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Number1
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I hope you have a plan to handle situations where you're going to be tempted. If you coudn't handle being around friend and not smoking even with the patch, I don't have much hope for you if you keep hanging out with them.
I quit 15 years ago and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. You need a plan to be succesfull.
Here are a few tips:
Avoid sittuations where people are going to be smoking for a while.
Replace activities associated with smoking with something else. Ie, if you have to have a cigarette with your coffee, discontinue coffee for a while.
Good luck.
I quit 15 years ago and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. You need a plan to be succesfull.
Here are a few tips:
Avoid sittuations where people are going to be smoking for a while.
Replace activities associated with smoking with something else. Ie, if you have to have a cigarette with your coffee, discontinue coffee for a while.
Good luck.
Well, you've definitely cut your life expectancy some 10 years, but it could have been 20 
Never too late I suppose.
Never too late I suppose.I've been smoke free for almost 2 years now. The most important thing is to get through that first week, just treat is like you have the flu or something. After that it is all downhill from there.
Mermaidman
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If you only consider pollution of the respiratory tract. Atherosclerosis, genetic damage and oxidation is not something that will be reversed with time. Oxygen absorbtion efficiency should be the least of your worries. A damaged brain would be higher up on my list.
my one friend just started to smoke last month. I dont get it. How does a rational person at the age of 21 pick up a pack of ciggs and think
"Yeah...this seems like a good idea. This is a good investment in my future"
"Yeah...this seems like a good idea. This is a good investment in my future"
Twofootputt
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I quit on St Patrick's Day in 1989.
I had been trying to quit for about two years because I was getting my a$$ thumped in the company basketball league. I quit 6-7 times & always started up again within a week. My (Now ex-) wife suggested I pray for help to quit smoking. So I said WTH, nothing else is working & said a quick "Please help me". It didn't work out exactly as I'd planned. The next day at work (Large coal-fired generating plant) I walked past a duct that was leaking & got a lungful of flue gas. I coughed so long & hard that I popped a humongous hemorrhoid out my butt. After the slice & dice surgery, I came to & waddled down the hall to the smoking room still all doped up on Demerol & lit up. When I coughed, it pulled on the stitches and was a literal pain in the a$$ to smoke. Once I got by the first week, I was good. It took 1-2 years and all of a sudden I started smelling smoke on other people and it finally smelled bad. Still, every once and a while, I'll smell someone's cigar or cigarette, and think that it smells good & I could just try one again. So watch what you pray for & good luck.
I quit on St Patrick's Day in 1989.
I had been trying to quit for about two years because I was getting my a$$ thumped in the company basketball league. I quit 6-7 times & always started up again within a week. My (Now ex-) wife suggested I pray for help to quit smoking. So I said WTH, nothing else is working & said a quick "Please help me". It didn't work out exactly as I'd planned. The next day at work (Large coal-fired generating plant) I walked past a duct that was leaking & got a lungful of flue gas. I coughed so long & hard that I popped a humongous hemorrhoid out my butt. After the slice & dice surgery, I came to & waddled down the hall to the smoking room still all doped up on Demerol & lit up. When I coughed, it pulled on the stitches and was a literal pain in the a$$ to smoke. Once I got by the first week, I was good. It took 1-2 years and all of a sudden I started smelling smoke on other people and it finally smelled bad. Still, every once and a while, I'll smell someone's cigar or cigarette, and think that it smells good & I could just try one again. So watch what you pray for & good luck.
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Yeah my plan is to be a dick and walk away when they light up. The further I go without one the more they stink.
BTW I haven't used the patch in three days. I gave up on the patches after I relapsed that one cigarette. So right now it's been something like 2 days, and like 3 hours since I've had any nicotine at all. I gotta run now. Really, the old lady is wanting me to go running with her. Thanks for all the 'grats.
BTW I haven't used the patch in three days. I gave up on the patches after I relapsed that one cigarette. So right now it's been something like 2 days, and like 3 hours since I've had any nicotine at all. I gotta run now. Really, the old lady is wanting me to go running with her. Thanks for all the 'grats.
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I wish I knew the answer to that question. I was about fifteen when I made that decision.
Update Just had coffee with the guys, and took a pack of Twizzlers with me. Everytime I found myself looking at their cigarettes longingly, I slowing nibbled on my Twizzler.
MrPickins
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That was the reason a friend of mine is trying to quit smoking.
But the local Walgreens has raised the price on the nicotine gum as well. :|
Keep it up! It takes time but it gets easier.
I started chewing a ton of sugar free gum. Helped with the oral fixation...
Schadenfroh
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