Want to quit smoking? (1111 hits)
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Submitted by Smokefree TJ (View user info) at 2005-02-19 16:16:33 EST
Smoking.
It's estimated that 80% of those people who smoke wish they never started. This is common knowledge for people, even kids. It also takes about a year of constant smoking for your body to develop an addiction. If all this is true, why are people stupid enough to smoke? What's even more scary, how the fuck is the tobacco industry a multi-billion dollar industry?!
Well, that's not what this post is about. You made a mistake, just like I did. I started smoking when I was 15, in the back of a Food Lion parking lot. The cigarette was a Newport. Biggest mistake of my life. It's hard to believe that after I hacked, and coughed, and swore I would never do that again, I would go on to develop a 7 year addiction that would peak at about a pack a day.
I realized I had a problem when I was about 20. I wasn't a social smoker anymore. I was going outside in the bitter cold to get my nicotine fix... all alone. Since then, I've tried every reason under the sun to quit.
I tried weaning myself off of cigarettes gradually. I found myself counting down the seconds to my next cigarette and ended up smoking more when I cracked.
I tried chewing the gum, and I have to say that I would rather chew on Fat Tony's shit after he had a Mexican dinner then try that again. Needless to say, that failed miserably.
I tried that technique where you leave one cigarette in your pack over a period of a couple months, and eventually, it would rot and you wouldn't have any desire to smoke it anymore. I couldn't make to where the cigarette went bad and ended up smoking it then buying another pack.
I tried to mentally psyche myself out of smoking. I imagined that cigarettes are the Angel of Death on Raiders of the Lost Ark. "It's beautiful!"................................."AGHHHHHHH!!!!"
That only got me wanting to watch Raiders again to see that scene where Indy shoots the scimitar fighter. That was great scene.... However, I watched it with a cigarette and an ashtray, so that didn't work.
The latest method I tried was to quit for girl I was seeing over Christmas. I have to say that was least effective of all. Don't ever try to quit for a girl.
The only way you can quit successfully is when you realize that smoking does absolutely nothing positive in your life. You crave a cigarette, then when you smoke one, you feel like even more shit. It's a truly vicious cycle; and while this is going on, you're slowly whittling away at your health, your self image, and other people's image of you. The average smoker makes 81 cents to their non-smoking counterpart, because they are promoted less due to smoke breaks.
My allergies got to the point of unbearable, when they were previously non-existant. I was getting sick frequently when I used to never get sick. To top it all off, my overall appearance in general was starting to look unhealthy and just plain unattractive (not that I ever was attractive, but work with me). I looked at smokers in their 40's and 50's and wondered how the hell they could live like they did, coughing all the time and breathing heavily. Move up to the people in their 60's and it gets worse. Their skin is all wrinkled and pale and their voice is four octaves lower than the lead singer of Godsmack singing Voodoo. Smokers in their 70's and 80's? Few and far between. Yes, we all know some, but they are the exception. That's when I decided to quit cold turkey. I haven't smoked in three weeks and haven't even had a craving.
I don't look down on smokers because I was one for seven years. It's your business whether you want to smoke or not. If you want to smoke, then smoke.
If you want to quit, just remember that smoking is a pointless habit that does nothing but erode yourself and your character (and your wallet for that matter). Try to imagine yourself before you started smoking and how lively and full of energy you were. Stop smoking for a week, then bite into an orange and see how good it tastes after your senses are restored.
If a 22 year old, with no will power, that still lives with his parents can do it, then you certainly can do it too. Imagine being able to go jogging again or even walking up a flight of stairs without being winded. I'm definitely looking forward to it. If you decide to quit, I wish you the best of luck.
User Reviews
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-02-21 19:43:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I am quitting tomorrow.
After I have this last one.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-21 10:40:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.ubersite.com/m/60197
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-02-21 08:56:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I mean hitwhore
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-02-21 08:55:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/52639
Sorry to hotwhore but this was from when I gave up.
I wrote a post a month or so later too...
good luck
Submitted by Pepsi (user info) at 2005-02-20 23:22:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
If you want to quit, just remember that smoking is a pointless habit that does nothing but erode yourself and your character (and your wallet for that matter). Try to imagine yourself before you started smoking and how lively and full of energy you were. Stop smoking for a week, then bite into an orange and see how good it tastes after your senses are restored.
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Or you could always change your entire lifestyle and live up to your God-given potential.
Submitted by shadowofthedivine (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:29:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
People say it's difficult
I can't see how
All it is is not putting a cigarette in your mouth and not
lighting it
I've been doing that for 18 years.
Tch, no willpower.
Submitted by tech-junkie (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:26:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Now that's good stuff.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:24:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:19:33 (#)
Ranking: 2
Smoking sucks.
I quit in November and had my first cigarette since then on Friday. It made me as sick as hell, and I'll never do it again.
I used the commit lozenge and lollipops! Hooray!
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you'll start back up. ()________))______________________)))~~
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:19:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Smoking sucks.
I quit in November and had my first cigarette since then on Friday. It made me as sick as hell, and I'll never do it again.
I used the commit lozenge and lollipops! Hooray!
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-02-20 13:44:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-19 21:11:54 (#)
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"You're gaining not smelling like a dead cat that's been occasionally soaked in yak urine over a period of weeks, you're gaining the ability to run like fuck without getting out of breath, and you're gaining a fucking motherload of cash."
-some ass
i date girls that smoke. i hang out in bars. i stink.
i can run the 5k faster than you and all your friends.
i'd spend the cash on booze anyway.
yay for cigarettes!
Phillip Morris 1
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Shhhh! Can't you see I'm trying to delude myself here? Jesus. Some people.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-02-20 13:32:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yes. Thank you.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-20 13:30:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i just smoked another cigarette! yay for cigs!
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-02-20 13:09:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Dont put one in your mouth and youv'e got it beat!
Submitted by HZRD (user info) at 2005-02-20 10:35:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
respec fist!
the patch and jolly ranchers wrked fur me!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-20 10:22:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No. Thanks for asking.
Submitted by funk_boy (user info) at 2005-02-20 07:19:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
tricky thing to do indeed it is yes it is yes oh yes yes
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2005-02-19 21:21:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Bart: Wow, Dad, you took a baptismal for me. How do you feel?
Homer: Oh, Bartholomew, I feel like St. Augustine of Hippo after his
conversion by Ambrose of Milan.
-- Homer Simpson
Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-19 21:11:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
"You're gaining not smelling like a dead cat that's been occasionally soaked in yak urine over a period of weeks, you're gaining the ability to run like fuck without getting out of breath, and you're gaining a fucking motherload of cash."
-some ass
i date girls that smoke. i hang out in bars. i stink.
i can run the 5k faster than you and all your friends.
i'd spend the cash on booze anyway.
yay for cigarettes!
Phillip Morris 1
Your reply 0
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-19 18:16:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It worked for me when I was on vacation in Flordia. It's so nice down there, I didn't even need a cig.
Submitted by MrWillard (user info) at 2005-02-19 17:20:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Smoking lets everyone know that you have a need for oral stimulation....just not from them.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-02-19 17:18:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You're not giving something up - you're gaining something. You're gaining not smelling like a dead cat that's been occasionally soaked in yak urine over a period of weeks, you're gaining the ability to run like fuck without getting out of breath, and you're gaining a fucking motherload of cash. Since quitting smoking I've been like that guy out of Duck Tales, doing the backstroke in my vault of gold.
Have a +2 despite the fact that my smoking post is at least 18 times funnier than yours....
http://www.ubersite.com/m/56276
Whoredom. Gotta love it.
Submitted by tech-junkie (user info) at 2005-02-19 17:11:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Pepsi (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:53:58 (#)
Ranking: 0
Three weeks? You're going to end up smoking again. And this is why:
Rarely is anything positive ever said about cigarettes. You'll hear that it's disgusting, fatal, and expensive. And when looking for motivations for why we smoke, we always just assume that it's only an addiction/weakness.
What we overlook is that there are positive aspects of smoking. And we forget that when we were young there was a mystique about it that drew us in. We may become jaded to it, but that mystique still has a lot to do with why we smoke.
Have a look at this link. It's a study on the positive side of smoking. I'm not encouraging you to keep smoking, just offering some information that may help you get a clearer picture.
http://smokingsides.com/docs/whysmoke.html
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Interesting. But I know that this is the real thing. Despite all those great things it says about smoking, the bottom line is that smoking is fatal, and that it made me feel like shit after I smoked, and that my health was visibly starting to decline.
Submitted by Pepsi (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:53:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Three weeks? You're going to end up smoking again. And this is why:
Rarely is anything positive ever said about cigarettes. You'll hear that it's disgusting, fatal, and expensive. And when looking for motivations for why we smoke, we always just assume that it's only an addiction/weakness.
What we overlook is that there are positive aspects of smoking. And we forget that when we were young there was a mystique about it that drew us in. We may become jaded to it, but that mystique still has a lot to do with why we smoke.
Have a look at this link. It's a study on the positive side of smoking. I'm not encouraging you to keep smoking, just offering some information that may help you get a clearer picture.
http://smokingsides.com/docs/whysmoke.html
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:50:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The average smoker makes 81 cents to their non-smoking counterpart, because they are promoted less due to smoke breaks.
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shouldn't that say, 'the average non-smoker' ??
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:49:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:33:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Maybe I will quit, I don't want to grow that much hair.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:31:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i love my cigarettes. i like to nice rush of smoke into my lungs. the slight, satisfying sting of knowing it's a good drag. then exhaling and controlling the shape and flow of the smoke from my lungs. i love that feeling more than anything else. it's the first thing i do when i get up and the last thing i do before bed. i love the way it settles my stomach after a meal. i love the way it refreshes me after sex. i love the way it burns after i smoke a bowl. i love the way it feels when i get a fresh pack. ahhhhh i'm gonna smoke one right now.
Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:26:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Have a +2 for strength...
and the good post.
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:21:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
As it happens, no, I don't.
My poison sticks and I have a very good relationship.