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06-22-2006, 01:01 PM
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Skid Mark
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Any smokers recently quit the habit?
I'm on day 2...the toughest thing is actually the habit/routine of just walking outside to have a cig...it's not that I want a cig...I'm just used to lighting up at certain times and while driving.
Sick of spending 5-7.00/pack every other day, sore chest feeling sometimes...and weird feeling I get I automatically think "omg...cancer" and the gross breath/smell once you're done with your cig.
Anyone else? How you doing?
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06-22-2006, 01:15 PM
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Gear Nazi
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if youre doing it cold turkey, the physical addiction to nicotine will be out of your system in 72 hours. so if its been 2 days w/o a cig, you have only 1 more day to go. congrats! after that it is just a matter of breaking the mental addiction and habitual associations you have with smoking which some consider to be the more difficult task. good luck...
the best thing to do is to try and recognize the things you associate smoking with and then find a replacement activity.
what kind of smoker are you? how many packs a day? how long have you been smoking?
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06-22-2006, 01:18 PM
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I've been thinking about quitting and using the money to buy a new bicycle. But I like cigs to be honest. Plus I figure with all the bicycling I do it counteracts. lol
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gixxer...cage....it's like kicking me in the balls
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06-22-2006, 01:21 PM
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I've been thinking about quitting and using the money to buy a new bicycle. But I like cigs to be honest. Plus I figure with all the bicycling I do it counteracts. lol
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nice try..but you can't counteract cancer =p
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06-22-2006, 03:43 PM
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nice try..but you can't counteract cancer =p
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I bet I have better aerobic fitness then most on this board though.
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gixxer...cage....it's like kicking me in the balls
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06-22-2006, 05:02 PM
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I bet I have better aerobic fitness then most on this board though.
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He want's to be Ant Armstrong, instead of nut cancer, he'll bike with lung!
Just bustin LOL
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06-22-2006, 01:30 PM
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Skid Mark
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Originally Posted by gottaducati
if youre doing it cold turkey, the physical addiction to nicotine will be out of your system in 72 hours. so if its been 2 days w/o a cig, you have only 1 more day to go. congrats! after that it is just a matter of breaking the mental addiction and habitual associations you have with smoking which some consider to be the more difficult task. good luck...
the best thing to do is to try and recognize the things you associate smoking with and then find a replacement activity.
what kind of smoker are you? how many packs a day? how long have you been smoking?
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I've quit cold turkey before for 9 months...but someone offered me a cig and I thought "its only one cig"....next day I bought a pack...GGRRR.
I smoke probably a pack every 1-2 days...sick of buying them and just been worrying about the effects of smoking a lot lately. And you're right...its not that I want the cig for the nicotine...I just want something to do...I'm used to going out 2-3 times a day just to have a smoke...my body wants to go outside and chill. It felt good to sit down on the outside top floor and have a drag...relaxing.
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06-22-2006, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by vice86
I'm on day 2...the toughest thing is actually the habit/routine of just walking outside to have a cig...it's not that I want a cig...I'm just used to lighting up at certain times and while driving.
Sick of spending 5-7.00/pack every other day, sore chest feeling sometimes...and weird feeling I get I automatically think "omg...cancer" and the gross breath/smell once you're done with your cig.
Anyone else? How you doing?
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I quit...with the help of crystal (cuz she dont' smoke). I felt the same way. I quit a lot...i was up to a pack a day at a time..i just cold turkeyed..in all honesty...i may have one every once in a while (1 every few weeks or so). I do feel a huge difference in my breathing habbits. food taste different..but it didn't help with my diet...my appetite also sky rocketed...the new rule with no smoking in bars..helped a ton..
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06-22-2006, 01:32 PM
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Skid Mark
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I quit...with the help of crystal (cuz she dont' smoke). I felt the same way. I quit a lot...i was up to a pack a day at a time..i just cold turkeyed..in all honesty...i may have one every once in a while (1 every few weeks or so). I do feel a huge difference in my breathing habbits. food taste different..but it didn't help with my diet...my appetite also sky rocketed...the new rule with no smoking in bars..helped a ton..
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yeah..at first i was worried about quitting cuz I thought the cigs raised metabolism to curb appatite...but its the fact that people replace smoking with eating and gain weight...nothing to do with not smoking the cig anymore. I have a lot I'm trying to accomplish at once! Finish losing the last 30-35lbs, not bite my nails anymore and now quitting smoking.
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06-22-2006, 02:52 PM
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Finish losing the last 30-35lbs, not bite my nails anymore and now quitting smoking.
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sounds to me like you have an oral fixation. you have to find something else to do with your mouth. chew gum or carry around bottled water and chug when you have the urge to smoke or bite a nail or even eat.
according to your last post, you associate "clearing your head" with having a cig. in order to change that behavior you have to associate "clearing your head" with something different. maybe clearing your head can be relearned to be associated with going for a walk outside or doing some pushups or sitting on a bench and drinking a bottle of water - or whatever you want. maybe "clearing your head" is too rooted in having a cig so you'll have to change your practice of "clearing your head" and now start "getting some air". now when you are "getting some air" you are still clearing your head but not smoking... you get the idea. essentially you have to start breaking your mental associations to cigs and you wont go back to it.
dont get discouraged. there is no set formula that if you were to follow steps a-z you will quit. each person has to find and undo their own behavior patterns related to smoking once they have overcome the physical addiction. its not easy but it can be done. stay focused and positive and good luck ..
i sound like rob schneider from the adam sandler movies
YOU CAN DO IT
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06-22-2006, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by gottaducati
sounds to me like you have an oral fixation. you have to find something else to do with your mouth. chew gum or carry around bottled water and chug when you have the urge to smoke or bite a nail or even eat.
according to your last post, you associate "clearing your head" with having a cig. in order to change that behavior you have to associate "clearing your head" with something different. maybe clearing your head can be relearned to be associated with going for a walk outside or doing some pushups or sitting on a bench and drinking a bottle of water - or whatever you want. maybe "clearing your head" is too rooted in having a cig so you'll have to change your practice of "clearing your head" and now start "getting some air". now when you are "getting some air" you are still clearing your head but not smoking... you get the idea. essentially you have to start breaking your mental associations to cigs and you wont go back to it.
dont get discouraged. there is no set formula that if you were to follow steps a-z you will quit. each person has to find and undo their own behavior patterns related to smoking once they have overcome the physical addiction. its not easy but it can be done. stay focused and positive and good luck ..
i sound like rob schneider from the adam sandler movies
YOU CAN DO IT
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Well said....he does have an oral fixation...i think Mr. James Mcgreevy could have vice on his "cabinet"...(literally)
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06-22-2006, 03:00 PM
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Skid Mark
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Originally Posted by gottaducati
sounds to me like you have an oral fixation. you have to find something else to do with your mouth. chew gum or carry around bottled water and chug when you have the urge to smoke or bite a nail or even eat.
according to your last post, you associate "clearing your head" with having a cig. in order to change that behavior you have to associate "clearing your head" with something different. maybe clearing your head can be relearned to be associated with going for a walk outside or doing some pushups or sitting on a bench and drinking a bottle of water - or whatever you want. maybe "clearing your head" is too rooted in having a cig so you'll have to change your practice of "clearing your head" and now start "getting some air". now when you are "getting some air" you are still clearing your head but not smoking... you get the idea. essentially you have to start breaking your mental associations to cigs and you wont go back to it.
dont get discouraged. there is no set formula that if you were to follow steps a-z you will quit. each person has to find and undo their own behavior patterns related to smoking once they have overcome the physical addiction. its not easy but it can be done. stay focused and positive and good luck ..
i sound like rob schneider from the adam sandler movies
YOU CAN DO IT
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very good break down! Good thing I'm not ghey...i mean wiht that oral fixation and all...lol.
True...i need to find other ways to calm myself down when I'm aggrivated at work....maybe a quick work jerk session in the bathroom...I don't know.
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06-22-2006, 01:34 PM
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Good job to those who quit the addiction/habbit.
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I quit...with the help of crystal (cuz she dont' smoke).
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Interesting.
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06-22-2006, 01:49 PM
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Gear Nazi
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the only time i was successfully able to quit was with help of nicotine patches. They helped quite a bit. It was more of a mental thing to me. I just kept rubbing the patch to try to get more nicotine out of it when my friends were smoking. I'm sure it didn't help with me rubbing it, but def helped mentally. but then i started back up n i'm back to around a pack a day. i know its not good, but a cig for me is for me to have 5-7min to myself. My mind clears completely when i'm having a cig....
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06-22-2006, 01:54 PM
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the only time i was successfully able to quit was with help of nicotine patches. They helped quite a bit. It was more of a mental thing to me. I just kept rubbing the patch to try to get more nicotine out of it when my friends were smoking. I'm sure it didn't help with me rubbing it, but def helped mentally. but then i started back up n i'm back to around a pack a day. i know its not good, but a cig for me is for me to have 5-7min to myself. My mind clears completely when i'm having a cig....
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mind clears while lungs clog..
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