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.

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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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.