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I QUIT SMOKING, are you quitting? how long for

I regularly smoked cigarettes for 6 years. I quit a few months ago but it was a slow transfer to sniffing snuff. It's better for my lungs but probably addicted me even more... Well, I smoked the most in high school and during a few first months at university. Still when I'm really pissed off and nervous about something and there's someone with me who has cigarettes, I very rarely smoke one.

Now I'm stuck to the snuff, the palette of different aromas is so wide from some menthol/spearmint/peppermint through aniseed and a lot of fruit ones to perfumed ones like sandalwood or various flowers. I love perfumed SP ones from Wilsons of Sharrow. Tom Buck is probably my favorite one.

I don't know how many times I tried to quit smoking. Maybe once because I promised one girl I will stop but nevertheless I still smoked. She stopped having time for me, it was a good justification for me. Never mind, it was long long time ago and she was 14, a kid.
 
Currently trying to quit. The last pack I bought was a week ago and my last cigarette was two days ago.
 
I will quit for several months then start again when I run out of weed or get super stressed. Right now=on ARGH. If you quit, don't think you can just smoke one... :\
 
^ Definitely. The cigarettes I've been smoking in the last few weeks or so have pretty much all been while I'm drunk or opiated up, makes it harder to deal with quitting when sober.

It frustrates me that I can go weeks or even months without smoking tobacco, but give me a really stressful day or a little depression cued by an acute event and it's like I forgot why I ever wanted to quit; I think that those kinda days are behind me (hopefully).
 
I've tried unsuccessfully to quit a few times, but quitting meth is a bigger priority for me at the moment.
 
I am currently trying to quit for the worst (or best) reason

i no longer have any money

so far im about 24 hours in, and searching every sidewalk for a ciggy with a few drags left in it
 
I made it two months the only time i tried and dont know why i started again... maybe if i REALLY wanted to quit, i could?
 
I guess I quit being addicted to cigs if that makes sense :\

I've been occasionally smoking for five years and only recently became what I would considered addicted. But I've quit my pack a day habit (8 months total) and Since May I've smoked probably a pack altogether either while drunk or just chillin with friends. Thank god for the little self control that I have

And I know some of you are going to say it doesn't count as quitting if I smoke on occasion but honestly I don't see any problem health wise with the occasional cigarette.
 
ChemicalSmiles said:
This is like my tenth attempt at quitting, its day three.... xanax has been helping, as well as pot.... we'll see where this goes
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If smoked for 13 years and this is the beginning of day 4..... It really sucks I am having trouble sleeping even with pot and I have been smoking way more than normal.... also taking more xanax than usual.....
 
I smoked cigarettes from about 17 years old until 22 years old. I'm 25 now and would say I smoke about 6 cigarettes a year (if that). It's not anything I crave and know that I'll never smoke on a regular basis again. Prior to 'this final quit' I had tried about 5 times, unsuccessfully. It takes...a lot of work ;) I chewed a lot of gum during the really difficult quitting days (and still do).
 
i quit,

but i'll buy a pack if im on a vacation, or at a wedding, or i'll buy some loosies if im gunna be getting fucked up,


i dont crave nicotine anymore, i can take it or leave it, when i first quit i had nicotine cravings real bad, but now its just easy to smoke sometimes and shrug it off
 
Guys im still cig free and although I consumned over 30 beers, and 35 mgs of xanax over two weeks as a crutch (yeah im a btch, sue me)... I really think im done with them for good... I wake up not wanting one (which was the FIRST thing I thought of and sometimes I smoked before pissing even) Its been 13 years and now I think about them maybe 5 times a day.... usually mostly in the morning and once before bed. but after two weeks I can say its not bad... now only thing is... I took so much xanax that I gotta taper off that or i'll fucking seizure. So I skipped yesterday completely (low supply, low money, must save for radio appearance very soon) I have 2 bars and I plan on getting 3 more..... So I will only have 10 mgs to taper off of 35mgs worth, plus I was eating them before that occasionally... shouldn't be too bad I guess....
 
a hypnotist helped my wife quit for a coupe of years, however she returned to it so thats not a great way to do it in my opinion
 
ive noticed people that quit smoking sadly only temporarily quit. at least most of them, some stay clean, im super happy for them
 
Congratulations!

On July 3rd, I celebrated two months being smoke-free myself! Awesome feeling, isn't it? I have been chewing the nicotine gum, and it has made a great deal of difference in my success. No, it doesn't completely erase the cravings for a real smoky delicious hit of tar & nicotine, but it helps. A couple times I *almost* caved and went to take a puff, but I resisted and never once cheated. If you wait 5 or 10 minutes, the acute craving will subside. What I do is busy myself with a task, and that helps a lot. Two years ago, when I quit opiates, doing laundry was my therapy, LOL, and it has also proved helpful in ditching the smoking habit.

I think perhaps my cold turkey opiate w/d experience somewhat made quitting smoking easier, once I got serious and decided it was time. Although it has been a little rough in patches here and there, it has got NOTHING and I mean zip, zilch, zero, nada...on quitting the opiates. That was agonizing; this quitting smoking is merely trying, at least to me. (I know some people have had a much more difficult time than I have had, and I don't discount their experiences; I am merely outlining my own experience.)

So yeah, here I am, 67 days smoke-free, but I know I'm not anywhere close to being out of the woods yet. I am going to continue chewing the gum for a couple or three more weeks, as long as it takes, till I can safely say I don't need it anymore.

Also, I have stated to several people that, if I ever would choose to drink on any given occasion, I reserve the right to smoke as I do so. (I have not had a beer in almost a year, so this isn't anything I do with any frequency, obviously.) That being said, I have no plans in the immediate future to have a beer, so this is only an if-then scenario, not something I am proactively planning. I had thought about it on the 4th of July, just cracking a few beers while we grilled out and lit fireworks, but then I decided the not smoking thing is still way too new and fresh, and I could jeopardize all my progress and hard work if I were to do so. Thus, it will be awhile before I do, if ever.

When do y'all find that you most miss having a cigarette? For me, it is while talking on the phone or getting in my car to drive somewhere. So much of smoking is habit, not just physical addiction, (as with drugs, alcohol, or pretty much anything else, I suppose), and that is almost as hard to contend with as the physical addiction.

Anyway, best wishes to the OP and to everyone who is making this postive life-change choice. If anyone wants to talk about it, share advice, get advice, commisserate, etc., feel free to PM me!

Y'all take care and keep fighting the good fight! :)

Justine
 
Today is another important day for me...

Today I have officially Quit smoking ICE. I know its going to be a hard journey but i have everyone on bluelight to thank for mentally helping me to start this journey.

I'm going to smash my ice pipe in front of my girlfriend tonight. she's giving me one last chance to clean up my habit.

If i can't clean myself up by September, I'm admitting myself to rehab!
 
I'm planning to quit after I've finished my current packet. Need to save some money, and the government is now raising the tobacco tax, so smoking will become a more expensive habit. I'll probably increase my bupropion or something to help me quit.
 
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