Quitting smoking

[Madman]

I've decided to quit smoking after smoking a pack a day for the last 18 years. It is one of the most difficult things I've ever done in my life. I am tasting it as I'm typing this arghhhhhhhhh!

 

[SiNbaD]

Prepare to gain weight. Better chubby and healthy than a dead smoker.

 

[Clint Ewood]

that's good news.

 

[Ang]

:clapping::clapping::clapping:....................YOU CAN DO IT!!!!:toocool:

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Quite honestly this is most likely one of the better decisions you have made in your life.

 

[Insertion]

Quit and never look back! It's an expensive and deadly habit.

 

[a 1 player]

Good for you bro!

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Jesus hates a quitter.
I'm thinking about it after smoking for 33 years, probably averaging 35 to 40 a day.
I keep thinking about it but end up saying fuck it once I find myself hanging from the ceiling with my nails embedded in the dry wall.

 

[Auggie]

ferfucksakes!

You can't quit on us just like that with no warning, the government needs your taxes!

 

[papasmerf]

For the past week I have been using SNUS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus ) to help.

That is not something I see myself like for very long

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Sorry "snus" is too close to "anus". Not putting that near ANY of my cheeks!

 

[Curly]

Good luck.

 

[papasmerf]

Sorry "snus" is too close to "anus". Not putting that near ANY of my cheeks, anymore!

Fixed your post.

 

[tboy]

Prepare to gain weight. Better chubby and healthy than a dead smoker.

Ummmm that isn't necessarily true......In 2008 cardiovascular disease accounted for 29% of all deaths in Canada (69,648 deaths – or more than 69,500) and obesity or being overweight is a primary cause.....

I hope MM makes it, and yes, smoking is a pretty bad habit, but like anything else, if you trade one vice for another, you really aren't that much better off.

I was talking to a friend up here about costs etc. They are really big meat eaters. Lots and lots of steak, pork, beef, etc. I asked how much he spends a week on meat and he said "about $150.00".....and his cholesteral is through the roof so he takes lipitor and that's $150 per month (each for him and his wife). So add that up, that's $750.00 per month.

 

[Analme]

The first week is the hardest Mman, it does get easier.

 

[SillyGirl]

I've failed at this so many times that I don't feel I should give any advice...just sincere sympathy, and cheering you on from the sidelines.

 

[Madman]

Thank you for the support people! I'm on my fourth smoke free day and when I see my smoking buddies going outside to have a puff it's killer. Today a friend brought me a steam cigarette to play with, I haven't tried it yet but I am on the patch.

 

[Analme]

Primo, with everything else as you mention that can kill us why add smoking to the list, plus think of the savings brother. You can probably buy a nice sports car in a couple of years with the savings, sure you might not be able to afford the insurance unless you also give up drinking but wtf I don't have the answers for everything!

 

[Auggie]

Every time I think about smoking I also think about the fact that I could die from any number of other things tomorrow. Then what would have been the point of quitting. Not one single day of your life is a given...so enjoy them while you can.

That makes sense if smoking gave you pleasure and you could deal with wheezing and coughing every day. There are so many other negatives, I don't understand why intelligent young people still take up the habit.

But as long as you pay a big chunk of my taxes, it's okay with me. :wink:

 

[tboy]

Not to dissuade Madman or anything but there are benefits to smoking, and back in the 60's doctors used to prescribe them.

1) We get more breaks than non-smokers (hehehehe)
2) It IS an appetitie supressant
3) It IS a stress reliever
4) There is nothing better than opening a fresh pack and lighting that first one, where the aroma of the fresh tobacco wafts up....
5) You do get a bit of a rush from the nicotine (even after smoking all these years I still get that after not having one for a couple of hours)
6) You could say the same about any "vice".

Compare smoking to, say eating a nice marbled steak. Why risk heart disease when there are suitable substitutes that won't cause you any health risks?

Don't kid yourself, a sports car? really? SMokes are expensive but not THAT expensive. To own a reasonable sports car I'd have to save for 10 yrs (at $4500 per year to smoke). Then they'd go up over that 10 yrs so it is really more like 15. In 5 yrs you might be able to save enough to buy a 4th hand volvo....MAYBE

All those excuses/reasons could be said about drinking too. Why drink when the next morning you'll feel like crap? (especially if you OVER imbibe). Now sure, a glass of a good red wine a day is actually GOOD for you, but a bottle a day? nope. Just like having (I think it is) less than 5 cigarettes a day isn't bad for you. Living in Toronto and breathing the air is worse for you. In fact, jogging during rush hour is worse for you because you take in the same toxins in an hour as if you smoked a pack in an hour.....

Now compare smoking to fast food. A pack of smokes costs the same as a burger meal deal and you only get to enjoy that for an hour (maybe more if you slug back the coke and you burp all afternoon! lol). Now look at the movie "supersize me", look at the damage to his health in just a...what was it? 3 month period? I think the doc said something like he'd seriously damaged himself in that short of time.

Sorry, but the best PR campaign ever produced is the one against smoking. We complain about bait and switch here all the time and that's what it is, get everyone so against smoking they forget the real dangers.......