Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

Docfeelgood · January 31, 2003, 14:51

Well Im on the wagon ,again.
Nicotine patches this time.
4 days now but the craving is still there.

Whata yall think about this?

I want to sue the tobbacco companies not for money but treatment to get off this addiction.

I am addicted and want to quit but because I am addicted the chances of me being smoke free are slim.

Oh man this sucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Damn Im eating everthing in site.

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!

where did my kid go?

ooops....I wonder if that funny taste was........Nah
He was standing by the bowel full of chips....

Gotta go

Doc

Lancer · January 31, 2003, 15:10

Good luck Doc

Never quit quiting. I tried the patch but it didn't work. Eventually I got the flu and a bad sore throat. That got me two days, and I stuck with it. In about 8 days it gets better. In 10 to 12 days you'll have periods when you'll forget you are quitting. Eventually these take over, and you are finished with the damn things, pretty much. I had wierd cravings months after, right out of the blue. They suck because its easy to start again, but don't.

Anyway, I did it, and you can too.

Provost Harrison · January 31, 2003, 15:23

Patience...it gets easier...actually it doesn't

Richelieu · January 31, 2003, 15:26

You can do it! And Lancer's comment is right on the money: Never quit quitting.
I've been smoke free for almost 3 years now (March 15) but i quit for an 18 months span and an 11 months span before that.
Both times i simply forgot that smoking even one cigarette is one too many. It's like alcoholism.

Docfeelgood · January 31, 2003, 16:29

Thanks guys for the support.

I think it is harder to quit smoking than it was to quit drinking.

BTW
I found my son in the back room.
Can't find the dog tho

Harovan · January 31, 2003, 16:39

I was a quite strong smoker (about 30/day), and I quit smoking Dec 22, 1999. I have been clean since then. I used patches only the first 2 days, then noticed, that they are more a placebo than a help, and did not use them anymore.

The first week was awful. The hell. My poor family and friends.

The next month was a bit better. I used sweets and chewing gum as placebo. Still I felt bad. It helped sometimes to smoke passive (although that is dangerous), but soon I noticed, that I'm betraying myself, and stopped to do it.

The next six months I gained 10 kg of weight. That wasn't a bad thing, because I had this amount underweight before. The bad thing is, that I gained another 10 kg the year after, and am now a bit overweighted.

And the absolute worst is, now, 3 years after, I am still dreaming, that I started to smoke again. Yes, I smoke in my dreams. It happens not often, only once or twice a month, but still. It's annoying.

Stay strong!

Nubclear · January 31, 2003, 16:42

My wife used to be a heavy smoker (32-day) however I asked her to quit, and....she did. We tried a technique where every time she took a cigarette, we had a very low voltage shock on her tongue....I know, it sounds barbaric, but it worked beautifully.

The first few months she was a very grumpy person but it got much better after that

Urban Ranger · February 1, 2003, 05:34

It helps if you have somebody hounding you to stop. It is even better if your whole family gangs up on you.

Maybe a photo of a tar-coated, diseased lung?

Evil Knevil · February 1, 2003, 07:48

Yes well, once its combined with your Gaba-b receptors long enough, its never out your system.

I've quit today, don't know how long it'll last for. My Boss got lung cancer, so thats sort of stirred me on.

Lancer · February 1, 2003, 07:59

Oh yeah, when I quit I took an aspirin and a vitamin C every couple of hours...helped.

Alexander's Horse · February 1, 2003, 09:49

Good luck Doc, hang in there!!!!!!!!

LaRusso · February 1, 2003, 10:36

cold turkey is the only answer

try jogging a bit, getting any kind of endorphine kick that might offset the craving. even if you cannot catch a breath

Bereta_Eder · February 1, 2003, 10:42

Quote:

Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

That's why I've never tried it

Zkribbler · February 1, 2003, 11:06

Doc, after my mom's heath broke because of her smoking, it took her five years to die...in ever increasing pain. For the last few years, the doctors let her have any pain killers she wanted in any dosage she wanted (less than lethal). Towards the end, that didn't even help.

So eat the family dog if you must, but get off those d@mn coffin nails!

PS: With the money you'll save on cigarettes, you can join Jenny Craig.

red_jon · February 1, 2003, 11:18

I quit every now and then, but I don't smoke very heavily anyway (it's actually more that I forget or get bored of smoking more than quitting).

JohnT · February 1, 2003, 12:14

Bush supporters have no problem quitting smoking.

In case you were wondering, or anything.

It was pretty easy for me to quit, using my simple, 3-step process:

1. Quit.
2. Wear the patch
3. Run a mile, twice a day. If you can't make a mile, run until you puke. Trust me, you won't want to have a cigarette after the first time you cough up, nay, lung-vomit a huge, black-speckled looge. You'll think "that was in my body" as you faint from horror.

To "wean" yourself off the patch (it can be an issue to some): Wear the same patch for consecutive days. Do not replace.

Urban's idea of pics of black, cancerous lungs is a good idea, one that I used too. Be sure to keep one in the car!

The Andy-Man · February 1, 2003, 12:37

Giving up smokings easy, I have done it 8 times now

Seriously though, good luck, and as some have said, after about 2 weeks it gets easier, much easier.

Zero · February 1, 2003, 14:50

I just switched roomate to a smoker to a non-smoker and went cold turkey. Even though he wouldnt have mattered, I just convinced myself that it would be extremly rude. It was hard but I wasnt probably as addicted to some of ther older people here whos been smoking more than 5 years.

Still, at my age, its really hard when virtually everyone around you smokes. Its not even the peer pressure crap, such thing does not exist.. but you're constantly reminded of good ol ciggies when they take one out.

monolith94 · February 1, 2003, 18:26

MAN reading this thread makes me glad I don't smoke!

cavebear · February 1, 2003, 18:31

Good luck to you, and I mean it. I've tried and failed several times. But I'll try again.

It's not the nicotine for me, it's the whole process. I eed the cig in my hands, the smoke through the nose, the sight of it, etc. I'm not addicted, I'm habituated, and that seems even stranger.

Zylka · February 1, 2003, 22:51

Trying to start smoking sucks pretty bad as well

Not like I am, but I've had a social cig or two with drinks a lot in the past few weeks, and it gets to a certain point where I'm sure I'll bark if I even LOOK at another cigarette. How the f*ck do you people put yourselves through this???

Bereta_Eder · February 2, 2003, 00:07

takes talent

Zero · February 2, 2003, 00:15

zylka do you snort your avatar or smoke em?

or inject..? eat? etc.

Willem · February 2, 2003, 01:12

I just started up again after quitting for six months, after watching my father die of lung failure. Once an addict, always an addict, remember that. Never, ever have so much as a single cigarette again. Before you know you could be right back to where you were before.

Alex · February 2, 2003, 11:12

I tried quitting twice. In my first try, I managed to quit for 3 weeks. My second attempt took me further: 6 months. I don't smoke that much, never more than 6-8 cigs/day. But, as they say, one is bad enough, so I'll try again.

The first cigarrette I smoked after 6 months scared the hell out of me... I could literally feel my veins tightening.

Zylka · February 2, 2003, 12:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Calc II
zylka do you snort your avatar or smoke em?

or inject..? eat? etc.

EVERYONE HERE WHO HAS SMOKED ROCK PUT YOUR HAND UP

*Waits*

Evil Knevil · February 2, 2003, 12:57

I've smoked a crack..

(ahem)

JohnT · February 2, 2003, 13:14

Zylka, did you get laid last night?

Zylka · February 2, 2003, 13:40

No, my friends picked me up but wouldn't drive me there. They took me to a sh*tty house party for 15 minutes instead, at which point we decided to leave for a game of pool at the local white-trashville bar

Grade-A loser here

Zero · February 2, 2003, 13:43

You already know the answer to the question dude, I said I only did it once...

Anyway, Look on the bright side, You know how tired it would be

-ing 4 girls over span of one night? Man, Im too lazy to go down one 1 girl, imagine how night-marish 4 would be.