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I have been clean for 32 days now. As Army-Jerry said, I just got fed up with the cost, smell and wear and tear on my breathing. 1st week was tough but it got better day after day. I did it without using drugs or the patch. It is a method called Smart Turkey. If you are interested in it and are serious, information is your best help.

Check out this site. It really helped me out and my doctor verified much of the information posted there; especially, reducing your caffeine intake and increasing your water intake.

 
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Update, I gained a shit ton of fat, still not smoking, do dream about it though, dreaming about smoking and wild sex with Asian girls (wifes asian). Next week I start working out. Gained 27 pounds.
 
ArmyJerry said:
Update, I gained a shit ton of fat, still not smoking, do dream about it though, dreaming about smoking and wild sex with Asian girls (wifes asian). Next week I start working out. Gained 27 pounds.
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Even when smoking I went to the gym 3-4 days a week so my weight has actually dropped by 5 lbs since I stopped. It was always great to have the person next to you on a treadmill say.."I smell cigarettes!".

My doctor said you would need to gain over 100 pounds to have the same health risk as if you smoked. So 27 is not a problem.

Gym is a good idea though
 
i guess maybe a little update to the sniper's hide smokers support group lol.

i started day 20 today. the first few days it made me really jittery. either i got used to the jittery feeling or it doesn't make me jittery anymore. it is starting to upset my stomach; just real queasy, dizzy and weak for about 45 minutes. the first few days, i still had the normal cravings, a few weird sensations right at the moment when you can feel yourself falling asleep about demons (some of them had big giant titties too and were kinda sexy and slutty. not sure what that means. i always knew i was fucked up, but not THAT kinda fucked up lol ) and i had to wake myself up. one weird thing though was the lack of wanting beer for the first 2 weeks. now, i'm a guy who drinks 3-4 beers every night. if i had a bad day, then it is more like 7 or 8. but the first 2 weeks, i didn't even want a beer. the last few days though i have been having a few beers, but i don't get that instant "AHHHHH....cold ass beer!" moment. just "ehhhhh...it's a beer that i really don't want but what the hell". for the sleeping and dreams, not big deal really, other than a few dreams about demon sluts with big tits, demon hands coming threw the ground and demon bunnies. <----- i don;t fucking know...they said weird dreams! lol

as far as the smoking, i'm still a pack a day. there were a few days where i only had a few smokes, but most days still a pack. the last few days though, the cigs have been making me light headed and just slightly queasy. for the last week or so, instead of waking up and getting the coffee ready so i can enjoy it with my morning smoke, i haven't been having a cig until i leave for the day and get in the truck. most cigs are only smoked about half way, or i find myself lighting one and only taking a few hits for the entire cig. so i guess the chantix is working, but i can fight it. i have talked to a few people over the last few weeks, and most people quit within 10 days. a good friend of mine did it in 4, and he was a legit chain smoker; crushing one out while lighting one at the same time. i'm on day 20 and i don't have that feeling like everyone else who was successful where they KNEW they were done. so today, i'm going cold turkey. my son who is 7.5 and bitches at me every time i have a cig, i gave him an almost full pack and let him crush, rip and throw away every cig. he was very excited for that! at least once a week if i leave them in reach he will go get them and throw them away. today, he got to do it for real.

so, that's my update if anyone cares! :cool:
 
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good job Corey. stay with it brother. it does get better. there will be times of weakness and just remember that tomorrow is a new day. no body ever makes a journey completely without falling. just get back up and continue down the path.

I had a weak moment a couple weeks back when my wife was doing her routinely "im leaving you" dance but i burned them down for 2 days and then started all over after 5 years without.
 
dont be weak Cory, every $ you spend on cigs the government takes 90 cents of that and uses it to subjugate you and your family. Quit completely and buy a pound and a half of powder per week.
 
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good job corey, keep at it...it sounds like it isnt working as easily for you as it did for myself, so what, keep it up, the prise is right around the corner
 
Push hard Corey...all you need is about 4-5 days w/o any cigs and you are through the nicotine withdrawal and the rebuilding can begin .

Don't give up...you will feel so good after 2-3 weeks of zero nicotine; you will wonder why you waited so long
 
cold turkey the best way, just finish them butts off and dont even look at them. They control you, you gotta decide are you hard headed enough, can you defeat the chemical addiction, would you be a meth head if you tried meth? A crack head? would you suck dick to get a hit of crack? I am thinking the answer is no so why do you suck on those little cigarettes man.Dont let them control you like you were a little crack whore. You are already miserable from cutting back, now finish them off, kbar their ass.
 
ArmyJerry said:
cold turkey the best way, just finish them butts off and dont even look at them. They control you, you gotta decide are you hard headed enough, can you defeat the chemical addiction, would you be a meth head if you tried meth? A crack head? would you suck dick to get a hit of crack? I am thinking the answer is no so why do you suck on those little cigarettes man.Dont let them control you like you were a little crack whore. You are already miserable from cutting back, now finish them off, kbar their ass.
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^^^^this....

Nothing works other than cold turkey at least in my case
 
cold turkey, 54 days now. you just have to get pissed off enough to say fuck this, no more, I'M DONE. and stick to it, the first two or three weeks is the test but it gets easier after that. stay busy and don't go out drinking.
 
On Tuesday it'll be 7 years since I've had any nicotine. Kinda crazy I still get cravings every now and then.
 
I quit dipping Copenhagen six years, one week & 5 days ago. But who's counting? I still think of Copenhagen all the time. Once in a while I'll smell a buddy's can & it gives me chills. I also know that if I give in just do once it'll all be over. FWIW, I chewed a can a day or more for almost 25 years.
 
This December, I'll be 12 years on. Went cold turkey. I was buying cartons on the Res because they were cheaper. The Indians finally started raising their prices to the point where they were only 5% cheaper than buying off Res. I finally got pissed off enough and figured why in the hell should I be giving people money that are poisoning me. Worked my way through the last carton, the last pack, then the last cig, crumpled up the empty pack and threw it in the garbage can. That's the last time I smoked. It wasn't easy, but to be successful, you have to have made the decision that YOU WANT to do it and a little latent anger about your money going to people that could give a shit about your well being helps too.
 
'78 to '85, and then in '92 and '93. One cigarette at a wedding in '95, and then no more ever since. I can't say that I miss them or their expense. My brother in law was a butt smuggler off a res, and fell asleep at the wheel coming back with a carload. Luckily for him, he was one carton shy of the threshold for felony charges. He got ARD, but he totaled his wheels and had the cops justifiably scrutinizing him thereafter.
 
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I’m a dipper and have one smoke with coffee a few times a week. Go somewhere secluded take a bunch of ambien or NyQuil and porn do the sick boy method. Sleep it off for a week
 
Snuffed out my last one at 1105, 17 April 81. Had cravings for a while, but would find something to distract myself. Over the next several years I would still want one on certain occasions, but so far so go.
 
Here's an interesting story that helped me quit. Its been a lot of years since I read this so some of the details may be different but essentially its a true story.

Each year one of the major tobbaco compaies would give a huge party for all the employees. One of the advertising firms guys, who was heavily addicted to cigs, came down from the New York agency for the picnic. He walked over to a group of the major execs for the tobacco company and asked "Hey, why arent you guys smoking?" His answer..."We dont smoke this poison, we just sell the shit." I believe he went on to found nicoderm or one of those companies that is supposed to help you quit.
 
I don't smoke cigarettes anymore, but damn do I love me a cigar.
 
gatorbait308 said:
well, how is every body? still not smoking here.
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it's been since roughly early june for me. the chantix worked. i also quit drinking and started hitting the gym more often. i was 225 in june and am down to 210. i'm trying for 190, but i'd be happy with 200. i work 2 jobs, and it's kinda hard to have a set gym schedule. i was down to 206 a week ago, but i'm not sure what happened lol.

i still get small cravings but not like i used to when i quit cold turkey.
 
It's been 1 year today, shamoo'd on 30 lbs, had that ebola flu shit twice this winter but I feel a hell of a lot better than smoking. Spring is here and summer soon so I can work and sweat the fat off.
How is everybody else ? don"t give up or give in. On that new 308 I said I was going to build, have all the parts now, just have to send it in to L.R.I. for assembly.
 
I started dipping when I was 13/14, started on cope snuff and dipped until i was 28. Quit two years ago in august. Still want it everyday but I tell myself you've made it this long, why throw that all away. I truly enjoyed it. Loved throwing a dip in my lip while shooting or working or fishing or hunting or anything really, but I got tired of feeling like I was under control and couldn't go with it. I like I said I constantly have the urge for it and have to talk myself out of it. It takes will power for sure.
 
oneshot86 said:
i am the poster boy for chantix...
worked EXACTLY the way they said it would...it was VERY easy...
i wish i had the balls to try it years before i did...
i never thought i would be able to quit...
chantix should be free and the guy who invented it should get a noble prise...
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As a dentist, I have prescribed this many times. If you take it and want to quit, you will. Yes you may have some dreams, but it works!
 
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Fellas, the guy I talked about earlier in this thread, successfully kicked meth, 10 days ago got diagnosed with stage 3-4 lung cancer. He never kicked the cigs. I'm hoping he didn't use all his luck getting off meth, and has a chance, no matter how small beating this, but it doesn't look good. No matter what, no one gets out alive.
 
ArmyJerry said:
I quit Aug 12, 2016 after 35 years, I tried all the tricks, chantix, patches, gum. What finally bought me to quit is HATRED, absolute hatred is a great motivator, I hate Obama, he was head of the Government I hate with all my heart and sole. That mother fuker taxed my ciggs, he made money off me smoking, so every time i voluntarily smoked a cigarette that marxist mother fuker was taking 20 cents from me and using it to fund an all powerful machine that is slowly but progressively enslaving me and my fellow citizens. Then the bitch Hilary was looking like she would win the election so that would mean civil war. In a civil war I would have to get in better shape to destroy all the communists I can.This meant I needed to cut funding to my enemies, Hilary, Obama, the unconstitutional federal government, which is about 95% of it, and start getting in fighting shape. Well, since the election, I realize how right I was with all the melt downs and the attacks on Trump and our Constitution, I am continuing to defund the enemy, get in shape and staying ready to destroy all communist enemies of my country. You never know how far these leftists will go to get rid of trump, and take control of DC and the federal apparatchiks, civil war could start suddenly, stay ready my friends. Every time I think about smoking I buy 100 pieces of brass or an 8 lb jug of powder. Quitting for freedom is what I call it. Hatred is a great motivator, dont under estimate your enemies, they want to enslave you and your kids, stay ready at all times. Turning Butts into Bullets program for quitting by ArmyJerry.

PS, every time you light up, the government buys 4 bullets to enslave you, quit for all our benefit.

PPS, Chantix did mess with me mentally, a little, wuld not recommend to others because of that. Hatred is a better path to quiting,
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Ya think?
 
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Put out my last smoke on Sunday at 8:09am. I've smoked since I was 15 (40 now), though I quit for a year and a half in the fall of 2012. I'm using Champix to quit, and have felt so much better the last few days. I continued smoking for 3 weeks after taking the pills, and was getting queasy and nauseous every time I smoke for the last week. When I previously quit, I got terrible dreams and thoughts, but none of those side effects this time. I'm also in a better place mentally and spiritually, so that probably makes a big difference.

I've promised the wife since we got married almost two years ago that I'd quit, and she has been great at supporting and not nagging. She is on board with me buying a new rifle with the money I don't spend on cigarettes, so that's my short term goal. I'm so sick of smoking that it's actually a relief to know that I'm done, though right now I still find myself wanting to smoke.
 
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AIAW said:
So I have been a smoker ever since college... a while now. I've really been contemplating quitting (again X2), but work stress combined with other factors keep me from attempting again. Last time I quit for 9 months and I gained a fupa - luckily that's not a problem now. It's a social thing for me mainly, but evidently I lack the willpower to overcome that, hehe.

Wondering how many here are currently full-time smokers?
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Look at my posts above...failed again

Off and on for 25 years. During that time I quit for 8 years and then was made GM for Asia business and that was the start again.

I would sell my soul to quit for good but I already have done that more than I can recall.

I actually do go to the gym religiously. I always LMAO that someone says “I smell cigarettes.”

I know I have to quit but not there yet
 
16 - 32 and quite for almost 6 years. Smoked for another 8 and quit again since Feb of 2014. Both times used the patch with excellent results. Gained weight the first time but not the second time due to an attempt to just be more active and watch my intake of calories.
 
Correct. It was just an observation of the date on my part and wanted to bump this thread up so someone might see it and want to quit. We were talking about smoking and I looked in my calendar from last year and I had "chantix" on today.
 
My mom smoked 4 pk a day for 50 years.I used to ride my bike as a kid to the store to buy a carton of cigarettes for $2.00....shared packs with all the neighbors, twice started her bed linens on fire smoking in bed...Had the worst osteopenia and COPD when she died....
No one else in the family ever smoked ..not my sibs or my dad...
Best wishes for U guys to quit....
 
Copenhagen, Patch, Gum, whatever; it's all just trading one addiction for another. There is no way in Hell anyone can quit nicotine by taking nicotine in another form.

Just do it. Keep a promise you make to yourself; something less is morally vacant. Smoking; knowing it is slow suicide, is simply another means of lying to oneself. Git 'er done.

Greg
 
Greg Langelius * said:
Copenhagen, Patch, Gum, whatever; it's all just trading one addiction for another. There is no way in Hell anyone can quit nicotine by taking nicotine in another form.

Just do it. Keep a promise you make to yourself; something less is morally vacant.

Greg
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Addiction has nothing to do with morals.
 
You just keep telling yourself that...

Morals is the promises you make to yourself and keep. Not keeping that promise is the very definition of immorality.

They taught us in school that all sin occurs in the mind. It is the decision to sin that is the sin itself, whether or not one can actually carry it out.

Greg
 
Greg Langelius * said:
You just keep telling yourself that...

Morals is the promises you make to yourself and keep. Not keeping that promise is the very definition of immorality.

They taught us in school that all sin occurs in the mind. It is the decision to sin that is the sin itself, whether or not one can actually carry it out.

Greg
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So according to you, everyone who smokes is a moral degenerate, I guess it takes one to know one.

It's interesting reading what you write, the perspective of someone who has been brainwashed by religious dogma and how they view the world around them. The scary part is your not alone in your distorted view just like the religious extremist who like to blow shit up.
 
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Gotta share a cigaret termination story
In college my Histology professor asked a student how many courses he was taking. He said 6 lab courses
Prof said that that was too many, and real willpower was needed to do that amount of work.. the prof continued his rant about how young people (this was 1966) had no understanding of willpower and he the prof. had given up a 20 year habit of pack a day smoking...That, he said , was real willpower
The classmate said I understand sir, but I gave up Heroin!
 
No, but you're ignored now. Too combative...

Also, there's that part about attacking another forum member's religion.

I especially like the way you put your own words in someone else's mouth. Passive aggressive much?

Oh, that's right, don't bother to reply; you're being ignored already.

Greg
 
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Oh, poor TNA. Greg likes his acolytes to have only so much spunk. There's only so much that he can swallow.

 
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