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I've only been smoking since 2006, but tomorrow marks my third full week without smoking. I tried quitting before, but quickly grew impatient with it and would end up buying another pack. Then one day, I dunno, it just made sense. It hasn't been an issue at all, and two of my roommates smoke (so I smell it, and am around it daily). I even found a full pack of smokes in a luggage bag in my closet, and it didn't phase me. I didn't bother with expensive patches or gum. Granted, I haven't been smoking all that long (a little over 4 years), but right up to when I quit, I was going through half a pack to a pack a day, depending on the day's events. I dunno, it just sort of happened like flipping a lightswitch. I hope the rest of you guys can find the fortitude to make it through. I feel like the real challenge will be on a drinking night. Maybe that's why I haven't gone and gotten drunk yet. Spitshine fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Nov 11, 2010 |
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Yay, Abiggoat! If nothing else, I find that I'm really proud of each week that trickles by, and I find every chance I can to share the small victories with my friends and family. They're all very supportive of course. I hope you are able to stick with it, buddy. And when it gets real tough, I hope you find the fortitude to work through it. Like others have suggested, make sure you consciously interchange "Cigarette" with __________ to work the association into your brain. I swap it out for different things to prevent another  habit - so like gum sometimes, candy others (candy owns), jerky, etc. For the first couple weeks, I was literally supplementing one craving a day with a mile run. Like "gently caress, I really want a smoke right now... Okay, time to go run." It was doubly good for 'punishing' the craving mentality, AND for rewarding my body for choosing the run over the smoke! My lungs would high five me each time (after they were done coughing and hacking, of course  )Be tough, Goons. Each day you're without a cigarette is another notch tougher that you are. I'd say Good Luck! but it's all YOU that will get it done 
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Nov 11, 2010 18:27
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Abiggoat posted:Don't. I'm a horrible, horrible person.  The most significant thing that's happened to me since I've quit has honestly been the dreaming. In my dreams, I find myself smoking, or I'll realize that I'm holding a smoked butt in my fingers and I'll think, wait what? well poo poo, there goes my non-smoking streak... oh well and then I continue smoking. It's not even the focus of the dream, it's just a sidebar to the events and interpersonal experiences in the dream (like real life smoking). The biggest thing that gets me is the immense sense of disappointment  And then I wake up and realize that I'm still going strong and haven't broken the streak! Spitshine fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Nov 13, 2010 |
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Nov 12, 2010 02:09
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TwistedNails posted:It has been almost 9 months now since I quit smoking. I quit cold turkey and began to run daily and joined a new gym, after running a mile with smokers lungs quitting became really easy. It hurt to breathe while I was running but it got easier everyday and it helped keep me away from cigs. Now I've lost a ton of weight joined a Karate and Judo class on top of my normal gym and I really turned my life around. Abiggoat posted:I'm not doing too bad, though! I did three days smoke-free but eventually succumbed to my cravings. I only had one and gave the ten pack I bought to my friend who is allowed to give me one a day, if I ask. If I do ask, he will give me it at some point in that day. This way is working quite well because he's being clever about it and giving me one when he knows I wouldn't want one (just before eating, just woke up, about to go to bed etc) so its completely taking away anything I enjoyed about smoking and just replacing it with that feeling you'd get when you'd had one too many.
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