well… I’m finally gonna do it. Yesterday I only had like 3 and today none (and I dont plan on having anymore). I’m trying to stop BEFORE the new year
I’m doing ok for the most part, until I think about it, which makes me want one like mad. I almost just caved a few mins ago but started chewing on a coffee straw which seems to have helped a little.
I’ll tell ya though… just from not smoking my usual pack a day, my lungs already feel better (not to mention the crazy shit I was coughing up in the shower this morning). I feel a little buzzed though from not doing it… kind of wierd.
anyway, what helped you quit? What helped take your mind off of it? I think that if I dont notice I’m not smoking, I’d be better off.
avoid the things that make you want to smoke. there are things that trigger it… the worst was the drive to and from work. that was the one thing i couldnt avoid.
I quit May 15th. It sucks and every day is a struggle. Everyone around you needs to be on board, because for the better part of a month, you will be an intolerable prick.
As far as the mechanics of quitting, i used the nicotine lozenges. They taste like shit and make you hiccup uncontrollably and they make you slightly nauxious. They do help with the headaches cravings and shakes. I also was not without altoids, blow pops, jolly ranchers, and double bubble. (I associated peppermint gum with smoking) The first 2 weeks are really really bad. The first month you think about breaking down alot but after that it gets easier.
Best of luck, its easily the best thing I’ve ever done.
If you want to stop you will. People who have tried and said they cant stop never wanted to quit in the first place. Hardest thing is breaking the habit, like smoking and driving, smoking and drinking, smoking and smoking. Once you break that its done and you will breath easy. Remeber though if you realy want to quit you will. Granted smoking does have physical dependencys I feel its 90% mental.
I was never a hard core smoker but I was a drunk chain smoker…The best thing you can do is tell your friends not to let you smoke, then you take shit every time you try. Make it public, announce that your not smoking…then when you start again you have to take shit from everyone…it’ll keep you from wanting to start again.
but I’ve also really wanted to quit in the past. Alls it takes is one night of drinking only to wake up with a half empty pack of smokes in your pants pockets lol
I think I’m going to stay sober on new years to help with relapsing. thanks for the help peeps
quit cold turkey about 3 months ago.
havent wanted one in about 2 months.
come to think of it, i cant remember the last time i had an urge.
You have to get WANT to QUIT.
For me the first couple of days were rough - what I did was remind myself everytime that “I don’t fucking need these things, i dont want my kids/wife to watch me die of cancer, i’d like to run a mile without coughing up a lung again, I hate being “addicted” to anything”.
btw-the coughing stuff up lasted the first couple of weeks for me. then goes away for the most part.
I was doing like a pack to a pack and a half a day. I just want to live long, so i quit.
Just dont use the excuse “today is stressful, i need smoke” everyday is stressful, smoking doesn’t solve anything
that was my problem, I would justify smoking because I was in college, and stressed out, but really I was just a little bitch
so one day I just quit, it was like early october or something, but I have had the occasional drunken ciggarettes but now they make me feel like shit and I can’t even smoke half of one.
Oh yeah, stay away from all of your friends that smoke
