I quit smoking. I want to KILL KILL KILL!!!

[Cajundude 0]

Where's the kittens? It's been a little over 24 hrs. since my last smoke and it wasn't bad at first but now it is getting worst. I've found something new to help kick away the motions and cravings. I keep a copy of the below pic folded up in my pocket and look at it everytime I want a smoke and it seems to work pretty damn good! If you smoked before and quit how did you do it? I'm going cold turkey.

Men: Stop Smoking!

[soilman 0]

I smoked fairly heavily from age 14 to age 21 or so. I don't really know how I managed to stop, other than that I was getting coughs and headaches after smoking and I was able to make a connection between them and the act of smoking. I guess I tied in to the negative reinforcement provided by the headaches. If you can smoke with no discernible punity, stopping may be more difficult.

Basicly I don't really know what to tell you other than that it is possible and I did it. I know that isn't much help.

I didn't go cold turkey though. I gradually reduced my daily consumption.

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[adamjenner 0]

we're all on the same boat.
I've quit 6 times now many people may be like "why don't you just quit" most of them non smokers. I know what you're going through. it's a hard fuckin' thing to boot.
I too am trying the cold turkey. i just figure as long as i don't buy any and go a week without them i'll start feeling better. so far i'm just stressed and very cranky.

well good luck

[peregrinerose 0]

I hope that Skydivingchad posts, but he basically quit because I told him to. Cold turkey. I don't think he's had any in about a year now. He was cranky for a while, so I distracted him with sex. Lots of sex. In fact, we are still using that method

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

[diablopilot 2]

Cold turkey man. It's THE way to go. The first 3 days are hell. distract yourself. Don't get drunk. Don't go places that will make you weak (you know places that sell cigaretts.

The next couple of weeks get easier as you can look back and say "look at the time I've invested in this".

After that be careful not to get lured back in for a few months. It's tricky. You'll get a weird random craving out of nowhere. Resist.

Good luck man. It's a hell of a good feeling of accomplishment.

(From an ex 6 year 2.5 pack per day smoker, smoke free since 97')

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[Cajundude 0]

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Cold turkey man. It's THE way to go. The first 3 days are hell. distract yourself. Don't get drunk. Don't go places that will make you weak (you know places that sell cigaretts.

The next couple of weeks get easier as you can look back and say "look at the time I've invested in this".

After that be careful not to get lured back in for a few months. It's tricky. You'll get a weird random craving out of nowhere. Resist.

Good luck man. It's a hell of a good feeling of accomplishment.

(From an ex 6 year 2.5 pack per day smoker, smoke free since 97')

Excellent! Congrats.

Pereginerose, maybe my wife will read your reply. Apparently she's been snooping around and reading my posts. BUSTED!

Adamjenner, print off a copy of that pic man, it works!

[airdweller 0]

Keep up the good work, it's hard but worth it.

I just followed the simple rule:
Don't put a smoke to your mouth.

Easy rule, hard to follow, but each craving you pass is one less sig you smoked.

GOOD LUCK

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[adamjenner 0]

i dunno, i think that image is forever in my mind! haha.
I remember another ad that made me almost sick was one in london england when i was there, HUGE billboard and it's a Cig that looks like it's been dissected down the middle and spread open. and instead of tobacco inside it was all this fat and puss. and underneath it was like "this is what you smoke" or something to that nature.
if i can find a picture i'll post it. it was nasty.

[freeflynick 0]

I'm with you!! I'm into my third week after smoking for about 14 years and I loved to smoke!! I'm going thru a shedload of sunflower seeds at the moment - they help keep me busy when I get cravings.
I've tried to quit countless times, but this time is far easier for some reason - I think the fact that it was done spur-of-the-moment helped take the pressure off, and I'm finding it not too hard. I don't want to ruin my work so far and starting at zero again, and I dont want to disappoint my girlfriend who quit at the same time (but who has had 3 smokes since!).

Interesting info - a recent study said that people who quit smoking before the age of 35 are more likely to live longer than lifelong non-smokers!

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[Nutz 0]

It has been over three monthes for me. I used an inhaler for a couple of weeks. (Doc prescribed it cost me $10.) I breath better. The only drawback is that I have gained about thirty pounds and now my landings suck some of the time. Oh wait, my landings sucked some of the time before too.

"Don't! Get! Eliminated!"

[Keith 0]

You didn't include Zyban as an alternative. That's what I used. It worked incredibly well. The short of it is, IIRC, you start Zyban and are supposed to pick a quit day sometime after 7 weeks of taking it. I ended up quiting a week after starting Zyban and stopped taking it two weeks after quiting smoking. A total of three weeks and I was smoke free. It was waaaaaay too easy. I didn't have mood swings, cravings - Nothing. I just stopped wanting to smoke. Talk to your doctor.

Keith

Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville

[jumpwally 0]

Wow,,I think you are one of the lucky few !!! by the way,what did you think of the Marlboro lights above ;-)

wally

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[goose491 0]

Don't quit!
Just become a non-smoker.

... it sounds much better this way. MY mother didn't raise no quitter!

Keep with it dude. I'm going on three weeks tomorow. Each time you feel like a smoke, think to yourself "it will pass" and then find something to occupy your time... before long, it will pass...

The key is to perfect not saying to yourself "Hey!... it passed!"... 'cause then you're thinking about it again

Good luck!
Nick

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[cloudynot 0]

I quit cold turkey, wasn't easy but I feel so much better since I have

Clouds are cool to move through but not if they are NOT jumpable

[Keith 0]

Weeeelll, even I wouldn't smoke those. Now if they were cigars . . . !?!

Keith

Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville

[Fishtank 0]

I quit 3 years ago after smoking 1 to 1 1/2 packs a day for 15 years. I tried to quit before but always failed. It was the 30 day mark that always ultimately got me. Believe it or not, I would get these thoughts like, "Hey, I quit...lets try one just to see what I gave up and how little power it has over me." Dumb, I know but this kinda thing got me every time.
The real pain in the ass was that each time I quit and started again I craved them more and more and it got harder and harder to quit again.
Finally I just thought about how I was probably gonna die a lot sooner than I wanted to and because I couldn't even climb my stairs to the second floor without loosing my breath. I just stocked up on patches and got really pissed off and determined not to let cigarettes control my life and kill me. It worked and now I'm able to do so many things I would never have been able to do or continue to do.

Quiting sucks but absolute stubborn determination will get you through.

[Cajundude 0]

Well, besides the whole health issue I look at it as an extra $200-250/month. That's 10-15 jumps! Or a payment towards a new rig whenever I decide to save the money and finish my freakin' training!

[fireflytx 0]

I quite smokinf for 6 monthsw after I got hypnotized. He said it may wear off, it did. Now I am smoking again. At first I thought if I just don't buy any then it's not so bad. Now I am buying them again. So I have to go back and see the guy to get hypnotized all over. Maybe acupuncture will work.

But it is real easy to quit smoking. I have done it a hundred times.

Oh well, quitters never win anyway.

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[Jeth 0]

I quit cold turkey 6 years ago. I just felt like such a loser when I couldn't climb the stairs without being out of breath. (And I was only 23!) Plus I had a bit of pressure from my co-workers at the health center. They would leave disgusting pictures of black lungs in my office.

I only had 1 relapse when I went on a cruise 2 months after quitting. I couldn't be in the casino w/o a cig. But on the last day we docked in port, I threw them out and never looked back.

I agree with everyone else -- just don't put yourself in a situation that will tempt you. No bars, clubs, casino's, or anywhere where you used to smoke a lot. (For me it was inbetween classes in college. I just didn't go outside during that time anymore.) It will get easier to resist and then you can go back.

Stick with it! You'll feel so much better with healthy lungs! Good luck!

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[freakflyer9999 1]

Sixteen years ago, I quit cold turkey. I threw a whole carton in the trash and haven't touched one since. I wish I could say that the cravings have gone away, but they haven't. I only occasionally have cravings now, but I still have them a couple of times a month.

Good Luck

[soilman 0]

I'm starting to remember some of the things I did that I think made success easier.

I decided not to attempt to quit smoking, but instead, to just not smoke one cigaratte. Next time I got an urge to smoke, just don't smoke that one cigarette to satisfy that one urge. One success. Then smoke the next time, but pick a time where just one time I am not going to smoke 1 cigarette. Eventually I learned how to avoid just one cigarette. Then I was able to repeat it.

In other words, don't set too big a goal. Set a small goal that you can succeed at. Succeed at it. Then just repeat the same thing.

Introduce new things to eat into your diet. Find some fruit or vegetable you never ate before. Or some dish. Then reward yourself with it -- if you succeed at avoiding one cigarette.

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[2fat2fly 0]

Man, I hope that things go so well for you that you can give me advice on how to quit-I haven't been able to get it done so far. I was having good luck with the gum once, but the stuff kept melting to the pack in my pocket and I couldn't get to it when I really needed it.

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[Dumpster 0]

I myself used a combination of motivators.

1. - Financial - I quit and saved enough money to buy a motorcycle. Now that the bike is paid off, not smoking pays for jump tickets.

2. Health reasons. 'nuff said.

3. Zyban. Better living through modern chemistry.

4. Social. Smokers smell unpleasant, like BO only worse. Kissing some one who smokes sucks. (when you're a non-smoker, any way - ) I have some suffering to do because my wife is a smoker - (we got married before I quit) Can't stand riding in her car because it reeks and has ashes all over the place - Yuck!

5. It's just not cool anymore.

My two cents !!!!

Easy Does It

[gordy 0]

I here you.....
worst bit is when you have had a few beers....
but the extra change in your pocket can go a long way!
keep it up!

[Zennie 0]

Try quitting drinking sometime.

- Z
"Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon