Not sayin' I'm quitting smoking.... but

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 21:47:46

My theory is: once a smoker, always a smoker.... even if ya quit... it's one day at a time. One cig from back into it.... Been smokin' 45 years...quit one time for 5 years..... I LIKE it.... But a week ago I got one of the new fangled E-cigs and have been using it .... Went from 1 1/2 packs a day to 5 cigs in the past week...... and none in the past 3 days.... don't miss them!!!! the e cig meets the tactile, oral, and habitual habit that comes with smoking.... without the smoke.....
Feeling pretty good about this! Still getting the nic hit, without the other bad side effects.
HEY ... Not a cold turkey.... but it is a good thing for me!

MP · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:03:08

All the best to you! Hang in there. You can do it.

MP

okieryder · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:05:07

Yeah, wait till 6 weeks later see if you feel same way!!!

HayHauler · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:08:39

Good on ya Mark. I'm pullin' for ya.

Hay

Jimmyt

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:09:20

Quote from: okieryder on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:05:07
Yeah, wait till 6 weeks later see if you feel same way!!!

I hear ya... one day at a time.... but so far this vaporizer is a whole lot better than smoking! Oh did I mention that everytime someone would tell me I needed to quit smoking.... I'd light one up ...just because...

okieryder · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:12:47

Quote from: hotglue #43 on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:09:20
Quote from: okieryder on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:05:07
Yeah, wait till 6 weeks later see if you feel same way!!!
I hear ya... one day at a time.... but so far this vaporizer is a whole lot better than smoking!

I tried it.

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:16:58

Quote from: okieryder on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:12:47
Quote from: hotglue #43 on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:09:20
Quote from: okieryder on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:05:07
Yeah, wait till 6 weeks later see if you feel same way!!!
I hear ya... one day at a time.... but so far this vaporizer is a whole lot better than smoking!

I tried it.

It's not easy....and I never said that I was quitting.... but one day at a time.... I'm hopeful!

Ghost · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:17:35

Congrats to you and good luck with staying quit. March 16 2014 will be fives years for me and I will be damn if I didn't reach for my top pocket the other day.

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:25:14

Quote from: Ghost on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:17:35
Congrats to you and good luck with staying quit. March 16 2014 will be fives years for me and I will be damn if I didn't reach for my top pocket the other day.

Yea I know.... one day at a time...Thanks!

. · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:29:23

Hey, I'm sending good thoughts your way. I finally laid them down after 35 years and have been smoke free for over 2-1/2 years. It's not easy but it is well worth it. Good luck to ya.

Moonshot_1 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:38:21

Quote from: ShadowDragon on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:29:23
Hey, I'm sending good thoughts your way. I finally laid them down after 35 years and have been smoke free for over 2-1/2 years. It's not easy but it is well worth it. Good luck to ya.

It's pretty easy to quit. Just use that Chantix and find some one to hit you on your motorcycle with a tractor and bust up your ribs so you can hardly breathe. Simple.

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:43:35

It's pretty easy to quit. Just use that Chantix and find some one to hit you on your motorcycle with a tractor and bust up your ribs so you can hardly breathe. Simple.
[/quote] Maybe I'll just light one up.... Thanks but no thanks....

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:10:37

Quote from: MP on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:03:08
All the best to you! Hang in there. You can do it.

MP

Thanks MP!

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:11:28

Quote from: HayHauler on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:08:39
Good on ya Mark. I'm pullin' for ya.

Hay
Jimmyt

Thanks Jimmy!!!!!

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:13:34

Quote from: ShadowDragon on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 22:29:23
Hey, I'm sending good thoughts your way. I finally laid them down after 35 years and have been smoke free for over 2-1/2 years. It's not easy but it is well worth it. Good luck to ya.

Thanks ShadowDragon....and congrats

BF · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:27:21

When I smoked, I reeeeealy like smoking.

My last one was on Jan, 6th, 1995.

Haven't had one puff since.

Had smoked non-stop for about 22 years up to that point.

Got sick one day...bronchitis. Didn't smoke for a couple days. Funny...at the time, I hadn't realized that I hadn't had one in a couple days and apparently didn't miss it.

Said to myself....self?...if you can go without a cigarette for a couple days, you can go without longer than that.

Had about a half pack in the house at that point. Flushed 'em down the toilet.

Good God man....it was tough....but it was truely one day at a time.

I even had the occasional urge up to 10 years later. Granted, they were rare, but they still happend....10 year later.

The urges do go away permantly though.....haven't had the urge to have a smoke in years.

It really is one day at a time.

I reeeeealy liked smoking. If I can quit, you can quit.

I'm pullin' for ya.

R J · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:30:14

Hey Mark. I quit 31 years ago cold turkey and have not looked back except for this firkin O2 hose.

I smoked UNfiltered Lucky Strikes for 41 years.

Lucky Strike was a Red/Green colored pack back then.

Lucky Strike Green went to war and the pack was red/white.

In all that time I never smoked a filtered cigarette.

If I couldn't get Luckies I got the LONG Pall Mall's.

I smoked when I was playing football. Coach caught me and set my arse on the bench for a week. He told me I catch you again it will be 2 weeks, and if I catch you the 3rd time, you are off the team. I don't care how good of a quarterbak you are, you will be done. He never caught me again. There was 3 of us football & baseball smokers.

old2soon · Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:57:28

April 20th 2014 I will be smoke free for 12 years.

My LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST helped me quit cause by myself I am NOT that strong. He left me with C O P D and I know my limitations every day. I'm at the point in my life where I smell it it now makes me sick. Good luck on layin em down FOREVER Mark. RIDE SAFE.

Serk · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 00:25:05

Quitting's easy...

It's that not starting again part that's a bitch...

Good luck Mark!

Oss · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 03:52:31

Good luck to you on your battle.

Flat6Valk · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 04:02:05

Mark you have my support!

sugarbee · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 05:32:13

Good luck, Mark! I tried and failed. Maybe I'll try again.

Think of the money you will be saving....that should be enough to motivate me.....

Let us know how it's going.

Hope to see you all in April

.. · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 05:43:35

One day at a time is the way to go.

robin · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 06:00:00

Good for you Mark anything is better than nuttin just watch out for the E-Cigs from China

Willow · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 06:47:34

'Glue I'm pulling for you. Wishing you and Charlyne the best of good fortune in this endeavor.

You have always been the man and you are in control.

BnB Tom · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 06:55:20

Let's see.

If I still smoked 3 packs a day . . . and cigs cost $5.50 per pack. . . and I quit cold turkey.

By the end of 12 months I would have saved enough money to pay cash for a $6000 motorcycle!!

Holy Crap!?

I wished I still smoked so I could quit today and buy another bike in a year

Momz · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 07:20:56

Good Luck Mark

Been there, so I know what it's like.

Fritz The Cat · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 07:36:51

It took me a decade to discover a very simple truth about cigs -

THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO QUIT IS COLD TURKEY !!!!!

Once I realized this, all it took was 2 years of suffering to get completely off nicotine. If I had not, I'd be taking a dirt nap instead of typing this. I lost a couple of good friends to lung cancer and decided I didn't want to go like that.

Gavin_Sons · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 07:42:38

I work with guys that are heavy smokers, 3 or 4 packs a day. We moved into a brand new building a couple years ago and cant smoke inside. They picked up e cigarettes and 3 of the guys are completly off cigarettes. I smoke when I ride and use chewing tobacco most other times. I do all the stuff that is bad for you.

solo1 · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 07:54:31

I quit on November 22, 1963, cold turkey, oh yeah. I was smoking my wife's bent, ash tray, lipstick smeared Viceroy butts for another three days and then stopped. I can look back on it and laugh now.

Unfortunately, my wife didn't quit soon enough. She died at 67 of COPD.

Keep it up Mark, It is important to quit. My hat is off to you for doing it.

wayne

skromfols · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 08:05:09

It's certainly not easy, but if you decide that it's what's best for you you can do it. I started smoking in the 3rd grade, was up to a pack a day by the 8th grade and when I gave them up at 35 yrs old I had been smoking 3 packs a day for years. People tried to convince me to quit, the cost of cigarettes started going up, I smelled like tobacco all the time, etc., but what I realized is that only one person could make the decision, and it had to be my decision. I quit cold turkey, and like others, I actually dreamed about smoking for years.

After having quit for a full year I figured out I had probably saved enough to buy a new motorcycle, so I bought a new Honda V-45 Magna. Much better than a cigarette.

Spirited-6 · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 08:23:34

Mark, if you could follow R.J. or me for a day you would know real quick what smoking is doing to you. I quit in 95 and thought I was doing great ! COPD kicked me ass in 2010. Thinking I was out of the woods was wrong. Did not see it coming until one day I could not take a big breath. Down hill every since. When I say "down hill" I mean down hill. I had some bad thoughts for a while. I have a wonderful wife that has been my life line. Bottom, line Mark, listen to PRO`S

PharmBoy · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 08:46:10

Mark, it is not one day at a time. It is 5 minutes at a time for a while. When ya want a smoke look at your watch and say to your self, "5 minutes isn't very long". Soon, those 5 minute stretches get longer and longer. I quit in '82 with an open pack of Winstons in my shirt pocket and a lighter in my pants pocket. It takes will power. Nothing else is more powerful than your mind. (it also helps to be a little bit stubborn.) Stay with it, my friend!...Jim

Master Blaster · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 09:08:55

Hang in there Mark. Like RJ I used to smoke Luckys and Pall Malls, quit many years ago but the wife kept on. She smoked Pall Malls until about 8 years ago when she had to have a quadruple bypass. That finally convinced her it would be prudent to quit, and she did cold turkey like I did so many years ago. Its hard, but when you decide to, it can be done.

Valkorado · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 09:10:35

I like the Fin cartridges available at Walmart. The bold ones are the closest to a smoke I've tried. Others I've tried are too light.

http://fincigs.com/e-cigarette-store/pack-of-5-cartomizers-tobacco-bold/

old2soon · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 09:46:28

Quote from: BnB Tom on Tue 31, Dec 2013, 06:55:20
Let's see.

If I still smoked 3 packs a day . . . and cigs cost $5.50 per pack. . . and I quit cold turkey.

By the end of 12 months I would have saved enough money to pay cash for a $6000 motorcycle!!

Holy Crap!?

I wished I still smoked so I could quit today and buy another bike in a year

Set the money aside like yer still smoking. And YES easier said than done. RIDE SAFE.

Patrick · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 10:29:10

And now there is a push here to ban these e-cigs. I'm not a smoker and have not yet been near an e-cig so I don't know whether they stink or not.

Daniel Meyer · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 10:32:09

For a moment you had me in a blind panic...

Hotglue...talking about smoking...and quitting...my mind immediately went to BBQ!

Noooooooooo!

Congratulations! And keep at it!

Jess Tolbirt · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 10:33:22

Quote from: BF on Mon 30, Dec 2013, 23:27:21
When I smoked, I reeeeealy like smoking.

My last one was on Jan, 6th, 1995.

Haven't had one puff since.

Had smoked non-stop for about 22 years up to that point.

Got sick one day...bronchitis. Didn't smoke for a couple days. Funny...at the time, I hadn't realized that I hadn't had one in a couple days and apparently didn't miss it.

Said to myself....self?...if you can go without a cigarette for a couple days, you can go without longer than that.

Had about a half pack in the house at that point. Flushed 'em down the toilet.

Good God man....it was tough....but it was truely one day at a time.

I even had the occasional urge up to 10 years later. Granted, they were rare, but they still happend....10 year later.

The urges do go away permantly though.....haven't had the urge to have a smoke in years.

It really is one day at a time.

I reeeeealy liked smoking. If I can quit, you can quit.

I'm pullin' for ya.

i was basically the same as you only i got the flu one year.. 1998 i believe it was..i smoked for about 28 years, newports, 2 packs a day...urges? yea but not often. i can now smell a lit cigarette a mile away and it makes me sick to my tummy to smell it..

Hooter · Tue 31, Dec 2013, 10:46:16

There are a bunch of ways to quit. IF you don't want to quit, simple, don't. Fear like in my case, when the doctor said: You have "cancer". Too late as far as I was concerned at the time but I quit. That was 24 years ago and guess what, he was wrong, I didn't have cancer. Cold Turkey: tough but determination and the "WANT" to quit has to be there. Chantix, I have no idea about but some of my friends have been successful with it so it must work for some people. There is that Nicorette (sp) not sure how that does??

Like em, don't quit, but that was what my folks said up until the day my dad died of a massive heart attack and my mother died of lung cancer. On the flip side, people that never smoked a day in their lives die the same way. Some of it also depends on your work environment as well. Too much exposure to anything isn't good either.

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Not sayin' I'm quitting smoking.... but