sensitivemthrfker said:

i guess one can make that inference, but no...
i'm sayin if you just smoke sometimes,or you just started to smoke, DO NOT waist time, QUIT NOW!!!
don't wait and try to do it after you have the true addiction. i you were a WEEKEND HAROIN ADDICT, yoou'ld still be an addict, but you'ld have a better shot (no pun)
at gettin over it than if you were a $300 a day person.
SO...
QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD!!!

CarrieLee said:

easy KILLER!!!
you must have missed some of her post,
but on the real side, my baby is 25y/o
and yes we are close, and do talk about EVERYTHING!!!

00769BAD said:

Well it's nice that you're close, but I don't care how close I am with my parents I do NOT want to know about their sex lives!!! But hey, that's just me.

My name is Sag and I am a smoker!

I smoke after 5:00 pm and have quit for 5 years, and picked up the habit again..

ANd I do like American Spirit menthol! thank you.

sag10 said:

You WOULD!!!

CarrieLee said:

What do you expect from a seventies woman!

sag10 said:

I'm a 70's baby!!!

I smoke Marlboro Menthol Lights. And sometimes Newports when I want to kill myself.

CarrieLee said:

My favorites are Virginia Slim Ultra Light Mentol...but American Spirit helps me to justify my smoking?!

damn, I wish I still smoked!! LOL not really but I do miss it.
Sag...I love american spirits menthol.. haha carrie!
I never was a menthol smoker...I just like the AS ones.

00769BAD said:

Don't be lying on me like that..
We don't talk about everything. I can't talk to him about the sex I have, but he'll talk about everything else .

Now to get on the subject at hand smoking. I've been smoking for the last 16 years. I've quit more then I care to share. I want to quit, but it's hard because after you quit you gain weight because you are so use to putting your hand up to your mouth and most people eat. So I figure if you find something to get your mind off of cigarettes for 3 hours then you're 3 hours smoke free. See how long you can go without a cigarette.

How about all of the people that want to quit make a Pack everyone keeps up with everyone to be a support group?
Just a suggestion...

purplechild25,
the whole gaining weight thing...It's been 8 weeks today for me not smoking and I'd have to say...the first 2 weeks I felt like I was eating everything in sight...but after that...it was back to normal...so don't be affraid of that..cause it passes.
good luck to all those who try to quit...I was a long time smoker myself (15 16 years!) and had quit many times in the past...but so far so good this time around. It is SO FREAKIN' HARD!! but I did it..and so can you!

sensitivemthrfker said:

Yes.Cold Turkey in 1995. Smoked for 12 years.
Well first your sense of smell and taste get more acute. And then you may notice that you don't keep colds as long.
Then there's the money you save (ciggs are $4 a pack now,
right?)
And your clothes don't smell like smoke anymore.

rdhull said:

perv

I admit that once in a while, after social eating with friends and drinking in clubs or parties, a good smoke is cool. OPC, other peoples cigarettes are the best way to smoke to save you money and lungs. Congrats on the cold turkey 6--Ive only known one person who did it that way and was successful..of course it was a doctors scare...
[This message was edited Tue Sep 17 12:13:59 PDT 2002 by rdhull]

Hey! I quit cold turkey 8 weeks ago! damnit..I want recognition!

Shorty said:

GOOD FOR YOU ARE YOU GOING CRAZY YET?
What changes have you been through?

Shorty said:

You did? Cool! In my opinion thats the only way to do it...none of this weening off cigs bit...just say fuck it..I quit right here and now and use your own fortitude to carry it out. Congrats again.

ahhh recognition helps!!
thank you thank you I deserve it!

I've tried the weening off thing...as much as I wish it would work...it doesn't. I know people on the patch to quit smoking and it works great untill you stop using the patch...then it's all over.
cold turkey is the only way really...although my mom quit with the help of a hypnotist...and I never thought she'd quit..so..who knows right.

Purplechild25...went crazy around the 5th and 6th day...but those were the toughest...Driving...is another time that it is hard...just have something to hold between your fingers...like a cig but not a cig...it has to have the same feel or it doesn't really help. try a straw or a pen although..the pen is too heavy and the straw is to squishy..but..they are the easiest to try.
My sense of smell is always good..but has gotten better...my taste buds are def in overdrive now...don't know if that is such a good thing or not...I can now taste things like the cardboard container that my oatmeal comes in...lovely.
all in all the first 2 weeks are the hardest...after that it's all mental and no physical anymore...but to be honest..the mental has been getting to me lately...I want to be able to smoke once in a while...and I just know I can't do that. grrr!
one thing, my husband quit too...at the same time...if he hadn't quit with me...forget it...it would have never worked.
Right now, I just like to stand next to my friends that do smoke and breath deep! LOL ahhh!

I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

matt said:

GOOD!! and don't EVER do it now!
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matt said:

Another crime in my book.

Ya know, I've heard that nicotine addiction is as difficult to get over as heroin. I don't know how "they" calculated this or if its true. Anybody got any input?

I smoked for 5 years and quit on new years day 2000 and haven't touched one since. 2 days into stopping I had this weird feeling like I was flying, it was awful and I thought I'd give up and go back 2 the dreaded weed. I'm so happy I didn't. I don't snore no more, I don't cough constantly, my clothes don't smell, I aren't paying £5 a day and I don't have 2 worry about the blackness of my lungs
4 all my freinds who smoke I say give it up now. Life gets better daily, I promise

teller said:

It is HARDER to get over heroin.Once the initial detox is finished, cravings are sometimes nonexistent or minimal.Avoiding same environments aids in the clean process. Cigarette cravings however are said to be more stronger and more longer lasting than the cravings for heroin once abstained from.
[This message was edited Tue Sep 17 15:31:55 PDT 2002 by rdhull]