I'm out of it... Well today I've gone cold turkey on smoking. Chit do I feel like hell. I'm not going back. I'm taking my life back, but I sure will be glad when what I'm feeling has past. Started when I was in the 4th grade and in a few I will be 57... enough is enough.
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Maybe try something like this i hear this works great.Good luck pops. ;D
At first I thought you were talking about smoking food. :-[
Me too Habs...I thought he wasn't going to cold smoke turkey again :D. ;)
Olds, what I remember when I quit cold turkey is... everytime I felt the urge to light up, I thought about the hell I was feeling. I knew that if I was to light up, all this pain would be for not. I learned that the moment I do light up, it's back to square one.
Each day gets easier. Good work and good luck :)
Good Luck Olds. I am trying to get my wife to quit. Its tough. Just stick to it.
Good luck Olds, you can do it. Buy yourself something you've allways wanted as a reward.
I bet you'd feel aweful if you told us a week from now that you started back up. No preasure...
Olds;
To restate what owrstrich wrote, if you first don't succeed there will be other times to kick the habbit. I quit in 1972, and for a long time once and a while I would still get a slight urge, but I would remember how I felt the first time I tried to smoke. I got sick as a dog.
As a matter of fact that is how I was able to give up a pack of Kools per day. I came down with an upper resporitory infection and couldn't smoke during that time, though I tried. When my infection cleared up a week latter, I tried to smoke and it made me sick like the first time I started smoking. That's when I came to the realization that the stuff is not good for you. Now most of the time now the smell of cigarette smoke makes me nassuas.
Good luck Olds. I quit 8 years ago cold turkey. My Mom had loaned me 3000.00 bucks to do some stuff and I was going to make payments to her for 3 or 4 months to pay her back. She said forget the money if you quit smoking. Went cold turkey 2 days later(had a bachelor party that weekend ;D) and haven't smoked one since. I promise you will feel 1 million times better very soon. Stick with it 8).
I quit almost 20 years ago Old's and still remember how hard it was. Hang in there buddy! In a week or two you will notice how much better you feel and it's enough to keep you from going back. Just go snort a dirty ash tray if you get the urge and after you get done chumming you'll stay away from them. ;D
Don't do it Olds. Big mistake. Your sense of taste and smell will increase. You will actually be able to smell smoke on other peoples clothes or in a small room just vacated by a smoker. You will have to get non-smoking seating in restaurants in states where smoking in public buildings is still permitted. You will have to ask for non-smiking hotel rooms and will get one that someone smoked in anyway. Just a big hastle.
Just Kidding. I quit many years ago (cold) and never regretted it. Although, I do admit, when visiting Vegas, I do have to look for a bottle of Febreeze. My mom and dad quit also but dad found out that for a while he used tootsie roll pops as a better substitue.
A few years ago, I went in for knee surgery. They asked if I smoked. I told them not for 25 years. Apparently, it is still a concern there no matter how long ago. OUCH.
Good Luck.
Well im glad i never started.My wife smokes and its a tuff one too quit i guess.Good luck olds take one day at a time and remember the goal.He shoots he scores.Just had too.serious good luck. ;)
GO RAYE GO!!!!!!! :)
Best of luck Olds. I went from three packs a day down to 0, overnight, back in the late 70's. It was hell for a few weeks and for a year after that a day never went by that I didn't think about lighting up - but I didn't. I've never regretted quitting and neither will you. Hang in there.
Tom
Well day two and my new habit is Altoids Sours'. Went through a can of them since yesterday. I'm surprised that going from 3-4 packs a day to nothing has not had a harder impact on me. Oh don't get me wrong... I'm not happy with where I'm at for the time being... just surprised is all.
Susan and Mother still smoke but not in the house. Plus with this unsmoke machine running the house does now smell nice.
Thanks for the support.
Olds
Good Luck Olds, i quit over 6 years ago after puffing em for 35 years,, dont miss them a bit!
those altoids sours freak me out...
but not as much as this... http://www.altoids.com/products.do
i go with the sugar free sour gum now and then...
you gotta eat...
owrstrich
Well it is now almost Monday AM and the world has not yet fallin' in on me. Not sure how I feel. Light headed...maybe. Crawleys... ya like things moving under my skin in waves--running hot then cold.
I don't find myself looking to pick up or grab a cig. as I "programed" myself with the phrase..."I don't smoke." So other than the inside feelings of hot / cold / things crawling I have no desire to smoke again. I don't need anything in my hands or to chew on anything. If fact I think I've only eaten two of the Altonids since lunch.
For what it is worth I was burning at least 30 packs per week if not more. Making the decision to believe in myself that "I don't smoke" has made a big difference. It eliminated the option. In fact a few feet away there is an open pack and lighter. I cannot use them as I don't smoke.
Good job Old's. Another thing to watch for is the triggers that used to lead you to want to smoke ie. just after a meal or while having a cold one etc. If you can bust past those you have it wooped my friend. :)
Hang in there Olds. It's hard but worth it. We're rooting for you.
T2
Whew!! You had me scared there, Olds - I, too, thought you were quitting "good" smoking and leaving all of us to fend for ourselves with the BS.
But soon you'll hear, "Lungs to brain: can't thank you enough; wow, this feels good!"
We're with you Raye - keep it up, and know it's for the best. It really is - know it and believe it.
Best regards and good luck,
Art
Well today is hump day (Wed) so it has to be down hill from here.... BTW while I was not smoking them all---many just burning up I was going through about 30 packs per week. That is about $81.00 per week, or $4,212.00 per year... EEK~~! Now if I can get my wife to quit that should be about $64.00 per week as she goes through 20 packs per week but those smokes are the expensive kind...no cheap crap for her lungs.
Mother lives with me and she is a good 30 packs per week as well. She can only smoke in her room and man o man do I ever have that room vented 24/7. Susan smokes outside now.
Quoteicerat4: Maybe try something like this i hear this works great.Good luck pops
Pops? Boy~~bring your sorry A$$ on down here, and I will show you Pops! Ever been gator fishin'? We always looking for new gator bait.
Step One:
Take a smart A$$ Yankee and place him in boat.
Step Two:
Tie a good rope around him.
Step Three:
Throw him into the water.
Step Four:
Wait until gator has a good hold on that smart A$$ Yankee before you head
slowly to the shore.
Step Five:
Don't shoot Gator in the head until he has finished with the bait or you might hit and kill that Smart A$$ Yankee. Wait until all that can be seen is the rope sticking out of the gator's mouth then shoot the gator in the head in an effort to save one smart A$$ Yankee... by then of course it is to late.
Step Six:
Invite the Smart A$$ Yankee's wife to a gator tail cook out. Telling her that the meal is complements of her late husband.
Pops uh? ? ? ?
Well done Olds, and stick with it, it does get easier ;)
I quit in January, i used to smoke 40-50 a day! :o, at the time i was in denial, i used to say "ah it's ok, i don't smoke that many" but in reality i most definately did.
I was going to have a new form of treatment, it has a 98% success rate, but just after christmas, something clicked in my head, and i thought that's it i'm quitting, i had a few cigs left in a pack, i threw them in the bin, and that was it for me up until the present.
I do get the odd time where i fancy a cig, but it soon passes, especially when i realise how much i would be letting myself down.
It was funny the other day, i told everybody "hey i'm smoking again" they were all shoked until they realised i'd bought a BS, which is the only smoking i need nowdays ;)
I have gained a bit of weight, which is strange for me, as i was always very lean, but losing the weight is easier to deal with than the smoking.
Anyway, if i can quit anybody can, good luck with, and now you'll live longer to enjoy all those lovely BS sessions ;)
Well it is over. Nothing anymore. Since yesterday the only time I give thought tp smoking is when I see my wife light up.
Next, I will have to change coffee brand as the one I have been drinking now taste like crap.
I'm glad this is now over with.
Olds
Quote$4,212.00 per year...
Now the big decision is what to spend all that extra money on! ;D ;D
Spending money ?That's always easy for me--toys for my boat!
Glad you stuck with it, Olds--we need our elder statesman around here. :D
T2
Fantastic Olds. Glad to hear it's going well. Getting your sense of taste back is quite an experience. I had never appreciated how dumbed down my sense of taste was until about two years after I quit. A dungeness crab had never tasted so sweet - especially in Tofino in B.C.
Tom