4th time is the Charm?
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Topic: 4th time is the Charm?
Posted By: Ozwarg
Subject: 4th time is the Charm?
Date Posted: 11 March 2009 at 11:43pm
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So... I'm going to Try and quit smoking a 4th and hopefully final time... my other ones epically failed, the last time I went 3 months without a Cig, and then... I had a little too much to Drink and... found myself starting all over again... and yeah, anyone in here ever quit smoking and stayed that way? ------------- 
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 11 March 2009 at 11:45pm
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I only smoke cigars on occasion, so I can't be of much help. Good luck though, I've had a lot of friends stop and I know it was tough for them. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 11 March 2009 at 11:45pm
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I just got my girlfriend to quit smoking after four years of it...otherwise, nobody I know has ever succeeded.
Hope you make it though, smoking's a nasty habit. ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 11 March 2009 at 11:53pm
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 11 March 2009 at 11:58pm
same. try to get someone to help you with it. makes it a little easier from what i've experienced seeing people try to quit. i don't know if the gum or patches work, unless you want to pull a 'thank you for not smoking' deal, and put so many patches on yourself that your system overloads, thereby making it so that if you smoke anymore after a stint in the hospital, you would die. thats pretty incentive |
sinisterNorth wrote:Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:29am
| Good luck. |
Posted By: Gator Taco
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:33am
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ive quit smoking like 4 or 5 times this year man. gotta find a replacement action like chewing gum to curve your cravings. otherwise you wont quit man. and that would be a bummer. good luck!
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:35am
| Man up and just quit, how hard can it be? Women. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 1:03am
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I can't seem to give up the left-handed cigarettes.
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 1:40am
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I smoked for about a year, at the end i was up to like a pack a day. I decided to just stop smoking. It worked. I havent had a full cig in a long time, although every once in a while ill take a drag off one or smoke something without tobacco in it.
Cold turkey worked for me, i dont get cravings or anything but i wasnt smoking for that long and i had other things to be doing besides standing out in a rochester winter smoking. ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 1:52am
| ive got something for your oral fixation. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 1:54am
I'm giving them up for a week just to see what it's like because, honestly, I can't remember. Oddly enough though, I'm actually kind of looking forward to it. As for the right handed ciggys, I expect my intake to drastically increase over the next 7 days. To the OP: Like GI said, having someone to struggle with you makes it much easier. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 2:01am
thats what I'm doing... now I have that "itch" I take a No Doz and yell random things at airplanes... ... hehe.. Not really, just when I need a Fix I clean something, by the end of the month my house should be clean enough martha stewart would be impressed. -------------
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 3:12am
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Just stop.
I did. True copious amounts of alcohol and nearly throwing up my spleen did help. But just stop. I don't know what a pack costs in the USA, but in SA a pack a day savings equates to a box and a half of factory reloaded 230grain FMJ .45 ACP, or two boxes of factory 9x19mm per week. Personally I get a lot more satisfaction from a box of .45 than a box of cigs. And I don't mind my clothes smelling of gunsmoke :) KBK |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 7:43am
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I don't really know how people think its so hard to quit smoking. My brother's done it three or four times already...how tough can it really be? ------------- ? |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 8:30am
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 10:59am
| I quit smoking after many years and several attempts. I think what made it easiest for me was that I set rules that reduced my smoking and eventually, it just became not worth it. When my wife was pregnant, she quit and I quit smoking around her. If I wanted to smoke, I had to go into the garage. Once we had our daughter, I was only allowed to smoke outside on the back porch. Not so bad, but still, I found myself smoking less and less. Eventually, we moved to Ohio and it got less and less attractive to smoke when it got colder and colder. Towards the end, I was maybe smoking 3-4 cigarettes per day and one day when I was standing on the back step smoking, my 4 year old daughter asked me if I kept smoking was I going to die? I quit the next day and haven't had a cigarette since. My daughter turns 11 this July. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:06pm
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:13pm
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My Father got the hypnotism to quit smoking. 1 visit and he stopped. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 12:27pm
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I do enjoy the occasional cigar. Now you know. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 1:03pm
and yeah, So If I make it a Year I ger a Bass I could of only Dreamed of getting... and after a year I'm Sure I wont have any "cravings". -------------
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 2:28pm
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I'm an odd smoker. I smoke at work, and can smoke half a pack a day while at work, but don't smoke anywhere other than work. Over Christmas break when we were not printing, no smoking at all, and no urge to. Over this spring break, no smoking because I am not working, and no urge to, at all. Maybe I have addiction-proof lungs or something. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 3:08pm
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I've been meaning to quit for a while though. I cut down alot when i wasn't working but now i'm back at work i'm smoking alot again, For me it's the habit rather than the cravings although I still get them. So if I'm on a break id rather go out and have a cig than sit around waiting to start work again. Even if i don't have that craving. And since the smoking ban, It's really good socially because in a club you meet so many more people having to go outside for a smoke. If i quit smoking i wouldn't talk to half the people i meet out on the town. But if i don't stop i'll die horribly.. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 3:26pm
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The way I've seen it so far has been:
If you feel like you should probably quit: fail If YOU WANT to quit: success You're way more motivated if you truly feel like you should quit, and strongly believe it. Not just cause someone is telling you to, or you guess you should. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 3:33pm
| Do, or do not. There is no try. |
Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 10:47pm
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See I WANT TO quit now, for the past few days my boss has told me since I quit, my work has vastly improved, and If i keep it up I will become an Apprentice, which pays awesome... and everyone around me has noticed that though I'm more tense, I'm alot more energetic and smile more.
3 Day hump will be over at 11am tomarrow, go me! but... real test will be if I can still stay clean till June 11th. -------------
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Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 10:49pm
| I think I'm gonna go have a smoke now. |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 11:13pm
| Honestly, I have no desire to start smoking... Both of my grandfathers died from smoking-related illnesses and they both smoked. My grandfather on my dad's side had emphysema and he basically couldn't breathe but his heart was so strong he was alive for a good 2 weeks in the hospital. Since he died before I was born my dad told me that my grandfather would hallucinate due to the lack of oxygen in his brain. He would shout from his hospital bed "LOOK OUT!" at my dad and point at nothing. This is what I fear would happen to me if I smoked as long as he did. All of his brothers that didn't smoke lived to be 90's and 100's. |
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 12 March 2009 at 11:21pm
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I'm on my 4th time trying to quit as well. I'm 2 weeks in and it's rough. Gotta keep fighting it man. Good luck to you. ------------- 
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Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 12:06am
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I smoke when I drink mostly. Occasionally I will have one with a group of friends when everyone is just haning out, but I've been doing that for like a year and still wouldn't consider myself addicted. I never "crave" it, it's just nice to have when I'm drunk. It's not even habit, and I never smoke one just driving by myself or anything, so whatever. Good luck quitting though.
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Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 10:42am
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Well yesterday at work was bad... really bad... I was sweating awfully bad and I was sitting down inside a walk in freezer, and it felt like I had to vomit all over the floor.
Though you need to remember, I usually smoked a 1/2 pack to a whole pack a Day a Carton would last maybe 2 weeks if I was lucky. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 10:45am
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My brother just switched over to some of those nicotine patches, and he said they're working great for him. One side effect that he's noted though, are some incredibly vivid dreams. He said after he's officially done smoking, he might keep the patches just for the dreams. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 10:47am
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^See The patches made me feel really tired/depressed... I tryed them once before and Hated them, and the gum... ugh tasted aweful, and always shredded apart in my mouth.. -------------
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Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 12:11pm
The dreams are crazy. |
Posted By: Predatorr
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 1:30pm
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Good luck! I know my dad quit after his uncle died from smoking. To help him, I threw away his lighters and his cigarettes. The amount of money you save is staggering, really. I only smoke when I'm drunk. I've done it a few times, but the last time ended it for me. I was hammered, and after talking to a gorgeous girl earlier in the night, I went back to talk to her after my cig. Totally turned her off and completely ruined it forever. Fail. I will never smoke again. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 2:17pm
When's the last time you tried the gum? They have actual flavours now, not just the sick default nicorette. |
Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 13 March 2009 at 3:24pm
| i could quit if i wanted to... but i don't want to. |
Posted By: Ozwarg
Date Posted: 14 March 2009 at 2:09am
it was awhile ago, 3 years? I didn't like it anyway... if wanted my "nicotine" literaly in my mouth i would of picked up dip... -------------
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