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THAT actually helped me a lot because I finally just wrote "stupid" on the log and quit...it lasted for 2 months until I thought I had it beat and took a drag off my wifes cig.......HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!! I was back at it instantly...I know better this time.
An addiction is an addiction. You will never not be an addict once you have been one, only inactive.
When you get up in the morning, you have a choice: You can use or not use. As long as you don't use, you still have a choice. Once you use, the addiction takes the choice from you.
Keep your options open and you will be fine. Recognize before you quit that you will have withdrawal symptoms, and prepare yourself to deal with them. You will have headaches, muscle aches, panic attacks, cold sweats, constipation, shakes, fever, dizziness, and you will be in a foul mood. It takes roughly a week to clean the bulk of the garbage out of your system, after which you should adjust and settle down somewhat. You will cough up crap for the next six weeks. It took me five years after my last cigarette before I could really say I didn't love the smell of smoke drifting by.
If it gets too bad, get on C-D and start a Sarah Palin thread. Works every time and keeps your hands busy.
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I know, smoking sucks. But I love it so much! But it's really wrecked havoc on my lungs, no joke. Yet I still smoke, I'm such a fricking idiot. One of these days, I will quit. I've been trying to smoke just every other day....it's kinda been working out.
Good luck!!! I'm like you too...I LOVE that first one in the morning with a cup of coffee...that one after a meal....but they are killing me both in health AND the wallet...I hope you make it with the quitting
Good luck!!! I'm like you too...I LOVE that first one in the morning with a cup of coffee...that one after a meal....but they are killing me both in health AND the wallet...I hope you make it with the quitting
Thanks, & you too. It's the hardest thing ever to do, I now know how heroin addicts have it.
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An addiction is an addiction. You will never not be an addict once you have been one, only inactive.
When you get up in the morning, you have a choice: You can use or not use. As long as you don't use, you still have a choice. Once you use, the addiction takes the choice from you.
Keep your options open and you will be fine. Recognize before you quit that you will have withdrawal symptoms, and prepare yourself to deal with them. You will have headaches, muscle aches, panic attacks, cold sweats, constipation, shakes, fever, dizziness, and you will be in a foul mood. It takes roughly a week to clean the bulk of the garbage out of your system, after which you should adjust and settle down somewhat. You will cough up crap for the next six weeks. It took me five years after my last cigarette before I could really say I didn't love the smell of smoke drifting by.
If it gets too bad, get on C-D and start a Sarah Palin thread. Works every time and keeps your hands busy.
LMAO!!!!! You tha' man....you also make it sound so appealing to quit
You will have headaches, muscle aches, panic attacks, cold sweats, constipation, shakes, fever, dizziness, and you will be in a foul mood.
The ONLY real symptoms I had last time was staying in a EVIL mood...I destroyed my riding mower after running over a dog chain and hanging it up in the deck!!!!!
You have to realize that smoking bans are not about health concerns, it is about power. Obtaining it and keeping it. In Anchorage, AK, they banned smoking in public parks, but they did not ban bar-b-ques which produce more carcinogens than an entire carton of cigarettes. These people are not interested in your health, just your money.
The reason Indian casinos were exempted is because they are on federal lands, not state lands, and therefore they not subject to state laws or state taxes.
They started doing that here too, with a handfull of parks, but not all of them. People litter the ground with butts and that was the reasoning for it. When I use the trail system or parks and sit down for a break, I always put the butt back inside the pack when I'm done. Not hard to do, won't hurt your other cigs and the butt gets disposed of properly when the pack is empty. By the way, I ride my bicycle 25 miles a day, 4 times a week, spring, summer and fall and have done so for over 10 years.
About the casino's here, most are state run and not owned by indians or on indian land, but a few are. The state could of banned smoking in most of them if it chose too.
teatime, I used your take one away method to get on track like you did. I was smoking almost 2 packs a day a couple years ago, then started taking one away, but only at one or two week intervals. It won't work unless you count them off every morning, as I still do. After about 6 months I made it all the way down to 12 a day, then slowly back up to 15 where I have been for over a year. I can handel 15 a day without being too stressed, lets me have one every hour. I feel better too, hardly cough anymore and sleep MUCH better. Also don't get those nicotine headaches from chain smoking all day.
Wanted to mention that a 75 mile trip to Missouri can be quite pleasant and inexpensive if your doing so on the back of a little suzuki 450 motorcycle. Installed some cheap saddle bags and noticed that if you wanted to, one can fit 6 cartons in each side.
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They started doing that here too, with a handfull of parks, but not all of them. People litter the ground with butts and that was the reasoning for it. When I use the trail system or parks and sit down for a break, I always put the butt back inside the pack when I'm done. Not hard to do, won't hurt your other cigs and the butt gets disposed of properly when the pack is empty. By the way, I ride my bicycle 25 miles a day, 4 times a week, spring, summer and fall and have done so for over 10 years.
About the casino's here, most are state run and not owned by indians or on indian land, but a few are. The state could of banned smoking in most of them if it chose too.
teatime, I used your take one away method to get on track like you did. I was smoking almost 2 packs a day a couple years ago, then started taking one away, but only at one or two week intervals. It won't work unless you count them off every morning, as I still do. After about 6 months I made it all the way down to 12 a day, then slowly back up to 15 where I have been for over a year. I can handel 15 a day without being too stressed, lets me have one every hour. I feel better too, hardly cough anymore and sleep MUCH better. Also don't get those nicotine headaches from chain smoking all day.
Wanted to mention that a 75 mile trip to Missouri can be quite pleasant and inexpensive if your doing so on the back of a little suzuki 450 motorcycle. Installed some cheap saddle bags and noticed that if you wanted to, one can fit 6 cartons in each side.
Don't forget your helmet.
You got THAT right...they'll nail you in a heartbeat.
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Thanks, & you too. It's the hardest thing ever to do, I now know how heroin addicts have it.
I know...it's impossible for me to talk to some of these methanites around here and tell them"You guys should quit that crap before it kills you" and then get back in my truck and light a friggin' cig...what a hypocrit I'd be.
I always wear the helmet on a long trip, but we don't have a helmet law in Iowa. Actually, if you go to Lineville, you could park on the Iowa side and walk 100 feet to the store in Missouri. They always have tents set up to sell fireworks for the 4th. They know how to please you down there.
Hey Teatime, You live in Texas, right? So do you know how much a carton of Misty cigs cost in Texas? I'm asking because I'm coming to Texas next week to visit my daughter and if they are a lot cheaper there I want to bring an extra suitcase.
I don't rightly know. I buy ultra-cheap, off-brand ciggies. But I don't believe Texas adds nearly as many taxes onto ciggies as other states do so you'll probably find that they're cheaper.
What part of Texas are you visiting? If it's South Texas, I can recommend a chain store where I bought mine cheap when I lived down there. Here in West Texas, the locally owned ciggy shops are the cheapest.
That doesn't sound weird at all to me because that is the way it is with me too.....last time I "weened" myself too and the last pack I even kept a note to myself as to WHY I smoked that particular cig.THAT actually helped me a lot because I finally just wrote "stupid" on the log and quit...it lasted for 2 months until I thought I had it beat and took a drag off my wifes cig.......HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!! I was back at it instantly...I know better this time.
See, you get it! I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who's a nurse and rabidly anti-ciggies. I told her the ritual and psychological aspects of smoking were harder for me to deal with than the nicotine. It's true -- I NEVER have nic fits, even when I'm flying trans-Atlantic and have to go 12 hours without one, I'm calm as can be. She insisted that I was deluding myself and it's ALL about nicotine. Wrong!
But the rabid anti-smoking types who have never smoked think it's all so simple. It's not. If it was, the gum or lozenges would have worked for me and they didn't AT ALL.
This weaning thing IS working, though. There are many days when I don't even smoke all of the allotted cigs and I start another "pack" with the left-overs from those days. A carton used to last me 8 or 9 days -- right now it's lasting 15. That's progress and I'm not suffering in the least.
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