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I Quit...
COLT
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...smoking April 1st...and have not looked back, doing good at it. Went thru 2, 70+ count bxs. of Commit Losenges though. The "I want one" has not been around for about a week...does it get harder?...or is this as bad as it gets?...[?]
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...smoking April 1st...and have not looked back, doing good at it. Went thru 2, 70+ count bxs. of Commit Losenges though. The "I want one" has not been around for about a week...does it get harder?...or is this as bad as it gets?...[?]
I feel like if I could make it 1 day, the rest would be downhill.
Yes at times it will be harder, but notice I said "at times"....the more time that goes by without your body having the nicotine, the less you want it...
In other words, the cravings will still come once in a while, but will pass in about 3 to 5 seconds....Then something really great happens....you learn just how much smoking does stink..
Keep it up, the cravings get less and less with each passing hour...
I hope you all the best.
Dipped since I was 15...a long time...smoked since I was 25-6...long time too. Thanks, I have not known anyone who quit, so I have know idea what lies ahead, so thought I would ask.
...really did not quit for health concerns, I just grew very, very tired of smoking...[;)]
My father quit smoking in my junior year of high school. He was almost never sick with ANYTHING since then, although while smoking he'd get a couple pretty good diseases every cold/flu season.
From what I recall, if you aren't a big fan of veggies you may want to start taking a B complex supplement. Dad had minor problems until the vitamins, apparently the nicotine is similar in structure to certain B vitamins and replaces them.
....We went yesterday to a smoking cessation clinic that uses a cold laser to stimulate the same areas as accupunture and accupressure. They worked the laser mostly on the ears and some on the thumbs, nose and wrist, for about 40 minutes. This is our umpteenth attempt, and the first day can be a killer. It hasn't been bad at all! My wife and I are gonna make it this time. We paid for a friend also, and she's having a hell of a time. Mindset I guess. I think she was expecting a magic cure with no cravings. Don't work that way. It's still up to the individual.
....Good luck, and stick with it. If I need a little moral support, I'll scream and claw my way through the monitor and......I mean..I'll tear the dog's head off...No, that's not right....I'll come here and ask for help and receive ridicule. Yea, that's it.
.....Or, I could blow something up. That always makes me feel better....[:)]
...that's funny,...but...
...well, I'm going to make it to...hang in there, I think the first week was the nicotine...and HABIT!...kept reaching in my pocket!
Hey, I was raised to think that as long as somrthing didn;t directly effect me and mine it was OK...so I still think everybody has got the right to smoke or not to smoke...without someone telling them to do or don't...good luck tap...and everybody else too...thanks all...[;)]
1. Nicotine is both physically and physcologilcally (sic) addicting.
2. When you quit, it takes 3 days for your body to stop craving the nicotine. (physical addiction)
3. After 3 days, it's all in your mind. Here's where you really play the mind games to quit.
4. When your fire up a cig, your heartrate speeds up, due to the nicotine. Thus the feeling of a pick-me-up. (excuse for smoking)
5. Twenty minutes after smoking a cig, your body feels down, starting the craving for another one.
A. If you smoke another one, the cycle continues.
B. If you DON'T smoke another one, the cycle continues.
5B. The cycle continues??? Right, it continues until the craving subsides.
So, 20 minutes after smoking a cig, you start wanting another one. If you smoke one, or not, 20 minutes later, you'll want another one!
Another 'mind-trick.' The after-dinner smoke. Replace that by getting away from the table and eating an after-dinner mint. It does the same thing... getting the taste of the food out of your mouth.
I carried a little box of Tic-Tac mints in the pocket I'd carried my cigs. Every time I reached for a cig, I got a mint instead.
Last week I attended the funeral of a lady friend, 57 years old. Her husband and I have been friends for 10 years. They'd been married for over 40 years, and his retirement date was to be April 1, after working for over 25 years as a cop, a forensic investigator.
On March 19, they learned she had lung cancer, which was also in her liver, and in her nasal cavity. It was so far advanced all they could do was to give her oxygen and morphine.
On April 23, she died. One month and a few days.
Stop Smoking friends!! The life you save is yours, and the tears of your loved ones!
Bloviator, you're doing good. One month, hell man, you got it beat, unless you get weak minded!
...I have moments, and thats just about all they are, moments, passed in seconds...I am (thank God) at the point that I don't wake up needing a "fix", or thinking about a cig. It does not bother me/make me want one to see someone else smoking, good thing!
KSU making note of vitamin B, I take a multi v. and vitamin C...ck out th B tomorrow, thanks ya'll. If I need support, or ridcule [:0]...I will ask, that don't sound quite right...[:D]
...just thought of a BIG advantage, no more cig getting in the way shouldering a long gun! come on dove, come on deer season...yeah buddy!...[:D]
Hell, I still like the smell of a cigar, pipe, or some cig smoke!
I don't miss the morning coughing just to get breathing.... or coughing during the day when I lit up.
Bloviator believe me, your 'moments' well get farther and farther apart! Stay on course, brother!
KSU making note of vitamin B, I take a multi v. and vitamin C...ck out th B tomorrow, thanks ya'll. If I need support, or ridcule [:0]...I will ask, that don't sound quite right...[:D]
multi-vitamins should do the trick, I found this online:
It is recommended that smokers look for supplements that contain
Vitamin A, Vitamins C, E, and B-complex (especially B12),
Beta-carotene, Folic acid and folates, Zinc, and Selenium.
so as long as the multi has those in sufficient quantities you are covered.
FYI: niacin (B3) is also called "nicotinic acid" and has a functional group similar to nicotine. I do not know enough biology to know which receptors in the body it shares with nicotine, unfortunately.
quote:Taking up a habit is easy enough, but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all with it.
Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do, I've done it a thousand times.
I quit in 1998 and took it up again a few months later. My problem was I convinced myself that "just one" now and then wouldn't hurt.
Stay off those dangable coffin nails. Please
Hang in there. [:D][:D]
I quit 14 yrs. ago & STILL find myself on occasion reaching in my pocket for a cig.
The habit truly never goes away, but you can beat it.
HANG IN THERE!
[^]barto[^]
Congrats...
Yes at times it will be harder, but notice I said "at times"....the more time that goes by without your body having the nicotine, the less you want it...
In other words, the cravings will still come once in a while, but will pass in about 3 to 5 seconds....Then something really great happens....you learn just how much smoking does stink..
Keep it up, the cravings get less and less with each passing hour...
BR has nailed it to a "T" ... pay attention, it takes time!
I smoked 1-2 packs a day for most of 33 years before I quit 10/21/2000
quote: Originally posted by barto
Bloviator-
I quit 14 yrs. ago & STILL find myself on occasion reaching in my pocket for a cig.
The habit truly never goes away, but you can beat it.
HANG IN THERE!
[^]barto[^]I do this once or twice a year ... usually when I'm sitting at a stop-light and someone in the car in front of me exhales a big plume of smoke ... I catch myself thinking "Oh that looks good" then I catch myself reaching and think ... "What the hell is this???"
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
(Group: Hi, third_shot!)
Anyhoo, I've been dipping Cope for about 25 years, and I'd love to quit. I did once for several years, but it only took one pinch to get me back in the saddle.
But here's a thought: 1 can of snuff per day (my rate) at $6 per can comes out to $2190 per year. How many $2000 guns out there do you crave? Just a thought...
Pete
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
DWS ..I cant tell if your an optimist or a pesimist.[:D]
" Anyone can quit smoking, It takes a real man to face Cancer!"
George Carlin
"I read somewhere that smoking is bad for you, so I quit reading"
WC Fields (I think).
Yeppers...when you quit smoking you will realize, almost by accident it seems, just how much time smoking took....bout 7-10 minutes per cig, now if you have 2 per hour, thats 20 minutes extra you will have now, just in one hour...
I know it doesnt seem like much, but it kind took me aback when I found my self sitting thinking I actually had NOTHING to do...I was finished for the day and it was only early afternoon...
You really have to experience it to understand I guess..
...2-4 an hour...[xx(] I have not noticed what seems like more time...but it makes sense...a LOT of time wasted fooling, fumbling with the "ritual"! Glad you and Classic stayed quit, I'm giving it my all, and doin great.
...I am going to start putting the money back...that would have gone toward smokes...2 cartons a week! [:0] almost $300 a month![:0]
...I love to cook, and eat...[:D] have know idea why I stay around 180, always have...have not gained a pound since I quit, don't seem to be eating more ...yet...[;)] thanks again everyone
Good for you! it is a tough habit to break!
I quit about 6 years ago, I still chew on straws/coffee stirs, I get the stirs at the dollar store. (500/$1)
Give it a couple months and you will get your "wind" back, and stop hacking in the AM, you will wonder why you ever started!
Don
resteraunt toothpicks work well too.
I wonder if it really hurts to smoke a cigar once or twice per week? I love those high end beauties.
A very good friend (dr I used to work with) of mine told me something, and it was...
When you are smoking, your lungs are working extra hard to get air, and the heart is working extra hard to pump what little oxygen its getting to all different parts of your body....
And it uses a LOT of fuel...
You quit smoking....WONDERFUL...
Bout 2 or 3 months later...
Your body realizes it doesnt have to work as hard to get that oxygen...your lungs arent working as hard, and your heart?....check your pulse...slowed right down hasnt it?...its not working as hard either...Nothing has to work as hard as it did when you smoked...now all the cells get oxygen, they can breathe without gasping...
And if you dont believe gasping is hard work, do it for a minute...see how you feel....then think of how your body felt...
Its not working as hard, so it doesnt need as much fuel to keep going does it?...but that hasnt registered with your brain yet...and BINGO, THE WEIGHT GAIN STARTS...
Those were his words....and he hit right on the money for time frame,...and one thing he mentioned a few months later?....its a bit*h to get off too...
So no weight gain yet?....just wait kiddo, just wait...*LOL