# Someone Tell Me Not to Smoke a Cig **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512 "2002-10-23T13:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jorel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jorel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorel)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512/21 "2002-10-24T17:30:42Z")
You can do it Spit~! ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512/22 "2002-10-24T17:48:49Z")
Please don’t smoke, sweetie. What would Better Than Ezra think? Besides, kissing’s better when the kissee isn’t a smoker. Plus I’m allergic to cig smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512/23 "2002-10-25T05:26:04Z")
It’s been 37 days and twenty three hours since I decided to stop smoking. I’m still struggling a bit, especially late at night, but I’m doing it! And you can too! The Silkquit meter is helping tons. I was clicking on it every few hours when I first quit, but now I only check it every day or two. I did this to become aware of how often I craved a smoke. It was good aversion therapy when I had to get my lazy ass up and walk across the room to click the box. 😃 I just try to remember just how much it didn’t help when I smoked after a craving before. It just comes right back in a few minutes! Better to just get past it than feed the monster. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512/24 "2002-10-25T06:43:16Z")
[Link:mad:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106719) Still Fighting \ ---
**Author:** ![Riboflavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Riboflavin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riboflavin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512/25 "2002-10-25T19:49:46Z")
Personally, I’d recommend the patches over the gum - I haven’t tried the gum, but I’ve been on the patch since Teusday and haven’t had any problems, even though I was daring and went to a bar Tuesday evening. The patch keeps it at a constant ‘It’s about time for a smoke’ level, which I can deal with, and it didn’t seem to change even when I was sitting next to a smoker. It’s a whole lot better than cold turkey, which I did for about a week a while back and just couldn’t take it anymore, and I prefer something that doesn’t have habits associated with it to nic gum, which I could easily see me getting stuck on instead. Oh, and I think the advice about sniffing smoke-smelling clothing is not very good; if you want a smoke, the last thing to do is to smell one since that (at least for me) makes you want one more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-tell-me-not-to-smoke-a-cig/133512.md?page=1)