Time to quit again

[baboon]

As some of y'all know I started smoking again the day my wife shot herself. I'm now @ 7 cigarettes. I sure did enjoy the after tonights ribeyes. It's been 6 months and I need to move on & away from devil tobacco. I need to pay a house keeper & figure the tobacco budget covers one better then smoking.

 

[General Zod]

That shit's hard to quit. Here's my best wishes for you kicking the habit to the curb.

 

[msharley]

As some of y'all know I started smoking again the day my wife shot herself. I'm now @ 7 cigarettes. I sure did enjoy the after tonights ribeyes. It's been 6 months and I need to move on & away from devil tobacco. I need to pay a house keeper & figure the tobacco budget covers one better then smoking.

Prayer sent......

 

[baboon]

That shit's hard to quit. Here's my best wishes for you kicking the habit to the curb.

No worse then 2 years of RX painkillers. I'm in enough pain the smoking will be real easy. The hookers & blow not so.

 

[F350-6]

I never was a smoker, but I did dip for way, way too long. I always figured I'd quit when I got older. When my daughter got her degree as a dental assistant, it dawned on my that maybe I was already older and it was time.

Knowing it's time is the biggest step in kicking the habit. Congrats on taking that step. Good luck with the rest of the journey.

 

[jmohme]

Quiting is actually pretty easy. At least it was for me, but not so much for the people that had to put up with during the process. I have been free since 2004 and also have all new friends.
New friends because I pissed off all of my old ones and they told me to F off.

It seems that I might have been quite a handful during the withdrawal period.

 

[Vaquero]

Yep.
Quitting nicotine is hard on your friends.

 

[Cool 'Horn Luke]

As some of y'all know I started smoking again the day my wife shot herself. I'm now @ 7 cigarettes. I sure did enjoy the after tonights ribeyes. It's been 6 months and I need to move on & away from devil tobacco. I need to pay a house keeper & figure the tobacco budget covers one better then smoking.

You got this!!! Remember, always lean on the people that will support and help push you up the hill. THOSE, are your real friends.

 

[jrbfishn]

Quitting is easy. Staying quit not so much. From a fellow smoker, I hope you make and stay quit. They may not be what kills you, but they damn sure don't help any.

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[skfullgun]

Kicking nicotine is tough. For me, it was smokeless tobacco.

I’d do it again if I were unaware of the consequences.

I’ve learned to limit my vices.


From now on, I’m here just for the titties and the gin.

 

[TipBledsoe]

You gotta really want to quit to successful!y quit. If you can make it 2-3 days, long enough to realize how bad they smell, that helps to stay quit. It helps too after a week or so you realize how much better your breathing is.

Whenever the urge hits it can still be tough, but it gets easier with time.

... Heck, I've seen the price for a pack nowadays. Who can afford to smoke?

 

[rotor]

Every one quits multiple times so don't feel bad. Hopefully you quit completely as I did over 40 years ago (from a 3 pack a day habit). But once the hell of the initial 3-4 days is over you can never smoke again or you will be addicted again. If you are physically able during that quitting phase run track until exhausted (or whatever you can physically do). The endorphins produced by the misery of really heavy exercise help break the habit. Best of luck. Do not go to nicotine replacements though as you are still going to be addicted. You can do it.

 

[Axxe55]

NICOTINE ADDICTION IS ONE OF THE HARDEST OF ADDICTIONS TO QUIT!

 

[Texan79423]

I was addicted and a heavy smoker for 50 years. Caught covid and could not smoke a cigarette without choking and coughing my head off. Believe me I tried, hard. Ended up in the hospital for 5 days and quit, not that I really wanted to. Quit dec. 2020 and still occasional crave a smoke.

 

[striker55]

My daughter has been quitting for the past 15 years, yesterday when she called me I heard something in the background. When I asked what she was doing, she said rolling a cigarette. I told her maybe you should have rolled it before she called me. She is a lost cause, I remember when she was a child telling my wife you shouldn't smoke.

 

[Mills]

A fellow worker ( years ago ) quit smoking, he said he would have quit sooner if someone had told him how bad he smelled.

 

[justmax]

My smoking story kind of goes like this. I started smoking in my teens by stealing my father and gramps cigarettes. In my mid to late 30s when in the safety business I conducted a safety audit for RJ Reynolds. I tracked cigarette manufacturing from the contracted farmers, through the tobacco markets, to manufacturing and shipping, right up till they were loaded on the trucks. For reasons this even a longer story to be told maybe another day I threw my last half pack of cigarettes out as I was leaving. That lasted a couple hours, and about the second truck stop I stopped and bought some black and milds. After that I dugout my grandfather’s old pipes and smoked them for over 20 years.



While I primarily smoked the pipe I cheated now and then but I had a rule. I would never bum a cigarette, I insisted on paying for them. It’s another smoker would not give me a cigarette or two for a dollar, I would not accept them. My line of thinking here was that I never intended to have a pack of cigarettes in my pocket, whoever returned the favor or pay it forward to another smoker. Later on I went back to cigarettes for a few years.



Currently I’m back on the pipes primarily, and the black and milds. When non-smokers complain about my smoking anything (usually not the pipes) I always tell him it’s the hardest vise to quit that I have add. I like to tell them that giving up the one after my nighttime trips to the petting zoo was hardest one easier to give up. I love the look on their face when that finally hits them.

 

[deemus]

When you are grieving you take any comfort you can. No shame in that.

You’ve quit before. You can do it again. Dive in!

 

[karlac]

Quit a dozen time in 34 years of smoking, from 14 to 48.
Stopped a damn war more than once to take a smoke break.

Finally got disgusted with the crutch, and cost.
Quit 32 years ago this November.

Amazing how many woodworking tools I bought afterwards.

Give it hell, you can do it ... and buy those things you'd like to have,

 

[jmohme]

Quitting is easy. Staying quit not so much. From a fellow smoker, I hope you make and stay quit. They may not be what kills you, but they damn sure don't help any.

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Actually, went from 4 to 6 packs a day, to quitting cold turkey and never having even the slightest urge to light up in the following 20 years.

I guess everyone handles it differently though.

To the OP, Just stick with it. It is worth the struggle.