If you quit, you should never touch it again. Once you light one, the next thing is you smoke one, then 2, then buy some and back to smoking. Basically this is highly addictive, more than most other substances.
If I smoked would I be back where I started?
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Never could take up smoking. Both my parents were pack a day smokers, mom still is. I've tried, but it makes me feel ill. However, I can smoke 3 or 4 in a night of heavy drinking, except it makes the hangovers way way worse. I know smokers that go into overdrive when drinking, taking down a pack or more in just a few hours. I can't imagine how shitty I would feel the next day.
Blech. :throwup:
Blech. :throwup:
just remember the reasons you quit to begin with, and if you have to list out every benefit that you can think of for being smoke-free. Works for me...
I had smoked for several years, and after a month, yes you will probably fall back in to the cycle. I would advise you to be clean and smoke free for at least 3 months before you even contemplate a cigarette, by that point once you have one you'll be so fucking disgusted you ever smoked in the first place as you try to choke even 1 down.
Be strong. Best thing I can think of is quitting smoking for so many reasons.
Be strong. Best thing I can think of is quitting smoking for so many reasons.
It could happen, and often how it happens. I've been though several quit cycles. I have been tobacco free for more than a year and a half now. That being said, I have had a few cigs in-between there but they just reaffirmed why I quit. After a few months you are unlikely to see the benefit anymore.
If you do light up again, make sure to buy the strongest cigarettes available, rip the filter off, and take the largest puff you can.
That should do the trick.
That should do the trick.
i was just talking to my brother today about this subject... he used to smoke, then he bought his (smoker) father in law's house. he decided to repaint the master bedroom, and he said the first stroke of new white paint on the ceiling showed how disgustingly coated in tar that 15 x 13 room was... he said he imagined how fucked up the insides of his 6" x 6" lungs must be and bagged it for life on the spot.
find a mental image like that, and keep going back to it whenever you find yourself daydreaming about the upsides.
find a mental image like that, and keep going back to it whenever you find yourself daydreaming about the upsides.
I started smoking when I was 18 and quit when I turned 32. I was up to 2 packs a day when one day I said fuck it and quit cold turkey. That lasted about 1 year until one night I was out drinking at a pub and I had this overwhelming urge to smoke. I caved and smoked one cigarette and that was all it took. I smoked a whole pack that night and woke up the next day and was right back to smoking 2 packs a day. It was like I never quit.
I smoked for about another year and quit cold turkey again. But this time I fight those urges and haven't smoked a cigarette in 5 years.
I smoked for about another year and quit cold turkey again. But this time I fight those urges and haven't smoked a cigarette in 5 years.
Gerard.. I quit smoking cigs nearly 11 months ago now. We're both in NYC. So we're probably saving way more cash than anyone else here from the packs we'd buy retail (avg. $12-$15/pack in the store). I had been a smoker for roughly 10 yrs. I too, quit cold turkey. No patch. No gum. No meds. No vices to replace it. Although, I did use working out (which I fucking haaaaate doing!!) every time I got a serious craving, and replacing it with doing pumps, lifting and a shitload of push ups and crunches helped me out immensely.
I miss smoking cigs a lot. I just liked to smoke.. it was what I did. Even going to a biz conference like Ad:Tech NY last fall, as a non-smoker was a huuuuge and odd experience for me.. because wtf was I supposed to do when I found myself outside.. chew gum?? Pft!
Quitting smoking sucks. Same as quitting any other vice we become addicted to.
However... smoking cigs is nasty shit. You know it. I know it. Every girl in our life knew it. It stopped us from breathing correctly. Fucked up our ability to fuck for longer than 2 hours without feeling like we'd be dying from a heart attack or as if we'd run a damn marathon (aka 20 blocks).
You won't be instantly addicted again. In fact, you may feel that awesome pull back feeling in your throat that you had when you first smoked cigs.. remember those? But you'll quickly be reminded of the fact that you quit this shit, and you should just let it go while you still can, before it gets its hooks in you.
I always, still even now, keep a virgin pack in my closet. I tell myself I can smoke anytime I want.. it doesn't need to get bad or desparate. Those first 90 days sucked, and I was going thru stupid drama shit too, so it was tripled.. but it wasn't worth going back and being weak and smoking again.
If I can quit. You can too. So don't pussy out.
I miss smoking cigs a lot. I just liked to smoke.. it was what I did. Even going to a biz conference like Ad:Tech NY last fall, as a non-smoker was a huuuuge and odd experience for me.. because wtf was I supposed to do when I found myself outside.. chew gum?? Pft!
Quitting smoking sucks. Same as quitting any other vice we become addicted to.
However... smoking cigs is nasty shit. You know it. I know it. Every girl in our life knew it. It stopped us from breathing correctly. Fucked up our ability to fuck for longer than 2 hours without feeling like we'd be dying from a heart attack or as if we'd run a damn marathon (aka 20 blocks).
You won't be instantly addicted again. In fact, you may feel that awesome pull back feeling in your throat that you had when you first smoked cigs.. remember those? But you'll quickly be reminded of the fact that you quit this shit, and you should just let it go while you still can, before it gets its hooks in you.
I always, still even now, keep a virgin pack in my closet. I tell myself I can smoke anytime I want.. it doesn't need to get bad or desparate. Those first 90 days sucked, and I was going thru stupid drama shit too, so it was tripled.. but it wasn't worth going back and being weak and smoking again.
If I can quit. You can too. So don't pussy out.
Yes big cash savings. No stench, you really can't appreciate how much the smoke stinks till you walk away from them awhile.
I opened my virgin pack but went no further then smelling that Sweet Virginia tobacco aroma. Better lung function here too. And much better vision. Anyway good luck staying away from them in the future Jon.
After almost 15 years since I last smoked, the mindfuck of divorce and a really good night out at adtech sf this year led me to light up again. Started with just a couple a day now a couple months later Im still not up to the pack a day I was back in the day, but I'm smoking enough for the loss of stamina and stank that Jon mentioned to be creeping up.
This. I still feel control over when and where I smoke, not like when I was younger but I'm only a couple months in. It was physically just like when I first started smoking. That same feeling still lingers now.
In the end, this. When I started back up I knew what I was signing up for and accepted the challenge of it being a short term coping mechanism and that I'd be cold turkey'ing it before summer.
It's easy to be confident before you take action, but I'm confident I've got the stones for it when the time comes. And clearly I'm knee deep in rationalizing all of it. You're better off staying away man.
And just to reiterate another point from the fuhrer, girls still hate that stank.
All I can smoke are cigars, I hate cigarettes, and I inhale them like cigarettes. I usually break them into 3rds and just smoke a third at a time.
I finally got the smoking pill a week ago and today I only took a couple puffs on an e-cig all day.
When I quit before on my own I had bought a new pack and just held onto it and somehow having it made my brain relieved, like they're right there if I "really" wanted to but I was always able to resist the urges.
I have quit now for almost 4 years, and still have cravings that come randomly and I just want a smoke so bad. But now I just smell the actual smoke smell on others if I am in a mode like that... and it is gross as hell.
Once I quit for a while I found the smell that I associated with smoking changed to the point that I find it gross.
Once I quit for a while I found the smell that I associated with smoking changed to the point that I find it gross.