This is what did it for me: not the thought of getting lung cancer, but the thought of getting lund cancer when I was young. My whole life I had assumed that smoking-caused lung cancer hit when you were in your late 60s or 70s. To far away to care about. Then my best friends mom got cancer at 48 and was bead in 3 months. 48 is practically still a baby, I see now. Your kids are still young, your sex drive is still there, and you haven’t gotten a chance to retire. I don’t mind the idea of getting sick and dying at 75. But 48 is unacceptable.
My biggest piece of advice is to tell everyone that you are quiting smoking–your mother, your friends, your doctor, your waitress, the bum you pass every day on the corner. Tell them to ask you everyday how the quiting is going. Get it in your mind that if you start smoking again you will have to tell all these people what a weak-willed, limp-dicked, no-gumption wussy you are. That they will talk behind your back about what a pity it is that you are too weak to quit. Peer presure can be a force for good.
Still smoke free after 58 hours. It seems like 58 days!
The times when it kills me the most is when it gets down to the “routine” smokes. Like taking my dog for a walk was always an automatic smoke break. The last two days, everytine I’ve taken her out I find myself looking on my desk for a pack of smokes I don’t have just because it’s such a routine for me.
That and after eating. Oooh that’s the worst.
I haven’t had sex since I quit (hell, since I separated from my wife) so that after sex smoke isn’t a problem. I’m even afraid to jerk-off for fear that that after orgasm urge to smoke will cause my head to explode!
Have you gotten anything to help you quit? I’m telling you, this Nicorette is working wonders for me. I’m hardly craving at all. (Except after eating, of course. I guess that diminishes over time.)
So no smoking and no spanking of the monkey? You’d better do one or the other before your head explodes from pent up stress and tension.
Oh, Jack Batty, what wonderfully white teeth you have!
Oh, Jack Batty, look, your hands are no longer stained with nicotine and smoke!
Oh, Jack Batty, your breath smells wonderful!
Oh, Jack Batty! Oh Jack Batty! Oh oh ohohohhhhh!
An addition of unlimited flirting to Soda and Falcon.
I don’t even look at men who smoke anymore. They make me wrinkle my nose in disgust when they’re near me. Euw.
Oh, baby, come here… I’ll relieve your tension so well, you won’t even have the energy to light up afterwards. Because afterwards, I’ll do you again, and again, and again…
OTOH, never let someone who’s trying to quit smoking give you a blowjob – they keep trying to set fire to your testicles…
On a slightly more serious note, my father-in-law quit smoking after 20 years of regular use. What made him quit? His financial advisor pointed out to him that he could save 25% on his life insurance premiums by being smoke-free for a year. Hey, whatever works…
Watermelon Man, only smoke free babes qualify for the unlimited flirting and general sluttiness program. And I mean smoke free (although I’ve been known to enjoy a cigar once in a blue moon myself).
And while I’m here:
How about you and me go to the store to get some hot fudge? What do you say babe?
Or does Jack get the cheers and blowjob offers simply because I’m not flipping out the way he is?
Is this your first attempt to quit Jack? If os I understand the tension. This is may 5th attmept, so I’m used to what to expect for the first 2 weeks. It’ll pass. Then you’ll start coughing up big nasty chunks of crap as your lungs start to kick out all that tar and build up that’s been accumulating over the years. It’s either disgusting or kinda cool, depending on your outlook.
Crunchy, I’m terribly sorry to have excluded you in that. Preview is my friend, preview is my friend… If you like, later on I’ll give you a private rendition of the above…
I don’t know how you can be so cool about quitting. When I found out I was pregnant and quit, it just about killed me. The only think that kept me going was that I knew it would hurt my baby.
The second time I quit was a piece of cake. GET ZYBAN. Drugs can be your friend.
Wow, I’m awash in sluttiness, flirting, and blow job offers. Good work if you can get it!! Crunchy, this is my second “attempt” at quitting. My first resulted in a year and half hiatus from tobaccy.
What’s weird is that I only started smoking when I was about 22. Then when I was around 27 or 28, I quit for a year and a half, and then resumed until now (age 35). So let me add that up.
22 years no smoking - about 6 years smoking - year and half no smoking - about six years smoking - quitting. I think I see a pattern.
The last time I quit I quit because I just felt like it, but the situation made it a little easier. I was sick as a dog with a flu. I couldn’t get out of bed, practically, for two days. In that time, I was too sick to go out and buy smokes, so by the time I was well enough to get out of bed I was already in the middle of quitting.
This has been different - I made a concious move to throw smokes out - I’ve been very aware of not having a smoke to rely on for the last four days - the routine smokes (or lack therof) are making me goofy - the withdrawls seem alot more harsh this time around.
But, I haven’t caved since Saturday morning, and so far I’ve save around 18 bucks.
I’m still going strong at 5 days, 9 hours and change. Jack, you have my deep respect for doing this cold turkey, I don’t know if I’d be doing as well without the patch. Congratulations to you as well, Crunchy.
Yesterday I bought a giant pack of Big Red gum and caught myself packing it against the heel of my hand. Old habits definitely die hard!
