I'm quitting smoking (again)Follow

Roll your own. You won't even think of quitting ever again.

Well, you're either a liar or a *****. Unless you smoke menthols; then you're deinitely a *****.

BT. IRC. Now.

Don't do it. It's a trap.

I'm useless on this topic, since I've quit and started up again more times than I can count at this point. The only tips I can offer are these:

1. It will get to the point where you don't think about it at every waking moment, and dream about it in your sleep, I promise.
2. The desire will never completely go away, though it will begin to present itself at fewer and fewer occasions.
3. No matter how long it has been, no you cannot have just one, under any circumstances. Not just because you're drinking, not just because it was a special occasion meal and this would finish it off nicely, not just because someone died, and not just to "remind yourself how bad it tastes".
4. Find something else to do. Chew gum, do pushups, shuffle cards, whatever works for you. I know one guy that started chewing on toothpicks. 20 years later, he still has a toothpick sticking out of his mouth nearly constantly. Perhaps odd, but as of yet, they haven't said toothpicks cause cancer so I guess it's not so bad.

Nexa

go visit a cancer ward at any local hospitol. look at the disportionate number of patients with lung cancer. that should help you along.

my mom is quitting again too. this time she means it. they found a mass in her lungs. so she really really means it this time.

26 hours without nicotine.

I can feel my lungs crying out for sweet, sweet blackened cancer.

Meh. Ball up and quit. If you can't then just admit that you're a bigger pussy than me 'cause that's how I did it.

Edited, Jun 2nd 2007 8:56pm by Jophiel

I guess you just need to get a non-smoking girlfriend who lays down the law Twiz!



Nexa

both of my moms parents died from emphizema. they spent the last 2 years of their lives sitting in a wheel chair, not because they couldnt walk, but only because their lungs couldnt suck enough oxygen out of the air to power their muscles, with an oxygen tube tied under their noses.

getting up to get a glass of water would leave them wheezing for air and tired for the next hour or two.

grandpa was a pipe smoker. only did cigaretts once in a while. grandma did not smoke. ever. she never picked up the habit. she died from his second hand smoke. she did last a year longer than he did for her effort and dilligance.

my mom, living through both of their funerals, smoked all of her life. still does. has quit 20 or 30 times atleast that i can remember. looking like emphizema wont get her though, its gona be lung cancer.

about your lungs. the membrane that takes oxygen out of the air, once damaged, NEVER repairs itself like other parts of the body. the outer skin of the lung cann heal, but once the membrane is damaged, it is damaged for life.

years of inhaling contaminants, be it coal dust, smog, or tar from tobacco products slowly destroys the inner membrane. the hacking and coughing is your warning that your lungs are being attacked. you quit for a while, and the coughing goes away and you think everything is ok again.

but the reality is, the damaged part of your lung is already damaged forever. so you start smoking again, telling yourself you will quit when you start coughing again. and again, you damage more of your lung.

eventually, if your lucky and dont get cancer which will grow inside your lungs and destroy them faster, you slowly loose the capacity to take oxygen from the air and you find yourself out of breath faster and tired even after minor exorcise for longer periods of time. this is your body reacting to a lack of oxygen it needs for your muscles.

soon, you end up sucking oxygen from a bottle. thats the beggining of the end. why? because pure oxygen is very corrosive. and the more damaged your lungs are, the higher percentage of oxygen you need. the high percentage oxygen will actually destroy your lungs faster. but you cant live without it. its either die now, or die for sure after a year or two of sucking oxygen from a bottle.

every one dies from something. just seems to mesuffocating because you cant breathe the air anymore is a bad way to go. whats worse, is killing someone you love because you have an itch you just have to scratch. forcing them to suffer because you have no self disipline.

smoke away. your body has built in safeguards for ridding the planet of people too stupid to make good decisions.

No thanks. She's too short for me.

I'm not short enough to cut ya, longshanks.

Quitting is easy. I did it 8 times *g*.
However, the last time I quit was 8 years ago and I have not smoked a single cigarette since.

No seriously, if you want to stop, it is not that hard.
Just stop smoking, and never ever smoke a single cigarette again. There is no quitting slowly.
The hardest time always was when meeting with my friends and having some drinks.
The more relaxing a situation was, the more I missed smoking. But if you keep hard to yourself it will get better and after some weeks you won't even miss it.