Trying to be smoke free!

[Swinger]

Ha ha, now thats funny right there!

[Mr. Clean]

Quit 9/23/96, never forget the day. Best thing I ever did was to quit. I was somewhat lucky towards the end of being a smoker....a puff of cig and I would start to dry heave so quitting was not too bad. Mosh is right tobacco should be illegal, but the gubment would lose a ton of tax money so that's not happening anytime soon. A pack of smokes when I quit was around 3 bucs, I was in line behind some lady who bought three packs of Marlboro's and the total was freaking 20 bucs, what a rip off!!!

Right before I quit a 70 year old man told me the craving would never go away, for me it did...for others it does not. So For once in your life be a quitter!!!

Do not bum any more smokes and quit buying them-simple. You are now a non-smoker!!

[hoosierlogger]

Quit 9/23/96, never forget the day. Best thing I ever did was to quit. I was somewhat lucky towards the end of being a smoker....a puff of cig and I would start to dry heave so quitting was not too bad. Mosh is right tobacco should be illegal, but the gubment would lose a ton of tax money so that's not happening anytime soon. A pack of smokes when I quit was around 3 bucs, I was in line behind some lady who bought three packs of Marlboro's and the total was freaking 20 bucs, what a rip off!!!

Right before I quit a 70 year old man told me the craving would never go away, for me it did...for others it does not. So For once in your life be a quitter!!!

Do not bum any more smokes and quit buying them-simple. You are now a non-smoker!!

So if you smoked a pack a day, quit in September 96 and they were $3 bucks then, and they are $5 now. We will say they cost $4 per pack. You saved $22,185.78 according to this calculator.

http://darrenfauth.com/calculators/m...itting-smoking

[Swinger]

They are over $6 a pack where Im at! Still $22 grand is a nice chunk of coin to save or put into big boy toys

[hoosierlogger]

If my neighbor quit smoking and drinking 20 years ago he would be a millionaire today. LOL

[tri again]

ok, now for some stupid stuff, based in science.
I lied to the lottery hotline and said I spent my last 2$ on a ticket and couldn't even buy dog food.
The 2$ was true, but my dog's been gone since 1986.
anyway, they said I qualify for free counseling because it's, well, funded by the lottery.
and they need to show customers to keep getting grant $, or grant monkeys or lunch money, I wasn't really listening.

But the bottom line is:

FREE counseling for whatever ails ya! and it's usually $150 bucks an hour.
I think most states with lottery tickets have an 800# on the back and set aside $ for the addictions
and related side effects surrounding it all.
Heck, casinos are the ONLY places where smoking is still allowed so it's definitely connected.

They'll address issues from marriage and family counseling to any and all addictions so it's a great resource.

ALL addictions increase dopamine and seratonin, be it skydiving, ANY chemical, alcohol, nicotine whatEVER
all it really does is promote the natural feel good chemicals.
Now this is new research info. I'm tending to believe..
Seems also to be the theory why SSRI's were so popular with stressed and depressed folks.
They would keep seratonin levels high so we'd feel good.
Too bad the side effects of ssri's can be intensely more hideous than any other life condition imaginable.

Associate with pain - a simple rubber band on the wrist and SNAP it when you feel like..a smoke or drink or
dropping a nickle in the slots..whatEver.

3 bucks a day? what do smokes cost anyway? 6$?
times 30days = Trike parts!
New plastics! can be paid for in a month.

I was chewing last summer logging tractor time during the fire season
but that's hideous without even wanting to quit.

My fav was the little cylinders, had cotton soaked with nicotine and you could breathe thru them on airplanes
and other places to not smoke.
Haven't seen them in a while.

ok, this really IS stupid. Like counting calories when trying to lose weight...yeah..let's all focus on Food!

I'm gonna look for a rubber band.

[jays375]

It is damn tough.I started chewing when around 12.Did that until 16 started smoking,roughly two packs a day.Really loved those Camels,probbally would have walked a mile.Did that until around 22,cold turkey.Then started chewing again until 32.Quit tthat and drinking at the same time.Not because I really wanted to either.Anyway was good until a year ago.Then had one Backwoods Honey Berry cigar and now it is 1-3 of those a day.Still no booze though.It is a really tough habit to quit.

[Texaskev]

Been smoke free for a bout a year now. Best advice I can give is never try and cut down. Cold Turkey is the only way to go. Get up in the morning, and just refuse to pick them up. If you are an , just go with it. Every day will get better. If your wife or whatever smokes, it will be 10 times harder to quite if they still smoke.....Don't hang out with smokers.....same thing. Good Luck!

[ATCeeya]

I smoked a little over 10 years and quit in June of this year. I did cheat a little bit, and went to an electric ciggarette. I dont have the weak ones either. I bought a Reo-mod mini with Organic all natural Vape-juice. It make the transition a piece of cake really and i can basically go days without vaping no problem if i want to. My breathing is 10x's better and its wayyy cheaper than smokes. plus the bad smell is gone. If you need a little help a vape-box is a good transition. beats going back to the pack.

[thestud25]

I have gradually, and I mean gradually cut back since I quit bartending 3.5 years ago. I was a 8-10 packs a week then, weaned myself down to 1-2 packs a week recently, and the last month and a half I have bought 4 packs total. I have smoked 1 cigarette in the last 17 days. I do pop a Skoal Bandit in from time to time, but I hate the taste of that stuff so much, that it only stays in for about 10 mins. I have been eating Jolly Ranchers left and right, and that seems to help when I get a craving.

Good Luck!

JOHN, get you ass on the wagon!!

[badass350x]

Wow its funny you posted this as I just quit a month and and four days ago! 2 packs a day for 25 years, I just woke up that one morning lit one and asked myself WHY, twisted the pack of cigarettes and in the trash they went! As Mosh stated beer makes it hard and the other part is just the habit part like reaching for the smokes
.hang in there its tough but we can get through it... and yes the parts are coming in every day almost. Lol

[Swinger]

Man I just got done eating and its killing me for a smoke. I got kids screaming and that just makes it worse. I am trying to get to the shop and check some things out but my wife insists on the oldest one sitting on time out and he keeps messing up so more time is added. Im gonna freak out!!!!!!

[dcreel]

Relax.. take a deep breath.. Feel that? That's oxygen.. See, you're on to something.. LOL You need to find a new way to manage stress..

[Swinger]

Relax.. take a deep breath.. Feel that? That's oxygen.. See, you're on to something.. LOL You need to find a new way to manage stress..

I was hoping to do some well needed wrenching but that is almost impossible with the kids constantly wanting to do what daddy does. What Id give for a heavy punching bag right now!!!! Or even my trike to run would be a great stress relief but that is a whole other story, I bought a bottom end off of a guy on ebay and turns out that he has been posting this and doesnt even have it. Now gotta try and fix my busted left case because everything sucks!!!! Sorry!

[Mrs.Mosh]

After a meal is the worst for me. I find that as soon as I am finished eating...I do the dishes. Staying busy helps a lot.
I was eating Werther's candies as a substitute. Not real good for the teeth, so I stopped eating those.
The "good" thing about wanting one after I eat is I am not replacing smoking with food. They say a lot of people do that, and gain weight when quitting. For me, if I eat I will want to top it off with a cig, so that keeps me from the extra snacking. If I do snack, it is fruit. Something about fruit doesn't trigger me to want one.

I am also a coffee addict. So when I think I want a smoke, I will have a cup of coffee and that also seems to help...for me anyway.
Like Dcreel said...take a deep breath..I have been doing a lot of that. Deep breath...it'll pass in a few.

EDIT: I also want to add that I feel SO much better in the mornings. I haven't noticed a head ache in awhile now either.