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Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly
How long until I'm a former smoker?
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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.