quitting smoking
Posted by beanthai on Jul 28, 2007 · Member since Jul 2007 · 151 posts
I've quit in the past for three and six month periods but I've crept back into my habit. My laser treatment earlier this year worked until peer pressure got me back into smoking.
I've cut it down to about 4-5 a day but found it still difficult to break the habit of just 'having one' to do something. I often get irritated once I light one and put it out. Had any of you quit upon becoming vegan?
I was hoping my tastes might change enough to warrant it tasting bad...I feel like a failure when I give in and it doesn't help that my mother, many friends, and a guy I work with smoke. I have a prescription that I haven't had sent in for 'chantix' a medicine. Anyone hear of it?
If your not against using medications to help quit, Chantix works.
Just want to say good luck to everyone trying to quit!
Do it for yourself
but you're making it a cleaner, healthier world for non-smokers as well and for that I thank you. :-*
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You can do it!!!
Here's something cool about quitting: You'll get you taste buds back.
When you smoke, you are searing your taste buds with hot tar and ash, and it deadens what you taste. Go five days without a cigarette and then drink apple juice. Or eat a strawberry. I gurantee you it will taste more vivid than ever.
And since this is a food website, find more recipes after that... and bear this in mind: "If I smoke, the food won't taste as good...". Hittin' ya' in the kitchen.
Look, another former smoker here (I quit cold turkey almost 4 years ago now, after 10 years of a pack+ a day), and I just want to let you know you can do it. Also, a lot of states in the U.S. are setting up free quitting "buddy" systems. Most have the hotline number 1-800-QUIT-NOW. The idea is that councellor will assess how often and when you smoke with you, and together you devise a quitting plan and a date. After that, you can call the helpline for support when you have a craving.
The only other advice I have: Jaegermeister.
For whatever reason, if I had a really strong craving, a shot of this would nip it in the bud. Just be careful how often (and when) you fight cravings this way...
These are funny and creative options!! I'll be taking ya'll up on it fa shore :P I've heard about the buddy system stuff cool cool!!
I've also recently quit smoking, and while I found it to be rather easy, this time and the last 2 smoke free years as well, I still know that I enjoy the taste and oral feeling of smoking.
The thing that makes it easy for me to not grab a cig again is that I am seeing a nonsmoker, I hate the smell of smoke on my clothes, smokers breath is an easily noticeable and disgustingly potent smell, and it is crazy expensive. These reasons, coupled with the fact that polluting is totally at odds with my environmental lifestyle choices, makes me confident that I will never smoke cigarettes again. I hope you can find powerful examples to motivate you too Bean. Remember to concentrate on your seriousness to quit if you have a craving!
The only other advice I have: Jaegermeister.
For whatever reason, if I had a really strong craving, a shot of this would nip it in the bud. Just be careful how often (and when) you fight cravings this way...
Oh dear, what do you do the next morning to make the headache go away?
Hair of the dog... ;)
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