about quitting smoking...

[sweetbmxrider]

wouldn't that have stunted your growth, real bad? not positive but i think it does.

[SRGN]

That's the youngest I've ever heard of anyone smoking. I didn't start until I was 14.

[NastyEllEssWon]

i started smoking at age 10....quit at age 22

[wretched73]

i smoked for about 2 years (smoked a steady pack a day), i had 2 or 3 dreams within 2 weeks of quitting that i was smoking a cig during the dream, after that it was bad urges for about a month than the next 2 months were ok, but i just started smoking again the past week but thats beside the point

but being in the right state of mind is the most key item, i had tried before but when your not all there mentally i think it makes it harder, and also i had made cigs my enemy when i tried quitting which made the mental strain a little easier on myself

[Savage_Messiah]

Originally Posted by Tsar

regular basis 11, randomly since I was about 6 or 7. Why?

jesus ****ing christ

[CHRIS67]

Originally Posted by 69BirdX

good luck. My aunt you to just put a straw in her mouth. she swore it worked

I totally agree. I did the same, but with tooth picks. Just substituting one for another was enough to kick the 2 packs of Newports I smoked. I've been smoke free for 11 years now.

It's not easy though and up until about 5 years ago I would still have cravings during stress or a night of drinking. But I would just delay the urge and be fine the next day.

Be tough, you can do it.

[CamaroGirlie]

I quit smoking December 15. Smoked only 3 cigarettes since that day. Sometimes I've had my cravings, but they haven't been that bad. I love my dum dum lollipops that I bought from BJ's. 700 lollipops is really helping my old pack a day habit! Congrats though and Good Luck!!

[Kat]

I started smoking when I was 12 and quit when I was 23. 10.5 years at 2 packs of a day of red's. Got a bad cold where I couldnt breathe right for two days straight and I didnt smoke for those two days. After I started feeling better I thought to myself that I could have a smoke. Then I realized I didnt smoke for two days, handed my pack over to my brother and that was it. 7 years later I haven't had one since. The worst part for me was the first two weeks, after that it was easy to cope with.

As for someone who said about stunting growth. Im 6'4". I dont think that it affected me to much.

Just as it was said before, it is a matter of making your mind up doing something and sticking to it. Now if I could do the same with the gym...

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider

wouldn't that have stunted your growth, real bad? not positive but i think it does.

I'm 6 feet tall, If it stunted my growth than I'm glad

Originally Posted by SRGN

That's the youngest I've ever heard of anyone smoking. I didn't start until I was 14.

I had a classmate in first grade who smoked a pack a day... He was pretty unintelligent though, which I doubt was related to cigarettes.

Originally Posted by Kat

Just as it was said before, it is a matter of making your mind up doing something and sticking to it. Now if I could do the same with the gym...

Wow, someone agrees with me! I must be onto something with this self control/will power thing Shocking...

[Knipps]

Interesting thing about Chantix
http://whyquit.com/pr/082506.html

I have a NIB bottle of it sitting downstairs, my dad bought it but never used it.

[shane27]

ive had 4 cigs in 7 days im doing better then i thought.

im onarolla

[qwikz28]

Originally Posted by Knipps

Interesting thing about Chantix
http://whyquit.com/pr/082506.html

I have a NIB bottle of it sitting downstairs, my dad bought it but never used it.

we get at least 2 people a day for chantix at my father's pharmacy. most people swear its a miracle drug.

[Knipps]

Originally Posted by qwikz28

we get at least 2 people a day for chantix at my father's pharmacy. most people swear its a miracle drug.

he looking for any help in the future.. like this summer?

[qwikz28]

Originally Posted by Knipps

he looking for any help in the future.. like this summer?

don't know. we're pretty well staffed.

[jims69camaro]

chantix is a drug to help you quit. without willpower, nothing happens. you can take steroids but if you don't get your ass to the gym it won't give the desired result.

lots of people who do not know the true meaning of addiction (which i noticed did not come up during this discussion) make light of it and belittle those who are addicted. they scream and shout "Just stop!" all the while not understanding what the person trying to kick the addiction is going through. those physical withdrawals can be nasty in combination with the psychological needs/habits. it's not as easy as just making up your mind to stop. but it does help if you have the motivation to quit, as the Chantix will not help if you are not ready to quit.

what i have noticed in the past few weeks is very slight physical withdrawal symptoms. since i have been taking the drug since the second week of december, i have allowed the drug to do its work before i started doing mine. since i don't have the physical withdrawal symptoms to deal with, i can concentrate on the psychological effects. this has made quitting so much simpler. i have tried to quit in the past and have used everything from cold turkey to the patch (you used to need a prescription for it) to an anti-depressant (Wellbutrin) to a computer than attempted to wean me off of cigarettes in about the same method as i used to become addicted to them. none of that worked for me. and it's still not been an easy road, even with the Chantix.

some people have compared quitting smoking to quitting smack. since i've never even tried heroin, i have no idea what the physical addiction is like, so i can't make that comparison, but i have watched others give up the drug and seen the physical effects the withdrawal caused.

there are times where the psychological effects have me reaching for a pack. certain habits are so ingrained that they are done with no thought. i have found that they can be the hardest to overcome.

[7998]

Hey Jim keep up the good work, it's hard to quit. I did it for a month and a half but went back because I was an idiot. Me and the wife are working ourselves up mentaly to quit once and for all. It's not so much the physical addiction as the mental one that gets me. Example, Morning coffee, after dinner, with a beer etc. I got the Rx for Chantix also, but the side effects made me nervous, I hate pills. Did you notice any side effects?

[WildBillyT]

I know how hard it is to quit smoking. It's just as hard as it is to START FLOSSING.

[01SS]

Originally Posted by Tsar

If that was the case you would have no one to admire... I quit smoking when I was 13, so I certainly know its possible. My mother decided to quit one day after smoking for about 20 years, she never picked up a cig again - we must be super human or something.

Wow that is some impressive will power!! I should have tried quitting when i was 13 because at that point i had only been smoking for 6 months. I never realized it was that easy, since that is obviously the same as me trying to quit now after 15 yrs. With smoking up to 2 packs a day at some points. I would have quit a long time ago, oh wait thats right I forgot the tobacco companies are dumping tons of chemicals and bs into cig. to make them addictive. Dont try to make yourself sound all impressive, unless you started smoking a pack a day since you were 5 which i doubt. Your mother , if that is true is impressive, you not so much.

[WildBillyT]

Originally Posted by 01SS

thats right I forgot the tobacco companies are dumping tons of chemicals and bs into cig. to make them addictive.

More than that. Many tobacco workers piss and **** on the bales when they are in processing.

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by 01SS

Wow that is some impressive will power!! I should have tried quitting when i was 13 because at that point i had only been smoking for 6 months. I never realized it was that easy, since that is obviously the same as me trying to quit now after 15 yrs. With smoking up to 2 packs a day at some points. I would have quit a long time ago, oh wait thats right I forgot the tobacco companies are dumping tons of chemicals and bs into cig. to make them addictive. Dont try to make yourself sound all impressive, unless you started smoking a pack a day since you were 5 which i doubt. Your mother , if that is true is impressive, you not so much.

You mad? It is possible to quit cold turkey, people have done it before and will do it again. Stop being a sissy. And last thing I want to do is to impress you buddy.


Oh and no offense to OP but comparing withdrawals of cigarettes to heroin qualifies for a

[Knipps]

Originally Posted by WildBillyT

More than that. Many tobacco workers piss and **** on the bales when they are in processing.

Have anything to back that up?

[WildBillyT]

Originally Posted by Knipps

Have anything to back that up?

No articles or anything like that. But a company I used to work for did fire supression systems and when one of us was there the workers told him to just go to the bathroom on the bales like they did.

[jims69camaro]

Originally Posted by Tsar

Oh and no offense to OP but comparing withdrawals of cigarettes to heroin qualifies for a

so you've quit heroin, too?

i've seen the statistics on people who quit and then return to smoking. even with the pill i'm popping there are no guarantees. recidivism is near 60% within six months of quitting.

i've noticed zero side effects, for those that asked. they list every known side effect on the white paper, so expect to see everything under the sun there. what they don't print up are the likelihood of you experiencing those side effects. so, don't not try it just because the side effects listed are numerous and some even dangerous. it's something to talk about with your doctor, anyway, since you need a prescription for it.

[01SS]

Originally Posted by Tsar

You mad? It is possible to quit cold turkey, people have done it before and will do it again. Stop being a sissy. And last thing I want to do is to impress you buddy.


Oh and no offense to OP but comparing withdrawals of cigarettes to heroin qualifies for a

If read what I wrote you would have noticed that I didnt say anything about people not being able to quit cold turkey. I know its possible, I know people who have done it. What I am saying is that even if you really did start smoking at 5 years old there is no way your nicotine intake would be anywhere near what high teen to an adult takes in. Generally as a 5-10 yr. old you are in your parents or an adult gaurdians company way too much to pull off a pack a day or more. So you can't call people sissies or anything else for not quitting cold turkey. The years of habit and physical addiction is just not there. If I had wanted to try to quit when I was 13 I could have easy as pie because I had only been smoking maybe a pack a week at that point. You have to take into account that as a child you are in school 8 hrs. a day. If you smoke on the way home you will get caught because you will reek of smoke. You eat dinner at home, sleep at home, and at that age I doubt that your curfew was 11 p.m. I was out a lot (prob more than I should have been at that age) and I could only pull off maybe a pack a week with my buddies help. That being said quitting at that age should be no problem for even a person without any willpower at all. You just cant compare that to someone who has been smoking for over 10 years at a pack a day at least, maybe more. And if you could at that age I am now disappointed in your mother for not keeping a better eye on you. And by the way I don't get mad over much, I just don't like you belittling someone who has made an incredibly tough step as trying to quit smoking with quit smoking aids or not. Someone who is trying to quit needs support not smug comments from someone who got the participation trophy and not First Place. Jims69 I wish you the best of luck and hopefully soon here I will be following in your footsteps!!

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by jims69camaro

so you've quit heroin, too?

Nope, never tried and never will. Have you?

I've been to a few DEA presentation where they talk about primarily meth, heroin and coke addicts and lets just say what heroin does to your body and and the speed that it does it with, does not compare to cigarettes. But hey for you I can ask them next time what they think of comparison.. Or maybe you wanna venture to an orientation yourself for your benefit

Originally Posted by 01SS

If read what I wrote you would have noticed that I didnt say anything about people not being able to quit cold turkey. I know its possible, I know people who have done it. What I am saying is that even if you really did start smoking at 5 years old there is no way your nicotine intake would be anywhere near what high teen to an adult takes in. Generally as a 5-10 yr. old you are in your parents or an adult gaurdians company way too much to pull off a pack a day or more. So you can't call people sissies or anything else for not quitting cold turkey. The years of habit and physical addiction is just not there. If I had wanted to try to quit when I was 13 I could have easy as pie because I had only been smoking maybe a pack a week at that point. You have to take into account that as a child you are in school 8 hrs. a day. If you smoke on the way home you will get caught because you will reek of smoke. You eat dinner at home, sleep at home, and at that age I doubt that your curfew was 11 p.m. I was out a lot (prob more than I should have been at that age) and I could only pull off maybe a pack a week with my buddies help. That being said quitting at that age should be no problem for even a person without any willpower at all. You just cant compare that to someone who has been smoking for over 10 years at a pack a day at least, maybe more. And if you could at that age I am now disappointed in your mother for not keeping a better eye on you. And by the way I don't get mad over much, I just don't like you belittling someone who has made an incredibly tough step as trying to quit smoking with quit smoking aids or not. Someone who is trying to quit needs support not smug comments from someone who got the participation trophy and not First Place. Jims69 I wish you the best of luck and hopefully soon here I will be following in your footsteps!!

Man, you would make a BAD, down right horrible lawyer. Just because you want to make this threat more about me instead of the OP, allow me to educate your newb self about how I grew up, which will blow your idiotic theory out of the water.

My pops left when I was 9 and I have not heard from him since, there goes one guardian that's suppsoe to punish me for smoking. My mom moved to US when I was 11, there goes the second guardian. Is the theory of your silly argument beginning to collapse yet?

My uncle, who happens to be an alky, was suppose to watch me when my mother was gone. However, he preferred to spend the money she sent from US on booze and prostitutes - I have seen him have sex with one (prostitute) in my own bed, so that is a factual statement. That only happened when he was home though, and majority of the time he was not. This might come as a surprise to you but when you live with an alky they generally do not care about you, thus he could have been absent a week or two, without even so much as telling me that he was coming back. In fact the longest I remember him being gone is about 3 weeks. Do you think he left food for me?

As you might, or might not, know smoking suppresses appetite and if you drink a lot of water with it - well the life will be joyous yet again. So to your silly little statement that i would have been caught by one of my guardians and punished for smoking I just have to at you. So yes I did smoke about a pack a day, not for long but for about 2 years which indeed is not that long of a time to get super addictions you guys are talking about here! I mean you couldn't possibly quit smoking cold turkey after smoking for 15 years... wooops that's wrong too.


My comments weren't smug, have you ever heard of tough love? Using one drug to quit another is silly in my opinion. And btw in my old country they do not give out trophies for trying unlike they do here...

If you want to continue to derail this thread and talk more about me, or state any other ludicrous ideas about me - which frankly you have no Idea, not even close as to what you are talking about, feel free to PM me and I'll set you straight.

Cheers and have a nice day

Sorry for derailing your thread Jim, but the newb had to be told off.