After 6 yrs of smoking....

[D3th 2 Aw3]

Goodluck OP. Been smoking for 2 years and finally pondering quitting. I'll get there.

[Stix14]

Caved and bought a pack today. Had one smoke, and now I don't even know what to do with the rest. I'll just hold on to it for a friend or something. ****ing mod neg irritated me hard last night, woke up still thinking about it, so I needed a smoke. This place...sigh...

[Justin23454]

Caved and bought a pack today. Had one smoke, and now I don't even know what to do with the rest. I'll just hold on to it for a friend or something. ****ing mod neg irritated me hard last night, woke up still thinking about it, so I needed a smoke. This place...sigh...

Just throw them away, lol at holding them for friends

[Krazy31]

Do what I did, just toss them. Newly opened pack or not, if you are ready to give them up, just toss them in the trash

[UACdarknova]

Caved and bought a pack today. Had one smoke, and now I don't even know what to do with the rest. I'll just hold on to it for a friend or something. ****ing mod neg irritated me hard last night, woke up still thinking about it, so I needed a smoke. This place...sigh...

Gonna learn you on something, bro. The best time to quit and make progress in your quit is when you're stressed.

Why? Because you're teaching your body to deal with stress without the cigarette crutch right from the get go. Any smoker can quit smoking on a good day, when they're in a good mood, when things are fine. But the second stressors hit then you'll run for the crutch again.

Where as if you teach yourself to deal with stress without ciggs right off the bat then everything else just gets easier.

So don't use the "I'm stressed I need a smoke" excuse. Stressful times are the best times to quit.

Source: Me. Smoked for 8 years and quit cold turkey. Also do not hold on to the smokes you bought. If you must keep them to give away then make them as hard to access as possible. Tell your gf or a mate to hide the pack.

Also, this site: www.whyquit.com
go there and read all the documents. helped me immensely when I quit.

[jamHaltingdude]

24 hours without a cig brah checking in

[Strongbow]

I smoked for about 8 years quitting was a *itch but it was the best thing I ever did. I've been clean for 3 years now and will never go back, everything about my life is better without smoking.

New study says quitting by 30 reduces your risk of smoke related death by 97%, so stick with it!

[rcdudegermy10]

GLDM your wallet and your health will thank you. Stay strong op!

[Stix14]

So don't use the "I'm stressed I need a smoke" excuse. Stressful times are the best times to quit.

Thx bro. I know it's bad, if this was an off day for me I would have gone for a run or hit up the gym or played some Fifa, but I had to get my ass to work, and the only thing I could think of was stopping at the gas station to grab a pack. You're very right though, I have started using other methods of stress relief, but this was just the easiest path to take.

[Stix14]

Do what I did, just toss them. Newly opened pack or not, if you are ready to give them up, just toss them in the trash

I've done this before. I threw a fresh pack into the fire when we were camping last summer. My GF's friend got so mad because she was out of smokes..haha

I can go the rest of the day without smoking, I feel no urge. I'll give them to a buddy tonight, no point in throwing away $10...

[jamHaltingdude]

hardest thing for me is the social situations. Like while on break at work/school. Gotten in to a routine of smoking with the crowd.

[UACdarknova]

Thx bro. I know it's bad, if this was an off day for me I would have gone for a run or hit up the gym or played some Fifa, but I had to get my ass to work, and the only thing I could think of was stopping at the gas station to grab a pack. You're very right though, I have started using other methods of stress relief, but this was just the easiest path to take.

Don't give up. Even if you slip don't give up. It took me 2 tries before I kicked it. I went cold turkey for a month and then bummed a smoke of this slut who should've been supportive and refused me instead she just gave me one. Slooty sloot.

Anyways keep track of your quit. Jot down how many days you've gone without a cigg. Take a jar and fill it with rocks if you have to, one rock for each day you went without smoking. The tangible reminder will inspire you to keep going - and to look at your quit not as a loss, but rather as the life longevity you're gaining. That part is key. You're not losing cigarettes, you're gaining life.

Best of luck.

[Krazy31]

Now I have a question. Smoking a cigar is still smoking right? Even tho I havent had a cigar in a yr?

[Gorilla99]

Everything in moderation. I smoke no more than 2-3 Cigs per day. Sometimes even 0.

Nothing wrong with enjoying a nicotine rush every now and then

[mciasto]

don't give in to the addiction you fukkin bish. quit dat chit

[2BeMaSSiVe]

To each his own.

Personally see no advantages of smoking but plenty there are plenty of negatives, should make it an easy decision..

[Stix14]

Now I have a question. Smoking a cigar is still smoking right? Even tho I havent had a cigar in a yr?

Cigars are straight tobacco, right? I guess it wouldn't be as detrimental, since it's the nicotine and other 91349134 chemicals in cigarettes that make them so bad.

[Justin23454]

Everything in moderation. I smoke no more than 2-3 Cigs per day. Sometimes even 0.

Nothing wrong with enjoying a nicotine rush every now and then

expect cigs are literally death stick lol

[Krazy31]

Oh well, might as well just stick to not smoking anything. Cigs, cigars, e-cigs, nothing

[Pacificbrah]

smoked for 4 years and im 2 week off it now, wont smoke again.

[Blinkava44]

gl man, ive been trying to quit dip its ****ing hard

[JustDan17]

48 hours checking in. Had a ridiculously stressful day and all full of cold, combined with dropping a dumbbell on my finger at the gym. I will not cave

[jamHaltingdude]

About 28 hours since my last smoke. feel a bit odd. can't explain the feeling though.

[Hipposquatamus]

Motivation from kirk douglas, one of the greatest actors of all time, daddy of gordan gekko

My father, a Russian peasant, came to this country in 1910. Like all of his pals, he smoked. It's hard for me to picture my father without a cigarette in his mouth.

After many years of smoking, my father was told by his doctor that he would die of cancer if he did not stop smoking. So he quit cold turkey. Here's how he did it: he always carried one cigarette in the breast pocket of his shirt. When he felt the urge to smoke, he'd take the cigarette out and look at it fiercely. With a growl, he would say, in his Russian accent, ''Who's stronger? You -- me?''

He would glare at the cigarette: ''I stronger.'' And he'd put the cigarette back in his pocket. He did that for a few years, but it was too late. He died of cancer at age 72.

During my college years, my Navy service during World War II, and my years as an actor on Broadway, I never smoked. Then Hollywood beckoned, and I answered. My first picture was ''The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers,'' with Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin, in 1946. I was intimidated, but proud to be playing the role of Miss Stanwyck's husband. I arrived at the set, very excited, to do my first scene with her. But I had spoken only a few lines when the director, Lewis Milestone, stopped the action and said, ''Kirk, you should be smoking a cigarette in this scene.''

''I don't smoke,'' I replied timidly.

''It's easy to learn,'' he said, and had the prop man hand me a cigarette.

I continued with the scene, lighting and smoking my first cigarette. Suddenly, I began to feel sick to my stomach and dizzy.

''Cut,'' yelled the director. ''What's the matter with you, Kirk? You're swaying.''

I rushed to my trailer to throw up.

But Mr. Milestone was right. It's easy to learn to smoke. Soon I was smoking two to three packs a day.

At that time everyone smoked, and the cigarette was the favorite movie prop. Many actors have trouble with their hands. Should they put them in their pockets? Should they put them behind their back? Do they have them at their sides? The cigarette answered the question. You take one out of the pack, you tap it, light it and inhale deeply. Then you exhale. If you are clever, you can learn to blow smoke rings. You can point with a cigarette. You can tap the ashes into an ashtray, and put it out gently in the ashtray or fiercely -- whatever the scene requires. Paul Henreid had a worldwide hit in 1942 lighting two cigarettes at once in ''Now, Voyager.''

When I became famous, tobacco companies supplied me with cartons of cigarettes every month. One day in 1950 I was in my den, smoking as usual. I exhaled and through the smoke I saw a picture of my father on my desk. I thought of him on his deathbed. I stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray. I took one cigarette from the pack and threw the rest in the wastebasket.

I held up the cigarette and studied it. My father's words came to me: ''Who's stronger? You -- me?''

''I stronger.'' I put the cigarette in my shirt pocket and never smoked again.

Hollywood started me smoking, literally putting a cigarette in my hand. Who knows how many moviegoers have started smoking because of what they have seen on the screen? Too many movies glorify young people smoking. It doesn't have to be this way. I have done at least 50 pictures where I avoided smoking. In one film, ''The Brotherhood,'' I played a Mafia character and chewed on a cigar. In a scene from a film I just did, ''The Illusion,'' when offered a cigarette, I say: ''I don't smoke. I have cancer.''

That's not true for me, thank goodness. But it is true that, like my father, I know I'm stronger than a cigarette.

Who's stronger? You -- me?

[juiceboxx03]

It'll get easy, just stick with it. None of that weaning off bull****. Stay cold turkey. Smoked for a year, quit cold turkey and have no desire to smoke whatsoever

[Wolf-Baron]

I stronger

[Krazy31]

I stronger

Survived thanksgiving. Now I know I have nothing else left to give as far as cravings go. Seems like its out of my system. Stay strong brahs and you will get thru it