I myself have tried to quit multiple times and my mental health deteriorated so I ended up back to the habit…who here is nicotine-free who used to smoke? I’m just curious.
I’ve noticed that lots of us on here are smokers and that some of us have posted about quitting- it spiked my curiosity as to who has actually kicked the habit.
I plan in quitting again once I finish school (in six years, LOL).
I quit smoking December 14 2008 and haven’t smoked since. Quit multiple times before that like I told Jukebox. My grandmother died of lung cancer a year after she got me to quit which sucks to this day. Don’t become a statistic, mouse.
I smoked a whole pack of cigarettes back in 1985 and quit for good when the pack was done. I learned pretty fast that I could either smoke, or breathe, but not both.
End of subject for me.
I tried my first cigarette last summer I didn’t see what the big deal was so i don’t smoke.
Used to smoke cigars years ago.
I can’t stand cigs but I found a replacement. Dohka. Smoke that ■■■■ all day.
I’ve never heard of that. What is it? Is it like hookah or something?
Yeah cigs are my bane, my vice, I’m smoking one right now
I smoked about five cigarettes a day for a year and a half while I was in the army. It took about fifty tries to quit. I also dipped tobacco for a couple of years. It didn’t seem quite as hard to quit that, though it did have its tougher moments. I know this one guy who keeps a dip in his mouth 24/7. He eats and sleeps with a dip in his mouth. He got on nicotine patches, but he still couldn’t quit dipping. Now he is addicted to both patches and tobacco.
At one point I was smoking up to 2 packs a day for years, started when I was in my 20s - I decided to give it up for good, and quit cold turkey, its the only way to quit for good.
In my opinion replacing cigarettes with nicotine substitutes, makes kicking the habit that more difficult.
The key is to replenish yourself with lots of water, and urinate the toxins out of your body - exercising helps.
While quitting try to minimize the amount of coffee and alcohol - these are triggers
ive given up for 4 months mys advice is this…
its not hard to quit just stop doing it.
Imported tobacco shake. Has no additives in it but they do flavor it. You smoke it out of a pipe. Only takes a puff or to to get similar effect of a cigarette. If it’s not available in your area I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean it probably is in a city like Memphis but you’d have to seek it out. It looks like your smoking weed but so far I haven’t got into any confrontations about it. It kind of smells like weed but at the same time it smells nothing like it if you do a real comparison. Reminiscent of the scent but the odor doesn’t last. Easy to smoke indoors without stinking up the place. Tastes better. Doesn’t stink up the place or make you smell. Your also smoking less overall. Mention again no additives. On the other hand it’s pretty expensive. I’m lucky though I get it for free.
don’t use any alternatives youll just waste money and get addicted to them instead.
also having your great aunty so depressed and sad because she smoked all her life and now she cant breathe without a machine and her son whos has been rushed into intensive care with smokijg related illness.
I’ve quit. 8 days from now will be my 1-year anniversary.
I smoked two packs a day until the day the doctor told me I was pregnant. That day I quit cold turkey. That was December 27, 1990. I haven’t smoked ever since!
I bounced back and fourth for a long time… tapered often and ended up smoking again
But September of this last year… (4 months ago) was my last puff…
So far…
Over 20 years since I gave up cigarettes. Tried smoking pipe tobacco a year or so ago and it darn near killed me. I have some rather nice pipes – a few of them inherited – that I was unwilling to give up, so I decided to take herbal pipe leaf out for a spin. It’s the same stuff that actor William B. (Cigarette Smoking Man) Davis had his ‘cigs’ packed with on X-Files.
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I find it doesn’t leave me as oxygen starved feeling as tobacco did. Doesn’t coat my tongue. Doesn’t contain actual tobacco, nicotine, or tar. Available on Amazon. Isn’t terribly addictive in that it doesn’t leave me with the cravings real tobacco did. I still limit myself to twice per month out of a fear of developing a bad habit, but I haven’t found this difficult. I don’t inhale the smoke, just savour the taste in my mouth and puff it out.
Worth mentioning that I still crave cigs a couple of times a day. Keep missing them. HUGE part of my life at one time.
10-96
I never really enjoyerd it that much when I first started smoking I kept a packet of polo mints in my bag to eat after cause I hated the taste.
then whenever I had hangovers I didn’t smoke like some people did not AT ALL.
I don’t miss it now I don’t crave it I just bsay in my head oh I don’t do that anymore.
stopped October 11th to December 25th…five cigs later…now it’s like day 9 or so…feels better somehow…mornings are very hard.