Quitting smoking

[Gohron]

I quit over 50 hours ago now, I'll withold the reasons for the time being but I flat out quit from one (sometimes more) packs a day cold turkey. Quitting on Sunday wasn't so bad, Monday wasn't too bad until the afternoon when the sickness and part of the shaking started to set in. Today was bad, sickness and sudden and completely random violent shaking for short periods of time and the actual cravings for my cigarettes have started to set in, at least I've been getting up to go have a cigarette and remembering that I quit. I've weighed out the patch and the gum and all that other shit and I'm just gonna do this completely conventionally, I'm fully confident that I won but it's still not a fun experience.

Anyone with helpful suggestions or similar experiences?

[FX]

Good luck, Gohron!

[George]

It may not be exactly the same thing, but when I went on my major diet a few years back, I always kept myself busy doing something so that I wouldn't get bored and start to think about my diet and food and whatnot.

Step up the physical activity by a notch, keep something in your mouth at all times (gum or drink a lot of fluids) Start a small savings bin with the money you'd usually spend daily in cigs and reward yourself with something else you'd enjoy after a few weeks to motivate yourself further.

[Brand X]

It'll get easier my man. I quit smoking for half a year once (back on the horse, but I did quit for 6 months, which impressed me). The physical cravings are gone after about a week, week and a half. After that the only thing you will have to battle is the mental addiction which is essentially just breaking the habit of smoking cigarettes (i.e. the cigs you have everytime you get into a car, or after you eat).

Kudos to you trying to go cold turkey, you're a stronger man than I.

[bbobb]

Quitters never win.

[g0zen]

I don't know why, but I have one of those personalities where I just don't really get addicted. I smoked cigarettes for awhile, then just stopped. Same with drinking. Never had a problem with it.

[Revoltor]

If you stop smoking you won't look cool anymore.

Good luck though.

[LOL]

I don't know why, but I have one of those personalities where I just don't really get addicted. I smoked cigarettes for awhile, then just stopped. Same with drinking. Never had a problem with it.

IBTN

[Rumpy]

Anyone with helpful suggestions or similar experiences?

Pick up a new addiction (I'm serious).

[Grave]

Nicotine addiction really confuses me. I'm finishing my sophomore year in college now, and I've been smoking since mid-high school. I recently quit last October... just dropped it. No cravings, no sickness, no nothing. The only part that was difficult was breaking the actual habit. I used to get to classes insanely early because I'd leave in time for a cigarette or two, and I'd get out the front door, go to light up, and realize I didn't have any...

Which is curious, because in the past, I had gotten headaches when I really felt the desire to smoke and was putting off such, which leads me to think they were unrelated feelings.

The upsides? Well, I can't really tell you. I still enjoy tobacco a great deal. I haven't had a cigarette since then, but I've smoked at least two nice cigars since then, and I smoke my pipe when I'm back in PA. I think it's fine to enjoy it in any form as long as you're still enjoying it... when anything becomes habitual and you do it for the sake of doing it, it's kind of pointless, no?

I guess my lung capacity is better. I started coughing all the fucking time a month or so ago, and it's dying down now little by little. I've been told by a couple people that it could be my lungs cleaning themselves out. I don't know how much validity there is in that statement. I'm not sure if I'm exactly able to stand more physical exertion without getting out of breath.

You do save money. Tons of it. I used to smoke Kamel Red Lights as my main cigarettes, unfiltered Luckies before that and on and off during, and Nat Shermans and Nat Sherman Mints when I felt like a treat. I also liked Dunhill Internationals from time to time, but Kamel Red Lights were my standby, and in Boston, they run close to $6 a pack at most places. Painful.

Granted, I now lose that money and more because of the ladyfriend I picked up shortly after, but... you'll have that.

The benefits are there, you just need to find them for yourself. You like having more cash to spend? Awesome. You want to feel healthier? Go for it. Don't like lung cancer? Fair enough. Just as long as you're doing it for the right reasons and not robbing yourself of something you genuinely enjoy.

I think maybe I'm putting the wrong message across. I don't even know if I have a message. I'm taking a break from writing an 8 page paper on Native American writers and language. My brain stopped workng an hour ago.