so i quit smoking on monday...

Smoke a joint.

Throat scratch, yes. Pain-in-the-neck old agressive malignant growths, no.

Fun Small Print:

"The further your cigarette filters the smoke through fine tobaccos, the milder that smoke becomes. At the first puff, PALL MALL's smoke is filtered further than that of any other leading cigarette.

...or 17 puffs - Pall Mall's greater length of fine tobaccos still travels the smoke further - filters the smoke and makes it mild."

I was a HEAVY smoker, quit back in Feb, you have to keep busy, that "oh shit I need nicotine" feeling passes... Also, goto health food place or similar and get these toothpics that are soaked in Tea Tree oil !! They help alot, they are very strong... Also, don't avoid smokers forever, after a while, have your toothpics or gum or something and hang with them to get used to it...

:>

Best thing you can do to improve your health and energy levels !!

Stay strong

I quit masturbating 2 hours ago

Go to a cancer ward... you'll never want to smoke again.


*cough cough *

I quit smoking 10 months ago. Didn't slip since then, not even once. Now I don't even think about it, when I drink coffee or having a beer. Just take a stand, and tell yourself: Fuck it, I'm not lying to myself anymore. I quit and I'm not coming back.
And be a Man about it.

Good for you.. hope you can stick with it. Nothing worse then quitting only to start up again.

I started at age 16, no 19 still smokes. Its like impossible to quit.

Should be very proud of yourself, and you have just done yourself and family a big favor.


It is really difficult to quit, but think about living longer for your family, then you can for sure do it.

If you stop smoking and you drink. Its very very hard to quit smoking.

smoking sucks

i dont smoke anymore either

then again im too lazy to get addicted to anything

I tried Zyban and it didn't work for me, found the urge came back pretty quick, so I got off it and just quit cold turkey. That was about 3 years ago. I found the easiest way in the beginning was take it hour by hour. When I wanted a smoke and would tell myself to wait an hour and when that hour came I would tell myself, well if I could wait that hour I could wait another. Hours, changed to days, then days to weeks and so on.

After three years of not smoking.... I said fuck it about 2 months ago and started again Forgot how much I enjoyed it.

Good luck

gl on that.
I never smoked. WOHAAAA.

LOL

wow how inspiring!

quit smoking cigarettes day after halloween 1997.

woke up puking from a night of hellish partying.

vomiting and smoking cigaretees turned me off that morning, threw away the pack quit cold turkey for almost 3 years.

picked it up again for about a year, then quit cold turkey again.

i cant stand cigs now. disgustin habit, i speak from experience.

Anyone else tried that Zyban? Or what about the nicotine patches and gum? Does that shit work?

I've got a birthday coming up in a few weeks and I'm determined not to enter another decade with a damned cigarette in my mouth.

And forget cold turkey. I'm a pussy and can't do it. I tried that shit a month ago and lasted 4 days.

Good job man keep it up! i'm trying myself.

Good luck

Is there a patch for the cravings?

I'm on the patches and have gone 8 days without smoking so far, including drinking and drinking coffee and that's when I smoked the most. The patches give you the most vivid nightmares possible so take them off at night. Other then that the cravings are there sometimes but for the most part it's not that bad after the first 48hr's.

I used the patches to quite 4 years ago and it worked great, I started smoking again after a series of events that caused a shitload of stress and decided to quit for my daughters sake more then anything since we found out she has asthma.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that, I also quit coffee at the same time.. those two things go together WAY to well. I still have a moca now and again, but no more of that NEED coffee in the moring shit. AND I get up way easier now... I never was really into beer and alchohol so no problems there...

Also, you want to get scared of cancer and be inspired at the same time ? Go out now and buy Lance Armstrong's 2 books:

1. Every second counts
2. It's not about the bike

I don't like to read more than I have to and I could not put these books down. Because of them, I now do approx 15 - 20 miles on a mountain bike most nights...

Stay Strong

how long had you been smoking for?

THAT was uncalled for

since i was 15.. quit once for about 6 months.. recently got up to 2 packs a day..

Damn, that is a long time. I seen worse, some kids nowadays start at age of 11 or younger.

i've never had a problem with it, I have will power.


smoked 15-18, quit cold turky for a year, was easy. Just smoke when I go clubbin or something where I want to smoke. Often end up with the stalest pack of smokes ever, only 2 of em smoked.


I smoke when I feel like it....never feel like I kinda need a smoke since 18.

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I quit masturbating 2 hours ago

Yes there is, but the drawback is that you get damned horny when you apply it

"He Wanted You to Know"

http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Fl..._to_know.shtml



On the day of Bryan's death, June 3, wife Bobbie and son Bryan keep a bedside vigil. The recent photo of father and son is on the bed. [Times photo: V. Jane Windsor]

Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave a wife and children alone. In his last weeks, he set out with a message for young people.

ST. PETERSBURG -- Cigarette smoke hangs in the air in the room where Bryan Lee Curtis lies dying of lung cancer.

His head, bald from chemotherapy, lolls on a pillow. The bones of his cheeks and shoulders protrude under taut skin. His eyes are open, but he can no longer respond to his mother or his wife, Bobbie, who married him in a makeshift ceremony in this room three weeks ago after doctors said there was no hope.

In Bryan's emaciated hands, Bobbie has propped a photograph taken just two months ago. It shows a muscular and seemingly healthy Bryan holding his 2-year-old son, Bryan Jr. In the picture, he is 33. He turned 34 on May 10.

A pack of cigarettes and a lighter sit on a table near Bryan's bed in his mother's living room. Even though tobacco caused the cancer now eating through his lungs and liver, Bryan smoked until a week ago, when it became impossible.

Across the room, a 20-year-old nephew crushes out a cigarette in a large glass ashtray where the butt joins a dozen others. Bobbie Curtis says she'll try to stop after the funeral, but right now, it's just too difficult. Same for Bryan's mother, Louise Curtis.

"I just can't do it now," she says, although she hopes maybe she can after the funeral.

Bryan knew how hard it is to quit. But when he learned he would die because of his habit, he thought maybe he could persuade at least a few kids not to pick up that first cigarette. Maybe if they could see his sunken cheeks, how hard it was becoming to breathe, his shriveled b-ody, it might scare them enough.

So a man whose life was otherwise unremarkable set out in the last few weeks of his life with a mission.



Bryan Lee Curtis, then 33, holds son Bryan Jr., 2, in this March 29 photo. Curtis would die about two months later.

* * *
Bryan started when he was just 13, building up to more than two packs a day. He talked about quitting from time to time, but never seriously tried.

Plenty of time for that, he figured. Older people got cancer. Not people in their 30s, not people who worked in construction, as a roofer, as a mechanic.

He had no health insurance. But he was more worried about his mother, 57, who had smoked since she was 25.

"He would say, "Mom, don't worry about me. Worry about yourself. I'm healthy,' " Louise Curtis remembers. "You think this would happen later, when you're 60 or 70 years old, not when you're his age."

He knew, only a few days after he went to the hospital on April 2 with severe abdominal pain, how wrong he had been. He had oat cell lung cancer that had spread to his liver. He probably had not had it long. Also called small cell lung cancer, it's an aggressive killer that usually claims the lives of its victims within a few months.

While it seems unusual to the Curtis family, Dr. Jeffrey Paonessa, Bryan's oncologist, said he is seeing more lung cancer in young adults.

"We've seen lung cancer earlier and earlier because people are starting to smoke earlier and earlier," Paonessa said. Chemotherapy sometimes slows the process, but had little effect in Bryan's case, he said.

Bryan also knew, a few days after the diagnosis, that he wanted somehow to try to save at least one kid from the same fate. He sat down and talked with Bryan Jr. and his 9-year-old daughter, Amber, who already had been caught once with a cigarette. But he wanted to do more. Somehow, he had to get his story out.

When he still had some strength to leave the house, kids would stare.

"They'd come up and look at him because he looked so strange," Louise Curtis said. "He'd look at them and say, "This is what happens to you when you smoke.'

"The kids would say, "Oh, man. I can't believe it,' " Louise Curtis said.

In the last few weeks, Bryan's mother has been the agent for his mission to accomplish some good with the tragedy. She has called newspapers and radio and television stations, seeking someone willing to tell her son's story, willing to help give him the one thing he wanted before he died. Bryan never got to tell his story to the public. He spoke for the last time an hour before a visit from a Times reporter and photographer.

"I'm too skinny. I can't fight anymore," he whispered to his mother at 9 a.m. June 3. He died that day at 11:56 a.m., just nine weeks after the diagnosis.

Bryan Lee Curtis Sr. was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg on June 8, a rare cloudy day that threatened rain.



At the funeral service at nearby Blount, Curry and Roel Funeral Home, Bryan's casket was open and 50 friends and relatives could see the devastating effects of the cancer.

Addiction is more powerful.

As the graveside ritual ended, a handful of relatives backed away from the gathering, pulled out packs of cigarettes and lit up.



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I quit smoking after reading that article. I know it's a "cliché" but you can't stop smoking because you're afraid of the withdrawal symptoms. When you stop, you need more. If you really want to stop, go cold turkey. It only takes 72 hours to clean your b-ody from nicotine. You need to educate yourself about nicotine and what it does to you and the reasons why you are smoking.

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wow.. thats a good article

scary

quitnet is an awesome place for support....also, if you get in the habit of making yourself slam back a HUGE glass of ice water each time you get a craving it will help.....