brunoafh wrote:Also, quitting smoking isn't hard at all. It's just a matter of whether or not you actually want to.)
Quitting smoking reminded me a lot of fasting. The first three days suck. Bad.
After that, I was fine and didn't have a single "fiending" for a smoke. It all depends on the person, but usually after three days I'm fairly good with starting or stopping any regimen.
That said, when I quit smoking I threw out a full pack of smokes I just bought with a , "You know what? This shit is stupid" attitude. Attitude is everything.
I dunno, for me it was just so easy. I smoked the last marb in my pack, and thought "eh, this is just too nasty". I was only smoking for about 3 years though, so maybe that's why it was so easy. I wasn't edgy afterwards at all really, but again, it's because I actually wanted to quit and lost all desire to smoke.
I smoke very occasionally, I'm talking less than 10 a year since I quit, and pretty much only if I'm really drunk and someone offers me a marb. My gf's grandfather recently passed away due to terminal lung cancer though, so cigs have been strictly off limits, heh.
I quit cold turkey when I realized the month+ it was taking me to finish a pack had made all the cigarettes stale. I smoked a lot more when all of my friends were smokers but once I killed the herd mentality the urges stopped completely.
I forced myself through one full cig. I don't know how people smoke that stuff. Shit hurt my lungs and gave me a massive headache + the spins. At that point, I had probably been smoking marijuana for a year or so too, so it wasn't like my lungs weren't used to having smoke put inside them.
My experience quitting was along the same line as Luke's. The first three days were brutal, and I the cravings were constant, but then I woke up the fourth morning after quitting and haven't wanted a cigarette since. That was a couple years ago now, and I was able to quit with my brother still smoking around me all the time.
Czernobog wrote:My experience quitting was along the same line as Luke's. The first three days were brutal, and I the cravings were constant, but then I woke up the fourth morning after quitting and haven't wanted a cigarette since. That was a couple years ago now, and I was able to quit with my brother still smoking around me all the time.
At a certain point, cigarette smoke smells absolutely nauseating. Except for unfiltered Lucky Strikes (God I still like that smell).
Czernobog wrote:My experience quitting was along the same line as Luke's. The first three days were brutal, and I the cravings were constant, but then I woke up the fourth morning after quitting and haven't wanted a cigarette since. That was a couple years ago now, and I was able to quit with my brother still smoking around me all the time.
At a certain point, cigarette smoke smells absolutely nauseating. Except for unfiltered Lucky Strikes (God I still like that smell).
I have asthma, never smoked. But I'll be damned if I don't love the smell of cigarettes! Barring menthols, I can't help it!
