Ah... you brought back a memory. I once rolled a smoke with one hand on horse back. (also "Drum" brand)
This. is. awesome. You gunslinger, you.
Trying to quit...again
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This. is. awesome. You gunslinger, you.
I was never a smoker. My Mom, however was a heavy smoker. She went to a hypnotist and has not smoked since. That was well over 25 years ago.
You can do it, girl!!! I quit when they started charging $5.00 a pack. Haven't smoked for 7 years now. Keep in mind that you're paying some company to slowly kill you......YOU CAN DO IT!!
Oh but did you read on..? (I didn't have a gun either...)
I have smoked for over 35 years.. I'm probably already doomed. But I am still trying. I bought a vape. You can have them mix your juice up with the nicotine.. I plan on weaning myself off the nicotine slowly that way.. by just having it reduced. Will see if this works. Chantix, Wellbutrin , patches, .. nothing worked, but like I said, it was my fault.
Let's all quit together.. lol we can be b*tchy on here.. HA
Let's all quit together.. lol we can be b*tchy on here.. HA
I bought an e-cigarette two years ago and haven't had a cigarette since. It took me a year to get off the e-cigarette but it is much much easier to wean yourself off that than it is to wean yourself off real cigarettes, and the transition isn't that difficult, provided you avoid doing the things that you associated most with smoking (for me it was going to the pub, beer and cigarettes are indelibly linked in my mind). After a year I threw the ecigarette away and found I didn't miss it. Two years now without a cigarette and I think I've finally beaten it this time (I'd smoked for 17 years and tried to give up countless times). I still miss it with my beer thoughGood luck, it's hard but it's worth it. I feel much healthier.
The people I know who have quit smokeing , or greatly reduced the amount they smoke, have done both these and been succesfull. They claim that the transition to electric or vapor cigarettes from normal tobacco cigarettes, is easy, and claim it's easier to wean off smokeing when they were using an electric or vapor ( vapor seems to be more popular)
The very best of luck to all of you trying to quit. I could not be more serious. Tobacco has slowly and painfully killed off too many of my family.
I've never started. I had two horribly bad examples at home in my mother and father. Both smoked two packs a day. I thought it wasa so disgusting that i never was tempted to start. And our precious books turned yellow from all the tobaccosmoke... And the wallpapers.... But i never nagged them to stop. But when i had my own place i made it clear that it was a no smoking place and that if you must smoke you can go out to the balcony to do it. No matter how cold it was.
Beats the snot out of havin' stigmata, well, unless your in showbidness, 'o course the Saturday matinees can get old pretty quickI got a stigma?
Same experience here, except that I did nag them until my later teen years. And my mother was never so affronted, and i was never as adamant, as when we bought our spankin' new house and I said that they couldn't smoke in it. They both lived with tobacco till they were 70, but their last decade wasn't all that enjoyable.
Sorry, don't mean to lecture. Just relating.
I don't take it as a lecture, it's more of an affirmation that I don't want my son to grow up like that. My husband and I don't smoke in the house, even in the worst weather we'll go outside rather than smoke in the house. Our son stays away from the brunt of the stink then, but we still walk in smelling awful, and have to wash our hands and change clothes before we can touch him. It gets frustrating, and I've asked myself multiple times why we're doing this to ourselves. I like Audra's idea...all quit at once, and come to this thread to freak out about it!
This thread makes me want a cigarette...
I haven't bought a pack since March of 2011. I don't miss it, either. Although, I do get the occasional craving.
I gave up smoking as a habit, but still had the occasional cigar, and maybe a drag from a cigarette once a year. Not anymore, though. I don't find it enjoyable anymore.
I haven't bought a pack since March of 2011. I don't miss it, either. Although, I do get the occasional craving.
I gave up smoking as a habit, but still had the occasional cigar, and maybe a drag from a cigarette once a year. Not anymore, though. I don't find it enjoyable anymore.
Oh but did you read on..? (I didn't have a gun either...)
You still can't erase the visual in my head.
I like Audra's idea...all quit at once, and come to this thread to freak out about it!
There is not a "Like" that is big enough, bright enough, loud enough, or enthusiastic enough for me to use to affirm that.
I smoke. Wish I could quit. Can't. Convinced myself that quality of life is better than quantity. More fool I.
That sounds like a good way to do it. I'm glad that you are off of the bad habit.
Don't feel bad. I've tried to quit more times than I can count! I always fall back into it because I absolutely hate how I am when withdrawal hits, but I'm trying really hard to psych myself up this time. I don't want to fail again. I'm starting to focus on things like how bad I smell all the time, how I wheeze in the mornings, (6-8 smokes a day and I still wheeze) how I'll be spending more time cuddling my son, how I'll feel better. I just hope I can get through the first three days when the time comes. If I can do that, I can do the whole thing.
But even if I do manage to kick this habit once and for all, I'm never going to criticize a smoker again. I know the pain all too well!
You still can't erase the visual in my head.
xoxI think once you stop you have the best of both worlds. (having been a smoker you know how smokers feel about criticism, and becoming a non-smoker... you get to appreciate the freedoms/and benefits of this while also being able to be sensitive to both smokers and non-smokers.)