Quitting smoking (HONEST!!)

antikristuseke · 08-25-09, 08:06 AM

Oh i know that, but will the world survive me?

AVGWarhawk · 08-25-09, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke

Oh i know that, but will the world survive me?

I thought I would be mean and nasty also but as it would have it, I was not. You just have to have the mindset that you are in fact ready to walk away from them. It is a chemical dependency and it is also mental. If you can kick the mental aspect kicking the chemical aspect is much easier. I'm also a firm believer in quiting cold turkey. Substitues or reducing your smoking do not help IMO. It just prolongs the quiting process. Really man, once you quit the world smells a whole lot different. You notice your house smells like smoke, clothing stinks, your car is a rolling ashtray. Both my parents smoke and when I arrive to their house I can begin to smell the smoke just entering their garage.

Again, it is not easy for some. Just keep at it. If you get a craving find something to do to get over the craving. That is what I did. Soon you find yourself much more productive as you are going to do things instead of sitting around pulling back on a smoke.

Oh, the biggest thing you get out of this....breathing! Good Lord, I can breath now. I do not get out of breath just tying my shoes. It is so nice to breath. Breathing...in the long run really helps.

antikristuseke · 08-25-09, 08:45 AM

Good thing I dont smoke indoors then. Should make it a bit easyer. But hope you are right in the smells department, cant really smel much anything. But as far as breathing is concerned, I can breathe just fine, could probably run a marathon and ran half a marathon yesterday, Intensified my workout for something special, which will be revealed to the forums in september.

August · 08-25-09, 09:15 AM

I've actually taken to driving home from work down back roads with the windows down because everything smells so sweet.

AVGWarhawk · 08-25-09, 09:54 AM

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I've actually taken to driving home from work down back roads with the windows down because everything smells so sweet.

Ah man....fresh cut grass really brings back memories from when I was a kid and I was not smoking. I can really smell fresh cut grass now.

Sense of smell does come back. However, sometimes there are certain smells you wish did not come back to your senses. That stuff just comes with the territory I guess.

Jimbuna · 08-25-09, 10:22 AM

Did someone mention smoking grass!!

Or is it me getting a little paranoid when someone makes reference to something that some people smoke

AVGWarhawk · 08-25-09, 10:33 AM

No Jim...smelling....not smoking.

August · 08-25-09, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

However, sometimes there are certain smells you wish did not come back to your senses.

The funny thing is bad smells no longer make me gag like they did when I smoked.

antikristuseke · 08-25-09, 06:30 PM

So far the only smell that has made me gag was going through a missile hanger filled with tear gas and smoke grenades with a leaky gas mask. Then again, that was noting compared to decontamination, outside at the begining of the estonian winter.

Army life is fun.

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,257 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've actually taken to driving home from work down back roads with the windows down because everything smells so sweet. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Did someone mention smoking grass!! Or is it me getting a little paranoid when someone makes reference to something that some people smoke __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,305 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	No Jim...smelling....not smoking. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

08-25-09, 08:06 AM	#1
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Oh i know that, but will the world survive me?

08-25-09, 08:45 AM	#3
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Good thing I dont smoke indoors then. Should make it a bit easyer. But hope you are right in the smells department, cant really smel much anything. But as far as breathing is concerned, I can breathe just fine, could probably run a marathon and ran half a marathon yesterday, Intensified my workout for something special, which will be revealed to the forums in september.

08-25-09, 06:30 PM	#9
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	So far the only smell that has made me gag was going through a missile hanger filled with tear gas and smoke grenades with a leaky gas mask. Then again, that was noting compared to decontamination, outside at the begining of the estonian winter. Army life is fun.