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- Gee1004, on 06/30/2008, -0/+15Most of my family died and never smoked
- sooch, on 06/30/2008, -1/+13I think I'll go and have a cigarette now.
- jayb1rd, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12I do find that if I am around people who don't smoke and I'm having a really good time, I'm less likely to smoke. For example, I'm back in my hometown this week and have been catching up with old friends. I'm having a great time and even though I usually smoke a pack a day, I have stretched this pack I have out over 4 days. I haven't stopped smoking, but I am smoking less and this makes me happy.
- Hosalabad, on 06/30/2008, -4/+15Yep, when people suggest how to quit, they leave out one crucial piece of advice.
Stop buying cigarettes.
I quit in 2001 =) - mackie99, on 06/30/2008, -2/+13I'm guessing you've never smoked. It's not as easy as just quitting.
Although, I have been smoke free for almost a year. But, this is probably the 4th or 5th time I've tried to quit. This is the longest I've been quit. - sticko13, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii94/TheWalking ...
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+9I usually find myself craving a cigarette when I'm pissed off. This article is kinda stating the obvious. Being happy reduces the need of your coping mechanism. No *****....
- TheWriteGuy, on 06/30/2008, -2/+10This is not surprising. Nicotine gives you a buzz. Lots of smokers I know are also depressed people who unknowingly use cigarettes as a cheap antidepressant.
- akohut, on 06/30/2008, -2/+9What's with all the ***** writing in articles that make the front page? "The fleeting pleasure of a white cigarette?" Just terrible.
- ragingpwner35, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times." - Mark Twain
- auxide, on 06/30/2008, -4/+10Id rather have a smoke
- ragingpwner35, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Smoke for a few years then come back and say that.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5You and me both, I have a headache.
- MaxD, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4I always said I'd quit smoking when I finished Uni. Two degrees and a PhD, I really really like smoking.
- zosoIV, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4That article made me crave a cigarette .
- DJTre, on 06/30/2008, -1/+5Happy thoughts??? Isn't that what it takes to fly!?!?
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4I smoked for years and tried quitting a zillion times before I finally did it. Been almost three months now and to tell the truth, I don't think anything is more important than being in the right frame of mind. Just wanting to quit isn't enough. Get in the right frame of mind and you can do it. God knows if I can manage it, anyone can.
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -0/+4yes ignorant and clueless
- cnot3, on 06/30/2008, -1/+4"Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you." - Sigmund Freud
Life is too short not to enjoy it, if smoking makes you happy, smoke. Try to smoke in moderation, so it probably won't take too much off your life anyway, and they'll probably only be the nursing home crapping-your-pants years anyway. - rentmitchum, on 06/30/2008, -2/+5Whoa, that's how I did it. Funny how that works, if you want to quit, stop ***** buying cigarettes. It's pathetic, really. I think the main part of the addiction is a massive societal placebo effect. After a few days of not smoking your brain fixes itself up, gets rid of those extra receptors that are nagging you to smoke, and you're more or less back to normal. From then on out, it's in your head. Our society however has told everyone that you'll feel addicted to any physically addicting substance FOREVER, and to constantly tell yourself that is POWERFUL. It's not true, all you need to do is make it through 3-4 ***** days. After a week you'll barely miss it, and definitely won't be feeling any residual effects of the slight withdrawal, and after 2 weeks even if you try another cigarette it will taste terrible by then, like the first one you ever had (yes it tastes that bad).
So don't tell yourself you're hopelessly addicted. Just stop buying cigarettes. You don't need Chantix or Wellbutrin or whatever other nicotinic antagonists doctors will throw at you. They're a waste of money and just a security blanket. Just stop buying them, find something else to stick in your gaping maw when you'd usually like to be smoking, and quit whining. Stick it out for a few days and you'll be alright. It's that simple. I used a Buddhist sort of method referred to as "changing the peg" which refers to how old furniture was put together not with screws but wooden pegs. When a peg was shot, they'd pound it out and put in a new one. Do the same with your mind. When you find yourself thinking about your old neurochemical peg, nicotine, change the peg. Think about something else. Go outside and look at the amazing ***** world around you. Go have a cup of tea. Do something else. It's not that hard to do. Don't focus on what you're trying not to think about the whole time, that doesn't work either, because you're still thinking about it. Just try to stay active, or keep your hands and mind entertained. Read a ***** book. DO ANYTHING BUT INHALE SMOKE, it's that damn easy.
Sorry to sound callous, I just find it pathetic... People act like the nicotine has ensnared them and will keep them withdrawing for the rest of their lives. Your body is back to normal in like 3-5 days or something (i haven't looked it up recently, but it's around that and TRUE).
Cold turkey. It's the only way. Never buy patches. My girlfriend's parents are pathetic, they smoke AND wear patches AND chew the gum when all they need to do is throw it all out and stop. If you sincerely like the drug enough (and it's not that great) to keep doing it, just keep doing it then, take the health consequences, and man up to your addiction. Don't go around convincing the whole rest of the society that nicotine is impossible to stop using. Hell, I find caffeine harder to stop, but I don't go around telling everyone "oh it's impossible to stop" because that's not true and that infests other people's minds to work AGAINST THEM. STOP IT!
/rant - sticko13, on 06/30/2008, -1/+4Come on now, you can't call someone out while misspelling "you're" and using the wrong "it's"!
- bearcat8543, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3you are ***** ignorant
- mr5150, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3I have had ***** food, crappy alcohol even a useless lay but i can honestly say i have never had a bad cigarette. Ahhhh! i really miss them..haven't smoked in over 3 years, but there isn't a day that the temptation to light one up doesn't haunt my mind.
- ohnoitstaylor, on 06/30/2008, -1/+4I would love to quit smoking, but as a college student I seem to have trouble quitting because:
1. All my friends like to go out to bars
2. I'm studying for tests all the time
3. Happy thoughts just don't seem to cut it for me
...and the big one...
4. I'm addicted - JayCruz, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3The thing is... we smokers probably have a short collection of "happy thoughts".
- PrintScrn12, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Often though addiction doesn't make you happy overall. Consumption merely waves off withdrawal symptoms, bringing you back close to normal. This is similar to a very heavy caffeine drinker, as it brings your overall energy level down only to be remedied back to normal by another hit. The more hits the lower the overall level and the lower the value of another hit.
Addiction also lends itself to denial. The common thought "I'm smoking because I want to and I can quit whenever I want" is more often wrong than right. The same can apply to other highly addictive drugs. It also leads to people to take the easy way short term way out. Leaving the drug is harder than staying on. So stuff it I can't be bothered.
Ex-smokers may also give example as to the lack of benefit of smoking. Most who return to the drug do so under a lapse of judgement, willpower or care rather than as a positive change.
So be careful if you ask yourself if you like smoking. - zephyrxero, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3I just quit smoking about a month ago...and I do notice wanting to fall back into it every time I get stressed out/upset/depressed/angry/bored.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+3I smoked for 2 years and quit, it was fairly easy. I learned it was more of a time habbit, like driving , or breaks at work . I was more likely to smoke during those times, so i had to stay away and keep my mind off of it during those set times. I would chew gum, or walk around a lap or so around the building.
- Rivetgeek, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I smoked for around 12 years and I quit Feb 18th by using the patch. Anyone who says to go cold turkey is an idiot. The guy up there that claims to have quit for 2 years cold turkey even says he smokes here and there at bars GUESS WHAT *****, THAT'S NOT QUITTING
- djrbx, on 06/30/2008, -2/+4Nicorette and will power was what I used to break the habit.
- trghpy, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2but but but... what if smoking is your only happy thought??
But i digress...
This concept worked for me. Trading smoking for sex worked for me. - siszam, on 06/30/2008, -1/+3I smoked for twenty years and failed to quit many times. I was having serious health issues and thought I would die one of those pathetic people who smoke right to the end. I hated myself for it but felt helpless to change it. Pills, patches, gum....nothing worked until I read Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr. I read it three times over several months. Then one day I put the cigarettes down and never picked them up again. That book is amazing! If you read the book you will see that it undoes the brainwashing of addiction and sort of rewires your thinking to remove your "need" for nicotine. Same concept.
- goddessophia, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2yeah, smoking while I am driving is a major problem for me... I don't normally smoke any other time, not even when I am at home.
- Calinthalus, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I used to joke that I wanted to quit...but divorce was so expensive...
Seriously, you will never have a time that is good for quitting. Every time you think, I'll quit when there's not so much stress...you are just putting it off. There's never a time in your life without stress. You keep telling yourself "It'll be a better time later", but you're just lying to yourself.
Trust me, I kept thinking I'll quit when my wife does, there's no way I can quit while she's smoking. But I did. She still smokes a pack a day, in the house with me. I haven't had a puff in almost two months, and I don't miss it a bit. No drugs, no patches, no gums...just quit. Read "Easy way to stop smoking" by Allen Carr. Read it a couple of times. He's right in every way. - Pricebreak, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2"Next time the urge to light up strikes, think of snow-capped peaks instead of the fleeting pleasure of a white cigarette"
You know what would make that vision so much more delightful? Smoking a cigarette! - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -4/+6Don't quit smoking if it makes you happy. The health nazis won't live any longer than you. You don't see the health nazis telling marijuana smokers to quit. Just tell the health nazis to ***** off.
' - Paintball20, on 06/30/2008, -3/+5your an idiot its an addiction
- SnowCrashv5, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2apparently someone doesn't have any idea what an addiction is, psychological or physical.
- rentmitchum, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Wow, what an amazing rebuttal.
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -0/+2those are all the things I have been doing recently to cut back and eventually quit. not smoking them at work, or after meals when I usually did.
- sap959, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2mmmm cigarette :)
- ghuytro, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I just quit using a prescription medication called Champix. I ***** hate taking any kind of medication, but holy crap, this was the best thing ever. Better than the patch. Better than cold turkey (obviously).
The only side effect I found was the dreams. Holy ***** I should have written some of those ***** down and sold the movie rights to Jerry Bruckheimer or one of those action director types. The most vivid, intricate and intense dreams I've ever had.
But again, the quitting smoking part was actually easy with this medication. I'm a month being smoke-free and I have no desire to smoke whatsoever. - vawksel, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I know another saying, it goes something like this: "Ignorance is bliss".
- Calinthalus, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I smoked for more than a decade. Just quit almost two months ago. Looks like someone else read the same book I did about quitting.
Dead on, the first week is hard as hell, especially when other people in your house still smoke. After that, no big deal. - senixon, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2That explains why people like to smoke after sex... wait, what?
- sgvprelude, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Not unless those happy thoughts include having a cigerette.
- sap959, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1well if i could fly i wouldnt smoke :P
- rentmitchum, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1It only increases the chances in the weak willed. Nicotine withdrawal isn't very uncomfortable. It's annoying, but not something you can't make it through and just stop on your own. The problem, I'm convinced, is with our society pounding it into our heads that we will become hopelessly addicted to certain drugs. People given morphine for extended periods in hospitals generally don't get addicted and turn into heroin addicts. Why? Because they aren't told "oh that sucks, now you'll be addicted to morphine", but if they were taking some pills for fun, they'd be told "you're going to get addicted to that now" and that's an extremely powerful message to send to your subconscious every day. Thoughts create reality, try to realize this and you'll realize how silly it is that anyone who has made it past the first few days without smoking still thinks they are physically addicted. Filling the nicotinic receptors with something else is going to make you want something to fill it when you come off of that, so it's really an endless stupid cycle. It's like caffeine or opiate withdrawal. They put people on stuff like suboxone to get them off heroin, but that's still giving their brain a ***** opiate. They just need to get through the withdrawal and then never use again, but we are led to believe we can't do it ourselves, and yes that's pathetic. Of course a small dose of caffeine will ease caffeine withdrawal, it's MORE ***** CAFFEINE. Same with nicotine. You're not fixing the problem, you're simply prolonging it.
- sap959, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1bless your soul :)
but good on ya.... im really proud of people who quit because i cannot xD - 3rdDay, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1I gave up smoking at 12.35pm on 10.03.08. Nearly four months, and I can still have the craving. Well, 40 a day for 22 years can do that to you. :)
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