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 ID: 203454 Posts: 43 | Date: 2007-10-05 16:04 Or have you given up?
I am hoping to give up but am already very dependant.
I was wondering what method y'all think is best 
I really really wanna give up because i have seen the effects it has on both
your inside and out  Laughters the best medicine! Keep on smiling!  |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1589 | Date: 2007-10-05 22:57 I do a pack a day.
My mom doesn't like it because I am a chronic asthmatic. But I keep healthy
playing softball, baseball, volleyball and SCUBA diving so I do not see a real
problem with smoke breaks. Have a bunch of trophies to prove it.
Everyone says I should quit because it is bad for my health but I'm not seeing
it that way. Especially since they all take tons of sick days and I don't take
any. Passed my life insurance physical last month with flying colors.
Effects inside and out. Well, I've seen the inside of lots of smokers bodies
down to the insides of their arteries. And seen the insides of lots of
non-smokers too. Many of the smokers someone would have had to tell me they
smoked in order for me to know by looking at their organs. Some, yeah...you
could tell right away. Started me thinking that how smoking affects individuals
has a lot to do with genetics rather than an overall universal effect on all
people.
Externally, I know that white people fare much worse than blacks and Hispanics
who smoke. Their skin tends to age really fast. Maybe it is the melanin levels
but how would that account for the loss of muscle tone and slower healing in
Caucasian smokers? Some genetic marker again?
Quitting: I am not really trying to quit but I know others who have tried. And
failed. And failed again. Nicotine gum. Nicotine patches. Lights. Thins.
Shorts.
Cigarette addiction is baffling the medical community. We know nicotine is an
addictive substance so, logically, weaning a person slowly off of nicotine
should be the most effective method, right? Unfortunately, after years of
studying the patch we now know that taking nicotine out of the equation does not
work for most people. It is a very strange addiction problem. Medicine looked at
the possibility of it being and oral habit or fixation and that didn't pan out.
Otherwise chewing gum would have worked. So, now they are focusing on it being a
[b]hand[/d] fixation of all things! Some researchers are thinking that the urge
to smoke begins in the hands.
Kicking alcoholism and drugs are easier than quitting smoking. Really.
If you have the will power and really, truly want to quit,
according to the two people I know who actually did stop
smoking the only thing that will do it is your own willpower. Both persons went
cold turkey. Said one day: "I quit" and stopped. But boy...for the next two
months you really, really did not want to be anywhere near them. They got
irritated very easily, looked nervous half the time and would snap your head off
and yell at you for everything. We were tempted to offer them a cigarette just
to get them out of our hair. But then, like hitting a light switch, at about two
months they were suddenly back to their nice, sweet charming selves and, to the
best of my knowledge, neither has touched a cigarette again. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 185798 Posts: 88 | Date: 2007-10-06 02:30 yes
i smoke half a pack/a pack a day.
trying to smoke a little less |
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 ID: 207419 Posts: 95 | Date: 2007-10-08 16:32 used to do a pack a day...why? idk really, i liked it, it was relaxing a bit, it
was one thing i didnt have to think about.
people started bitching...how i stopped... i outed it mid cigarette and gave
away the rest of the box.
the end. pretty independent person i guess...i think dependency is
disgusting.
meh but im sure i could have a smoke without going crazy for themSoon enough i'll be on your wall and you'll wanna be me |
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 ID: 197582 Posts: 197 | Date: 2007-10-18 21:14 I don't & never smoke coz I believe it's not good for health... bad for skin
complexion... bad breath... caused some lung problem & disease... etc.. |
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| Date: 2007-10-19 00:01 I quit smoking the first time in a very similar way to Simone, just one day put
it out half way through and didnt smoke again for like 6 months. Mind you i did
not do because people were bitching etc?? I do not let other peoples judgements
affect me, i enjoyed smoking cause it was relaxing and calming.
I again am going to quit, just need to be in the right state of mind to do it,
will power is the only way!
Best thing though, make sure you quit at a time where you are able to keep busy
and in not so much stress!
Good luck |
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 ID: 194271 Posts: 156 | Date: 2007-10-19 00:46 Looks like I am the heavy around here, I do at least 2 packs a day including
waking up at night and also having a smoke.
I did stop once for two years but started again after I realized that the
craving is there to stay. Felt the same craving for a smoke after 2 years as I
did the day after I gave up.
Just did not feel like living with this craving for the rest of my life.
I do realize it is a nasty habit and will not smoke in my house or car if I have
other non-smoking people with me.
I do not drink though as I hate not feeling in absolute control of myself at all
times, same reason why I have no time for drugs.
In my enviroment smoking is no big deal but I can imagine living in a country
where smoking is banned nearly everywhere it could be a issue.
Regards to all
And good luck to those smokers that wants to give up.
Deon |
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 ID: 177973 Posts: 192 | Date: 2007-11-12 17:21 I may not be a model, but I can tell you that I definitely don't smoke. Growing
up with older siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents who did smoke
quite often will leave you annoyed with smoking after a while. I won't even go
into most bars because of the smell of smoke! |
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 ID: 199345 Posts: 391 | Date: 2007-11-12 20:24 I quit 5 years ago after trying to quit many times. I was getting sick all the
time and realised that I had to give up for good. I read a book on quitting,
can't remember the name of it. The basic concept was that the first couple of
weeks are the worst. If you can get through 2 weeks then you know that each day
becomes a little easier. The main incentive now becomes knowing that taking just
one cigarette at this point puts you back to square one and you have to go
through the pain of those first 2 weeks all over again. Therefore everytime I
got the craving I told myself I would be giving up on all the hard work I had
been through for the last x number of days. Before you know it you are 1 month
free, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year etc. The bottom line here is you really have to
want to quit to make it work but it worked for me which is more than I can say
for gum and patches.
Trust me it takes a long time to completely be craving free. Even 5 years on I
still enjoy the smell, but no way do I ever intend to take one.
btw also switched to eating ice cream when I got cravings and put on 50lbs. Have
now managed to lose 30lbs of that. My sick days have gone down to zero and no
more bouts of pneumonia. For me quitting was one of the hardest and most
rewarding things I have ever done. |
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 ID: 216890 Posts: 11 | Date: 2007-11-13 05:40 sometimes. but i think i should stop now. |
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 ID: 170792 Posts: 688 | Date: 2007-11-13 05:43
Have never fancied smoking n have no intentions of smoking in the near
future..actually i find it disgusting...so help me God..I dont wanna go that
direction
Mike Jones:
btw also switched to eating ice cream when I got cravings and put on 50lbs. Have
now managed to lose 30lbs of that.
 ice
cream..everytime u got a craving..darn..that's a speedy/high rate of ice cream
intake u r
lucky that u didnt add more than that..nway th good thing is that u managed |
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| Date: 2007-11-13 06:23 I started at 24... late I guess... but stopped at 25.
I noticed small physiological withdrawal effects when I had a two week break on
a shoot in the snowfields of north Japan.
It was so cold I didn't want to take my gloves off - LOL.
Anyway, I figured if I am getting headaches and mouth ulcers, sleeplessness, etc
NOW - then it's better to give up then in another year or 20.... as my Dad had
to at 50 because he was having heart problems that they said were directly from
his heavy smoking.
I had no mental addiction, so it wasn't hard to beat. A few times a year I may
still have one cig if I am particularly in the mood - sometimes I smoke cigars
actually - but rarely... anyway...
I have heard a few times that the key to beating it is to take up "non-smoking".
The thought process being, if you consider yourself a smoker "trying" to quit or
cut down, then there is room to have a couple here and there, or indeed a packet
here and there.
If you take up non-smoking... when you are offered a cig, your answer is not
"I'm trying to quit" but " I don't smoke" . ONce you choose not to smoke, you
won't.
I mean, if you don't buy them, you can only get them when offered - and if you
"don't smoke" - then you shouldn't have an issue.
The gum helped my Dad though. Maybe good to ween off the nicotine cravings
etc.
Good luck.
It's up to you not us. |
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 ID: 217750 Posts: 3 | Date: 2007-11-23 12:48 Smoker. I smoke toooo much. Yesterday a pack + half :S
This is because I'm stressed and nervous.. 
Actually I'm trying to quit smoking. Today just one - yeeeah  While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. |
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 ID: 209800 Posts: 460 | Date: 2008-06-24 11:42 HHmmmm.... Bump.... |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1589 | Date: 2007-11-23 17:33 Well, I found out an interesting issue...nicotine and general anesthesia do not
go well together. I found that out going into surgery a couple weeks ago to
repair my hand. Since it was an artery closed off with a hemostat, I was rushed
straight into surgery, no real paperwork, just what they could get groggily out
of my and my wallet. I do remember being a nurse gently telling me what they
were going to do to me when another nurse told the anesthesiologist to stop. She
had just found a pack of cigarettes in my pants pocket.
The big deal is that certain anesthetics react with some of the chemicals in
your blood stream from smoking. It can result in shutting down your nervous
system. You know...the routing of electrical current that tells your heart to
beat, diaphragm and lungs to expand, your frontal lobe to engage. Nothing too
terribly serious.
So, for my next accident, I will be certain to have written somewhere in my
wallet that I am a smoker. No. It still has not given me the desire to quit. I
like it too much. Yes...I like it better than the extra six months of life on
average that one gets from not smoking.
But, for those of you who have not started. Word of advice:
DON'T. Cigarettes will kick your butt! They will grab you in a
neck hold and not ever let go. I did not need cigarettes before I started. But I
need them now. I do a pack a day. That's $90 a month. $90 dollars that could be
going somewhere else. $1,080 a year that could be doing other things. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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 ID: 183878 Posts: 1022 | Date: 2007-11-23 21:18 Yeah, Karl, almost the cost of a 40D. My relatives love you smokers. They grow
tobacco in North Carolina. I grew up in the stuff. The chemicals they use to
control pests and plant growth are part of the problem in my estimation.
In the days when we only put DDT on it to kill bugs and trimmed the plants by
hand, I never had a moment of sickness. After the new poisons were mandated and
a chemical was developed that killed suckers (offshoots that reduce leaf
production), I'd get sick regularly working in the fields.
Then there's all the stuff they add after it goes to the cigarette
manufacturers...
Quite frankly, I believe if it were left alone to grow how nature intended it,
it wouldn't be as harmful. When we were in Paris we visited a botanical garden
that had some tobacco plants grown on manure fertilizer. The leaf smelled
wonderful and I could rub the leaves and not have any sensations of tingling or
after effect of nausea.If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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 ID: 197842 Posts: 149 | Date: 2007-11-25 13:01 I had a relative, who smoke 1 cigarette a day. But once he decided to count how
much money did he spend on it per year… The same day he stopped and didn’t
smoke until the end of his life.
That’s because he had a strong will…or maybe was just sparing enough. |
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 ID: 183765 Posts: 2 | Date: 2007-11-25 17:17 I do not smoke...it's so bad for your skin and your health!!
My mother almost died from smoking, so I am EXTREMELY against it!!
It makes people smell disgusting and honestly makes people look disgusting...
I hope I don't offend anyone by what I said, I just do not think smoking is
attractive. |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1589 | Date: 2007-11-25 21:01 Brittany Todd:
I do not smoke...it's so bad for your skin and your health!!
My mother almost died from smoking, so I am EXTREMELY against it!!
It makes people smell disgusting and honestly makes people look disgusting...
I hope I don't offend anyone by what I said, I just do not think smoking is
attractive.
Nah, not offended. Rumor has it that I looked and smelled disgusting even before
I started smoking.
Well, I did start smoking on the advice of my doctor when we had gone through
all of the asthma medicines with no effect. My lung capacity was less than 40%,
almost COPD territory. 37 years of nightly asthma attacks was going to kill me.
As a last resort, my doctor suggested trying a few menthol cigarettes a day as
there has been some reports of beneficial effects for chronic asthmatics. After
continuous asthma attacks since I was 6 weeks old, it was Nirvana puffing those
cigarettes and for the first time in my life taking a breath without heaving.
I have not had an asthma attack since the day I started smoking. That's six
years now Asthma free.
As far as being bad for my skin...wrong race. Blacks don't show the effects of
smoking on their skin. Too much melanin.
Bottom line, I am not offended that you do not consider cigarette smoking
attractive. Hey, neither do I. When I feel like being attractive I'll bathe,
shave, splash on some cologne and whip out my hand carved Brookfield Maple wood
pipe, insert some rich black cavendish and burley and have at it like a dapper
gentleman. Even my mother has to grudgingly admit that fresh, moist tobacco has
a delightfully fragrant, sweet and mellow atmosphere to it. Mmmmmm! Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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| Date: 2007-12-03 10:47 I used to smoke regularly ~15 cigs/day from 17-23 and quit cold turkey (several
attempts though) until I was 29. After a messy break-up I started again, but not
as heavily as before, and just recently have stopped again. It has been over a
month since I bought a pack but have relapsed a coupla times while drinking
alcohol. The trick is to never have one again, because one will lead to another.
Just like any substance abuse issue, you must admit to yourself that you're an
addict first and come up with reasons why to quit. Health, economics ($8.50/pack
in NYC), hygiene, etc and each time you have a craving you have to convince
yourself not to give in and cite the reasons why you quit in the first place.
After a while, the physical addiction dissipates and only have the mental side
to deal with. Go for walks when you have a craving, that can help too.
On a side note, just about all the girls on this site are smoking. Smoking hot
that is!!! |
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