quitting smoking.

ok so i'm quitting smoking. i actually quit earlier today.
this sucks.
does anyone else keep failing and failing?

this time i'm telling myself it's to buy things for my truck.
i figure $10.40/day for smokes comes out to $72.80
which per month comes out to $291.20.
so in three weeks i'm getting that intake manifold i've been wanting, if i make it.
and more crap after that.
$3500 a year i'd be not wasting on stupid smokes.

wish me luck.

$3500...I couldnt even get the Sigmonster used.

Still, good luck! I quit before...then started. Problem was I didn't throw what i had left away and kept them if much stress ever came back. My bad. Although I've quit again and said Iw as going to not just throw away but burn it (I like fire) I still haven't and I'm at that point of lighting one up. It's been a hell of a week.

Yeah, wish me luck to.

Best of luck quitting. I chew right now (yeah I know, it is grose, it really is) and I have tried giving it up but it is incredibley hard. You will go through hell trying to give it up but it IS worth the payoff.

Define "quit". I no longer smoke a pack a day, but when drinking I usually smoke a few, especially if someone else is smoking.

Define "quit". I no longer smoke a pack a day, but when drinking I usually smoke a few, especially if someone else is smoking.

yea..thats not quitting..thats like me saying "i used to smoke weed every day, but now i only do it when my friends do." if you did it in front of a cop on one of those occasions, he would most certainly be under the impression you haven't kicked the habit.

Best of luck. I need to do that too soon...

I quit a year ago Feb. its been the hardest thing I've even done.
And I still think about them 24/7, even reach for my pocket to retrieve them :banghead:

Nicotine is not a drug ..... :lol:

Good Luck too you all!

Stress release has a few threads like this you should check out.

In order to quit you have to think of your smoking habbint in a different light. Throughout the day you have cue that causes you to smoke. Most smokers find themselfs smoking first thing in the morning, durring or right after a meal, or when they drink. Quitting smoking isnt the only life change you have to make to help you stop.

Here are some steps to help stop by surpressing the cues.

1) Brush your teeth with cinnimon tooth paste right when you wake up and directly after a meal. Go one step further and use cinnimon mouth wash. Eat every meal! Make sure you are haveing brekfast. The idea here is food or rutiene can cause you to want to smoke. The smallist flavor of food in you mouth can trigger the "need."

2) After you eat drink some unsweetened grape fruit juice before you brush your teeth. This will help surpress the urge to smoke. Not only that after you have some there is no way you will want to. Again it's all about changing the flavor and doing something out of the ordinary.

3)Take 1000mg of Vitiman C a day. This will help clean the toxic nicoten out of your system. After 7 days of this you will no longer have a physical need for a smoke, all needs will be mental. That is where doing things out of the ordinary comes into play. Dissrupting the cues.

You can do it. You just have to change your life. If you find certin acctivities cause you to smoke, dont do them anymore. Sometimes not quitting is because of lazyness. You jsut smoke because you dont want to do something else to help you stop. So good luck to ya. I hope these items can help!