Quited smoking is a pain in the ass :0icon_pis

[rds25]

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.

[Jesusbrah]

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.

Mmmm, sexy

[RaginCajun]

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.

My dad quit both smoking and dipping. He said dipping was harder to quit than smoking

[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....

[EquilibriumZ]

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]

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

[bsh]

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

[bsh]

Wow... That's crazy! Looks like a bad case of meth-mouth!

[wmaousley]

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"?

I have quit smoking 3 times. What has worked for me is to first stop smoking in common places of everyday life like your car, house, office, bar, club, after a meal, with morning coffee etc and find a new place to smoke. Practicing this will help disassociate yourself and these common places with "smoking areas". For me I never smoked in my car or home because of my wife and daughter.

Staying busy and chewing gum sometimes nicotine gum also helped me get past the mental barriers we face when quitting.

Cold turkey is the way to go and remember that a cigarette craving is all mental. Once you push through the mental barrier which takes me about 3 days its all down hill from there.

Best of luck to you, and I hope you are able to stop smoking.

[j3374]

I've been addicted to alcohol and cigarettes.

I had to give up drinking before I could successfully stop smoking. One always lead to the other.

Smoking took me so long, and so many attempts before I could successfully refrain. I ended up joining a NicA 12-step group. Sounds cheesy, but when/if you are serious enough that you'll try anything to overcome dependency, you'll do whatever it takes. I used other methods also, such as megadoses of vitamin C, sleeping 12+ hours a day, exercise, drinking a gallon of water a day (something I do regularly now), and nicotine gum. I tried anything that might help, since I have an addictive personality when it comes to tobacco and alcohol.

I have many generations of alcoholics and smokers/dippers in my family. It was a part of our family culture as much as it was an individual problem. It's important to understand, also, that there is a physical and a psychological aspect to addictions. We're supposed to be over the physical part of the addiction in a few days, once the drug is out of our systems. The psychological part of our addiction can last for weeks, months and years- as long as the brain craves the dopamine that gets released when our fix is met. This is the brain chemical that makes otherwise non-physical addictions habit forming: shopping, porn, gambling, pot, steroids, sex, ect. As long as our brain makes the association between an addiction and pleasure, it will continue craving the fix.

[jesse4466]

My wife's sisters sits on our balcony smoking hookah all day . I've been joining her sometimes last few days and starting to catch myself.. Don't want to get addicted to nicotine. I used to dip and smoke. Haven't been addicted for 6 years and never smoke or dip anymore.. Just have to careful. Doesn't take much.