Cause I've been trying to quit smoking Black and Milds, and it's fucking hard. I've made it four days without one, but when I have a bad day it's really hard for me to say no. And being a college student with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, those can happen quite a bit at times. I've recently had a reawakening about how important it is to quit and how I am wasting my gift of life I've put a new quote in my wallet "We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born" on the other side of my reasons to quit list in my wallet I am no longer going over my friend's house that smokes them all the time, cause doing so always gives me a relapse period for a few days. And I really do feel now like I want to quit, I've never really felt that way - I sorta felt like I was forcing myself to quit before - but I know myself, and I know I don't always have the highest willpower or self control (though this time I can finally try instead of try to try) So I really wanted to ask y'all for some tips.
Good luck dude I'm proud. Unfortunately I have never been addicted so I am just not sure about what tips to give you. Just find a hobby that is truely meaningful to you to distract your mind legitimatelly. Try to trade your addiction with something not as bad like start drinking alot of coffee and smoke alot of weed. Thats what I like doin.
I can't ever afford bud =P And I try to avoid caffeine when possible - but the hobby thing - that was absolutely great advice. I've been meaning to get more into my writing, I need to find a lil pocket notebook for when I have cravings =D
Glad I could be of help! The only other thing I can advise is what kept me from ever getting addicted. No matter how good it feels, think of smoking as a "dirty" thing. No matter how much you want to make yourself believe it is good, just embed in your mind the facts, that every time you smoke, you are inhaling toxic fumes. When I convinced myself that, I had no desire for cigs at all.
sometimes you have to replace the hand to mouth with a different item. Like a cup of water, a carrot .. Im no stranger to trying to quit. The First smoke upon waking is the worst. How I found a way to get by that was take a dip and sleep with it. Yeezzz yuck, yeah thats what I said.. Nicotine is like crack in many ways .. Its fast acting and addictive but it dont cause physical pain, or symptoms when taken away.. So its all in our heads that we need it.. To combat that we need to close the gap between the wants.. I know most want a cig upon waking, but if your nicotine level is already being supplied without a break then you will not need the smoke.. Same reason why patches are successful.. But you dont have to pay big pharms to cure you, you can do it alone.. Being somewhere that you can not smoke at also will help...
There was another quit smoking thread so I'm repeating parts of this. I did things like don't buy them or bum them. Accepting cigarettes is fine. Also remember that the cravings are a nicotine induced feeling. Learn to enjoy this as much as or more than the smoke itself. It lasts longer than a cigarette too, maybe 80 years or so.
Well doing a one hit when you start craving a cig works good, I'd try to save up the cash from not buying cigs and get a little weed. But if you cant do it then try buying some lifesavers and have one whan you start craving, I've found that helps me alot. Plus there good for cottenmouth
i just stopped... dont get me wrong.. i have a cig rarely here and there.. what i found helped the best was finding a new oral fixation.. like gum.. or sunflower seeds.. toothpicks.. etc...
Man, you just gotta want it. Every time you want a boge, black, lip, whatever, just don't fucking have it. JUST DON'T FUCKING HAVE IT? YOU HEAR ME? DON'T. FUCKING. HAVE. IT. Its that simple. I only smoked for about 4 years before quitting, but it was tough. I never quit completely until now. Through atleast 2 of those 4 years I went from Blacks, to cigarettes, to dip, to blacks, to cigarettes, to blacks, etc. etc. What finally did it for me was to dip for about 2 weeks or so, just so I was used to not having a bogester in my hand, and then I was just able to go cold turkey. Its hard at first not having any dip, but you just gotta do it.
I quit cold turkey on a spur of the moment New Year's resolution 9 years ago. But some how it was in the cards... I had switched to American Spirits for a long time as the tobacco is additive free, so I only had to kick the nicotine not all the other toxic crap other companies put in their products to make a * smoother smoke*.. like salt peter and plutonium 210, formaldehyde...ewww! So then here I was with this tobacco & american spirits are strong, so I would smoke like only 1/2 @ a time. So that may have helped. Then, I made a sacrifice. I sacrificed it for my health. Like leaving a lover. Good bye. Cold Turkey. Then I suffered. But luckily I was doing some pretty taxing manual labor. So I worked and bitched. And I allowed myself to do that. I was justified I figured. Also suffering is expected. Why nothing in life does not escape suffering in one form or another... I ate pickles for the oral fixation. If you can kick this you can do anything. Just remember that in your mind, it's like a file mignon, but in reality it's a dirty ass hamburger. Once you get past 1 week, or 2 weeks, it'll never taste the same. It'll never be the same again... Think of that when you relapse. It doesn't taste the same, it doesn't feel the same. Like trying to get back w/ a lover after too much betrayal...you fucking ciggy! You betrayed my lungs, you betrayed my health! You hijacked my mind! As the years go by, my tobacco habit is a long lost friend I will never ever see again. I sometimes talk to my husband about it, like I was at a beach here on Maui & it was all misty & rainy. For some reason it triggered a *cozy moment* to want to hucker down and smoke. But talking about it was enough. Sometimes you just have to watch it go bye. Is that weird? I talk to folks about it when they mention that they want to quit and they almost always look at me like a weirdo. O well, I'm used to that & I'm smoke free! ha ha!
I smoked for 28 years - about 30 a day except 45 a day on friday nights and saturdays. Always drank lots and often and toked. LONG-time partyist. LOVED smoking. Cold Turkey. Will POWer. It was brutal. I succeeded mostly for 3 reasons: 1. the decision to quit was an act of love 2. when the 2nd day torture kicked in I began to tell myself over and over 'if you smoke now all this suffering is for nothing and will have to be relived later. I NEVER want to go through this again.' 3. (And this may not apply to you but it does to me) I'd say 'you haven't won many fights in your life, Rick. This is a win. NEVER give this one back!' and later on 'I BEAT you motherfucker! I'm tougher than you.' Good luck.
