[kadoomsoon]

Who is stronger, you or the cigarette?

Just remember, the cigarettes were manufactured by a globalist empire with added addiction chemicals put in there to make you a slave and make you pay them outrageous sums of money, while they kill you.

Every time you refouse to smoke, you are refusing to take it up the bung by international tobacco.


now, to make it younwill have to stop drinking coffee and pop.
caffiene multiplies cigarette hunger by 10 times

also no chocolate.

go snow-shoe around the block or do 100 situps and drink two glasses of water everytime you get a craving.

Your sub conscious will begin to associate a craving thought with PAIN and will knock it off pretty quickly, promise.

Plus, you'll get really buff...

international tobacco, write them a letter everytime you have a craving and let them know what damage they are doing to you and what sufferi9ng you are going through, thanks for nothing.

[lotrfan55345]

Yep, it was suprisingly more annoying than I thought considering I probably only smoked about two packs worth or something, over the space of the summer.

Random (but not that intense, just like a chocolate craving) cravings still pop up even today.

[kadoomsoon]

It has been 19 years since I stopped smoking and sometimes I still dream about it or get cravings. One dream comes up under stress, and get nauseated from OD, and I wake up and check to see if I had really done it, it is really addicting. Do not start.

The people that sell this should be put in prison for crimes against humanity.


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BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH, THEY ARE COMING.

[gampy]

Oh...man...do ...I ...ever...want...a ...smoke. I want a smoke sooo bad it fucking hurts. Guts tightening...anger rising...fuck this is a bad one.

Fuck this sucks. 6 days and I am fucking dying here.

FUCKFUCLFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKCUCKCFUFUCKFUCKLFCFOFIF

Sorry.

*serenity now*

[gampy]

Strange. I was feeling really good all day, and now I am having an urge as bad as when I first quit. Watching the hockey game...that must be it. Ooooh...I came close to going to the store. Put on my coat and was about to lace my boots. Lol. This is brutal.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'J')ust get through the next few minutes if that's all you can do. Is there any way you can make yourself sweat? I guess with the winter you're dealing with probably not, but I found working out enough to make myself sweat a lot helped, too. A sauna would probably work the same way.

Your sex drive will come back, don't worry about that.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') only smoked one today. I've never smoked more than 10 in a day. I don't see the point in it.

[kadoomsoon]

You havn't quit then.
Try not smoking next time you would have, you are more addicted than you think.
I knew a guy who quit a dozen times, said he could quit anytime he wanted to. LOL.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kadoomsoon', 'Y')ou havn't quit then.
Try not smoking next time you would have, you are more addicted than you think.
I knew a guy who quit a dozen times, said he could quit anytime he wanted to. LOL.

[WildRose]

Gampy, hang in there. Don't worry if you snack a bit more and gain a few pounds, you can lose them later. Most of the people I know who have quit smoking gained a bit of weight. Spring is coming (we're almost into March!), which means you can head out on your bike for long rides, or find a hiking buddy (one who doesn't smoke). Build on the number of things you do that are good for you; it's harder then to go back to a bad habit.

I commend you for being aware of the pain and decreased quality of life that comes with COPD. My dad has struggled with this daily for the last 10 years. In some ways, lung cancer would be kinder.

All the best, Gampy!

[gampy]

Day 7. One week. Woot. I made my goal. I guess I need to make it 2 weeks now. Decided to reward myself. Going to blow the money I saved this week (roughly 30-40 bucks CDN) on a nice dinner at the chi-chi little resto-bar down the road. Maybe a movie.

Urges continue, sometimes really intense. But I have managed to turn them into background noise, and they don't take up as much mental energy. I am guessing that's the trick here. Learn to ignore, or trivialize the urges.

It's funny. In the throes of withdrawal, I have cleaned my apartment so that you could do surgery off my kitchen floor. Re-arranged all the furniture and re-decorated. I don't know if I have more energy (probably-carbon monoxide out of bloodstream by now), but I seem to feel energetic. Albeit, a nervous energy. Haha.

Making a point to raise my heart rate every day for at least 20 minutes. Feeling pretty good about my future health. Fuck, why did I ever start smoking? That's what is really starting to bug me. The regrets. Are my lungs totally fucked,and beyond repair? Is my vascular system sclerotic, and full of sludge?

It scares me and makes me mad. At myself, at the tobacco companies, at my Mom for smoking around me as a kid. The whole fucking world, haha.

Think I am going to go for a physical in a few weeks and ask the doc
what my chances are of a somewhat healthy future, sans tobacco, and binge drinking.

[gampy]

I think Barack Obama is trying to quit smoking as well. Fucking eh, 'Bama.

Gods, running a political campaign and quitting smoking. Respect.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')hanks for doing this Gampy.
You are a one-man soap opera.
I can't wait to tune in every day.
It takes guts to quit.
Keep it up and I'll tune in later

[bodigami]

my mom, but he doesn't know much english and I think has only 1 online account (e-mail)... and my uncle, which is even less tech-savy (does not own computer).

I only smoked once, but it was a "flavored exotic type" of smoking...

[gampy]

Day 8

Broke down and bummed a smoke. Fuck.

Have not bought a pack yet, but I am a little worried now, and kinda depressed. Fuck fuck fuck.

*sigh*

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', 'D')ay 8

Broke down and bummed a smoke. Fuck.

Have not bought a pack yet, but I am a little worried now, and kinda depressed. Fuck fuck fuck.

*sigh*

[Dukkha]

I smoked between 40 and 60 a day for, I guess, around 20 years but 4 years I just thought, this is fucking stupid. I'm paying some shitty multinational a fortune for the pleasure of doing something which I don't actually enjoy and which is also going to kill me. I used patches, (double doses for the first couple of weeks) and also dosed myself up on pretty hefty quantities of valium for the first few days. I also banned myself from the pub for 3 months (harsh) but it worked and I haven't smoked since. Keep at it though. There's no escaping the fact that giving up is not fun but it's certainly worth it in the end. Just the financial side alone make it worthwhile - I've got to be at least £4000 a year better off.

[gampy]

Ha! Thanks for the pep talk.

Just had the one smoke I bummed. Didn't buy a pack. Not going to sweat it too much. Even after having that cigarette earlier today, the urges have not increased or anything.

"Still in the game."

Lol...I like that. Thank you, my new fuckin' slogan.

It was a funny situation. I was at the bus stop, and this cute guy just lit up beside me. Maybe it was more about making small talk than indulging my nicotine urge. I only smoked about half of it, didn't taste all that good.

Fuck. Getting an urge to smoke now, talking about this. Definitely need to deal with the oral fixation, and keeping my hands busy.

"Still in the game"...hehehe