Quitting Cigarettes

[CanaBliss]

Ok, I have chosen 420 (Wed, tomorrow) to quit smoking cigarettes, I want my lungs forever. Now I am gonna quit cold turkey. Has anyone done this?? I have tried and only made a week and 2 days. But this time is final...so any tips for quitting straight up how to fight the cravings?? Btw, I only been smoking for one and 3/4 years.

[koshea]

i smoked cigs for a month and a half and got quite the addiction cuz i lvoed the buzz but i hated the addiction, i stopped cold turkey and as odd as it sounds...every time i got a craving i slapped myself in the face as hard as my hand could hit and after a while i was just like FUCK THIS and i never smoked again, dont even have much of a craving anymore, even if my friends smoke around me

[kyle]

I smoked for longer than you and quit cold turkey. For the first three days - its a bitch! After that, for me atleast, it was'nt a big deal. However, I substituted ciggarettes with herb; smoked alot of weed that week :D .

[Mojavpa]

Koshea and Kyle have a lot more willpower than me. I just recently tried quitting again, I went about 3 weeks and then I finally caved in to my cravings. Its really hard for me, and its been the third time I've tried quitting cold turkey. I've also tried the patches but they dont work, so dont waste your money on those nicotine replacement products. Its also hard for me because I get really strong cravings for cigs after smoking herb. Good luck!

[CanaBliss]

Yeah I call it "The CRAVE" happens like between the 4th-8th day. I almost go crazy out of anger lol.

[Frequency]

Quitting cigarettes is really only physically addicting for 3 days... the rest is psychological... just get through that 3 day hump and you are set.

[apex]

I've tried quitting cigarettes off and on, but I see it like this.. Everytime you try and you fail at quitting, that's just a test. Don't give up, keep trying. It was really hard for me, I quit for a while with my boyfriend, but then I started back. I'm going to try and quit later on, but once I quit this time, I'm never touching another cigarette!@ ;]

[mckenna]

I quit for 6 months last year & then started again!!! Augghhhhhhh I could kick myself in the ass 100 times for that!!! It really is a BIG MENTAL THING... just make up your mind and DO IT. When you have a craving, do something else... anything.. & just remind yourself that "this too shall pass"!!!! One thing I will say is after I'd quit for a few days even ... if I gave in to the temptation... it really tasted like shit. :-P

[smokinlowrider4u]

not sure how but i did last year just stopped.

[Read]

Quit,
Quit now while you can and never look back!!!!!!

Been smoking for 8 years and wish I never touched the damn thing. You might want to stay away from friends that smoke for like a little while until the craving stops. If it ever truly stops.

[Omun]

I never had a real addiction to nicotine but my suggestion would be to not ever have cigarette money, whenever you have money for cigs buy some weed instead. best of luck :D

[CanaBliss]

Yeah, I'm a huge sucker for psychological cravings. :mad: But I'm thinking of it this way to stop... if it doesnt get u high y smoke it or something like that. I also heard that nicotine addiction is psychologically about the same as a heroin or crack addictions are physically.

[IamwhoIam]

I quit cold turkey and it was the best decision I ever made
I smoked a pack a day for close to 6 years of my life and I quit over night after taking an afternoon of thought about what ciggarettes meant to my life.

I guess you could say I always had a subconcious believe in God but this post has nothing to do with the sort.

For many years I have been surrounded by smokers and it's of my opinion that there are 'sweet' smelling scents that are given off during combustion of tobbacco to attract you to cigarette smoke.

This could be the biggest mistake you ever make. Cigarette smoke is the most harmful thing that I can think of when it comes to man and his body. [B]The United States Federal Goverment requires that all tobacco plants grown within the continental United states be sprayed with "Super Super Super Super Enriched Sodium Nitrate and Super Super Super Super Enriched Sodium Phosphate"

These two fertilizers which are REQUIRED USAGE BY FEDERAL LAW release RADIOACTIVE inert gases into the soil. These gases rob all nutrients from the soil and stick to the leaves and micro hair follicles of the plant. The plant is then chopped up and fed into cigarette paper. Apon combustion you are inhaling steady streams of Radioactive (NUCLEAR) material, one is called Radium -226 which is not far from it's cousin Urananium - 238, It has a half life of 21.5 years which means it can live in you up to 42 years after you quit.

you can find more information on this here - http://www.prfamerica.org/RadioactivityInCigaretteSmoke.html
Even John Ashcroft once wrote a statement agreeing with this information (Of course it remained on the backdoors of the internet)

I once stuck my hand (when I was still a regular smoker) under a cctv (This is basically a crt monitor with a 2000x microscope attached to it for the blind or semi-blind to use as my best friend at the time had lost 3/4 of his eyesight from nerve damage.

I stuck my hand under there by accident and I zoomed in and focused on my skin which looked like it was literally deteriorating from cell destruction. I immediatly went to the bathroom and persistantly tried to wipe all the yellowish-black discoloring out of my skin but it made no difference.

I since that weekend quit cold turkey and never looked back.

At the time I was waking up every morning and having to literally pull myself out of bed with the (very little) strength either one of my arms had. This would continue into the bathroom as I would cough up yellowish green mucous into the sink and for another 20 minutes in the bathroom.

I at that time permanetly quit smoking over night. Any pull of a cigarette would lead me to gag as I immediatly would picture my skin in my head. I have treated myself everyday with cannabis to switch that feeling of "needing smoke in my lungs" which is one of the physically addicting aspects of cigarettes in the first place.

I'd go as far as to say that my body is 100% healed I have gained a 500% increase in muscle mass. My hair is no longer clout and greasy and neither is my skin. About two months after I stopped smoking cigarettes I ceased coughing up phlegm every morning and my cheast stoped aching as well. I now have 10x the energy I once did. (This life change also found me eating healier, drinking more water (as opposed to the gallon of soda a day I used to ingest). I could probally at any given moment start a 5 mile run as opposed to having no energy to run a single mile less than a year go.

There are more and more disgusting facts I find about cigarettes everyday such as if you were to put one drop of liquid nicotine into your bloodstream your heart would cease to beat any longer. That's one drop out of an eye dropper....

It keeps Oxygen from reaching your brain by shrinking your arteries and veins. Without Oxygen for more than a few minutes your brain ceases to function..

Cigarettes are a Cancer causing industry and they do nothing for you. I did smoke one cigarette one time after I quit do to a very bad strough of depression and I could not even finish it. The light headed feeling alone made me feel as though I was going to fall over and smash my skull into the concrete. The smoke made me cough and gag it I nerely threw up from it.

My friend is 18 and is right now suffering from a genetic form of cancer that was brought on from cigarette smoking (he doesn't even smoke full packs)

I'll stop typing for now and see what you guys think