Quitting Smoking?

[kiba]

Hey, so this might be a little off topic, but does anyone here smoke? My gf and I do, especially while online gaming, MMO's can be stressful :mad: , but we've been thinking about quitting, and i've tried several times without success....

Anyways, one of my coworkers is using e-cigarettes to stop smoking. This seems like a pretty good idea, especially for my gf, who has an oral fixation 😉 ...... haha jk. But i dont know anything about them, besides trying them once or twice.... they seem ok. Does anyone use them? If so what is a good brand that is cheap and actually works?

[tadhp]

I quitted 6 months ago, feel good and happy

Cool turkey method, don't believe in any form of gums, patch or medication

Use your power mind and F*** the cigarette now .......... :cool:

[HiVizMan]

Smoked for way to many years, and needed to take Zyban tabs to get me off the darn things. 8 days of taking the tabs out of a 14 day program and I tossed the fags away. Never looked back, longer than a decade now since I quit.

But you have to want to stop, go visit the Md and take what ever help you can.

[tadhp]

HiVizMan wrote:
But you have to want to stop

So True :cool:

[zarson]

Was a smoker for 15yrs or so on off

Not a heavy smoker, maybe a packet or two a week.

Gave up 3yrs ago, and started running again, 5k 10k half marathons.(not breaking any records mind you)

This october i will run the melbourne marathon ( my first in 17 yrs).

I didnt try any gimmicks, just gave up smoking - cold turkey.. have a lot to live for you see... family ... children...

Doctor said it will take at least seven years for my lungs to recover from the smoking, but will still have the scar tissue of smoking!

Hard to give up, i know. If you and your woman really want it bad enough to quit you will do it.

Seeing the price of a packet of smokes should make you quit!

[Peregrine]

HiVizMan wrote:


But you have to want to stop,

Truer words never spoekn. Do you REALLY want to quit? Really? Truly?
You CANNOT if you don't want to. I tried and tried and tried. I could not quit. Reason: I really didn't want to. I knew I should. I knew it was smart. I knew all the reasons I had that should have made me want to quit.
But I really liked... still like.... smoking. I could not quit.
I did finally.
Every time I wanted a smoke I would drink an entire glass of water, or eat a pretzel.
Helps with the not gaining weight thing.

I did the e-smokes, too. I had the BLU kind. It worked pretty well and can help a little as you transition to not smoking. But I always wanted to smoke after using that thing. Not the same punch in the chest if you know what I mean.
But cold turkey truly is still the best method to quit.

I don't even believe that it is an "addiction". I do not believe that nicotine is an addictive substance.
It is hard to quit because it is:
a habit.
and most people really don't want to quit.
Period.

Good luck.

[Zka17]

Peregrine wrote:
I do not believe that nicotine is an addictive substance.

Well, unfortunately, the addictiveness of the nicotine is not a matter of beliefs... 😞 Nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine are...

But I agree, the first step to quitting is to have decided on it! And for a such decision, smokers has to want to quit... and that's the hardest part!

Prohibitions, price of the tobacco products, scare of illness/death are not always the best ways to set up the "willingness" to quit... this may be different for every person...

So, what a smoker could do for quit? Try... try every method... until one of them will bring success...

Good luck!

[HiVizMan]

On a point of clarity.

I think there needs to be a distinction between physically addictive and psychological addictive properties. Heroin is in the former category and cocaine which is the latter.

Both from a medical sense are deemed to be addictive.

[Zka17]

I agree Sir! All what I tried to say is that it's VERY addictive...

Nicotine belongs to physically addictive drugs... it's one of the worse of them... - at least based on what I learned once... don't have experience with any others...

[speed]

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