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the official *i'm quitting!* thread

i caved today, too. i got high and it was just so nice outside i thought... a cig outside would be sooo nice. and i had one. and ill have some tonight (drinking for the first time since last week! hey, at least im cutting out MOST of the bad things instead of going through a pack/day and drinking every day...)
 
Today is day one of what I hope to be my cigarette smoke free existence.

I will be damned if I am quitting pot. Gotta get the carcinogens somewhere We don't roll with tobacco, so it must be okay, right? Pleeeze. I know the answer to that. Cripes, rationalized like the addict I am.
 
Day One almost ready for bed

Yes...pot will always be fine with me until the day I keel over. At least that is a high, a feeling that I can relay in words and conjure up in memory...that is not fair really. It is not a memory. I am high now.

I was thinking tonight that I know the act of smoking is disgusting. I have known that and have felt that for years. I don't like the smell on me or the breath but I continued to do it. I tried to do a little as possible and not be one of those people you pass on the street or in a store and ewww that is a smoker!

I can't actually put into words how smoking makes me feel. The effect of nicotine. Can anyone? Just put into words for me.

It must have felt good as I did it for 16 years. You know you can easily recall and touch on what MDMA feels like, LSD feels like, what mushrooms feels like, alcohol feels like, marijuana feels like, what amphetamines feels like....I cannot describe the effect of nicotine. What a creepy seedy drug. It gets in your head and kills your body slowly. I cannot remember what IT feels like. Not the act of but the effect. And it is all legal :P Very smart of the government. Very smart tobacco companies. Stupid humans for lighting up.

I am not going to turn into one of those holy rollin anti-smokers either. Do what you want. My bf smokes in our house and he may continue to do so without bitching from me....although he asked tonight if I wouldn't mind if he did....awwww thanks J
 
^^ Interesting perspective on smoking. I think you should try natural additive-free tobacco and roll it yourself. It might help you get better acquainted with the real tobacco.. not the freeze-dried, freon ammonia sprayed, hundred chemical cocktail with burn-lines in the paper cigarettes..

I heard the oldest man in Vietnam/Cambodia attributed his long life to happiness and tobacco.
 
Stop smoking gaining weight

I sit here with Crest Whitestrips on killing 30 minutes so I can't possibly smoke on the evening of Day 2. :D

I do wonder...will I gain weight if I continue to eat the same as my smoking days? How much has nicotine altered my metabolism after 16 years?

I am 125 lbs at 5'5". I never used smoking for weight control or did I subconsciously? My body has never been up to my standards. I know I could be healthier but I am lazy. I should kick in some more exercise time on top of my current level of nothing.

I was going to participate in a clinical trial using Naltrexone vs. placebo. Each group gets a nicotine patch. Naltrexone is used for alcohol and opiate abusers. The researchers propose that Naltrexone and the patch aid in reducing weight gain in the first 6 months of smoking cessation.

The 9 interviews over 9 months were during work hours so I didn't participate.
 
It is going into day 8. I have smoked 3 cigarettes in the last 24 hours and will not falter or feel guilty about those 3 moments. Tomorrow is another day.

Where are the other quitters? Gimme something positive because I know I am doing the right thing. I didn't think it would be this hard.
 
You just have to quit and not assosciate yourself with cigs anymore even if it means not being around people when smoking because it will bring on an urge. I have been cig free for over a half year now and feeling great you just need to law down the law to yourself and just keep telling yourself you'd rather not have cancer and be on resparatiers and shit when you are old and can't breate, fuck that.
 
I quit smoking quite awhile ago...had a relapse, but kicked that as well...no problems.

here's a couple of things I did:

First, you realize that a cigarette craving lasts approximately 3-5 minutes. That's all;)

3-5 minutes and you have forgotten about it; so what I did was, whenever I had a craving, I'd just do something compulsive. Talk about random shit with whoever was around, pull a hackey sack out of my pocket and toss it up and down in the air, stress ball, flip through channels, make a phone call...something to get my mind off it.

Secondly, My Dad went to weight watchers a long time ago, and they taught him that whenever he knew he shouldn't eat anymore, to compulsively grab the salt shaker and douse the remaining food in salt until it was inedible.

i applied this logic to cigaretts. This is gonna sound crazy, and all you hard core smokers would probably backhand-slap me across the face...

but whenever I found a cigarette entering my hands...I compulsively snapped it in half.

You better believe no one was bummin' me any more cigs; not to mention the one I just broke wasn't smokable anymore.

Then you pick something healthy that you do atleast once a day. Jog, lift weights, aerobics, ride your bike; anything that is going to emphasize the benefits of your new-found smoke free life.

for me, it was working out, and it is a routine I have carried with me since the day I quit...3 years ago. (minus my 5 month relapse).

You have no idea how good you will feel when you start kickin' all that shit out of your body. And believe me, there will be a time when you can't even stand to be aruond cigarettes, it'll drive you out of the room at times.

Stick with it!! the physical craving lasts all but a week or two, after that, it's all psychological.

G'luck, keep us posted.

SI
 
I've been smoking about a pack a day for about eight years now and just quit also. So far I haven't had a cigarette in six days now. I haven't used the gum or patch or any of that. My real addiction was the act of smoking. This is only my second attempt in my entire smoking career. I've noticed a slight increase in anxiety and some depression but I'm doing better than I thought I would be doing, especially while going on a diet at the same time! I'm surprised that my appetite hasn't increased.
 
Today is day 8 and my appetite has increased. I can usually plug along in the work day morning and eat at noon. I have to carry snacks now...fruit, yogurt, healthy stuff.

I feel "off". Yesterday and today. Not much motivation to do anything. This too shall pass.
 
Well you got me beat by one day. I haven't really noticed an increased hunger drive but I was put on Concerta like three weeks ago so that may have something to do with it but it really doesn't suppress my appetite. I still gained weight until I saw my doctor and started this diet. Lost 7 pounds in 7 days. I find that light yogurt, particularly Blue Bunny 85 Lite, makes for a great snack.
 
It is actually day 9. I had to count on my fingers. I am not out to beat you, K'dOUTinAZ (always favoured your handle). I imagine we COULD start a dicksizing thread about who can last the longest without smoking a butt :) That would be something better to carry on about. Some of the kids here on bluelight make me chuckle.

I appreciate your support and you have mine.
 
Check out this site. I found it to be really cool for stopping smoking. It has a neat little calculator on it that measures how many days you havent smoked, how many ciggs you havent smoked, life time and money saved. Good stuff. Good luck to the quitters. :)
 
I quit 4 years ago. The process of smoking is hard to give up. I decided that I would take Tobacco free cig breaks. That helps. I stayed at home for about 3 days and avoided contact with smokers and the places they go.

Staying quit is the trick though. I often reminded myself that although I liked smoking, cigs really never made the best times of my life better. If I had a really good time partying with friends, that is what I would remember, not the cigs that we were smoking. I might remember getting blasted with friends or smoking weed in school, but I can't really say I remember really enjoying very many of the cigs I have smoked.

I am a pyro and part of the reason I smoked was because I like playing with fire! I made time to play with fire when I quit and still like to buy a zippo now and then.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I quit for years once but started again when my buddy got some good hash oil. We would smear some oil on a paper and roll it up with some tobacco. I was back smoking a pack a day in no time. Once you quit, do not even have a single drag of a cig again.
 
Oh, another thing, when I wanted a cig I would tell myself I could have one if I waited a day, the next day I would tell myself the same thing.


Now I do not even think about cigs at all, even when people are smoking nearby me. I only really remember that I used to smoke when someone brings it up.
 
One more thing, when I was getting ready to quit, I would put water on any cigs I had at the end of the day. That way when I woke up, I would not light up. Then I would wait until a specific time before I would buy cigs. At first 11 am, then 12, 1pm, 2, 3, 4. After a while, I was buying cigs at 8 pm and putting them under water at midnight. My smoking window as only 4 hours, then I finally quit.

Keep at it people, you can do it.
 
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