Who Here Has Quit Smoking And how???` - Page 6

kyro_02 · 10-03-2011, 04:02 AM

i don't smoke tobacco.. does that count? although... I do smoke...?

atec77 · 10-03-2011, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by BOOSTED-AU

Hey guys who here has quit smoking and how, ive been trying to quit for some time now and just cant

: But i want to cause the money i spend on smokes i could pay off a xr6/8/gt, ive tryed just about everything, from champix to patches,

and body got any ideas?

I woke up 27 years ago in a Frday with a lung infection , so I didn't have a smoke before breakfast , forgot the smokes leaving them on the mantlepiece and got busy during the day so didn't have anymore rather than coughing a lung . by 6pm that was 12 hours and by Monday it was pretty much out of my system , for a year I didn't go out drinking at all and have never ever had a ciggy since . But then I did want to and franlky the Friday was tough enough with the infection but improved so not much choice

I was smoking a carton of Camel plain and two tins of Dr Pats licorice flake a week down to nothing , coffcofcoff
after 3 or 4 days you are clean so any desire you have if not physical anymore but your weakness

superyob · 20-03-2011, 09:35 AM

Convinced myself that smoking was going to kill me and gave up - cold turkey. Fourteen years ago.

Legit290 · 20-03-2011, 09:49 AM

i had given up heaps for an hour, a day, a week. I gave up on the train by throwing the smokes and lighter out the window then bought more at the station.
When i got married and we wanted to have kids i gave up cold turkey when my wife fell pregnant then got back on them 12 years later for a year then gave up cold turkey.
You can't give up unless you want to and if you don't want to give up stop giving yourself grief and enjoy them.

vibe_xr6 · 20-03-2011, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by kyro_02

i don't smoke tobacco.. does that count? although... I do smoke...?

Linkachu · 21-03-2011, 02:51 AM

Get drunk, smoked to much woke up the next day feeling terrible and didnt have a smoke. Next day i had one and felt worse so i just gave up.

Trevor 57 · 21-03-2011, 07:57 AM

I gave up 27 years ago, cold turkey is the only way to go IMHO, but you gotta wanna give up

GreenMachine · 21-03-2011, 11:10 AM

I've been off them 5 weeks and 1 day. Was smoking about a pack and a half of Marlboro Reds by the time I quit. Was costing a fortune, I was constantly coughing and generally felt like crap.

Can't believe advertising worked on me, but I was smoking on the verandah of my motel room in Alice Springs, had just finished coughing up a lung when I saw the current anti-smoking ad where the guy coughs up blood. That seemed like a pretty real danger, so I finished the pack the next day and I haven't had another.

Cravings were terrible for the first 3 or 4 days, I was irritable, had weird headaches/muscle pains, the whole lot. Only getting a bad craving every few days now, but the worst of it has passed and I should be right.

XR6_661 · 21-03-2011, 11:14 AM

The missus just gave up using champax or whatever it’s called…dunno what the pills do other than put her in a foul mood, but hay, her breath doesn’t reek of smoke now and she actually looks healthier….Plus I find it really unattractive when a girl smokes..

But yeah, those pills worked for her…Although I think it’s very much all in your head.

Iggypoppin' · 21-03-2011, 11:16 AM

Day 21 for me. Finding it easier as the days go on.

GTJOHN · 21-03-2011, 12:56 PM

im trying the champix now....
They make you feel a bit of , but so far after the 1st 7 days, my smokes are down to about 5 a day from 25-30 and i dont feel as eager to have one as i used to ...Hopefully in another 4 days or so i wont need em at all

vibe_xr6 · 21-03-2011, 02:16 PM

are you getting depressed or bad dreams?

XR6_661 · 21-03-2011, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by vibe_xr6

are you getting depressed or bad dreams?

My missus complained about having bad dreams and seemed a bit down at times.

vibe_xr6 · 21-03-2011, 02:28 PM

yeah thats what they told me, but they wont put me on them until i sort out my anxiety, she actually told me to continue smoking

XR6_661 · 21-03-2011, 02:33 PM

Took the missus a few goes to get them...Ended up some indian fellow from the local bulk billing joint wrote up the perscription for her..

They made her pretty snappy too....Would just lash out at me for no reason.

04redxr8 · 21-03-2011, 02:36 PM

I quit last year, (May I think). Used Champix, and they worked for me. Coming upto a year soon. Glad to be off em.

cupic · 21-03-2011, 02:41 PM

Gave up 20yrs ago,I had my molars(Wisdom teeth pulled out) and was asked to stop for 1 week and have never looked back.

cheers

GTJOHN · 21-03-2011, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by vibe_xr6

are you getting depressed or bad dreams?

No depressed not at all..i have taken up more walking bike riding and weights to keep busy and work is always busy..no depression though I have had a few odd dreams, but not many ( So far) .. the only side effect i have found is a little while after taking them, i feel very slightly sick in teh guts...and each time i light up a ciggy it makes me feel sick, so i suppose thats what they are supposed to do

PB Van · 21-03-2011, 08:45 PM

I quit a few years back now. My trick was to count every day and NEVER even touch another smoke. 1 day became 2, 2 became 7, 7 became 70 and so on

Never felt better.

Good luck

Cam · 21-03-2011, 09:29 PM

I gave up 2 years ago on champix, wasn't really ready to give up so started again 4 months later..

I decided that if I really wanted to give up, this time I'd do it cold turkey.. Now at the end of day 2!

pottery beige · 10-04-2011, 03:43 PM

four days in of kicking a ten year cigar smoking habit... had enough just ready and wanted too.. cold turkey and dont really miss it much....

Iggypoppin' · 10-04-2011, 03:47 PM

Day 41 for me now, going great! The nicabate lozenges are really doing their job.

Thornie · 10-04-2011, 05:24 PM

i've found the best thing since i've quit is not to count the days since you last had a durrie that way you don't feel like your counting down to starting again.

honer · 10-04-2011, 05:28 PM

Keep up the good work guys

Myself and my missus are just over 3 months cigarette free. Well worth it.

CJR09 · 10-04-2011, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Cappy_Hamper

I smoked for over 20 years and was up around 45 -50 a day at my worst. I tried everything from patches to gum to accupuncture. I eventually gave up cold turkey. It wasn't until I decided that I really wanted to give it up that I was successful. Before it was that I knew that it was bad and I knew that it was expensive but i still wanted to smoke. Slow learner I guess. Been clean for 9 years and 3 months now (but who is counting?)

this man speaketh the truth - I was in the same boat untill very recently

you really do have to WANT to give up

i tried several times but always ended back on it cos i wanted one

then something just changed, i just really couldnt be bothered with it anymore - they keep putting the prices up so it ends up costing more and more to kill yourself, cant smoke inside, cant smoke in work vehicles, health was deteriorating, getting up and down basketball court was becoming a struggle - i could go on and on

truely WTF is the point

was smoking a pack a day, $100 p/wk - gave up cold turkey - cant even be F'd thinking about having a smoke anymore

GT69 · 10-04-2011, 10:22 PM

I'm just over 3 months off them now. Its funny how, when you are stuck in that nicotine addiction prison, it seems so hard to get out. But once your free you cant believe it took you x amount of years to wake up. My fiancee is still smoking and I'm a right a$$. I know I'm meant to be supportive but I just cant do it. I quit with easy way. Best book I've ever read. I highly recommend it to those thinking about quitting.

Iggypoppin' · 10-04-2011, 10:22 PM

The money I've saved not smoking has gone into my savings and my tattoos. I can't believe how much I was spending on smokes until I noticed the money quite literally piling up in my account. It's pretty good to actually get a shock from checking your bank balance that's not a negative one!
Since the quit, I've worked out roughly 4-6k in savings a year. This is pretty sobering, as I only make 27k annually. So with the saved money I'm saving for my new truck and getting my tattoo finished. So much better than smoking myself to death!

G6E Turbo 2 · 10-04-2011, 10:36 PM

I smoked a lot 1-2 packs a day from age 14 to 21
then just gave up overnight
It was when the budget came down and they
put smokes up to $1 per pack

Never looked back

vibe_xr6 · 10-04-2011, 10:39 PM

god i wished i could give up, 2 packs last night :(

Perko · 10-04-2011, 10:43 PM

A mate reckons it's costing him $600/month and he is now in the pills. I gave up about 15 years ago cold turkey. Girlfriend then (now my wife) asked me to give up and chucked the pack of PJ's in bin. Have only had two since. Second one made me spew. Was a hard 3 months straight after but got through it.