Quitting smoking

after 7 years? i know i will be hooked again if i smoke another fag. actually i am hooked right now as i crave a cigarette like crazy. one year without nicotine. today was hard as i did some exercise in the early morning, outside it was very sunny and i worked from 7 to half 7. we have deadlines and stuff. has anyone else smoked roll-ups and has got the impression that they seem more addictive than normal cigarettes? i have had a sore throat for over a year now. will it ever become normal again?

I just recalled a good solution - become violently ill and bedridden for more than one day. This happened to me about twelve years ago and I ended up not smoking for two whole years. It happened again and I have had only two cigarettes all day.

Hey so I haven't smoked since Sunday because flu and I haven't not smoked this long since I started like seven years ago.

I'm pretty much completely well now, but I have an intermittent productive cough and I'm wondering if this is a quitting thing or a flu thing.

(PS got some snus around cuz I've got a friend who's a total snus stan so I'm not really doing much withdrawal at the moment)

wow has it only been six weeks

feels like months

^should point out that i have had 2 cigs in this time, and tbh i don't know why i had either..

i have had 15 months without a fag now. and i am still struggling. my throat burns. the only thing that keeps me from not starting again is all the effort i have put in quitting. while smoking i did not realise how strong my addiction was. now i do.

My heavy-smoker ex just had his tonsils out and hasnt smoked for 2 weeks as a result... be interesting to see if that sticks.

been on the patch for a week. boredom is the enemy of quitting. been sitting here all morning wishing i could smoke.

found a pack of chesterfields just in time for new years. dusted them off and haven't wanted one since.

been sitting here all morning wishing i could smoke.
thta's what i have been doing for the last 17 1/2 months. kind of. but it's too late to restart now. after all the effort i put in not smoking. i have to admit that there are long periods without thinking about fags at all. quitting is possible but beware. the relapse is always around the corner.

Day 9

I'm going to get that laser "acupuncture" therapy one day this week, which worked really well for my aunt who smoked as much as I currently do for 30 years. I'm sure half the "cure" is mental, but the patch and gum have NOT worked for me.

I will murder people!!!

don't do it

i mean murder people, quitting is ok. may i offer u a stick of my trident "layers" ?

How long did you smoke? My father says it's irrelevant, but I do feel it plays a role. And how long have you been off it? What are you using?

I've been off it for about a month now. It's going well. But then I was never a proper smoker (in my mind).

Ech, probably since about 19, so ten years. I've tried giving up a few times, with not a smashing success. I smoked so much on Saturday night that my lungs just felt wrong the next day, and sort of still do even today. Since Saturday I've had one cig and a few puffs on a low-tobacco spl1ff. I find that it's not just the frustration and the fidgetiness that gets me, but bouts of depression and anxiety too (which are kind of worse).

I'm trying to cut down with the aim of quitting before Christmas. NiQuitin mints are the most disgusting thing I've ever tried. What is it about nicotine gum that makes me hiccup?

smoked for 20 years, quit January 4th using the patch. have cheated twice since then. feeling great, not missing it (except every once in a while when I drink).

i have had my second anniversary on the saint james's way - where i stopped - and these days it is getting better but this summer i was suffering a lot. i still fell the nicotine and/or the tar in my throat. the throat burns occasionally. i have the impression the tar is mounting up from the lungs. whatever, to stop smoking is possible and definitely worth it.

i've been tapering down over the last year or so.. from a packet a day (i have no idea how i kept that up) down to 3-4 daily average. i can see myself completely without at some point in the future but i'm not quite there yet

3-4 cigs not packs

I had one yeaterday. I couldn't cope - I was getting frustrated at work and bickering with my girl. This is the main problem, although I don't know if I believe in patches and gum is absolutely disgusting!

Why not just cut down? Whatever works for you to lessen the amount of smoking, right?

Yesterday I craved a smoke SO FUCKING BADLY. It was really overwhelming. But I just don't go to buy a pack and it goes away. I don't have the anger, so only I am suffering. lol

6 years this summer! Considering how heavy of a smoker I was, it's really weird how fast I'm creeping up on being a nonsmoker for longer than I was a smoker. 2015, here I come.

quitting for the second time in a year ):

actually yesterday i was really stressed out and i was like MAN I AM NIC FITTING LIKE A MOTHERFUCK I NEED A CIGARETTE NOW so i bummed a fag off a coworker and realised it did not help at all and was like OKAY I GUESS I WASN'T NIC FITTING I AM ACTUALLY JUST REALLY STRESSED OUT ABOUT STUFF

I was gonna quit but then I discovered rolling tobacco. :>

I read some article years ago about how nic withdrawal feels like stress (duh), so that's always going to be a trigger, but you just have to realize it's bullshit and get past it. There are other ways to get rid of that feeling: step outside (where smokers don't congregate) and take some deep breathes and ground yourself. or do a few push-ups.

Haven't smoked a single one in five and a half days now. Was on 20+ a day. NiQuitin mints really work. And I've only had about two a day of those because they have, err, a really strong laxative effect, to say the least. Don't think I'd have done it cold turkey.

Good job, quitters! It is not easy but it is so so so so worth it, so hang in there.

If the two year old that was up to 40 cigarettes a day can quit, so can you!

I was talking to someone who quit (with meds). When I told her I quit without help, she replied "but you didn't smoke much and not for long." About seven years and half a pack to a pack per day? I guess not. lol

i've been kind of lame about quitting. I've tried to cut down or not at all, but it's so easy to slip back into it. I knwo someone who used one of those inhaler things to quit which is a bit o_O

I am craving a smoke rrrreally badly :-(

fight it nat!

^^

Just noticed that the sale price on a pack of Marlboro's an my local convenience store was $5.75.

At a pack a day, $5.75 for a month = $172.50. For a year it's over $2,000!

Oh the golden years when smokes were $1.30. Always said, if they ever go over two bucks, I'm quitting!

I remember seeing a cigarette machine at First Avenue with packs for $3.00 and thinking what a rip-off.

The problem is that I don't really consider a smoker: I never smoked THAT much (she says, lol, knowing that's rub) and not for that long (hah, seven years). But I think I'll stick to not smoking. I hope.

Smoking makes a person feel like dried-up shit, don't do it, nath!

Grr...haven't had a cigarette since Friday night, & right now the universe is REALLY testing me, 'cause it's my lunch hour, and it's raining outside; and I luuuv to smoke in the rain! And it rained yesterday too, and when was the last time we had two consecutive days of rain around here? Stupid elements...Grr...

Bottom line: Lousy time to quit; but GREAT time for a thread revival, thanks!

When Halloween comes around, are you tempted to sit around and eat a pillowcase full of candy?

That comes out meaner than I intend it to be, but all these little situations that tempt you to smoke aren't permanent. I can remember smoking in Denny's, smoking on road trips and even smoking in my apartment. Now, I can't even imagine doing any of those things.

You're always going to have those moments. I felt my serious nicotine pangs in a long time on Saturday while watching a close football game. But just like the game, it passes. You ride it out and once you're not nicking out so hard, you can say Okay. Rode that wave and I'm still clean.

All this much easier said than done, I am more than aware.

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cravings will always come back for a long time, nath. but they will go away as well. i haven't smoked (almost wrote stopped!) for more than two years (after 20 years of about 20 grams tobacco, ie 20-25 fags, per day, i smoked roll-ups) and i have entered another period where i crave cigarettes on a daily base, usually after meals and when drinking alcohol. not sure if it is ever going to stop, my throat is still sore, but maybe it is better this way as it reminds me of what kind of a motherfucker nicotine is. and the most dangerous thing about it is, that you smoke because you think you are not hooked. that is an illusion, my dear.

Giving up right now. Second quit in 12 months. In the easy bit, first couple of days when I feel in a permamuddle. Sort of fun if I'm not in company, and in this early bit I know what I'm fighting. It'll be dangerous in a month - that's when I think I can have just one. NO.

last cig was friday am. the longest i've gone since i started. feeling pretty good so far! had the most amazing run ever this morning. still get testy / annoyed and it's still hard even though it's easier now. i have some gum just in case. my partner smokes but it hasn't made it harder, mainly because i decided not to let it!

really helps that i want to take my runs to another level and today it happened :)

Yeah, like some days I'll pass some wretched old hag standing under an awning smoking a cigarette and I'll be like "damn, that smells good!" but most days it makes me nauseous and irritated.

Day two of quitting again.

Hardest part for me is always the communal aspect - going out to smoke with friends or on class breaks, not chain smoking while drinking.