That is awesome, Blatz!! I smoked a little bit but never wanted to spend the money on it plus I could not stand the smell. Also, I knew it would tear my parents all to pieces if I got into smoking (my dad especially). Unfortunately, my sister and her husband have shown no signs whatsoever of quitting.
I never started. What do I get? "I take care of my kids." You supposed to take care of your kids you low expectation having muthaf**er. "I ain't never been to jail." What you want, a cookie? and I'm done.
i quit november 15th 1999 and never looked back, it is something i am very proud of. my older brother and my father both smoked during my childhood, so i took it up as a stupid teenager into my early Twenties. my secret for quitting: "Dont smoke" its that simple, if you want to quit, then don't smoke. no excuses, no justification(after drinks, after sex, ... .) way to go BLatz, keep it up into the new year and you will succeed.
So true. I was coming out of the grocery store the other day and I could smell the smokers left and right. Then I started to smell people actually smoking and they were 6-7 parking spaces down. I didn't know it was that strong. The first thing my girlfriend said to me when she found out I was quitting was, "thank goodness, your hands are going to smell much better now."
One thing non-smokers hate is smokers antagonizing them with their terrible stench. Trust me, I tried to get my cousin to stop, but then he got lung cancer, so I quit bugging him about it.
Good for you! I've been lucky to be one of those guys who can take them or leave them whenever I want. I'll go through a phase where I'll smoke when I drink, then I won't have one for a couple of months. I blame Buck Turgidson.
congrats and good luck. i've quit a few times with the longest being 43 days while still living in atl. was talking with someone on the phone at work, got extremely pissed at the person, and figured out that i was already pissed because i wanted a cigarette. soooo, are you being an a'hole to everyone that you're around? i sure in the hell was. during those whole 43 days. just couldn't help it. now... i'm proud of my stench.
Not to be rude, but in an encouraging way: stop being a pansy and just quit if you want to. I know it's hard. I only smoked for about 5 years, maybe 10 cigs a day, something like that...then I quit cold turkey. You just get to the point where you really want to stop doing it. While I rarely ever think about it, and am certainly not addicted anymore, there is a very very very very small mental addiction still there that will once every 6 months or so make me actually want to smoke one again...but I don't. The thing is, at some point you have to just realize that smoking is not just about you and your health, though that is priority #1 - you're messing with other people's lives, the environment, etc. I applaud your effort to at least smoke mroe consciously, but if you want to quit, just do it. Seriously, don't smoke another cigarette after reading this thread EVER again. You control your own life.
Just wanted to add my Congratulations. You'll be healthier, more pleasant for others to be around, and you'll save all the money you used to spend on the cigs. From a non-smoker's point of view: I can't stand it when people smoke anywhere near me, or come near me right after smoking. I just happen to be extremely allergic to it. Most bars and clubs are right out, unless I want to be miserable. Thank goodness people go outside to smoke on most other occasions; still, some of us don't like it when you stand right outside the building. I have students smoking outside on the balcony, in my stairwell, in front of the door, etc. and have to go through their curtains of smoke because they're technically not "in" the building. I don't think it looks "cool" at all... it certainly doesn't smell that way, and doesn't take much to mess up my head and respiratory system.
The thing that helped me, is not to drink for the first month or two. Drinking was the reason i always started smoking again. Congrats on the quiting!!! Don't you feel about a million times better?
good job! kinda sounds dumb, but i enjoy my camels, when i´m having my beer at the pub..... those two things just get together like mobley and francis....
It's funny you should mention this.... I went out Friday night and took my tobacco with me. I was in a club, listening to music. I had 4-5 beers and rolled and smoked 5-6 cigarettes. After I got home, I had a coughing attack that lasted 10 minutes. When I was done, I threw the tobacco and the rolling papers away. I haven't smoked tobacco since Friday night...72 hours. Could this be it? I hope so! One day at a time.....
