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Newpies are hardcore man

I was a wuss smoker, I used to smoke marlboro lights or camel lights

Re: How to stop smoking?
 

Marlboro lights were my brand. Back in the day I smoked Kool lights.

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How long until I'm a former smoker?

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[quote=Trample the Elderly;622541]How long until I'm a former smoker?[/quote]
Step by step , day by day ... I predict TTL defeats the Nicotine soon after the NFL season ! Hope you are 100% smoke free by Thanksgiving , but somethings just take time . Fight until you win , the goal is ULTIMATE VICTORY !!

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[quote=Trample the Elderly;622541]How long until I'm a former smoker?[/quote]
If you can get through THIS Redskins season, you are a "former"
.........January?

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I'd like to thank y'all for the help. This is my first full week without a smoke: Tuesday-Tuesday. It's not as hard as it was. I'm not as pissed and I've a lot of energy. I took up weight lifting again to calm me down.

Re: How to stop smoking?
 

[quote=Trample the Elderly;623401]I'd like to thank y'all for the help. This is my first full week without a smoke: Tuesday-Tuesday. It's not as hard as it was. I'm not as pissed and I've a lot of energy. I took up weight lifting again to calm me down.[/quote]
After 2 or 3 weeks, it Significantly improve

Re: How to stop smoking?
 

[quote=Trample the Elderly;623401]I'd like to thank y'all for the help. This is my first full week without a smoke: Tuesday-Tuesday. It's not as hard as it was. I'm not as pissed and I've a lot of energy. I took up weight lifting again to calm me down.[/quote]

Nice work man. Keep it up. Exercise is a great remedy for a lot of things.

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[quote=Mattyk72;620748]Newpies are hardcore man

I was a wuss smoker, I used to smoke marlboro lights or camel lights[/quote]

My friend said the first time she smoked Newports she coughed up blood (and she wasn't a new smoker) She's been smoking Marlboro's ever since that day.

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As long as you go without picking up another smoke.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;623483]My friend said the first time she smoked Newports she coughed up blood (and she wasn't a new smoker) She's been smoking Marlboro's ever since that day.[/quote] That didn't get her to not take up smoking ? Maybe we can set your friend up on a date with TTL :)

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[quote=budw38;623546]That didn't get her to not take up smoking ? Maybe we can set your friend up on a date with TTL :)[/quote]

Now we're talking! :FIREdevil

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Good luck , if that fails , maybe one of my cousins gets divorced < not that I wish that> . Keep up the fight ,as winning is always rewarding . Time to hit a cookout , drinking and a night of Halo .... Happy Veterans Day to all , many fine young men made the ultimate sacrifice for us .

Re: How to stop smoking?
 

[quote=Trample the Elderly;623401]I'd like to thank y'all for the help. This is my first full week without a smoke: Tuesday-Tuesday. It's not as hard as it was. I'm not as pissed and I've a lot of energy. I took up weight lifting again to calm me down.[/quote]

Good Job man !!

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[quote=Trample the Elderly;622541]How long until I'm a former smoker?[/quote]

ive been a cigarette smoker since i was a lil kid (thanks older brother!).

around 2003 i quit smoking for 2 years straight, not a single drag. i was living in san diego at the time.

i move back to the metro area, get a nerve raking job, found myself going to bars after work just to let loose alil and i was living with my parents until i found a place of my own on the east coast.

the stress, the lifestyle out here in the dc metro area, the traffic, all the uptight people got to me.

it went from one drag on a buddys smoke to bummin a smoke to they would just leave me a few to i just decided to buy a pack.

ive been smoking ever since, again.

i tried quiting again a few years ago, i was back livin the easy life in san diego. this time it was much much harder. while my mind was committed to quiting like it was back in '03, this time my body had this unbearable chemical withdraw feeling that i didnt experience in '03. i had a very difficult time coping, i actually had to take a few days off work b/c my mind and body just werent right. after a week n half, with no relief in my body's chemical demand for tobacco, i started smoking again.

i honestly believe that the tobacco companies have added nicotine or some other addictive chemical to try and change the growing trend of smokers successfully quiting. tobacco companies look at us like we are cattle with life time contract dollar signs on us and will do anything to keep their number of cattle up and profitable.

they see more and more people are succesfully quiting and they try and change the trend back down to a reasonable single digit success rate for smokers trying to quit.

right now ive been putting off quiting again, this time i know i need some kind of chemical help to combat whatever the tobacco companies have added.

so now i just try to skip cigarettes. anytime a smoker does something its rewarded with a smoke. "hey lets go get lunch" - have a smoke as im walking there. done with lunch - ahh theres nothing better than a smoke after eating. get in my car - good time for a smoke. sitting in traffic - might as well have a smoke. now i am trying to skip some of these instances that normally would call for a smoke. its hard.

go skins!!

ps - oh snap, my whole point of this was to answer your question which is never. ive met people who quit for 10, 20 years and got back in the habit. this mindstate helped me do 2 good eyars of not smoking, never give that damn tobacco an inch, never turn your back or let your guard down with thoughts like "oh hell i havent had a drag in 2 months, im bbq, drinking a beer with the boys, i can afford just one drag" = that is the devil talking in your ear my friend.