Packing in the the smokes

BigglesPiP said:
This is something I don't get with the claims made about weed, "It's actually good for you!", "Excuse me? You're smoking..."
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Weed isn't tobacco, and it isn't a carcinogen? :confused:

unless you mean people who smoke weed/tobacco mixed joints. and even then, the less tobacco the better.
 
BigglesPiP said:
How many of the other x hundred things we're told are wrong with smoking tobacco are also wrong with smoking weed?
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Very few. Cannabis just doesn't contain cyanide compounds or formaldehyde, but it does contain benzene, though in considerably smaller amounts. I'd love to run to the old 'no proven deaths' argument, but unfortunately any physical health impacts are masked by the much more harmful tobacco intake that goes along with smoking joints. The fact that no reported cases of cancer or COPD are linked to smoking cannabis without tobacco or in a vapouriser is also a little moot, since smoking without tobacco is so uncommon. I'd assume government-sanctioned studies considered the effects of tobacco in their conclusions, but given Prof. Nutt's treatment I can't see the results of any study released being allowed to remain impartial as far as policy goes.

Anyway, I'm thinking of quitting, and have been for about a year now, but a D-day approach isn't good for me. I feel hedged when the big day looms - I'm thinking of a more random approach.
 
I have recently stopped smoking, i guess it was easier for me however i have been on 15 a day for around 2 years...

It was really hard, and i am not going to lie i do have the cheeky fag every now and again =P. But i did it with Patches and the Inhalator...

Was rough... =/
 
i just recently kicked it, first time too!
it was tough because i smoked roll ups and it cost me about £4.50 a week to smoke!
so i havent really got the financial benefits to think about

it helped that the missus quit this summer whilst we were on holiday

i decided to do it for health reasons, was sick of waking up every morning and feeling like crap, coughing up rubbish and feeling generally lathargic at the thought of excercise was dead depressing#
also had the benefit of not stinking and being able to enjoy my food properly

so instead of planning it, i surprised myself.
one day, i just woke up and didnt smoke.
it was pretty rough for the first 24 hours, but it got easier as time has gone by
after about three days i just stopped thinking about it

its really horrible going for a drink though, thats the most difficult time to not cave in.
 
Not the same thing but i smoked weed (which obviously involves cigs) for a good 2 years solid and at about 17/18 i decided it was doing me no good and just stopped.

Havn't had the urge to smoke since day 1. Mind you, i have had the odd one on a night out with my best mate!
 
Big Chris said:
I did think this to myself the other day, why wait until Jan 1st, if I'm going to give up I might as well do so now.

The thing is, with Christmas and New Year coming up I know I'm going to be in the pub and at lots of parties so the temptation will be there pretty much constantly. Granted, it would be a good test of my resolve, but one I fear I may fail.

Come Jan, I plan to avoid pubs, parties and other smokers for a few weeks at least while I adjust to the change. It's lame I know but I just don't think I'll last if I quit right now :o.
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Good plan. It will be hard at first - no sense making it harder.

As a psychological thing, stop thinking of it as quitting. Quitting is failure. Worse than failure, really. If you think of your goal as quitting, it undermines you right from the start. Not smoking is success. It is not quitting.

Reward yourself for success. That shouldn't be a problem, because you can use the money you're currently burning. Or just stuff it in a jar and look at it, knowing that you can spend it on something just for fun. A coworker of mine went on holiday with the money she was no longer burning. Which is more fun - burning money, blighting your health, making yourself smell bad, adversely affecting other people, maybe dying in a very nasty way...or going on holiday, buying some games, buying new hardware, eating out at a good restaurant...?

Maybe you could measure your cardiovascular fitness in some way and continue to monitor it, so you can quantify at least one of the many benefits to your health. A demonstrated, quantified benefit is another form of reward.

Taking nicotine in some other way helps for a lot of people because it seperates the drug addiction and the habit, allowing you to tackle each seperately. Divide and conquer. Some forms are more like smoking, in that they require repeated actions and provide a larger dose of nicotine in a smaller amount of time, i.e. the same peak and trough style of drug use as you get from smoking. That's gum, lozenges and suchlike. Patches are less like smoking, as they don't require repeated actions and provide a constant lower dose of the drug. That's better for some people, worse for others. Or even both - swap cigarettes for gum now, swap gum for patches in the future, then patches for nothing later on.
 
jms198 said:
Talk to your doctor and get stuff on pescription. It shoul dbe cheaper as these smoking subs are really expensive.
I believe champix is available on the NHS.
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They're a lot cheaper than smoking though. I was buying some cold medicine today and the big boxes of nicotine gum on the shelf nearby were £8. 100 or so in those, and you don't get 100 cigarettes for £8.
 
been a non smoker now for 2 years, these threads come up now and again and i say the same thing, but its worth saying , get allen carr's easy way , forget patches and pills, this book is so good, since i finished it i have not had ONE craving at all and i smoked 15-20 rolls a day.

the book , the author has a terrific technique in explaining to you that its far easier than you think to give up, and you know what, it really is far easier than you think to give it up. the book , allen carrs's easy way to give up smoking.

the best book i have ever read in my life.
 
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Champix

Tim - Free and Healing for Three Months, Four Days, 12 Hours and 34 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 6 Days and 15 Hours, by avoiding the use of 1910 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me £479.50.

These tablets are very good, they totaly killed the yearning for fags.
Yes they have side effects but after a few weeks they get better.
Let the tablets do the work and you will wake up one day and not want a fag.
I had been smoking for 28 years.:D
 
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