oohh nnoo another "i wanna quit smoking" thread

Schrodinger's Dog

Woah great Moonbear I just told my friend that and he was like really?

That explains me.

Apparently he was telling me they've just found out that certain bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, aren't just resistant they now use antibiotics as their main food source instead of polysaccarhides. They've gone from being destroyed by them to resistance to not being able to live without them in 70 years or so.

Science is weird.

Stick that one in your pipe and smoke it creationists.

dst

When I tried quitting, I found that Nicarest's "Smokable nicotine sticks" really took the cravings away. They've been featured all over the news media:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28975

I haven't had a cig in years, with these.

Cyrus

Do you really whan the stigma associated with being a 'quitter' in life marlon?

marlon

Good question...

Now, let me kick your ***

marlon

Danger

Good job, Marlon. Stick with it.
(You never know; your hair might even start growing back. )

larkspur

I am proud of you Marlon!!!

Moonbear

I actually wasn't aware that people lost the urge to smoke when they had the flu or bronchitis. Is this common? And does it accompany the time when you lose your appetite for food too, or is it something separate?

Danger

The food thing is separate, Moonbear. It's really hard to understand if you haven't been there. It would be like trying to explain a hangover to someone who never drank alcohol.

binzing

Keep it up Marlon! I have mates who smoke, and can't quit, could anyone try and compare cigarette addiction to any other, everyday addiction. I would love to know how addicting it was, without putting a cig in my mouth. I've tried it before, but I didn't see what all the fuss was about, as it didn't taste so nice.


Our science teacher was telling us how he had read a sudy where they found the addiction to nicotine to be as strong and hard to quit as that of heroin.

lisab

Don't know how common it is, but it happened to me.

I started smoking at the tender age of 11 (yeah, I know...) and got up to a pack a day. I caught some sort of cough/sore throat when I was 16 and completely lost my craving. I took advantage of that illness to quit.

Exact same story as yours, Marlon.

The cravings came back, and here's the kicker: It's been nearly 40 years and I still get cravings. Sometimes daily. I'm getting one right now, in fact !

So if you want unsolicited advice, I'd say you have to learn to live with the cravings. I think people expect them to go away, and they don't prepare themselves in case they don't. You have to be able to say 'no' even if there's a cigarette dangling right in front of you.

Jeez, it sucks!

turbo

Yes! Learn to live with the cravings. My father (who quit when I was a kid) and I both think that the odor of an initial light-up smells good, especially outside on a cool day. Neither of us would start smoking again for that, but the basic motivation never goes away.

undrcvrbro

turbo

I'm not sure how you mis-spelled this. Do want to Ki$$ his *** or lick his a$$? Either way, you guys ought to get a room. Gay porn-stars should not correspond on public forums unless they just want to play.

Cyrus

Im going to make short film called "REMEMBRANCE", and it will have flashbacks to my friend that used to smoke. Then I'll read a newspaper saying he quit smoking and sit down and stare into the sky all dramatic -crying a single tear. Then Ill get a nice zippo and light a cig and take a long sweet delicious puff and look into the camera with sad eyes. -FIN

marlon

Great, you will be needing an extremely good looking lead star though


marlon

marlon

The "not wanting to smoke when having bronchitis/flu" is quite common.

The food thing has nothing to do with it.

marlon

Moonbear

Interesting. Seems like your lungs are screaming, "STOP! UNCLE!!! NO MORE!!!"

I'm going to have to look into that and see if it's documented in the literature in any way, because yeah, that would seem a good place to start looking for a way to stop the urge to smoke...assuming that it's not part of whatever makes you feel so crappy and sick that it would be too harmful to give you or nobody would want to take it to quit.