the official *i'm quitting!* thread

[Free Radical]

fuck!

i wasn't even craving cigs today, but after 12 days clean, today on my lunch break i impulsively went out and bought a pack of camel unfiltered for no good reason!!

STUPID STUPID STUPID--i don't know wtf i was thinking....i guess i wasn't 8(

boredom, perhaps. smoking and pacing and thinking at home or smoking in my car and listening to music when on break at work is something to do...

anyway i'm quitting again after finishing this pack. with regard to withdrawal, will that put me back at day 1?!

also i'm on 150mg ext release bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin), and the dosage will probably get raised to 300mg, so that should help quite a bit

meanwhile i must find a replacement behavior....when i quit i feel like part of my life is gone. i enjoy smoking too much

 

[drug_wench]

i HAD quit........goddamn detox got me going again
no-longer a regular pot/meth-smoker now tho

 

[Free Radical]

^understandable. my smoking fucking TRIPLED during opium withdrawal. cigs are a small comfort during crushing depression....really besides cheap rum they were all i had to get thru my Home Detox

 

[mariacallas]

I quit smoking November of last year ......I only had one cigarette Christmas day after the family dinner and my cousins all egged me to have one celebratory cigarette Since then I have not had one smoke and I dont crave it either. From a 2 pack a day habit in the mid 90s I tapered to smoking only lights (lol) , a pack a day, than a pack a week, than I just stopped buying cigarettes and started mooching off my siblings Than I just totally quit.
After a good decade of subjecting my lungs to this shit I can say I'm very happy with the changes I've made and I did it on my own time. Nobody forced me, and I didnt do it half-heartedly (which probably wouldnt work anyway. I'm a very extreme person when it comes to my habits , its always all or nothing.)
What also influenced me to quit was my getting back into an exercise routine this year ....it kind of defeats the purpose of exercising when I take smoke breaks in between, doesnt it ? (yes, I used to do that!)
If somebody told me two years ago (when I was still smoking regularly....could not even DRIVE without a cigarette in hand ! always had to smoke after meals! etc) that I would be giving up cigarettes for good this year I'd prolly have laughed at his face. You might just surprise yourself, miracles happen everyday.

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

Im also on my way to being completely smoke free again. I quit once awhile ago but started back again while partying. I only do it when drunk so its hard to quit, for one since it seems "just a little bit isnt bad"..but it is! I can feel the heaviness in my lungs after a night of drinking and I can also feel my diminished lung capacity when running from chain smoking the mini cigars (which seem much more heavy than ciggarettes). I was just listening to a talk radio show where they were once again discussing in detail how horrible smoking is and what it does to the body. I cant live with myself knowing Im putting poison into my body! No matter how infrequently, its still bad.