then I have never craved a cig for even one second (12-years now since I quit) and the smell of them is putrid to me.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: nobody554
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This is a pretty interesting picture about what happens to your body if you stopped smoking right now. I'm sure it's been posted before, but it applies here as well.

I never noticed any difference in sense of taste/smell.

Originally posted by: Quintox
Do you chew on straws? I heard some smokers do this to help stop the cravings

Cinnamon sticks are good too.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Stop keeping track. Try to forget that you smoked, stop thinking about cigarettes.

The more you think about them, the more likely that you backslide.

Congrats, but put it behind you and move on.

Good advice here. If you're still thinking about it then you haven't beaten your addiction.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Quintox
Do you chew on straws? I heard some smokers do this to help stop the cravings

I'm at like 7 or so months and I chew gum like a machine, probably go through 10 pieces a day. I buy a bunch of those eclipse 60 packs and keep them all over, in my car, at my desk, at home, helps a lot.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Now if you could just lay off the cocaine.

 

[bignateyk]

mmm sweet, sweet nicotine

 

[spaceman]

bumpdate

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

IMO, they exaggerate how hard it is to quit. It was a cinch for me. Have never missed it for a second, have never for a millisecond wanted to light up.

Don't be all stupidly puffed-up proud, Muse, it was the same for me, but apparently you and I are among the folks who are not physically addicted to nicotine.

Those that are face a withdrawal process that experts liken to withdrawal from heroin -- a far harder row to hoe.

Those of us who were merely psychologically addicted faced a challenge, not to be sneezed at for sure, but it wasn't in any way on the same level as the physiologically nicotine addicted.

I was amazed how easy the process was for me. I had smoked off and on since I was a kid trying to be cool at age 13, and regularly from my mid 20's through my mid 30's, then quit cold turkey, just didn't buy that next pack of Drum and that was that.

My biggest fear about back-sliding was during social situations involving alcohol, like parties and in bars, so I avoided those completely for a number of months and when I went back, it was scarcely a problem at all. I was relieved.

Now, I occasionally treat myself to a fine cigar -- maybe 6-8 times a year or so -- with zero fear about being sucked back in.

It's one of the dumbest habits going, imho. Congratualtions, OP. :thumbsup:

But, BEWARE!

I've had friends who quit for literally years and then got sucked back in. It does happen. If you are physiologically addicted, you have to treat that addiction like alcoholism, with zero tolerance.

 

[Barfo]

grats dude.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: spaceman
ill pat myself on the back
im done
go to hell!:evil:

IMO, they exaggerate how hard it is to quit. It was a cinch for me. Have never missed it for a second, have never for a millisecond wanted to light up.

Don't be all stupidly puffed-up proud, Muse, it was the same for me, but apparently you and I are among the folks who are not physically addicted to nicotine.

Those that are face a withdrawal process that experts liken to withdrawal from heroin -- a far harder row to hoe.

Those of us who were merely psychologically addicted faced a challenge, not to be sneezed at for sure, but it wasn't in any way on the same level as the physiologically nicotine addicted.

I was amazed how easy the process was for me. I had smoked off and on since I was a kid trying to be cool at age 13, and regularly from my mid 20's through my mid 30's, then quit cold turkey, just didn't buy that next pack of Drum and that was that.

My biggest fear about back-sliding was during social situations involving alcohol, like parties and in bars, so I avoided those completely for a number of months and when I went back, it was scarcely a problem at all. I was relieved.

Now, I occasionally treat myself to a fine cigar -- maybe 6-8 times a year or so -- with zero fear about being sucked back in.

It's one of the dumbest habits going, imho. Congratualtions, OP. :thumbsup:

But, BEWARE!

I've had friends who quit for literally years and then got sucked back in. It does happen. If you are physiologically addicted, you have to treat that addiction like alcoholism, with zero tolerance.

You know, I was saying the same thing to myself just the other day! I shouldn't poo poo all the info (hype? no, not necessarily hype, but I was lucky it was easy for me) about the difficulty of quitting smoking. However, I think there is something to the idea that thinking something is so may contribute to a belief that it is so. "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing," is a saying I believe in firmly

OP, and everyone else who may have any kind of issue with tobacco/quitting, etc.: I recommend seeing the movie I saw for the first time a couple of days ago, The Insider, featuring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. It's about exposing the tobacco industry and their cover up of the toxicity of their products. It's a dynamite movie (that came out in 1999) whether you have issues with tobacco or not (I don't).