So I'm Quitting ...

[PANZERCATWAGON]

you explained that your dentist told you that you wont be able to smoke for two days. but you didnt explain why you thought you had to give up altogether

whats wrong with smoking. why not just carry on smoking and save yourself the misery of living years of your one life in regret that you cant smoke

[numgun]

whats wrong with smoking. why not just carry on smoking and save yourself the misery of living years of your one life in regret that you cant smoke

Depends, if its the persons desire/will to smoke, then Panzer is right, if its a harmful addiction, then it "should" be cured asap.

[iDante]

@iDante, not really. I don't want to live a particularly lengthy life. To be honest, I don't see much enjoyment in being 80 years old and putting enormous amount of effort into getting up in the morning.

If you smoke you'll feel like that a lot earlier in your life than 80.

[Boots]

Good on you, and good luck with it. This is the main reason i've never thought of smoking, and never will, because I know you'll regret it later on in life.

[Demonic]

man... I used to eat these all the fucking time. and a mate of mine started drinking a lot of water in the final year of high school, he said it was to quit smoking - at our final written exams, I saw him going out to the loo every five minutes, later it turned out he wasn't really quitting, it was just a clever ploy started weeks before, as he had someone else write the maths test solutions in the toilet

[a-4-year-old]

They gave me Nitrous and novicane, I had them pulled awake. I was still bleeding an hour after the operation.

[homerofgods]

Now start eating healthy, don't drink or use unnecessary money, and work out regularly.

The best way to quit is to do something else, or else there will be a gap unfilled.
Happy quitting

[Kazuki]

@Panzer: I was told that I should stop smoking on the 16th. My surgery is on the 26th. After that, I won't be able to smoke for at least 3 more days to avoid dry sockets. Altogether, that's two weeks, not two days. The idea is that smoking is costly and unhealthy, and I'd rather quit now than when when I have my first child. Logically, if I'm gonna go 2 weeks without smoking, I may as well quit, because the first 2 weeks are apparently the hardest. Why give up after jumping the highest hurdle?

@Demonic: Hell yeah, son! I'm eating those right now. I bought 6 bags of them at a Bulgarian store nearby. XD

@jerich: It really is comforting to know that pretty soon I'll simply adapt to the current state I'm in and suppressing cravings will get easier.

@numgum: There's a difference between a mental addiction and a physical addiction. Although mine might be mental now, if I continued to smoke for a couple more years, I would need to smoke in order to feel like myself. People who are at that point become incredibly irritable if they go several hours without a cigarette. They start to feel lightheaded, etc. Part of the reason most people get to the point is because they have that mentality: "I smoke because I want to, not because I need to." Eventually, they start smoking because they need to.

[Mangled*]

I wish you all the best with it.

Cancer, impotence, smelling and death should be deterrent enough I think. I mean, you'd have to be a weak and pathetic being to succumb to what is essentially some leaves rolled up in paper. Right? 

[RoadsideDead]

Good luck with quitting, I hope you manage it.

I smoke, but I have no intention of quitting myself, so, i'll leave it at that.

[PQ]

Most of my smoking friends have stopped multiple times, usually for 1-3 months. But then, on the 25th of the month, when I (and they) just got my(/their) money, they're getting drunk and start smoking again. "We'll get cancer anyway"

I am a non-smoker, just a (heavy) drinker.

[VijchtiDoodah]

Being drunk is the number one cause of lit cigarettes in the lips of quitters.

[Blacksheepboy]

And don't spend your days wondering when life will get better; it improves when you're not paying attention.

Damn that's true.

I've done this with sugar and fast-food. Hell it's not as hard, and the consequences for "slipping up" are basically nill -- but it is the same principle: denying yourself. I think about the 5 minutes of "mm tasty" when drinking a soda, and then the future benefits? in which there are none (sugar increasing likelihood of depression; fast-food is simply bad all around).

[numgun]

People who are at that point become incredibly irritable if they go several hours without a cigarette. They start to feel lightheaded, etc.

If the lack of cigarettes after a period of time fucks you up totally then its harmful physical addiction.

And its numguN. ffs my nick is starting to disappoint me. : C

[Kazuki]

Hahaha, my bad. Not sure why I always read it as numgum. ;P

Anyway, it's been almost 6 days without a cigarette. Feels like 2 weeks though. ;P But I am getting used to it ever so slightly.

[Hair|Trigger]

Good work so far, sounds like you're getting off easy!  (luckily you've only smoked since last year)

Hahaha, my bad. Not sure why I always read it as numgum. ;P

s**t, I never even realized that

[TBDM]

should be easy since you didn't smoke that much.

some friends of mine smoke 1, sometimes almost 2packs of cigs a day. and thy could stop smoking for 2weeks (for a bottle of Jack)

[Kazuki]

Shit, that's what I should've told my dentist: "Yeah, I'll quit, if you get me a bottle of Jameson's."

[numgun]

I've never had smoke nor I don't plan to. A lot of things have affected this. Like anti-advertising and all sorts for movements and campaign against smoking and cigarettes by schools and government, then I hate the smell and the smoke overall and looking at people that cough like old farts due to smoking finished me off.


OT: I bet its the "num" which sounds like nom and goes to omnomnom...gu... m. Like as in yummy gum when you read it. Never though of that when I picked it though.
If only "Alteisen" was free. : C

[Kazuki]

See, I started smoking because of depression. Life was quite shitty at the time and I had no one to really talk to about it. Cigarettes gave me a temporary high to take me away from it all, and that's why I started smoking. Life has improved a lot since then, however, and it's probably an opportune time for me to quit.