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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Phaser11 on September 13, 2009, 02:31:15 PM
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I started smoking win I was 15, I am now 51. I have not had a smoke for 1 month, 2 weeks now (cold Turkey) and I still want to kick a puppy.
I just want to sleep one whole night through without taking anything. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
it still hurts
Looks like I picked a bad time to quit drinking.
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Looks like I picked a bad time to quit drinking.
LOL. Stick with it brother. Sept 11th was 9 months for me. Started at 15, quit at 39. It does get easier :aok
ReDhAwK
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WTG!!!
Hang in there---you CAN do it!
The patch works for many--no problems like the Chantix takers have.
ROX
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if you have been smoking for that long won't your lungs already be screwed? :t
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Good job. As long as you have the willpower to quit, you will quit. Make an excuse? It makes it that much harder to quit. Congrats and keep it up Phaser!
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if you have been smoking for that long won't your lungs already be screwed? :t
Of course they are. However, stopping now will keep from further damage (and thats a great thing.) I smoked for 24 years and I have a "smothering" sensation from time to time for a couple of breaths. Its kinda hard to explain :( However, I know it has come from so many years of smoking. Im sure if I lost weight, that would help too :aok Anyway, not preaching, just saying.
ReDhAwK
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I started smoking also around 15. I quit cold turkey on the day I turned 40, a few moons ago. I had tried a few times in those years but only lasted a few days til that urge overpowered me. Finally I told myself that no little effing paper wrapped tobacco stick was gonna get the best of me. So, like I said, I had set a definate goal and didnt attempt to do anything until that day of my birthday. I smoked the night before I turned 40 right up until midnight, then I told myself its do or die.
Yeah, it was a powerful struggle. Within 3 days I had hemmoroids from the stress and my wife went and bought me some cigarettes, seems I was a lil grouchy :furious for a bit :rofl But, I had set my goal and was determined to not fail. I toughed it out carrying a pack of cigarettes in my pocket and I dearly wanted to go out to the barn and smoke one, but I knew if I did I had lost.
I smoked a carton a week on average. 15$ a carton at the time, and I smoked Winstons. After the first week, she put the 15 in a jar and said every week I quit she would put the cigarette money in that jar and in a year I could have it if I had still quit. She kept it up for 3 years, and that money bought my r/c planes and hobby stuff. I had even managed to put some of that money away in mutual funds.
Now, I went 10 years without touching a tobacco product at all. I do ocasionally puff on a cigar when I played aces high recently, but I am not addicted to it. I was flat addicted to the cigarettes.
Anyway, thought I would mention maybe putting your smoking habit into a jar and watching that money accumulate. Cigarettes are what now.... 40+ bucks a carton? Thats a lot of cash in the jar in a few months time.
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I took chantix for about a month and half, It gave me some wacked out dreams and after the first month it started making me feel sick. So I stopped taking it, let me say, I have been smoke free for about 3 and a half months now.
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Hang in there, Phaser! I quit cold turkey over ten years ago, after smoking for more than twenty years. If I can do it, so can you! :salute
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Good luck to you! I've been on the Chantix for the last 3 weeks and will have not had a cigarette for 2 weeks tomorrow. I'm already breathing easier and my sinus' have cleared up... plus I've saved about $8.00 a day... Don't put another cigarette in your mouth and you'll be fine.
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Grind
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Wait, don't you have to be 18 to smoke? :confused:
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While I'm not a smoker, the wife is.. And she's really interested in quitting.. How well do things like Chantix work?
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Wait, don't you have to be 18 to smoke? :confused:
National law banning smoking under 18 was only put into effect in 1998.
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While I'm not a smoker, the wife is.. And she's really interested in quitting.. How well do things like Chantix work?
Extremely well, i was a pack a day smoker from the time i was 16 until about a yr ago. ( 38 now ) My biggest problem was will power, and the lack there of. I used the Chantix, no weird dreams,no side effects other than a mildly sick stomach around week 3 or 4.
The thing about Chantix, you literally do not want a cigarette. I did not crave one by the time i hit week 3.
Tell her to read up on it, but i for one would recommend it if shes serious about quitting.
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Mbailey
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Wait, don't you have to be 18 to smoke? :confused:
You can smoke at any age. It just isn't recommended to start smoking at age 3.
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I quit drinking once.
Worst 15 minutes of my life. :D
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I smoked for over 40 years. I used chantix. The dreams I had I found interesting. No other side effects. I have been tobacco free for over two years.
I get a craving for a ciggarette once in a while but as soon as I smell someone smoking one it looses all it's appeal right there.
Hang in there, it's worth it.
Word,
Mark
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National law banning smoking under 18 was only put into effect in 1998.
So i can legally smoke... :huh That's freakin crazy, im staying away from smoking! :aok
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I started when I was 14 and built up to almost 3 packs a day when I quit at age 43. That was 8 years ago and though I know any damage that was going to be done is already there I know I'm not going to make it any worse and get a financial reward from it as well.
I quit cold turkey, I think it was the fear factor, I had just had a TIA and wife-ack ranged in. I was lucky all of my cravings vanished in 3 days, at first I couldn't be around smokers but now I don't mind it if it's just one or two of them, any more than that and I find it hard to breathe.
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So i can legally smoke... :huh That's freakin crazy, im staying away from smoking! :aok
GOOD CHOICE.
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So i can legally smoke... :huh That's freakin crazy, im staying away from smoking! :aok
But it is illegal to buy them under 18
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But it is illegal to buy them under 18
So my friends could be smoking here in California and i wouldn't know? WOW, horrible control... Way to keep it smoke free. :cry
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While I'm not a smoker, the wife is.. And she's really interested in quitting.. How well do things like Chantix work?
Chantix does work, however one still has to have the desire to quit and stay off of them. If she really wants to quit then I would recomend Chantix. The cravings do pass, they get less intense and fewer and farther apart. Good luck!
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Grind
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Im not a smoker , but I did Chew tobbacco. I started when I was 11 and Quit at 45. I decided to quit the day after my surgery to take a piece of skin from my a** and put it in place of the damaged skin in my mouth! I guess you can say I am a Constant kissass now !
Keep with it! :salute
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National law banning smoking under 18 was only put into effect in 1998.
So i can legally smoke... :huh That's freakin crazy, im staying away from smoking! :aok
I must've warped 11 years back in time.
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WTG to those who have quit smoking and in the process. I am still having a very hard time with it.
Albert Einstein once said
" Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do, I have done it a thousand times "