Quitting tobacco

[Keral_Patel]

I have given up tobacco.

From last 10 years I had been addicted to it and I myself knew it isn't good for my health still I was not able to leave it.

Tried in vain for 2 or 3 times but couldn't keep myself away from it. Whenever I used to quit for 4 or 5 days something worst would happen and I only had one thing that was my friend and it was tobacco.

From last month I was trying to slowly decrease the intake but all plans were failing. So I decided to just stop it. I told my family members that maybe I will fall ill or something but I was prepared for the sickness etc.

Today is my 5th day and I have not taken it. My brain is playing lots of games with me. But I am trying to tell myself that I have already worked so hard for 5 days why to waste that efforts.

If you are also taking tobacco and want to quit then its a great time. Maybe you and me can take inspiration from each other and it will help.

Thanks.

 

[amcdonald]

Well i bought the nicoderm patches, gonna give it a whirl!!

 

[Kenny]

Well i bought the nicoderm patches, gonna give it a whirl!!

Good Luck!!!

 

[Michelle]

Well i bought the nicoderm patches, gonna give it a whirl!!

:tu: Good luck.. I gave up using patches but be warned they could give you bad nightmares.. they did me

As for cutting down.. didnt work for me. Had to be the all out quit or nothing. Even now after 4 years I still miss it now and them and am sure if I had that *one* I would be back to 20 a day instantly.

 

[amcdonald]

:tu: Good luck.. I gave up using patches but be warned they could give you bad nightmares.. they did me

As for cutting down.. didnt work for me. Had to be the all out quit or nothing. Even now after 4 years I still miss it now and them and am sure if I had that *one* I would be back to 20 a day instantly.

I thought I had great will power and boasted to my friends that I could quit Cold Turkey no problem. Well that failed in 2 days.(should have kept my mouth shut, LOL) then I tried cutting down. that lasted about 10 days. Now I have admitted defeat and will try the patch!
I have smoked for nearly 15 years , its a little harder to quit than I thought.

 

[Michelle]

I thought I had great will power and boasted to my friends that I could quit Cold Turkey no problem. Well that failed in 2 days.(should have kept my mouth shut, LOL) then I tried cutting down. that lasted about 10 days. Now I have admitted defeat and will try the patch!
I have smoked for nearly 15 years , its a little harder to quit than I thought.

Yea its not easy I know. I smoked for about 22 years and if I can do it .. so can you :tu:

 

[Keral_Patel]

Yea its not easy I know. I smoked for about 22 years and if I can do it .. so can you :tu:

LOL mellow you are a tough one You survived 22 years of damage :o WOW.

 

[Michelle]

LOL mellow you are a tough one You survived 22 years of damage :o WOW.

Never looked at it like that :yell:

 

[GILSAN]

I survived 35 years of damage as you put it. I went cold turkey 12 years ago and never went back to that bad old filthy habit. Keep up the fight Nick and the others. :tu:

 

[Kenny]

How is this going Nick?

 

[Keral_Patel]

How is this going Nick?

LOL Bad I am surrounded by lots of BS troubles but I am just keeping myself cool and calm. I miss it seriously but still have decided that no matter what I am going to be strong from inside and I am just going to give myself as much trouble as possible.

 

[Ross]

LOL reading this thread made me think of something really funny.

A friend and I had bought a carton when i was in college. So we would not have to go to the store constantly ect ect ect. Anyways a day later we decided we needed to quite half way through our first packs. We looked at a friend of ours and gave him the packs we had and said "do not give us any!" He then proceeded to throw them out the window. We started freaking out and saying "WTF did you do that for?!" He says, "You told me not to give you any..." After that we thought about the whole carton we had left in the dorm room. Got to thinking who we could give them to but no one that we liked came to mind. So we decided to finish out the carton in the coming days just because we didn't want to waste the money spent on them. By the 3rd day we had finished the carton and ended up even more addicted than we had started the previous days.

My advice, JUST STOP SMOKING!

 

[ecigs.net]

:D After seeing my own nicotine addiction I am thinking web development is 2nd class business. I want to sell cigs LOL :D That's the first class business.

I'd have to agree with you. Alcohol, cigarettes & sex will always be superior markets. The last thing the government wants is for people to give up sinning. If we did, what would they tax?

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Wow, I was just thinking of posting a thread on this topic and this thread was right there. WOW. Kind of erie.

I am hoping to get one of those prescriptions that makes you puke when you smoke. That should make me quit. I used to be an avid runner, 10K was easy for me. Now I can't mow the lawn without losing my breath. Then again, it is very humid this year. lol

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There is no "cutting back". It's a "do (quit) or die" kinda thang.

And you are right, props to those toughing it out.

I made it 2 weeks once, then my now ex-wife brought home a carton and chain smoked in front of me. That was the end of my strength right there. Does that mean my heart attack will be on her Karma? LOL! :]

 

[Keral_Patel]

I used to be an avid runner, 10K was easy for me. Now I can't mow the lawn without losing my breath.

Exactly I used to jump over the gates instead of opening and closing them. But then with tobacco I wasn't even able to walk :D

If I play cricket I can take singles If I try to take 2 runs I hardly finish 1.5 runs and get run out

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

lol, I know exactly how it feels. LOL Well I guess the good spin to the high cig taxes in the US is that I will not be able to afford smoking too much longer.

 

[Wesley S]

nicotine lozenges worked for me. Good luck! God bless your new journey free of nicotine.