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Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Pfunk on January 09, 2004, 12:51:47 PM
I am 29 now and started smoking when I was 14, I have never tried to quit before.  I know I cant go cold turkey so I am gonna try that Nicoderm patch.  Any other previous smokers tried this?  I heard hypnotism works pretty well.   Any thoughts or suggestions?
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 12:55:08 PM
Go cold turkey - much easier than with a patch.

Patches and gum will **** you up even worse because they contain way more nicotine that you find in cigaretes.

After you wean yourself off the butts, you need to wean yourself off the patch.

Just stop smoking.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: gofaster on January 09, 2004, 12:56:48 PM
Hanging out in strip clubs should cure you of your nicotine addiction.  Hey, what have you got to lose?  At best, you'll be cured. At worse, you'll just be stuck with watching naked chicks gyrate around a brass pole.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mrblack on January 09, 2004, 01:20:51 PM
get Zyban It kills the cravings.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: medicboy on January 09, 2004, 04:33:14 PM
NOOOOOOO!!!!

Please don't quit, it is people like you that keep me in a job (my wife too, she is a nurse)

Please think twice about quiting, support your local ambulance service, keep sucking down the cancer sticks!

Man if the world gets on a health kick and quits smoking and drinking I'm out of a job......
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on January 09, 2004, 04:37:59 PM
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Originally posted by medicboy
Man if the world gets on a health kick and quits smoking and drinking I'm out of a job......


No, you'll always be employed. People still haven't learned to not be stupid.
-SW
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 04:45:58 PM
:rolleyes:
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on January 09, 2004, 04:47:22 PM
So I take it you think its intelligent to hold a firecracker in your mouth and set it off Saur?
-SW
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 04:48:07 PM
A firecracker?  No, why would I put a firecracker in my mouth?
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on January 09, 2004, 04:49:19 PM
I assumed you used that queer rolleyes emoticon against my post.
-SW
Title: Re: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: SaburoS on January 09, 2004, 04:50:39 PM
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Originally posted by Pfunk
I am 29 now and started smoking when I was 14, I have never tried to quit before.  I know I cant go cold turkey so I am gonna try that Nicoderm patch.  Any other previous smokers tried this?  I heard hypnotism works pretty well.   Any thoughts or suggestions?


Pick up a couple of new hobbies that will require close to 100% focus/attention. Keep your hands and mind busy.
It is during idle time that most attempts at quitting addictions are lost.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 04:51:16 PM
It was, but I dont understand what a firecracker has to do with anything - let alone one in my mouth.

That'd be kinda... ah... dumb.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on January 09, 2004, 04:54:42 PM
So, when Medicboy says "If people quit smoking and drinking I'll be out of a job" and I say, "Don't worry, people can't stop being stupid" you thought what?

How many times do you hear about someone doing something retarded? Putting gasoline on a grill and lighting it? Holding M80s in their hands and setting them off? Or hell, just getting on top of a car with no one driving it and pretending to surf?

There are stupid people out there, no smokers and drinkers won't put Medicboy out of a job.
-SW
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 04:58:50 PM
Ah, I see.

I was assming that smokers and drinkers were "stupid" and smoking a cigarette was akin to putting a firecracker in your mouth.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Staga on January 09, 2004, 05:03:50 PM
I did smoke 20 years and now I've been without cigs about two weeks.
Didn't think quitting before; I just run out of Camel Lights at Sunday morning and thought "okay; that was enough".
Haven't used any chewing gums or other nicotine products.

Just quit it.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on January 09, 2004, 05:04:13 PM
Nope, I smoked for a while and still drink.

One day I just decided to quit smoking and was able to do it easily.

The thing with smoking is that its so easy to be sitting around doing nothing and decide, "Well I think I'll have a smoke"... before you know it you are out of a pack and going to buy a new one. It becomes really expensive really fast, that was my motivation to quit.
-SW
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Delirium on January 09, 2004, 05:05:17 PM
I started when I was 17 and quit when the cost of cigarettes climbed to almost $5 a pack here in Connecticut back in May of 2002. I just couldn't stomach something that was making me short-winded also making me short of cash (its approx $1825.00) a year).

I used the gum myself, it worked well for me. They make the gum fairly foul tasting after a couple minutes to keep the dose of nicotine low enough to slowly bring down the cravings. Its not magic tho, you'll still want for a cigarette, but you won't cave in as easily when you see someone else smoking.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Delirium on January 09, 2004, 05:06:53 PM
Speaking of drinking, why don't they make the tax on alcohol as prohibitively high as tobacco taxes? I'm willing to guarantee alcohol has done more damage to families and property than cigarettes have ever caused.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saurdaukar on January 09, 2004, 05:09:25 PM
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Originally posted by Delirium
Speaking of drinking, why don't they make the tax on alcohol as prohibitively high as tobacco taxes? I'm willing to guarantee alcohol has done more damage to families and property than cigarettes have ever caused.


Politics and money.

Pound for pound, alcohol is far more dangerous a substance than tobacco is - no matter how you slice it.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 05:15:28 PM
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Originally posted by Staga
I did smoke 20 years and now I've been without cigs about two weeks.
Didn't think quitting before; I just run out of Camel Lights at Sunday morning and thought "okay; that was enough".
Haven't used any chewing gums or other nicotine products.

Just quit it.


The next time you drink you will be back on it.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Pfunk on January 09, 2004, 05:16:30 PM
jesus christ...at least TRY to keep it on topic.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: midnight Target on January 09, 2004, 05:47:25 PM
I gotta agree with MrBlack. The Zyban (Welbutrin) made quitting much easier. I smoked for 20+ years and quit almost 4 years ago. You can do it.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 06:09:28 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Delirium
Speaking of drinking, why don't they make the tax on alcohol as prohibitively high as tobacco taxes? I'm willing to guarantee alcohol has done more damage to families and property than cigarettes have ever caused.


It will lead to poverty, importing, smuggling, use of cheaper drugs, and making moonshine. It's been like that over here since the 30's and has created loads of problems. Despite this the level of alcohol abuse in Finland is one of the highest in Europe. Pretty much analoque to tough drug laws in the US.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 06:11:44 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Politics and money.

Pound for pound, alcohol is far more dangerous a substance than tobacco is - no matter how you slice it.


You don't need to measure it by pound. Tobacco kills many times more people, yet it's used by fewer people than alcohol. Also it's completely useless drug.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: MrCoffee on January 09, 2004, 06:35:00 PM
<-- Very bad, Marlboro reds and coffee.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Animal on January 09, 2004, 06:37:46 PM
Try not.
DO, do. Or do not.
There is no try.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Staga on January 09, 2004, 06:45:08 PM
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Originally posted by mora
The next time you drink you will be back on it.



What makes you think so?


Anyway I've already drinked after that and didn't need any cigs with that Dalmore. Thanks for those supporting words anyways :)
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 07:02:04 PM
You'r welcome. :) Most of the quittings I've witnessed have ended that way.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: Saintaw on January 09, 2004, 07:02:52 PM
I wish you good luck, and a lot of willpower Pfunk.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 07:06:55 PM
About the patches...I wouldn't condone them straight away. Of course it's better to try without them, but if you can't it's much healthier than inhaling tobacco smoke.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mrblack on January 09, 2004, 07:15:10 PM
Quote
Originally posted by mora
You don't need to measure it by pound. Tobacco kills many times more people, yet it's used by fewer people than alcohol. Also it's completely useless drug.


LOL and BOOZe is usefull how??
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: beet1e on January 09, 2004, 07:18:36 PM
Pfunk - just give it up. Do it now. Right now. You don't need patches; you don't need gums. All you need is to understand the value of life, and how much better and longer it will be without smoking. Cigarettes = early death. What are the benefits of smoking? None. What are the hazards? Plenty. And when the "benefits" of smoking are outweighed by the hazards and health issue anxieties, I think you'll agree that there's no point in continuing.

I am not a nonsmoker; I am an ex-smoker. I quit the day a heavy smoking guy in my office collapsed with a heart attack, and died later that same day. And I thought, "that could be me in 20 years"...

You have your life ahead. Focus on that, and you may not need gums/patches to quit, just as I didn't.
Title: Gonna Try to Quit Smoking
Post by: mora on January 09, 2004, 07:23:47 PM
Quote
Originally posted by mrblack
LOL and BOOZe is usefull how??


It has recreational value.