I am trying to give up cigarettes

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Please say something supportive

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sure, (I'm supposing that obvious jokes about bras and jock straps would be unwelcome) sooo... I think it's a very good thing all around. Shows an admirable amount of resolve, self-confidence and consideration. It is do-able.

― Kim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you are charming and handsome , you do not need to be cigarettes to attract the lasses and/or lads.

― anthony, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Money saved otherwise spent on cigs = money for fun meals, more music, cool books, savings, or other things. A vast improvement! :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the withdrawal symptoms will become much less noticeable in a few weeks. buy lots of CDs with the money you're saving.

― geeta, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i feel your pain. i am about to give up too.

― di, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

reqard yourself with other things...find something that neables you to manage your stress....take lots of 7 minute breaks anyway - it helps calm you down.

― Queen G, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'll be so happy about the improvement in the overall function of your body. And you'll smell so much nicer. And be able to smell so much nicer.

― Ron Hudson, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

e s of J, I love you.

― --, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it seems that if you want to give up it's a piece of piss, but if you feel like you should give up it's hard. I haven't had a cigarette now since December the 17th and apart from the odd craving (like I had on Saturday) it hasn't been that hard. Previously I've only managed about a week before giving in.

This time wasn't planned, I just woke up with a hangover and couldn't face having one, then after a day thought, well, I'll just give up then.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chris is 100 percent on the money. In fact the exact same thing happened to me about Christmas 2000. I woke up one morning and didn't feel like a cigarette and kind of took it from there. I didn't smoke until June, but it was all my exams fault that I lapsed then.

So I smoked since. But I'm managing to cut down a bit lately. I haven't smoked since Friday today, not that I'm giving up per se, just damage limitation.

So yeah if you want to give up it's easy, otherwise not easy. Eh........echoing what Chris says really, with a nice story thrown in.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan Carr would say:
Don't think of it as giving up. What are you giving up? Smelling of Tobacco, a painful death? You are just stopping a habit you worked hard to acquire.
If you're still smoking, think about the taste of each one. Are you really thinking "Mmmm, Tasty"?
Think of the money!
Don't avoid situations where you would have smoked (pubs bars etc) Go out and celebrate not smoking in social situations.

― Simeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

... and my own personal fav:

It won't kill you to stop smoking.

― Simeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's what I have been doing for the last 18 months now. It went stop - slip - stop - slip etc. I know it is possible but you really have to want it. My biggest problem is after a while (one, two or three weeks or longer) I think the worst is over and I retry. Usually the first one is crap, so I have another and another and another... To summarise and to be positive: YOU CAN DO IT! JUST BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF!

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It kills you, it pollutes the world, it makes kissing you unpleasant, it damages people in your immediate vicinity, it costs money, it stinks, it's one more dependency you don't need, it bolsters some of the ugliest, most amoral corporations there are, giving them money to hook the poor in developing countries (why don't they just go back to spraying them with agent orange instead?), it funds ex-tory politicians by giving them boardroom jobs, it appeals to teenagers and conformists... How, while smoking still exists, can we have any basis for tackling cars and the destruction of the earth? How can people who do that to their own bodies ever give a shit about what's happening to the earth?

I find it soooo depressing that people are wedded (weeded) to their own destruction. Any my fucking non-smoker lungs hurt every time I come home from a party. Because of selfishness and conformity and habit, three of the ugliest human traits, all harnessed up to BAT, Philip Morris and other of the world's ugliest megacorporations.

Quit and save the world!

― Momus, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the past 2 weeks, I've had 3 cigarettes. Am quitting. Is going well so far. My teeth are already whiter.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It will make you healthier, you know.

Not that I care, I'm trying to get a devastating disease so I don't have to work, so I've upped my cigarette consumption lately.

― Ally, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cogratulations on your willpower! I hope you hang tough! :) Best of luck and a big hug!

― Gale, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gale's response immediately after Ally's made me laugh quite a bit.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't worry, it made me laugh too, almost as much as my mom emailing me "MIDGETS! MIDGETS!! MIDGETS!!!" with no explanation.

― Ally, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps there's a midget invasion.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being an ex-smoker is loads more fun. It gives you a "dark past" you can casually refer to. You'll begin to see what I mean in about two weeks. You can get there. Chew gum like a teenage girl if you have to.

― Curt, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(My apologies to any actual teenage girls reading this.)

― Curt, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You guys are all fantastic. Five days now! Hooray

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What I have hear, and i believe, is that the nicotine is out of your body within 72 hours, and your lungs start healing imediately... (Start, not total healing.) That takes time. I was a very heavy smoker and I quit 7 years ago. I don't miss it a single bit! :) Good luck to those who are going to take the challenge!

― Gale, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I am right there with you. Just quit yesterday and am going on 2 days now. Great emails to read. Thanks.

― Joe, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once conversed with an ex-smoker who pointed out to me that your body will need something to replace the feeling you get from smoking. I've found that you must replace the satisfaction from smoking with a sense of health - you must get your body 'addicted' (much as I hate to use that word) to its healthy state. Get out of the house and exercise, eat lots of healthy foods, absorb yourself in hobbies - it really, really helps. Exercise is hard at first, but you will come to 'need' that as well. Not to be all new-agey, but you are embracing death when you inhale tobacco, so you must re-orient toward life, which is work, it *is* uphill, I won't deny. So think of it as a 'spiritual' thing, even if you are not spiritual, which I am not.

I'm not one of those people who felt tempted to smoke in bars or clubs (I'm usually drinking beer, playing pool or dancing) - it was mainly when I was bored / lonely / stressed that I did it, so I'm not one for advice there.

― Kerry, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

it's the thought of never smoking again that worries me. I do want to quit, but do enjoy it. Catch 22.

― Mckenzie (Mckenzie), Monday, 7 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Try switching to those herbal cigarettes with no nicotine in them. Buying hard candy/lollypops for a while can help with the oral fixation, too (and you don't have to be in a specially designated spot to eat candy).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was successful (finally)! 2 and a half weeks now, with virtually no feelings of temptation.. hooray

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Try switching to those herbal cigarettes with no nicotine in them

are they still full of all the other crap that cigs contain? like, y'know, formaldahyde?

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.auravita.com/supplier_level2.asp?cat=585 these ones

if they were healthy then wouldn't everyone smoke them?

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You are forgetting the tastes like shit thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Do it for the money, it's the only way. I've been off them 8 days, and it's just the thought of all that beautiful money that's keeping me off em. Fuck health reasons -- we'll ll be annihilated in a nuclear blast pretty soon.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck you ppl trying to give up, I have been given up for about 5 years now & I used to smoke loads. If I can do it, y'all can do it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you considered smoking pot? No, really, i've heard it
works.. Sure, smoking
it straight has a few carcinogens but it's nothing compared to
tobacco - there have been no cancer cases caused by hemp to date.
and if you're still worried you can bong it and remove most of
the particles.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the habit (as opposed to the nicotine addiction) that is the hardest thing to quit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Hahaha, SP is sillypants as per.

I started smoking cigs to help quit smoking weed, and it worked! At least cigs don't interfere w/my ability to remember things, enjoy others' company, and do my schoolwork. NOW I am quitting cigs & good luck to me...

― Abbott, Sunday, 8 July 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

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