I stopped smoking relatively easily because I replaced the smoking with chewing tobacco.
I had a hard quitting the chewing tobacco. I used the nicotine patches. Worked wonders for me.
I've been quit for 16 years. Keep it up. You can already feel the results. Just remind yourself of that.
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
I can not call myself a 100% non smoker, but each day draws me closer to that goal..
From a breathing standpoint I have not felt this good in decades....
From 2 packs to 2 sticks a day...
Not a fan of the nocotine gum...it really burns the mouth...
I can feel that I will beat this this time...
I have gone form over 2 packs to fewer than 5 cigs....
We have made smoking in the house, cars or anywhere other than our morning coffee spot on the back deck...
I am relying on the e-cigs more than I wish....
But each day brings us closer to the goal....
I have gone form over 2 packs to fewer than 5 cigs....
We have made smoking in the house, cars or anywhere other than
I am relying on the e-cigs more than I wish....
But each day brings us closer to the goal....
Thanks for asking.
Glad to hear, if I may make a suggestion that I learned from a customer of mine that's a smoking cessation expert...
"your morning coffee spot on the back deck"... may be the biggest challenge you face, that's the root of the habit and your happy place. She tells me that one must break the routine. Smoke somewhere else if you must, but you may want to consider making that area a smoke free zone too.
If you must break down, go take a walk, or go around the side of the house whee the connection with smoking is not as pleasurable.
Mrs. Twisted big day to quit is this Wednesday, and in her support, I'm supposed to give up brown liquor.
Capt. B, YOU WILL NEVER QUIT. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. THAT LITTLE MONSTER INSIDE WILL CONTROL YOU FOREVER.
Quiting smokin' cigs does not mean only smoking two to five cigs a day. I told you before Captain- You don't have the power to control cigarettes. The cigarettes are more powerful than you or you would have quit already. If you light a cigarette, you will be defeated.
It is your Choice.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
I have gone form over 2 packs to fewer than 5 cigs....
We have made smoking in the house, cars or anywhere other than our morning coffee spot on the back deck...
I am relying on the e-cigs more than I wish....
But each day brings us closer to the goal....
Thanks for asking.
Did you go to a doctor for help? I did and quit in 10 days without smoking one cigarette after that. I haven't had any hunger to smoke for 14 years.
Well worth it.
Just
because you’re Offended Doesn’t mean you right!
So 2 weeks in, you aren't really quitting & are actually smoking a little more than the day you allegedly quit? ON TOP OF the nicotine gum, E-cigs, nicotine patches, Skoal, snuff & cigars?
I have gone form over 2 packs to fewer than 5 cigs....
Unfortunately, nobody can trust a fisherman when it comes to boasting about numbers.
What was your "goal" again? Smoking everyday in your "morning coffee spot"? There's an element of denial in "morning coffee spot". Could've been a vestigial smoke with "morning coffee" but the "spot" has become your Designated Smoking Zone.
Did we miss it? Have you even mustered the Will Power to NOT SMOKE FOR 24 HOURS?
All I have to say is I tried over a long period of Years to quit smoking cigarettes and then one day I quit using sugar in my coffee and smoking!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simple as that.. Break the ****ing routine, Thats all the **** it is...
Live while You're breathing! It's Your only chance.....:grin
How about it? After 7 pages/70 posts Inquiring Minds deserve to know.
Or has it become all about denial & evasion?
Yep! Waiting to hear if he had the cahones to finally quit . . . or simply cashed in all his self esteem, better health, better husband and father, status on this forum, and on and on and on?
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr
Took me two tries. First time lasted a few weeks. Second time stuck for good. Cold turkey. Felt like crap for a couple of months but after that, i COULD NEVER BE A cigarette smoker again. I say that because I have the occasional cigar and really do not like the ashtray mouth taste the next morning.
Having said that, if Bob is able to mitigate his intake to a few sticks a day, thats not so bad. The fact of the matter is that some folks are very high strung and smoking is a type of pressure relief valve.
Strive for self-sacrificial levels of empathy and sympathy. We are only set free by becoming the scapegoat, or sin eater', rather than picking a target and 'throwing stones.'
I will not say I am quit...
Until I am 100% positive I will never stick one of those thing in my mouth ever again.....today...I can not say that....yesterday, the day before and the day before that....I did without....
But to say I quit...only to fall into the trap again......it is too soon to say that.
Took me two tries. First time lasted a few weeks. Second time stuck for good. Cold turkey. Felt like crap for a couple of months but after that, i COULD NEVER BE A cigarette smoker again. I say that because I have the occasional cigar and really do not like the ashtray mouth taste the next morning.
Having said that, if Bob is able to mitigate his intake to a few sticks a day, thats not so bad. The fact of the matter is that some folks are very high strung and smoking is a type of pressure relief valve.
No smoking is a drug addiction....as powerful as heroine.....
It is a social crutch....and one of the evilest of conspiracies between man and nature.
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I had a hard quitting the chewing tobacco. I used the nicotine patches. Worked wonders for me.
I've been quit for 16 years. Keep it up. You can already feel the results. Just remind yourself of that.
US editor & journalist (1882 - 1958)
How's it going Capt?
We have good and bad days....
I have gone form over 2 packs to fewer than 5 cigs....
We have made smoking in the house, cars or anywhere other than our morning coffee spot on the back deck...
I am relying on the e-cigs more than I wish....
But each day brings us closer to the goal....
Thanks for asking.
https://www.facebook.com/RecAnglers?notif_t=page_new_likes
Glad to hear, if I may make a suggestion that I learned from a customer of mine that's a smoking cessation expert...
"your morning coffee spot on the back deck"... may be the biggest challenge you face, that's the root of the habit and your happy place. She tells me that one must break the routine. Smoke somewhere else if you must, but you may want to consider making that area a smoke free zone too.
If you must break down, go take a walk, or go around the side of the house whee the connection with smoking is not as pleasurable.
Mrs. Twisted big day to quit is this Wednesday, and in her support, I'm supposed to give up brown liquor.
Keep it up, and good luck to all of us.
Capt. B, YOU WILL NEVER QUIT. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. THAT LITTLE MONSTER INSIDE WILL CONTROL YOU FOREVER.
:rotflmao
But you might be right on here-
Quiting smokin' cigs does not mean only smoking two to five cigs a day. I told you before Captain- You don't have the power to control cigarettes. The cigarettes are more powerful than you or you would have quit already. If you light a cigarette, you will be defeated.
It is your Choice.
No representation without taxation!
Did you go to a doctor for help? I did and quit in 10 days without smoking one cigarette after that. I haven't had any hunger to smoke for 14 years.
Well worth it.
Just because you’re Offended Doesn’t mean you right!
Unfortunately, nobody can trust a fisherman when it comes to boasting about numbers.
What was your "goal" again? Smoking everyday in your "morning coffee spot"? There's an element of denial in "morning coffee spot". Could've been a vestigial smoke with "morning coffee" but the "spot" has become your Designated Smoking Zone.
Did we miss it? Have you even mustered the Will Power to NOT SMOKE FOR 24 HOURS?
Or has it become all about denial & evasion?
That's not being supportive , even if he had a relapse. :nono
Yep! Waiting to hear if he had the cahones to finally quit . . . or simply cashed in all his self esteem, better health, better husband and father, status on this forum, and on and on and on?
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Smoking-really-Does-To-Your-Lungs&id=464015
http://www.chacha.com/question/how-hot-is-cigarette-smoke-when-you-inhale
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1942399/?page=3
http://www.ersj.org.uk/content/9/10/1989.full.pdf
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/tobacco-nicotine-research
and
Tobacco and Nicotine: They're Good -- As a Pesticide
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027124734.htm
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr
I'm "not being supportive" of his, or anyone else's substance abuses.
CaptBB would have had to 1st actually stop smoking before he could have possibly "had a relapse".
Having said that, if Bob is able to mitigate his intake to a few sticks a day, thats not so bad. The fact of the matter is that some folks are very high strung and smoking is a type of pressure relief valve.
:rotflmao
Quitting that is....
I will not say I am quit...
Until I am 100% positive I will never stick one of those thing in my mouth ever again.....today...I can not say that....yesterday, the day before and the day before that....I did without....
But to say I quit...only to fall into the trap again......it is too soon to say that.
https://www.facebook.com/RecAnglers?notif_t=page_new_likes
No smoking is a drug addiction....as powerful as heroine.....
It is a social crutch....and one of the evilest of conspiracies between man and nature.
https://www.facebook.com/RecAnglers?notif_t=page_new_likes