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Deltronpedro

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Hey guys,
wondering if anyone of you could give me tips for smke stopping.
Started in the age of 17, now Im twenty one. Recently I smoked about 20 cigs a day.
I think that is one of the reasons I get not rid an anxiety disorder I got.
Any impressions?
I think its a hard peace of work for me and Im thankfull for every tip.
Have a nice day
 
I will be starting or bringing back up a thread on quitting. I set my quit date as jan 5 if you want to consider quitting then too. Support and all that.

We could continue this thread or start a new one. Regardless this thread probably has some advice and tips. I made it off the cigs, but only off the tobacco for a while and took up dipping. I'm so over being a slave to this shit.


Help me quit smoking
 
Start by rolling your own. It is cheaper, and you can probably afford healthier options. To be honest I don't think nicotine is that highly addictive, but that could be me. For me it was the habit that was hardest to break. And the taste of the smoke. I guess I rolled my own for a long time though.. A couple of years. Then I switched to snuff- nasal snuff. It was a process. The snuff packed a punch. Incredible strength and speed of getting the nicotine in. Made me forget about smoking, or gave me the focus to bypass. I had the fix. The habit of just pulling a cigarette out and smoking it had been offset by having to roll it, and then that cut me off from that habit, replacing it with one I found easier to break. Plus I think it was giving me a sore throat and making my blood vessels constrict, so I may have had more motivation. I didn't really experience withdrawal that I remember.
 
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I would wear my runners and start doing cardio workouts! Eversince I started intense cardio workouts i had finally quit smoking. It wouldnt make sense for me to go back and ruin my cardio and i feel like i had workex so hard in getting into intense workouts.
 
Try to figure out what you enjoy about smoking and when exactly you feel the need for a cigarette.
If you know that you will crave cigarettes after certain activities (eating, having a drink etc) you might want to change something to your routine to avoid these moments. Try to get busy after meals, or go to a coffee shop where smoking is not allowed for your morning coffee. Laws that prohibit smoking in public places are very helpful when you want to quit.
Doing cardio workouts is very good advice - you will immediately feel the difference, it will energize you and keep your mind busy.
If you're mainly addicted to the gesture of smoking I would suggest you try an e-cig. You can lower your nicotine intake progressively over a few months which makes it an (almost) painless method to quit. I quit smoking over 3 months ago using e-cigs. I still can't believe how easy that was.

Here's the link to another smoking cessation thread http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/630243-The-Official-Bluelight-Smoking-Cessation-Thread-v-Let-s-quit-the-cancer.
 
Have you tried other kinds of tobacco? Ive been on and off cigarettes for a while. Have you considered dipping or chewing? Takes some getting used to. If not theres the e cigs, nicotine gum, patches. I mean when it comes down to it if you really want to quit you will quit.

There was a time where i was paranoid of getting lung cancer since i started smoking since i was 12 and i just straight up quit. The 'withdraws' that people talk about really arent something to write home about and easily ignored.
 
XThexXTank said:
Have you tried other kinds of tobacco? Ive been on and off cigarettes for a while. Have you considered dipping or chewing? Takes some getting used to. If not theres the e cigs, nicotine gum, patches. I mean when it comes down to it if you really want to quit you will quit.

There was a time where i was paranoid of getting lung cancer since i started smoking since i was 12 and i just straight up quit. The 'withdraws' that people talk about really arent something to write home about and easily ignored.
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Well its not a bout the smoke. Its about the nicotine. I dont care what the smoke brings with it, I know the harm.
Someone told me its better to stop smoking if you have an anxiety disorder(I have since I took some MD months back) cause nicotine would slow down/hinder the recovery. Well..
So another nicotine including alternative isnt the solution for me.
Yesterday I only smoked 3 cigs and two days before 0.
Dunno if I can manage to hold it down on a tolerable inoput level.
 
XThexXTank said:
The 'withdraws' that people talk about really arent something to write home about and easily ignored.
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I agree with you, I wonder if this «nicotine-withdrawal-is-hell» thing was invented by Nicorette to sell gum that tastes like vomit.
 
I Smoke Cannabis All Day Everyday But Stay Away From Tobacco Except the Once a month Few Puffs Of A Flavoured Cigar But Usually I Chew Nicotine because it makes Caffeine Last Half as a long and makes it half as weak for Stimulation.
 
The thing that has helped me the most with quiting was joining the gym. Cardio and weight training makes you feel good and makes it easy to quit smoking. Now when I think about smoking I say no way am I going back.
 
Some people I know quit by every time they had a craving for a cigarette they would smoke herb instead.

Other used the nicotine patch, quit cold turkey, slowly cut back or smoked light/ultra light cigs and then quit, used the nicotine inhaler thing, e-cigs, Wellbutrin or some other stop smoking medication, and others would just start to smoke cigars/pipes since you don't inhale those.
 
I've got faith in you guys!

"Smoking cessation" meds and gum are interesting. Dip or e-cigs may be cheaper than gum, but that's a whole nother can o' worms..
Got some gum once that was cheap (free) and had a decent taste. 4mg. It's not usually free (still cheap), as it was a pricing mistake.

Does anyone have experience with hypnosis?

Obvious psychological approaches include staying busy to keep your mind off of it, and replacing one habit with different or better habits.
It's difficult for me to get a similar buzz from cigarettes as from a strong cigar, so there's an anecdote. Examples of cigarettes smoked were unfiltered luckies, djarum blacks, camel wides. LFD double ligero is where it's at for availability and potency..
 
Lol just think of emphysema. It actually scares me more than cancer.

I am also addicted to cigarette smoking. Not nicotine. Just smoking a cig. Ive rolled my own n shit and it wasnt the same. In the morning is passes through my mind but it's not until in the evening time when my anxiety goes up and i'm fiending a smoke. But this only happens when i'm doing nothing.

The good thing about dopamine is that anything that you enjoy causes it's secretion. So simply doing other things that are enjoyable can distract the mind from having a smoke. I personally only need 1 cig a day. That one cig works wonders.

Stopping cigs are gonna be hard for me. Even though i've done more than 20 different drugs, this is the hardest to just never do again. Besides weed, though I've come to grips that i am not ready to give up mary. She's beautiful and she won't hurt me.

But I'd love to stop smoking cigs. But can i? im scared. I think it'll change me. My grandfather whom has Parkinson's hasnt had a cigarette in 33years. after having 18 a day. The most fucked up thing about it though is what he told me.

He said up to this day he still feels to smoke.
 
The longest recorded living human smoked up to two cigarettes per day. I doubt this is an endorsement for smoking.. more likely evidence of the body's ability to endure and bounce back.

Still, some data links tobacco use with MAO-B inhibition, decreased Parkinson's risk, and even increased telomerase activity, et al. Could this be another version or element of the "French paradox"?

Apparently, living in a glass bubble isn't the best strategy for good health.
 
InvisibleEye said:
I agree with you, I wonder if this «nicotine-withdrawal-is-hell» thing was invented by Nicorette to sell gum that tastes like vomit.
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Yeah I know now dont quote me on this because i didnt do my research on this but you know all the "End it Now" "Quit Smoking" ads I bet they are made from all the big tobacco companies. Idk but probably nicorette gum and all the e-gics are made by RJ Reynolds and all them. Just a big fuckin scam to make more money.
 
I never had withdrawal from tobacco.. I felt an urge for a couple of days to a week when I would find myself in familiar routine/patterns. But that was it. The craving for sugar I've found way more insidious. I got withdrawals from cannabis, that was 1-2 weeks of fucked up sleep and feeling like shit. But tobacco.. nothing.

The belief that it's really hard to quit I think it what does the most harm to peoples attempts in quitting. It justifies their decision to fail the quitting before they even begin.
 
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