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On March 05 2010 04:36 Valentine wrote:
I smoke like half a pack/week lol. I only break out a cig when I smoke weed, just for the complimentary buzz, and usually only 1/2 or 1/3 each time. I don't really see that as much of a problem for me o___o;;
nvm its so stupid of me som,etimes i just attack ppls post, so rude,
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Good luck to all those wanting to quit.. I'm sure it can be hard sometimes but you'll pull through.
I haven't smoked any cigs either but I am a fan of cigars 
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Just to remind all you math enthusiasts:
Those 250.000$ originated from the comparison of the cost of the book (20 bucks) with the costs of lifelong smoking.
Are you sure it's worth arguing about wether it's actually 250k or more like 120k?
Arguing for the sake of arguing- a useful skill toi have.
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Damn, I need to stop smoking. Recently my need for smoking has increased day by day.
Now I smoke up to one pack per day. Before I dont feel that I breath bad, but I feel something wrong with my breath now and It is very embarassing.
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Update:
It's 5:37pm on Day 5 and I failed. I smoked. I'm not going to give up though. I'm going to give myself 3 strikes before I give up on giving up this time. So this was strike one. I still have two more chances, and I can't succumb again. So here goes to staying strong....I can do it.
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On March 05 2010 10:39 GrayArea wrote:
Update:
It's 5:37pm on Day 5 and I failed. I smoked. I'm not going to give up though. I'm going to give myself 3 strikes before I give up on giving up this time. So this was strike one. I still have two more chances, and I can't succumb again. So here goes to staying strong....I can do it.
Good for you man, you had a slip but its not over. You will quit smoking and you will be successful. If you haven't already got the book I recommended I would suggest you get it.
Just keep telling yourself "I'm a non-smoker now" and "I don't need this cigarette". It will get easier over time, and you will be successful!
Best of luck to you on your way to becoming a non-smoker
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Surprised about the lack of e-cig response.
I smoked for over 10 years, tried to quit many times, flushed more packs of smokes down the toilet than I can count, only to fail and fail again.
Bought an e-cig and everything changed. There is nicotine. There is smoke (it is actually water vapor but looks exactly like smoke, it just dissipates faster). There is something to do with my hands and mouth. It mimics a real cig in every way other than it has no known cancer causing substances. Even the vapor is hot like with a real cigs smoke.
Best 100 bucks I EVER spent. Paid for itself in a couple of weeks. And ya you can smoke em in bars or what not, a prime time for people trying to quit to have a failure.
If your trying to quit, have failed over and over, and dont try this product your doing yourself a disfavor.
Any questions on this feel free to ask.
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On March 06 2010 02:03 scrapperdog wrote:
Surprised about the lack of e-cig response.
I smoked for over 10 years, tried to quit many times, flushed more packs of smokes down the toilet than I can count, only to fail and fail again.
Bought an e-cig and everything changed. There is nicotine. There is smoke (it is actually water vapor but looks exactly like smoke, it just dissipates faster). There is something to do with my hands and mouth. It mimics a real cig in every way other than it has no known cancer causing substances. Even the vapor is hot like with a real cigs smoke.
Best 100 bucks I EVER spent. Paid for itself in a couple of weeks. And ya you can smoke em in bars or what not, a prime time for people trying to quit to have a failure.
If your trying to quit, have failed over and over, and dont try this product your doing yourself a disfavor.
Any questions on this feel free to ask.
I have one of these too, I got my M203 a few months ago, except I'm getting rid of nicotine all together, but it is good if you want to do it in steps or whatever.
NRT is not the best way to quit because you are still taking the drug you are trying to get rid of, which makes no sense, but if it works for you then it works.
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One thing that I always though would be interesting, is to have a rehab camp for smokers, similar to hard drug addicts. The addictive qualities of nicotine are similar, so why not? Go live in a house with a bunch of smokers for a month or something where everyone is trying to quit. It works for harder drugs and alcohol, so why not smoking? You would get alot of group encouragement, and alot of times the fear of letting down others is greater than letting down yourself.
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On March 06 2010 04:34 Sagittarius wrote:
NRT is not the best way to quit because you are still taking the drug you are trying to get rid of, which makes no sense, but if it works for you then it works.
I am fine with being a nic addict, just did not want to get the cancer or heart attack or constantly feel out of breath. It is not really the drug I have a problem with, it is the side effects and cost of smoking.
I agree it is much easier to cut down on nicotine with e-cigs because you just buy less and less strong juice, but you can smoke it the same amount as ever. A smoker trying to cut down to the point of quitting is just torturing themselves waiting for the next smoke. Id rather go cold turkey.
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Smoking for me is part of social interaction, showing up with an e-cig at a party would probably be cool but still, carrying that thing all along would suck. But I guess I just enjoy smoking too much, I'm not a heavy smoker but plan to quit eventually. I'll go for the book first though, I have lots of friends who quit after reading that book.
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Fuk.... my smoking habit just getting worse and worse.
Now I smoke 1 pack a day and countinue to grow... I want to quit so bad but I just cant..
fuk fuk fuk.
Sorry I just want to let the frustration out of me a bit...
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People offer me ciggarettes all the time... some friends they are! D:
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3 days ago I broke my 2 months cigarette break... I know I suck.. =(
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sooooooo hard 
Gums are disgusting...patches make you have insomnia...and self-control is out of the question...
I'll pull through though...2 weeks and counting...
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The trick is to stop smoking, not to quit smoking. If you quit you feel like you can never smoke again. If you stop you're just on a break and you can stay on that break for as long as you feel like it. You'll still get cravings and stuff but it's so much easier to deal with them when you don't keep thinking to yourself "I QUIT smoking, I can NEVER smoke again..."
I just buy Bali Shag and roll my own cigarettes when I feel like it. I go through a pouch in about 3 weeks, and that's about 50-70 cigarettes. Comparatively, most pack smokers go through a pack in 2-3 days. That's 60 cigarettes a week.
Start rolling your own cigarettes and I swear you'll never go back. It's cheaper, better quality tobacco and you can choose when you want to smoke. The time it takes me think "do I really want to smoke right now?" is the amount of time it takes me to have a tailor cigarette lit in my mouth. I actually think about it when I roll.
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On March 06 2010 04:41 Wr3k wrote:
One thing that I always though would be interesting, is to have a rehab camp for smokers, similar to hard drug addicts. The addictive qualities of nicotine are similar, so why not? Go live in a house with a bunch of smokers for a month or something where everyone is trying to quit. It works for harder drugs and alcohol, so why not smoking? You would get alot of group encouragement, and alot of times the fear of letting down others is greater than letting down yourself.
The problem with this is that your individual commitment is only as strong as the group commitment--if the group suspects that someone is smoking in secret, pretty much everyone is going to take a drag or two. The someone is like "guys I slipped up" and everyone is like "yeah me too" and boom, you guys are out on the porch smoking again.
If you're going to quit you need to man up and do it yourself, otherwise it doesn't mean anything.
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On March 06 2010 04:41 Wr3k wrote:
One thing that I always though would be interesting, is to have a rehab camp for smokers, similar to hard drug addicts. The addictive qualities of nicotine are similar, so why not? Go live in a house with a bunch of smokers for a month or something where everyone is trying to quit. It works for harder drugs and alcohol, so why not smoking? You would get alot of group encouragement, and alot of times the fear of letting down others is greater than letting down yourself.
That's a great idea, except people already have that. If you have a room in your house that can be locked from the outside and/or a very supportive friend, you can do this. Here's what you do: Lock yourself in the room with no cigarettes. What works for heroin works for tobacco. You could also try having your friend punch you every time you try to smoke. Other options include either editing TL instead every time you want a cigarette and/or drinking vodka.
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getting drunk this weekend ruined me, went through half a pack that i shoudnt have bought in the first place.
THIS IS HARD
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