Becoming Tobacco Free - The Thread

Antimeasure · Post by **Antimeasure** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:55 pm

I'm quitting as a result of a cough i cant shake, becoming tobacco free is a bitch though. Since the only way is the manly way; Cold Turkey. So i've been "Tobacco Free" as of yesterday, im frus[Post. Edit. Delete.]

Heres a plan you fucking spooks, what should i do when im in this interesting state of insanity?

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CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:59 pm

I've quit before, with no success. Longest I ever managed was four months, and I cheated at work. With cigarettes approaching 8.00$ a pack here though it is getting kind of absurd.

4too · Post by **4too** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:39 pm

That Last Cigarette

Quit for maybe the 5th time, twenty years ago.

Had quit long enough to clean out my system.

'Clean'.
Then.
Restarted.
Felt the 'after burn' on throat and bronchial tubes,
tasted the crap that clings between your teeth and seems to leach out between smokes.

Lit up a stale one.

Got as sick and puke 'green' as when I started in those macho *tween* years.

Not quite the near death experience, but the whole process got my attention.

Sickness helps, but got a life time of other behaviors to fend off after the physical withdrawal quiets down.

Good sign when you come home from a night out and hate the smell of smoke on your clothes.

Consider a running battle as good as it gets.

4too

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:43 pm

You've got the first part down: not being a chickenshit. Cold Turkey really is the only way to quit. Here is some shit to remember:

-The longer you go without a single cigarette, the easier it is to quit. This isn't gauged on an hour by hour basis, or even day to day, but week by week it certainly gets easier as you forget what smoking is like and lose the "taste" of it.

-Your ass is gonna get dog sick. After you quit Cold Turkey your body goes through some pretty rigorous detoxing. This is going to deplete your immune system substantially and you are going to be shit sick for awhile. Fight through it.

-After you get a couple of months into it and past the sickness phase smoke is going to start to irritate your lungs, making it much easier to resist that sweet, sweet aroma. You will feel like a complete and utter pussy, coughing at secondhand smoke, but this will help make things easier.

Antimeasure · Post by **Antimeasure** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:06 pm

Im trying to find substitutes for the nicotine, food beer etc. But what helps most is distraction by ex. movies, tv, books. Keeping my focus on something else than the nicotine abstinense... The whole "tell the people in your life that your giving up tobacco , to nail yourself to the promise" dont work for me at all, most fuckers only do the "Quitting eh!? MmmMmm sure will be great with a smoke after dinner" routine in my face thinking they are funny. The best way is probably not saying anything at all.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:07 pm

Anti quitting cigs? Duck and cover

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:11 pm

Antimeasure wrote:Im trying to find substitutes for the nicotine

Get ready to gain some weight, motherfucker.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:58 pm

Perhaps start chewing gum and carry around a pencil in your hand to give it something to do. Seems like a lot of DACKers are trying to quit smoking which is good.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:28 am

Try toothpicks. I used those tea tree or whatever ones to quit before. Helped whenever I got a craving. I like the cinnamon ones.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:53 am

When she stopped smoking(after 42 years), my grandmother used to crack a couple of matches whenever she felt like she'd smoke. She never did it again so I guess the trick is worth trying

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:21 am

Read the Stephan King short Lunch at the Gotham CafÃ©. It's all about quitting "becoming tobacco free" and it may give you a few ideas.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:32 am

This method has worked without failure for a number of my associates, it is quite simply :

Whenever you feel you need a cigarette, stab yourself in the hand with a fork or other suitable implement. This can also be an elegant gate to the observation of the effects of tetanus on nicotine addiction first hand.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:52 am

When you feel something just on the inside of your left breast, close to the centerline of your body.

About the size of a small coin and sometimes a large one.

Cold, slightly throbbing.

Pulsing a bit.

Aching a bit.

Occaisionally stabbing out needles of pain.

And you wheeze and cough every time you smoke.

Then you should think about maybe quitting.

Anything else is unmanly.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:22 am

It will be tough as shit, unless you are much more of a man than me. I could always smoke a joint if things got bad, but i never managed to quit permanently though, and now I smoke about 10-15 a day. :cough:

My tip is to have a plan for what you are going to do each day. Howere, all the places you would have a cigarette break will be fucking terrible at first, but in the end you will be smoke free and saving Â£Â£Â£ you can use on more useful stuff.

Good luck old man.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:42 pm

I haven't had a single smoke. It's stupid.

Antimeasure · Post by **Antimeasure** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:16 pm

Redeye wrote:When you feel something just on the inside of your left breast, close to the centerline of your body.

About the size of a small coin and sometimes a large one.

Cold, slightly throbbing.

Pulsing a bit.

Aching a bit.

Occaisionally stabbing out needles of pain.

And you wheeze and cough every time you smoke.

Then you should think about maybe quitting.

Anything else is unmanly.

Well then i have your support. Glad to hear it.

I've discovered that im nicer to people now with all this abstinence, i dont know why but its an interesing by-product since im walking around furiously.. If I dont act nice to people they might be rude to me, and then i'll end up in jail again after killing them.

Im eating as a motherfucker.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:36 pm

VasikkA wrote:I haven't had a single smoke. It's stupid.

Then you dont know what you are missing... the first smoke with a cup of coffee in the morning, and the 15th cigarette after dinner..Its fucking poetry in motion.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:51 pm

Aonaran wrote: -Your ass is gonna get dog sick. After you quit Cold Turkey your body goes through some pretty rigorous detoxing. This is going to deplete your immune system substantially and you are going to be shit sick for awhile. Fight through it.

-After you get a couple of months into it and past the sickness phase smoke is going to start to irritate your lungs, making it much easier to resist that sweet, sweet aroma. You will feel like a complete and utter pussy, coughing at secondhand smoke, but this will help make things easier.

Tis true.
I smoked 15 years and quit cold turkey and I immediately became hyper-sensitive to allergy type shit - pollen. cats etc. Never had allergies in my life.
It's gotten better (3 years next week that I quit).

The first 3 days are fucking hell, physically. If you can get through the first 3 you can quit forever.

And for a long time I still smoked in my dreams. I'd wake up feeling guilty like "aww shit I went so long, and I broke down last night" then I'd remember it was a dream.

Good sign when you come home from a night out and hate the smell of smoke on your clothes.

This too. I almost can't understand why I ever smoked for so long now that I'm over it. I don't care if people smoke around me

Thing is, when you quit, you will be happy you did. It's probably the best thing you can do for your body and you will notice improvements immediately.
I still enjoy a good stogie or spliff now and then, but I'm glad I don't smoke anymore.
There's that first cigarette of the morning before breakfast that's nothing but noxious.
The compulsion to have to go outside, in the dreary New England weather to have to smoke.
The yellow fingers & teeth.
Shit, even the walls in my apartment started turning yellow.
And the expense, it's one thing when you could buy a carton for $15, but why spend all that money on smoking something that doesn't even get you high?

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:30 am

I stopped a month or so ago - but still especially during college classes I want to smoke like a motherfucker.

I already put on a couple of pounds, or at least noticed some I didn't see before.

good luck - I stopped CT as well, didn't get sick, but I fucking pheen for those things so bad sometimes.

Usually only on a two hour commute I do once a week, and my Thursday night class

Antimeasure · Post by **Antimeasure** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:52 pm

D-day +5

My fridge is empty, im thinking of buying a bathroom scale just to keep track on my weight, i dont think i've put on much though.