If you say so. :dubious: Anyway for most people, it’s not like that.
So you and your parents successfully quit on the very first attempt?
My grandmother did. After about 60 years of being a chain smoker.
Heck, I knew a handful of recreational smokers. A pack would last em a couple of weeks.
Kinda like people that eat a jelly filled doughnut once every few months I guess.
She never once tried to quit at any time during those 60 years? And are you sure?
For about 30 to 40 of em? A fairly solid Yes. And I doubt in the early years she gave a rats ass because, in those days the public didn’t think smoking was bad. Hell they probably thought it was good for you.
And who cares. Maybe she quit for a day or three a dozen times (if it was for long than that I am pretty sure I would have heard about it. Point is she EVENTUALLY did and went decades past that.
News flash Mcfly. SOME people are not addicted to shit as others are.
Heck, it was in the news recently. Andy Griffin apparenlty was multiple pack a day smoker and the story was he quit cold turkey.
As far as I know, yes. With me, it was definitely yes, but, like I said, I will enjoy a social smoke now and again. After a few years of not smoking anything at all, I decided a cigarette now again isn’t going to kill me. It’s never made me want to pick up my daily habit again. Now, you can disqualify me if you wish because of that. My parents, on the other hand, have never picked up a cigarette in my presence since they quit, and I have no recollection of them trying to quit previous to that. Like I said, I think it’s a bit of genetics and personality type. They’re both hardened, stubborn Eastern Europeans, and once they decide on something, that’s kind of it. With me, when I stopped my daily smoking habit, it wasn’t quite like that. I just decided not to go to the store to pick up my evening supply of cigarettes. And then I just never picked up another pack again for a few years. I don’t know why it happened–it wasn’t a conscious decision to stop smoking. One day something in my mind flipped and I stopped. I will agree that that is unusual.
Everyone is different. I’m a non-fat person who is lucky. I don’t like sweet stuff. People bring donuts and pastry to work all the time. I can walk past chocolate cheese cake in the break area a hundred times a day and never think about eating it. If there are carrots or china peas, I’m all over it. I don’t like soft drinks. I don’t like candy coffee. I can’t sit still long enough to watch half an hour of TV, so I don’t own one.
These aren’t choices I’ve made, they are built into me. I’ve learned to copy my posts here because I will walk away from my comp and get logged out before I finish my post. As a matter of fact, while I was working on this post, I thought I would like a snack, so I got a couple of cherry tomatos and sliced some sharp chedder cheese into thin slices…and dusted my ceiling fans.
I know a lot of people who get hungry when they see the chocolate cheese cake a couple of times and will finally give in and eat some. I don’t think they are weak-willed or anything. I think that they just have a different relationship with food that I do.
I like walking, it clears my mind. I chose to get a job where I spend my days moving boxes of paper around. Not because I wanted the exercise, but because I go nuts just sitting behind a desk.
Everyone is different. I think its wrong to judge people by my personal standards, so I don’t do it.
You sound fat.
Actually yes, the first time I really tried. I had made a few half-hearted attempts before the time I really realized and felt the addiction killing me. Looking back, the other “attempts” at quitting didn’t even compare at all to what I went through and how I handled the* successful *venture.
For me, yes, I just quit. Now prior to just quitting, I tried using various other ‘quit-smoking’ methods; such as the gums, patches and even Zyban (the medication). Until my heart was in it however, none of those aides did any good. When I knew I was done, I didn’t need anything but myself.
Be skeptical if you like but that is exactly what I did (although I had had some quit attempts in my past, when I did successfully quit I was a full-time smoker). In my previous “attempts” I tried quitting just because “everyone knows smoking is bad” and “it causes cancer”, etc. I wasn’t doing it for ME. You need to know why you are quitting, and know it very well, if you plan on standing a chance of succeeding long-term. That, and you need to replace the smoking habit with another, preferrably healthier habit or routine. You can’t just eliminate a regular section of your life and continue living that life with a void.
I’ve already admitted that I’ve struggled with my weight the vast majority of my life, and I freely admit I still have a ways to go. But for you to call me a hypocrite because I don’t have a six pack? That’s just stupid.
i.e. the answer to the question is “no.”
Fine, but the point is that quitting smoking is not simply a matter of “just stopping.” It’s not like unplugging a hair dryer.
Ummm, I’m aware of that.
On his very first attempt?
I just over the past decade finally chunked myself up from a low assed BMI to something in the “normal” range. Can I give opinions with out being a hipocrite?
Have you asked them?
Jesus Christ.
Do you need a damn lie detector report and an affidavit?
Some people CAN control what they do put into their bodies. If not the first time…then eventually.
Or is your point being that the first time someone fails is the time they should give the fuck up forever?
I’m thin and don’t smoke like a chimney and gave up tootsie rolls in middle school and have barely touched em since.
Suck on it.
Lol, that means no. By contrast, no normal person has to “really try” to button their shirt, for example.
The point is that quitting smoking is not simply a matter of “just stopping,” there are challenging psychological factors in play.
Fine, but this proves my point. No normal person has difficulty buttoning their shirt until “their heart is in it.” No normal person has difficulty turning on the (functioning) television until “their heart is in it.”
No it is not what you did — you admit that you made previous attempts.
No normal person has to make multiple attempts to unplug their (unbroken) hair dryer from the (unbroken) wall socket.
Again, this proves my point. Nobody needs a psychological strategy to unplug the hair dryer or turn on the television. Quitting smoking is not simply a matter of “just stopping.”
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Fine, but the point is that quitting smoking is not simply a matter of “just stopping.” It’s not like unplugging a hair dryer.
Actually, it absolutely is a matter of simply “just stopping”. Now for some, the act of doing so can be quite complicated and involve many factors but lets not conflate ‘quitting’ with ‘what is required to quit’.
Lol, a simple answer to my question will do.
There’s a big difference there. If it takes multiple attempts and/or a psychological strategy to quit smoking, it shows that it’s not just a matter of “just stopping”
Not at all. If you want to know what my point is, try actually reading my posts. If you don’t understand, just ask a polite question for clarification.
Not by any reasonable interpretation of the word “just” in this context.
Wait, aren’t you the racist, climate-change denier, that bans people from debate if they make you look stupid?
I don’t see a lot of polite questions in your future.
My grandmother or mother NEVER or anybody else for that matter told me about any attempts to stop smoking before the final one. I also NEVER saw one or any attempts at one. Hell, even the attempt (or the final one for your picky unbelieving ass) was no big deal. She stopped and that was that.
And for that matter how do explain the recreational smokers I’ve known? Or people that can eat some chocolate cake now and then without turning into a fat Oprah/Elvis? Fuck, I’ve sucked on a few coffin nails and cigars in my day for various reasons. Times I’ve bought a pack for myself? Zero.
Some people CAN control themselves. Now whether the people who can’t actually really can’t or just sorta can’t is a whole nother issue. But don’t act like they don’t exist so you can feel better that you or someone you know can’t because that’s another one of those self delusional lies that does more harm than good in my opinion.