Quitting smoking (HONEST!!)

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Nice job! You are correct, quit because you want to. I think that was the driving force of mine. It was just time and I did it. Going on three months now.

Bravo....I do believe I'm a little more than a week behind you but still following in your wake and hanging in there

[antikristuseke]

I hope you bastards are happy, now im going to try to quit smoking. Do you realize what you have done? The world is surely lost!

[AVGWarhawk]

I thought the same thing Anti! Let me tell you, it is about the most liberating thing I have ever done in my life. Truly, smoke is like a ball and chain. You shed that ball and chain you not only feel better, have more spending money but you also have overcome the most addictive drug known to man. That is will power like you have never felt before. It is in a sense empowering knowing you kick the damned things. There is life after cigarettes. Trust me on that one.

[antikristuseke]

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

[AVGWarhawk]

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]

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]

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

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by August

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]

Did someone mention smoking grass!!

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

[AVGWarhawk]

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

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

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

Oh...right. Now worries. I've smelled/stunk for years

[August]

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]

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.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

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.

Reminds me of the footage of my brother-in-law at boot camp for the army. They did the gas chamber deal. Man, I have never seen fluid come out of a person head like the boot camp recruits. Coughing and crap just pouring out their sinus. Nasty whatever it was.

[TigerShark808]

Originally Posted by Dowly

So, I got rid of my other 'addiction', coffee last week and figured this would be a good time to get rid of smoking aswell. I'm going to go cold turkey straight on, as I know I'd just keep on smoking if I'd try to lessen slowly.

Any tips? What helps to get over the worst? Anything to avoid that makes me want to have a cig?

HEEEEEEELP!!!

All i can say is I smoked for only a year and a half straight. A pack and a half a day , i was a new bachelor and got hooked to the smoking from one of my first girl friends after marriage.

I started when i was 38 and stopped when I was almost 40.

I had other crutches to lean on like beer and the fact I met my future wife (non-smoker) at around that time. So I had beer and sex..NEW SEX so it was easy to stop for me.

My point? find something else to take up your time. If your married I would NOT suggest NEW SEX!