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May 01, 04
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Quitting Smoking
So, 5 days ago now, I decided to quit my 11 year smoking habit.
Nothing could have prepared me for how difficult this has been. I am pretty much going cold turkey, no patch or nicorette gum to help. Admittedly, I have cheated a couple times, and had a couple smokes. I can't really get angry at myself for cheating, cause 6 days ago, I was pretty much smoking a pack a day. From a pack a day to less than 1 a day, that quickly is something I can live with. I think this is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Smoking has been my stress relief at work & home, and I have always used cigarrettes to "think"... I am at my most creative if I have a smoke in my hand.... Anyone else gone through this? Any suggestions on how to get rid of cravings? Gum/candy/food does not really help... and while I am only giving into the cravings once in a rare while, I would rather not be giving in at all. 
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May 01, 04
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I'm trying to quit smoking myself.
The Grand Finale - was a finale for a lot of things for me, including smoking. I saved one last cigerette for the ride home. It was smooth. Day 6 so far, not too shabby. What really helps is having water on hand. When you crave, think about WHY your quitting, how much it costs, and what you can buy with the money your saving. Plus, when you have water - drink lots of it, you will be too bloated to think of a smoke. Trust me on that one. I'm thinking about getting the patch, i've been having some major withdrawls. But I'm seeing how long I can hit it up cold turkey. Good luck.
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May 01, 04
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Good job! I also havent smoked in 4 days due to the fact that im extremely sick and whenever id take a puff I felt like my lungs were gonna expload. Hopefully when Im all better I wont crave them at all.
Keep it up tho! U didnt just go through 5 days of pain to give right back in.. Make it worth it!.
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May 01, 04
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But telling myself that it is all going to be worth it in the end, and saving $200/month is definatly a bonus as well. I hear the first week is the worst... after that, it gets a lot easier. Hopefully, I have heard correctly. I will let ya know. :)
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May 02, 04
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HAHA Ya come get a smoke from me Sariel....j/k, it is hard and I am doing worse then you, but I figure if you can quit then at least there will be no chance of having smokes at home, sucks but I guess our health is better then the sick habit, plus Vic ain't to happy about the cheating I have done (smoking, not on her people). plus it also helps to have someone to quit with. Oh and how about those twitches? got to love the sketchy twitches, and I didn't even get the fun of the drugs
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May 02, 04
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whenever you get that dark , devilish craving , just reach into your pocket, and pull out a joint.
:somatic: , honestly tho it should appease the nausea and headaches assosciated with withdrawal , and your hunger will return.
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May 02, 04
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I quit smoking exacty 2 weeks ago today
i've attempted many times, but the last time i quit i went through bad withdrawls... but this time, i've got myself mentaly trained that i'm not going to smoke. I've impressed myself so much, the first 4 days of me quitting i went out drinking 2 nights... i did pretty good, but i did have some positive support from one of my buddies when i did almost cave in. It's so mental its not even funny. The last time i quit i bought a pack but wouldn't open it, so when i wanted a smoke, i have a pack, so why would i bum one off someone else, but i still wouldn't open the pack. It worked untill i sold the pack... as for advise i don't have much... just that its your choice so you either quit completely or you don't. After 2 weeks i still have cravings, just get it off your mind and do something else. From what i've been told the cravings will last for years.... Edit: Ohh and good luck!
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May 02, 04
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i too im quitting..its been 5 days..its so hard, ive taken up nail bittin instead, im also a theatre geek so smokin has always helped relax wen im doin a play, last nite was performance night n i was freakin out so i slipped n had a smoke, man it felt fukin good..but i also think it reminded me again y i want to quit smokin so bad.. if that makes sence. ive been tryin to blaze more isntead but that just makes me want more smokes for an after toke..this is gonna be realllli fukin hard
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May 02, 04
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And I ALWAYS crave a smoke when baked.... hell... usually I like the smoke 5 min after toking... For me, quitting has been realyl hard because I am a habitual smoker... I would light up when I got up in the morning, after eating, after sex, on each break at work, after toking, while having good conversionations with people, when a bad track is playing at the club, and before bed.... Breaking those habits is driving me nutz.
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May 02, 04
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Quitting is the best thing I ever did. It's been over a month for me...you guys can do it! Cravings only last for approx. 7 minuts, so make sure you got something to do when those cravings hit! You guys can totally do it!!
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May 02, 04
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I allow myself one cigarette every Wednesday, I look forward to that day the whole week. Might as well quit but that one smoke is sometimes so so sweet...
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May 02, 04
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May 02, 04
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Not to be a bad influence, but why quit smoking? it's just deprieving yourself of something you want. we all want different things. smoking just may be one of your things.
Everyone is a non smoker these days, a product of postive advertising. Fuck that! let me choose what i want! i'm as sour the communists, cuz antismoking propaganda is guiding us in the way that coke guides you to cola or honda guides you to cars. fuck that. i choose what i want and i am who i am. fuck you all who tell me smoking is bad, so is E and drinking. so is going for a run on a smoggy day. so is eating processed and preserved food. so is looking in the sun. so is drinking tap water(in certain places). so is not wearing layers of clothes and sunscreen on a sunny day. fuck you. i am my own person i drive a jeep, i smoke, i drink, i play in the sun, i drop E, i trip out on mushies, i go to school, i smoke weed, take chances & make mistakes. I am fucking human and i do what i want, all the time. the human race is a blink of an eye in the big picture and we are here purely cuz we like to fuck. so do rabbits... we are 6billion and rising by the second, tell me to stop smoking!!!! i represent population control and i am a statistic in every category we make for ourselves. i will live for approx 69 years and i plan on enjoying every minute of it. and i count on all you non smokers to find a cure to whatever i fuck myself up on. thats what your there for. an extra 20 years on my life as a handicapp old man with parkinsons is not the greatest future i can imagine. Im young, drunk, and having fun. Puff Puff PASS mother fucker....
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May 02, 04
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I'm going to hate having to pay your hospital bill when you get cancer at 32. 'Life is short so fuck yourself and your environment up as much as possible because it feels good.' Good philosophy you fucking moron.
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May 03, 04
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Our society praises those who people with immense self control, but those with all that self control are just a byproduct of society itself. Taught and brainwashed to believe certain things that society holds as beacons of goodness. My opinion is just pro-choice. I want to decide want is good and not good for myself in my life in every aspect of it. but not only that i want to break down the preset social norms we are all used to so maybe for once others can see without tunnel vision. In the hope that people like you will judge me less. I never mentioned once that i want to fuck up my 'environment as much as possible'. i wish i could see the earth in her natural beauty, without all of our 'improvements' to her... The point of my previous post wasn't really about smoking, I myself don't smoke much at all, i'm not a non-smoker, but not a full out smoker either. I smoke when i want to, and don't when i don't. My post was meant to be more an attack on the social norms of our society and my feelings that they effect every decision you make; it parallels high school drama and how in most peoples quest to be popular they had to cave into peer pressure at some point. now if you never did this, and did what you wanted without ever caring about what your peers thought you should be doing; you my friend are my case in point. My mission is to carry on this individual thought on a much more grandiose scale, i wish to carry this thought pattern on into the realworld that we live in. oh and Mr. Max Lazarus, if you don't want to pay my hospital bill, move to the US alright, cuz the handicap child you may or may not have is taking to much money out of my pocketbook too. It's a two way street bro, i'm there for you if your there for me.
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May 03, 04
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