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[mrsquirrel]

See for me it was easy. I just woke up one morning and new it was the day to quit.

Stopping drinking was harder for me than stopping smoking. That took some serious will power.

[jhaelin]

i remember watching a doc many years back about smoking and how the chemical acetyl aldehyde is supposed to be linked with habbit forming response in our brain chemistry. so smoking after meals, beers, or after stress, links the chemical with a rise in seratonin levels during those events.
so....
when you quit you should try to avoid activites associated with rise in seratonin levels during your weakest moments. e.g. don't eat chocolate after meals or during stress in lieu of smoking because you are only replacing one chemical stimulant for another while the craving for something will continue to remain...
which is why fasting is so condusive to losing subtance habbits.

i quite smoking and didn't have the rough first week because i was doing a "master cleanse", lemon juice fast.

[Keepongoing]

2 days without a smoke. Last night a very disturbed sleep. The voice is like a nagging woman. Tomorrow night, if I go drinking in Itaewan, will I make it though 3 days? Do I really want to do this?

Well-I do not want to smell like smoke!

I hate the inconvenience of being home and comfortable and finding out that I have 2 cigarettes left and no others in my flat, so I have to dress and run to the store.

I reallly, realllllly miss that first one in the morning!!!!!!!! Coffee without a cigarette Beer without a cigarette The other thing without a cigarette .



Oh well Keep plugging on

[Son Deureo!]

[SPINOZA]

Nicotine withdrawal peaks at about 4 days and subsides after about 7, but really, to be 100% okay, give it 14 days.

And remember - quiting nicotine is very easy compared to quitting alcohol or narcotics. Quitting booze or heroin incapacitates the user, making straightforward tasks and relationships almost impossible. Alcohol withdrawal is so severe, it's strongly advised that a would-be alcohol quitter seek professional help and NOT go cold turkey, whereas with nicotine withdrawal, cold turkey is your best bet. Alcohol and heroin quitters frequently commit suicide.

[Xerxes]

I had been quit 3 years once before, then I started this really stressful job that got me back on the smokin horse. Most recently, I had been quit for 5 years then I found these Cuban cigars on Jeju-do.

They smelled great and those things being illegal in the US, I couldn't resist and bought a few. Although it was mouth smoking, I guess I was still getting the nicotine into my system through my blood vessels in my mouth (and it is a rush because they are so strong). After an odd bout of a cigar here or there in a span of about two months and then having this one guy at work I hung out with constantly smoking in front of me got me started again.

AFTER 5 YEARS! I don't smoke more than 10 a day when into the work week, but I hardly smoke at all when I am at home.

I asked my doctor about this and he said the serotonin/dopamine levels are what I am addicted to, and not necessarily the nicotine. jhaelin's point above, too, I guess.

I have never had a big weight gain in my other long times being quit, but the on-again, off-again smoking is really giving me a big weight gain, especially after my latest trip to the States and treating myself to some "real" cookin food.

I would even consider the fast, but I'm afraid that the binge that might follow and the lack of energy while I am working might together do me in, if the nic won't.

This is me smokin after I got real smug and claimed it was so easy to quit in some other quitting smoking thread.

The ironies of life! Who'da thunk it! *Arrghhhh*

[Keepongoing]

THis article makes me want to smoke LOL

http://www.livescience.com/health/041129_smoking_feel.html

[Cliffhanger]

Don't know if I'm qualified to participate in this poll because I am still smoking, but...
I have tried to quit many times. I always try to quit when I get sick. Hate the taste of smoke when I'm sick. I would agree with those that say to be careful having a few at the bar. That's how I started again almost everytime. It starts out as " I'll just have one ", then " I'll just have a couple" , then " I'll just buy one pack. Then the next thing you know you're smoking more then you used to . I would like to quit, but the problem is... I just love smoking too much

[igotthisguitar]

i've quit again recently ... whooh-hoo!

wanna quit? really? sick of being a weak slave to ignorance & death?


Fine, try this one on for size.


i command thee to:


"TURN THE WILL, & thereby empower thyself!!"



Buddha Mojo

[Keepongoing]

well I did go out drinking last night, but I never lit up! I am now working on my 4th day without a cig.

[oneofthesarahs]

[Cliffhanger]

[igotthisguitar]

[ChopChaeJoe]

Pretty much, when I'm on fire. I just smoke and smoke. Even fter i douse myself with water, steam mmixed with smouldering smoke continues to rise.

Seriously though, Two weeks without a cigarette. I set a date, waited until that date, then quit. I was offered a cigarette at a bar by some Koreans, I accepted and took one puff, then i was dragged onto the dance floor by this 40ish woman and left the cigarette behind. Close call.

[Keepongoing]

24 days without a cigarette still get the occassional small craving-still appreciate the pleasure of smoking and amazed at myself that I am not smoking.

I am eating a lot more- almost always hungry