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JackalMan User ID: 14314664 United States 05/17/2019 06:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I looked at the smoking habits. You know, the get in the car and light one up. Finish dinner and light one up. Anyone next to me lights up I have one too. Bathroom time was a big one. When I found a cigarette in my hand I asked if this was a nicotine fit or a habit. If it was a real nicotine fit, I told myself ok I will wait 15 mins and if I still want one then I would fight my way thru it. I always kept an Unopened pack of cigs around. Fits were always worse when I knew I was out. Clean the smoke smell from your area and get rid of all the ashtrays. I continued to smoke pot and that helped me, but beware of increasing your intake too much. When I knew I was free from the drug I looked back and realized that there was nothing in my life so bad that I required a cigarette to get thru it. Lock and Load! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight for your lives! The Wolves are upon us! |
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scimitar User ID: 75772499 United States 05/17/2019 06:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I smoked moderately, no more than 2 packs a week on average, for about 45 years. I stopped 4 times twice for 3 months and twice for 6 months, because I just thought I should, then started back up. After I moved to the country and realized when I retired I would probably chain smoke, my mind somehow just switched and really wanted to quit......The instant I really wanted to quit all it took was the 3 days mentioned before and I never looked back once. That was 4 years ago. It is all about really wanting to quit. Ominous regressions One Truth... many realities |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75788364 United States 05/17/2019 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 200 mg L-theanine on an empty stomach2-3 times a day. Takes away the irritability, nervousness, anxiety plus helps focus. Doesn't make you drowsy either. Some kind of herbal disposable vape, CBD oil vapes would probably help with damage. There are also B 12 ones that draw nicely. Or vaping different kinds of dried plant materials as a sub. Good luck! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77657394 United States 05/17/2019 06:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear ya. It's the friend who's always there for me. Plus it's an excuse to get away from people in social settings. My best girlfriend just quit and she is feeling bipolar...wide mood swings. Crying or ready to kill a co-worker. I think it's the lack of nicotine but it's been six months for her. She stopped smoking after 5:00pm when her husband came home. Then she started not inhaling the cigarette. Smoking as usual, just not inhaling. I'm quite proud of her, but if that's the mood you're in after smoking most of life, I'll take a few years off and be happier in the mind. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71632887 United States 05/17/2019 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quit cold turkey. Once you've gotten past day 3 or 4 but still vaguely remember wanting a cigarette, go directly into a bar with TONS of people smoking around you. That's exactly what worked for me when I wanted to quit. It's the pitfalls you REALLY have to avoid. I got trapped back into smoking by smoking a cuban cigar. |
Crayma User ID: 35396295 United States 05/17/2019 06:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evening all Quoting: 0000001 Give me your best tips to stop smoking, I'm going to give a proper shot this time, reasons I've failed in the past, I never truly wanted to stop, but now the time is right. So I smoke rolling tobacco, I like it strong, and I can smoke a cig every 30 mins in the evening, boredom thing I guess. I know the useawal, plenty of exercise etc etc , but what helped you? I smoked about two packs a day when I quit. The largest size nicotine patch replaces something more like one pack per day's worth of nicotine. So I started with 1.5 of the largest nicotine patches, and also used nicotine gum on top of that as desired. And I worked down on the patch from there to the largest, then medium then smallest before finally quitting nicotine all together. During all that time, I was able to get rid of the physical habit of holding and drawwing from cigarettes. I had previously tried, using only the largest size pack, but it did not provide enough nicotine, and it left me craving too much, so I failed. So I would use both the patch and gum together. The gum can be used when cravings break through. And like you said, you have to really be ready in your mind to quit for it to work. But this worked for me. Its been just over 6 years. |
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MaxwellSmart007 User ID: 77155497 United States 05/17/2019 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you are a hardcore smoker 3 packs and day for 30 years then you will have to start dipping. You wont cold turkey and you wont vape it away. It only a measure to save your lungs . Last Edited by messagehalted on 05/17/2019 07:05 PM All my post are theatrical artistic writing . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70434452 United States 05/17/2019 07:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, I haven't read all posts in the thread so I apologize if this tip has already been given. I quit smoking in 1985. I used hard candy and plastic soda straws cut to the length of a cigarette. To begin with, I'd "smoke" a soda straw every other cigarette, then slowly eliminated a few actual cigarettes a day. The straw cigarettes I'd put in my mouth, "inhale" through, hold between my fingers, flip the "ashes" off the end periodically just like a real cigarette. After about a month I was off cigarettes completely. It was slow withdrawal. Relatively painless. The hard candy was another psychological crutch to take my mind off the cigarettes between smokes. Hope this helps. I was a three pack a day smoker when I quit...but I must tell you, even to this day, I miss a cigarette with my morning coffee. Best of luck, my friend. More than half the battle is REALLY wanting to quit. |
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Plato User ID: 77134059 United States 05/17/2019 08:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you use a Bic lighter or Zippo, stop carrying it. Not even matches. You can keep your smokes with you at all times. But when you want to smoke one you'll have to outsource help, or get creative... This will lead to you smoking less. Some people say cold turkey, idk I still smoke. Others say you can cut back then eventually go down to zero a day. sub veste, invenimus in homine. Sub hominem, invenimus ejus nucleus. |
AKGIRL User ID: 73092128 United States 05/17/2019 08:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I can give you my husbands secret to quitting smoking... He could only sleep sitting up and went to the doctor for a prescription renewal for some meds, unrelated to smoking. They told me to take him straight to emergency or they would call the ambulance for him. He had carbon dioxide building up in his body from undiagnosed COPD. It came on very quickly. Over a two week period we had been trying to get him to go to the doctor and he refused. I had to trick him by telling him that they would not refill a prescription without a doctors visit. It saved his life. The Pulmonologist told him he was an inch from going to heaven. He spent 10 days in the hospital. $85,000 dollars later and he is now on 3 liters of O2 24/7 for the rest of his life. He smoked for 50 years. Welcome to retirement, we now spend our days going to the doctor, refilling prescriptions and he sleeps, eats, and watches tv. No traveling, or leaving him by himself whilst I visit friends. He is my 24/7 job. I’m tired. I have never smoked. But I’m paying for him smoking. To add to that he has several disabilities from Agent Orange. Don’t ruin your life. Quit while you are still healthy. PLEASE!! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 13833012 United States 05/17/2019 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | l-theanine niacin chromium picolinate gotu kola bacopa noopept kratom Mr. Happy Stack (DHA, EPA, choline, uridine) inositol NAC There's science behind all of these, maybe I just haven't found the right dosage or combination. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76335367 Canada 05/17/2019 08:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evening all Quoting: 0000001 Give me your best tips to stop smoking, I'm going to give a proper shot this time, reasons I've failed in the past, I never truly wanted to stop, but now the time is right. So I smoke rolling tobacco, I like it strong, and I can smoke a cig every 30 mins in the evening, boredom thing I guess. I know the useawal, plenty of exercise etc etc , but what helped you? Get a cheap Bic pen. Pull the pen part out and take the little round thing out of the opposite end. Use the pen case like a cigarette, Flick it, draw from it and it keeps the movement. Worked for me. It was the action and the deep breath. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 13833012 United States 05/17/2019 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At the end of the study most of the participants had cut down significantly or quit. I wish I could get a hold of some of those filters. I read it was the theanine in the filters that helped them quit, but supplementing with theanine hasn't helped me yet. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 13833012 United States 05/17/2019 09:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I read that Nicotine not only activates your acetylcholine receptors, it also activates your glutamate and opioid receptors. It also messes with your blood sugar somehow which also contributes to the addiction. Some people think that the mao inhibitors in the cigarettes contribute to the addiction but I don't think so. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13833012 United States 05/17/2019 09:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The following are supposed to help in quitting, (I haven't had luck with any of them yet though.) : Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13833012 l-theanine niacin chromium picolinate gotu kola bacopa noopept kratom Mr. Happy Stack (DHA, EPA, choline, uridine) inositol NAC There's science behind all of these, maybe I just haven't found the right dosage or combination. I forgot to add dopa bean (mucuna pruriens) to the list. I read that helps too. |