7 nails left in the coffin.

[kromen]

I'm down to seven cigs. I bought my last pack an half an hour before midnight on the 31st and I'm quitting cold turkey. I bought some "African toothbrushes", gum, and toothpicks to curb my oral fixation. What I wouldn't give for a nipple to suckle on. LOL
Cold turkey sucks, but I think the patch and the nic gum would probably give me more than a relapse. The hardest part is relearning how to do thing without them. Writing, videogames, and drinking a beer at the bar is the biggest. I was actually able to work three eight hour shifts without taking a smoke break. Wish me luck.

 

[Guest]

Good luck!

And congratulations!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What a sissy. I put them down 8 years ago, walked away, and havent been back. You need to turn your balls in.

 

[DesertPirate]

Good Luck, I did it a year ago in Dec. It's not easy but well worth it.

 

[Vermilion]

Get one of those fake inhaler things? Or something else to satisfy the oral fixation for a while??

 

[Liar]

The hardest part is relearning how to do thing without them. Writing, videogames, beer, and drinking a beer is the biggest.

Put open container of beer to lips, part lips as to allow beer free passage, tilt head and container backwards. Or just tilt container, if you roll that way.

 

[jomar]

good luck

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Put the goddamn things down and walk away, and stop whining about your distress. I've known fifth-a-day drunks walk away from booze and never touch it again.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm down to seven cigs. I bought my last pack an half an hour before midnight on the 31st and I'm quitting cold turkey. I bought some "Africsn toothbrushes", gum, and toothpicks to curb my oral fixation. What I wouldn't give for a nipple to suckle on. LOL
Cold turkey sucks, but I think the patch and the nic gum would probably give me more than a relapse. The hardest part is relearning how to do thing without them. Writing, videogames, beer, and drinking a beer is the biggest. I was actually able to work three eight hour shifts without taking a smoke break. Wish me luck.

The life you save may well be your own.

 

[john-the-author]

I'm down to seven cigs. I bought my last pack an half an hour before midnight on the 31st and I'm quitting cold turkey. I bought some "Africsn toothbrushes", gum, and toothpicks to curb my oral fixation. What I wouldn't give for a nipple to suckle on. LOL
Cold turkey sucks, but I think the patch and the nic gum would probably give me more than a relapse. The hardest part is relearning how to do thing without them. Writing, videogames, beer, and drinking a beer is the biggest. I was actually able to work three eight hour shifts without taking a smoke break. Wish me luck.

I quit cold turkey almost 32 years ago: Feb 12, 1977. It was hard and I had a buzzing in my mouth, mild visual hallucinations, I couldn't sleep, I put on weight, and I was grouchy as hell. But after a week it was manageable and after three weeks it was EXTREMELY manageable.

The occasional 25mcg niacin (B3) tablet will help with the physical cravings for nicotine. If you take too much at once, you'll get flushed, but that'll pass in about 15 minutes.

I still miss cigarettes occasionally to this day--have dreams about them--but I haven't smoked in all this time.

It's doable. And you won't have to brush your teeth first thing in the morning, too. Lots of luck!!

 

[MagicaPractica]

Good luck.

 

[glynndah]

Great! Keep up the good work.

A from the good little witch.

 

[Guest]

Good luck...

.... okay and on the silly side, your suckling comment gave me a giggle

 

[TE999]

Congrats and good luck...you can do it!

I quit in 1991...the withdrawl symptoms were bizarre...then I gained weight...but I've never had the urge to smoke since. I had been smoking since I was 15 (on the sly) and over the years smoked cig's, pipes and cigars.

Keep us posted on your progress.

 

[3113]

I'm down to seven cigs. I bought my last pack an half an hour before midnight on the 31st and I'm quitting cold turkey.

Hey, if Obama can do it, you can do it! And you don't even have a Middle East Crisis

 

[kromen]

Five. I actually didn't finish the last one. Those flavored tree twigs I picked up in the Lebanese store are actually working, but I got snatched up by a cop who thought I was brazenly smoking a blunt. LMAO

 

[kromen]

Five years later

Those last five, lasted until my next pack. I kept up the habit for another three years. Then, I jumped on the wave of vaping. After one week, I didn't buy another pack. After two months, the Ego cig is sitting in my coffee cu[p with my pens and highlighters. I bought two bottles of e-juice with the starter kit, ended up giving one of them away at work. Still got a half bottle hanging out somewhere. Sometimes, I tuck the vape in my shirt pocket, but soon forget it's there and go on about my day. Fuck what big tobacco is saying about e-cigs being worse than regular tobacco, I was officially able to quit. It's been well over a year and the smell of smoke turns my stomach and the prices make me cry because I had no problem paying it at one time. Not here to wave the flag of vape and e-cigs, because I know it won't work for everyone, but I had to give an ending to this thread.

 

[Handley_Page]

. Fuck what big tobacco is saying about e-cigs being worse than regular tobacco, I was officially able to quit. It's been well over a year and the smell of smoke turns my stomach and the prices make me cry because I had no problem paying it at one time. Not here to wave the flag of vape and e-cigs, because I know it won't work for everyone, but I had to give an ending to this thread.

1. It's not just 'Big Tobacco' that thinks Vapour-ware stuff is no good for you. Apparently some medics have come to a similar conclusion; 'lung damage' or something like it.

2. I went cold turkey six years ago when I got a nasty cough (where the 'cure' is TAMIFLU and it's worse than the original problem). It took three weeks and I simply could not have a fag without coughing my lungs up and leaving me wishing I could actually breathe. So I didn't smoke. At the end of the three weeks of this torture, I decided that smoking simply wasn't worth the effort. (Thirteen months later I was told I had cancer in the throat, but that is another story).

3. Keep with it, kromen; it's worth it, if only financially.

 

[_Lynn_]

Those last five, lasted until my next pack. I kept up the habit for another three years. Then, I jumped on the wave of vaping. After one week, I didn't buy another pack. After two months, the Ego cig is sitting in my coffee cu[p with my pens and highlighters. I bought two bottles of e-juice with the starter kit, ended up giving one of them away at work. Still got a half bottle hanging out somewhere. Sometimes, I tuck the vape in my shirt pocket, but soon forget it's there and go on about my day. Fuck what big tobacco is saying about e-cigs being worse than regular tobacco, I was officially able to quit. It's been well over a year and the smell of smoke turns my stomach and the prices make me cry because I had no problem paying it at one time. Not here to wave the flag of vape and e-cigs, because I know it won't work for everyone, but I had to give an ending to this thread.

Thanks for the update. Congrats.