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by **NiftyNeil** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:50 pm

Bamaga man wrote:Most addictive drug around i tell ya, Heroin is even second to Nicotine for addictiveness.

It's not the nicotine that people are addicted to, it's purely the habit. If people were addicted to nicotine then patches would get everyone off the fags.
In 1 L&B cigarette, there's 0.9 mg of nicotine, most patches have around 20mg. Therefore 1 patch equates to over 22 cigs. Imagine having 22 fags in one hit, you wouldn't still crave one would you?

by **account deleted by request** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:58 pm

I have given up smoking twice for over two years, each time I started smoking again because my weight was rocketing up. I am normally about 13 stones, but I went up to nearly 15stones when I gave up. As soon as I started smoking again my weight came back down again.

Give up coffee and alcohol and giving up smoking is not that hard. I have tried patches (don't work) and found that its easier just to go cold turkey and suffer, rather than using all the aids which just remind you of what you are missing anyway.

by **66-1112520797** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:04 pm

NiftyNeil wrote:
Bamaga man wrote:Most addictive drug around i tell ya, Heroin is even second to Nicotine for addictiveness.

It's not the nicotine that people are addicted to, it's purely the habit. If people were addicted to nicotine then patches would get everyone off the fags.
In 1 L&B cigarette, there's 0.9 mg of nicotine, most patches have around 20mg. Therefore 1 patch equates to over 22 cigs. Imagine having 22 fags in one hit, you wouldn't still crave one would you?

Thats exactly why its so difficult, not only do you physically feel you need a cigarette, but mentally aswell.

Its still part of the drug (nicotine) you can get bad tempered if you dont have one, and then the habit on top of that.

by **Paul C** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:07 pm

I don't smoke........................................ only w33d :;):

by **andy_g** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:07 pm

can't say i agree with anyone who says to take it a day, or week or a month at a time - then start again if you feel like it. i've given up twice for 2 years and am now a year and a half into my latest. the first two times was through sheer determination, no patches, gum, or any of that other rubbish, but making the most of being ill. those 3 or 4 days that you feel so ill you don't want a ciggy are a great head start.

for me the most important thing is a little reprogramming of that chip in the brain that says you're a smoker because if you don't change it you'll always be someone trying to give up, or an ex-smoker. change the chip to be a non-smoker. if any one offers you a ciggy you reply 'no thanks, i don't smoke' and not 'no thanks, i'm giving up'. thinking about the fact that you're giving up makes you think about the ciggies and you'll miss them, so just stop considering it. from the morning you wake up on the chosen day you are a non-smoker and you just get through it.

this works for me and i know i'll never go back to smoking (despite a cheeky one at new year and a crafty one at a party the month before). having said that, we all know that everyone is different so find the way that works for you.

by **Dundalk** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:13 pm

http://www.quitsmokingcounter.com/

by **stmichael** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:15 pm

by **dawson99** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:55 pm

ive cut down to 25 a day..i rock!!!

by **PhiLFC** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:36 pm

ok here's how I stopped smoking after about 21 years of the demon weed.

Having tried patches, pens, yoga, and pure will power... after my younger brother had a heart attack, a cuppla relatives die of cancer, the birth of my daughter, health problems and everything else in between I found that the only thing to work was that I really wanted to stop.

I kept an online diary and visited it as often as possible probably racking up about 35,000 words... in the end I didn't want to let my diary down and the people that were reading it. Eventually I stopped writing about smoking and started writing about other things in my life like work and family... I had it beat.

The people who read it thought it was hilarious... I wrote everything in it, I analyzed every reason why I wanted to stop, all the arguments and stress that stopping caused but I didn't stink anymore... it was cathartic.

The only downer was about 7kg weight gain which I'm working on right now (see Newkit Fatbusters thread).

End of the day I'm fitter, healthier, wealthier, happier and it really did change my life in the most positive of ways. I think now that if I can stop smoking I can do anything.

Best o luck Ciggy and anybody else thinking of quiting... I know just what you're gonna go through.

Try keeping a diary or start a blog - it worked for me. Maybe even a thread that we can't reply to - its a blog of sorts!

by **J*o*n*D*o*e** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:52 pm

ive stopped smoking now for nearly a year, tried patches but i ended up smoking more of them than the cigs

my biggest reason for quiting was my two kids, ive smoked for nearly twenty years and thought i had tempted mother nature a bit to much, it might still come back to bite me on the butt in the future but for now i feel great for doing it, i feel healthier than i have for ten years plus my kids are safer by not having to breath any of my smoke.

also there is alot of anti smoke feeling going around at the minute, whenever i was out it felt like everybody was looking at you as if you had two heads.

anyway ciggy goodluck if you want to follow my way i just imagined how i would feel if i had got cancer and missed my kids growing up, its not to everyones liking but hold that thought everytime you feel like lighting up and i promise you you`ll quit.

by **JBG** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:55 pm

As a former smoker I sympathise and I think Andy has hit the nail on the head. The patches and gum are worthless, in my opinion, you really need to reprogramme your mind to truly stop, and that is no easy thing.

by **neil** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:50 pm

nicorette patches for 2 weeks in nov 2005 no bifters since, surprisingly easy after 20 years smoking.

by **Woollyback** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:51 am

i've cut down on 2 of my worst habits - smoking & masturbation. it's been murder though, i used to be a 40 a day man. i smoked like a chimney as well.

by **Paul C** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:07 am

Woollyback wrote:i've cut down on 2 of my worst habits - smoking & masturbation. it's been murder though, i used to be a 40 a day man. i smoked like a chimney as well.

40 w3nks a day, didn't you have a sore d1ck?

by **66-1112520797** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:07 am

Woollyback wrote:i've cut down on 2 of my worst habits - smoking & masturbation. it's been murder though, i used to be a 40 a day man. i smoked like a chimney as well.

Masturbating makes you go blind Woolly did you know that, that may well be the reason you wear lunettes (glasses).

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