Saying Goodbye to Cigarettes

it worked for me. stop thinking about how hard it might be. and if you get uptight, go do something else relaxing. cup of tea. masturbate. anything. giving up smoking is easy if you want it to be. i did it, and look at me now. an alcoholic, i am!

By contrast everyone I've know who's tried a nicotine replacement therapy has failed, its too easy to see it as the easy way and not go through al of the will power stuff.

The tea thing is a very good idea as it gives you something to do when you want a fag. Aso its a nice mild stimulant . Stock up on some herbal teas, none of that fruit rubbish, but peppermint, camonmile and especially verveine if you have any trouble going to sleep.

If you skin up try to use the most feeble cigarettes you can find, silk cut ultra or the like, you will not be tempted to smoke these.

If you have any smoking flatmates ask them to take it outside and ask them not to give you a cigarette no matter how much you plead.

Good Luck

It think it stems from al ot of the north europena stuff being grown indoors, so you need bigger yields from smaller numbers of plants.

That said, I really should quit. Longest I went was a month. I get over the nicotine withdrawal in a day or two -- get really crabby and high-strung during that time (as if anyone would notice any change hee) and that's that. It's always the habit part of it that gets to me -- it's sinister how cigarettes wend their way into just about every aspect of your life and how you don't notice that until they're gone.

I enjoy a cigar.

just a warning its looking 50.50 wether I make it or not. I'm trying very hard to take some exams but I can't find any professors to take them with. So just to say you might like to secure a blender from somewhere else.

Coming off of nutmeg is nigh on impossible.

The thing with nicorette inhalers is they look exceedingly daft. I am sure a lot of non smokers think proper fags look daft too but those inhalers look like Tampax tubes or something. Ick.

I was out at Japanese food dinner drinking saké and smoking far too many Camel Lights. By the time I got home all there was to watch was bastard David fucking Mamet film. Em, you're right about Nicorette holders, surely they are tamponic demonic.

That being said, starting up some vicious cardiovascular training exercise, like cardio boot camp, will help you stop smoking because you will be breathless 24/7 otherwise.

Their little boy Bruno is the dead spit of his dad though. It must be weird having a son who so resembles your dead hubby.

cue smug doctor from Simpsons voice: "the irony is, of course, that smoking a tampon, or indeed its applicator, would do your health considerably less damage than the cigarette you have in your hand right now"

I'm sure she's very nice though, so you call her 'ace' all you like.

In the end nepotism is where its at in so many businesses.

(suzy, thanks for the ace advice!)

I find that coffee helps the after meal cravings - though I know it makes some people want to smoke more.

Also, always try to have something in mind to look forward to.

Finally, have you read Cigarettes Are Sublime? It's smoking neutral, but certainly one of the best meditations on the habit.

suzy's great advice was to have an aspirin or Tylenol first thing in the morning to dull the nic-fit craving.

Also, don't consider yourself a quitter. Say, "I didn't quit, I am now a non-smoker", and don't let people congratulate you too much or be 'proud' of you - Mom!

and yes, tennis skirts are very possibly mankind's greatest invention.

and post pics of you in the tennis skirt, obv.

rosemary already did:

http://www.joannou.net/spittake/felicity

Thanks, rosemary!

Had to comment. A bunch of rasta guys in the park near me gave me a lesson on how to roll a joint. You've got to add tobacco, they insist, else it'll simply hurt your throat and it won't smoke as well...strange, eh? I never woulda thunk it.

(joints are a waste of weed, anyway)

But you didn't.

Ally, we can play sports and buy more thongs and gummi bear martinis and stuff.

What sports will we play? I have to call you back Felicity but I was doing job interview related items today and now I have to run to class - the new schedule @ gym JUST came out so I have to make sure times are still same as last schedule. We should take up soccer, there's a really hot guy on the soccer team that my boss plays on (no, not my boss, a single guy).

Mary, you could take up smoking and then quit and then decide about hte thongXoR.

Felicity, I'm chuffed the Aspirin Method is working. I relapse pretty frequently but no longer smoke cigs while out hence no yucky hangovers. My twin problems are a) running out of green with cigs left in 10-pack and b) deadline psychosis.

I can also cure hiccups if anyone is interested.

The Food and Drug Administration banned Tuesday the sale of fruit- and candy-flavored cigarettes in the U.S., hoping to rid the market of products that the agency says make smoking more attractive to children.

While flavored cigarettes make up a tiny fraction of tobacco products sold, the move marks the first major step made by the FDA since it was given the power this year to regulate tobacco products. The next step? The agency will look into whether other flavored tobacco products - including popular menthols - will also be barred from U.S. store shelves.

"Almost 90 percent of adult smokers started smoking as teenagers," Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the FDA's commissioner, told reporters. "These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular smokers."

The niche products, sold in flavors such as vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, are mostly made by smaller firms or imported from overseas. The ban also includes the more popular clove cigarettes, which have been illegal in Maryland for almost 20 years.

It is unclear whether small cigars, sold across inner-city Baltimore under brand names such as Black & Mild, would be affected by the ban. Some of those products also have fruit flavors, and the FDA says some products called cigars are actually cigarettes.

Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, the director of the FDA's new Center for Tobacco Products, pointed to research that found that flavored cigarettes, which take some of the edge off a strong tobacco taste, appeal to young people. He said 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over 25.

"The reason for this ban ... is to protect our children from initiating tobacco use," he said.

At Fader's, a tobacco shop in Towson, manager Jim Gray wasn't buying that. About 5 percent of his business was in flavored cigarettes. "Our main customer base was women between the ages of 22 and 50. It wasn't girls who just turned 18 and wanted to try a flavored cigarette."

Gray just learned of the ban in the past two weeks, when he got a letter from the FDA. Customers who could afford to, stocked up, and those who like the vanilla or chocolate smokes were angry.

"They feel like the government is taking away something they enjoy," he said. "They're grown adults. They should be able to decide what's good for them or bad for them. Officials use the excuse of doing it for the children to get the laws passed. We're not selling to children."

At The Other Side, another Towson tobacco shop, owner Jason Cerrato said he is still reeling from the new federal tax on roll-your-own tobacco, which added a $2.50 per pouch fee, nearly doubling the price.

"In this economy, they're supposed to be helping small businesses instead of hurting them," he said. "If kids are going to smoke, you're going to tell me that without flavoring, they're not going to? If they want to smoke, they'll buy something else."

The FDA is taking several steps to enforce the ban. Consumers are being asked to report violators, and border officials will be on the lookout for illegal shipments.
Copyright © 2009, The Baltimore Sun

I had no idea this was happening, but this seems like such a tremendous move. I mean, who would think that the FDA would be able to ban tobacco products at all.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out with "other flavored tobacco products", which are probably most commonly used to roll blunts.

I think there was a recent ruling that allowed the FDA to regulate/ban tobacco products.

But wait, is this article saying the FDA has banned clove cigarettes? Wtf?

Yep! Surprise!

What a disaster for goths!

Wonder where Nat Sherman Mints fall in this taxonomy

probably categorized as "menthols"

Flavored cigarettes = buh-bye. Actually I think this rule is shit and never should have gotten passed at all. Why didn't we hear about it til it happened, basically? If it was made into law 90 days ago, was there no publicity around the deliberation?

The ban comes three months after President Obama signed legislation giving the F.D.A. the authority to regulate tobacco products, which had $96 billion in sales in 2008, with $87 billion in cigarette sales; $4 billion in cigar, small cigar and cigarillo sales; and $4.6 billion in chewing tobacco, snuff and loose tobacco sales. Recently, domestic manufacturers, anticipating a ban, largely halted production of flavored cigarettes, less than 1 percent of the market, but imports have been widely available.

http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+legislation+tobacco&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

yeah i dont smoke anything that would qualify, but speaking as a teen starting smoker this law is stupid. at least on the male side, if you are in high school and smoking anything other than marlboro reds or camel filters u gonna get punched by your broing down dudes for being a sissy. xposts

they were supposed to have taken Prime Times ("little cigars" that are basically flavored cigs) off the market a couple years ago, at least in California, but you can still find them around. Wonder if this will affect swishers and other blunt-type products.

a lot of people smoke those around here, or at least buy them to roll bleezies.

xp Laurel - I agree. I read about FDA being given regulatory authority, but the ban on flavored cigarettes isn't something I knew of until this thread. In the past, I'd get a pack of cloves maybe once a month or something, generally during the rainy season or to take to a party.

jjusten - what about Lucky Strike filterless?

yeah i dont smoke anything that would qualify, but speaking as a teen starting smoker this law is stupid. at least on the male side, if you are in high school and smoking anything other than marlboro reds or camel filters u gonna get punched by your broing down dudes for being a sissy. xposts

I definitely smoked my share of Swisher Sweets in high school.

Maybe if they was some kind of peach-flavored nonsense...

you will be missed:

http://www.valuecigsonline.com/images/atrex/djarumspecialfbox.jpg

also not to dork out, but the FDA (and all Federal agencies) announce when they're gonna make a new rule, only they do it in the Federal Register, not on ILX

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm169853.htm

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Warm Winter Toffee

xp que - Maybe it's Gavin Newsom's suede denim secret police at work, but the SF newspaper didn't report on this.

Lucky Strike Filterless were what i graduated to in college - the HS manliness obsession kind of falls flat when you follow that initial drag with spasmodic coughing vomiting - you got to work up to that level of lungs of carcinogenic steel xposttttsss

xpost yeah sarahel yeah newspapers usually don't report on this type of stuff, you have to read the National Journal or CQ Today or something

man i hate smoking. still smoke though. yay me!

smoking is bad 4 U

I mean for pete's sake, I'm not a news junkie compared to quincie or ILX media types, but I prob get more current events info than a LOT of people do. This just totally fell through the cracks in my attention span/field of view, apparently.

i see that you are trying to work the regional angle and appeal to my inner prince, que

xp jjusten: I did Lucky Strike Filterless for a year in college - they have the bonus badass feature of requiring you to spit a piece of loose tobacco out of your mouth every so often.

Where does someone even find fruit or candy-flavored cigarettes? Who makes them?

Anyway, good riddance to cloves. Yuck.

I mean for pete's sake, I'm not a news junkie compared to quincie or ILX media types, but I prob get more current events info than a LOT of people do. This just totally fell through the cracks in my attention span/field of view, apparently.

like i said earlier, this stuff is (almost) never reported on in the newspapers or in the major media. not sure what you mean in regards to quincie but she is my wife and i can assure you she is not a news junkie

they have the bonus badass feature of requiring you to spit a piece of loose tobacco out of your mouth every so often.

If, by every so often, you mean about four times per cigarette.

she is however a cupcake junkie--we're working on the problem

ban sprinkleless cupcakes

Doesn't she do the cable news thread? Or -- no, nev mind, that's daria.

yeah sarahel yeah newspapers usually don't report on this type of stuff, you have to read the National Journal or CQ Today or something

newspapers will report on regulations affecting consumers though with a, "Guess what you can't buy anymore!" angle.

oops, i should clarify.

this type of stuff=notice of proposed rulemaking. in other words, when the FDA's getting ready to issue a rule, they post a notice about it in the Federal Register, inviting people to comment. newspapers/media don't report on this part.

and you're right, they report on the part when the agency issues the regulation

fda = death panel

Five weeks without a smoke TODAY. The last five weeks have included several trips to bars, tailgaiting at a football game, and a trip to Vegas.

While I more than likely inhaled more than a cigarette's worth of smoke while in the casinos in Vegas, I did not actually smoke one.

GO ME.

I'm usually not a dick about my accomplishments, but this one I am particularly proud of. Holla at ya boy.

Congratulations!!!

Yeah, congrats, how long were you a smoker?

GO YOU

I bought a box of "the patch" about 4 weeks ago and have only used one of them.

I have smoked off and on, but mostly on, for the past 15 years. Never heavy, but it was time to just cut it the fuck out.

since then, I have increased my cardio workout at the gym to 45 min., on my way to an entire hour, and I am able to completely ignore hangovers. And, my singing voice has a lot more power to it.

I don't want to become one of those ASSHOLE anti-smokers. But damn, I feel SO much better.

I think that this is the longest I've gone without one over that time. At least as far as I can remember. This one is going to stick.

I've been at a pack a day for 17 years now ... I went to the gym last night and thought about quitting, but it seemed too extreme at this point.

i was only a pack-a-day smoker in the first bloom of the habit. i can't imagine doing it for 17 years - tbh though i think quitting without artificial aid after that is probably more hardcore than carrying on

rather grimly, i just realised it is a year since i 'quit' and yet i have probably smoked at least one cigarette on about 200 of the 365 days

I hear you. I've been through that process, too. I'm calling it done and done now.

goodbye djarum blacks, you were my greatest vice and were probably going to kill me (thanks feds)

flavored cigarillos are still legal according to the gas station employee I just got my heart broken by

I'm quite sad about cloves :(

I guess they've always been illegal over here cos I've never seen them sold anywhere in the UK, but I had a great night out in NYC on my birthday several years that involved a girl and a tin of Djarum cigarettes. I tried another brand of cloves on another US trip but they were shite. The Djarum ones were really nice though, for a change at least, I doubt I could smoke them very often.

I got a pack of Djarums the other day - they are now packaged as "filtered clove cigars"

i'll be bumping this thread after the new year. not even a resolution thing, just worked out that way. i got on the patch a few weeks ago and didn't smoke for 2 weeks, then fell off the wagon big time once holidays started.

Four, going on five months! NICE.

Two years ago tomorrow I smoked the last cigarette in the pack, per the instructions in the Allan Carr book, and I haven't had one since. I smoked for fucking EVER and "quit" several times, once for over a year, but this is the longest I've been without cigarettes since adolescence, and I've been through several crises without even wanting to smoke - really remarkable for me. So, fuck yeah.

Well done, sir.