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- meshman, on 10/11/2007, -66/+482Oh no, they've got this all wrong. Here's the proper timeline:
20 Mins: Blood pressure returns to normal
8 Hours: You begin to regret quitting, blood pressure skyrockets, nerves fray.
48 Hours: The point at which you come close to killing someone
72 Hours: You could be sweet talking to the cutest kitten you've ever seen but will sound like you want to kill it no matter how hard you try to sound nice.
2 Weeks: Your spouse hates you now. Job not going well.
3-9 Months: You've lost your job and your spouse has left you. They simply can't deal with you anymore.
1 Year: You feel just as bitter and angry as the day you quit with no end in sight.
5 Years: You're now a loner no one wants to talk to.
10 Years: Low risk of cancer. You live to 88 and are left a debilitated, drooling vegetable and wish you had died of cancer 20 years ago.
/somewhat my experience - LanceWindu, on 10/11/2007, -8/+236Funny, but not true...at least in my experience.
I'm one year without a cigarette now, cold turkey, and I couldn't be happier. :) - matt9m5, on 10/11/2007, -13/+98Geeks Smoke?
- xrisnothing, on 10/11/2007, -10/+77that joke is as tired as your mom was after the fleet came in
- xxTazxx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+58Bloody cigarettes even kill websites.
- finista, on 10/11/2007, -2/+56esaelp rorriM.
You're welcome. - g0tmk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+50Sorry for hijack -
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/472/smokingtimeline2070x153mg1.gif
simple image... why the PDF nonsense? - mattsinspace, on 10/11/2007, -3/+50I haven't had a smoke in 2 months after smoking for ten years.
I love this kind of stuff. Keeps me motivated. - DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -18/+59meshman, that was beautiful.
- scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -5/+43Save yourself the woe of going through the quitting and don't start.
- pr0vidence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+40I also disagree with meshman.
I quit cold turkey about 9 years ago. It really wasn't as difficult as many make it out to be. You just have to put yourself in the mindset that you are not going to smoke anymore. Yes, it still is hard. Yes there still are cravings. You need to replace that craving with something else. Me? I replaced the act of bringing a cigarette to my mouth with popping altoids. Any time I felt a cigarette craving, I popped a mint. After a few days it was second nature and when the need for a cigarette came along, the mint was in my mouth before I even realized that the urge was there. My family and friends considered the mints my new addiction (and I suppose you could see it that way) and kept me loaded up with tins of altoids. To this day I still get at least half a dozen tins at Christmas time, even though I don't really need/eat them anymore.
When it comes down to it, it IS hard to quit. I'm not minimizing the experience. You will suffer. But there are things you can do to reduce your suffering. It really IS a mental thing. If you can get past the first week or two, all the nicotine is out of your system, and the rest is all in your head. It gets easier, I promise you. Time will pass, the cravings will subside. In a few years you will wonder how you allowed something to grip you like that. Once my friends who smoked saw that I quit, and that it was possible, they all stopped. One by one they all just gave it up. they all just needed to know it could be done.
All you have to do is convince yourself one day, definitively, that you are no longer a smoker. Once you do that you are 75% of the way there. Saying things like "I'll quit after this pack" and "I'll have my last cigarette on my birthday" will not work. You can't set dates to quit smoking. Doing that is not getting into the mindset that you are quitting. Just do it. Take the pack out of your pocket and break them all in half. Give any other packs you have away to other smokers. Given the cost of cigarettes today, they will gladly take them, even if it is not their brand. Just tell yourself you are done, and be done. - crankycookie, on 10/11/2007, -10/+43switch to weed :-p
- Impius, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33That may be true if you don't work in the customer service industry....
My Timeline:
1hr - withdrawls spead up by people yelling at you
1.5hr - itching and cold chills
2hrs - twitching
3hrs - make a choice between yelling at the customer on the phone, smoking or going on a rampage... - Rekzai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27Why would you even want this in high resolution ?
just the words in plain text are good for me. - screwzluse, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28"I've never understood this. Explain the benefits to me please."
Well, you'll stop smelling like *****, for one. You may not smell it, but I promise other non-smokers do. I'm not saying don't do it or not, but if you can't see the benefits, then you don't really care enough anyway. - novask, on 10/11/2007, -5/+24@meshman
from my personal experience
day 1 you quit, easy as cake
day 5 your annoyed, and think everyone is against you
day 15 ***** this world and everyone in it
day 25 the craving for cigarettes is gone, but you need something to fill the void, anything...
day 150 any time something really stressful comes along (eg exams) you consider starting to smoke again, even if its only for the week (this type of craving never goes away) and this is where you either :
a) chose to ignore it and move on
b) start smoking again, only to quit another time, and maybe start again at a later date when ***** hits the fan. - stevenhatfield, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Actually, in 5 years you'll be so "anti-smoker" that you won't even want to smell the smoke of someone driving in another car at the same stop light as you.
And you'll wish that you had done it sooner, because you'll realize that aside being healthier, you don't smell like a burning turd. - retral, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19@finista: Fail.. it'd be more like this:
http://www.filehive.com/files/0611/mirror.jpg - swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20Since I can't see the "high res info-graphic," I'm almost definitely going to relapse. DAMN YOU DIGG.COM
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Wow, glasgowm, you're a role model....
/sarcasm - Buzzbean, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15@pr0vidence
Your comment could have been written by me. The whole "I don't smoke" mindset was one of a few ways I quit smoking just over five years ago. The other big three:
I quit as I was going through an extremely stressful period in my life. Any stress I felt that could have been due to withdrawal from smoking, I just attributed it to the other stresses in my life at the time. That way I had to deal with the bad things happening to keep my stress in line and I didn't allow my mind to attribute the stress to not smoking any longer.
Another one is that I refused to allow a big tobacco company to hold me hostage. They don't own my body. I do.
The final clincher for me was the cost. Every time I felt like smoking again, I just told myself, "Sure, you can smoke. That next cigarette will cost you $120 per month for the rest of your life."
If you're reading this and thinking "F- You! I'll smoke because I enjoy it!" I say, go right ahead. I'm not stopping you. But, I will encourage you to quit every chance I get because I know from experience it is well worth it. - scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16high-res graphic... that was always going to work great on digg.
- tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15If you want to give up smoking easily, I can wholeheartedly recommend this book: http://tinyurl.com/3b86wm (Amazon link, no affiliate crap, it's just too long to paste) - How to give up smoking, by Allen Carr.
I was told about this book, and read the amazon reviews about it. I was intrigued because it sounded a bit too good to be true. People said they got to the last page and never smoked again nor wanted to. Being a non-smoker myself, I asked my brother to try it, just to see. He's by no means a reader (he last read a book at school I think), but he read the whole thing in 3 days and hasn't smoked since. It really does work. Give it a try :)
(I know... sounds like an ad. It isn't, it's just a ringing endorsement) - wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14It's been one week for me after 5 years of smoking. Hardest part is trying to concentrate and getting frustrated only to have an urge to smoke.
There's better things I could use the money for anyway such as the aquarium I'm building... - oyourmom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13You don't get a hole?
http://www.buildinglanduk.co.uk/images/land.jpg - arjie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Oooh, word association, I tried putting that backwards and got Philip Morris.
- Hortinstein, on 10/11/2007, -12/+23i am not addicted to smoking, i am addicted to being cool...
- ChewyBass, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Exactly what I needed to see. I quit smoking 6 weeks ago after 24 years of smoking. I used Chantix to help me quit and it was the easiest way to do so. The last time I tried to quit, after one day my wife came out the back door, threw 5 bucks at me and said "go get a ***** pack of cigarettes". At that time we had been married for 12 years and that was the first time I have ever heard her curse.
- noogiewoo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13obviously a little too high-res. The server's dead.
- dhVyse, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7@LanceWindu -
Yeah I'd say at the 6 month mark there was no going back to smoking after smoking for 3 years.
Still sometimes want to smoke when i'm really drunk, but I resist it. - Aleriya, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8My good friend died of smoking-induced lung cancer that spread to his brain (a horrible way to die). He left his wife and toddler behind with another lil one on the way. I applaud anyone who has the strength to quit - your friends and family will be grateful for it. No one deserves to suffer like he and his family did.
- nexus420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7anyone else notice that this picture pretty much says that cigarettes have no permanent ill effects? 15 years and you're good as new!
(and remember kids: if smoking caused cancer, everyone who smoked would have cancer. Everything else is dice...) - Myonosken, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Yes because all women like ashtray chique.
- cgfranco, on 05/23/2008, -2/+8This is almost as bad as those "Truth" commercials. You'd have to be completely retarded to not know how bad smoking is. Enough already.
- BarryMcCawqiner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Quit about a year ago and my health is better and I can run faster... but god do I miss it. Especially while drinking - there truly is no more blissful state of being, this side of legal drug use, than getting a buzz and topping it off with a smoke.
- unclebuck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@AnthonyA7
How old are you? I was pretty much as you describe when I was 20 years old and in the Marines. I smoked almost 2 packs per day, but was in excellent shape. The smoking really caught up with me when I hit 30. I quit about two months ago, and haven't regretted it for a minute. Smoking sucked. - ROFLance, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I began smoking as a teenager and quit just a few years after, and even that was a battle. My dad was a smoker for 20 years and is about to make his one year mark of no smoking. It is a battle but for someone with diabetes his health has improved drastically, mine as well. If anybody knows someone who has recently quit smoking this would be something you could show them for their efforts.
- stevenhatfield, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I worked for an Insurance company in the Structured Settlements division for 6 years. The underwriters of the division were there to help people save money by determining just how "old" they are for "real", not their actual age, but their "rated" age. If they have a higher rated age, then their structured settlement could cost them less money, if there are any life contingent benefits.
That being said, the underwriters used a set of "mortality tables" to determine a person's real age by the habits and health of the person. Non-smokers had the "normal" tables, and smokers had a whole different set of tables, because smoking interacts with other things than just your lungs. If you have some internal injury, smoking can greatly affect your body in a very bad way... so smokers were considered to have a much shorter life span than non-smokers, in some cases, much much shorter. - xenoploid, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Overblowing the side-effects of quiting isn't really funny. You should encourage people. It's pretty pathetic that on top of being a jerk when you were quiting, that you feel the need to essentially discourage others.
- DiamondIce, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8@myonosken (#7134258)
"So what if it kills me, my friends, my family, a number of my acquaintances, and that guy that checked my tire pressure last week..."
Fixed for ya. - Philodox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7On a more negative note my dad smoked for most of his life and died of a heart attack when he was 48. The doctors never said whether smoking directly caused the heart attack, but if he were a non-smoker he would have been less at risk. Smoking is a disgusting habit and it boggles my mind that anybody still does it.
- smkoehler, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6i don't understand why anyone thats under 30 even starts anymore. you're only told its bad for you your entire life, and in my experiences, no one really looked at the kids who smoked as "the cool ones" in fact they always looked like idiots because they'd always be asking each other to get a cig, and then smoke in the bathroom in the middle school and high school, real cool, i love hanging out with other guys in the boys room.
- Requi3m10, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Theres a saying i learned when i was a kid - People usually smoke during 5 occasions, by telling yourself to stop smoking on these occasions one at a time it'll help you to start reducing the amount you smoke which can help quitting.
1) After sex
2) After you eat
3) While taking a crap
4) When you're bored
5) When you consume alcohol
Apart from 1+ 5, i've been able to quite the rest and reduced the amount i smoke by quite a bit, if that helps. - DrFrigmundPseud, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9You forgot to mention...
24 hours to ∞: Your intense hunger and ability to actually taste food conspire against your aspirations to ever get laid again. - linkcma, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7How about not smoking in the first place?
- uberphildo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8You're trying to tell me that people use the internet to sell stuff and use popular sites for promotion? Blasphemy!
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yeah, great idea... since a drop of nicotine is deadly.
Why not just get nicotine inhalers from the local pharmacy? - xenoploid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I quit by taking a week off from work, drinking and eating right and watching movies. If people aren't supportive around you, or you don't have friends, FIND someone to help you. Don't answer the phone, e-mail, don't drive, etc. Just do as little as possible.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Nicotine itself is extremely toxic. Ingesting about 40 milligrams of pure nicotine, or roughly the amount contained in two cigarettes, is fatal. However, when a cigarette is smoked, most of the nicotine is burned, and only one to four milligrams are absorbed by the smoker."
http://www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/Drug_and_Addiction_Information/tobacco_dyk.html
"Pure nicotine is a very powerful poison. A drop of it on the skin of a rabbit causes an immediate shock. If you smoke a packet of 20 cigarettes every day you inhale 400 mg of nicotine more or less per week. If this quantity was injected instantly it would kill you like a gunshot."
http://www.iqsjordan.com/english/nicotine.html - PedleZelnip, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4My grandfather died from stomach cancer which also spread to his brain, and absolutely I'd agree -- horrible way to go out.
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