Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

[Docfeelgood]

Well Im on the wagon ,again.
Nicotine patches this time.
4 days now but the craving is still there.

Whata yall think about this?



I want to sue the tobbacco companies not for money but treatment to get off this addiction.

I am addicted and want to quit but because I am addicted the chances of me being smoke free are slim.


Oh man this sucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!


Damn Im eating everthing in site.


Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!

where did my kid go?




ooops....I wonder if that funny taste was........Nah
He was standing by the bowel full of chips....


Gotta go

Doc

[Lancer]

Good luck Doc

Never quit quiting. I tried the patch but it didn't work. Eventually I got the flu and a bad sore throat. That got me two days, and I stuck with it. In about 8 days it gets better. In 10 to 12 days you'll have periods when you'll forget you are quitting. Eventually these take over, and you are finished with the damn things, pretty much. I had wierd cravings months after, right out of the blue. They suck because its easy to start again, but don't.

Anyway, I did it, and you can too.

[Provost Harrison]

Patience...it gets easier...actually it doesn't

[Richelieu]

You can do it! And Lancer's comment is right on the money: Never quit quitting.
I've been smoke free for almost 3 years now (March 15) but i quit for an 18 months span and an 11 months span before that.
Both times i simply forgot that smoking even one cigarette is one too many. It's like alcoholism.

[Docfeelgood]

Thanks guys for the support.

I think it is harder to quit smoking than it was to quit drinking.





BTW
I found my son in the back room.
Can't find the dog tho

[Harovan]

I was a quite strong smoker (about 30/day), and I quit smoking Dec 22, 1999. I have been clean since then. I used patches only the first 2 days, then noticed, that they are more a placebo than a help, and did not use them anymore.

The first week was awful. The hell. My poor family and friends.

The next month was a bit better. I used sweets and chewing gum as placebo. Still I felt bad. It helped sometimes to smoke passive (although that is dangerous), but soon I noticed, that I'm betraying myself, and stopped to do it.

The next six months I gained 10 kg of weight. That wasn't a bad thing, because I had this amount underweight before. The bad thing is, that I gained another 10 kg the year after, and am now a bit overweighted.

And the absolute worst is, now, 3 years after, I am still dreaming, that I started to smoke again. Yes, I smoke in my dreams. It happens not often, only once or twice a month, but still. It's annoying.

Stay strong!

[Nubclear]

My wife used to be a heavy smoker (32-day) however I asked her to quit, and....she did. We tried a technique where every time she took a cigarette, we had a very low voltage shock on her tongue....I know, it sounds barbaric, but it worked beautifully.

The first few months she was a very grumpy person but it got much better after that

[Urban Ranger]

It helps if you have somebody hounding you to stop. It is even better if your whole family gangs up on you.

Maybe a photo of a tar-coated, diseased lung?

[Evil Knevil]

Yes well, once its combined with your Gaba-b receptors long enough, its never out your system.

I've quit today, don't know how long it'll last for. My Boss got lung cancer, so thats sort of stirred me on.

[Lancer]

Oh yeah, when I quit I took an aspirin and a vitamin C every couple of hours...helped.

[Alexander's Horse]

Good luck Doc, hang in there!!!!!!!!

[Fidel]

Re: Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

cold turkey is the only answer

try jogging a bit, getting any kind of endorphine kick that might offset the craving. even if you cannot catch a breath

[Bereta_Eder]

Re: Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

Trying to quit smoking sucs!!!

That's why I've never tried it

[Zkribbler]

Doc, after my mom's heath broke because of her smoking, it took her five years to die...in ever increasing pain. For the last few years, the doctors let her have any pain killers she wanted in any dosage she wanted (less than lethal). Towards the end, that didn't even help.

So eat the family dog if you must, but get off those d@mn coffin nails!

PS: With the money you'll save on cigarettes, you can join Jenny Craig.

[red_jon]

I quit every now and then, but I don't smoke very heavily anyway (it's actually more that I forget or get bored of smoking more than quitting).