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Gunslinger · « **on:** June 15, 2005, 05:44:29 PM »

I have been tobaco (smoke) free for over 48 hours now and I feel fine!

g00b · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2005, 05:46:56 PM »

2 days is the first hurdle.

2 weeks is the next.

Then 2 months.

Then 2 years.

Good luck!

g00b

JB73 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2005, 05:49:42 PM »

how long and how much did you smoke?

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2005, 05:52:06 PM »

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Originally posted by g00b

Then 2 years.

It'll be a good two years before you lose the craving... and even then, I went ten years and started up again. I try to keep it down to one or two a day. I don't like smoking, but I truly do like the nicotine rush... especially in the morning... get out of a bed, take a scorching hot shower and then have a smoke. I swear, my fingers tingle.

Furious · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:02:52 PM »

I am looking forward to starting again.

Nilsen · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:05:28 PM »

Congrats Gunslinger

I have been free for just over a year and four months now and its great. You have some bad days ahead of you but trust me it will get better. I still miss them from time to time, but its only mental and not my body that needs them anymore so its easy to get over it.

Just hang in there and we will support you all the way. I know that this forum besides my family helped me by keeping me occupied and offering advice that helped.

If it gets tough than just chime in and ill be sure to tell you how well you will feel when you get it out of your system.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:14:32 PM »

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Originally posted by JB73
how long and how much did you smoke?

pack a day for about 15 years.

Sandy,

I know what ya mean. My morning ritual used to consits of a shower then a couple smokes and cups of coffee in the living room while I watch the morning news.

My mornings seem a little empty now but oh well. Being a cheap skate I also look at the monitary advantages. I'll be saving over $100 a month.

Edit: thanks for all the kind words this is not the first time I've tried but definatly the first time I've quit (besides boot camp)

Nilsen · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:18:05 PM »

One thing that actually helped for me was to suck on a toothpick.. still do it now.. new habbit but not as harmful

JB73 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:21:21 PM »

i just was thinking, it should be OK if you can get throught the mental withdrawls, and also the physical withdrawls....

but after 15 years you got ALOT of built up junk in there, and from my one experience of quitting (after 1.5 packs per day for 10 years) after about 1 month i started coughing up the most foul things every morning, and then 1/2 the day too.

it's something alot of people don't talk about. the lung cookies that show up when you body finally realizes "whoot we can get rid of the junk now!" LOL

it hurts alot too, straining your stomach muscles coughing so hard and deep.

just wanted to give you a fair "head's up"

good luck

invest in trident gum now LOL it can be a lifesaver

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:22:42 PM »

I was never a heavy smoker... 10 in a day would be a lot.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:23:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
One thing that actually helped for me was to suck on a toothpick.. still do it now.. new habbit but not as harmful

I chew gum like crazy at work. Yesturday I told our floor supers to F'off really loud (even considered using the intercom) That didn't go to well but being that I was the ONLY person on the floor doing any kind of work what could they do?

Yup,

Chewing gum has been great, personally I like the sugerless extra. I've also been drinking ALOT of water. I run more and it's starting to get in the triple digit temps here now but even more so than usual I will have a cup full of water with me.

Nilsen · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:25:52 PM »

yup you will drink alot of water and feel the urge to keep on the move and prolly lift weights or something to get that "crawling" sensation away.. and it does go away.

BTW · « **Reply #12 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:27:56 PM »

Keep it up. It gets a lot easier.

I smoked for 30 years and haven't had one since March 2.
Course I got grumpy for awhile

LePaul · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:28:16 PM »

Any inkling I ever had of trying cigarettes vanished when I was visiting my Dad in the hospital a few years back. The guy rooming with him had this huge hose up his nose and every so many minutes, it was sucking huge masses of black/brown crap out. He was talking to my father, who was in for a procedure on his right ear, about how he'd been a lifelong smoker and oh-how-he regretted it now. My Dad smoked for 10 years and kicked the habbit back in the 80s.

All the power to you guys who are trying to quit.

JB73 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2005, 06:29:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I chew gum like crazy at work. Yesturday I told our floor supers to F'off really loud (even considered using the intercom) .

LMAO yup, you are officially in nicotine withdrawls....

it will gwt worse before it gets better. imagine a woman PMS'ing and drunk, and she just got dumped for a 19 year old cheerleader, and told she was fat.

thats the level of emotion you will come across for a while ; )

heck i was on prednisone while not smoking and i made a guy bank teller cry in front of 20 customers i was so rude LOL