Sss: I'm Quiting

[cheapchinese]

I'm quiting smoking, F#@K its killing me, damn commercials, damn tv, damn magzines, damn movies, their all trying to get me smoking again....

really, wth am i doing this for????!!!?!!? DAMN THE PROMISES I MADE TO MYSELF!!!

I made a promise to myself to quit, before I transfer. Now I got accepted, I really want to go to my new campus, with a healthier me.... but...FREAK!!! This feeling i have is F..K up!!

I just can't stop seeing the temptation....its like I only noticed the people smoking on campus...I want to bum one from them....

God damn it, I hate diets and quiting...Why the hell did I choose to do both at the same time?

HELP HELP HELP :throw: :censored:

[brain]

Quiting always sucks. Sometimes more than quitting.

[cheapie]

:lmfao:



don't watch high fidelity. for some reason that movie always makes me want to light one up.

[le_stick]

I'm quiting smoking, F#@K its killing me, damn commercials, damn tv, damn magzines, damn movies, their all trying to get me smoking again....

really, wth am i doing this for????!!!?!!? DAMN THE PROMISES I MADE TO MYSELF!!!

I made a promise to myself to quit, before I transfer. Now I got accepted, I really want to go to my new campus, with a healthier me.... but...FREAK!!! This feeling i have is F..K up!!

I just can't stop seeing the temptation....its like I only noticed the people smoking on campus...I want to bum one from them....

God damn it, I hate diets and quiting...Why the hell did I choose to do both at the same time?

HELP HELP HELP :throw: :censored:

Take it easy mang.....or you will have stress on top of all of your others....
take a deep breath then take another deep breath and so on.....
otherwise, you will probably die from stress related than from smoking....imho

[Cantacuzene]

Get addicted to something else that is less damaging.

[sizemic1]

I don't smoke..but from what i've heard..as with most things..if you can make it past the 3rd day, the worst is over.

On a side note, i'm not a smoker nazi, but seriously...for the people who smoke regularly, do you have any idea that you smell like an ashtray? I mean, I can tell when a smoker has been in an elevator because their stench lingers on for an hour or so.

I commend you on trying to kick the habit. I'm not sure dieting and quitting smoking at the same time was the wisest move though :P I've heard people who quit smoking tend to eat more/gain weight.

[cheapchinese]

i was hoping exercising would help ease my addiction to smoking, but somehow everytime i finish running i want to take a hit.

I wish i can stop stressing, but... its not even that easy to just not thinking about it. I'm trying to stay in the computer lab today, because smoking is prohibited in building. Hopefully by my next class, I don't see any friends who smoke, or... I'm really thinking about having one....:argh:
Chewing gum don't seem to work......
Damn patch.. start kicking in please :2far:

[Jane83]

why quit smoking?
you know it makes you look cool.
haha yea...i need to quit too, but not yet.
not just yet....but sooon

[gear02]

Have you tried using those patches and gum? They might help.

I thinking dropping it all at once is very, very hard. A guy who I knew tried that and was confident he could stop. I think he tried it a few times and he still smokes :P

[Paymaster]

I feel for you mang. I can't even kick my simple caffiene habit. My wife and I made a vow to stop buying sodas at the store, but where I work there are coffee bars and vending machines all around...

[cheapchinese]

Have you tried using those patches and gum? They might help.

I thinking dropping it all at once is very, very hard. A guy who I knew tried that and was confident he could stop. I think he tried it a few times and he still smokes :P

I'm looking @ the patch, but not feeling it
Is it okay if I put two on? I'm chewing Nicorette, but thinking cigarette. Maybe i just have a weak mind then

[gear02]

I'm looking @ the patch, but not feeling it
Is it okay if I put two on? I'm chewing Nicorette, but thinking cigarette. Maybe i just have a weak mind then

I don't think you'll feel it, but that doesn't mean it's not working...

just don't do the Krusty the Clown thing when he went to patches...

(if you're not a simpsons fan or don't remember the reference, he put patches on every single inch of his body...then asked Sideshow Mel to put a patch on his ass since it was the last place left on his body) :)

[chrissy]

I stopped. I stopped when I was pregnant with Audie, and again with Mikey. And again with Patrick.

Now, before you go and say that I didn't stop, I just took a break, I did completely stop. I would start again at work. When I went back to work, I got board during breaks and a lot of time, I socialized with smokers. And soon, I started back again regularly. But with me, I really only smoked at work. I didn't have time to smoke at home and I didn't like the smell at home.

But since Patrick, I have had one. It left a very bad dirty ashtray taste in my mouth (no, I don't know what an ashtray tastes like) and I haven't had one since. No desire, no craving nothing.


Now, my dad on the other hand is quitting after YEARS of smoking (he's in his 50's and has been smoking since he reached double digits) and he is having sometype of electric shock on his earlobe?? I dunno. But people are swearing by it back in STL apparently.

[ialsohaveadream]

Get addicted to something else that is less damaging.
Since he said exercising didn't work, I'd try masturbation.

[cheapchinese]

Now for some god damn reason, I feel very cold, and shaking
Hopefully this won't be an issue during english class in 20 mins

[gear02]

Now, my dad on the other hand is quitting after YEARS of smoking (he's in his 50's and has been smoking since he reached double digits)

He started smoking since he was 10?

[InfiniteNothing]

No... double hexidecimal digits :rolleyes:

;) just messin with ya

[chrissy]

He started smoking since he was 10?

Yep.

[LPMiller]

I don't smoke..but from what i've heard..as with most things..if you can make it past the 3rd day, the worst is over.

That's a damn lie! Took about 2 weeks for me not to be in a state of emotional upheavel.


On a side note, i'm not a smoker nazi, but seriously...for the people who smoke regularly, do you have any idea that you smell like an ashtray? I mean, I can tell when a smoker has been in an elevator because their stench lingers on for an hour or so.

No, all smokers believe they smell like roses, and fart stetson cologne.

[Showtime]

why quit smoking?
you know it makes you look cool.


You are a cruel um I mean cool. :)

I quit a long time ago. I had the worst time figuring out what to do with my mouth and hands. ;) Chewing gum and grab a squeeze toy or something. I carried around a 9mm and and that helped with my fidgeting. J/k.
I mostly craved it while driving home in L.A. traffic, at work, at clubs, hanging out with friends, after and stuff. So I stopped going to clubs and gave up driving (kiddin). I had to stay away from some of my smoking friends and skip poker nights and it sucked. Getting a drunk was also a very bad idea during the quit. Now Im cool. I still miss it in certain situations but I feel a whole lot better for doing it.

GL!

-j

[ufcrusher]

I quit smoking back in 1999 (I think, maybe 98) when I had my widsom teeth out. My doctor had told me that I couldnt smoke for a certain amount of time after the surgery and I was so out of it on drugs that when my mom told me that I wasnt allowed to smoke for two weeks after the surgery, I didnt question it. (I found out after the fact that I could have had a cig after 3 days! - Damn my mother, who to this day is still a smoker!)

Obviously in my instance, I did it cold turkey, which if you ask me is the best way to do it. I had tried a nicotene gum once and hated it worse than anything else. The patch never appealed to me.

I would just focus on something else and ignore your desire for a smoke. Try you hand at cooking, eat some carrots/celery (anything long and thin), avoid stress and any other things whereby you used to smoke.

Either way, good luck with quitting. Just think......in a while you too will hate going to places that allow smoking.

[whitak24]

good luck with quitting, man. it's a good choice.

although i must say that the stress in my life makes me want to start smoking. then i see $7 per pack for cigs and decide i can do without that :2far:

you might want to not diet and quit smoking at the same time. even though it's not the greatest idea, if you can use some food to take away some of the cravings, it may make it easier. but if you're denying your body everything it wants, it seems like it may make you just want to go overboard and get everything back.

[Kim]

Good luck, and stay strong!

[Hypnotist]

Quiting, Quilting, Quitting... it's all the same... Nerve-Racking as H-E-CROCK!!


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[speedracer120]

Quitting sucks. The first time, when I "quit" with the help of Wellbutrin SR, for the first few weeks I had the shakes when I started fiending. I kept my mouth occupied with gum and hands occupied with StarCraft. A major component of addiction is mental more than physical. Once you quit stay the hell away from smoker friends. Though they say they'll help you quit, when you stick around while they smoke something snaps and you'll eventually smoke just as much. Cold turkey is probably be the best way to stay quit, it'll help you stay off the smokes and build your will power against them. Having said that I've been cold turkey for the last month and hoping it holds.

[usedillusion]

shouldnt this be NSS, as in not so stinky?

sorry :P good luck. it'll be hard but well worth it.

[PiPhiAngel]

quitting sucks.

i used to be a coffee addict (3-4 cups a day, everyday) and quitting was one of the worst feelings ever. your body goes through terrible withdrawls and the first week or so is the worst. i remember walking on campus and feeling like everything and everyone was moving in slow motion. strange.

as for smoking, i've had friends that have used the patch and it has helped quite a bit. also, i was told that its better to have something else in replacement of the addiction. for me, they were cold hansen's fruit sodas. maybe chewing gum might help a little? just a suggestion.

[kimchicowboy]

for my friends, stopping cold turkey was the only way. GL dude. :)

[cheapchinese]

....... argh!!!!
this is so freaken killing me !!!
man.... I gave up on the Dieting dual plan.... cause.. seriously.. its hard not thinking of cigarettes when i was reading my textbook today. The shaking was not like the ones you see in the movies, but its just shivers because it was really that cold in LA today, and i thought it was my withdraws.....I'm cleaning my room for no apparent reason, it started as I was searching for one more pack... then it turned out that I started to box away all the lighters and ashtrays I have lying around the house.

God, quiting is the worse crap I have ever needed to deal with. I somehow crave munchies... like bunch of ems too, I went to Albertson, and loaded the carts with sweet, salty, nacho munchies......Now the battle begins. I should have picked a weekend. Quiting during school nights.. is almost impossible to bear. Imagine me going to the Prof. "hey i didn't do the homework, because i'm trying to quit."

/head bang on wall/ kill me !!!! please

[cheapie]

anybody had to quit chewing? is it the same? and does it hurt your lungs? my neighbor chews all of the time and i wonder...

[Jihforce]

Peter Jennings has lung cancer, and was an ex-smoker. Now if that doesn't make you quit, i don't know what will. Good luck tho. I hope it works out. When i was in the hospital last year with a collapsed lung, they put in in the cancer ward (they ran out of space to put me) and I have to tell you, having to be in a hospital for more than a few days, its HELL! The sad part was that eveyone on that floor has been there for months. I got a chance to speak with a nurse about people with lung cancer. She tells me that she extracts about 2 liters of fluid in their lungs A DAY! Anyway, its no fun having a chest tube stuck in your ribs, the pain is excrutiating.
Anyway, hope this is reason enough to quit :)

[cheapchinese]

convincing enough

i'm killing my urge today, by entering in that treo givaway. Unlimited entry, I've entered during the duration of my break. Hopefully I win one

[Showtime]

Good work mang! :thumbup:

-j

[RIVERWIDOW]

....... argh!!!!
this is so freaken killing me !!!
man.... I gave up on the Dieting dual plan.... cause.. seriously.. its hard not thinking of cigarettes when i was reading my textbook today. The shaking was not like the ones you see in the movies, but its just shivers because it was really that cold in LA today, and i thought it was my withdraws.....I'm cleaning my room for no apparent reason, it started as I was searching for one more pack... then it turned out that I started to box away all the lighters and ashtrays I have lying around the house.i'm trying to quit."/head bang on wall/ kill me !!!! please

So it has been 11 days .How goes the quitting ? Have you been able to stick with it ? I hope so but if not try again. It will be worth it in the end. And look at all the money you can save to spend on important stuff.....like booze! :cheers:

[wung]

why does everyone call you mang? when i read the first mang, i thought it was a typo, but now, it looks like there's something i don't know ...

anyways, i've never smoked until last year when i took my first inhale ... i coughed like they do in movies ... i didn't find it enjoyable at all and never took another smoke. so when you had your first cigarette, was it peer pressure or did you really enjoyed it?