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Has anyone ever quit smoking.....

It took me a year and a half of trying before I was 100% smoke free. Just start phasing it out of your life at times you're used to it and your cravings will start to go away. I stopped smoking in the car first, then after meals. It's tough, so maybe get some of the gum for when it really gets to you. The shit's maddening.
 
aaron_everette said:
if so what was the easiest way for you?
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Too funny, I just wrote this out for someone else in a PM so here it is, Musclemom's patented cold turkey quit smoking approach. The keys are:
1. Cut back
2. 3 Stree Free Days.
3. Avoid triggers.
4. Detox and aversion.

I started smoking when I was 17. I was, within a week, up to a pack plus a day and smoked that until my first quit, when I was 27. I took to smoking like a duck to water, and was seriously addicted to nicotine. Nicotine calmed me down, killed my appetite and I REALLY liked smoking, which is why I rolled out of bed and lit one up ...

I quit the first time because I had double pneumonia (let me tell you, though, if I could have breathed I would have been smoking, because I tried). I was hospitalized for a week, and ended up quitting because I'd always sworn to myself if I was off them for a week, I'd stay off. Well, I managed to stay off three years.

Started smoking again when my first marriage was falling apart. Picked up a cigarette and within a week I was back up to a pack plus. Kept smoking for about three years that time. What got me to quit then was I couldn't lie on my left side to sleep anymore, I literally couldn't breath, and when I laid on my back I had this deep constant ache in the middle of my chest. Went cold turkey over a three day weekend.

Stayed quit THAT time until my mother died in 2004. I had picked them up for about six months before the ache in my chest and the pain when I laid on my left side started again. Quitting was a relief that time.

I've smoked twice since 2004. It's always the same, the aching in my chest starts sooner and sooner and I'm actually relieved to quit by the time I do. This year I'm not bothering (smoking) not worth it. I've had momentary flashes when I want one, then I think about how fucking much they cost and how rank they make your breath stink, and it's like, screw that shit. Fuck me if I'm paying Marlboro for the privelege of screwing up my health. Plus they give me splitting headaches.

Quitting's easy, there's a trick to it: You pick three days when you know you'll be relatively stress free (no visitors, not have to deal with family or friends, etc., no work). Take a couple of months if you need to prepare. Start paying attention to how many cigarettes a day you smoke now and start cutting back by one a day or every other day. Your goal is to be down to at least half the amount you normally smoke by your "quit weekend," if you're really hooked, you want to be under 10 a day by then.

Now, this whole time you've been preparing for quitting by saving your ashtray dumps into a BIG tightly lidded jar ... remember this.

If smoking calms you, get your doctor to write you a prescriptoin for a short acting tranquilizer, like valium or Xanax. If they won't, go get yourself a bottle of Kava or valerian or Happy Campers (I LOOOOOVE Happy Campers) at the health food store, but Xanax is the best, seriously.

Okay, the DAY before your quit weekend, plan to go to bed a pinch earlier than usual. Before you go to bed, remove ALL evidence of smoking. Have NO cigarettes in the house, (ideally, no way to buy smokes handy, either). Wash all astrays and hide them, along with all the matches and lighters. Take a shower, wash your hair, brush the hell out of your teeth. Start tomorrow off as a non smoker. Don't follow your normal morning routine. If you normally get up and have a cup of tea or something in a certain room with a smoke, drink your tea in bed or something. When you start jonesing for a cigarette, go find that lidded jar, unscrew the lid, take a deep whiff, gag, go have a glass of water, take a tranquilizer if you're due for one. Stay busy, but not stressed. The first 24 hours are the roughest, be nice to yourself, drink a lot of water avoid alcohol. If you made it three days, you've made it, seriously.

I've tried the nicotine replacement, I think cold turkey is much easier. You can't FORGET about the fucking things when you use the replacement.
 
musclemom said:
Too funny, I just wrote this out for someone else in a PM so here it is, Musclemom's patented cold turkey quit smoking approach. The keys are:
1. Cut back
2. 3 Stree Free Days.
3. Avoid triggers.
4. Detox and aversion.

I started smoking when I was 17. I was, within a week, up to a pack plus a day and smoked that until my first quit, when I was 27. I took to smoking like a duck to water, and was seriously addicted to nicotine. Nicotine calmed me down, killed my appetite and I REALLY liked smoking, which is why I rolled out of bed and lit one up ...

I quit the first time because I had double pneumonia (let me tell you, though, if I could have breathed I would have been smoking, because I tried). I was hospitalized for a week, and ended up quitting because I'd always sworn to myself if I was off them for a week, I'd stay off. Well, I managed to stay off three years.

Started smoking again when my first marriage was falling apart. Picked up a cigarette and within a week I was back up to a pack plus. Kept smoking for about three years that time. What got me to quit then was I couldn't lie on my left side to sleep anymore, I literally couldn't breath, and when I laid on my back I had this deep constant ache in the middle of my chest. Went cold turkey over a three day weekend.

Stayed quit THAT time until my mother died in 2004. I had picked them up for about six months before the ache in my chest and the pain when I laid on my left side started again. Quitting was a relief that time.

I've smoked twice since 2004. It's always the same, the aching in my chest starts sooner and sooner and I'm actually relieved to quit by the time I do. This year I'm not bothering (smoking) not worth it. I've had momentary flashes when I want one, then I think about how fucking much they cost and how rank they make your breath stink, and it's like, screw that shit. Fuck me if I'm paying Marlboro for the privelege of screwing up my health. Plus they give me splitting headaches.

Quitting's easy, there's a trick to it: You pick three days when you know you'll be relatively stress free (no visitors, not have to deal with family or friends, etc., no work). Take a couple of months if you need to prepare. Start paying attention to how many cigarettes a day you smoke now and start cutting back by one a day or every other day. Your goal is to be down to at least half the amount you normally smoke by your "quit weekend," if you're really hooked, you want to be under 10 a day by then.

Now, this whole time you've been preparing for quitting by saving your ashtray dumps into a BIG tightly lidded jar ... remember this.

If smoking calms you, get your doctor to write you a prescriptoin for a short acting tranquilizer, like valium or Xanax. If they won't, go get yourself a bottle of Kava or valerian or Happy Campers (I LOOOOOVE Happy Campers) at the health food store, but Xanax is the best, seriously.

Okay, the DAY before your quit weekend, plan to go to bed a pinch earlier than usual. Before you go to bed, remove ALL evidence of smoking. Have NO cigarettes in the house, (ideally, no way to buy smokes handy, either). Wash all astrays and hide them, along with all the matches and lighters. Take a shower, wash your hair, brush the hell out of your teeth. Start tomorrow off as a non smoker. Don't follow your normal morning routine. If you normally get up and have a cup of tea or something in a certain room with a smoke, drink your tea in bed or something. When you start jonesing for a cigarette, go find that lidded jar, unscrew the lid, take a deep whiff, gag, go have a glass of water, take a tranquilizer if you're due for one. Stay busy, but not stressed. The first 24 hours are the roughest, be nice to yourself, drink a lot of water avoid alcohol. If you made it three days, you've made it, seriously.

I've tried the nicotine replacement, I think cold turkey is much easier. You can't FORGET about the fucking things when you use the replacement.
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You really thought that one through. It doesnt sound very easy but I will go for it. Yeah im getting the same pains your talking about, so thats really what is wanting to make me quit. Thanks for all the info. k to ya
 
aaron_everette said:
You really thought that one through. It doesnt sound very easy but I will go for it. Yeah im getting the same pains your talking about, so thats really what is wanting to make me quit. Thanks for all the info. k to ya
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Check your K message :qt:

It's not so hard, thinking about it is harder, seriously. You plan for it, you prepare for it, you get stoked to do it, make it something you're looking forward to, in fact.

Trust me, fucking cigarettes don't have power over you unless YOU give them that power. You take your power back, you feel like a million bucks.

If you want to go cold turkey and want something else that "helps" Chantix is a relatively new drug that works best with people who are motivated, and want to go cold turkey. The thing is, you can't use Chantix in combination with nicotine replacement. Like I said, give me a shout if you want!
 
aaron_everette said:
everytime I get a craving I should just take out full sprint until I am about to pass out. Craving should pass by then.
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It's a scientific fact cravings for anything, food, booze, cigarettes, pass in about 10 minutes.
 
musclemom said:
Check your K message :qt:

It's not so hard, thinking about it is harder, seriously. You plan for it, you prepare for it, you get stoked to do it, make it something you're looking forward to, in fact.

Trust me, fucking cigarettes don't have power over you unless YOU give them that power. You take your power back, you feel like a million bucks.

If you want to go cold turkey and want something else that "helps" Chantix is a relatively new drug that works best with people who are motivated, and want to go cold turkey. The thing is, you can't use Chantix in combination with nicotine replacement. Like I said, give me a shout if you want!
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Where do I check my karma message?
 
aaron_everette said:
Where do I check my karma message?
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See the blue bar ^^^ up there? From left to right it reads Profile ... Platinum Games .... Blogs ... etc?

Click on Profile.

That takes you to a new page. That's the user control panel, you can do a lot of things there, so you should get familiar with that page, but if you scroll down and you'll see your Karma messages :qt:
 
aaron_everette said:
if so what was the easiest way for you?
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Chainsmoke yourself stupid in your room until everything around you is rancid, but finish the cigarettes even when you are completely disgusted. Then Febreeze your room and open the window, quitting cold turkey with that rancid smell still in your mind that you'll be reminded by every time you want to light up.
 
Cold Turkey PERIOD. If you really want to quit, you will do it. Mind over matter baby. Don't try to fool yourself into quiting if you aren't really ready for it.
 
aaron_everette said:
if so what was the easiest way for you?
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I quit smoking (*much to Bino and KBs' chagrin) on June 19, 2005. I used Wellbutrin and also the nicotine patch for 6 weeks. After that it was smooth sailing. And then I got really fat.


Good luck.
 
musclemom said:
Check your K message :qt:

It's not so hard, thinking about it is harder, seriously. You plan for it, you prepare for it, you get stoked to do it, make it something you're looking forward to, in fact.
Trust me, fucking cigarettes don't have power over you unless YOU give them that power. You take your power back, you feel like a million bucks.

If you want to go cold turkey and want something else that "helps" Chantix is a relatively new drug that works best with people who are motivated, and want to go cold turkey. The thing is, you can't use Chantix in combination with nicotine replacement. Like I said, give me a shout if you want!
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This is the key right here.
 
musclemom said:
It's a scientific fact cravings for anything, food, booze, cigarettes, pass in about 10 minutes.
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Absolutely true.
The cravings will come, but always know that within 10 mins, it will br gone again whether you smoke one or not. So you might as well not.
 
Cold Turkey is the only way to go. you have to want to quit, you have to want to quit, you have to want to quit, you have to want to quit, you have to want to quit, you have to want to quit.
 
why would you want to quit?

don't you know that smokers are on average 10x cooler than nonsmokers?



i've done week long breaks from smoking, and have managed, but i gave up quiting a while ago. not until i stop drinking/partying and cut back on my tree smokage am i going to be able quit seriously.
 
digimon7068 said:
i've quit chewing tobacco. . .about a hundred times. . .does that count??
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i tried to quit smoking by dipping skoal for a week instead.. LOL i think i wound up with a worse nicotine addiction after that.
 
redshirt27se said:
i tried to quit smoking by dipping skoal for a week instead.. LOL i think i wound up with a worse nicotine addiction after that.
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at this point in my life, i've contained it to the weekends. . .after i've had a couple of beers. . .i like to think of it as "nicotine management". . .i've never been a very good quitter :whatever:
 
aaron_everette said:
if so what was the easiest way for you?
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cold turkey

Work out like crazy.

Diet too to get the nicotine out of your stored fat.

Change you schedule around completely. Eat meals at different times, go for walks. Quitting smoking is all about changing habits.
 
i found it was best to cut back on the amount i smoked each day, trying to do cold turkey drove me insane.
 
No one likes a quitter!!!!!
 
i used to get crazy drunk and smoke random cigarettes with girls (good way to pick them up...also a good way for girls that dont like smokers to rule you out forever :( ), which was interesting - then one day i was having a convo with a friend about my propensity to pick up young chicks and generally not look like the old bastard that I really am, and i realised that...smoking gives you wrinkles :eek2:

...so i instaquit lol

"pffft! pffft! get this fuckin thing away from me! moisturiser! i need moisturiser! aaaaaa!!"
 
GoldenDelicious said:
i used to get crazy drunk and smoke random cigarettes with girls (good way to pick them up...also a good way for girls that dont like smokers to rule you out forever :( ), which was interesting - then one day i was having a convo with a friend about my propensity to pick up young chicks and generally not look like the old bastard that I really am, and i realised that...smoking gives you wrinkles :eek2:

...so i instaquit lol

"pffft! pffft! get this fuckin thing away from me! moisturiser! i need moisturiser! aaaaaa!!"
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funny shit.lol but atleast it worked for you.
 
aaron_everette said:
Had a great grandmother that would smoke while hooked up to an oxygen tank. Notice I said Had. LOL god bless her
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HOLY SHIT, my father did the same thing!!! Died of the emphysema, too, that he was on the oxygen for. He'd LITERALLY put a cigarette out and go on the oxygen or vice versa. No thought that he could blow up me, my mother, himself. He couldn't walk two steps without needing to sit down for five minutes in the end.

But he didn't stop smoking until a machine was breathing for him, permanently.
 
musclemom said:
HOLY SHIT, my father did the same thing!!! Died of the emphysema, too, that he was on the oxygen for. He'd LITERALLY put a cigarette out and go on the oxygen or vice versa. No thought that he could blow up me, my mother, himself. He couldn't walk two steps without needing to sit down for five minutes in the end.

But he didn't stop smoking until a machine was breathing for him, permanently.
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That's just crazy. But I guess they smoked that long and knew they didnt have much time left anyway, the really could give a shit less.
 
cigs are weak, its like smoking blanks. If you're going to smoke, smoke something that'll actually do something for you!!

anyway i smoked to the point of close addication, so I figured I'd stop by cutting my cigs from 3/4s of an inch down to 1/4 inch and just by doing one pack like that I ramped off no problem and no craving after.

If you cold turkey (like I've seen a lot of my friends) they wind up hoping back on because they weren't really ready for the quit... they just tried to impose it real fast.
Physical addiction of cigs lasts about 6-10 days then it's all mental (friends say they've dream pt about it 3 months after 'quitting')
 
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