How to stop smoking?

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by budw38

I probably shouldn't say this ... but if you put the smokes in the freezer they last for ever ....

That is what I have been doing, but sometimes when your drinking you forget shit.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Angry

TTE, what worked for me was quitting smoking in every instance that I would want a cigarette one by one. I started by not smoking in my car. Months later I stopped smoking at work. Eventually, I stopped smoking after work when I was at home. The only thing that I haven't kicked yet is the urge to smoke when I drink. Honestly, I may have to quit drinking to quit smoking. Some people may say that I am still considered a smoker, but I am happy with what I have accomplished so far. I used to smoke a pack a day. Now a pack would last me a month if the damn things didn't get stale.

Baby steps, no physical aids, just cut back until you stop. Cold turkey just results in relapse.

That's the toughest part, it took me years before I could go out drinking and not have the urge for a butt. Even now I may bum one here or there. This summer we were out boozing and I bummed off this guy outside of a bar and he gave me a Newport. LOL man, it knocked my socks off. For a minute I thought I was gonna have to sit down on the sidewalk.

A Newport! That's a buzz waiting to happen. You must've been tanked.

[hooskins]

I smoke when I drink, I am gonna stop. From all accounts, many people I know start becoming regular from that point onwards.

[Trample the Elderly]

Drinking isn't a problem for me. When I did drink, I'd smoke a God-awful amount of cigarettes though.

I broke down and bummed two smokes last night from some friends. One was a Marlboro Red and it was horrible.

I'm not giving up though. I haven't had any today. Another friend of mine quit too. He's going on three months. If he can do it, I can too.

[KLHJ2]

Newport is my brand.

[MTK]

Newpies are hardcore man

I was a wuss smoker, I used to smoke marlboro lights or camel lights

[Trample the Elderly]

Marlboro lights were my brand. Back in the day I smoked Kool lights.

[Trample the Elderly]

How long until I'm a former smoker?

[budw38]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

How long until I'm a former smoker?

Step by step , day by day ... I predict TTL defeats the Nicotine soon after the NFL season ! Hope you are 100% smoke free by Thanksgiving , but somethings just take time . Fight until you win , the goal is ULTIMATE VICTORY !!

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

How long until I'm a former smoker?

If you can get through THIS Redskins season, you are a "former"
.........January?

[Trample the Elderly]

I'd like to thank y'all for the help. This is my first full week without a smoke: Tuesday-Tuesday. It's not as hard as it was. I'm not as pissed and I've a lot of energy. I took up weight lifting again to calm me down.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

How long until I'm a former smoker?

ive been a cigarette smoker since i was a lil kid (thanks older brother!).

around 2003 i quit smoking for 2 years straight, not a single drag. i was living in san diego at the time.

i move back to the metro area, get a nerve raking job, found myself going to bars after work just to let loose alil and i was living with my parents until i found a place of my own on the east coast.

the stress, the lifestyle out here in the dc metro area, the traffic, all the uptight people got to me.

it went from one drag on a buddys smoke to bummin a smoke to they would just leave me a few to i just decided to buy a pack.

ive been smoking ever since, again.

i tried quiting again a few years ago, i was back livin the easy life in san diego. this time it was much much harder. while my mind was committed to quiting like it was back in '03, this time my body had this unbearable chemical withdraw feeling that i didnt experience in '03. i had a very difficult time coping, i actually had to take a few days off work b/c my mind and body just werent right. after a week n half, with no relief in my body's chemical demand for tobacco, i started smoking again.

i honestly believe that the tobacco companies have added nicotine or some other addictive chemical to try and change the growing trend of smokers successfully quiting. tobacco companies look at us like we are cattle with life time contract dollar signs on us and will do anything to keep their number of cattle up and profitable.

they see more and more people are succesfully quiting and they try and change the trend back down to a reasonable single digit success rate for smokers trying to quit.

right now ive been putting off quiting again, this time i know i need some kind of chemical help to combat whatever the tobacco companies have added.

so now i just try to skip cigarettes. anytime a smoker does something its rewarded with a smoke. "hey lets go get lunch" - have a smoke as im walking there. done with lunch - ahh theres nothing better than a smoke after eating. get in my car - good time for a smoke. sitting in traffic - might as well have a smoke. now i am trying to skip some of these instances that normally would call for a smoke. its hard.

go skins!!

ps - oh snap, my whole point of this was to answer your question which is never. ive met people who quit for 10, 20 years and got back in the habit. this mindstate helped me do 2 good eyars of not smoking, never give that damn tobacco an inch, never turn your back or let your guard down with thoughts like "oh hell i havent had a drag in 2 months, im bbq, drinking a beer with the boys, i can afford just one drag" = that is the devil talking in your ear my friend.

[Trample the Elderly]

Again, I'd like to thank all of you for your support.

My co-workers are going to throw a pot-luck dinner for me today, in honor of my good health. We're celebrating a full month of me not smoking.

For everyone that still smokes but wants to quit, it can be done. I feel better than I've felt in years. I've smoked for 16 years and it was a bitch quitting. The first week was hell on Earth. I'm still a little bit aggressive. It can be done. I'm not superhero. If I can do it, so can you.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Newpies are hardcore man

I was a wuss smoker, I used to smoke marlboro lights or camel lights

My friend said the first time she smoked Newports she coughed up blood (and she wasn't a new smoker) She's been smoking Marlboro's ever since that day.