Can't afford to upgrade right now? I have a plan!!

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:29 pm

my dad started smoking around 16 (maybe earlier) and died last year age 56 from pneumonia which they said killed him because his lungs were weakened from smoking for 40 years.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:46 pm

i kinda failed, but went from a packet a day to a packet every couple/few days.. so i havent failed that badly i guess

DirtRider · Post by **DirtRider** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:05 pm

... great idea... only it will never work for me... I never smoked and I never touched one bottle of alcohol... try to diss out 150$ then

lol

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:10 pm

3 weeks later I still quit, hows everyone else doing?

trash · Post by **trash** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:39 pm

me too! im still going strong !
keep up the good work brother!

conny · Post by **conny** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:57 pm

trash wrote: ive only drunk a few times though..
nothing like conny hehehe

trash boy, what are you saying here?
OK, I'm almost drunk again and have not had the slightest snippet of nicotine since entering this thread!

// C

KInetic · Post by **KInetic** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:44 am

I´m still going too!

It´s exactly 2 weeks today. It´s been easier than I thought.

I used to smoke a pack a day, and there have been a few occasions where I felt really tempted these last few days, but I just tried to focus on other things and its been working. No special method either, in fact...I think I´m just taking things slowly and one day at a time, through sheer willpower, I guess.

I´m probably drinking more coffee and beer than usual, but that´s all.

And I´m feeling better than I have in quite some time, too. It´s really amazing how numb your body and mind become to certain things when you smoke. It´s like constantly having a weird filter between you and life, and I´ve removed that filter.

I´ve also been feeling really horny, to my wife´s pleasant surprise

Hey smutek, if you ever read this, our sexual life thanks you for the inspiration!

I think the greatest feeling I´m getting from this is that I´m more in control of my life. Gone are the days of thinking "ok, I´ll just finish this up and then I´ll have a smoke" or "I´ve gotta have a smoke or else I won´t be able to do this".

trash · Post by **trash** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:55 am

errm sorry conny ! heheh
hey dude when you get to three weeks
thats the crunch time
once you get past there
its not worth ever going back
shit my fish fingers are burning...

conny · Post by **conny** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:54 am

Yea, I'm past the three weeks I guess, have stopped counting, I'm in a state of non nicotine life from now on.
And: Don't ever make food while posting/browsing!
I may turn the stove on to make coffee, chech some mail, forgor about what I was doing, kitchen glowing at 2000 Watts...

// C

trash · Post by **trash** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:29 pm

conny its because of you i stopped
well , other things were catalysts too...
but the trigger gate function was you !
i owe you big time
if ever i can repay anything
let me know ...

/at your service brother

conny · Post by **conny** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:12 am

good to know
I'm to dunk to type properly, just bought Antares Kantos...someone should strop me using the credit card...

// C

amo · Post by **amo** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:51 am

Today is day one for me... well, I decide , finally. Last one is in the packet, I'll have it and say goodbye to it. I asked my wife to help me on that, was a bit tough as she doesn't even get why one smokes and why it's so hard to stop, but she agreed when I told her I was just ill.... Wish me luck !
see ya
amo

trash · Post by **trash** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:04 am

GOOD LUCK MAN!!!!

im coming up to 4 weeks now....
feeling fine...
probably drop dead next week though hehehe

amo · Post by **amo** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:36 am

Hi all,

So I thought of bumping some quite *positive* thread in those hard days....

I'm in day 4, not my first attempt to stop but by far the easiest one ! I hardly feel anything wrong, and the benefit I feel from not smoking is so great that the negative ones disappear and seem even like games.
I really feel now I'm a no-smoker, that's quite amazing. Cannot explain it myself.
Well, the first time I stopped (some 8 years ago), it was horrible, I had cold sweat, bad nights, nightmares etc... failure
Then I tried again two years ago, failure. Then other times with patches and all, and failures again.
Then I meditated those failures, since I was still fed up with smoking. And I decided all that shit is so psychological.... Why once having all those physical side effects, very weird ones, and other times less. Well now I'm quite sure since I have almost no physical effects from lack of cigarettes. Proving to me that it's really a psychological disposition that were creating it rather than a real physical need of nicotine or whatever. The worst was the feeling of sacrifice, of being a victime who could never ever smoke ! What bullshit. Why smoking ? What does it give me ?

So I started with that in mind, and could quit quite easily. The first day is a bit strange of course, second day a bit better but still feeling a small emptyness. On the evening of the second day I bought Allan Carr's book and read it that evening and next day morning. It helped me comforting my ideas but I found out I was on the good path mindwise, at least with his views of things. That's what helped me formulate my thoughts.

So in the end, I'd say the best not to be frustrated is first to be sure that you don't need smokes, that you don't want to smoke, and to be sure that life is much better without smoke. There is absolutely no real reason to continue smoking !
And as he say, I think subsitutes of nicotine based products don't help at all. I'm free of all those and it feels much better than anything I tried in the past. Probably different for each of us though, but I'm quite positive.

How's the smoke-free community now ? Or nicotine-free ? Conny, Trash, the others, still in ?

And last word: Smutek, you can catch the train again. You could read that book that is quite good, or PM me if you want to communicate on that, when you're ready.

Kind regards and sorry for too-long post. Hope it can help some of you to make a decision.
amo

conny · Post by **conny** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:05 pm

amo, you'll do it this time, I hear.
I have had no backlashes. I even took a (=one) sip from a fet cigar a week ago because it looked so good and tasty but it did not affect me being a non smooker the rest of the night.
Been on a trip to Zürich, beer, bars etc and no problem staying off the nicotine.
It's such a relieve.
I don't have to plan for where will I have to buy more nicotine stuff before going there and there and when travelling etc.

And I will save like one or two trips to nice places every year!

// C