I think I've quit....
- Thread starter Jason Ramsey
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Congrats Jason. Ive always been pretty stop start, smoke for a year stop for a year. But I chucked it again after questfest. This last one was extremely hard.
and, I don't want to kill anyone....
smoking cigs that is... over 3 days now...
Still getting lots of nicotine and the hand to mouth thing, but the nicotine is the least of the crap in cigs... aside from how bloody addictive it is. Had a plan to be tobacco free by my birthday... Well, will be tobacco free a week by then. One step at a time
I've smoked for over a 1/3 of my 30 years. From a 5 minute mile and grabbing the rim, to can't even run a mile or touch my 9' ceiling.Have tried many times in the past, and for me personally has always been extremely difficult. extremely. This time around has been relatively effortless... Still have the vice, but not the tobacco with all the shi* in it and not the combustion... one step at a time
Just thought I'd share... I'm kinda proud of this first small step... which for me is the biggest.
later,
Jason
Ok I didn't read the first post ....but when people around you stop asking you for a lighter then you know that you have quit . 3 days be strong
And that special someone will always be happy to hug you .
Carrying a torch for cigarettes?
You've probably already read the fact that there is a correlation between number of attempts at quitting and success rate. People who keep trying to quit eventually do it. So, your relapse should be viewed in a positive way now.
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
I've smoked for 34 years. I usually do the obligatory quite once a year.
Tried patches once which worked great, until I had to get off the patches. Then I was back smoking.
I did quite once cold. I was at 30 days and can say, if you make it that far, it's a done deal.
It was complete hell and more so for everyone around me. But after 30 days it was 100% over in every way.
I started up again, not because I needed to, or desired to, there were no cravings, I'm just a total and complete idiot. And I might add smoking that first cigarette again afterwards was literally quite painful in my lungs. It really hurt physically.
But, 30 days (from my experience) of sheer hell and it's totally over though.
Tried patches once which worked great, until I had to get off the patches. Then I was back smoking.
I did quite once cold. I was at 30 days and can say, if you make it that far, it's a done deal.
It was complete hell and more so for everyone around me. But after 30 days it was 100% over in every way.
I started up again, not because I needed to, or desired to, there were no cravings, I'm just a total and complete idiot. And I might add smoking that first cigarette again afterwards was literally quite painful in my lungs. It really hurt physically.
But, 30 days (from my experience) of sheer hell and it's totally over though.
Jason Ramsey
Admin
I'm starting to lose count.... is this day 7?
That's a good thing I guess... I'm not anywhere near out of the woods... I know that I can go back to it at the drop of a hat for sure... one day at a time, one step at a time.
The first part was the physical cigarette, which was always the hardest thing. so deeply stitched into everything about me... so replacing the cigarette, the combustion, the tobacco with something else (while it might not seem like much to some) was the biggest first step for me. next comes the nicotine...
My plan is gradually taking the nicotine out, while still being able to maintain the "act", rather than the other way around, which was always my downfall in the past...
still trying. I'll let you know in a few months how it's going
later,
Jason
That's a good thing I guess... I'm not anywhere near out of the woods... I know that I can go back to it at the drop of a hat for sure... one day at a time, one step at a time.
The first part was the physical cigarette, which was always the hardest thing. so deeply stitched into everything about me... so replacing the cigarette, the combustion, the tobacco with something else (while it might not seem like much to some) was the biggest first step for me. next comes the nicotine...
My plan is gradually taking the nicotine out, while still being able to maintain the "act", rather than the other way around, which was always my downfall in the past...
still trying. I'll let you know in a few months how it's going
later,
Jason
Charli
cool little "title"
I've been smoke free all my life, but like I said, having two parents that smoked a lot was a great example of what not to do. Never been drunk either, thanks to my grandfather for that one. Geez my kin folk were messed up. Here is a quote I keep on my computer to help me complete my scripts:
"Until one is committed, there is a hesitancy, a chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of creation and initiative.
There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred; a whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would come his way.
Whatever you can do ... or dream you can ... begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
"Until one is committed, there is a hesitancy, a chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of creation and initiative.
There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred; a whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would come his way.
Whatever you can do ... or dream you can ... begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
Nitsuj
Well-known member
I quit one day because I am so stubborn. A couple friends of mine said "You won't quit who are you kidding. If you really wanted to quit then you would but you can't" So me being as stubborn as I am I said "Oh yeah!" They said "Yeah!" I then grabbed my pack and crushed them right there with my bare hands. I then walked over and tossed them into the trash along with my lighter. They then said "Oh of course... how many times have you done that? Just face it you are hooked."
I didn't say anything else because I was gonna show them. That was almost 3 years ago I think? But the trick I found was... besides being incredibly stubborn even with yourself... was to NEVER count days. I found myself doing this at one time but I stopped doing it. By a couple of weeks in people would ask "You still not smoking?" I'd sey hell now. They would ask how many days it had been and I'd say "I don't know and don't care." They didn't believe me until they finally saw I was serious. You gotta trick your mind dood!
Oh and you could always do what my friend did a long time ago. There was this big party and we crashed there. The next morning he said he wants to quit because he was hacking so much in the night. He then found an old beer laying around from the night before and then found a filled ashtray. He dumped the ashtray into the warm old (who knows what else or who's it was) beer and proceeded to drink... AND CHEW... the cigs-n-beer breakfast. He then ran into the bathroom and hacked his brains out. He never smoked again. The end.
I didn't say anything else because I was gonna show them. That was almost 3 years ago I think? But the trick I found was... besides being incredibly stubborn even with yourself... was to NEVER count days. I found myself doing this at one time but I stopped doing it. By a couple of weeks in people would ask "You still not smoking?" I'd sey hell now. They would ask how many days it had been and I'd say "I don't know and don't care." They didn't believe me until they finally saw I was serious. You gotta trick your mind dood!
Oh and you could always do what my friend did a long time ago. There was this big party and we crashed there. The next morning he said he wants to quit because he was hacking so much in the night. He then found an old beer laying around from the night before and then found a filled ashtray. He dumped the ashtray into the warm old (who knows what else or who's it was) beer and proceeded to drink... AND CHEW... the cigs-n-beer breakfast. He then ran into the bathroom and hacked his brains out. He never smoked again. The end.