Thread: Quit smoking....

Originally Posted by MODINE

BIg Ian,
Keep with it. The first few days/weeks are the hardest. I smoked a pack and a half a day for 30 yrs. The toughest ciggie for me was my morning cig and coffee. Seems like I needed that one to get the motor running. Once you get the nicotine out of your system, then you have to break the habit. The habit is like a little bell that goes off i.e. after you eat, when you drive, at break time etc.
I quit once for four years then got started again going through some stressful times. I have not had a cig for over a year now. Even then you still may have the jones come over you. You have to think of something else to get your mind off it. Good luck.

I'm on my 5th week & that bell went off big time yesterday. I'm glad I didn't have any around or handy...was feeling weak & wanting it bad. Urge passed after awhile and I still haven't cheated. It's a long row to hoe, but if I can do it, you can too BigIan!

quitting smoking is easy. Then continue from there is difficult.
They must have make it all so expensive that people can not buy it.

Cheers for the advice guys,

the last 2 weeks have been easy, as i`ve been off college, I go back in today to one of the most stressfull weeks of the year, if i make it through the clowd of cigarette smoke you need to walk through to get in the building i`ll be fine.
but even now as i think about it i just really want a cigarette

I quit in 93, took 4 attempts but it finaly took

I was still in the Army the first two times and with 75% of the unit smoking... Ya that didn't help lol. I was smoking up to 3 packs a day for years... I also started really looking into what my "Triggers" where for that next cigarrett. For some it's drinking and others it's a meal, for me it was tactile, the motion of lighting and moving the cigarett was hard for me to stop. So my wife got me 2 silver dollars to keep my hands entertained while I didn't have a smoke handy. It didn't keep me from starting again but it slowed me down alot.

After I got out I tried again but after a few months I just missed something, turned out to be cigars. And I was still getting the MASSIVE cravings, so I smoked cigars for a while.

One day I was broke when I ran out, but I got paid later in the week and I figured I'd see how long I could go till I freaked out and my chest caved in from the urges... Nothing.... a week went by and still nothing.... Another week.. nothing...

After a few months I had all but lost interest and started to notice that I couldn't stand the smell of cigaretts anymore, I can't even go to Los Vagas as I can't breath in any of the buildings. But the cravings and desires to smoke are GONE, and I still have the same 2 coins in my pocket to this day

I still enjoy the smell of a pipe and a good cigar, and have no urge to smoke one, but a cigarett makes me want to puke lol.

I had the smokers hack for 15 years after I quit...

Ok its been roughly 4 weeks, and i still need to murder some one.

I`m really not getting over this at all.

If it's been four weeks, then.....CONGRATULATIONS! You've made it further than most have.

"It's all in your head now" is the truth of the matter. The nicotine is out of your system, all you have left is the psychological factor. It isn't easy as any habit is quite the mind game.

Yup week 4 is a good start, and I feel your pain
Congrats on making it this far. Oh ya and find your triggers and work on them...