Thread: Anyone here quit smoking successfully?

Originally Posted by Wintchase

Buy a fifth of the worst tequila you can get.. Buy three packs of smokes... drink the fifth, and smoke all the smokes in one night... I guarantee that will make you quit..

Death is not the same as a cure haha

One thing very important!!! Do not smoke while using a patch. A good friend had heart attacks both times he smoked while he tried to quit smoking while using the patch. He lives, but with diminished hear function.
~Richard

Originally Posted by Wintchase

Buy a fifth of the worst tequila you can get.. Buy three packs of smokes... drink the fifth, and smoke all the smokes in one night... I guarantee that will make you quit..

Sounds like a typical Friday night to me.

I quit over 5 years ago. If you study your habit and what happens when you stop, you will be able to realize whats going on. For example, caffeine Ive heard is metabolized twice as fast in smokers as in non, the light headedness is your brain getting a full dose of oxygen. These are 2 examples only, but if you realize a little on what to expect, you may at least be prepared for some of it. The big thing for me was reading about how the cig companies made the tobacco more addictive with ammonia among other things to get you hooked, they were not being passive in just making their product. But I dont want to sound like a know it all reformed smoker. You can if you want to. Im glad I stopped.

I smoked from 1960 until 2001. at the end of it all I was smoking 2-3 packs a day. May1 2001 I got my left leg crushed at work. 3 weeks later I found out I had throat cancer. I quit sitting in a chair going through everyday radiation treatments both sides of my neck for 8 weeks. the only help I used was anger. mad at myself for smoking mad at the cig for being a cig. I was determined I would not let that little so and so rule me. what I'm saying is if you want to quit then you can. be angry at the smoke for trying to take control I will admit I had pretty good incentive to quit. quit or die. it was a good diet through I went from 252 to 157 in just a few months. couldn't eat. throat swelled out like a bull frog and as red as a baboon but. have faith in your self you can do it.

+1 on mind over matter.

I was over a tin a day at $24 per. Tried the patch and gum, niether worked, when I finally kicked it, it was willpower.

In the end you have to really want to quit, and have stand by that decision.

Set small goals, make it one day, then two, then try and make it to the weekend, then try and get through the weekend. Once you've made it a week, try for two. I found that saying i would quit for a month right off the hop was too much, anything could happen in that month, but if you go day by day, the stress is much less. I've been clean for 2 years now.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Smoking anything after quitting cigs is sort of like being a little bit pregnant

Sorry to go Clintonesque on you, but what is your definition of "smoking" anything?
If you are referring to E-Cigs, then I will have to disagree. While it is true you are still in-taking nicotine, it is really no different than the nic gum or patch. You are also satisfying the feelings (throat irritation, stuff in your lungs) that you are used to with cigarettes, as well as the oral fixation (keep your mind out of the gutter, please ). What you are not doing is intaking any carcinogenic materials -- no tar, arsenic, or any of the other 2000 chemicals in a burning cigarette. While there has admittedly been no legitimate study of inhaling vaporized propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine or food flavorings, there have been studies into the effects of nicotine on the body. In the normal levels used (1-2 percent or 10-20 mg), nicotine is not carcinogenic, and causes no long-term physiological effects.

On the other hand, if you are speaking of taking one burning plant and replacing it with another burning plant, then I am inclined to agree with you

each person is different. like a lot of other people when I smoked I tried every thing from hypnotism to pins stuck in various parts of the body patches gum pills and a wife threating divorce. the only thing that worked was to make up my mind and stick with it. I admit I had a pretty good incentive but in the end it was determination that won. from the radiation treatment I had killed my teeth in the long run and before I could have them out I had to go through hyperbaric treatments. 2 people going through with me for the same reason hadn't quit smoking. it was strange to see them smoke by holding there hand over the hole in there throat to take a draw on a smoke. what it comes down to is If you need help get it. then make up your mind and stick with it. if you need someone to talk to PM me and I'll talk to you through the forum. good luck.

I quit about 18 yrs ago. Just put my mind to it. I still had cravings for years, especially when having a drink. The one thought that kept me going was thinking of all the effort and time that I would "throw away" if I took a puff.

As to the E-cig alternative, I would not head down that path. I have a sneaking suspicion that inhaling anti-freeze mist isn't any better for you...

Originally Posted by BDRebel

While there has admittedly been no legitimate study of inhaling vaporized propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine or food flavorings, there have been studies into the effects of nicotine on the body. In the normal levels used (1-2 percent or 10-20 mg), nicotine is not carcinogenic, and causes no long-term physiological effects.

Actually, there have been several:

Health New Zealand

http://publichealth.drexel.edu/~/med...ealth/ms08.pdf

Konstantinos E Farsalinos - Publications

And that's just a few. Oh, and for those who are thinking about the FDA studies from ~2009 on e-cigs should read some of the facts that the FDA didn't release from that study as well as the corrections some have made about the "anti-freeze" scaremongering. The fact is, propelyne glycol and vegetable glycerine have been used in theater and set production for a long, long, long time in the form of fog machines. Propelyne glycol has been used as an anti-freeze before, but only in that it has a lower freezing point than water. The same could be said of ethanol (alcohol).

Personally, my own study on e-cigs has been giving me great results since 2008. I still feel LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than when I was smoking. I started at 36mg strength liquid, and have dropped to 24mg since then. I could possibly try stepping down again, but I don't really see the need. I've had no apparent adverse health effects, and have gotten clean bills of health each time I've been to the doctor.

Am I still addicted to nicotine? Yep. Am I slowly killing my body? All signs point to no, so I'm not going to worry about it until I see research and evidence suggesting otherwise.