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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
1670 Posts |
 Posted - 06/30/2004 : 22:43:46
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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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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2004 : 22:49:26
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There is no one answer this question. Have you tried to Google this question?
I've been a smoker since I was 12, 15 years ago. Pretty heavy the last 10 years. Never quit once.
But! I did take a psychology class once where we learned about how to quit, so I shall tell you what I do now about something I have never done...
Method #1
1. Smoke your average ammount of cigarettes for the day, keep track of the count and determine the number. Let's say it's 20 cigarettes a day.
2. For the next 3 days you must smoke 20 cigarettes, no more, no less.
3. After threee days you cut back to 19 for 3 days
4. Repeat process until you are down to zero...
the end
I lady I used to work with smoked for 40 years or some shit, she quit weith the gum...
I don't know man, tough question... jusat thought I throw that one out there
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Jason
* Dog in the Sand *
1446 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 01:08:02
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The two things that made me quit smoking two years ago:
1. I got a calculator and figured out how much money I'd save each year by not smoking. It was over $1,000. And that was (and still is) a lot of money to me. I didn't feel willing anymore to pay that much each year for a habit I hated.
2. At the time I also worked the graveyard-into-early morning shift at a convenience store and I'd see the old guys coming in each morning to buy their pack or two for the day. Most of them looked horrible and unhealthy. And the manager of the store was an old smoker and most every morning I'd hear him going through this grotesque smoker's coughing fit. I didn't want to end up like that and whatever aura of coolness smoking had for me in my adolescent and college years completely went away. |
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/01/2004 : 02:01:45
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If you go cold turkey for 3-4 weeks, your addiction will have subsided, you're out of the woods. It's just up to you to resist it after that.
No fancy-shmancy gum will save you.
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mereubu
= FB QuizMistress =
USA
2677 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 07:49:19
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| www.quitnet.com is a very helpful website. You can even download a little counter that will tell you how much money/minutes of life that you're saving per day. I've never used nicotine gum or the patch--both times I quit I just cut down day by day and then quit. Good luck! |
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
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Posted - 07/01/2004 : 07:57:09
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I never understood the patches/gum...putting nicotine directly in to my blood didnt sound too much fun to me.
Ive given up lots of times. its easy.haha. Longest I gave up for was about 9 months or something, then things went wrong, and yeah.
I started smoking heavily then, but im back down to just social smoking...only when i drink kinda thing. Its still hard though. Eventually ill give that up to, but as you said, its so difficult when youre out in a pub and all your friends are doing it. But ive done it before, ill do it again.
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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ShakeyShake
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1058 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 13:00:21
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I really could never see myself stopping completely,I really can't go for a drink without smoking at least twice as many as I usually do.
Erm...quitting ideas..just keep reading the warnings on the packs,or for hilarious alternatives go to www.smokingcures.com
Anyone remember that advert from a while back,i think it may have been John Cleese in it...not sure anyway,it said about filling an empty jar with your used butts and some water, and sniffing it everytime you wanted to smoke?
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 13:40:52
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cvanepps
= Cult of Ray =
USA
442 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 13:51:21
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quote:
Originally posted by apl4eris
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 14:31:41
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Fill your mouth and nostrils with cement.
Easy!
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Posted - 07/01/2004 : 14:52:28
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I think about quitting every now an then.... then I remember how much I actually like it
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frank_black_francis
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
895 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 15:14:45
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| 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. |
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ShakeyShake
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1058 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:20:06
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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 |
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:21:30
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Nice. Thanks for that.
Just thought I'd throw that in there... |
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Opaque
= Cult of Ray =
USA
251 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:52:36
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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 |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:57:46
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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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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 16:59:15
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hey apl, is that "drop" from 321 Contact?
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 17:04:12
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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
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/01/2004 : 17:09:27
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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." |
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Chip Away Boy
= Cult of Ray =
914 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:02:49
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jefry
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USA
10 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:03:37
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Hello
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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
1670 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 23:51:09
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Stop saying hello! Space I belive in Space
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 00:03:57
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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" |
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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
1670 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 06:41:01
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STOP SAYING HELLO!
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 07:18:26
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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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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
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Posted - 07/03/2004 : 09:49:19
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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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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 15:59:39
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| As of today, I'm officially quitting. For real this time. Wish me luck. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2004 : 18:00:19
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Good luck, PsychicTwin!
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 19:37:31
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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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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 20:08:08
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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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Chip Away Boy
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:52:33
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| Yo Psychic, still not smoking??? |
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pfeffa
= Cult of Ray =
Aruba
367 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:53:52
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| Find another habit, like gambling or be a sexaholic. |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
1972 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 14:59:29
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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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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:06:10
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but avoid heroin, I've never seen a heroin addict who didn't smoke cigarettes.
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
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pfeffa
= Cult of Ray =
Aruba
367 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:14:27
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Sexaholic....with protection...you can't go wrong.
Save the whales, eat a shark. |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
1972 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 15:22:09
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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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