We Quit Cigarettes

[Ascholten]

Yes, cigarettes were cool when I was a kid, they glamourized them. Not anymore, however to be fair, they been warning us of the dangers of smoking since the 1950s so we can't say, but I didn't know!!

If vaping can help you wean off it then by all means try it but please don't just switch out. I knew some folks who thought chewing would get them off cigarettes and that was safer. I tried to explain to them that was like saying Im going to use Heroin to get off the Cocaine that chewing is WAY more addictive and actually just as bad if not worse for you. They put just as much horrible garbage in that stuff as they did in cigs to get you hooked on it. It worked.
as for the marijuana, medicinal purposes is one thing, recreational is another, but YES it IS addictive, and no it is NOT safe for you, you are putting smoke in your lungs, that is NOT healthy. Whether it's safer than narcotics, that is a fierce debate with warriors on both sides of that coin. one person can use narcotics and it's not a problem, another can use them and be hooked for life.

On the quitting, oh yah you'll be a bear for the first week. I quit when I was still in the navy, my guys avoided me like the plague that first week, and god bless my watch standers who didn't throw me overboard that first week

Aaron

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[Kiki]

. UPDATED... September 2021 I'm still winning.


Me:


I decided last month that I was going to try to do something I've never done before, quit smoking.

I knew I couldn't do it on my own so I got some medicine called Chantix. I tried Chantix about 10 years ago but I did not take it for the correct amount of time...I quit smoking but started back up after 3 months. I also do not remember it being this hard to quit back then.

I've been so worried about the side effects (I had one bad side effects last time) that I was not thinking about how hard today was going to be.

I have been on the medicine for a week with no bothersome side effects...that I was a nervous wreck about.



I have not smoked today and I really don't want to but geez I want to.

Updated post.

I'm still winning. I had to come see how long ago it happened.

 

[Isadora]

You rock, @Kiki

 

[Ascholten]

I quit tobacco I can't even remember though I succinctly should, I want to say Dec 2002. It was a bear first year and to be honest, for probably 3 to 5 years, Id sometimes have cravingsoccasionally. Id have dreams where I started using again in my dreams, YES it DOES control you that badly. But after 5 years, the urges quit, the thoughts of it even, quit, and now I shudder if I think of ever taking another chew. I look at my dental after 22 years of tobacco, and the health issues I had back then. I was a cancer bomb just looking for a place to happen I firmly believe. I have no desire to EVER start again, and that desire is gone BOTH physically and mentally. I am a very strong willed person though so that did help me there.

Seriously though, if you made it 2 years, you won, unless you just give in or puss out for some stupid reason, you are way past the physical addiction and hopefully past the bad mental urges. Congrats for making you life healthier and saving a lot of money in the process.

Aaron

 

[Kiki]

I quit tobacco I can't even remember though I succinctly should, I want to say Dec 2002. It was a bear first year and to be honest, for probably 3 to 5 years, Id sometimes have cravingsoccasionally. Id have dreams where I started using again in my dreams, YES it DOES control you that badly. But after 5 years, the urges quit, the thoughts of it even, quit, and now I shudder if I think of ever taking another chew. I look at my dental after 22 years of tobacco, and the health issues I had back then. I was a cancer bomb just looking for a place to happen I firmly believe. I have no desire to EVER start again, and that desire is gone BOTH physically and mentally. I am a very strong willed person though so that did help me there.

Seriously though, if you made it 2 years, you won, unless you just give in or puss out for some stupid reason, you are way past the physical addiction and hopefully past the bad mental urges. Congrats for making you life healthier and saving a lot of money in the process.

Aaron

I won on February 18, 2020.
I will never smoke again.

I can't even remember back to the first few months after I quit... I can't remember craving or not back then.

I can tell you that right now I rarely ever think about it.
Once in a blue moon I'll think about it like I did today which brought me back to this thread.

Smelling other people's smoke no longer bothers me either.
It did bother me for a while but it doesn't bother me anymore.

 

[Kiki]

I still can't believe I managed to quit.
I used to never think it was possible/an option. Never seemed real.

 

[Kiki]

I do know now that I can do anything I set my mind to do.
There are more things I will do once I figure out how to start/set my mind to.


I am not done winning.

 

[Ascholten]

One will NEVER quit an addiction until they are darned good and ready to. Even being forced thru rehab, they often will just jump right back into it. Knew one clown who laughed and thought it was funny when he snuck a drink before a mandatory AA meeting. Not even getting that the reason for his AA was because of his 3rd DUI in 2 years. You can't help people like that. Ragging on people to quit wont work either, unfortunately it generally takes a life changing moment, IF they survive to get people to suddenly 'find the motivation'. You have a stroke, you have a heart attack, type stuff. If you were able to muster up the willpower to quit without one of those motivators, then you have it in you to do pretty much anything you need.

Don't do it for yourself, do it for your chickens, because you KNOW nobody else will take are of the properly like you will. Use that style motivation.

Aaron

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I quit on my birthday in 2010. I don't ever have cravings. It's like I never smoked. The first time I quit, I was like Aaron, still had that residual craving, and dreaming of smoking, for something like 23 years until I took that one smoke and bam, I was addicted again and smoked for 17 more years. But this last time it was prayer that set me free. And I really am free this time.