Quitting smoking (HONEST!!) - Page 41

August · 08-17-14, 08:54 PM

Nicotine can be a demanding mistress. Good for you Gordon!

Obelix · 08-17-14, 10:57 PM

February 28th of this year, I smoked the last cigarette

. Especially difficult was the first two days

. In order to drown out the craving for a cigarette, I started this jam. So I bought another problem - I have a tummy

. True, this problem has been partially resolved and is not as serious

.

HunterICX · 08-18-14, 04:25 AM

This month marks my 7th year smoke free

Schroeder · 08-18-14, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterICX

This month marks my 7th year smoke free

Now if you could also get rid of those cheese fumes....

Armistead · 08-18-14, 12:31 PM

I've been quit a lil over 2 years, with a few moments of failure, smoke one or two, but stopped.....I still want to pick them up, but been several months since a failed moment.

After my last post about my father I see a few on down or up depending on how you view things, he died a slow and brutal death. He was finally sent to a hospice hospital the last week. He had his last smoke about lunch and died that night....

Jimbuna · 08-18-14, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterICX

This month marks my 7th year smoke free

Well done Wim, keep it up. I stopped shortly after the SubSim Meet 2008 and a couple of weeks after Chris (AVG).

Can't honestly say I miss em and that's even during a drink.

Herr-Berbunch · 08-18-14, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterICX

This month marks my 7th year smoke free

On Monday I'll be 40 years without a cigarette.

Well done, by the way.

gordonmull · 02-26-15, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Well don't believe it then. No skin off my nose. The last thing I would want to do is get between an addict and his fix.

For the record I have talked with both my GP and and my Cardiologist and their opinions about E-Cigs are pretty much as I have already told you. It's just easier to post the WebMD link than bring them to the keyboard to tell you themselves.

Beyond web sites and dissertations though I add my own experience. I belong to the last great (American) smoking generation. We started smoking and in great numbers before the dangers of tobacco use were really taken seriously. Heck I'd been smoking almost a decade before they outlawed cigarette vending machines.

What this means is that over the years I have known and observed the smoking cessation efforts of literally thousands of people, including my attempts (plural) to kick my own 36 year long pack a day habit. It's been my experience that nicotine replacement schemes lessen ones chances of quitting more than enhance them. This is because they draw out and maintain the cycle of addiction. Everyone I know that was successful did it what we call cold turkey.

Now you claim to be on track to stop using E-cigs then if that's true I say good luck to you Sir. I am not saying that you won't be successful but remember that you'll only begin to be really free of the addiction once you stop using nicotine completely.

You couldn't have been more right. Especially your third sentence. I understand it now. I am currently going through cold turkey and it will get better. I haven't smoked in nearly 1 and a half years and over that time I've really only tortured myself, keeping myself in permanent withdrawal for a lot of the time. It's not a great route. Even though I have not smoked for that time it still feels like a hollow victory. I still have to defeat nicotine and unless I do, I'm sunk. I will, of course, but what a journey.

Thank you for trying to make me see the light and thank you for being another person who reinforces the fact that an addict's eyes are blinded. I know that now. You knew me then more than I knew me! I've accepted what I am now, a drug addict. I've demonstrated it quite effectively by changing the delivery method. This stops and it stays stopped. Thank you for trying to help me and remaining calm when I threw it back at you.

8 days off the nic, 1 year and 4 months off the fags. Good luck to all the other subsimmers ridding themselves.

Gargamel · 02-27-15, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

On Monday I'll be 40 years without a cigarette.

Well done, by the way.

COngrats! I say around my cigar.

Obltn Strand · 02-28-17, 09:46 AM

Five years without earns me a Iron cross 1st Class

Jimbuna · 02-28-17, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Obltn Strand

Five years without earns me a Iron cross 1st Class

Always better than a wooden one.

August · 02-28-17, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by gordonmull

You couldn't have been more right. Especially your third sentence. I understand it now. I am currently going through cold turkey and it will get better. I haven't smoked in nearly 1 and a half years and over that time I've really only tortured myself, keeping myself in permanent withdrawal for a lot of the time. It's not a great route. Even though I have not smoked for that time it still feels like a hollow victory. I still have to defeat nicotine and unless I do, I'm sunk. I will, of course, but what a journey.

Thank you for trying to make me see the light and thank you for being another person who reinforces the fact that an addict's eyes are blinded. I know that now. You knew me then more than I knew me! I've accepted what I am now, a drug addict. I've demonstrated it quite effectively by changing the delivery method. This stops and it stays stopped. Thank you for trying to help me and remaining calm when I threw it back at you.

8 days off the nic, 1 year and 4 months off the fags. Good luck to all the other subsimmers ridding themselves.

Just spotted this. Sorry for the late reply.

Good for you man! Nicotine addiction is tough to beat but it can be beaten and you're proving it.

Reece · 02-28-17, 06:39 PM

I wonder how Dowly is going? Did he give in?

Giving up was one of the best moves I ever made, the price of cigarettes in Australia is around $35 a pack moving up to $40

(the commie government trying to force people off them).
what is it in the US?

August · 02-28-17, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Reece

I wonder how Dowly is going? Did he give in?

Giving up was one of the best moves I ever made, the price of cigarettes in Australia is around $35 a pack moving up to $40

(the commie government trying to force people off them).
what is it in the US?

Not quite that bad. $9-10 I a pack I believe. To think I used to buy Marlboro Reds for $2 a full carton at the PX back in the day.

Gargamel · 02-28-17, 08:17 PM

I think that has some state taxes thrown in there too, August. Here we can get them for about $5 a pack. Of course, theres always the 'local' Indian reservations, people will make the 2 hour trip to get the really cheap cartons.

08-17-14, 08:54 PM	#601
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 22,667 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Nicotine can be a demanding mistress. Good for you Gordon! __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

08-17-14, 10:57 PM	#602
Obelix Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: 49°44´N 129°40´E Posts: 665 Downloads: 124 Uploads: 7	February 28th of this year, I smoked the last cigarette. Especially difficult was the first two days. In order to drown out the craving for a cigarette, I started this jam. So I bought another problem - I have a tummy. True, this problem has been partially resolved and is not as serious. __________________ Speed squadron is the speed of the slowest ship ... but only so long as on the trail of the squadron did not sit submarines ...

08-18-14, 04:25 AM	#603
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,749 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	This month marks my 7th year smoke free __________________

08-18-14, 12:31 PM	#605
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,864 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	I've been quit a lil over 2 years, with a few moments of failure, smoke one or two, but stopped.....I still want to pick them up, but been several months since a failed moment. After my last post about my father I see a few on down or up depending on how you view things, he died a slow and brutal death. He was finally sent to a hospice hospital the last week. He had his last smoke about lunch and died that night.... __________________ You see my dog don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

02-28-17, 09:46 AM	#610
Obltn Strand Commodore Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 614 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Five years without earns me a Iron cross 1st Class __________________ Himmel, sukeltakaa!

02-28-17, 06:39 PM	#613
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 32,703 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	I wonder how Dowly is going? Did he give in? Giving up was one of the best moves I ever made, the price of cigarettes in Australia is around $35 a pack moving up to $40 (the commie government trying to force people off them). what is it in the US? __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

02-28-17, 08:17 PM	#615
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,272 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	I think that has some state taxes thrown in there too, August. Here we can get them for about $5 a pack. Of course, theres always the 'local' Indian reservations, people will make the 2 hour trip to get the really cheap cartons. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.