No smoking

dan sh

So, I turned 25 yesterday and gave up smoking as birthday gift to my self. I haven't had a fag for quite a longer time(over 30 hours). Any quitters with some tips? Right now I am really desperate to get a fag.

Dalek Dave

Sweeties, cakes, chocolate and rubik's cube. Keeps your mouth and hands busy.

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Brady Kelly

Just keep going - you only have about another 30 hours till till the worst is over.

dan sh

I thought I would keep some scotch as replacement for the Sunday. Now I have had it and I need a fag. I will be using cashews as replacement from tomorrow. I am really glad that I am finally thinking to give up on this shit.

OriginalGriff

It does get better, honest! If it gets too much, try the patches - I did and they helped, but they take a few hours to kick in. You can do it - and it really is worth it, you don't notice how bad your sense of smell/taste is until you have been fag-free for a couple of weeks!:thumbsup:

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Dr Walt Fair PE

I quit smoking cigarettes back in 1995 and started smoking a pipe. I quit smoking the pipe about a year and a half ago. I had smoked for over 40 years by then. First, make up your mind -- really, really make up your mind. In my case, other than the urge to do something, after about 2 days I started feeling sort of light headed, probably from more oxygen to the brain. I laid down, closed my eyes and told myself it would pass. It usually passed after 15 or 20 minutes. By the time a week had passed, the urges became less and after about a month I started having days when I didn't even think about smoking. I also used to always go outside and have a smoke when I was thinking about my work, programs, etc. It was a nice time to concentrate and relax a few minutes. I stopped that routine and now just do something besides smoke -- go for a walk, have a cup of coffee, bother my wife, etc. Make up your mind and focus on the benefits. After quitting, I stopped coughing at night and I haven't had an allergy attack or cold since then. I feel much better, but it took a month or so to get to feeling that quitting was worth the effort. On the down-side, I put on about 30 lbs, but I've adjusted my lifestyle and am slowly taking that back off. That was the biggest challenge, since I was always skinny my entire life until after I quit. But you must make up your mind. Your mind will try to play all sorts of tricks on you to get a hit. I still get an urge to smoke every once in awhile. The urges are just easier to ignore. Good luck! Since you haven't smoked as long as I did, perhaps it will go easier. If you keep at it, you'll be glad you quit.

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Mike Hankey

I am trying to stop also, been about 30 hrs or so for me also. Using the patch but still have the urge for a smoke. I quit for 8 yrs about 25 yrs ago and well obviously I started again...stress in my life was the excuse. Good luck Mike

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Nish Nishant

I quit when Smitha was pregnant and she said she won't have second hand smoke in the house. I have smoked a few odd cigs after that, usually when I meet an old friend who still remembers me as a smoker. But for some reason I've never really felt the need to go back. Maybe I was never really an addict.

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dan sh

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Maybe I was never really an addict.

I too feel the same. I haven't had it for long time now. But after that brilliant dinner after a bit of scotch I had, I really want a puff. I know if I can go through this initial urges, I can make it to the healthy World. But for now, I am trapped in the darkness.

Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

But after that brilliant dinner after a bit of scotch I had, I really want a puff.

Yeah, I still have that urge. After a few single malts and some fried Kerala style beef, I feel the need for a smoke. If there's another smoker present, I may go for a cigarette.

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dan sh

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

If there's another smoker present, I may go for a cigarette.

That's a huge problem with me. I am almost always surrounded with them. I really need a lot of will power to go through this.

dan sh

I am a smoker for past 7 years. I really do not feel like smoking but also don't feel like giving it up. I am trying hard to give it up (with a really heavy head).

Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

That's a huge problem with me. I am almost always surrounded with them. I really need a lot of will power to go through this.

What you need is an anti-smoking girlfriend or a wife :-D

Regards, Nish

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Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

after a bit of scotch

Just curious, but what scotches do you typically have?

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dan sh

If you still remember India, the ones which are sold as Scotch Whiskey (they aren't really a scotch). Something like the Jack Daniels, Chivas Regal, Ballantine's (had tonight,).

Rajesh R Subramanian

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

I quit when Smitha was pregnant

So, the key to quitting a bad habit is to make the wife pregnant? With having so many bad habits to give up, I guess I'll be forming a home grown football team then. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits. :)

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Abhinav S

You can do it - just think about the passive smokers around you - when you stop they stop too. And taking a line out of Bourne Ultimatum - "It gets easier".

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Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

If you still remember India, the ones which are sold as Scotch Whiskey (they aren't really a scotch). Something like the Jack Daniels, Chivas Regal, Ballantine's (had tonight,).

Chivas and Ballentine's are both scotches. Jack Daniels is not scotch - in fact it's closer to bourbon than scotch. During my last Trivandrum visit, I was kinda stunned to see my younger cousins all well versed in single malts and stuff like that which during my college days was something you saw in movies and read in books :sigh:

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

So, the key to quitting a bad habit is to make the wife pregnant? With having so many bad habits to give up, I guess I'll be forming a home grown football team then. Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits.

Nor any girlfriends. ;P

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dan sh

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits

What about those back aches you got while picking up mammoth weights? Any habit that harms your health (mental/physical etc) is bad.