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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rob52240 on May 29, 2013, 07:59:14 PM
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I decided to last weekend and I think I'm past the withdraw but I still find myself with zero appetite and frequently swearing at customers and the general public while I'm driving or working.
I'm a bit wierded out by the fact that I do not like eating anything now though and have a strange desire to spit out all food rather than chew and swallow it. I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds but I definitely need to eat more than 500 calories in a day.
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I gave up smoking after doing it pretty heavy for 15 years. I instantly put on 30lbs almost in a week. I had no trouble eating, my appetite increased by double. Nearly 3 years on and I can't believe I ever smoked.
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I quit two weeks ago tomorrow. I've used electornic cigarettes to help. As each day passes I depend on them less. The only problem I'm having is waking up about three hours too early every morning and not being able to go back to sleep. I've noticed my sense of smell is coming back as well as taste. I'm not seasoning my food near as much. I'm not eating any more.. Yet. I've still got a long way to go though, I'll still think I'm supposed to have a cigarette when doing something I normally smoked while doing. Hang in there Rob, I keep telling my self I've come this far I can keep going. Good luck to you.
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Quit a few years ago, it actually improved my appetite as opposed to what you are experiencing
Stick with it man, it's not easy...but nothing in life that's worth doing is
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I quit somewhere around 10 years ago, at that time I was on almost three packs a day. Like others have said you slowly get your
sense of taste and smell back and start to enjoy food again, sometimes too much, after I quit within two months I had put on
50lbs and being an old fart never took it back off again.
Stay with it, it's definitely worth it.
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I am 6 years in. Cold Turkey with patches. Chewed on plastic straws. I'm at the point now where surrounded by 2nd hand smoke is disgusting, but cigarettes, usually the lighting of one still smells good.
Good luck.
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I'm using the liquid E-Cig the shop mixes the flavor you want and you choose the nicotine amount you want used to smoke a pack a day but now I'm down to like 3 or 4 cigs and i use the E-Cig some.. The flavor I'm using is applewood smells good and not a bad taste. He's now working on a new flavor i asked him to see if he could make it..... Wait.....Wait Bacon!!!!!!!!!! Rob just stick to it you ll conquer it just stay strong.
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Dad's been smoking since he was 16 years old, on the Fourth of July last year, early in the morning.. he had a heart attack at 50...that morning was the last time he's smoked since.
After 34 years+ of smoking a pack a day+ he quit cold turkey the day of his heart attack :cheers:
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I've quit thoasands of times :aok
been smoking for about 5 years. Go through a pack a day, cut back and now it's 5-6 cigarettes a day. (unless I drink then I have to buy 2 packs)
I can't seem to quit either. Bootcamp will surely help with that.
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I quit six years ago after smoking steadily for twenty-nine years. I used the lozenge after trying just about everything else besides Chantix. I started when I was thirteen.
I wish I lost my appetite. I ate just about everything in sight especially if it was fattening. I'm still trying to lose the weight I gained. It's funny really the whole time I smoked I maintained a steady weight, the minute I quit, I started packing on the pounds. I've finally started to lose the weight but damn what a fight it's been.
Another strange side effect was after about a year my sense of smell went into overdrive and I could smell stuff that I was better off not being able to smell. Fortunately that diminished after a couple of months.
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Yes, I don't smoke anymore, I vape. Switched to e cigs, cut way down on cost and literally about 1000 fewer carcinogens. IMO don't bother with Blu e-cigs they work but they suck. I switched to Johnson Creek's e-cig, I like it.
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I've quit thoasands of times :aok
been smoking for about 5 years. Go through a pack a day, cut back and now it's 5-6 cigarettes a day. (unless I drink then I have to buy 2 packs)
I can't seem to quit either. Bootcamp will surely help with that.
You REALLY may want to consider forcing yourself to quit before bootcamp....If you have to quit smoking WHILE going through boot camp...you're gonna have a bad time :uhoh
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You REALLY may want to consider forcing yourself to quit before bootcamp....If you have to quit smoking WHILE going through boot camp...you're gonna have a bad time :uhoh
my friend smokes just as much as I do and said he was fine. They were so busy smoking wasn't even on his mind.
But we'll see. I won't smoke an e-grit cause i just smoke it all day :bhead
not to mention 80% of they people I know in the navy smoke
what a world :rolleyes:
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Thanks guys, a lot of people have been suggesting the E cigs but I've tried one and didn't really like it. 20 years of the real thing must be making me biased.
If I bought another I'd probably just use it to try the popular research chemicals that are sold here 24/7. A few of the shops sell their own brands of recreational chemicals.... I mean scents.
I am a bit worred about the eating thing though, I've averaged less than 200 calories per day since saturday but I've tried compensating by drinking a bit of milk with full fat cream added. I'm definitely losing weight because I'm getting red lines on my abdomen just like when I was a kid during wrestling and football seasons.
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I wish I had that issue. Btw you can't tasty thing?
I haven't noticed any side affects regarding thy sense.
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taste seems the same so far, I just can't get hungry and when I do eat I don't like it for some reason, things taste the same but something is subconsciously telling me to spit it back out instead of chew and swallow.
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taste seems the same so far, I just can't get hungry and when I do eat I don't like it for some reason, things taste the same but something is subconsciously telling me to spit it back out instead of chew and swallow.
I wish I could give you half of my appetite :D
If I don't smoke I eat to compinsate :furious
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your appetite will come back Rob, give yourself a week or two more before you start to really worry about it. The only way for me to quit was to instantly say 'I am a non-smoker'. Not 'I am cutting down' or 'I'll quit after this pack' or any other half arsed ambition. 'I am a non-smoker'.
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Thanks, the only thing that really worried me about not eating is the way I run out of energy quickly at work when I have to climb and find myself not even close to 100% mentally when I gas out. I keep thinking I might do something stupid like fall and/or get shocked or mouth off to the wrong person.
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I quit 3yrs ago this month.. Smoked for 30yrs.. I used the patch, it works..
But even after 3 yrs, I still cough out a bit of black crap now and then...
Probably will, until I die..
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25 years here clean for me. Thank goodness I had the gonads to quit.
You know you have won when you notice how other people that smoke houses, clothes and bodies smell bad.
I promise anybody, once you quit, you will feel sorry for those still addicted to nicotine and thank your lucky stars you have won.
I gained 30 pounds too but have lost it and a bit more. Eat less; do more.
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I broke my addiction to nicotine about 2.5 years ago after smoking up to two packs a day for about a decade.
Just remember that "quitting smoking" and "ending your addiction to nicotine" are two completely different things. While quitting smoking is certainly good for you (and congrats to anyone who has) I'd go for the latter - why continue to be enslaved by some drug and keep wasting your money? If you do go for the latter, do it right... Cold turkey. Any thought of "weaning" just makes the process last longer and you're not really starting "day one" until there's no nicotine "support". Jump in head first, set your mind to it, be a man and just do it!
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Finally quit 8 months ago after almost 30 years smoking. Used the pill to enjoy the hallucinogenic dreams. :rolleyes:
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Another vaper here, 3 months and not a cig in sight!
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:bhead
I wanna quit
but I like smoking.....
but I hate it with a passion.....
we humans are a messed up lot....at least I know I am...... :rofl
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:bhead
I wanna quit
but I like smoking.....
but I hate it with a passion.....
we humans are a messed up lot....at least I know I am...... :rofl
Same here. And alot of my friends smoke so that doesn't help :mad:
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E-smokes are not for everyone however, I'm giving it thought. I know folks who smoked 2-3 packs a day that swear by them. I also know some folks who just don't like them. I started smoking Djarum's and was doing 2 packs a day. Then, 2.75 a pack. This was round 13 years ago. Did that for 3-4 years but I eventually quit for about a year, before starting up again. Before my current job, I was easily doing 2 packs a day, if not 3. I would constantly lose track, only that I would run out a carton within 3-5 days, depending. Now, I sit around 1/2 to 2/3's a pack a day. After surgery in Dec of 2011, the nurse told me that when they took the tube out, was dark brown. "You should seriously consider quitting..", is what she also told me. Just this last week, my doctor also told me that I better quit. Feh Me thinks it's getting to point where E-cigs should be looked into with more seriousness however. :headscratch:
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One of the biggest issues with people when it comes to liking / not liking E-cigs...is how they do it
You can't just go from analogue to E-cig... it is a transition....I always send out a small note about this for first time e-cig purchasers.
Don't stop smoking...have those ones that are important...hahaha..you know..after eating etc ... but use the e-cig for those in between ones...the ones you don't really want to have, but do.. and just start cutting out another each day till one day, you realise you don't need the carcinogenic suckers any more.
take your time with it...It took me 2.3 weeks and 2 packs of tailors to get off analogue and full time vape. (obviously different for everyone) first pack went in 3 days ...and the second took the rest of the time.
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Yeah, I'm with ink on this one. I am a smoker, I like smoking. But, I know it is horrible for my health. Quitting and the weight gain scare me. As a former carpenter now driving a big rig, the belly I am currently building upsets me. Quit smoking and put on 50 pounds? I don't want that weight.
Picking up cigarettes was the biggest mistake I've ever made.
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I decided to last weekend and I think I'm past the withdraw but I still find myself with zero appetite and frequently swearing at customers and the general public while I'm driving or working.
I'm a bit wierded out by the fact that I do not like eating anything now though and have a strange desire to spit out all food rather than chew and swallow it. I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds but I definitely need to eat more than 500 calories in a day.
Fifteen years ago for me, cold turkey. I even kept an open pack of Lucky Strike non-filters around as a deliberate temptation. Every time I found myself considering the pack, I'd hurl it across the apartment in a rage. No verdammt vegetable was going to have me in thrall!
After a few weeks of letting your system adjust, you might well find - as I have - that everything tastes more nuanced, and more intense. Your bathroom scale will tell you the rest. ;)
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:bhead
I wanna quit
but I like smoking.....
but I hate it with a passion.....
we humans are a messed up lot....at least I know I am...... :rofl
I was the same way. Smoking was a part of who I was. Thankfully, I overestimated how big of a part.
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Started smoking when I was 13, and smoked for 27 years. Tried to quit twice during those years, first time I lasted about a week, second time about 2 years. But I could not give up smoking while having a drink, and I was partying every other weekend at that time so I won't even call it I quit smoking. I bought a pack of sigarettes before going to a party, and if there was any sigarettes left after the weekend offcourse I smoked them too. :rolleyes: Before I knew it I was back at daily smoking again.
In 2007 I was sitting at the doctors waiting room while my wife was seeing the doc. Found me a book about how to quit smoking, and started to look through the chapters.. I don't remember the books author or title, but I remember reading a few lines about how the sigarette takes control over peoples lives. And how to break that circle. "Do you really want the sigarette to control you? It is your life, you are in control!"
So by the time my wife came out from the doctors office I had officially quit smoking after only reading a few lines in a book! And I was very determent this time! This is about 6 years ago now, and I still not had a sigarette since. :banana:
My wife smoked then, she smoked before I met her, and she still smokes. But she has to take control herself, her smoking around me does not bother me. Other than I wish for her own sake she would make the step to take that control too, but she has to set her own mind up for it. And she says herself that the sigarettes are in control of her, she is not able to take that control back.. :frown:
But I hope she will some day.
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Who didn't like to smoke. Man its the best damn mood altering, addictive drug that is legal.
What got me to quit was a trip to the hospital after inhaling dust from treated ant hills. I was struggling to get a breath as they carried me to the emergency room. On the way, I desperately tried to inhale enough air to smoke on the way to the hospital. Could not do it. My wife called me an idiot. She was right. Never smoked again.