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For the chantix users, how long did it take you to feel the effects? I'm on the 5th day and I feel exactly the same. The only noticeable change has been the hosed up dreams. Last night, both my ex girlfriend and Dave Foley insulted me.
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Jul 31, 2011 02:59
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That's a week for me now, booya. It got progressively harder till the fourth day, then cravings started dropping off dramatically over the next few days and seem to have plateaued a bit now. It's still not great, but the difference is huge. Now I'm worried that now I've hit the first big milestone, my enthusiasm and determination is going to start wavering. The novelty of going cold turkey in the war against addiction because I'm so loving mentally strong is going to wear off soon, so hopefully the cravings die down even more in the next few days.
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Jul 31, 2011 05:08
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Within the past hour I've hit 4 years quit. I can't remember the last time I even thought about having a cigarette. It's pretty great.
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Jul 31, 2011 06:53
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Quit cold last Sunday. User dreams and mild insomnia aside, not that bad this time.
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Jul 31, 2011 07:04
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Phew, it's soon 3 months without lighting a single cig or taking a single puff. I've used no medical drugs or any subtitutes of any kind. I just haven't smoked. I've started to feel a bit smug about it already. "Haah, I had the willpower to quit, YOU weakling just keep on killing yourselves.  " I guess that's how it must be.Anyone else here feel a bit smug about quitting when you see your friends smoke?
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Jul 31, 2011 19:44
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Keisari posted:Phew, it's soon 3 months without lighting a single cig or taking a single puff. I've used no medical drugs or any subtitutes of any kind. I just haven't smoked. I feel smug sometimes. Jealous others. Mostly just sad for them.
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Jul 31, 2011 19:46
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Keisari posted:Phew, it's soon 3 months without lighting a single cig or taking a single puff. I've used no medical drugs or any subtitutes of any kind. I just haven't smoked. I'm just satisfied that I'm not tempted to bum one now.
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Jul 31, 2011 19:49
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FuriousxGeorge posted:I feel smug sometimes. Jealous others. Mostly just sad for them. This is actually a more accurate description, it's more like a mixture of sad and worried for them and some smugness added to it.
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Jul 31, 2011 20:16
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Keisari posted:Phew, it's soon 3 months without lighting a single cig or taking a single puff. I've used no medical drugs or any subtitutes of any kind. I just haven't smoked. I have moments of smugness but it usually isn't directed at anyone specific. It's just me sitting around by myself and suddenly my face does this Mostly I feel anxious for my smoker friends. I watched smoking kill my mother last October. I can't bring myself to even contemplate going through that again with someone else I love. Regardless, if I can't quietly inspire them to quit there's going to be an awkward conversation in our future.
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Jul 31, 2011 20:31
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astrollinthepork posted:For the chantix users, how long did it take you to feel the effects? I'm on the 5th day and I feel exactly the same. The only noticeable change has been the hosed up dreams. Last night, both my ex girlfriend and Dave Foley insulted me. About a week, I quit after 14 days. I started to disike the smell, then I couldn't finish a cigarette, then I stopped.
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Jul 31, 2011 20:44
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Swoon posted:I have moments of smugness but it usually isn't directed at anyone specific. It's just me sitting around by myself and suddenly my face does this When I tell my friends it's been months since my last smoke, they give me this "I really should quit" while smoking a cigarette at the same time. Regardless, my father has a chance of meeting the same demise as your mother, but he's not there yet. Listening to the coughing, panting and starting breathing problems. I know he uses gums and that poo poo but I know he still smokes every now and then, otherwise his lungs wouldn't do all those messed up noises. It's sad indeed. 
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Jul 31, 2011 21:48
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Swoon posted:I have moments of smugness but it usually isn't directed at anyone specific. It's just me sitting around by myself and suddenly my face does this The best time to is when you see tobacco company marketing.
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Jul 31, 2011 21:51
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FuriousxGeorge posted:The best time to Is that illegal in US? It's illegal in Finland (where I live) and I'm sure it's illegal in many European countries.
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Jul 31, 2011 22:03
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Keisari posted:Is that illegal in US? It's illegal in Finland (where I live) and I'm sure it's illegal in many European countries. It's very heavily restricted, but there is still some of it. At the very least there are in-store displays and material and some print ads.
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Jul 31, 2011 22:37
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FuriousxGeorge posted:It's very heavily restricted, but there is still some of it. At the very least there are in-store displays and material and some print ads. Ah. I see. I guess total ban of tobacco ads isn't far away there.
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Jul 31, 2011 23:07
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So i stopped smoking 3 weeks ago and it wasn't to bad ( 1 pack a day smoker for 4ish years ) and the last few days have been really awful I've barely manage to control myself by not getting a pack and even now i was reading back in the thread ( page 16 or so ) with the dude talking about e-cigs and now i'm starting to rationalize getting one even though ( personally ) i think it's a terrible idea. So far I've made a promise to myself if i even had 1 cig i couldn't listen to my favorite band ever again (kind of a weird thing to banish myself from i guess?) the first time i quit smoking i had gotten pneumonia and i was to afraid to smoke but i didn't want to quit and that only lasted 3 or so months but it was a easy 3 months until the craving i'm having now started and i caved in so its really hard to not think about smoking. wow that was a wall of text sorry about that also if it has bad spelling/grammar i'm blaming that it's 2 am here. 
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Aug 1, 2011 10:08
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njark posted:So i stopped smoking 3 weeks ago and it wasn't to bad ( 1 pack a day smoker for 4ish years ) and the last few days have been really awful I've barely manage to control myself by not getting a pack and even now i was reading back in the thread ( page 16 or so ) with the dude talking about e-cigs and now i'm starting to rationalize getting one even though ( personally ) i think it's a terrible idea. You're already past the physical dependency, so just keep in mind that everything you're dealing with right now is all in your head. Don't get an e-cigarette, you've already made it this far. And tbh, at least 50% of the reason for smoking is that it looks cool. People smoking e-cigarettes do not look cool, at all. No offense to those of you who use them or anything, but I'm not wrong.
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Aug 1, 2011 11:27
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On the 4th it will have been a month since I quit cold turkey. Had been smoking around 14 years, since I was 18. My method? Good motivation (baby daughter arriving in November coupled with ever-increasing age and thus odds of not living to see her grow up) and mints (Polos for all you UK goons). After every meal or any time I fancied a smoke I'd eat a few Polos in succession; this gave me a new ritual, and a minty taste which would have made a ciggy taste disgusting. I smoked roll-ups and never much liked the smell of standard cigs. For the first few weeks or so of quitting, however, they would smell like manna from heaven. Now I feel like I'm over some major hurdles and have passed the first really significant tests: a holiday in New York with lots of heavy meals, and my cousin's stag do this past weekend. Not a single puff of tobacco. Cigs and roll-ups now smell pretty horrible. The psychological cravings hit me far worse than the physical ones, but even those are all but gone now. I've smoked weed once or twice in this period, pure, and like a poster a few pages ago I'm conflicted about what to do on this point in the future. I want to be able get stoned now and again, but don't want to keep to smoking it pure forever (am doing it for the moment for obvious reasons). If I wait a year or so and then have the occasional weekend smoking tobacco joints, how much is that going to increase the likelihood of me smoking cigs again? At the moment it really doesn't feel like I'll ever do that again, but I know that doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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Aug 1, 2011 16:16
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21 years! njark posted:So i stopped smoking 3 weeks ago and it wasn't to bad ( 1 pack a day smoker for 4ish years ) and the last few days have been really awful I've barely manage to control myself by not getting a pack and even now i was reading back in the thread ( page 16 or so ) with the dude talking about e-cigs and now i'm starting to rationalize getting one even though ( personally ) i think it's a terrible idea.
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Aug 1, 2011 17:30
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Almost bought a pack after the wife was pissing me off this evening. But I had the brain power to sit and tell myself that it would start a habit again, that there is no just.one pack, and I would be back to $70 a month habit again.
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Aug 2, 2011 01:37
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Pharmaskittle posted:Don't get an e-cigarette, you've already made it this far. Wait until the battery dies while you're away from a means to charge it.
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Aug 3, 2011 02:47
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This may seem stupid to you guys, but, I started smoking about a month ago. I said I might aswell give it a go being 18 and all even though the thought never crossed my mind. I have alot of French and Spanish friends here in Barcelona who mostly smoke so I caved. I've been smoking 3-4 sticks a day for about 4 weeks now, and today, I finally caught myself and realized what I was doing. All that time telling myself as a kid that I was always going to stay away from cigarettes caught up with me today. Giving it the cold shoulder before I end up smoking more and more. Hell, I remember first starting telling myself a stick a day would be all I'd do. Wish me luck. 
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Aug 4, 2011 01:24
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Shogunner posted:This may seem stupid to you guys, but, I started smoking about a month ago. I said I might aswell give it a go being 18 and all even though the thought never crossed my mind. I have alot of French and Spanish friends here in Barcelona who mostly smoke so I caved. I've been smoking 3-4 sticks a day for about 4 weeks now, and today, I finally caught myself and realized what I was doing. All that time telling myself as a kid that I was always going to stay away from cigarettes caught up with me today. Oh believe me, it does seem quite stupid, to understate it a lot. Good to see you come to your senses soon enough. Stop it now, it's much more easier this early on. You've realized how it slowly progresses. "Only a stick a day, it's all I'm asking for and will always be satisfied by only one", and then it keeps growing. "Only twelve a day, it isn't THAT much, not like I'm a pack-a-day smoker"
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Aug 5, 2011 08:41
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It's been a little over a month without tobacco now. For the first time last night, I had a dream with tobacco involved and I didn't smoke. I have had dreams where I didn't smoke before, but that seemed to be because there were no cigarettes in the dream. But last night I dreamt I was at a party somewhere and I walked outside to where people were smoking and I didn't bum one or pull a pack out of my pocket. I guess that's supposed to be a good thing. I like being able to smoke in my dreams though. I hope I still get them once in a while.
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Aug 9, 2011 16:52
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Been 3 days, and I have very little desire to smoke already. Seeing your stepdad die of lung cancer after the first 2 days of no smoking is a great way to motivate yourself into stopping smoking forever.
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Aug 17, 2011 08:21
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Smoked 1/2 pack a day for three years. Did the patches for a month, a month ago. 2 months clean, longest ever clean. All I have to say is that I snapped out of it. The time was right. I couldn't quit until I was ready. So, when you're ready, take the opportunity.
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Aug 17, 2011 12:46
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Schistosity posted:I'm naturally suspicious with the premise of the book, as I think most reasonable people would. As one who has tried quitting many times unsuccessfully I am willing to read his book, but I am not one who will blindly believe everything I read (which Carr fully agrees to and states multiple times himself in his book.) I do genuinely want to quit and I find his book interesting, but any normal human (that smokes) would find it hard to believe that quitting smoking is painfree and easy, which is the basis of his system. I know this was a million pages ago, but reading the thread this morning I've decided to quit and I used Carr's book the last time I quit for a year. The deal is, everything in his book works if you let go of the part of you that can't accept smoking is bad forYOU. I know we all know that it's bad for us, but I mean in the sense of it's a bad thing you are doing to yourself, and then he breaks down all your rationalization for WHY you do it. (The chapter on physical effects of smoking was cool, finding out it actually activates your body's stress response as opposed to calming it.) You know, the part that says "Well, sure, but that won't happen to me" or "Oh sure, most people are so addicted they could never have another, but I certainly am not that badly off" - basically his book is designed to beat you over the head with the fact that you are paying ungodly amounts of money and doing serious damage to your health and addiction helps you justify all that. He wants you to realize you are addicted, and that what you are addicted to is bad for you, and if you let yourself admit that yeah, you are only addicted to cigarettes because you allow yourself to be for some reason, it really IS easy and painfree to quit, because you go "Oh poo poo, wtf was I thinking?" and your natural response to push away things that will kill you kicks in. The problem I think is that he wrote it for older people and he himself was an old man, and I think his generation was a little less aware of advertising and social pressures than ours, so it was like a light turned on for him and he couldn't believe anyone else would have the same light turn on and not react the same way, and a lot of people do. This/my generation is a lot more savvy about things, and has a sort of detachment from self-destruction that wasn't really present in the culture til recently. I think the book works great for some people and not so well for others - it's been my experience that when I wanted to quit and cared for myself and wanted to make myself happy and healthy, his book worked terrifically. This time, though, it's gonna be Champix. I tried it before and it worked like a charm but I couldn't handle the nausea. It's expensive as hell too, but I know it will work. I'm somewhat depressed lately and working midnights, and smoking is the only thing that gets me a break to go outside, or kills the time between boring events. I think if I told myself that every smoke I don't have is a step towards overcoming the depressive bout and doing something nice for myself because I deserve good things, it will finally work. *gulp* So here goes. IT Girl fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Aug 17, 2011 |
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Aug 17, 2011 13:36
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IT Girl posted:I know this was a million pages ago, but reading the thread this morning I've decided to quit and I used Carr's book the last time I quit for a year. It's pretty funny that you quoted me from way back. I haven't smoked in over 5 months, have zero interest in even considering smoking again. I did read Carr's book completely and still think it's drivel. But if it's what motivates you, more power to you.
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Aug 18, 2011 03:58
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Ive been on the American Spirits for months now and my throat hurts too much to smoke them. I get 1 or 2 relatively pain free smokes, then by the end of the third i have a sore throat. I can smoke "real" cigarettes a lot easier, however they're more addictive for me and i'd rather just avoid them. My throat suddenly not tolerating smoking is great though, but have a really hosed something up? I have no sore throat without smoking, regular cigarettes dont hurt nearly as much but there's some pain there, but cigarettes #4 and #5 of the day will make me chain cough drops, drink hot coco and eat ice cream, and do anything to get away from the throat pain. An awesome side affect is how im not as physically addicted as i thought i was. I smoke because im bored or tired, and now that there's such a huge, immediate detriment there for me, I've cut my smoking by more than half. One pack is lasting me 4 days or more, and i'm (nearly) to the point of forgetting im a smoker. It'd be an awesome way to go out too. So many ex-smokers tell me they'd literally stab a homeless man to get to smoke one more. Quitting because the poo poo hurts too much, as wimpy as it sounds, would be an awesome future deterrent for me. Omgawd fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Aug 20, 2011 |
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Aug 20, 2011 02:12
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Stabbing a homeless man for a smoke is only for the first two weeks at most. Anything after that is just them being pussies more or less. I still long for one every once in a while, but the stabbing feelings left pretty early. I had my first smoking related dream the other night though. I was smoking some cigarette, it was awesome as poo poo and then I had chest pains. Then I woke up. I started to feel guilty and I reminded myself it was just a dream. gently caress smoking.
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Aug 20, 2011 21:54
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Just wanted to say that tomorrow is one year. 
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Aug 22, 2011 10:29
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Gothmog1065 posted:Stabbing a homeless man for a smoke is only for the first two weeks at most. Anything after that is just them being pussies more or less. I still long for one every once in a while, but the stabbing feelings left pretty early. Also had a smoking dream a few days ago! I've been without smokes about a hundred days now, I was surprised I could still get one of those dreams. The dream felt very real, I just lit up a cigarette that I had gotten from my friend, not even remembering that I had quit. After the cig was almost done I just remember "Oh poo poo poo poo poo poo! I had quit what the gently caress now I'll have to reset the counter all over again! I can't believe 3 months just went down the drain" Then I wake up, remember what I saw in the dream and the feeling of relief was just great. 100 days without cigs and still counting, fortunately! Keep going everyone, this is just great.
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Aug 22, 2011 20:57
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Okay, I posted in this thread once before, and failed pretty badly. I was up to six or seven a day, and I started smoking regularly last winter. So, today is my first quit day. Makes it easy to count the months if the 1st is when I stopped. Here goes...
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Sep 1, 2011 21:08
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Pharmaskittle posted:And tbh, at least 50% of the reason for smoking is that it looks cool. I saw your previous post about quitting but this makes me feel like you've never smoked a cigarette in your entire life
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Sep 1, 2011 22:45
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Hot Cops posted:I saw your previous post about quitting but this makes me feel like you've never smoked a cigarette in your entire life was being hyperbolic to support the (still haven't smoked for about a month I guess, woop woop) ed: like I would probably smoke a pipe in lieu of cigarettes, if it wasn't such a dumb-looking thing for a young person to do
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Sep 1, 2011 23:04
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Pharmaskittle posted:was being hyperbolic to support the You're right about the e-cigs (which has made it an effective quitting tool for me) but I don't know a single person (I know a ton of smokers in various age ranges) that thinks smoking looks cool.
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Sep 1, 2011 23:21
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Hot Cops posted:You're right about the e-cigs (which has made it an effective quitting tool for me) but I don't know a single person (I know a ton of smokers in various age ranges) that thinks smoking looks cool. If you're making a point of how it isn't actually cool and regular smokers don't do it for appearances, they do it to feed the disgusting addictive habit, there's no need. This is a thread full of ex-smokers, we're all aware of the realities of being a smoker. But to just claim that cigarettes have no societal association to being cool is flat out untrue.
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Sep 1, 2011 23:40
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Checking in with about 9 months of smoke free living. I was horribly addicted to them for about five years. My heaviest days had me at two packs a day. AgentX fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Sep 2, 2011 |
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With the start of a three day weekend from work, today seemed like the perfect day to finally quit. Been using the Nicorette mini-lozenges. While the taste isn't bad, the fact that you hold them in your lip is somewhat annoying. Nonetheless, I made it the whole day without lighting up. Fighting through a craving even as I type this, but I finally feel like I can beat this poo poo.
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