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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: drohne on August 14, 2009, 11:13:00 PM

Title: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: drohne on August 14, 2009, 11:13:00 PM

up to this point it's been pretty easy, but now the nicotine patches are keeping me up at night and giving me bizarre vivid dreams even if i take ambien, they're itchy wherever i put them on, i also can't sleep and generally feel even worse if i don't use them, i don't want to read, i don't want to hear music, i don't want to go out, i don't want to talk to anyone, i don't even want a cigarette, and at this point i'm just going to start drinking all the beers in my fridge because i'm out of whisky and what the fuck else is there to do

like...it's high time i quit smoking, but maybe i shouldn't have done this when the rest of my life is a fucking wreck

I DONT EVEN WANT TO PLAY SF4

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 14, 2009, 11:14:02 PM

You came back to the bore to fill your void?

Also: stay strong?

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: drohne on August 14, 2009, 11:21:38 PM

i came back to the bore to fill YOUR void :hump

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Fortus on August 14, 2009, 11:34:45 PM

I'm surprised you're drinking while trying to stop smoking. Whenever I've tried to quit, drinking was a sure way to get me jonesing for a smoke again. Good luck and I hope you succeed...if not for the health benefits at least to free up a substantial amount of cash (smokes are $7 a pack here)

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Dickie Dee on August 14, 2009, 11:42:31 PM

Yeah, there are a million reasons to quit, and the financial toll should be the least of them, but it seems to be the one that registers most.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: BlackMage on August 15, 2009, 12:07:22 AM

i thought i ate you?

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Akala on August 15, 2009, 12:09:55 AM

Totally right there with you. I was two weeks out (cold turkey), but my life has gone into a stress spiral over the past week or so, so I'm back at it. I'd be down with a quitting smoking challenge in a week or so tho.

If I were you, I'd ditch the patches.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 15, 2009, 12:24:22 AM

Not sure how heavy of a smoker you are, but try the gum.  It helps the oral fixation end...you chew it up a bit and then keep it under your tongue or wherever and chew it more every once in a while. Chew them whenever you want and eventually you kinda forget about popping a piece in.  My successful stints have been thanks to the gum. 

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Brehvolution on August 15, 2009, 01:29:36 AM

Cold turkey is the best way. Or have a chew pouch ready for the extremes. $3 vs. $50.

Same nicotine but not using your lungs. worked for me. i smoked for almost 15 years been smoke free for a year and a half.

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Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: huckleberry on August 15, 2009, 02:31:14 AM

goddamit....my wife and I are committed to stop smoking this Monday...I am not looking forward to it. Well I am looking forward to it - just not the pain and agitation that follows.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: twerd on August 16, 2009, 04:25:17 AM

cold turkey. bad withdrawal is, at worst, like a cold. the rest is in your mind.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on August 16, 2009, 04:38:52 AM

Go out and buy some magic cards and play some Magic. That will take your minds off it.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: The Sceneman on August 16, 2009, 05:41:05 AM

welcome back drohne.

Man I cant even imagine trying to give up smoking, it must suck! I only smoke 2-3 a day so Im not too bad tho

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: duckman2000 on August 16, 2009, 12:07:52 PM

Something catastrophic will occur and you will end up reaching for the cigarettes again. The clock is ticking. Or you could go with

(http://www.grovsnus.com/upload/img/brandheader_grov.jpg)

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 16, 2009, 12:10:00 PM

For me, it doesn't have to be catastrophic.  usually it's a month or two into it, at a party, after a couple beers.  I get into a good conversation with a smoker and end up bumming from them. 

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Bildi on August 16, 2009, 07:15:09 PM

Good luck, hope it works out.  Earlier you do it the better I think.

My mum is 70 and still smokes.  She's quit twice for 8 months each time but sadly gone back to them.  They're hard to kick when you've been smoking for 55 years. :-\

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: huckleberry on August 16, 2009, 07:21:27 PM

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 16, 2009, 12:07:52 PM

Something catastrophic will occur and you will end up reaching for the cigarettes again. The clock is ticking. Or you could go with

(http://www.grovsnus.com/upload/img/brandheader_grov.jpg)

I really like snus.  Took some with me on my trip to Portland a while back and they worked out great. 

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Brehvolution on August 16, 2009, 09:52:57 PM

Snus has more nicotine in it than cigs do. I think you would just get hooked on snus.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: duckman2000 on August 16, 2009, 10:25:35 PM

Quote from: Zero Hero on August 16, 2009, 09:52:57 PM

Snus has more nicotine in it than cigs do. I think you would just get hooked on snus.

And?

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: BlueTsunami on August 16, 2009, 11:37:06 PM

I remember inadvertantly swallowing some spit from tobacco dip and ugh. Just ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Brehvolution on August 17, 2009, 01:09:00 AM

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 16, 2009, 10:25:35 PM

Quote from: Zero Hero on August 16, 2009, 09:52:57 PM

Snus has more nicotine in it than cigs do. I think you would just get hooked on snus.

And?

still be a slave?? After the quick nicotine addiction is addressed, it's mostly just an oral fixation that has to be curved. Snus just changes the impact to the mouth.
The goal is to change the financial addiction to something that is bad for you. Snus won't solve that.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: drohne on August 17, 2009, 07:06:39 AM

doing it more or less cold turkey now -- have got some gum in case of emergency, but i don't like the stuff and haven't been using it. not really getting the urge to smoke, haven't cheated yet, and as strange as my weekend was, that's kind of an accomplishment. i think this attempt is 4 real

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Himu on August 17, 2009, 08:24:13 AM

drohne!

:heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: drohne on August 21, 2009, 09:03:12 PM

2 weeks. i thought quitting smoking would be a distraction from breakup angst, but actually my nicotine withdrawal is taking the form of oppressive breakup angst. that was unforeseen. but i can't just start smoking again because then i will have failed at that too

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: duckman2000 on August 21, 2009, 09:56:39 PM

Break up angst? Didn't you hook up with someone just a couple of weeks ago?

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: Powerslave on August 21, 2009, 10:23:56 PM

Cigarettes are awful man. Just smoke weed mixed with tobacco occasionally.

Title: Re: 1 week without cigarettes
Post by: drohne on August 21, 2009, 10:26:28 PM

breakup is like a month behind me, but i don't know, i'm just getting around to being unhappy about it now. dunno how much of it the no cigarettes thing is responsible for. kind of a bother that our thoughts come down to brain chemistry