I have been smoke free for over six weeks and am now down to one piece of nicotine gum every two hours. It sucks, but I simply tell myself that “smoking is suicide”.
And I tasted like an ashtray and had to spend time outdoors in crappy weather. And it cost a lot of money. And I smelled. Like suicide.
The most wonderful aspect of quitting smoking was how my senses of smell and taste suddenly recovered. Can’t believe I went through such a large portion of my life with those two senses dulled to near uselessness.
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I have also this nicotine gum habit which I try to get rid of. Nicotine is just so addictive. I wonder why they let people to smoke in special rooms of the psych ward. Smoking is a slow suicide like AIDS, but still people do it. I do not want to commit suicide, but I want to live.
Im not going to quit.
I have no reason to.
If it kills me i don’t care, and yes it is suicidal.
Keep up the good work.
I’m smoke free as well!
Jayster
I’m down to one a day… and on the 15, I make that jump to None.
I’m not there yet, but I’m working on it.
im glad you could stop
Way to go!!!
Quitting was one of the best things I ever did for myself… It’s worth it
Just bought 5 packs today. I hope they last more than two days.
The original “Marlboro Man” died of lung cancer. That’s the brand I occasionally smoked in sixth grade.
Tomorrow it’s day one…I am really going to give it my best fight to keep away from cigarettes…one day at a time…that really calms me down…if I can make it one day I will be on my way…just win tomorrow!
Congratulations on six weeks! I work in an ENT office that specializes in head and neck cancers and it’s so wonderful every time I hear someone has quit smoking. Good for you and keep up the awesome work!!
i hope the best for you…quiting smoking was one of the hardest things i have ever done…it took me about 2 1/2 years to quit…i simply could not get on top of it…but it has now been 10 months since i have had a cigarette…i still crave them but do not use any substitues…
its a hard journey but it sounds like you are doing ok…hope you continue.
Some, logically speaking of course, should smoke.
Most have so much work to do and for so little they cringe at the thought of the rest of their lives. And what if they don’t smoke, what then? Alzheimers? Cancer anyway? Car accident? What then for those people?
Sure, some have no reason to smoke, great, don’t smoke if you have good things to lose. But so many just have no reason at all to quit because of their lives and their imminent death that is no different than a smoking death.
Some are ill everyday anyway, what about them?
Will there be rations in world war three, cig rations i mean? Could you imagine your people sending you off to that telling you to not smoke because it’s unhealthy?
Im just saying quitting doesn’t always make sense.
I agree that if smoking is the breaking point between mental health or psychosis for someone they have a hard decision to make. However too many people look at death from smoking as a quick or hallmark channel way of dying. It is not that. The office I work in sees a lot of smoking/tobacco caused cancers and they aren’t a pleasant way to go. I’ve edited without posting a few times to not be too harsh (pm me if you need) but head and neck cancers are not quick or pleasant way to leave this life. It can be months or years of very disfiguring and invasive surgery combined with radiation, chemotherapy, possible osteoradionecrosis. The incidence of recurrence in patients who continue smoking is incredibly high and that emotional trauma coupled with a mental illness I hope no one has to experience. If you’re able to quit it’s certainly the right choice.
In my mind the question then becomes “why in the hell are they doing that?”
Just let them go. Put them out.
People even do that for their dogs.
Give them some barbitol.
Months or years of disfiguring and invasive surgery combined with radiation, chemotherapy, possible osteoradionecrosis.
Wtf?! Why are they doing that?! Just let them put themselves out with some barbitol.
You have to love society right?. They rob you of all hope, you smoke, and then they put you through years and months of all of that to “save you.” It’s ■■■■■■■■.
I say they should smoke, and if they get sick they should be allowed to end it, not go through years or months of that ■■■■.
And what should they do exactly? When they come to that crossroads and it’s smoke or don’t smoke they have absolutely no logical desicion to make do they. Thats horrible, this system is apeshit, it’s a huge smoldering turd is what it really is, just a big smoldering stank turd.
Thats how you know you are damned as a people. You can’t even tell that many that they shouldn’t smoke cigarettes. wtf?! And when they do and get sick you torture them to “help them.”
The scene in Star Trek 5 comes to mind. Where we find out Dr McCoy euthanized his father who was dying from a incurable disease. Only to have a cure discovered a few days later.
And dow do you regulate cigarettes? After all the problems with prohibition. We know it’s impossible!
For info on the “Death with Dignity” movement in the USA, go to www.deathwithdignity.org.