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Did you ever try to Quit Smoking?

ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Everyone knows it puts'em in the grave sooner and all, but damb! I'm glad it's not freak'in narcotics! Just sit'in here crawl'in the walls. I went to the Dr. they gave me Nicorette gum, then the patch, now the pill, just to get off the damb gum and patch.This sounds like a joke, I know, I'm serious. I wonder what addictive substances really are in them anyway. Day 18

Shoot straight!
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    I used to smoke two packs a day about 3 months ago. Now I smoke on weekends only, about a half a pack a week now. The trick for me was to get addicted to this site because I cant smoke in the house.(lol)
    Seriously though I have to say good luck because it sucks to quit.



    "After I quit smoking I got run over by a bus"

    "Respect my authority"
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Amen, Brother!! Although it greatly benifits me to quit it still is difficult, Shoot I've been at it 19 years. Do you know if Ruger mini 14/30 stocks are interchangable? Thank's for the support!! The best of luck to you also!!!

    Shoot straight!
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    There's a comercial on the radio about a method or product to get you to quit and it's garranteed or your money back. If I hear of it again- I'll get the info.
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you Daddo, sure don't wish this self inflicted misery on fellow countryman!

    Shoot straight!
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    I dont know if the ruger mini 14/30 stocks are inter changeable, let me check some lit. really quick...no I dont know, sorry.

    I been smokin for 14 years too many!



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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    I quit 14 years ago after smoking for 15 one to two packs a day used nicorette gum . then switched to wrigleys after 50 bucks worth of nicorette, quit wrigleys after pulling off a 400 dollar crown, Took me about 6 months to get over craving, and now I cant stand the smell of it and really dont like working in close quarters with someone who smokes. I never looked back either, doc says you can get all of your lung capacity back if you havent damaged your little thingamabobs in there kinda like emphezema sp?

    "Respect your Tools"
    "Freedom is not Free"
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I smoked for 16 years. When I quit 2 years ago I was at about 1 1/2 packs/day of Camel Filters. At the peak, I was smoking 3 packs/day. After several failed attempts at cold turkey, I used the patch -- and I used each step longer than the instructions stated -- and I kept a lot of Altoids mints on hand. My buddies joked around that while I might not die from lung cancer, I'd probably become a diabetic. It was very difficult -- and even now I still get cravings for them, sometimes even dream about them.

    Speaking of dreams, are the pills giving you any wicked nightmares? I've had several friends that said they had to quit taking 'em because they were having nightmares that were more gruesome than most horror flicks.....

    They say nicotine is harder to kick than heroin. I believe 'em.

    Good luck. You can do it!

    DarkStar11
    "...But Mona Lisa musta had the highway bluesYou can tell by the way she smiles..."


    Edited by - DarkStar11 on 05/23/2002 22:47:17
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No bad dreams here, I don't sleep any more on the account of my 2mo old twins. Now I know why there is ranger school! These two know no mercy. Ahoooa

    Shoot straight!
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    There is a treatment here in FL. guaranteed to work. Its available at the VA hospitals and in a drs office in Tampa. You go to the drs in late afternoon, given a mild sedative, and after it takes effect, you are given 2 shots, one in each of the carotid arteries. You are also given a shot in the arm. You are then told to go home and get a good nights sleep. You wake up in the mornings with NO cravings, and you wont crave them again.
    What the injections do is block the receptors in the brain, hence no cravings. A good friend of ours had the treatment after smoking for 30 years, no cravings, no withdrawl, and no weight gain.
    It is expensive, costs 400 bucks, but most insurance companies are now picking up at least part of the tab. Two other friends also took the treatment and no longer smoke.
    Check with the VA hospitals in your area.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    For some reason, smoking is just about the only bad habit I never developed. Drinking, recreational drugs, fighting and general raising hell, chasing women, driving too fast, no respect for my elders, swearing, spitting, lying, cheating, stealing, causing trouble in school...

    I did all that stuff in my life but never even smoked one nasty cigarette. What the hell's wrong with me?

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    6 days on the patch and chewing a hell of alot of gum. i think all the gum's going to rot my teeth out. i can get dentures, but not a lung.....
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nicorette has no sugar,it may pull out fillings and crowns though!It's really just roofing tar! It's chewy ain't it. I'm chomping up a storm as we type!

    Shoot straight!
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    I've tried that nicorette before and couldnt stand the taste. It was almost as bad as smokes!


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  • RancheroPaulRancheroPaul Member Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider, could it have been you were too busy with those other things and didn't have time to stop and buy some at the 7-11?

    Four times in my life at various stages and times, I quit smoking. Three times, I simply quit.....no BS, No anything except I quit! Not hard at all. Couple days, it seems, and all was well. Stayed off the things for various lengths of time, none of which was less that 1 1/2 years between starting again.

    What did I restart? Well, I am one of those unfortunate people who actually liked the taste. What? Yep! I really did!

    The last time I quit, I did the same thing.....simply said that's it, I quit, and threw them away. This was just like each of the prior times, never thinking it would be any different. But, it was different! This was Fall, 1996. I, along with most other folks, had no idea the Tobacco companies had been adding additional nicotine, and other chemicals to cigarettes to "hook" smokers even more! These chemicals worked. It was the hardest thing I ever did.....quiting smoking this last time developed into a very serious thing for me that lasted way too long! Patches were finally bought, strongest ones and then cut in half and the half used only after every other mental and physical trick had been exhausted. I even thought about chewing one of those patches. A two week supply lasted me 5 weeks because I knew I could "will" this away just like the last three times I quit. I finally did get over all this but it was not until over a year later that I didn't want a cigarette at least once every day. Two years later, the cravings still came about once or twice a month but only lasted a few minutes. This was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, bar none! Occassionally, I still get a craving, almost six years later. I won't go back ever again. Now, being around the smell causes my to get an upset stomach. Besides, if I ever started again, I know I would die smoking as I could never again go through "Quitting" again! The tobacco companies really add something bad to these things.......I know I am not big enough to ever be able to quit again......so I will never start again, no matter what!

    All I will say is, hang in there. You will get it done but it won't be fun. You can try anything and everything you think works, or might work, but the real only advice I know of is this: Take it one minute at a time until you can take it two minutes, then three, and so on. The only thing that really works is your own willpower! You will triumph if you really want to......Good Luck!

    If You Can't Buy a Pair, Get a Spare!
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Classic095 I go to James Haley in Tampa. They offer free classes, Rx for Gum,Patch,Zyban. The VA at this time doesn't do the shot as of yet. I stoped for 5 months 1.5 years back,I was sit'in at the hunt camp,the fire a blaze, after a poor days hunt hangin with my buds,drunk as a goat and what I looked for next was that damb smoke. The Doc says most smokers make two serious attempts before they will win the fight. Thanks for the + imput. Later all Remember to.................................................

    Shoot straight!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup I tried, didn't work. Hang in there and best of luck to you.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • davem3davem3 Member Posts: 75 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    After smoking for 40 years I quit by using Zyban, took about a month but whatever it does- it did and I just quit one day, Been 3 years now and when I really get the urge to get a gun I tell myself that the money saved by not buying cigs. is really paying for it so I shouldn't feel bad.True story where smoking saved a man's life ~ When the Amtrak train went off bridge & into Alabama swamp, man went to smoking car & car he left was the one that went under water and passengers died. Odds are still better to quit and at the prices for cigs. now, would be like a raise in pay.

    davem3
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Davem3 This is better than liveing longer and all that health crap, you really hitt something, heck thats two thousand easy! Dude! My wife will hate you. This is truely inspiring. Thanks This will get me the M1A $1050 I've been after,hmm 950 to go. Mini 14, M1 carbine,well we will see how this works. Now this is motivation!!!!!!!

    Shoot straight!
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just quit no trying to it i smoked for 15 years and got sick of them woke up one morning and said i quit...No crying nothing all in your mind...Even if you take pills,patches, gum,...YOU STILL HAVE TO WANNA QUIT
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Harleeman You are correct, I've made up my mind, however, everyone has a way of dealing with things differently. You've got to cry/whine about somthing,other than.women-bills-fixed income-bombs-terrorist's-judge judy-lion's-tiger's-and judge judy again,I hate her! Thank's for the support,I would like to be a cold turkey kind of guy,I'm not.

    Shoot straight!
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never tried to quit. I love every puff. When I don't like it anymore, I'll quit. But I won't hold my breath! :)
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  • old single shotsold single shots Member Posts: 3,594
    edited November -1
    "Quitting smoking is easy-I've done it hundreds of times" Mark Twain,I believe.
    I think he was right.I have also quit many times.For about an hour.
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  • Old hickoryOld hickory Member Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    After school last night, I visited a friend who's 66 and has lung cancer. He's still smoking and has 30 days to live. Then I went home and smoked a good cigar. According to the book, Tobacco 2001, it's hardest to quit cigarettes because the nicotein goes almost instantly to the bood stream so the gratification is quick. Cigars and pipes take up to 20 minutes to be absorbed so there isn't the instant pick me up from them so those people can quit a little easier. To sum up I'd switch to cigars - even good ones are cheaper than $3.50 a pack Marlboros. Also, if you can quit, you'll save enough in 3 months to buy a Glock!!
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  • ProkoteProkote Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now here again I hear good solid words. Amen brother.However when I stopped before at 4mo I picked up the cigars and that got me back on the tobacco monkey.There's never a bad time for a good smoke,I'll just have to find something else to toke on.Maybe I run up to Gainseville? Ahooooa

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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Smoked for over forty years and tried every thing that came on the market to quit. Nothing worked. Had severe pains running down my arm, went to doctor, doctor sent me to hospital, they ran tests, had a triple bypass. That did the trick! Fear my friend, fear will do it! I quit cold two and a half years ago and gained 36 pounds. I have a tape of my operation and if you could see it I think you would quit. Go to your local hospital and ask for a copy of such a tape. Good luck
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  • jager22jager22 Member Posts: 197 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    no money left to buy smokes after buying guns
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    All this talk of smokes is making me crave one... Be back later.



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  • mousemouse Member Posts: 3,624
    edited November -1
    Hi, ex-smoker here. I quit after viewing my first autopsy, then few years later started again. Finally was able to manage to stop completely 13 yrs. ago. Cold turkey, the day I found out I was pregnant with my son. Look at your two twins for motivation, you want to be there for there wedding and your grand kids?

    For some physical help; here are some substances to help you detox.

    Drink lots of water, 10-12 glasses a day.

    Drink lemonade, fresh stuff if you can, just squeeze the juice out and add a bit of sugar or honey, water to taste.

    If you like raw onions eat em, they contain anti-oxidants, and will protect from free radicals. Nicotine in cigs increase your heart rate, blood pressure, and effect the amount of oxygen available to your heart and tissues. (because of your bloods ability being reduced carrying oxygen from the 'Carbon Monoxide in the cigarettes)

    Buy some vitamin C and Beta Carotene tabs and eat em daily. Beta Carotene protects against free radical damage.

    It will help if you stay away from caffeine awhile. Some herb teas that will relax you are camomille, and sleepy time by celestial seasons.

    Keep a bowl of almonds, around to munch on. Low in fat, good for you.

    Get some cinnamin tooth picks to chew on when you feel like reaching for a smoke. Or a big bag of licorice.

    You can make your own toothpicks with cinnamin sticks, and soak the ragular inthe hot water.

    I sincerely wish you the best inthis trial. :Its not easy. Hang in there. Hope this is a help to you.

    Lucky guy to have twins.
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  • WodanWodan Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Damn good topic........how did you guys know I was trying to quit right now. I have a best friend whos wife is a doc. She gave me zanex (sp)? with the patch, it seems to help. Just hope I dont get hooked on the pills.

    I shalt punish thy bodies, because the more thou sweateth in training; the least thou bleedeth in combat
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  • Mr. LoboMr. Lobo Member Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have quit what seems like a 1000 times the last time 18 weeks ago. So far so good. I tried everthing and last time I just said NO MORE! I carried a cig in my truck and a pack at home for about 4 weeks and then disposed of them. I have had 4 cigs durring that time, usually after too many beers with my smoking buddies, with no desire to buy a pack and start the old habit all over again. Good luck...Like previous posts said you really have to want to quick. I think that I will always like them and want to have just one more.

    Jim
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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10 long days and counting......the urge has been strong the past 2 days, but i think i'm going to make it....
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,622 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My buddy was a nicotine hog. He was 35 yrs old, and was smoking 2 packs a day. Then a guy came to town who did hypnosis. He did a session in an auditorium, maybe 100 people in attendance. Then he gave everyone a tape to play at home to reinforce the session. My buddy quit smoking, I think cold turkey. It worked great.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ok fellas, i slipped and had 1 last thursday but thats the only one in 13 days and used to smoke 2-3 packs aday so i figure that isnt to bad. treedawg hang in there buddy.
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