Quitting smoking thread from now

[DominicJackson]

I quit on monday and I know several others quit on nearly the same day so any one else want to join this thread that is trying to quit? For support and advise?
I am on day 3 and jsut had to give up after 10 years of smoking weed and fags, my lungs started to ache and I felt like an old man plus lots of other wierd symptoms which still haven't gone but its only day 3!!

Share the help and support!

Anyone else trying to quit or has done that has any advice or needs help?

[mikej]

the first few days are always the hardest in my experience but i'm not sure you ever completely lose the craving, even after years of abstinence.

anyway, i'm off to buy a pack of 20.

good luck.

[goldberg]

Originally Posted by DominicJackson

I quit on monday and I know several others quit on nearly the same day so any one else want to join this thread that is trying to quit? For support and advise?
I am on day 3 and jsut had to give up after 10 years of smoking weed and fags, my lungs started to ache and I felt like an old man plus lots of other wierd symptoms which still haven't gone but its only day 3!!

Share the help and support!

Anyone else trying to quit or has done that has any advice or needs help?

Keep at it. The good news is if you stay quit you will gain back most if not all the year you would have lost as a smoker, as the lungs are great at repairing themselve.
How about saving up the money you would have spent on cigs and spend it on something shiny.

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by mikej

the first few days are always the hardest in my experience but i'm not sure you ever completely lose the craving, even after years of abstinence.

anyway, i'm off to buy a pack of 20.

good luck.

Lol I think 90% is in our heads if you want to smoke you will have cravings, I have not had any cravings (nealry) and I am on day 3... If you do not want to do it then you will not want to simple. :-)
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Don't smoke dude its really important its actually a matter of life and death :-(

I know its sounds stupid but what really helped me was looking up on Wiki the health effects, we hear so much about them but if you really look into it you realise how silly and pointless smoking really is, and how its just turned into a money making scam raping humanity of its health and money. It really is de-evolution of peoplekinds mental and spiritual progression.
Its really a sad thing that we have all got to into these self depricsating poinsionous addictions. Addiction is in the mind and we need to look at why we want it and where we can get pleasure from in our lives to replace the addictions....

[DominicJackson]

goin out for a drink tonight wish me luck!! You know drinking and smoking go hand in hand!!!
Just keep in mind the reasons why I am quiting and I find having little treats to counter act the urge liike a snack usually helps.. Or just not having the urge at all..
:-)
Will be interesting no doubt, and drinking acidifies your urine sending nicotine out of your body thats why we get an urge to smoke when we drink..
(apparantly)

I feel like i am setting myself up to haver urges to smoke questioning it like this, if I keep stuffing my face it will be ok.......

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by mikej

the first few days are always the hardest in my experience but i'm not sure you ever completely lose the craving, even after years of abstinence.

anyway, i'm off to buy a pack of 20.

good luck.

I smoked for 12 years. Quit in January of 2007, zero cravings. The whole watching someone die for 14 months of lung cancer thing probably helped.

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi

I smoked for 12 years. Quit in January of 2007, zero cravings. The whole watching someone die for 14 months of lung cancer thing probably helped.

i've quit several times in the past, sometimes for years, but whenever my life becomes suddenly and unexpectedly stressful i get the urge to smoke again.

sometimes i resist the urge, sometimes i don't. it's just an unfortunate weakness i have and i've yet to conquer it permanently.

hopefully dom will be more successful than i've been.

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by mikej

i've quit several times in the past, sometimes for years, but whenever my life becomes suddenly and unexpectedly stressful i get the urge to smoke again.

sometimes i resist the urge, sometimes i don't. it's just an unfortunate weakness i have and i've yet to conquer it permanently.

hopefully dom will be more successful than i've been.

I "quit" several times before I actually quit. But looking back I was never serious, I was quitting for external reasons, and I didn't alter my lifestyle, so I always returned to smoking.

I had to replace the cues for smoking with cues for other behavioral responses, and I had to rearrange my life (stop working as an accountant chained to her desk 12 hours a day) to really eliminate the pattern.

but I've heard people had wonderful success with alan carr's method.

[SlicK]

Avoid the smokers may be the best advice I can give you.

[Roxon]

Goodluck Dom, you are doing great, keep it up

im having a bad day, really bad. Been smoking for a very long time, i smoke because i enjoy it very much, but its a dumb and disgusting habit. Since 2007 im constantly quitting, for days, weeks, months. But always start again, then quit and so it goes. Since August
I quit 1 month smoked a week, quit 11 days, smoked for 3 days now heading for day 5 smoke free.
Im depressed, keep bumping up against the deep despair that smoking masks, not wanting to live to a very old age, dreading years of cravings. I look at myself in the mirror and my skin and teeth look terrible, really terrible from years &years of smoking. Ive destroyed my skin and teeth but still battling the smoking issue day in day out year in year out.
Feeling pretty hopeless today....but at least i diddnt smoke, better late than never huh.

[neilpage]

Originally Posted by DominicJackson

Anyone else trying to quit or has done that has any advice or needs help?

Well, if smoking for 20 years of marlbro reds can put me in a coma for 19 days... I'll for sure say quit!
In one point of time ... I could not breathe without oxgen tank hooked up to me, I could not walk (true) 2 feet in front of me because lack of oxgen i could not inhale

I was dead twice in coma once and all because i smoked cigs..
All I got to say...Is try learning to walk , talk or think normal when you come out of a coma... you will be and feel like an infant like I promise.
I'm on a rest of my life medicine advair... without it, I can not work, I can not walk ... i will have to go back to hospital and what next who knows?

Quit it is your choice!

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi

I "quit" several times before I actually quit. But looking back I was never serious, I was quitting for external reasons, and I didn't alter my lifestyle, so I always returned to smoking.

Totally man! You can think "I want to quit" and stop for a while but what are your reasons?
Is it because you WANT to quit? Or because you think itsd the right thing to do, or someone else wants you to quit? Mayb you just know about the health risks and have not experienced them so you believe it wont effect you?

Seriously looking on Wiki made a big difference, sounds stupid but seeing what your lung looks like after smoking fror years and imagining that is what my lungs look like just woke me up.
Maybe you just have to find the right reason and you wont have cravings like me and Lakshyayidhi. I have tried to quit lots before and lay awake at night beating myself up about it, but thats useless. You need to KNOW why you want to quit think about every element of smoking and why you like it, what its doing to you? What WILL happen if you keep on smoking? But dont stress out and beat yourself up thats the worst thing to do...

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by neilpage

Well, if smoking for 20 years of marlbro reds can put me in a coma for 19 days... I'll for sure say quit!
In one point of time ... I could not breathe without oxgen tank hooked up to me, I could not walk (true) 2 feet in front of me because lack of oxgen i could not inhale

I was dead twice in coma once and all because i smoked cigs..
All I got to say...Is try learning to walk , talk or think normal when you come out of a coma... you will be and feel like an infant like I promise.
I'm on a rest of my life medicine advair... without it, I can not work, I can not walk ... i will have to go back to hospital and what next who knows?

Quit it is your choice!

This is very horrific I hope you are ok now sorry to hear you went through this and thank you for sharing and being honest about this..

Smoking isnt a game or a hobby, its a matter of life and death and has no benefits whatsoever to our lives, its insane..
Thank you for sharing :-)

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by Roxon

Goodluck Dom, you are doing great, keep it up

im having a bad day, really bad. Been smoking for a very long time, i smoke because i enjoy it very much, but its a dumb and disgusting habit. Since 2007 im constantly quitting, for days, weeks, months. But always start again, then quit and so it goes. Since August
I quit 1 month smoked a week, quit 11 days, smoked for 3 days now heading for day 5 smoke free.
Im depressed, keep bumping up against the deep despair that smoking masks, not wanting to live to a very old age, dreading years of cravings. I look at myself in the mirror and my skin and teeth look terrible, really terrible from years &years of smoking. Ive destroyed my skin and teeth but still battling the smoking issue day in day out year in year out.
Feeling pretty hopeless today....but at least i diddnt smoke, better late than never huh.

Please dont smoke and dont feel bad about smoking!! Its the worst thing to do!!!

Dont be deppressed!! Do something lovely for a treat! Eat some cake! Go for a long walk! Rent a funny film! Anything! You dont have to MASK anything.. I feel really depressed too its just your body gettting used to not smoking!
Try not to have those cravings ask your self why you are craving it? Read about it make sure ou REALLY DONT WANT TO SMOKE...

You dopnt have to have cravings there is a way in your mind to turn them off..

Good luck and please dont smoke you are donig so well
x

[DominicJackson]

And I didnt smoke last night even though I was drinking YAY :-)

[neilpage]

Originally Posted by DominicJackson

This is very horrific I hope you are ok now sorry to hear you went through this and thank you for sharing and being honest about this..http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/i...lies/smile.gif

Smoking isnt a game or a hobby, its a matter of life and death and has no benefits whatsoever to our lives, its insane..
Thank you for sharing

I am very fine now Thank you!

[Roxon]

Thanks Dom, your encouragement helped, im doing better today &diddnt give in. It helped to question why im craving, as you suggested. I crave the physical feeling, pulling the smoke in past my throat &breathing it in, duno what benefit ive attached so strongly to that physical feeling but i will figure it out. It helps to weigh up living with daily cravings for decades against the daily life of lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema etc.

To go out drinking and to resist the habitual strong urge to also smoke is quite something!! Keep it up, you are doing great quitting weed and cigs!! Its gona have you feeling a new confidence in yourself and when Soph hears you quit she is going to see your discipline in action

thanks for sharing your experience Neilpage, it reminded me that the pain of quitting is a blessing compared to the suffering waiting for many smokers. So happy to hear you are doing fine now

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by Roxon

Thanks Dom, your encouragement helped, im doing better today &diddnt give in. It helped to question why im craving, as you suggested. I crave the physical feeling, pulling the smoke in past my throat &breathing it in, duno what benefit ive attached so strongly to that physical feeling but i will figure it out. It helps to weigh up living with daily cravings for decades against the daily life of lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema etc.

To go out drinking and to resist the habitual strong urge to also smoke is quite something!! Keep it up, you are doing great quitting weed and cigs!! Its gona have you feeling a new confidence in yourself and when Soph hears you quit she is going to see your discipline in action

thanks for sharing your experience Neilpage, it reminded me that the pain of quitting is a blessing compared to the suffering waiting for many smokers. So happy to hear you are doing fine now

The craving is your mental programming, the pleasure to. Look into NLP. You are releasing dopamine with your mind telling you it is a good thing. You need to replace those thoughts of pleasure, dissascociate them from smoking, kill them before they set in. They are not supposed to be there and you are partly to blame for them being there, you can reprograme yourself... :-)

[Roxon]

Thanks i will give it a try best wishes to you

[DominicJackson]

day 5 and I am getting some cravings, but just keep thinking about my lungs!

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by DominicJackson

And I didnt smoke last night even though I was drinking YAY :-)

Wow, that's amazing. I can only assume but isn't it something like a dieter being at a birthday party where they have all kinds of cakes, chips, pizzas, etc. out there?

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

Wow, that's amazing. I can only assume but isn't it something like a dieter being at a birthday party where they have all kinds of cakes, chips, pizzas, etc. out there?

Yeah probably! lol

[dasnk]

I smoked for 20 years. About 5 years ago I managed to quit for an entire year - this was from reading the alan carr book, "the easy way to quit smoking".

But yeah failed a year later in the summer time, I felt like a cigarette would just be really nice and that I had built up enough health-credit to just have the odd smoke, and that was it back to daily heavy smoking.

However now I am finding some success with the electronic cigarette, I quit for about 2 weeks now and it was quite a painless transition, but its only 2 weeks.

[mikej]

and therein lies the problem: it's fairly easy to quit, it's staying quit which can be difficult.

i've quit before and was absolutely convinced i would never smoke again, only to fall into the trap again when i least expected it.

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by mikej

and therein lies the problem: it's fairly easy to quit, it's staying quit which can be difficult.

i've quit before and was absolutely convinced i would never smoke again, only to fall into the trap again when i least expected it.

Have you ever had to help care for someone dying of lung cancer?

That pretty much tears it, I swear. Volunteer in a cancer ward, or at a hospice.

I actually did try to smoke a cigarette last year...I wanted to. I wanted something to make it easy to relax, like cigarettes used to do. But I took two puffs and puked all over the sidewalk. Dude, cigarette smoke tastes like ass in the trash on a hot day in hell. I don't even know why people smoke that shiz. Pipe tobacco actually smells pretty good, but rolled cigarettes are just about as skank as they come.

Soooo, yeah. Not gonna try that relaxation method anymore.

[mikej]

some things in life are disgusting but enjoyable

but i appreciate what you're saying.

[lookcloser]

Me quitting today. I tried quitting last week but I took it up again when I went drinking. I've noticed that I get back to smoking everytime I'm out to get a drink. SO I'm quitting drinking too. It's for the best because I THINK I have alcoholic tendancies.

I'm scared to death. Wish me luck

[DominicJackson]

Originally Posted by lookcloser

Me quitting today. I tried quitting last week but I took it up again when I went drinking. I've noticed that I get back to smoking everytime I'm out to get a drink. SO I'm quitting drinking too. It's for the best because I THINK I have alcoholic tendancies.

I'm scared to death. Wish me luck

Dont make it hard on yourself!
You can quit smoking and enjoy drinking.
You have to realise it is your thoughts which control how you feel, you dont have to WANT to smoke. Think about why you want to smoke?
Its because you have thought it is what you want to do for ears and trained your self.
Its ok to not smoke you dont have to be scare of drikning, enojy drinking and enjoy not wanting to smoke, you are what you think you are...
X
Look inside for the answers not a drinking.