Day 5 now---no butts!
I feel like killing somebody!!!!:af:
Whatever the hell it is they put in them things is good %$%$%$%$.:af:

Congrats bro!!! Ive been off the chokeys for almost 5 years now, best thing ive done. 1st week sucks, 2nd week isnt too bad, after the 3rd week its easy.

Think positive Dave, your gonna feel better, foods gonna taste better and lota money saved. Keep tellin your self..... I used to smoke,I did and it worked for me.

It's funny, after only 5 days, things already taste better and I can smell cig. smoke from a mile away.

:claps: Keep up the good work! You wouldn't believe how the manufacturers monkey with tobacco to KEEP you addicted. They are murderers plain and simple and you've escaped them.;)

They say each cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life!:confused: Keep up the good work and you won't have to spend your golden years hauling an oxygen tank around with you.:( I have seen many that had to...sad really! Think about that every time you get the urge.....such a friggin waste.:smash:

without nicotine gum I was chewing 10-20 pieces a day of 4 mg gum I put a 7 mg patch to take the edge off but I am jonseing for a piece of gum I have not smoked a ciggerette in two years but the gum was really getting to me $$$$$

Congrats Dave you've made the first step!

Identify your triggers that make you WANT to smoke, ELIMINATE them for 30 days. You will feel better and 30 days is the real hurdle. Come back and tell us how you feel in 6 months.....and then a year. Cuz if you think you feel better NOW just WAIT.

I think i'm 8 years quit now last January I don't remember the years...2.5 packs a day for 18 years.....

Fishaholic...how did you do it? Gum? Patch? Cold Turkey? I'm quitting tomorrow...I've tried 3 times before, but never caught on. I'm actually sick of smoking, it doesn't give me any rush like it used to, and now it's more out of habit than anything...any more advice from anybody would be great too. They say smoking is the hardest addiction to knock...even worse than heroin.

Cold turkey.
It's not as bad as I thought, gets easier every day.
I still crave after I eat, so I just keep eating. LOL
The cravings after eating seem to last less every day.
The tough part for me is that my wife smokes, but she's been good enough not to smoke in front of me, that helps.
It's mostly a mental thing beleive it or not, setting your mind on quitting is half the battle.
Go for it, your lungs will feel better in just a few days.
Good Luck!

Get your wife to quit with you...that will help.;)

Originally posted by BigFish
Get your wife to quit with you...that will help.;)

I'm trying Larry, it's not easy convincing someone to quit if they don't want to. I'm not giving up on her though, unless she gets pissed and throws me out. :laughs:

Just show her what you hork up in the morning now!:eek: Smoking suppresses that reflex and the smoking crud just builds up. She'll want to quit when she sees.

Ahhh...the "horking"! Thats the most fun part of smoking from what I can tell. I see people "horking" all the time and their solution is to have another cigarette.:huh: I sure am glad I never smoked cause it sure looks like a real pain in the ass!:smash:

http://www.horkulated.com/

HORK :laughs:

Keep up the good work FA. Ater having coffee or beer is the hardest.:hihi: You will get to the point where you'll start dreaming you lit up and be mad at yourself,wake up and say thank God it was just a dream:) You'll know u beat it when ya get an aversion to the smell of a cigarette.:hihi:
Your doin a great thing,we are pullin for ya:D

quitting smoking was easy, now if i could just quit this damn dip

Congratulations ! :claps:

I have been off them since 1/2/05 and it feels great.

I had to convince myself it was time to stop being a drug addict.....:smash: :smash:

whenever I stop its the friggin scotch that fires me back up again :af:

keep up the good work!!!:kewl: everyone- please quit! if not for yourself then for your family and friends. we are burying my friends wife on wednesday:( freeekin' smokes killed this beautiful woman:mad:

FA, try to exercise, too. It helps your reispatory system. Keep it up, man. My dad used to be a smoker and he stopped it when I was around 4 or less.

Notaro, that's my next step. Thanks for the advice.

;) u re welcome.

Good luck Dave, keep up the good work, your body will appreciate it.

Originally posted by cheferson
Congrats bro!!! Ive been off the chokeys for almost 5 years now, best thing ive done. 1st week sucks, 2nd week isnt too bad, after the 3rd week its easy.

im on month 11, almost a year now, and i would still love to kill someone thats smoking and take thier cig:af: :smokin: i dont find it any easier now than the first couple weeks.:smash:

Day 5 Im ready to put a foot in someones A$$ :af: :af: :af: :af: :af:

Originally posted by Backbeach Jake
Just show her what you hork up in the morning now!:eek: Smoking suppresses that reflex and the smoking crud just builds up. She'll want to quit when she sees.

That's what stoped me cold over 20 years ago. I couldn't believe what I coughed up:sick: Don't gie up.

Pete:D

Originally posted by ThrowingTimber
Day 5 Im ready to put a foot in someones A$$ :af: :af: :af: :af: :af:

Good for you Vic.
Hang in there, it gets easier with time.

Im gonna hafta start running or something IM EATING EVERYTHIGN THAT ISNT NAILED TO THE GROUND:laughs:

Originally posted by ThrowingTimber
Im gonna hafta start running or something IM EATING EVERYTHIGN THAT ISNT NAILED TO THE GROUND:laughs:

That's my problem too.
Another habit to kick!!!:af:

You guys should take notaros advice and start working out. Helps take your mind off the smokes and also will keep your weight down with all the extra food you eat when you quit. I put on like 20lbs when i quit.

Woke up at 5am, threw on some shorts and running shoes, fired up the treadmill, stood back, looked at it for a bit... went back upstairs grabbed a cofee and danish... went back to sleep, woke up triple S and off to work....

Originally posted by ThrowingTimber
Im gonna hafta start running or something IM EATING EVERYTHIGN THAT ISNT NAILED TO THE GROUND:laughs:


When my dad quit drinking he picked up another vice......Ice Cream.

He would eat a quart a night, every night, and I'm talking w/ Hot Fudge and Whip Cream. Put on about 30 pounds and he's only about 5'3" so it showed....But after a couple of years he backed off the Ice Cream and the weight came off.

Wicked funny I got a piece of cake the size of arkansas in front of me right NOW! I think I t'd off a bunch of atkins ppl. Here! Ice cream you cant eat that stuff quick without the headache :mad:

Hard candy

WRONG! Sugar eats the enamel off your teeth. Gives you hypercementium.....ask me how I KNOW

Originally posted by Eben
Hard candy

if these guys go another 3 mos. maybe we should give them plugage:)

USE TO SMOKE.... keep sayiing it!

I used Altoids to replace the smokes when I was done with Nicorette. Take an imaginary drag with uber-mint in your mouth. Works!;)

Originally posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
WRONG! Sugar eats the enamel off your teeth. Gives you hypercementium.....ask me how I KNOW

okay.. how about chronic masturbation... it worked for Weewee, it could work for Timber :hihi:

new thread :laughs:

Nothing to do with what Eben is talking about but I had a cortizone shot in my right shoulder today from repetitive motion...:hihi: :smokin: :doh: johnny

dang.. i was going to dee-lete that. :smash:

gawd I love thai food :vamp:

Originally posted by afterhours
if these guys go another 3 mos. maybe we should give them plugage:)

:jump:
Now you're talking!
:smokin: :rocketem:

:mad:

It must be the year to kick the nic sticks. I went cold turkey Jan 18...a little over a pack a day...Just don't try and go on a diet at the same time....lots of sweets helped me through the cravings, but now I hit 250#....when is this good weather gonna hit so I can work off the extra extra.....

Im doing alright not feeling so :splat: anymore just eating like crazy, but I been running in the morning before work :D

I been running in the morning before work :D

From the cops?? :bl:

i got a needle 4 U that will make you :happy:

I'm on one month and still going...

nah no need to run from the cops in the hood, plenty of brown ppl like me here :D ... Its those back woods of exeter that scare me :hidin:

it's the mental associations you make with things that cause you to react
negatively or positively towards them... and i believe there are stop smoking tapes you can buy to change your mind set...for about ten bucks... but remember that smoke is dust....and within that dust is the nicotine,,,which by the way is an insecticide utilized by cotton growers to kill the cotton boweevil
because NOTHING else will.... power walking is better than jogging because is less traumatic to your joints.... and you don't build up carbon dioxide and fatigue yourself so readily..

Hang in there Fishaholic,

My Mom and Dad quit 1 year ago this month...My Dad had pretty much smoked non-filtered Camels for 45 years. If you can stop smoking those things anything is possible.

Is great going to their house now. No cigarette smell and the grandkids don't stink when they come home...

I gotta quit :smash:

I quit smoking about 11 years ago and then quit Copenhagen about 2 years later... Copenhagen was much harder. :bc: :bc: :af: :af: :wall: (I did two tins a day, which is roughly the equivalent nicotine of 6 packs of smokes)

One thing I remember: After about a month or so I noticed my taste buds came back and so did smells (not always good). I also remember how nicotine kinda keeps you in a bit of a haze that you never noticed until you quit...

keep up the good work guys......you won't regret it.

and remember " you used to smoke" " you used to be a smoker"

3 weeks this past saturday. Still eating like a mf'er! :wall: to anyone thinking of quiting GET A BJ"S OR SAMS CLUB CARD!!! You'll be eating LIKE A MF"ER!!!!! :uhuh:

Quitting?!, hell, I'll be starting up again..... cigars on the beach :uhuh: :) johnny

the reason your body craves food is because it is no longer working fulltime with all its eliminatory organs to rid the body of the INSECTICIDE nicotine
and the oral stimulation is also absent. Plus your tastebuds return to normal.

3 weeks this past saturday. Still eating like a mf'er! :wall: to anyone thinking of quiting GET A BJ"S OR SAMS CLUB CARD!!! You'll be eating LIKE A MF"ER!!!!! :uhuh:

Keep it up Vic.
You can afford a few pounds, you're lucky, unlike me.
I need to go on a f$#@# diet. :peessed:

f18 I think I was legally part ham for most of the day on Easter Sunday... Hell Im eating now.... :D

You need to eat.

:gu:

Broke my ankle in February. Three weeks into cast got a wicked chest cold. Coughed all night every 15 min like clockwork. Lungs hurt so bad thought I was gonna cough up my testicles. Stopped smoking and now it is 2 months and 1 week without a smoke. Wife goes outside and smells when she comes in. Hope she'll stop. Came out of Home Depot the other day and followed a guy who lit up all the way to his car then walked back to mine. But now I say "I choose not to smoke" and it's getting better.

Hang in there - It'll be worth it for all of us.

Sarge :wid:

1 month = 1 pant size :liquify:

go on light one up :buds: You know You want a nice cancer stick go on.......
and Ya get to hack ya lungs and the smell :hihi:

It's been about 7 weeks for me . I can breathe..... :tm:
I feel much better.

great job Dave, :kewl:
picked my date :rollem:

Geez, all this talk of quitting. I guess I need to give it a try again and get this monkey of my back :bc: I'm envious of the folks that have quite here,

great job Dave, :kewl:
picked my date :rollem:

Chris, make your date NOW!!!
It's worth the initial suffering..
You'll feel better in no time.
Good Luck!!!!! :hihi:
Throw the butts in the trash Dude..We're all routing for ya. :tm:

Gotta finish up my South Beach thingy first, shedding a quick 20#'s first..so i have room to grow :doh: But I am gonna, I have too...too many good years left, I hope :hee:

Gotta finish up my South Beach thingy first, shedding a quick 20#'s first..so i have room to grow :doh: But I am gonna, I have too...too many good years left, I hope :hee:

If your game, we can try to shake this nasty habit together. Lets set a date and if one of us starts smoking again then he owes the other a couple of plugs or something. :bl:

I'm game... :buds:

I'm game... :buds:

Alrighty then, lets choose a date :err: The first one to break owes the other a plug of his choice (please don't pick one of those gold plated ones from the smithsonian). Not sure if I'll try the patch or gum or just go cold turkey. Been smoking since I was a teen, almost 30 years now(on and off). I think its time to stop this silliness. Maybe after I'll try to quite sniffin the glue :tm:

one thing at a time :D

How soon? The date I picked is a ways out, I know I know but hey. Lots of things to consider and it was the most feasible for me... I say three plugs, and choice of builders, gotta beg, borrow, and rump swab to get em..
It's been 19yrs... do about 2 1/2 packs a day now of reds, almost $14..over 5k a year !!! stupid :smash:

one thing at a time :D

How soon? The date I picked is a ways out, I know I know but hey. Lots of things to consider and it was the most feasible for me... I say three plugs, and choice of builders, gotta beg, borrow, and rump swab to get em..
It's been 19yrs... do about 2 1/2 packs a day now of reds, almost $14..over 5k a year !!! stupid :smash:

Wow, thats a lot of tobacky, 2 1/2 per day! A pack will last me at least 2 days, unless I'm chasing them down with beer on a weekend. I can't smoke at work, home or in my new truck. My GF thinks I quit a few months ago and he she finds out I didn't she'll kill me for sure. 3 plugs are fair, thats only 3 or 4 days of smoking for you :smokin: What date did you have in mind?

May 5th, whatdoyasay?

May 5th, whatdoyasay?
:kewl: :bl:

I don't know how many people see you, but I am watched by a few :hidin:
A man's word is good enough for me, you can lie to your girlfriend and to your mother but not to your friends.. :hihi:

Put it on the calendar, I did...

Consider it done! Check your PM

I quit first week in january 05..surprisingly I didnt have that much of a craving issue but I used the patch at least for the first set then I didnt need it for the second set of patches...gained 20 lbs ....and against everyones statements I dont breath all that much better,am tired all the time, cranky, and just dont feel all that great yet....but I havent really come close to starting up again :hee:

May 5th, whatdoyasay?


Cinco De Mayo. Stars birthday lets party Chris. :smokin:

:kewl: Sounds like a plan, and I won't fall behind on my drinking because I am outside pushing down a choker..... :buds:
Does that mean I gotta bring a present :huh:

If you are gonna quit smoking then that is a present enough...a few extra years on the end of your life... :bounce: But I do like jewelry ;)

She likes pink plugs.

She likes pink plugs.
:cool:

:cool:

25 days and counting :hidin: Must be getting close to shad time?

I hear ya buddy, I thought the same thing today........ U still with me?

I hear ya buddy, I thought the same thing today........ U still with me?
Hell ya! :smokin: Just say when. Check your PM

Check your PM
Right back at cha :smokin:

Nuttin in there bubba

It's there now, sorry

It's not easy. Still have not had a smoke and stopped counting the days. Still want a smoke everytime my wife goes outside the house for a cig. She smells when she comes in. I notice it from 5 feet away.

Good luck guys and I'll tell ya something....I have not coughed a bit since I got off the smokes, food is great and can't tell you how nice it is to have cash in my pocket all week that isn't used for a pack a day.

Sarge :musc:

47 days lost the want to kick the crap outta someone feeling around 20-22 days....

FA18 and TT- I/2 way to free plugs.

47 days lost the want to kick the crap outta someone feeling around 20-22 days....
Same here Vic. Although, I still feel like kicking the crap out of Clammer everytime I talk to him. LOL :scream: That may be from all the abuse he gives me.

Don...I want plugs!!!!! :btu:

You think he abuses you, you should listen to half the chit he tells me, he treats me like the whipping boy, tend that line, bring me a coffee (double lite 3 equals w/2 plain donuts), your a effin slacker, shouldnt you do some work, why the f arent you chasin broads, see that couple over there rolling in the sand, you should be doing that instead of chasin fish, f corporate work they'll use ya a toss ya to the lions.. etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc trust me I get my fair share... But I give it right back tot he old goat... for example

old Buzzard: We used to clean up on fish back here a...
me: (figuring this was within the past year or two) Thats cool, so this is recently?
Old Buzzard: Oh yeah
me; How long ago?
old buzzard: Oh I'd say about 20-25 yrs ago.....
me: Oh I see... I was learning to crawl then... You guy ever see any disnosaurs in the bay? :rotf2:

We should start a new thread on that. It could go on a while... :gf:

old buzzard: Oh I'd say about 20-25 yrs ago.....
me: Oh I see... I was learning to crawl then... You guy ever see any disnosaurs in the bay? :rotf2:[/QUOTE]

:hihi:

Just 2 days away, ugh................. :smokin: :doh:

2 months tomorrow for me. Try maybe cutting down your intake now, so theres not so much initial shock, I chew gum like a madman!

1 day left, Chiiiiiiiiiittttt! I'm going to smoke 5 packs today and puke.

I'm ready... over $10 a day....4k+ a year, I am gonna reward myself bigtime this fall WHEN I make it...........