Quited smoking is a pain in the ass :0icon_pis

**Jesusbrah** · 02-04-2015, 09:29 PM

Quitted smoking 4 days ago, cold turkey. Im grumpy, slightly paranoid and angry.

Reason for quitting is for saving cash. Used like $5-700 a month on this shit.

Anyone else going/have gone through this? Any help to ease the "pain"?

**EquilibriumZ** · 02-04-2015, 09:32 PM

I know it's super hard to quit that's why i never started it. I quit alcohol though, last time i drank was 3 years ago.

But one effective way is to multiply that 750$ by 12. Imagine you spend all that money on gear and food now

. Better?

**Jesusbrah** · 02-04-2015, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by EquilibriumZ

I know it's super hard to quit that's why i never started it. I quit alcohol though, last time i drank was 3 years ago.

But one effective way is to multiply that 750$ by 12. Imagine you spend all that money on gear and food now . Better?

Ahh, im gonna have wet dreams tonight!

**austinite** · 02-04-2015, 09:37 PM

quitted?

**bsh** · 02-04-2015, 09:46 PM

U stopped! U haven't quit... It's a rough road I know! Just breath deep and keep occupied with something other than having a smoke... After a meal or in the car was the two biggest for me! Plain and simple u have to get new habits, better habits, healthy habits... Hope this helps

**Hoggage_54** · 02-04-2015, 09:46 PM

**Jesusbrah** · 02-04-2015, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by austinite

quitted?

Im Norwegian, give me a break

**bsh** · 02-04-2015, 10:00 PM

Hahaha

**austinite** · 02-04-2015, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Jesusbrah

Im Norwegian, give me a break

Unnskyld. Det var en spøk.

**Jesusbrah** · 02-04-2015, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by austinite

Unnskyld. Det var en spøk.

How...?

Im guessing google translate

**< <Samson> >** · 02-04-2015, 10:41 PM

Shit

Quitting smoking is pvssy shit

I quit 100% before, then started smoking again - but, on my terms. Most I smoke is maybe a handful of smokes a month - if that

Can't even remember the last time I bought a pack

It just smells like shit - I rarely smoke, mostly when I get fvcked up

But, compared to shaking some habits - smoking is not even close to the same level

**lovbyts** · 02-04-2015, 10:54 PM

You guys are a bunch or quitters.

I use to smoke, sort of. It started as a weekend thing and then a few a week until it was a little over a pack a week so I stopped almost 5 years ago.

Even at that little bit it still wasnt easy but that nust made me more determined. I dont like anything having a hold on me.

**< <Samson> >** · 02-04-2015, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by lovbyts

I dont like anything having a hold on me.

Me neither

Juice don't count right?!

**bsh** · 02-04-2015, 11:11 PM

It's only the 3rd most addictive substance in the world....

**bsh** · 02-04-2015, 11:17 PM

JC I jus realized how much $ ur talking about... I was a pac a day! That's 7.50$ a day, how much were u smoking? 2 pac a day????

**< <Samson> >** · 02-04-2015, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by bsh

It's only the 3rd most addictive substance in the world....

What's one & 2?

I justified cost of smoking to myself for a while. You can order smokes from Ru or the like for like 30% of the U.S. Cost. Or I got em from Mexico -

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:17 AM

Heroine and crack...

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:19 AM

Personally I would say caffeine... Coffees the most used substance in the world...

**Hazard** · 02-05-2015, 12:26 AM

If I'm not mistaken.... Crystal is te most addictive substance. Followed by H....

**Hazard** · 02-05-2015, 12:29 AM

I stand corrected.....

Oxys, nicotine, H, C, Crystal, Alcohol - in that order based on a few sites.

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:36 AM

Whatever, it's up there with the top five! Not splitting hairs... I know I've had a personal relationships with nic for most of my life and it's a MFRR

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:39 AM

And for the record I've I be had experience w/ all the above mentioned

**lovbyts** · 02-05-2015, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by bsh

It's only the 3rd most addictive substance in the world....

#1 would be women.
#2 would be money

Yup juice doesn't count. LoL. Actually I've never fled an addiction towards it. I have a hard time remembering to use it.

**lovbyts** · 02-05-2015, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by bsh

Personally I would say caffeine... Coffees the most used substance in the world...

Used but not addictive. He'll I drank coffee for years and just quit for no real reason and didnt have any for months and the worse I hade was a caffeine headache for a day or two.

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:48 AM

I couldn't survive w/o coffee.... Nic is the 2nd on my list... Hahaha, junkie if u will, I don't care... It's all good

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 12:50 AM

I'm somewhat new to performance enhancing so jury is still out... But I do like!

**Honkey_Kong** · 02-05-2015, 02:25 AM

Originally Posted by Jesusbrah

Quitted smoking 4 days ago, cold turkey. Im grumpy, slightly paranoid and angry.

Reason for quitting is for saving cash. Used like $5-700 a month on this shit.

Anyone else going/have gone through this? Any help to ease the "pain"?

The most important thing to do in breaking the habit is replace the act of smoking with something else. I used regular chewing gum for this. Get the kind with the strongest flavours. I preferred Cinnaburst and Big Red for it.

But yeah, don't get caught up in the nicotine gums or any of the other gimmicks. If you want to quit you just need will-power and some regular gum. After the first few weeks, you'll be in the clear. In April or May, I'll have quit for 10 years

**< <Samson> >** · 02-05-2015, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Hazard

If I'm not mistaken.... Crystal is te most addictive substance. Followed by H....

I agree - either or can be interchanged, depending on the personality it attached itself to

The first attacks the CNS in ways nothing else can. The 2nd works on a diff mechanism, yet is close to as addictive as the 1st.

Breaking addiction from just about anything requires cognitive changes in our day to day life - it requires you to stay on your toes not to turn back. It's easier to just go back and start back up, than not. It's work - every day, for a long time.

**DOSA** · 02-05-2015, 09:48 AM

I love smoking, really love it. I smoke one pack a day.
That being said I have been trying to quit for some time. Nothing but bad things come from it, the older I get the more it sets in, this shit is going to kill me.

I can make it thru the day just fine, its the driving that gets me. I chain smoke in car, I have cut back to 3-4 cigs on way to work which is 20 min drive but man that is my vice. Im actually thinking of working from home to avoid driving for a bit.

stay strong man, dont start again, keep on going. good luck

**Marc114** · 02-05-2015, 12:35 PM

I smoked 2.5 packs a day for 20 years. Quitting was the best thing I ever did. When I was younger it really didn't bother me , as I got older I started to really feel the effects of smoking. Tried cold turkey and wanted to murder somebody by the second day..lol. The nicotine gum worked for me, really took the edge off ,then I just started chewing regular gum. It's rough at first , but the longer you don't smoke the easier it gets. It's been 5 years now and don't even think about it anymore , in fact, the smell of it now is pretty disgusting to me.

**thisAngelBites** · 02-05-2015, 12:57 PM

When I was reading Miles Davis' autobiography I was surprised to see he mentioned that he found quitting heroin was waaay easier than cigarettes.

**clarky.** · 02-05-2015, 01:05 PM

Smart move it's a vulgar bad habit. You will see this in the long run.

**tcw** · 02-05-2015, 03:18 PM

Pick your Poison. -----I don't know ANYONE WHO'S NOT ADDICTED to something. (i'm talking co-workers, Lawyers, Drs, CPA's, etc)

Lets see....let me audit my friends (in my mind).

Ok we got:
-Fanatical Religious Belief Systems (you tell them their crazy, they will throw down the gauntlet).
-Drugs (Marijuana, Steroids , Coke, Pain Meds, Psych Meds, Nicotine)
-Food
-P##sy
-Porn
-Working out
-Movies
-Books and more books
-the Internet
-etc

....the Multi-Nats have got us by the Balls!

.

**EquilibriumZ** · 02-05-2015, 06:59 PM

Liars, you are all addicted to anabolic steroids . You even created a forum for it.

**rds25** · 02-05-2015, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jesusbrah

Quitted smoking 4 days ago, cold turkey. Im grumpy, slightly paranoid and angry.

Reason for quitting is for saving cash. Used like $5-700 a month on this shit.

Anyone else going/have gone through this? Any help to ease the "pain"?

You could try dipping once a day. The nicotine buzz is a lot stonger so you'll save a lot of cash plus it wont interfere with your workouts as you're not messing up your lungs, just your gums

I know this wont get you off nicotine but it could make it easier to get off it.

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by thisAngelBites

When I was reading Miles Davis' autobiography I was surprised to see he mentioned that he found quitting heroin was waaay easier than cigarettes.

hahaha, that's a great book!

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 07:48 PM

Forgot to mention, I've had a doctor friend tell me he would rather treat a room full of H addicts then one smoker, lol....

**EquilibriumZ** · 02-05-2015, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by bsh

Forgot to mention, I've had a doctor friend tell me he would rather treat a room full of H addicts then one smoker, lol....

Ya cause then he is saving a room full of people instead of one person duh

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 10:28 PM

No, he was referring to ease of treatment... Smokers are addicted like a mofo... Hahaha

**bsh** · 02-05-2015, 10:30 PM

I dipped for a few years too... The nic buzz is a lot more intense from dip and I didn't have a problem it seems to stop smoking but I can see a can and my mouth starts to water... Hahaha