Quitting Smoking

[oldman]

Also, food will begin to taste much better, and you won't smell bad. I worked with this good-looking gal that smoked. It gave her bad breath and she smelled like stale cigarettes, even through her perfume. Quite a turn off.

 

[demoncore1031]

I'm about to make a run at quitting so I read through this thread. Some good advice here. I quit drugs cold turkey many years ago, but was never addicted to any of those. Been smoking for 28 years so this is gonna be tough. Cutting down on crappy foods is gonna be tough also, but I'm not getting any younger so it's time.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

I finally quit for good after going to one of those hotel hypnosis things, several years ago. Good luck!

 

[2020cy]

For your health, it’s probably the best thing you can do. So many terrible things associated with smoking if cancer isn’t bad enough.

 

[Mr Janny]

I'm about to make a run at quitting so I read through this thread. Some good advice here. I quit drugs cold turkey many years ago, but was never addicted to any of those. Been smoking for 28 years so this is gonna be tough. Cutting down on crappy foods is gonna be tough also, but I'm not getting any younger so it's time.

Good luck to you. I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know, I assume, but it's all about the mindset. It sounds weird to say out loud, but it's still true; I wasn't able to quit until I was ready to quit. Once my mind flipped that switch, that made the difference. It was never easy, but it was easier.

 

[Rural]

Speaking of smell, get parked at a casino table next to someone who obviously smokes heater after heater in their vehicle.

Yee doggies.

 

[demoncore1031]

Good luck to you. I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know, I assume, but it's all about the mindset. It sounds weird to say out loud, but it's still true; I wasn't able to quit until I was ready to quit. Once my mind flipped that switch, that made the difference. It was never easy, but it was easier.

Thanks, man. It's not gonna be easy that's for sure. I just have to focus on keeping my stress levels to a minimum.

I'm giving up Mtn Dew also. That stuff is the devil!

 

[Peter]

I know it's bad but I ******* love smoking. For me it is about taking scheduled breaks in my day to relieve stress. Get out of a sales meeting and go outside to fire up a camel blue...etc. I'm about a pack a week which could be worse, but I also hit the wife's vap in the evenings. Not sure if that is better or worse. I think about quitting all the time but its hard to let it go, especially because I don't enjoy most forms of natural stress relievers, like exercise.

 

[Mr Janny]

I know it's bad but I ******* love smoking. For me it is about taking scheduled breaks in my day to relieve stress. Get out of a sales meeting and go outside to fire up a camel blue...etc. I'm about a pack a week which could be worse, but I also hit the wife's vap in the evenings. Not sure if that is better or worse. I think about quitting all the time but its hard to let it go, especially because I don't enjoy most forms of natural stress relievers, like exercise.

Try pornography. The kinkier the better. Once you've seen a 4'2" octogenarian from Latvia do unsavory things with a rutabaga, the yen for that next cigarette will be the furthest thing from your mind. Of course you will pick up a new addiction, in the form of a perpetual need to disinfect your eyeballs and ram your head against a wall in a futile effort to give yourself Memento style memory loss, but hey, you won't be smoking...