I'm quitting smoking, who's with me?

[standingwave]

@Rebo

That video is hilarious!

The best late night host, hands down.

I used to smoke. I tried to quit many times. I tried everything. Hypnosis, aversion therapy, visualization. I finally realized the trick. This is trick. It will work every time: Stop putting cigarettes in my mouth and lighting them! I know! That’s what it is. You go, ‘Oh, no, I really want cigarette!’ That’s what it feels like! And then when you really want the cigarette, you don’t have it! ‘You can’t write a book about that.’ Exactly!

[not_what_you_d_expect]

You can make a dildo out of tofu? Hmmm. Interesting.

[Shakester]

@brewha

Shakester, what you’re doing has to be torture. Especially doing it for that long. If you had just quit cold turkey you’d be free and clear by now. But, by giving your brain little tastes of that nasty drug, you’re only dragging out the addiction without fully sating it. Congrats on your conviction, I’m impressed you lasted this long without smoking.

My point was that everyone is different. There is no way of quitting that’s going to work for everyone.

For me, cold turkey was torture. The only way I could stop smoking was a very gradual weaning. Everyone is different, and when it comes to brain chemistry some of us are very different. I really don’t want to get into the details of that - the point is I found a way that worked for me and that there is no one-size-fits-all cure for nicotine addiction.

[FinnAgain]

I was walking home with a coworker tonight who’s been “quit” for the last month-ish, and he decided he wanted to buy a pack. I advised against it. He bought a pack, and it was the brand I used to smoke here. They smelled delicious. He had four on the way home, I didn’t have one. Holy shit that was hard. I very, very nearly asked for one.

Ah well, another dose of Smug Bastard added to the pile.

[Siam_Sam]

Good luck to the OP. I smoked a pack a day or more for 16-1/2 years. I quit cold turkey one time, and one time only, and have now been smoke-free for 19 years.

The first month was the roughest, but I had the nicotine gum, and that helped. Another thing is I set myself a deadline for when to stop, and I must have smoked at least half a pack in the half-hour leading up to midnight. Puff-puff-puff, looks at watch, 29 more minutes, lights another, puff-puff-puff. I may have made myself slightly ill, which may have helped too.

[drewtwo99]

@FinnAgain

I was walking home with a coworker tonight who’s been “quit” for the last month-ish, and he decided he wanted to buy a pack. I advised against it. He bought a pack, and it was the brand I used to smoke here. They smelled delicious. He had four on the way home, I didn’t have one. Holy shit that was hard. I very, very nearly asked for one.

Ah well, another dose of Smug Bastard added to the pile.

Sounds like hell, Finn… glad you stood up to your cravings!

[standingwave]

@not_what_you_d_expect

You can make a dildo out of tofu? Hmmm. Interesting.

You can make a dildo out of any soy based product.

[Vita_Beata]

@FinnAgain

I was walking home with a coworker tonight who’s been “quit” for the last month-ish, and he decided he wanted to buy a pack. I advised against it. He bought a pack, and it was the brand I used to smoke here. They smelled delicious. He had four on the way home, I didn’t have one. Holy shit that was hard. I very, very nearly asked for one.

Ah well, another dose of Smug Bastard added to the pile.

Kudos to you, FinnAgain. You’re breathing free of that stinkin’ expensive habit and don’t have to pick it up again.

[yorick73]

Well…are you still not smoking?

[robert_columbia]

Yeah. So are you a non-smoker, or a “non-smoker”?

[FinnAgain]

No packs of cigs, at all, in my home/car/workplace desk and no cigarette ashes anywhere either. Thanks for checking in

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

<clap> <clap>

Good job, FinnAgain.

-D/a