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Harm Reduction The Official Bluelight Smoking Cessation Thread v. Let's quit the cancer

I've strangely found cigarette smoke to smell really good since I quit using an e cig. Idk if that'd make me more triggered to smoke b/c i usually have nicotine saturating myself throughout the day more or less
 
Camel Lights were always enjoyable to me as well

I havent smoked a real cig in a week, and even the e cig is going unused now.

If I ever get my volcano I can cut out smoking altogether
 
I quit smoking cold turkey 6 days ago, I was smoking about one pack of Camel Blues or lights a day. I feel a lot better, my taste and smell are slowly starting to come back around. Whats strange is that the only withdrawl symptoms I've had are mild anxiety, mild headaches, and lethargy for the first two days after I quit. I really wish I had done this sooner.
I'm not having any cravings and I purposely went around some people who were smoking and I didn't even feel like smoking, the smell of smoke smelled a little strange to me and I said no more I will never smoke another cigarette again in my life. Good luck to everybody who has quit or is in the proces of quitting. -556m4

Wow, congrats on your 6 days off cigs!
I have to say that I'm impressed by your 'lethargy' the first 2 days after you quit - in my case, I get so hyperactive and restless the first few days after quitting that I can't even sleep without taking sleeping pills... I can handle the cravings, no problem, but I find it so fucking hard to turn around endlessly in bed that I always end up picking up a cigarette. Which is why I fail at quitting :(
 
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Nicotine..just quit smoking...

So it's been 3 weeks without a cig..and I'm stil lcoughing up very nasty stuff. How long untill it's all over?

I smoked for almosy 9 years. Mostly cigs but black n milds inhaled at the end.
 
Your really expecting to be all better after a month? you've been inhaling bullshit for 9 years daily my friend. It's gonna take a long ass time to fix that.
 
Newbierock said:
Your really expecting to be all better after a month? you've been inhaling bullshit for 9 years daily my friend. It's gonna take a long ass time to fix that.
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Well that's why I am asking...8)
 
It takes a really long time until your lungs are completely free BUT, just as with most diseases problems etc. the "curing curve" is not linear, instead in the first few weeks the healing goes fast and then it slows and slows down until you are healthy (unless of course you caused yourself some serious lung disease which may last your whole life aka Hi there, Im cancer). I can give you example numbers from myself as I used to be a smoker too:
I smoked from when I was 14 to my 21st birthday, so about 6.5 years. Now I havent smoked for more than 2 years. It took about 12-15 months until I stopped coughing altogether, but I would say after first 3 months about 70% of the shit was gone. The remaining 30% just takes much longer but by that time you already feel very good.

What probably matters though is that I stopped while still young, I've heard that people who quit smoking after they're 50 usually NEVER stop coughing.
 
6apbhmm said:
It takes a really long time until your lungs are completely free BUT, just as with most diseases problems etc. the "curing curve" is not linear, instead in the first few weeks the healing goes fast and then it slows and slows down until you are healthy (unless of course you caused yourself some serious lung disease which may last your whole life aka Hi there, Im cancer). I can give you example numbers from myself as I used to be a smoker too:
I smoked from when I was 14 to my 21st birthday, so about 6.5 years. Now I havent smoked for more than 2 years. It took about 12-15 months until I stopped coughing altogether, but I would say after first 3 months about 70% of the shit was gone. The remaining 30% just takes much longer but by that time you already feel very good.
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That's about my situation. Thx!
 
For me, when I would quit, my lungs cleared up in about 2 months. I could feel the differences in breathing. No more phlem.
If you google about quiting you will come up with some guide lines on when the beneficial effects happen. Some are now, some are months or years away. Congratulations on quiting <3
 
I had been down to 1 cig a day, but for the past week or so i've had maybe 1 cigarette. I normally have low blood pressure (I can feint if i stand up too fast from laying/sitting down), and I check it everytime i fill my script of subs at rite aid. When I was at one a day during my one cigarette a day period, it was about 120/70, which is high for me.

Since nixing it even for only a couple days, my blood pressure has already dropped to 100/60, which is getting back to normal for how I used to be. It should be dropping lower since I work out a lot now and take better care of myself.

This is of course just 1 of the many benefits (almost done coughing up all the shit from my lungs, can taste and smell better, helped me stop being sick, etc etc etc), but I felt like I would post it because its something very evident that can be noticed from even a few days off of smokes, as well as something that can be objectively QUANTIFIED to give you just an idea of how much (in a number) cigarettes impact you.

I went like 4 days, had a smoke on thursday, hopefully I can go forever this time, though i'd settle for a week!
 
i haven't smoked a cig in about a week after blasting some dmt - funnily enough, last night, after i had just snapped back to reality, my father - who has a broken wrist - asked me to roll him a few and i nearly started vomiting from the smell of the tobacco. the smell has been disgusting to say the least, even more so than the smell of those beautiful amber crystals of dmt.

even while using morphine and valium, which are huge triggers, i haven't had the urge. same story with weed, apart from the dmt laced cones.

keep on keepin on, people.
 
Hnoestly...even one cig a week is not good. I thought the same "oh one cig a week...still good" but no..once I STOPPEd all together for 2 weeks I started the process of coughing shit up.
 
I haven't been smoking for over one day now, with some nicotine chewing tablets (2 mg). The strip of 12 tablets lasts me a day. It's 3 euros/12 tablets, but it's not a bad price, if I can quit with this method. Last time I tried to quit; I didn't use any nicotine products, so I relapsed after 5 days. Now I have enough motivation and these little helpers to help me quit. Smoking affects the plasma concentrations of some antipsychotics I'm using, so I'm looking forward to maybe decreasing my antipsychotic dose, because the tobacco smoke doesn't induce my liver enzymes anymore (and so has been requiring me to take a bigger dose of medicine, compared to if I wouldn't have been smoking).
 
^Good for you Survival0200 :)

I am really having a hard time with trying to quit smoking. My cigarette cravings have gone way up since I've greatly reduced my methadone dose. The only reasons I really want to quit smoking are: a) I feel like it's getting out of control and I'm smoking compulsively without even really enjoying it, and b) my mouth freaking hurts a lot and I'm worried it's from smoking (not that it seems to feel any better when I smoke less though :(). I'm actually really worried about my mouth, it has never felt this way before and my entire mouth and tongue have been hurting a lot for the past few weeks. Anyway, I guess I just need some support and advice please :)
 
I've been addicted to nicotine cessation products for several years now. It kind of sucks, but I never succeeded quitting smoking so I consider it a fair trade. At least my lungs and throat are at ease and I still get the fucking nicotine I need. I wish to stop them some day, but not sure if I ever can.

I've calculated the price of nicotine products vs. smoking is about the same, but it's a whole lot healthier and that's why I choose it. Smoking must be the worst addiction ever discovered. I used to relapse on smoking every now and then before, but it's getting really rare now. The taste and feel in the throat and lungs is just unbearable (vs. the "high").
 
For anyone who enjoys the way that drugs sharpen the perceptions and manifest the true beauty of existence, giving up smoking is a *must*. I say this because you will not be fully aware of just how much smoking has dumbed your senses right down. Your sense of taste is dumbed, your smell is dumbed, your mental faculties are dumbed. Your perception of the world is greyed. You spend your whole life in constant, anxious, 30 minute withdrawal periods from a drug that has done nothing but dumbed down your whole sense of this beautiful world. And remember: smoking doesn't calm stresses, it gives you stress, then it convinces you that it's there to solve it.

Good luck everybody!
 
I've been avoiding these bad boys for the most part with a few slips.
 
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