Quit smoking support group

Cutting it down to a cigarette or two is great. Sure, it's easier to increase it to two smokes per day. But it's also got to be easier to quit cold turkey while smoking two than it would be to quit cold turkey while smoking 10.

But the bottom line is that most people physically require at least one smoke per day to get their allotment of nicotine. There are different theories on this, but everyone agrees that the first cigarette is something the body needs due to a physical addiction to the nicotine.

So, unless you're quitting, you're still addicted to cigarettes, even if you only smoke one per day. The only way to break the addiction is to quit cold turkey.

So, there's your answer. I hope that clears it all up. ;-)

 

Walking down the street is one thing. As long as you're not one of those assholes who can't stop blowing it right in people's faces.

Can't smoke indoors any more? Too fucking bad.

 

Glad to see this thread back on the front page. I was gonna resurrect it anyway because on my dinner break tonight I smoke the last one of the pack and instead of buying another pack, I slapped a patch on my arm. So ... I'm giving this another shot. Like I said in a previous post, I quit for 8 months last year until I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me.

I think my head is in the right place. I feel determined. I WANT TO FUCKING QUIT. I'm tired of paying $3.50 a day for a small box of death. It's stupid. I bought the patch kit a month or so ago and used 2 or 3, but frankly I wasn't ready to quit. Wasn't in the right mindframe. Now, I think I am. I recall something my ex-girlfriend said to me right before we broke of this last time, "I hope those kill you" ("Well, then, you'll be happy to know that they are," I said back). Anyway, I'm using that hate for the ex to fuel my hate for cigs.

Please give me a shout out. I'll need all the support I can get.

 

Keep on keepin' on, Kokane. Glad that you've joined the brigade. But don't do it because you hate HER. Do it because you love you some you.

 

Right on man. You have to want to quit b/c you're sick and tired of being sick and tired. That's why I stopped. That and I want drop a few LBs and figured it would be easier without taking breaks from working out to cough up black stuff. The hate for your ex-biatch should just be another log on the fire.

Keep on keepin' on. You got support here.

 

Not again outofplace. We're agreeing again. My God the universe is sure to colapse on us at any second.

Are you serious Boots? Haven't you heard how bad second-hand smoke is? Unless you're totally inconsiderate (which is seems that you may be), why can't you comprehend that people who don't smoke shouldn't be punished by people that do? Making any sense yet?

 

Ha....boots does call himself the ultimate ass for a reason. Though given all the back-door talk about his relationship with his neighbor, maybe it was a different reason after all..

 

I think you should be able to smoke while walking around outside, but I think all smoking indoors and nearby building entrances should be banned.
I was also thinking recently that I wonder how long it is until smoking is banned in drive thru's. Think about all the idiots who smoke while the worker is handing out their food or money or whatever and how smoke blows all up in the windows of the building. Of course, that one will have a hard time passing since the smokers would be in their personal vehicles.

 

In college in Saluki country, I had quite a trek to my astronomy classroom. When I was super-early, I often climbed a staircase that led to the roof. The door at the top of the staircase was always locked. The only thing up there was a giant telescope that we used during labs. But there was a desk up there for some reason. So I'd plop down at the desk and smoke one or two. I believe I took a soda can with me for the ash and butt. Then I'd come back down, dump the can in a trash can and go into class.

I don't like to stomp on the rights of individuals, but I don't think smokers understand just how much stink they produce. Every time my in-laws send a package, the cigarette smell just jumps out at me before I can even figure out what they sent. It's kind of freaky to get an infant halloween costume that smells like someone used it as a cigarette filter.

I don't mind smoking being banned in restaurants. But I think banning it in bars is a little much. I mean, it's a fucking bar. If you don't like the smoke, drink at home or go to a play.

By the way, I had a rough time on the drive home. Post-game time is always the worst for me. It's the perfect time to let that stress fade away with a nice drag off a Camel Light. But I managed to get home without the smoke. Now I'm hoping I can hit the hay and wake up without the jitters that are bothering me now.

 

nice frank, but actually, when i quit last year (after two months), one of our community editors came over to my desk, looked at me blankly and said, "thank you." i said, "for what?" CE, "for not being an asshole while you quit smoking."

i think i was able to handle it because, after i quit, i started sleeping better than i had since i was like 14. physically i felt good, and mentally, i was able to handle it because i always had my ball of two silly puddys pressed together in my hand -- rolling it kept my hands busy.

when i was 11 years old, the allergy specialist looked me in the eye and told me i had athsma, and that if i decided to smoke a pack a day for a year, i soon would die from emphysema.

i don't want the heartbreakers to be bitter throughout their lives because their father loved cigs more than them and that they both lost him before their 10th birthdays. i always thought i'd die at 28 and leave a good-looking corpse behind. now that i'm 30-something, and now that that philosophy is no longer an option, i might as well live to see them graduate, get married, etc.

 

It can be done. I'm now fifteen months nicotine free after thirty years. I finally had to convince myself to, in some weird way, enjoy the dizzying withdrawal, the jitters and nerves. The most difficult part was the brain fog and the way time slowed way way down. That took about two months to pass.

 

Wow. That sounds just like my experience. I was always ashamed to smoke in front of my son, but he never said much about it.

I woke up with some bad coughing. I think I somehow caught one last bout with bronchitis. I'm hoping it passes quickly. I imagine I'll have the coughing for two days. If I were still smoking, it would be more like a week.