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I'm going to try and give up smoking.

Mentalist

Mentalist

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And I am shit scared of the prospect.

I am smoking too much and I am starting to get depressed at my level of addiction, I can no longer enjoy smoking since my dependency is too high and I hate that I HAVE to smoke.

I've been smoking for a DECADE non-stop and I'm 22.

I have 12 ciggerettes in my pack at hand at the moment. Instead of sharply giving up I have decided that these will be my taper off limit.

12 ciggerettes. Thats it. I'm going to have to ration them for when things start getting BAD.

I intend to give up alltogether though, it's a mission and a personal goal that I am almost certain to fail but I'm still going to give it my best shot. A ten year addiction is not an easy thing to break and I have a 25-30 a day habit.

I am not a light smoker.

The worst thing in my way is boredom. I get bored and I smoke. Since I get bored all the time and infact am always bored I smoke a hellava lot.

It has to stop, I wish to be smoke free and I'm going for it.

I'm freaking out!


So here is my Minefield smokers diary. 12 ciggerettes to ease the transition. I will post when I smoke them and how I am doing and hopefully this thread will be an incentive to give up instead of just doing it on my own.


So, wish me mad luck. I'm going to need it.
 
There are a few other less-dirty habits you can switch to like chewing gum, getting a drum set, and my favorite...masturbation. :D
 
Yes, but nothing that is legal. :D

I've not smoked anything in weeks because of my breathing problems, but my evil vices lie more in the pill form. :D
 
The worst thing just happened to me! I was reading an article and the next thing I realised there was a smoking cigerete in my mouth!

!!!!!

I have a serious problem, I only noticed when I took the first drag, I then stubbed it out straight away. Damn, I just smoke subconsiously.


I am never going to be able to pull this off!


And I am done with drugs for the moment. I was a totaly pill head a only upto last year. I have concumed about 50 times my body weight in class-A drugs.
 
I quit on the first of January... so I'm feelin' ya. You can do it dude, and I think I've found the trick...

Tobacco is the only drug I know of that will talk to you with your mind's own voice. The other night at the party my mind was all, "C'mon, you can have just one, it won't kill you. You can stop at just one..." but deep inside I knew that that was just a rationalization, that it was the addiction trying to sneak a cigarette and using my mind's own voice to do it.

You've just stated that you wish to quit. You know who said that? Menty, you said it, the part of you that is yours alone.

In the next few weeks it will sound like your voice, your voice in your head, is trying to talk you into having a cig. That's not your voice. That's the voice of your addiction, and it's a sneaky, sneaky, fucker. It's using your voice to make it seem like you (the actual you) wants a cig but we both know that's not true.

You want to quit. The addiction doesn't want you to. Your will is stronger than some chemical you introduced into your system at 12. You have a strong will, and cigarettes are just stupid little sticks that don't get you high (if you smoke all day every day) but do get you lung butter.

If you wanted to, I mean if you thought it was a good idea, I would say take those 12 cigs and flush them down the toilet. It would be a demonstration of your strength of will, and now that you want to quit having a cig will just prolong your addiction.

I've quit a couple times before this one, and I think this one is going to stick simply because I've fucking had it with cigarettes. They are not pleasureable anymore, and why would I do something that isn't pleasureable? Why would you, for that matter?

Fuck cigarettes. And even though my addiction voice is telling me I should ask my girl for one, I won't. Because that's not what I want to do.
 
Are you in the uk Menty?

If so I can give you a hand, at least when I am back at work, damn flu!
 
Ish is right about the mind twist thing, but it's not that bad. You get a buzz off the lack of nicotine, and every time you want a cig, and that want won't disappear much, I quit 22 years ago for good for the 17th time, and occasionally I still want one. I smoked like you did Menty, starting at age 12 or 13 until I was 33.

It was the german Measles that finally let me quit for good. I got them for the second time as an adult and it was a nasty bout, I was quite ill for about two months and couldn't smoke. On day when I was fairly mobile I realized how long it had been since I'd last had a cig, but I guess I still had measles in my throat, because the inhale cut me like a knife, and that was that. I never smoked again after that.

Nicotine (in addition to being pound for pound more addictive than morphone or heroin) is a potent "barrier stimulus". It allows you to focus and think more clearly, it's synaptic gap function is actually pretty interesting. It doesn't take long to flush it out of your systemt though, about 10 days with a few sixpacks of Fiji water liters. Every time you want a smoke, drink a cold glass of Fiji water, or any other bottled water you like, I just love Fiji :)

Make sure it's cold. It will work as good as anything else, if you're a nicotine freak, and I suspect you're that kind of addicted smoker, you'll need to wean off the drug to successfully quit. There's some good stuff out there like very small doses of Zoloft that will bridge you without further addiction to weaning nicotine. Different than methadone in that function.

Good luck Mentalist. My best thoughts and wishes are with you.

Oh yes, smoke a blunt instead :bigass:
 
Good Luck, Menty!

then you'll be in the same club as whisky, Jack, Ish, and mm; she quit years ago too.
You guys could have a party.
GO FOR IT!
 
I never, ever smoke. IF I CAN DO IT, YOU CAN TOO.

(Of course I never HAVE smoked ever so it's not the same thing in any shape or form.)

GOOD LUCK!
 
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