Quitting sucks

[Hekate]

My parents quit. The first thing my father did was to calculate how much money was going to cigarettes. He bought a DSL-R instead of buying cigarettes. My mother redesigned the kitchen. Of course it is harder than that. You have to do something to forget the craving like working out or even playing video games. Something that will suck you in.

 

[Nate505]

I've been a smoker for 14 years. I've probably been a two pack a day smoker for the better part of a decade. I went and got me an e-cig but it isn't the same. I haven't had a smoke in a day and half and I'm starting to get antsy.

Has anybody here quit?

Quitting tobacco was easy for me. A year or two into college I was coughing too much and had to give that or weed up. Took all of three seconds to decide. But I wasn't that addicted to the stuff. Even in my heyday I was only at a half pack a day.

 

[b_line]

I've been a smoker for 14 years. I've probably been a two pack a day smoker for the better part of a decade. I went and got me an e-cig but it isn't the same. I haven't had a smoke in a day and half and I'm starting to get antsy.

Has anybody here quit?

My brother quit, and said it was super hard, until he found the right e-cig. He tried like five of them, and finally found one that worked for him. Good luck, only good things can come from quitting. My bro is super happy that he quit. He smoked for about as long, or longer as you have.

 

[b_line]

I've been a smoker for 14 years. I've probably been a two pack a day smoker for the better part of a decade. I went and got me an e-cig but it isn't the same. I haven't had a smoke in a day and half and I'm starting to get antsy.

Has anybody here quit?

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[♪alt13]

I'm really interested in how you feel through this process. I never felt like I had a nicotine addiction as much as a habitual system, at least not a physical addiction like other smokers I've known have claimed. I liked the sensation of inhaling and exhaling, which is why the whole full strength to medium to light to ultra-light isn't effective. You get to ultra-lights and you start cutting the damn filters in half because to get anything you have to suck on it harder than a whore trying to suck the bed sheets up through your *******.

I don't think you'd have that problem with the e-cig as the sensation stays the same regardless of nicotine levels? If that's the case then get used to the e-cig first (I hear that takes time) and then weaning the nic shouldn't matter nearly as much. If you get to zero then why care if you're addicted to inhaling chemical free, flavored water vapor.

If I go more than a couple hours without nicotine I start to get anxious. After 4-5 hours I act like a kid that has had too much sugar or someone that has been awake too long. After about 12 hours I will get a headache. I definitely am addicted to nicotine.

I like the whole sensation as well. I like ************ with people while we smoke. I really enjoy being a smoker and wouldn't quit if it wasn't bad for me.

 

[colton]

If I go more than a couple hours without nicotine I start to get anxious. After 4-5 hours I act like a kid that has had too much sugar or someone that has been awake too long. After about 12 hours I will get a headache. I definitely am addicted to nicotine.

Good luck, just keep reminding yourself that if you make steady progress your body will eventually will lose that physical addiction.

I like the whole sensation as well. I like ************ with people while we smoke. I really enjoy being a smoker and wouldn't quit if it wasn't bad for me.

From what I understand, that's the part that may make this a very difficult process for you--the social and psychological aspects. As someone earlier in the thread said, in order for you to succeed you'll likely need to change your habits, hang out in different places, and so forth.

 

[colton]

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[LogGrad98]

So, lots of duplicate posts lately. Not just this thread. Hmmm.

 

[One Brow]

So, lots of duplicate posts lately. Not just this thread. Hmmm.

I think heyhey has some sort of setting where every time we reply to one of his posts, he gets a message. When his Inbox is full, the error I get often says something about not posting a duplicate post.

 

[LogGrad98]

So the solution is everyone ignore heyhey.



*shrug* alright.

 

[♪alt13]

Duplicate post?

I don't think I repeated myself.

Kinda confused tbh.

 

[Hantlers]

When my dad was younger, he used to smoke a lot. One day he reached back into his mouth and felt a lump in there. He quit cold turkey right after that, and he had been smoking since he was probably 12-14. And he met my mom like a year later, and she would have never dated him if he smoked, so that was motivation for afterwards as well.

 

[b_line]

Duplicate post?

I don't think I repeated myself.

Kinda confused tbh.

Nah bro, I just made a duplicate post, then forgot to delete the quote too. It says you have some sort of inbox full thing or something when I quote you, btw.

 

[♪alt13]

Nah bro, I just made a duplicate post, then forgot to delete the quote too. It says you have some sort of inbox full thing or something when I quote you, btw.

I guess I'll empty my inbox then.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

Lol I quit.. Now I dip. Quitting sucks, but it's worth it.

 

[honz]

Quitting really isn't that hard. You just have to want to do it and really set your mind to it. After 3 or 4 days all of the nicotine is out of your system and the physical addiction is gone...it's all mental from there on out. I've quit 3 times due to being young and stupid and starting again after quitting but as long as you make up your mind and commit to it it is not nearly as hard as most people make it out to be, IMO.

 

[One Brow]

Quitting really isn't that hard.

For some people. Nicotine reacts reacts differently in different people's brains. My mom stop smoking once, and never needed or wanted to back. My dad tried to quit probably a dozen times over the years before he made, and last I heard, he still feels cravings.

 

[UGLI baby]

For some people.

Like black people?



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[midnight_hwy]

I was a smoker, for more years than I care to remember (roughly thirty years). I quit once in 2000, made it to 2003 then started back up again, bad idea. Quit again in 2009 and have yet to start back up again.

I quit cold turkey both times, using hard candy as my replacement. it wasn't easy either time, and there are still days when I smell someone smoking, and I think, oh I'd like to have a cigarette, but most days, I have no desire to restart.
Looking at the prices on cigarettes also helps to keep my away.

I wish you luck, as I know it's not easy, but you can do it!

 

[honz]

For some people. Nicotine reacts reacts differently in different people's brains. My mom stop smoking once, and never needed or wanted to back. My dad tried to quit probably a dozen times over the years before he made, and last I heard, he still feels cravings.

Eh, like I said I started smoking again a couple times and believe me I have my days where I definitely crave them but I haven't bought a pack in years...but if you really wanna quit and make up your mind it's not that hard. I think most people that struggle with it just aren't fully committed or don't believe they can quit.