SunriseChampion
Bluelighter
Two weeks ago, I went on a bit of an alcohol bender with a mate who turned 40 that week. It was match day, we went out and didn't come back for two days of pubs (our boys won 5:1 a.e.t!).
Woke up Monday feeling like complete shite.
Me and my friends aren't alcoholics, but when we drink, we drink everything. Tolerances super high, never get denied service at a pub, even after having drank for 12 hours or whatever. Brutal alcohol binge drinking. My hangovers have been ridiculous the last few years (I'm 34).
I've been smoking for 15 years. Started off smoking 4-6 a day, a year later up to 20 a day, down to about 15 a few years ago, and most recently 5ish last winter and up to 10-13 a day most recently. However, in the last year or so I've found I don't want a smoke when hungover.
I had been thinking about quitting in the last few months, by cutting down drastically, and eventually only smoking once or twice a week.
So that Monday, when I woke up at noon feeling like a bag of pissed-on dirt, I really didn't want a smoke.
Still felt like shite the next day and still didn't feel like smoking.
By day 3 I had decided that I would stubbornly go on not smoking.
At first this vexed me immensely as I had not at any point decided that that Sunday I would have my last smoke. To make it worse, I bought a pack on my way hom after pub number 3 on Sunday at midnight and had one smoke when I got home before going to bed. This was two weeks ago today. I still have that pack and carry it in my work lunch bag ( I work full time). I think I wiped my brain clean with that last binge, though I had also started making low dose (not micro dose) mushroom tea in the las two months and drinking that fairly regularly. Had some on the first night of the last binge. Wondering if that had some effect on wiping my addicted mind clean of the nicotine.
I don't know why I haven't done this sooner as I find this to be the easiest thing I've ever quit. I quit doing meth regularly after 8 months like shutting off a light switch, but this has been even easier. Only on day 4 did I jones a bit in the evening after a hectic day at work.
The only negative effect of withdrawal I noticed was a constant hunger during the first week and a half. I mostly ignored it and just drank more water.
I feel I can breathe better. I can smell better. I feel better because in the last few years I started getting weird chest pains on occasion. Nothing drastic and quickly passing, but I haven't had one since.
I still want to be able to have a smoke once in a while, but now I'm scared of fucking up any recovery my body has made. This happened after I read about how the body heals upon ceasing.
Does anyone know if having the occasional smoke does damage on the same scale as chronic smoking to, for example, the cilia in the lungs? Does risk of heart attack acutely increase with a single cigarette?
Anyway, I may just give up on that once in a while smoke idea altogether.
It's a weird feeling all of a sudden not having something in your daily life that has been there for so long. 15 years. It was like a part of who I was. A lot of my friends can't believe I quit cold turkey like that.
Still, I feel it must be a trap because it's been too easy. I think it's been this easy because I wasn't a true head. I had cut out my morning smoke (after breakfast, with my tea, within an hour of waking up daily) a few years ago and didn't smoke that much. I also didn't smoke everywhere like some smokers do (indoors at home, in the car, etc). So that may have something to do with it.
Bonus has been that I've decided I can no longer drink anything more that a touch because I just know (for now at least) that 3 pints in I'm going for a smoke. Thankfully football season is over so I should be able to handle a drink or five for when it starts up again.
I've stocked up on mushrooms and have started making low dose tea on the regular.
Anyway, if I can do it, so can you.
Woke up Monday feeling like complete shite.
Me and my friends aren't alcoholics, but when we drink, we drink everything. Tolerances super high, never get denied service at a pub, even after having drank for 12 hours or whatever. Brutal alcohol binge drinking. My hangovers have been ridiculous the last few years (I'm 34).
I've been smoking for 15 years. Started off smoking 4-6 a day, a year later up to 20 a day, down to about 15 a few years ago, and most recently 5ish last winter and up to 10-13 a day most recently. However, in the last year or so I've found I don't want a smoke when hungover.
I had been thinking about quitting in the last few months, by cutting down drastically, and eventually only smoking once or twice a week.
So that Monday, when I woke up at noon feeling like a bag of pissed-on dirt, I really didn't want a smoke.
Still felt like shite the next day and still didn't feel like smoking.
By day 3 I had decided that I would stubbornly go on not smoking.
At first this vexed me immensely as I had not at any point decided that that Sunday I would have my last smoke. To make it worse, I bought a pack on my way hom after pub number 3 on Sunday at midnight and had one smoke when I got home before going to bed. This was two weeks ago today. I still have that pack and carry it in my work lunch bag ( I work full time). I think I wiped my brain clean with that last binge, though I had also started making low dose (not micro dose) mushroom tea in the las two months and drinking that fairly regularly. Had some on the first night of the last binge. Wondering if that had some effect on wiping my addicted mind clean of the nicotine.
I don't know why I haven't done this sooner as I find this to be the easiest thing I've ever quit. I quit doing meth regularly after 8 months like shutting off a light switch, but this has been even easier. Only on day 4 did I jones a bit in the evening after a hectic day at work.
The only negative effect of withdrawal I noticed was a constant hunger during the first week and a half. I mostly ignored it and just drank more water.
I feel I can breathe better. I can smell better. I feel better because in the last few years I started getting weird chest pains on occasion. Nothing drastic and quickly passing, but I haven't had one since.
I still want to be able to have a smoke once in a while, but now I'm scared of fucking up any recovery my body has made. This happened after I read about how the body heals upon ceasing.
Does anyone know if having the occasional smoke does damage on the same scale as chronic smoking to, for example, the cilia in the lungs? Does risk of heart attack acutely increase with a single cigarette?
Anyway, I may just give up on that once in a while smoke idea altogether.
It's a weird feeling all of a sudden not having something in your daily life that has been there for so long. 15 years. It was like a part of who I was. A lot of my friends can't believe I quit cold turkey like that.
Still, I feel it must be a trap because it's been too easy. I think it's been this easy because I wasn't a true head. I had cut out my morning smoke (after breakfast, with my tea, within an hour of waking up daily) a few years ago and didn't smoke that much. I also didn't smoke everywhere like some smokers do (indoors at home, in the car, etc). So that may have something to do with it.
Bonus has been that I've decided I can no longer drink anything more that a touch because I just know (for now at least) that 3 pints in I'm going for a smoke. Thankfully football season is over so I should be able to handle a drink or five for when it starts up again.
I've stocked up on mushrooms and have started making low dose tea on the regular.
Anyway, if I can do it, so can you.
They are THE Toronto smoke and they're the original charcoal filter dart. I love you Belmont! 
