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A pat on the back for me, one year ago today I stopped smoking.

Slacker

Slacker

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One year ago today I stopped smoking, I used the nicotine lozenges, for eleven and a half months, I just gave those up two weeks ago, so I am nicotine free for the first time in a very long time.

About the lozenges, they work very well, I just switched from smoking cigarettes to using the lozenge, it did not decrease my dependancy on nicotine, it actually made it worse because it was so easy to pop one anytime anyplace.
In the beginning I didnt care, I was going to do whatever it took to stop smoking, even if I had to use the lozenges for the rest of my life it would have been better than smoking.
When the one year mark approached, and it was near time to order another supply of lozenges ($30.00/box [72pc]about 1.5 week supply) and I started feeling foolish for "Needing" the damn things I broke the routine of one lozenge every three hours starting on the drive to work and went until 11:00 a.m. that day before I "Needed" one, then I was able to wait until around 4:00 p.m. for the next one and had no more the rest of the day. The next day I planned on waiting again but it became about how long could I go without, it turned out that that was the first day I went without them in almost a year.
It has been over two weeks now, for the first week I was an irritable ass, still am but not as much, I am certain that I am now done with nicotine, evil stuff :evil:
 
Congrats, I guess, but what ever moved you to start smoking? I'll NEVER understand that. I used to smoke pot several times per day for many, many years, but never cigarettes. WTF is the attraction? 😕
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
Congrats, I guess, but what ever moved you to start smoking? I'll NEVER understand that. I used to smoke pot several times per day for many, many years, but never cigarettes. WTF is the attraction? 😕
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Same could be said for pot from many.



Though not me 😛


Well I used to but quit that with my smoking cigs 😀
 
I quit smoking about 3 months ago. Since then I've had two days of being a smoker (three weeks ago), and a few "just this one" cigarettes when I was wasted. I haven't smoked since Saturday though.. I don't think I will ever go back to being a smoker, because when I do have one when I'm messed up I usually realize that the withdrawal I get the following days are the equivalent of a hangover.

Plus that sh!t is a waste of money. In my two months of being completely a non-smoker, I was buying fancy beer all the time for about $8 a sixpack. The only pack of cigs I bought (for those two days I mentioned earlier) since I quit, I had to get a six pack of Busch and it still ended up costing my over $10. Fsck that.. I'd rather have withdrawals and drink good beer.

So in a way, my alcoholism is responsible for me quitting smoking.
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
Congrats, I guess, but what ever moved you to start smoking? I'll NEVER understand that. I used to smoke pot several times per day for many, many years, but never cigarettes. WTF is the attraction? 😕
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At the very beginning, it was some of my older sisters friends who thought it was funny to give a smoke to a ten year old, somehow I developed a taste for it and then the Nicotine gets a hold on you, it is easier to keep smoking than deal with the unpleasantness of quitting, then years go by and it is downright impossible to deal until you have a smoke, by the time you finally figure out how fukked up the whole deal is(if you ever do) you quit, and hope its not too late...............


There were other factors too, like absentee parents, and small town life.......... and the fact that stores would sell smokes to a kid, if they questioned you then they were for mom/dad, or there was always the cigarette machines everywhere, $0.65/pack

 
Originally posted by: Slacker
Originally posted by: Ornery
Congrats, I guess, but what ever moved you to start smoking? I'll NEVER understand that. I used to smoke pot several times per day for many, many years, but never cigarettes. WTF is the attraction? 😕
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At the very beginning, it was some of my older sisters friends who thought it was funny to give a smoke to a ten year old, somehow I developed a taste for it and then the Nicotine gets a hold on you, it is easier to keep smoking than deal with the unpleasantness of quitting, then years go by and it is downright impossible to deal until you have a smoke, by the time you finally figure out how fukked up the whole deal is(if you ever do) you quit, and hope its not too late...............


There were other factors too, like absentee parents, and small town life..........
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I had a similar start. Kid on my block got me started smoking whatever we could find in the ashtray when I was in 4th grade or so. Granted I only did this for a few weeks or so, but although I thought smoking was the stupidest thing a person could do until I hit about 16, I always wished it wasn't bad for you so I could do it. I blame this craving on my earlier experience with nicotine.

Then I started smoking pot at 16 and was always hanging out with my best friend who smoked. One day I tried mushrooms at the beach and a kid I'd just met offered me a smoke. I jokingly said yes to get a rise out of my best friend who I always gave crap to for being a smoker, and when he said "You don't smoke," my messed-up self said "sure I do!" I smoked a couple more that day and then the thought came into my head to start doing it all the time. One thing led to another and I was a smoker.
 
...somehow I developed a taste for it...

That's pretty much the part I don't get. If pot were legal, I'd probably go right back to it, however my place of employment would give me the boot. I REALLY don't understand that either! WTF business is it of theirs, what I do after work?

Anyway, if pot were legal, I'd skip smoking it, and cook & eat it instead. I sure wasn't in love with what it did to my breathing!
 
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