anyone trying to give up smoking ?

[wwracer]

I smoked a pack of marlboro reds a day for twenty years. Said I would quit on my 40th birthday, gave it a shot about 3 weeks before and never smoked again. Used sunflower seeds as a crutch the first few weeks, frankly I got addicted to them damn seeds worse than the smokes but I got over that too. Smoke free for 12 years now. You have to have it in your heart to want to quit, or you will fail..

 

[yardsale_oem]

Holy crap this sucks! its only been a day. thats lame ive having a tough time,I just cant wait until tommorow anyway i got the patch on again and going to give it a try .I hope this works this time. I got no nails left to chew and cant get at my toes.

You Canadians have amazing Spitz!!!!!! Give them a whirl!!!

 

[Rob1334]

To let everybody know, I have chosen monday as my quit smoking day. I hope everthing goes well for me. I hope that all of you who have been through it wish me luck and those who have not. I know I wish myself luck. The Girlfriend and myself are both going to try and quit on this day. I hope it will be easier with somebody I am close with everyday!!

Good Luck Jeff!!!

I remember the last time you tried and said if Jordan would eat the rest of your cigarettes you would quit after that pack, hahaha!!!! Filters and all!!!

Catch it while your young yet, would hate to see friends in their old age with health problems due to these things, SMOKE 10 PACKS THIS WEEKEND in Deadwood, egt it out of the system!!!haha

 

[m7bandit]

Smoked for over 30 yr. just bit the bullet one day at a time been smoke free for 10, wish i never started smoking it was such a waste

 

[wickman]

I need to quit chewing. I have been chewing for about 25 years now. I think I might try that money in a jar thing. My habit isn't as bad a smoking money wise. It is only about $5 a week. I am a cheap bastige and chew the low buck stuff (wintergreen Grizzly) I just have to figure out how to keep my wife and kids out of the jar.

 

[ruffryder]

I just have to figure out how to keep my wife and kids out of the jar.

Increase the incentive and have them match you.. If not financially... there are other means..

 

[JohnnyQuestUtah]

Just make the decision

Holy crap this sucks! its only been a day. thats lame ive having a tough time,I just cant wait until tommorow anyway i got the patch on again and going to give it a try .I hope this works this time. I got no nails left to chew and cant get at my toes.

once you truly decide to quit it's easy. if you havent really made the decison yet, then its a struggle.


peace out,


johnny



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[Bman]

I just have to figure out how to keep my wife and kids out of the jar.

Whenever you drop the money in the jar, spit in there too. That would keep anyone out.

 

[jomamma]

God hates quitters.......

http://smoke51.com/

 

[ruffryder]

Been little more then six months here. Anyone else making it ok?

 

[Hardass]

Hypnosis work really well fiarly costly but makes you forget.I think no matter what you do you have to want to quit. If not you will make an xcuse to keep going. Finally all the taverns are no smoking areas as of this coming oct. By the way i smoked a pack a day and a can of chew a day yep put the smoke out and put a chew in some times both at once. It was killing me and i could feel it. Good luck to all of you. One more thing Your brain will try to trick in to starting again for any reason so be on guard for that and take control don't let it control you.

 

[POLZIN]

Keep It up !! I am coming up on 2 years I only get hjalf as winded digging my sled out now!

 

[Wolfrun]

wife and i quit in 1988 and never looked back---did go thru quite a few boxes of FIREBALLS---they last so long you forget about the cigs...hope you make it---you'll never regret it

Fireballs are a great big help. I smoked cigarets for 15 years and cigars for another 15. I was elk hunting in fall 1989 and I was climbing a cliff when I was so out of wind I was coughing and gaging so bad I took the last six cigars out of my pocket and broke them up and threw them off the cliff. It was after dark and snowing like billy heck. I never smoked anything again but I chewed up a lot of fireballs and I am still damned ornery. I know you can do it . I had tried to quit before for almost 10 years but that time did it.

 

[swampwater]

Fireballs are a great big help. I smoked cigarets for 15 years and cigars for another 15. I was elk hunting in fall 1989 and I was climbing a cliff when I was so out of wind I was coughing and gaging so bad I took the last six cigars out of my pocket and broke them up and threw them off the cliff. It was after dark and snowing like billy heck. I never smoked anything again but I chewed up a lot of fireballs and I am still damned ornery. I know you can do it . I had tried to quit before for almost 10 years but that time did it.

I quit in 86 for about the same reason, always packed the wilderness areas and when I could not keep up with he horses I gave up my pack a day habit. definately don't go back. Hate to show my ignorance in front of Ruffy but what are "fireballs". Swampy

 

[ruffryder]

Hate to show my ignorance in front of Ruffy but what are "fireballs". Swampy

Don't worry, I was going to ask too. I am guessing the candy? That just seems to easy of an answer though.

Wait I think I might know, this one time, in Mexico, after I met this girl...... But what does that have to do with smoking? lol

 

[ccoleman77]

cinamon hard candy. round make you want to kill yourself when you put one in and remember how hot the dang things are

 

[swampwater]

cinamon hard candy. round make you want to kill yourself when you put one in and remember how hot the dang things are

HaHaHa was it worse than the nicotine gum I had to chew for a couple months. Swampy

 

[Wolfrun]

THey are round and almost more than a mouth full and very very hot. You can not chew them up, and they last a long time as they have to melt. I used to buy them by the case when I was out blading the mountain roads and my blade still smelled like cigars inside. I started blading forest roads for 60 dollars a mile, now I wouldn't do it for 500.

 

[wildcard28]

Keep with it man, don`t give up you can do it, I quit over 2 years ago Cold Turkey was the hardest thing I have ever done. and after starting smoking when I was 19 and am 40 now, I really got a rude awakening when my buddies got me back into sledding and even though I was a smoker thought I was in pretty descent shape till I had to walk around in knee high snow up 30 degrees slope for a suposed to be simple 80ft up and had to stop 4 to 5 times to make it , we all know how hard and exhausting it is to walk in these condition but when your a smoker and dig sleds out it feel 3 times harder, wow thought I was going to have a Heart Attack a non smoker really can`t understand this, and what did I do after I caught my breath, set down on my sled and Lit one up. that made me realize what I was doing to my self.

I threw away everything that possibly had to do with smoking away cleaned out my truck new air fresheners, washed all my clothes threw away all my ashtrays, started chewing gum but I chewed so much gum it make a few of my teeth that were giving me trouble start coming apart and had to have them fixed and didn`t carry that will power pack that I`d tell my self I won`t open cause (ya right),you know its worse to be out of smokes than the craving from before were.

so I kept my self from going to the store to buy any I would go over and over in my mind don`t go get any its not worth the effert to go.

The first 2 to 3 days are the worst, after the first week you start to smell how bad they actually are and after a few months you`ll smell people smoking in traffic up to a few cars ahead of you and you`ll hate it when you go into a clean grocerie store and there a few employee out side having a smoke break stinking up the front door of a clean grocerie store.

It also helps if you don`t smoke in your house and people around you don`t smoke either.

The best of luck to ya ,we can`t express how much better you will feel.

knowing when you heart rate goes up is healthy not just gasping for oxygen.

Good Luck , Darren

 

[rockymking]

Just shy of 3 months and still doing good ... already hate the smell of cigs on people right after they finish smoking but the fresh smoke still smells good; that may never go away.