I Quit Smoking

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I only smoke when I drink. Something about it, just can’t help it.

Other than that, I don’t smoke, and I think its great that you guys are quitting. :slight_smile:

here’s a couple of jokes about smoking that I thought were funny:

“I quit smoking a couple months ago. Its been really tough. But you know what I hated the most when I was smoking? It was those non-smokers that always said something whenever I lit up a cigarette. One time I lit up, and this woman behind me started to cough and choke. That really pissed me off, so I turned around to her and said, ‘Listen, if you don’t like the smoke, just move back a couple of pews all right?!’”

“So I was driving home from a party one day when I blacked out. I woke up in the ditch with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. It was then that I decided to quit smoking… those cigarettes were going to be the death of me…”

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I don’t smoke when I drink.

I don’t drink when I smoke.

I don’t smoke.

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yeah, I shouldn’t even be smoking when I drink. Actually I should say this, “I only smoke when I’m drunk, and I don’t know any better than to not smoke.”

By the time that I start smoking, I have about 10 in me, and we smoke cloves when we drink. Definately messes with your head… :crazy:

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well, if you think about it, doing both only shortens your lifespan faster. you’re endangering your lungs and your liver.

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Oh, I have definately thought about it, and I don’t always smoke when I drink. Its only when my friends that smoke are around and they start smoking, so I take a drag or two from them. I don’t drink with them that often… maybe once a month or so. Its not like I’m smoking a pack a night, or even a full cigarette.

The shortening of my life is not something that I’m terribly worried about. Everyone else in my family is immortal (or at least it seems)

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*Originally posted by Jubba *
I only smoke when I drink. Something about it, just can’t help it.
So very very true, I used to smoke a pack of Newport Regulars a night when I drink. Now I haven’t bought a pack in about 3 months, but my girlfriend smokes so I always end up smoking when I am with her out of her pack. Darn women! :stuck_out_tongue:

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*Originally posted by thoriphes *
**well, if you think about it, doing both only shortens your lifespan faster. you’re endangering your lungs and your liver. **

My poor liver packed its bags and went home years ago.

I recently caught up with the little bastard.

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i smoked newports for about 7 years, i quit for about 2 and then when my x girl started banging every1 i started again.

pretty girls dig graves

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*Originally posted by Digitalosophy *
**when my x girl started banging every 1 i started again.

**

Sorry bro but that is the quote of the day right there :slight_smile:

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lmao

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*Originally posted by fester8542 *
**Sorry bro but that is the quote of the day right there :slight_smile: **
What he said :stuck_out_tongue:

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lol Fester… i didn’t originally see the image… thanks for that…

and yeah… that is definately the quote of the day…

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Good luck with giving up!

You could chew gum instead, lots cheaper etc…

Never touched a cigarette, anti smoker that I am. I would never go out with a smoker, and hate smokey pubs…

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*Originally posted by Ranoka *
**Good luck with giving up!

You could chew gum instead, lots cheaper etc…

Never touched a cigarette, anti smoker that I am. I would never go out with a smoker, and hate smokey pubs… **

Thanx for the motivation bro.

By the way. If britney spears came up to you and wanted to be your personal hump hill …and she was a smoker…im sure you would get over it. :thumb:

Cheers!

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Originally posted by fester8542 *
By the way. If britney spears came up to you and wanted to be your personal hump hill …and she was a smoker…im sure you would get over it. :thumb:
Now if that isn’t the d***amned truth then I don’t know what is! :stuck_out_tongue:

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One bit of advice, that bull$hit about physical addiction is just that. You may have a physical dependence on nicotine, but in all reality, I smoked a pack a day for 5 years, and the physical addiction was never what stood in my way from quitting. It’s the force of habit, and situational pressures that will make you smoke another cigarette. You’ve had a few drinks. Someone offers you a cigarette at the bar. That’s a lot tougher then not smoking at work all day, got nothing to do with how physically addicted you are.

I “quit” when I realized that I was acting like an addict- going outside for the express purpose of smoking a cigarette makes no sense to me, and is akin to doing a line in the morning before going to work.

Anyone who’s smoked for any length of time will tell you that smoking a cigarette is pleasurable, especially after a meal, getting laid, a few glasses of wine, etc. I look at cigarettes like every other vice, nice once in a while, but moderation in all things (including moderation :wink: ) is the key, my friend.

Once I stopped being a cigarette addict, I started feeling free to truly enjoy a cigarette once in a while when at a bar or something, just like I enjoy a few drinks here and there, etc. etc. Do I pop a beer as soon as I open my eyes in the morning? No, that’d be pretty alcoholic of me. In the same sense, I won’t keep cigarettes around and smoke 'em all day, there’s no reason.

That worked for me, but then again you could be the AA type who needs to draw a line in the sand on this one and never touch a cigarette again. Who knows.

I will tell you this- however you want to look at it, if you’ve been smoking a pack a day for 11 years, you need to quit cold turkey for a long while before you can even start thinking about smoking in moderation. That moderation thing is something you can go back to later, after you no longer feel the ** need ** to smoke. And that’ll be a while.

Oh, and you don’t need any “luck” to quit smoking. Like everything else, once it becomes important enough to you, you’ll do it.

When you can snatch the pebble from my hand…

[SIZE=1]my .02[/SIZE]

-Corey

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the thing that got me back into smoking every time I quit, was not the nicotine, but the act of something to do with my hands…

Certain situations screamed for me to have a cig in my hand…

Not being able to smoke in bars, and a $5/pack pricetag definitely got me to think of other ways to combat that urge.

Once the urge is gone, not smoking is easy…

Rev

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well i gained about 15 pounds when i quit, oral fixation i guess

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Yup. After the chemical addiction is gone, (which it should be almost if not all the way for you guys) the need to smoke is based on situations. The hardest part for me when I tried to quit before was driving… During the fantasic Chicago rush hour traffic, I would smoke. Well when I bought a new car I decided that I would not smoke in it. I didn’t want the smell, stains, and burns on my seats. Once I got over needing to smoke in the car I smoked a lot less. Now once I get over the “need” to smoke at work, my victory will be complete. It not easy, the mind will play tricks on you, making it harder than it should be.

Oh and Rev, the $5 a pack thing help me decide that I no longer wanted to smoke as well. Thats harsh… Can you envision yourself lighting a 5 dollar bill on fire and throwing it out the window every day? I sure couldn’t. :wink:

Cheers!
-Niann

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lol $5 haha try $7. ny baby!