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the official *i'm quitting!* thread

Welp I am going to quit once again tonight (this'll be about my 5th or 6th try). I spent this morning meditating telling my future self to remember to buy the patch on the way home from work tonight. Hopefully I remember ;)

The hardest part for me is not starting again b/c my gf smokes and often encourages me to "go outside" with her (that is our euphemism for smoking a cig, since we only smoke outside where we live). The other part is that I know for a fact that it helps me manage my stress, which has been unbearable of late. Despite my huge hunger for life and living, lately I find the totality of my stressors starts my mind off thinking about death and suicide and such. My rational self is able to recognise these thoughts as rubbish, but then they pop in my head nonetheless and compared to the way I feel, the scales seem to tip ever so slightly in the wrong direction. The reason I am laying this on you guys is that when I smoke cigs, I seem able to work through these moments and refocus. Maybe I should talk to my doc about wellbutrin...I could use the mood and a side of clean lungs to go...that'd be a nicee Happy Meal.

I need some luck this time around...
 
I have recently quit all drugs including cigarettes and rarely drink coffee. This is partially for health reasons but mostly I'm doing it for other people. I replaced drugs with large amounts of junk food. As my girlfriend says "you're not an addict, you just have no self control"

The hardest thing has been cigarettes, but really only at certain times. I completely understand the poster talking about his GF telling him to come outside and smoke. Virtually all the time i spent chatting and talking about work related stuff with my coworkers and boss was done while smoking. Luckily for me a lot of my coworkers who smoked happened to quit.

The way I've always stopped smoking is to slowly reduce the number of events at which I smoke. For instance the first to go would be smoking while you're at home doing nothing in paticular. Then smoking in the car. Then smoking at work. Then smoking while socializing.
 
I've got the 21mg nicotine patch on my left arm. So far so good, I had a strong craving while I was getting ready to jet out for work this morning. My gf of coarse was having a smoke outside, which made me crave a smoke pretty strongly (although she was kind enough to take my lighter away from me so I wouldn't bum any cigs at work). I also started a low carb atkins/south beach type of eating regimine today as well. I hereby declare today to be get healthy day!
 
orange said:
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.
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This is a great technique. Ive heard many people say they used this (on the quitnet forums and stuff). Seems to work because you end up at a place where you dont even really want to smoke one the next day.

I have to confess. I took a few smokes off one of those mini cigar things the other night while drunk (I didnt even remember I did it until someone told me)

:(

Something interesting though, I felt disgusting the next day..and it definately did not make me want to go buy a pack...

Keep with it quitters..and if you give in like I did, dont use it as an excuse to say fuck it and go back to smoking all the way.
 
I bought a pack Thurdsday night but I am not smoking as much as I usually would. I have had 2 today. I am hoping this is still a positive step OR I could be rationalizing my addiction...again.
 
Seems like nothing ever works like just stopping all at once, all together..but I understand you have to get to a place where you are ready to do that. Do whatever works for you.
 
I read a book called 'the easy way to give up smoking' which helped - you just have to decide to do it & stick with it. the first week was hard with the cravings but you just need to remember that why on earth do you want to spend so much money for the priveledge of killing yourself & filling yourself with countless carcinogenic fumes that make you smell? That did it for me hehe.:D
 
2 days no smokes...and haven't broken the low carb barrier either. Doing good. Feel rather good too. I have been hacking up alot of plegm and feeling myself able to breathe again...and things smell vibrant all of a sudden...gotta keep focussed on these positive things.

I am gaining the power of breath.
I am gaining lightness.
 
Right on! Keep it going. I think I should try the patch. I lasted 12 days cold turkey and had a case of hives for 4 days.
 
Yeah the patch seems to work well, just gotta make sure to ween yerself down off the patch with the lower mg strengths. And sometimes, the patch gives me a slight bit of the palpitations, but then I just take it off.
 
CatfishRivers said:
2 days no smokes...and haven't broken the low carb barrier either. Doing good. Feel rather good too. I have been hacking up alot of plegm and feeling myself able to breathe again...and things smell vibrant all of a sudden...gotta keep focussed on these positive things.

I am gaining the power of breath.
I am gaining lightness.
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Good job! Keep with it! :)
 
Still going strong although the urge to smoke has been strong...I just keep downing diet pepsi everytime I feel the urge...something about the diet pepsi that gets me through...must the the phenylalanine...
 
I succesfully quit smoking for two years now after having a 6 year habit (cold turkey), so if I can offer any advice here it is.
Don't think of yourself as quitting, you QUIT or you don't, there's no in between. There is no "rewarding" yourself for making it a week or any of that bullshit, you stop and it's over don't look back.
It also helps ( your friends will hate you) to just constantly talk shit about how awful cigs are, how they taste like shit, how you smell like shit, how bad your breath smells, food tastes wrong, the money wasted, etc.. just constantly talk shit, that way you feel more like an ass if you fuck up.

FUCK CIGS!!! YOU CAN ALL DO IT!!!
 
Sigh... I am sick yet again and my last cig was at 11 am this morning. Having gone 9 hours is bullshit, I know, but this is the longest I haven't had new nicotine in my body during the day in a while. If I can only last a little bit longer, just a few more days and be done with the physical withdrawal, I will feel good. Perhaps. Perhaps. I wont put myself down because I know I can do it.
 
I just stopped today myself. Had my last cig at 8am while on the way home from work. Going to start on the patch tomorrow morning.

This will be something like the tenth time I've quit. Hopefully this time it lasts.
 
I went to a conference for 3 days...no smoking allowed for me. The majority of the staff at work knows I quit but I am too embarrassed to admit I relapsed. My friends and family know I caved.

I thought I would have to choke a bitch. Sadly, the first thing I did when I hopped in my truck at the airport was light up.
 
Quitting when faced with constant stressors is almost impossible, but the main thing to do is just wait out the crave and the withdrawal at fir st. I've been chewing gum all day, and drinking water, it really helps. Although this is my first quit day, so far so good. I even watched a friend smoke a cig and I didn't get a crazy ass craving. Good luck to us quitters and smokers tomorrow :)
 
I had to go to a friggen 8 hour driving class because of a ticket and nearly everybody there smoked during the break. I really don't know how I got through it without smoking, self-control I guess. I was even offered a smoke and turned it down, the very first time in my life that I have turned down a smoke. At one point I was thinking "Well maybe one smoke, I could become an occasional smoker' but quickly realized the horrible reasoning behind that. But after a couple hours I realized that I just didn't want to smoke. I'm feeling so much healthier without all that shit I inhale through my throat. So three weeks now but I'm ready to stop counting. The saved money that I usually would spend on cigarettes says it all.
 
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