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Anyone about to quit smoking for the their "resolution"?

SLOWPOKE693 said:
Dibs on your stuff cause you gonna be ded in a few years if you keep that shit up.
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So you're saying this is bad?
 
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So you're saying this is bad?
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Is that a resting pulse??? :eek:

My youngest had readings like that after the covid sticks, emergency room folks blamed her coffee intake. She was a 20 year old athlete at the time :mad3:

She’s fine now, no more covid sticks :flipoff2:
 
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smurfblue40 said:
Is that a resting pulse??? :eek:

My youngest had readings like that after the covid sticks, emergency room folks blamed her coffee intake. The was a 20 year old athlete at the time :mad3:

She’s fine now, no more covid sticks :flipoff2:
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I wasn't running a marathon
 
I quit smoking February 8th 2013. i had my last smoke on my way home after having a couple beers with some buddies the night before my wedding. I never craved one, or even missed it. I'm a underground miner so I breathe in enough bad shit without adding smoke.
 
Chevy_man said:
Definitely a mind over matter event.


You have to actually want to do it. Knowing you should isn't nearly enough.
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Definitely this.

I quit cold turkey. In a combat zone.

Hardest thing I've ever done, but it was my time. I truly WANTED it with every fiber of my being.

I got home from the deployment, and my ex had stated that she would quit if I did... I don't think she ever fully gave them up over the next few years we were still married. She didn't truly want it like I did.

My last smoke: 10/16/2011 at 2100 Arabian Standard Time (1800 GMT). I chain-smoked 2 "Miami" brand (Hajji cigs), told my neighbor sitting next to me on the stoop that they were my last ones. He asked if I needed him to spot me a pack until I got to the store, I told him he didn't understand... they would be my last 2 cigarettes.

I came home 2.5 months later with that pack of Miamis taped up in my pocket. It still had 7 smokes inside. AFAIK, it was still in the bedroom nightstand when I moved out 5 years later.
 
This thread makes me want to light one up.

Haven't smoked a cigarette in a few months. I really enjoy them, but also never had a problem dropping them. I think a few packs a year is the sweet spot.
 
I smoked a pack or two a day for a year or so on college. Then down to a pack or two in the weekends out drinking. Then down to just a few bummed a week and the occasional pack on a weekend. About 9 years ago I mostly gave it up except for the random one. I'm finally at the point where cigarettes don't smell good when I walk by someone smoking and have zero desire to bum one when I'm drunk around smokers.
 
Thatg9659 said:
I’m tempted to try Zyban but it’s just re-badged Wellbutrin and I’m not too keen on those brain drugs.
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I tried Wellbutrin years ago when I first tried to quit. I had to stop taking it, sure it made me not care about not smoking, but it also made me not care about ANYTHING. Like absolutely nothing mattered to me I was 100% 'fuck it' and did not like that mentality.

I quit 2.5 years ago, decided I was done with the $ and hacking up a lung in the morning. Smoked the last one in a pack and tossed it in the fire. Have not touched one since, nor wanted to. Literally just TOLD myself I was done, and do not smoke any more. That was all it really took for me.
 
DozerDan82 said:
I tried Wellbutrin years ago when I first tried to quit. I had to stop taking it, sure it made me not care about not smoking, but it also made me not care about ANYTHING. Like absolutely nothing mattered to me I was 100% 'fuck it' and did not like that mentality.
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I brought home chantix and it just sat. Lying to myself I’ll take it soon enough, and never did until they pulled chantix due to some bad shit in it??

So, I asked my doc for alternative. She prescribed me 150mg wellbutrin. I took it the next morning and fucking hell. It worked! But I definitely wasn’t myself! Felt like I got methed up, so spaced out. Later that afternoon or so, the pharmacist fucking called me to make sure I am not dead or something like that :lmao:.

With that said, with pharmacist felt obligated to do a welfare check on me and how it made me felt like I was zombied. I asked my doc to give me a smaller dose, at 75mg.

I am not looking forward, not wanting to ‘fuck around and find out’ how 75mg may feel like after taking that one single 150mg.

I hate to say this but I like smoking. At the same time I want to quit to as I know it will help me immensely on my quality of life. I get winded easily. I’m not in my invincible early 20’s self anymore. :frown:

I am thinking to stock up on cartons of shitty Seneca cigarettes (like, WAY stocked up to make it unjustified to buy another pack of Marlboro ….), stop chickening out and take wellbutrin, and targeting to have a last one sometime before my birthday this March.

DozerDan82 said:
I quit 2.5 years ago, decided I was done with the $ and hacking up a lung in the morning. Smoked the last one in a pack and tossed it in the fire. Have not touched one since, nor wanted to. Literally just TOLD myself I was done, and do not smoke any more. That was all it really took for me.
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I’m trying to get my mindset to something like that. Thank you for your inspiration.
 
Thatg9659 said:
Yep,
cup of coffee = cigarette
Finish a meal = cigarette
go for a drive = cigarette
Few fingers of liquor = a few cigarettes
jerk off = cigarette
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This. 100% :lmao::homer:

Thatg9659 said:
I just hate the idea of being “in recovery” for the rest of my life. I don’t wanna be an ex smoker I just want to be, you know? I’ll figure it out but it’ll bother me until I do and that’s the way.
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Same.
 
Thatg9659 said:
I just hate the idea of being “in recovery” for the rest of my life. I don’t wanna be an ex smoker I just want to be, you know? I’ll figure it out but it’ll bother me until I do and that’s the way.
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You're going about it all wrong. You aren't going to be an EX-smoker, you are going to be a NON-smoker. Think about life in those terms going forward... there's no being "in recovery" from it. The physical withdrawal peaks in 72 hours, and the actual physical addiction is gone in about 96 hours. Everything beyond that is IN YOUR HEAD, so change your thinking.
 
It took me years to actually quit. I was literally disgusted by the way it made me feel every morning yet the first thing I'd do was smoke a cigarette. Once that first one hit you had no chance of stopping during the day. I tossed my last pack one night with a few left in it. Carried my lighter for awhile after and it's still in my tool box at work. Probably a few years before the urge was gone. I haven't wanted a smoke in a very long time but if I'm really pissed I'll go for them in my pocket still. It's been 15 or so years since I quit.
 
Meh...buncha pikers. I quit in 1999 after smoking 2.5 packs/day for a tad over 30 yrs. Been clean since... Patches plus taking my irritation out on a bunch of non english speaking Germans I was working with for 3 months.

The fun part? Over that time I had the sense to have a chest x ray roughly every 5 yrs. and roughly 1 every few years since until this year when they suggested a low dose CT...where the permanent damages from my stupidity for smoking showed up in the form of damages in the lower R lobe. The saving grace is that I had had another CT about 5 yrs prior for another reason which showed the same damages so the damage hasn't increased in size (COPD type problem).

1. Smoking is a long term health issue, NOT a short term problem (asthmatics excepted, gotta be REAL stupid to smoke and have asthma).
2. Smoking damages do reduce over time but not necessarily completely heal. Personal observation since I quit and supported by a few pneumologists. When I had the CT , I also went thru the respiratory tests as well to determine and baseline lung function. 104% over normal capacity and 98% O2 stood out, guess living and playing at elevations over 5kft sorta helped maybe...
3. If you are bound and determined to smoke/Vap ANYthing, at least have an aperiodic (5 yrs) chest Xray or low dose CT. The at least you know how badly it's affecting you. Better to be forewarned than in denial...
4. You really don't want to go thru the issues a few immediate relatives of mine have had like COPD, atherosclerosis, emphysema, lung cancer and death compliments of some of the "side effects" from smoking/vaping. Nothing like dealing with the precursors of said problems like dealing with nebulisers for meds every few hours or better yet being tied to an oxygen bottle permanently and having no stamina to speak of.
 
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DVanVorous said:
Meh...buncha pikers. I quit in 1999 after smoking 2.5 packs/day for a tad over 30 yrs. Been clean since... Patches plus taking my irritation out on a bunch of non english speaking Germans I was working with for 3 months.
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I was at 2.5 packs for over a decade myself, did it cold turkey, in a combat zone, with NO PATCHES or GUM, just sheer grit and determination.

What do those patches make you if the others are pikers?
 
Started when I was 15 or 16,pack a day of Camel. Stopped when I was about 40. My youngest asked me to stop. I had wanted to,but didn't until it hit me.
The hardest part for me was worrying I was going to need a cigarette if I had a bad day. Went a month smoking 1 or 2 a day. Finally had to get my mind right and just stop.
It was hard mentally,but worth it.
 
I have a family member that is in his 70's now, been smoking since he was 12

It is sad to see what the guy is willing to miss out on in life because he can not go without a smoke
He is in his retired years, and refuses to travel because now you can't even smoke at the airport, he cant do it

I find it entertaining to watch it, he can last about 7 min and it is like he has to pee, starts getting antsy and uncomfortable
Then he starts looking at his watch, and finding an excuse why he has to go
By the time he gets within arms reach of the door, he has a smoke in his mouth, and lighter in his hand
As soon as he gets out the door and gets his fix, he all of a sudden has all the time to stand in the driveway to talk again :laughing:

I point it out to the kid, and she says we can set the clock to his withdraws

If he wasn't such a fuckface in his younger years when smoking was tolerated by society I might feel a little bad, but he was miserable, so now I chuckle. Ya, roll your windows up and yell at me when I try to crack the window because your 'cold' and tell me you don't give a shit......I didn't forget :grinpimp:

He says it is harder to quit than Heroin, I have not looked up the stats, but I can see it, until then the cold side of me laughs
 
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That was 4 years ago...but it's hovered around the same ever since. They took it 3x cus they didn't believe it

High BP runs in my family
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You should check out some of this guy's stuff. It could be just some nutrient deficiencies that go overlooked (because doctors don't try to fix the cause).




Explains the genetic deficiency stuff more here:

 
I quit in 1977. Went from 2 packs a day to zero, cold turkey. Was fine the first night, second night I was jumpy as all hell and the third you didn't want to be near me. After that I was fine.
 
i quite one year ago on New Years Eve. Can't believe it's almost been a year. Didn't use a patch or anything, just quite but still want to have a smoke.
 
jplive said:
i quite one year ago on New Years Eve. Can't believe it's almost been a year. Didn't use a patch or anything, just quite but still want to have a smoke.
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I would say for the first year or so every now and then the 'habit' would kick in and I would 'want' one. Just had to remind myself I do not smoke anymore. Now 2.5 years into it, I do not ever really think about it, I would say more times than not when I am around people smoking the smell bothers me enough to wonder how I ever did that.

Now if it is going in my lungs it better be for a reason other than a nic fix. :smokin:
 
DRTDEVL said:
I was at 2.5 packs for over a decade myself, did it cold turkey, in a combat zone, with NO PATCHES or GUM, just sheer grit and determination.

What do those patches make you if the others are pikers?
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A Piker is someone that quit part way thru an endeavour, the term happens to come from folks that went west to CO in 1859 for the gold rush and couldn't hack it for whatever reason and came back to St. Louis with their tail between their legs. I quit and have been smoke free since 1999....


In this case Pikers are smokers that tried with patches, cold turkey, by sheer will power or other method and couldn't hack it...so they restarted aka returned with their tail between their legs.

Yea I'M REAL familiar with all the BS excuses folks make when they go back. I have/had family members that regularly made the New Year resolution to quit and started anywhere from a day to a month later...fact of the matter is, folks quit when its time. My mom quit a year before she passed, after having lung cancer surgery, being diagnosed with COPD, emphysema and atherosclerosis and for all practical purposes be a vegetable on O2...an aunt never did quit and she passed at the tender age of 95.
 
December 23


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I'm gonna try to quit chewing/smoking this upcoming year. I wanna have a kid with my wife and she says she won't entertain the idea until I do
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January 25

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I guess next month is a good time to try and quit.
 
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