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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/11/2009 10:50:10 PM | After three days, you're out of the woods... If you cold turkey, three days is all you need...
OK, you can pay for placebos with exotic names of fictional warriors from a distant galaxy... Slowly try to wean yourself off of nicotine... But you don't need that shit...
I've been shoving five dollar bills daily into a bottle, each representing the cost of a pack which I no longer smoke...
Oh, yeah... It's an old five gallon Sparklett's water bottle... And now it's stuffed...
Maybe I'll buy myself a pony.... | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 6:09:53 AM | I live on a very sparse income.
Often I think about what the cost of cigarettes would be doing to my pocket book if I had not quit.
But mostly I actually think about what health would be like if I had not quit 6 years + ago.
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 6:58:35 AM |
I've been shoving five dollar bills daily into a bottle, each representing the cost of a pack which I no longer smoke... Five bucks... ? I live in Canada, it would be ten bucks up here... and I have a teenager, he ensures that I don't have to bother with tucking a tenspot in a jar... 
I do agree that if you need something to get you off cigarettes, then you really aren't ready to quit and more than likely you'll fail by starting up again.
Take a week away from everything, hole yourself up with lots of activities and then just stop. | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 7:24:38 AM |
I do agree that if you need something to get you off cigarettes, then you really aren't ready to quit and more than likely you'll fail by starting up again.
It takes an average of five attempts for a person to quit smoking for good. Personally, I think waiting until you think you're sure you won't fail can be a set-up. Making an attempt is very rarely a bad thing.
Lengths of time cigarette-free (or reducing your amount of smoking) isn't a failure. Sometimes it's difficult for it to feel like it's not a failure, but it's not. It's progress. If you don't try you won't be any closer to quitting. Every time you do try, you're closer.
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On a related note, here is why Craig Ferguson thinks that baseball is important for kids and why he is teaching his son to play:
"He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans; we prepare for glory by failing until we don't."
— Craig Ferguson (American on Purpose)
It's a good point. | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 2:53:07 PM | i went on zyban 4+years ago and have never looked back. if i had known how easy it was (and i smoked for 20+ years) i would have done it years earlier. i know it's not for everyone but it sure worked for me...try stopping the activities you did that are associated with smoking until you stop having the cravings. going for a walk or some other form of activity works wonders. i feel 100% better and i don't stink.... | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 5:00:34 PM | Now how are we supposed to support the healthcare system without all those tax dollars from smokers? I think non-smokers should be considered for a "special health tax" to make up for the difference because of so many poeple quitting smoking!
At about 5 bucks a day, it would work out to be about 1825 dollars a year! Which is about what smokers pay in tax alone now! So, the FAIR thing to do would be to share the burden between ALL taxpayers.
Nonsmoker? Pay an extra 1800 a year, which goes right to health care!
Fair taxation! | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 5:12:16 PM | | get allan carrs easyway to stop smoking book. I read it and after reading it knew i was never gona hav another cigg again. off them 2 months now and feel grt. best of it is 2 u can smoke away wile ur reading it. am telling you its amazing. | |
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| 3 days no cigarettes is driving me NUTS!
Posted: 10/12/2009 6:06:38 PM | | I gave up after I was rushed to Hospital in an Ambulance many years ago - I developed Quinsy of the throat&lungs and I know it sounds gross but I literally couldn't swallow my own spit as the abscesses were so large. I was in there for a week on a drip taking massive amounts of drugs & the lovely staff would shove paddle pop sticks down my throat to burst them & scrape them out. I was basically told on release if I smoked again I would drop dead - stayed off them for a whole week as I was still so sick but first thing I did when I felt bit better was light up a smoke - back to Hospital again in the Ambulance & I swear I wanted to die - I was so ill - I have not touched one since& after all these years at times I still think about smoking but rarely now | |
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