Smoking

[VStooDie4]

When i was younger i was disgusted with smoking and always said no when peer pressure was used. But recently, a few months ago, i started smoking, didnt mean to, didnt think it was cool, i just started.

Now i want to quit, my health is going down hill as is my bank account, but im finding it very difficult.

Just wondering if anyone has quit or is thinking of doing so?

[Patrio7]

a few have kicked the habit, a couple of times i put them down only 3 hours later i swing though a servo for some fuel and walk out with smokes as well >.<

some say keeping yourself occupied helps but i found if im idle for more than 10mins i'll light up, not to mention at work its 4hours between smokes ( one during lunch ) and i get somewhat lethargic toward my lunch breaks.

i suppose one way is wait till the night before an RDO, then turn in for the night early ( make sure your comfortable, go to sleep with some music! ) then try to sleep in as long as you can, get up have a cuppa and then go about your normal day off activitys, the long sleep will help a little to purge the cravings from your system, stay hydrated and use all the will power you have to not pick the pack up ( get someone to stash it, dont toss it as you can fish it out defeating the purpose. go to the beach maybe but in merriwa thats what, 100+ km away? hmmm. service your car then spit and polish it top to bottom ( inside and out, no crevice to be dusty ) and dont forget to get a little smelly tree, they help kill some of the smoke smell in your car.

speaking of smoke smell, dont forget to give your hands a good scrub, get out the solvo!

[5Litre]

I quit about 8 months ago after smoking for 20yrs. It was real hard at first and even now I crave for one, especially with a beer. I quit because of the cost and this has really helped as I just couldn't bring myself to pay $15 for a pack of smokes now. Used patches for the first 4 weeks ,they really help but you've got to keep it up as they're stronger than the ciggies and if you stop and go back to smoking you'll find you gotta chain smoke winni reds just to stop the craving. My only other advise is to not try and replace the habit with chewing gum or lollies etc as that new habit is just to easy to go back to smoking.

[VStooDie4]

Thanks.

Good to hear that advice. Im thinking of the money i have waisted and what it could be better spent on. I think my car will be getting some more attention from now on!

[gopher]

my wife and i gave up 2 years ago using the patches.

but you have to be committed to quitting otherwise you're wasting your time

it was the best thing we ever did

[stylin_vr2]

ye quitting is hard... i quit earlier in the year for 5 months.. used the 24 hr patches for a week and ended up in hospital cuz the nicotine overnite messed me up bad.. then went 2 16hr patches and did fine.. but i found i had 2 keep myself fully occupied.. stayed away from my smoker friends for like a month then slowly got back in with them.. chupa chups and water were my best friend for the first 3 months..
but im a failure story as i started smokin again 3 weeks ago due 2 exam stress.. but am planning 2 quit again.. GOOD LUCK! hope u do quit.. its the worst habit and really is getting expensive!

[minux]

Best way to give up is exercise and cold turkey. It is how i did it. When you feel like a smoke, go for a walk, or go to the gym. The craving dissapears very fast.

[VH_Commodore_Wagon]

I gave up 16 weeks ago after smoking for 13 years

you have to want to give up or it wont work and you need to replace the habit with another habit like said before excersize i replaced mine with drinking tea (not the best)

I use the 24h nicobate clear patches used first one got head ache side effect took panadol all was good next day went to replace it put the second one on 5 mins later got a head spin spewed me guts took it off and havent touched a ciggie since and i live in a house of chain smokers although i have wacked on 15 Kg since

Good luck with giving up its the best thing you can do

[craigvk]

I have been smoking for about 13 years and have many many times thought about it seriously. The longest I have stopped was a day and a half. Money isn't a issue for me as it only costs $45 per week including rollies, filters and papers. The big reason I want to stop apart from poor energy is stained teeth. When I was 20 y/o and been smoking for a few years, my teeth still looked fine. But 3 years ago my teeth just started to get badly stained.

As for patches. Tried it for a bit but I still craved smokes and all it did was made me feel like it's supposed to. Being pumped with nicotine. It just couldn't replace inhaling the smoke. Chewing gum would be better, but I hate chewing gum!

Not sure what I will do. I want to give up soon. I sometimes wish I was knocked out and asleep in a hospital bed and wake up 2 months later a non smoker.

These days I am sort of getting bored with smoking. Lately it has become such a dang inconvienience as everwhere I go, I need to adjust around my smoking. Even going to have a meal at the pub I still need to leave the table twice to go and have a fag which I hate doing. It rules your life.

As for those scare tactics on fag packs? They don't work. What they don't tell you is the chances of you getting mouth cancer or rotten toes is low.
But of course if you smoke, the chances of you getting lung cancer later in life is hugely likely.

[Patrio7]

yeah the problem is when they first game out i looked at it ( gangrene ) and thought wow. grouse. opened and lit up. ignorence can be bliss.

i should really really really ban myelf from smoking inside anything ( house car etc ) that'd cut me right back.

[xlr8_87]

my girlfriend quit smoking for me as i refused to go out with someone who was smoking, filthy habit and i don't care for excuses

willpower is all you need, as well as a reason to quit, so just try thinking of the money aspect of things everytime you feel like lighting up

[craigvk]

That's a thought. If I gave up smoking, I'd always have a full tank of fuel - petrol and gas

[sircruisealotVS]

as with all addictions its a mind set. you need to overcome the mental side of craving something and the physical side of things will sort itself out.
so cold turkey is (in my opinion) the best way to go if your at all serious about giving up for good. there's no point in putting down the pack and saying your going to give up, if deep down you dont really want to or think you cant, because you'll just end up back where you started.
get that mind set right, have complete mental will and determination and the rest is easy. the addiction is all just in your mind, you body certainly doesnt want it, you just think you do.

[gopher]

so cold turkey is (in my opinion) the best way to go if your at all serious about giving up for good.

we tried cold turkey a couple of times
it never worked.

when we tried the patches i found after a couple of weeks i was forgetting to put them on and racing home in the afternoon to put one on.

eventually i thought that was ridiculous so i stopped using them altogether
that was about 6 weeks into a 12 week course.

its been 2 years this week since we stopped smoking.
we have no intentions of taking it up again

[1vngal]

i should really really really ban myelf from smoking inside anything ( house car etc ) that'd cut me right back.

I'm the same. If I made myself smoke outside, i wouldn't smoke half as much as i do now. It's mainly a boredom thing. If I'm busy, it doesn't worry me. But the minute I'm not doing anything, I smoke.

[NVE_069]

i quit from the day i was born im the only one out of 8 kids that dont smoke or drink. n my misses dont either smoke but she has a drink every now an then which i dont mind. must be hard to give up tho

[5Litre]

One advantage I found with the patches is you don't dare smoke with them on. After about a month I stopped the patches cold turkey , this made widthdrawl hard but by then I gotten over the 'habit' smoking ie. with coffee , after food , in the car etc.
Also if you use 24hr patches you get real vivid dreams/nighmares , alot of people don't like this but I thought it was pretty cool, some of the nightmares were like shit scary but once you wake up and realize you were dreaming you can laugh at the stupid things that scared you.

[xlr8_87]

Also if you use 24hr patches you get real vivid dreams/nighmares , alot of people don't like this but I thought it was pretty cool, some of the nightmares were like shit scary but once you wake up and realize you were dreaming you can laugh at the stupid things that scared you.

hmmm might start using patches even though i don't smoke

[gopher]

LMAO my mother in law went on the patches and chewed the nicotine gum
while still smoking

[NOGEN 3]

I smoked a packet A DAY of Brandon red(full lung f$#kers- 16's)every day since '86 and in '00 on boxing day I just woke up and didn't feel like 1 and haven't had 1 since. I don't need to smoke anyway, the missus smokes twice as much now. Unfortunately, she's disabled now and has nothing constructive to do with her time, but because I don't smoke anymore and we have 2 littlys under 6 shes been relegated to smoke her coffin nails outside and keep the door shut, so the smoke doesn't come in2 the house. From that day of quitting, I h8ed the smell of 'em and they m8 me feel asthmatic(It's all in yer 'ead Ashley, it's all in yer 'ead...) I'm right now wondering if I inadvertantly subconsiously named my third son after the cigarette brand I smoked? I hope not....poor little Brandon- although I hadn't had 1 at that point 4 over 2 years...lol
I you really want to quit-you will. ugoddawanna. 1 way or another you will stop smoking eventually....

[vlv8vic]

As for those scare tactics on fag packs? They don't work. What they don't tell you is the chances of you getting mouth cancer or rotten toes is low.
But of course if you smoke, the chances of you getting lung cancer later in life is hugely likely.

maybe not for a seasoned smoker, but to a 15 year old girl seeing the wasted face of that woman is a huge turn-off. we spoke about it in my class at school and the general feeling was that it is working very well to deter kids from taking up the habit.

[minux]

maybe not for a seasoned smoker, but to a 15 year old girl seeing the wasted face of that woman is a huge turn-off. we spoke about it in my class at school and the general feeling was that it is working very well to deter kids from taking up the habit.

Precisley, and that is the whole point and the only point to the idea. To prevent younger people from starting smoking in the first place.

[walesy]

i dont and never have smoked (cept tyres) im only 19 so alot of my friends do and i get frustrated when they try to give up but cant because i just cant understand addiction, im lucky never to have been addicted to anything and have sometimes have really just thought addiction is an excuse, you are the only one who can control your smoking habbit so how can you fight yourself? just stop! sorry if i seem narrow minded but i just really dont see how people cant stop

[jack.mc]

I never have/never will smoke a cigarette. I get enough second hand smoke in pubs anyway (dont know what is happening with that new rule?). My grandpa has full blown emphysema, 20% lung capacity - decreasing every day, spending more time plugged in to the oxygen machine.

If that image doesn't put you off, I don't know what will.

[binkztarr]

i quit after smoking for 4 years, i was about pack and a half per every 2 days so nearly a pack a day, more on weekends, after trying to quit countless amounts of times i found the only way was cold turkey and will power, oh and i didnt go out on the piss for a whole week, for me thats a long time with out a beer lol