# ex smokers come in **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491 "2008-05-15T09:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![skylinez07](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skylinez07/32/4993_2.png) [@skylinez07](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skylinez07)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/41 "2008-05-15T19:38:52Z")
i just said fuck it im done smoking. so since january 1 i havent had one. ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/42 "2008-05-15T20:51:40Z")
> [@slipstreamxk1](#): > > is it only 1 pill a day? similar issues happen when you sleep with the patch on. We found that out the hard way. My father also used to smoke atleast a pack a day if not more, he had a stroke last summer. The first few days after were very taxing on everyone. My dad is a natural bear to deal with but also was going through withdrawl and being scared. we got the doctor to give him a nicatine patch which helped immensly but after the first 2 days he started having crazy nightmares everytime he tried to fall asleep. We originally thought this was an after effect of the stroke but come to find out by one of the nurses that your not supposed to sleep with it on as that’s one of it’s side effects. It starts out with 1 pill a day for a few days, then it goes to twice a day, then to a stronger pill twice a day. it builds up over the first 2 weeks. i was starting the 2nd week of the full dose when i crashed or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/43 "2008-05-16T08:49:51Z")
Agree with the “do it for yourself” crew. Otherwise, you’ll eventually just say “fuck it” and go back on, plus you’ll cheat here and there. The Chantix starts off as a .5mg pill once daily for a week, in which you can smoke as much as you’d like - you’re building up. After a week, you go to two .5mg pills, quit, and the next week is two 1mg per day until whenever. Think it’s supposed to be two to three months. My main reason for getting off the pills was it made me _very_ sleepy. I had great, vivid dreams, no other effects, adverse or otherwise. Glad to see us fucksticks doing this and getting rid of that shit. :tup: I smoked for 13 years and I am **done**. Worst decision I had ever made was starting in school. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/44 "2008-05-16T09:22:35Z")
ive tried and failed a few times. doesnt help that everyone in my shop at work smokes so im always around it. ---
**Author:** ![Rsnake91](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rsnake91/32/4996_2.png) [@Rsnake91](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rsnake91)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/45 "2008-05-16T09:30:43Z")
it was easy for me to quit, i did it by going cold turkey. the only time i really have a craving for one is when im drinking really really heavy. ---
**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/46 "2008-05-16T09:35:18Z")
My wife and I just quit 2 weeks ago. She was a heavy smoker for 15+ years so she got the chantix script, and I went cold turkey. She hasn’t had any ill side affects as far as nausea or vivid dreams or anything like that. Fucking miracle drug of you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/47 "2008-05-16T09:43:45Z")
Well…my biggest problem with quitting is that I have Tourettes syndrome. It is not really that bad anymore (depending on how stressed I am), but nicotine helps. Tourettes is when your body overproduces dopamine and when you smoke, the nicotine opens more dopamine receptors in your brain, hence it makes the effects of having Tourettes much less. Unfortunately, in retrospect, whenever I try to quit, it makes the Tourettes act up like off the charts. It gets to the point where I don’t care anymore and start smoking again. I’ve tried using the patch and gum and shit but it always gives me acid reflux and makes me nauseous as fuck all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/48 "2008-05-16T09:54:13Z")
> [@TrueBlue](#): > > Worst decision I had ever made was starting in school. +1 here. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/49 "2008-05-16T09:58:08Z")
^ Yes, because technically, you are riding ass. 😉 Nick, why’d you start back up? ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/50 "2008-05-16T10:34:26Z")
I wonder, of those that quit, how many have cheated and had a few here and there? my last smoke was april 17th, 07. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/51 "2008-05-16T10:36:47Z")
Y’know, I really thought I would, but I haven’t. I am drinking more when I go out though 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ugo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ugo/32/7430_2.png) [@ugo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ugo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/52 "2008-05-16T10:53:27Z")
Gave it up cold turkey. After hearing how bad my grandfather suffered with lung cancer, and knowing there is a genetic link, I just stopped. I did eat sunflower seeds for a while. But salt and spitting hulls seemed just as bad a habit as smoking. A good friend quit by buying the cheapest, nastiest cigar he could find. Every time he felt the urge, he would light that same cigar. After a week or so the thought of smoking just turned him off because he would think of how shitty that cigar tasted. Hey, whatever works, just quit! ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/53 "2008-05-16T11:01:36Z")
quitting is easy i do it in between every smoke ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/54 "2008-05-16T11:03:12Z")
> [@TrueBlue](#): > > ^ Yes, because technically, you are riding ass. 😉 > > Nick, why’d you start back up? lol. Oh, for a really dumb reason. Well, I guess any reason would be dumb but eh… The October Storm - we were down too, but we had an extra 6-8 people crashing at our house (we had heat), and after about 4 days of that… well. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/55 "2008-05-16T11:58:29Z")
That’s basically how I started, moved in with a bunch of smokers when I was seventeen, and “poof”, literally. :sword: ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/56 "2008-05-16T12:05:10Z")
oh no, we didn’t allow smoking in the house, cause I hate going into someones house and it reeks. I just got fed up with being pent up with everyone in a ~1100 sq ft house for 4 days with no lights, no distractions, and eating whatever was going to “go bad next”… lol. I couldn’t even go to the garage for peace, cause there was even less to do out there and it was cold. Sheer frustration. Which reminds me… I still need to wire up the fuse box in the _this_ house for the generator that I need to get. :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/57 "2008-05-16T12:10:15Z")
> [@95Z28](#): > > Start chewing. ugh, way more disgusting than smoking IMO. My roommate quit smoking by starting to chew :bloated: ---
**Author:** ![klug](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/klug/32/5222_2.png) [@klug](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/klug)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/58 "2008-05-17T21:20:49Z")
> [@JEG](#): > > Well…my biggest problem with quitting is that I have Tourettes syndrome. It is not really that bad anymore (depending on how stressed I am), but nicotine helps. Tourettes is when your body overproduces dopamine and when you smoke, the nicotine opens more dopamine receptors in your brain, hence it makes the effects of having Tourettes much less. Unfortunately, in retrospect, whenever I try to quit, it makes the Tourettes act up like off the charts. It gets to the point where I don’t care anymore and start smoking again. I’ve tried using the patch and gum and shit but it always gives me acid reflux and makes me nauseous as fuck all the time. well then sir i would say do not quit. smoke and be happy! :carnut but seriously, if smoking is helping your Tourettes then quiting will cancel any health benefits out, considering you are trading one sickness for another. imo if you like to smoke then do it. if you can handle your Tourettes and want to breath better and live longer then quit but who knows maybe there will be a cure by the time you need it (for either sickness) ---
**Author:** ![strokedlx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/strokedlx/32/7220_2.png) [@strokedlx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/strokedlx)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491/59 "2008-05-18T00:17:37Z")
> [@95Z28](#): > > Start chewing. It’s harder to quit chewing than to quit smoking. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ex-smokers-come-in/48491.md?page=2)