Another quitting smoking thread

mattheman said:
when i gave up i couldnt stop masturbating, so ive started again but going to give up again.
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Haha.

To the OP; I stopped smoking in August 2006 so not far off 3 years ago now. I never think about smoking any more, in fact like you mentioned I am quite against it. A lot of my friends who have quit say they get cravings when they are drinking / drunk but apart from the first few months I do not have this problem. I must admit I have had the odd fag since I quit just to see if I enjoyed it and I just ended up going to wash my hands and brush my teeth the minute I had chance which says it all really.

It probably took me around 6 months to get to a point where I really didn't class myself as a smoker and wasn't thinking about it any more, it also took a while for me to stop coughing up loads of crap every morning, I feel so much better for it now though and I'm sure you will start to see the benefits very soon.

Good luck.
 
I stopped smoking on Xmas day just gone (2008) after being a full on hardcore smoker for the best part of 16 years.

So 6 months down the line how has it been....in all honesty it has been fine, we have had a hard couple of months and i havent been tempted to smoke again, but i was at a wedding on saturday and could have easily smoked there.

I thinks its one of those things where you are either ready to quit or your not...fortunately i was.

Oh and when does the taste and smell things come back? i am still waiting, at the minute everything tastes and smells as it did when i smoked.
 
I quit for 4 years, and then after a very stressful two months at work I started again and continued for another year, hating myself with each damn cig I had so I quit and have stayed quit for a year now.
It's not easy and in my experience having a cig is not always in your mind as an option but now and then it will pop in there no matter how long ago you quit.
Quitting is so worthwhile though, you will be able to breathe deeper lol
 
my cousin didn't use patches or anything (although he did use a empty pretend cigarette you can buy from Nicorette) just to hold in his hand out of habit

He went from B&H to malberough (however you spell it) lights, then from there to smoking shisha (http://www.gl-science.com/images/shisha.jpg) and from there he quit

Aside from smelling much nicer he said the shisha was good for weening off the nicotine but still getting a milder version of the tobacco hit and giving something to relax him
 
I'm really strugglin tonight. Yesterday was okay, give or take a few moments but tonight is twice as bad. Really want to breath out a huge cloud of smoke again. My temper is pretty bad at the moment. Can really feel the withdrawal hitting home.

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RossG said:
I'm really strugglin tonight. Yesterday was okay, give or take a few moments but tonight is twice as bad. Really want to breath out a huge cloud of smoke again. My temper is pretty bad at the moment. Can really feel the withdrawal hitting home.

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You're at the worst of it now. It will get better, and soon. If you go complete cold turkey, as you are doing, the physical addiction to nicotine peaks about a day after your last dose and fades away over the next week or so.

The only practical thing I can suggest is distraction. Doing something can help distract you from the withdrawal. It helps if people near you either know what you're doing or you avoid them, because you're likely to be snappy.

Nicotine in a less harmful form helps a lot. It allows you to separate the physical and psychological aspects of addiction, which makes it easier. You continue to take nicotine but don't smoke, so you can defeat the psychological addiction without having the fight the physical addiction. Then you can deal with the physical addiction alone, weeks or months later. Divide and conquer.
 
Well today I feel better :). Not really thought about having a cigarette most of the day, and when I have, it wasn't a total craving, just a "I'd quite liek a cig about now" sort of feeling. I very nearly didn't make it to today though. Went into a petrol station on my way home from the cinema last night, went to pay for fuel, and literally stood still for 30 seconds next to my car, jsut trying to fight that urge. Went in thinking "I can't handle this, i'll buy a pack" but when they asked me if I wanted anything else with my fuel, I just managed to cough out "No thanks." I promptly went back to the car and drove away. I'm really hoping that's my low point because it was absolute torture.
 
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