Cigarettes.......
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Stop doing it.
Funny story. My mom is a resource director for an elementary school. Several years ago a couple daycare kids were having a discussion about cigarettes when one of the little girls dropped this on them. "Oh yeah. Well my mom can smoke em wif her fwitter."
Simple way is not put one in your mouth. Makes it hard to smoke.
If you are more detailed though you might try this process.
1. Don't buy cigs.
2. Don't bum cigs.
3. Don't smoke cigs you find.
If you are more detailed though you might try this process.
1. Don't buy cigs.
2. Don't bum cigs.
3. Don't smoke cigs you find.
My sons stayed on me about quitting, and one day I just decided not to buy anymore. Cold turkey seems like the easiest way to go; patches and other methods seem like they would just prolong the agony.
"Oddly, my spark plugs are missing again for the 4th time this week!" he said, to the suspicious, half-naked mechanic.
How did that imaginary psychologist's advice work out for Robin?
Quitting smoking is different for different people. It's a weird addiction. For me, it was the easiest thing in the world. I just stopped buying. I don't think i I was addicted, i just had a habit. My dad? He eventually did it. But it took several tries before he started and weened himself of the gum.
One tip. Keep it quiet. Don't tell anyone you are going to quit. No grand announcement. It becomes too much of a thing.
Go on vacation and start then. It'll get you out of any routine you might be in.
Cold turkey seems like the method that most former smokers used. It is so rare to see people smoke now a days. Some still hanging on.
I wood smoke her
My Father quit smoking cold turkey at age 56 because of a cardiac problem. Lived until he was 78 but the last 7 or 8 years were really hard. COPD is a hard way to live at the last. Even though he'd quit 22 years earlier the damage was already done. He started smoking in his early teens.
My Mother died at age 59 from a massive heart attack. She smoked her whole life as well.
Oddly, neither me, my sister or brother have ever smoked.
My Mother died at age 59 from a massive heart attack. She smoked her whole life as well.
Oddly, neither me, my sister or brother have ever smoked.
My dad died from emphysema at the age of 69. He was a 3 pack a day man. He quit cold turkey when he had his first heart attack at the age of 50, then started back after 30 days. At 55 he had to have oxygen if he wanted to walk more than 15 feet. He was a grunt in the Marine Corp in WWII, survived the horrors of combat at Iwo Jima as well as some other South Pacific Hell holes, but he could never beat RJ Reynolds.
I was having lunch with a coworker one day. After he finished, he said he'd give anything for a smoke. I told him I didn't know he smoked. He said he quit 15 years ago, but that sometimes the urge to light up nearly drove him crazy. He had rotator cuff surgery a few years before and became so addicted to pain killers that he was Dr. shopping and eventually wound up in rehab. He said that getting off of Oxy (mostly) was a walk in the park compared to quitting smoking.
I never started, but best of luck to anyone trying to quit. Cigarettes are a real *****......
I was having lunch with a coworker one day. After he finished, he said he'd give anything for a smoke. I told him I didn't know he smoked. He said he quit 15 years ago, but that sometimes the urge to light up nearly drove him crazy. He had rotator cuff surgery a few years before and became so addicted to pain killers that he was Dr. shopping and eventually wound up in rehab. He said that getting off of Oxy (mostly) was a walk in the park compared to quitting smoking.
I never started, but best of luck to anyone trying to quit. Cigarettes are a real *****......
I was off and on, 99% on, for over 20 years. I even had a lump cut out of my cheek. It turned out to be benign but I struggled. I finally got tired of being a slave and threw a can out the car window on 64. The first three days were like having the flu but it gradually gets better. After the first week I felt like giving in would mean I suffered for nothing, so it stuck.
My kids think of tobacco as a drug and I'm really happy about that. It has no value or benefit to society at all.
I got a buddy who dips while he is asleep. He said he will wake up with a huge pool of brown stain on his pillow case.
The thing that shocked me most about quitting is how disgusting I find people that smoke now. Like, did people look at me that way when I smoked? (They did.). I can smell a mf'er walking down the street that smoked a half hour ago and it turns my stomach.
Everyone knows it will kill you, but they smoke anyway. Maybe if people realized what a nasty, disgusting, trashy ***** it made them look and smell like, they would actually quit for good.
Everyone knows it will kill you, but they smoke anyway. Maybe if people realized what a nasty, disgusting, trashy ***** it made them look and smell like, they would actually quit for good.
My MIL quick cold turkey when she was about 65. My mom said she caught her older sisters smoking when she was about 10 and blackmailed them into giving her cigs so she wouldn't tell on them and she smoked until she died at 84. Her Dr. was always after her to quit, but she couldn't.
Of the people I've known, cold turkey seems to be the best way to quit.
Of the people I've known, cold turkey seems to be the best way to quit.
A guy I know used to have a cigarette in one hand and a baby bottle in the other. 4 or 5 years old and smoking.
Yeah, my old buddy P use to smoke weed in a car with his girlfriend's kids and had the windows rolled up. Have lost a lot of respect for him over the years.
My dad quit cold turkey when he was in his 30s. I've been told that he won $50 on a bet. Stayed quit for a year or two. Then some doctor told him that the weight he was putting on would kill him just as fast as the cigs, so he lit up again.
He quit a second time at age 63 when he moved into the nursing home due to having strokes and peripheral artery disease. We told him you can't smoke here and he just said ok.
My little brother smoked since he was 15, now 41. He switched to vaping a few years back. It seems better than cigs, but I'm not sure. At least it smells better. I took a trip with him a few years ago & the smoking was making me sick. Couldn't wait to get out of his truck.
He quit a second time at age 63 when he moved into the nursing home due to having strokes and peripheral artery disease. We told him you can't smoke here and he just said ok.
My little brother smoked since he was 15, now 41. He switched to vaping a few years back. It seems better than cigs, but I'm not sure. At least it smells better. I took a trip with him a few years ago & the smoking was making me sick. Couldn't wait to get out of his truck.
My mom use to smoke. I use strip naked as a kid in the back of the car to try to get my mom to quit smoking. 12 years later, I smoked meth out of a broken light bulb.
I started smoking in elementary school and quit at 19. My football coach caught me smoking and everybody on the team got to hit me with a belt-called it "getting the belt line" (try that nowadays). I was driving down the street one day and just said "I quit." Threw my cigarettes and lighter out the window and never took another puff. The cost of smoking was killing me. 25 cents a pack back then.
I started at 14 when a buddy stole a carton of smokes out of a car in the neighborhood. He got scared and split the loot with me, 5 packs each. We smoked them all in about a week and I was hooked ever since. When I was underage I managed to find ways to get cigarettes from stealing from stores to smoking butts my buddy's mom used to leave in ashtrays.
The day I turned 18, I became a pack a day+ smoker until I was 34. I quit the cigs and started vaping in 2013 because a) cigs got to be too expensive b) I felt like ish waking up every morning with a runny nose and zest in the chest c) I had a cold the entire winter every year after smoking for about 10 years.
I know vaping is not "quitting," but I only vape a few times a day and my use in both nicotine strength and frequency of vaping has decreased over time. My blood pressure is lower. I haven't had a case of bronchitis or a sinus infection since the day I put down the Marlboros. Food tastes better. I can smell again. I no longer stink of dirty ashtray. Air-filters in my house don't turn black anymore. And I spend less than $40 a month vaping as opposed to hundreds with cigs.
I occasionally get the urge for a smoke, but it usually fades quickly. Smelling the stale smoke on other people is gag inducing now.
The day I turned 18, I became a pack a day+ smoker until I was 34. I quit the cigs and started vaping in 2013 because a) cigs got to be too expensive b) I felt like ish waking up every morning with a runny nose and zest in the chest c) I had a cold the entire winter every year after smoking for about 10 years.
I know vaping is not "quitting," but I only vape a few times a day and my use in both nicotine strength and frequency of vaping has decreased over time. My blood pressure is lower. I haven't had a case of bronchitis or a sinus infection since the day I put down the Marlboros. Food tastes better. I can smell again. I no longer stink of dirty ashtray. Air-filters in my house don't turn black anymore. And I spend less than $40 a month vaping as opposed to hundreds with cigs.
I occasionally get the urge for a smoke, but it usually fades quickly. Smelling the stale smoke on other people is gag inducing now.
Good for you. It's a nasty habit. I bet you felt harder boners too, when you quit.
I'm vaping weed., but I'm about to quit vaping and start making it in edibles
My kids kept asking me to quit. I was a runner who smoked a pack a day. Ran all the triple crown stuff in Louisville. So when they were 8 & 9 I promised them I'd quit if they ran a 5k with me. That was 8 years ago and the idea of breaking a promise to my kids made quitting easy for me. I had smoked for 20 years at that point. I thank my kids a lot for running that race with me and they are still proud when I tell that story.
That was back in the late 50s Willy. Wasn't much you could do with a boner when you got one back then. Different world.
I agree with your last sentence. It's a decision. It's self discipline. It's not giving in to excuses. Unfortunately I have low will power. That's an excuse in itself. Have taken breaks from it several times. 2 weeks a month or so ago. 7 weeks a year or two ago. I won't say I quit for a bit because I didn't quit. Just need to make the decision and stick with it and be disciplined enough to do it.
A younger guy i play poker with was a heroin addict as well. Said it was easier to get off heroin then to quit smoking
I told my buddy (brother of a GYERO guy) that I'd take him and his wife to Jack Fry's if he could quit smoking for a month. He did - I lost the bet - and after our dinner at Fry's he lit up a cigarette. He wasn't trying to be a dick, either. He is just that addicted.
I still remember being a kid and riding in the backseat of the car with mom and dad smoking like it was going out of style, windows up and winding roads. I was sick as a dog on those trips.
I swore then i would NEVER smoke and I have only "smoked" two cigarettes, I had two car wrecks in my teens and the people with me said ------ you have to smoke these, it will calm you down.
It seemed really important to them that I smoked a cigarette right then. To this day I still do not know why.
I knew, even as a kid that if I started i would never be able to quit. So I just did not do it. Much respect to those of you who have been able to give it up.
I swore then i would NEVER smoke and I have only "smoked" two cigarettes, I had two car wrecks in my teens and the people with me said ------ you have to smoke these, it will calm you down.
It seemed really important to them that I smoked a cigarette right then. To this day I still do not know why.
I knew, even as a kid that if I started i would never be able to quit. So I just did not do it. Much respect to those of you who have been able to give it up.
Ironically enough, I didn't start smoking till I was 20, quit a few years ago for about 4 months using hypnosis. VA is sending me some gum, patches and lozenges this coming week. I waste about 120 bones on smoking a month, ****'s ridiculous
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