Quitting smoking and stuff yeah?

[bit_pattern]

^^ I have a Stortz-Bickel Volcano

And, I love the way that some vindictive sod gave this thread one star just because I (sort of) started it! I just knew that was going to happen, was almost going to give it 5-stars to preempt the inevitable. There really are some sad sacks of shit on this forum!

 

[fairdinkum]

I used to love almost everything about smoking. On a cold morning with coffee, summer night with beer or in standing room at the MCG as North kick home late in the game and security can't be bothered doing anything about it. I liked the fact that it excused me from social situations I wasn't enjoying for 10 minutes.

I've seen you make similar comments before, along the lines of 'smoking is fun and enjoyable'.

If you are being honest, though, why did you take up smoking in the first place?

Answer: To be cool. Just like every other fool who takes the habit up.

Thank christ I was smart enough to see the error in my parents' ways.

Dude just go Kiwi style

Please explain.

 

[bit_pattern]

Kiwi style = green, no tobacco.

 

[fairdinkum]

Kiwi style = green, no tobacco.

Ah, I see.



If you are like me and you cannot stand tobacco, is there any other way?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Shit BP, I never meant to give you or anyone else jitters about using champix - I mean, it does its job, but kind of like Israeli-style. Sure it kills the 'suspected sniper' (the nicotine craving) on the roof, but it also flattens parts of a school, the U.N Food Aid compound and an orphanage (other receptors in your brain) as well.

Just be wary

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Today is the 20th day I've been off the gaspers. I used to enjoy them, with two little girls it was a nice and quiet 5 minutes to myself out the back as I sucked one down. My eldest got older and started following me out and ragging on me about it so that killed my 5 minutes of bliss.
Being a single income family with kids and a mortgage it was getting harder to justify blowing $10 a day, 365 days a year. I barely drink at all these days, smokes are now gone.
After starting in 1982 or '83 the longest I had given them away for was 6 months in '98 and 6 weeks in '03. I tried Champix last year but just smoked my way through it. There were a couple of blokes at work using the stuff and they reckon it was great so I rushed into my G.P. and had it prescribed. I think my problem was that I hurried it and hadn't psychologically made up my mind to stop.
14th November 2009 after finishing an afternoon shift I went cold turkey and haven't felt like one since. I'm finding I'm tired all the time and all my joints are aching like I'm getting the flu. The first few days my eyes felt funny as the blood flow was improving. I'm disappointed in the small amount of tar I've hacked up so far although I was never one that drew in really deeply, I was always in the habit of sucking them down quickly and shallow, a habit picked up working and ducking out for a quickie.

I always used to feel that if I could kick the smokes then I could do anything. Even though I enjoyed them for the majority of the time I curse the day I got hooked on the things.

In 2007 I stopped for 2 weeks. During GF week my family went and stayed with the in-laws since Geelong had made it and I was likely to spend all week either drinking or just glued to a tv. I broke on the Saturday morning. It was beautiful and sunny, I was sitting out the back in the sun with the Saturday papers, SEN on the radio and a ciggie. Is there anything better? Apart of course from later on that day when Geelong won for the first time in 43 years.

 

[bit_pattern]

Yeah, the psychological decision is huge. Good for you though, cold turkey, that takes balls. I wish I was coughing up more tar too, but apparently it takes a good month for your alveolar macrophages to recover and start cleaning your lungs out.

 

[WA ROO]

Yeah, the psychological decision is huge. Good for you though, cold turkey, that takes balls. I wish I was coughing up more tar too, but apparently it takes a good month for your alveolar macrophages to recover and start cleaning your lungs out.

Bad memories hacking up shit that looked like road base,tasted worse.

 

[Virgil]

Yeah, the psychological decision is huge. Good for you though, cold turkey, that takes balls. I wish I was coughing up more tar too, but apparently it takes a good month for your alveolar macrophages to recover and start cleaning your lungs out.

Now that's something to look forward to .

 

[Copernicus]

I feel a great shame to be be so enthusiastically endorsing such a big a bunch of ***** as Pfizer.

For the record, I didn't start the thread, it was originally a comment that derailed the Mod Announcement thread, Chief chopped out the off topic stuff and posted it here.

Hey mate, apparently they do something good if they are helping you quit

I've been thinking of doing the same but nicorette and such are bloody pricey (no gov't subsidies or the like here) and besides, I just flat out like a beer and a cigarette.

 

[bit_pattern]

^^ Yeah but it still shames me

My first negative sidde effect - it's made my sense of taste go all funny. The plate of nacho's I just finished has left me with an after taste of burnt plastic, not pleasant.

Also, getting to sleep without an aid is a problem, though the dreams are freakin sweet - full technicolor, plot driven stories that seem to go all night like an epic blockbuster. Now, if only I could get these bad boys onto paper to see and I'd be a goddamned millionaire!

 

[EagleMan87]

Champix is great if you're lucky enough not to get the adverse side effects. I only got those wicked technicolour flu-like dreams, but people I recommened it to had symptoms from insomnia to nausea and mood swings.

Crazy stuff if your mind has that dispositon to it, but otherwise a great way to quit.

 

[Lazyboy]

I think cold turkey should be tried before any drugs/patches, simply because your mind has to handle the pressure of not smoking, I went cold turkey for about 8 weeks this year and I was lovin it. Then stress started to hit me up and I am now back on the bastards.

I will quit again after the new year, the biggest hurdle is replacing the time you spend smoking, I suggest you try and get fit/healthy because when you start to faulter, which you will, without a doubt, your ****ing up hours/weeks/months of healthy eating/exercise.

The extra money is cool, you should spend that on some exercise equipment and start using it for a few hours a day, once a craving comes along, wreck yourself to exhaustion on the bike, boxing bag, weights whatever and your lungs and body will be begging you not to smoke. I would quit again today, but with all the shit coming up this month, its pointless to put myself through all that at this time.

Its a hard road, you probably already know that, I have seen people quit for a year then just relapse, even some people that have quit still smoke when I am around them then hit the patches, ****ing crazy addiction..

Oh yeh another thing, your smell and taste come back, that is a major bonus and kinda cool, as come food is like eating it all over again for the first time.

 

[krusden]

Yeah, the psychological decision is huge. Good for you though, cold turkey, that takes balls. I wish I was coughing up more tar too, but apparently it takes a good month for your alveolar macrophages to recover and start cleaning your lungs out.

I'm still coughing up heaps of gunk over 5 months later where its being loosened and cleaned out.

Glad to know its normal

 

[KevinCat07]

Wait wait wait.

You mean to tell us that you, the most extreme environmentalist, that has been telling us how we are ruining the planet for months on this forum, used to smoke?

Oh, this is just too good.

Lmao, You have done more damage to the planet than any non smoker could ever do.

 

[Mr Q]

Wait wait wait.

You mean to tell us that you, the most extreme environmentalist, that has been telling us how we are ruining the planet for months on this forum, used to smoke?

Oh, this is just too good.

Lmao, You have done more damage to the planet than any non smoker could ever do.

He's quit, which, if you were correct, would indicate that he's put his money where his mouth is.

 

[Nasma]

Lmao, You have done more damage to the planet than any non smoker could ever do.

I don't think that smoking does more damage to the planet than driving a car or eating meat, correct me if I'm wrong though.

 

[Wally Carter]

I don't think that smoking does more damage to the planet than driving a car or eating meat....................

..........or wars in the name of Jesus.

 

[Inferno]

Honestly never seen the appeal of cigarettes though many people my age are smoking. Tried them a couple of times, pretty horrible things.

 

[krisholio14]

I caved and had three while I was out on the piss on the weekend.

Having said that, for the amount I drank, and how hammered I was, normally I would have easy smoked anywhere between 40 and 70.

However, when I woke up the next day, my hangover was nowhere near as bad as it usually is after drinking as much as I did, and the best thing, I haven't thought about having a ciggie all week. The two weeks prior to that it was all I could do not to go buy a pack.

 

[bit_pattern]

Honestly never seen the appeal of cigarettes though many people my age are smoking. Tried them a couple of times, pretty horrible things.

It takes a lot of commitment to become a nicotine addict

 

[dr nick]

It takes a lot of commitment to become a nicotine addict

I've thought so. I couldn't stand the stuff. Had some friends that ploughed through the rough initial phase because they wanted to become addicted.

 

[dugrene]

5 years in Sept this year. Went 12 months without a drink as well just so I'd never get pissed and have a little toke.

Tried everything up to that point. First tried to give up xmas 1975. Nearly every day from then, I said "I gotta stop"

Took two tries of Zyban. The second time it worked. Thing is the government subsidy can only be claimed every two years. I had about 15 months between tries therefore paid the second lot myself. Cost about 200 bucks iirc.

I suggest if you use the zyban wait until you are on leave for couple of weeks. It takes about 10 days to kick in. You don't have to do any 'giving up' you just dont want to smoke anymore. During that time sleep can be disrupted and the odd mood swing for some people.
If you are slightly depressed or on antidepressants I'd be very careful with zyban. My missus nearly got suicidal. Bad scene all round. She stopped zyban and became less fragmented.

The only problem I have found is when I started drinking again, beer tastes so fckuing good it defys description, and not having the smoke between mouthfulls I seem to be drinking too quick.
Lucky with my job I can drink on average only two days a week.

 

[krusden]

The only problem I have found is when I started drinking again, beer tastes so fckuing good it defys description, and not having the smoke between mouthfulls I seem to be drinking too quick.
Lucky with my job I can drink on average only two days a week.

i find that too.

not having a 5 minute break every drink or so means i've always gots a beer in my hand if i am out.

 

[evo]

i find that too.

not having a 5 minute break every drink or so means i've always gots a beer in my hand if i am out.

Same with me.

I drink a hellavu lot more coffee these days too.