::smokes lungs::
can I bum a smoke someone?
seriously.
NOW!!!
::nic-fits::
^^^fone, i was just being retarded. i really do battle with myself to quit. see, i really, actually enjoy smoking. that’s the worst thing about giving it up–that sense of loss. the good thing is my concience isn’t leaving me alone about it anymore. it’s screaming TIME FOR A CHANGE! all day long and i’m listening to it now. that’s ultimately why i started this thread. a small step before the big one.
i ordered a self hypnosis cd two days ago that i think will help me. i’m just not disciplined enough to put them down on willpower alone. hopefully a change in thinking on a deep, subconcious level will wipe the whole habit out of me.
and thanks for the neat lung pics Lady! i’d enjoy dying with nice, pink lungs instead of ones that look like dinosaur feces!
i smoked from approximately age 17-19 rarely closing in on a pack a day unless i was at a festival or Phish run or other assorted binging.
at one point i just kind of started smoking less and less and when one pack ran out i simply neglected to get another out of lack of interest.
I then rehabilitated my throat by constantly going for cough drops and not smoking at all for over a year.
i didn’t smoke again until fairly late into my 20th year and have been bumming occasionally sporadically (almost exclusively while drunk) ever since.
*note: I bought a pack for Wanee this past year because i knew i’d be bumming off of everybody else and i didn’t want to be a dick. And i probably gave away about half my pack, so there’s yer karma for ya.
The thing with cigarettes is that when I’m drinking socially I can literally chain smoke them. I could literally light a new one with the old one.
But while sober - right now for instance - I could go hours without one.
Another bad thing about smoking is that when you combine it with a night of heavy drinking, you feel 100x worse than if you just drank. I do, anyway. Several times I’ve woken up and tried to find the dog that shit in my mouth, with little luck.
To quote Sheriff Bart: “Why you do that to yoself, man?”
This thread really makes me want a smoke.
Dude, I can chainsmoke like a motherfucker when I’m drinking socially, but when I’m not, I can’t smoke more than one cigarette at a time before I get sick.
Did anybody ever smoke the Camel Exotic Blends?? They don’t make them anymore because of some bullshit lawsuit, but they were elegant and delicious and came in tins, of which I think I have all 5.
There’s something about alcohol that sends a message to your lungs and says “it’s OK, it is poison but let’s pretend it is like oxygen.”
you guys need to stop pussy-footin’ around. just commit fully to the addiction. jeez. freakin amateurs.
Sorry. I only do things half-assed anymore.
Yeah Greg! Camel is the shit! If you are looking for a similar smoke to those exotic blends, try the Camel infused signiture blend. It has that same fruit infused thing going on. Of course I am more then a little biased towards Camel, but there you go.
yeah i remember them, they were exotic alright, used to buy these and split them with friends, never liked having a full pack of them, kind of novelty like, couldn’t smoke them too often
I went to prison and quit smoking pretty easily. It was more an I dont have any commissary and Im not gonna go do something to get it. ehem…
Other than that there is nothing better than a good woman to get you to quit. I have been dating the same girl for 4 years now, even through incareration and she is the reason I quit and wont start again. Long live teh_trench!!
Confession time…I started smoking back in High School in the 90’s. Then around 2000 I quit for a long time. I was doing great, then after being married for 6 years, the stress of being with someone who wasn’t into 100% anymore, I started back up this year once my divorce started. I had maybe 2-3 a day and that was it for like 4 months. Then I started to notice things smelling nasty like my car and clothes.
That was a big kick in the ass to try to quit. So, far I am doing ok without them so far…It’s very hard though cause everyone at work smokes.
This is the first week I’ve actually been around any of my smoker friends and I’m proud to say I didn’t give in. I kinda wanted to…but honestly, I didn’t want to stink like they did. My friend Will stunk up my whole damn downstairs with his ashtray smelling ass. Nasty. I hope I never reeked like he does!
gave it an honest shot yesterday, broke down by late-night. fuck. it’s hard. shall try again.
CJ, don’t get discouraged. Cut yourself some slack when you fail because you’ll use the apparent inability to go cold turkey as an excuse to continue smoking without tryin to quit.
It’s as important to keep the “idea” that you want to quit in your mind as it is to actually stop. So treat yourself kindly during the process, and affirm your desire to stop everyday, whether you do or not.
Exactly CJ…you just need those daily affirmations.
Memorize this post CJ - it sure turned me off to smoking! “Ash tray smelling ass” … “I hope I never reeked like he does!” … yeah, I’m all set.
I’ve managed to get back to that place of not even wanting one anymore. The dabbling I’ve done - a smoke here and there this year - has left me feeling gross and smelly.
And remember - quitting takes practice. If you give in, don’t give yourself too much hell over it. Doesn’t help. Just get ready to try again.
Heh…well I still smoke the Buddha but I used to smoke cigs and I can say that I successfully quit and now it’s to the point where I can be surrounded by smokers at the bar and I don’t even have the slightest urge.
For one, let me say I wasn’t a pack-a-day smoker or anything. Maybe three or four a day and MANY more if I was out partying or drinking so I can’t say that it was as an amazing feat. Even with that few smokes a day I found it quite difficult so I can feel for those pack-a-day people who are trying to quit.
It was funny because I didn’t quit because of health issues or cost or anything. I was sitting in a bar and was quite trashed and I lit one up and was smoking and somehow it hit me…“These things don’t do ANYTHING!!!” I mean…unlike weed, they didn’t make me high. Unlike alcohol, they didn’t make me drunk. And the very tiny high they give you when you haven’t had one all day last all of a minute before that goes away. It all seemed like a big waste of money that I could use to buy more weed or beer or something. Heh.
Anyway, I took babysteps. First I always found that I LOVED smoking while driving. So first I stopped that. Then I found I always took them when i went to classes at school. I stopped taking them with me to class. Then I noticed I smoked a lot during breaks at work…so I stopped taking them to work. I still smoked and bought them but I cut down in those areas. Eventually I made the big final step to just stop smoking them when sober. Not easy, especially when everyone would be like “Hey! I’m going out for a smoke!..come join” It’s amazing the conversations you have with folks while “going out for a smoke”…I missed those the most.
Anyway, trying to quit while drinking was EASILY the worst…that part took years. Eventually I just quit buying them altogether but for two or three years afterward I was constantly bumming them from folks. Eventually I decided to be a man or whatever and declared one night to be the night that I would finally stop smoking while drunk and it was tough…halfway through the night, I decided “aw fuck it” and grabbed one from one of my friends and started to light it up. Flick, Flick, Flick, Flick, Flick…my lighter refused to work…at that key moment. I saw it as a sign and threw down the smoke. I’d say that was the last time but I smoked one but I’d be lying and I still grabbed one here or there but it was much less often until I eventually had NO urge at all even when surrounded by smokers. It’s a nice feeling. Of course, I still inhale tons of some with weed but at least that smoke does something.
By the way, Camels are great. It’s the marlboros that suck. I can’t believe how bad Marlboros are compared to other cigs.
Stevo