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| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 22:43:46
Just how?? Its not that I want to quit  but Im jsut wondering how to do it? I mean its easy to cut down but its so hard when your hanging out with all your friends who smoke or if you havent smoked in awhile!! How the hell do you not smoke?
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| The Calistanian |
Posted - 07/14/2004 : 12:44:18
I've heard rubbing cold turkey all over your body helps.
1. I am a fsh with no i's.
2. You must be wearing Zubaz, 'cause you're daring to be different.
3. I am a man with 3 fingers...but that doesn't count my index finger nor my thumb. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/14/2004 : 12:34:15
quote:
Originally posted by floop
i'm smoking agian
die quesadillas von LBF lecken skrotum! hahahahahahahhahahaa!
I feel your pain floop.
Skate Alex...good luck.
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| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 19:32:53
I think im through now with smoking packs a day haha :) but ill smoke some cigarettes tho but ill hardly buy em and in a yr or two ill be through with cigs
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| floop |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 18:07:09
i'm smoking agian
die quesadillas von LBF lecken skrotum! hahahahahahahhahahaa! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 14:52:29
My quitting sounds a little like Apl's. I have tried quitting so many times I can't count all of them. For me, it was a very powerful addiction that took a lot of time to finally break. I tried cold turkey, smoking 1 less cigarette a day until I got to 0, the patch and the gum. What finally worked is that my husband told me that he wouldn't marry me unless I quit. I know this sounds harsh but I was so addicted that was the only reason that would make me quit for good. I still cheat and bum smokes and sometimes I buy them too but for the most part I am smoking less than 5/month. The dangerous thing is right now I feel I am not addicted and I forget I can get hooked again at any time. I think that if something bad were to happen, I might start smoking more for awhile, but I will always end up trying to quit. Right now it's way less than my pack or pack and a half a day. My best advise in addition to the other good advise here is quitting is one of the hardest things you can do. If you are quitting and start up again that is ok...just keep on trying to quit. I think I heard that the average smoker tries to quit 7 or 10 times before they are successful. Eventually, you will do it.
Good luck Psychic Twin and SkateAlex and everyone else on quitting. |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 09:37:49
I'm surprised no one has told you to try out the Alan Carr book - "The Easy way to stop smoking" - yes I know it sounds like a crock of shit BUT it worked for me and I used to smoke loads!
Worked out that it cost the same as a packet of cigs (in the UK at least) and therefore had nothing to lose. It works on the way your mind views smoking and it really makes it easy. Only thing is you need to read the book. Sounds easier than it is - you get to smoke throughout the book as much as you like, problem is I realised that I would in fact stop smoking when I finished it and so I stopped reading it halfway through - stupid I know, but hey, finished it eventually and haven't smoked in months now.
Well, cigarrettes at least. |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 17:44:58
quote:
Originally posted by Chip Away Boy
Yo Psychic, still not smoking???
Yes.
Well, kind of....
You see, I got pretty toasty drunk last Thursday. I went to the Black Cat (a DC rock/indie venue) for a cd release show for this band called The Chance. A combination of visual reinforcement (I was at a bar filled with smokers!) with a fair amount of liquor broke down my resolve. Therefore, I bummed a couple and smoked em. I was true to my goal before that, though. I haven't smoked one since either. I've completely stopped buying packs. I barely even think about it day-to-day.
I don't know... it's a curse, but i find it damn near impossible to avoid smoking when i'm in a bar setting and with a few drinks in me. EVIL EVIL EVIL CIGARETTES. EVIL EVIL BARS. EVILLLLLLLLLL
Other than that, though, going strong. I hope to eventually eliminate these rare, sporadic, drunken cravings.
VoVat, apl4eris- thanks for wishing me luck. Looks like I'll really be needing it. |
| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:22:09
quote:
Originally posted by pfeffa
Sexaholic....with protection...you can't go wrong.
'cept fer mebbe the trail of broken hearts and shattered lives you might leave behind.
Ok sorry - I'm bitter.
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So we've got our recruits and our green mohair suits, so please leave your ID at the door. |
| pfeffa |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:14:27
Sexaholic....with protection...you can't go wrong.
Save the whales, eat a shark. |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:06:10
but avoid heroin, I've never seen a heroin addict who didn't smoke cigarettes.
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:59:29
quote:
Originally posted by apl4eris
I just went through a major test -I saw "Coffee and Cigarettes", and up until the last 20 minutes,
I have to see this.
Is it anywhere south of Columbus that you know of?
Oh, and the smoking thing - ehhh - fuck it.
Dennis Leary comes to mind. 
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May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman. |
| pfeffa |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:53:52
Find another habit, like gambling or be a sexaholic. |
| Chip Away Boy |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:52:33
Yo Psychic, still not smoking??? |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 20:08:08
good luck. if greece is capable of wining a european cup, you are capable of quiting smoking. this is the year of miracles. take advantage of it.
 join the cult of errol\and you can have a beer\without having to quit smoking
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 19:37:31
Good luck, man!
I just went through a major test -I saw "Coffee and Cigarettes", and up until the last 20 minutes, I thought I was gonna cave...at the end I felt like I'd had an entire carton, and I was actually coughing. I don't miss those fucking things now. .....much.... Goddamned mind-controlling bastages. The scene with Waits and Iggy was pretty damn funny though:
"Well, since I quit, it's ok."
So many people in the audience were laughing in recognition, including us.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 18:00:19
Good luck, PsychicTwin!
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 15:59:39
As of today, I'm officially quitting. For real this time. Wish me luck. |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 09:49:19
i am with transmarine on this. if you want to quit there is only one method: decide it. no diets or horror tales or nicotine candy will help if you mentally keep wanting a cigarette. just say no the next time you want one and deal with the nerves and anxiety that will sure follow. it will be a stressfull month but maybe it worths the trouble.
join the cult of errol\and you can have a beer\without having to quit smoking
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 07:18:26
I would suggest that next time you buy a pack of cigarettes, instead of smoking them, EAT them. When the pack is done, you maybe wont want them near your mouth again. Or, simply don't buy any more...instead buy porn. It feels better, and it wont hurt your lungs (unless you pant in an excessivly dangerous way). But seriously..I have been a smoker for 22 years, and it's difficult to quit. I was successful for a year once. I just quit. You'll know when you want to quit. And if you start again, oh well. Regardless of all that second-hand smoke crap, you're only harming yourself. So love it or leave it.
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
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| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 06:41:01
STOP SAYING HELLO!
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| TarTar |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 00:03:57
Yeah, if you don't stop saying "hello," you're gonna start receiving some of that typewritten abuse I was talking about earlier.
Sidenote - I called it verbal abuse then, but now I realize it wouldn be typewritten.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:51:09
Stop saying hello! Space I belive in Space
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| jefry |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:03:37
Hello
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| Chip Away Boy |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:02:49
don't smoke anymore |
| TarTar |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 17:09:27
Do you remember The Bloodhound Gang? "Whenever there's trouble/ we're there on the double/ we're the bloodhound gang." Obviously, the band got their name from this segment of 321 Contact.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| apl4eris |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 17:04:12
Wow TarTar haha - I have no idea! I'll have to check the link I used. We used to watch that show if we had a substitute in 3rd grade. I can't remember if I liked it or if it was educational at all, but that song was catchy as hell.
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| TarTar |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:59:15
hey apl, is that "drop" from 321 Contact?
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| apl4eris |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:57:46
I think it is many times more often the people who smoked or did not stay in good shape and got too sick to care for themselves that end up in nursing homes. My grandmother did. She died of emphysema at 64 -was in the hospital/nursing home for 5 or 6 years, and at my uncle's home on a respirator for the last of it. My great Aunt Polly died of it and lung cancer - she spent the last years of her life in a nursing home too. Man, those places are just awful!!
I smoked from age 15 to 29. I managed to quit in college for two years because my psycho ex-boyfriend didn't like it. Then I went back at it with a vengeance. Quit several times since then. Started back up with a vengeance on September 11th. I started getting sick a lot, A LOT, and I realized there was a connection. The last time I quit was cold turkey WITH my husband along for the ride. That was over a year ago. I thought I couldn't make it. I was seriously physically and mentally addicted. But now I hardly ever miss it. Even the random cigar (once in a blue moon) doesn't make me crawl back to it.
Sorry for the downer, but seriously, it hit me that even if I thought I liked it, it actually sucked, and I was ruining my odds of having the life I want to have later on.
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| Opaque |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:52:36
Been using mints and ice water here. Not sure why I got it in my head that it would help me, but there ya have it.
"My primitive words match my primitive heart..." - Mercury Rev |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:21:30
Nice. Thanks for that.
Just thought I'd throw that in there... |
| ShakeyShake |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:20:06
Keep this in mind if you don't wanna quit,the years that smoking knocks off your life are the years you'd be sitting in a nursing home being abused by the under trained/paid/qualified nurses
"I joined the Cult of this guy / 'cause they took my other picture away |
| frank_black_francis |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 15:14:45
Maybe if you keep in mind this image: People who die of Lung Cancer or Emphysema, in the last hours look like a fish out of water. Quite Literally. |
| n/a |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 14:52:28
I think about quitting every now an then.... then I remember how much I actually like it
Frank Black ate my Hamster
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 14:31:41
Fill your mouth and nostrils with cement.
Easy!
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| cvanepps |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 13:51:21
quote:
Originally posted by apl4eris
and
Ha! Very good, Apl. But that's for a fire. I think you'd still smoke a little after your stopped rolling. Hehe!
I quit smoking recently and it wasn't too hard, really. Been a smoker for about 10 years @ less than a pack a day. I ran out of cigs one day and I said to myself, "know what? I think that's enough." That was 9 weeks ago and I've even been to bars and parties during this time, and I live in tobacco country (North Carolina)!
Also, that one commercial where the young girl is talking about her mother's lip cancer: how part of her toungue needed to be removed and how she has a scar from her face all the way down to her chest was kind of convincing.
-= It's not easy to kidnap a fat man =-
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