Grumpy Old Git Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Best reliever of stress is......Riding a motorcycle!You need to try it! Quote
Phooey Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 I've tried to quit many times and have managed more than a year away from the things on a few occasions now, but the biggest downfall has never been the nicotine addiction - it's always breaking the associations that I struggle with. In my old retail job I would go for a cigarette when I needed a break and didn't want to be dragged back into the shop, so I developed a connection between being stressed and smoking. Once that job finally ended I managed to stay off them for a year, until something else stressful came along and got me back on them again. Sort of broke the stress association around that time, but only because it gradually transformed into an association with being apocalyptically angry So now every time the red mist comes down I suddenly have an absolutely overwhelming desire for a cigarette, irrespective of how long it's been since the last one. Normally I'm not too bad at keeping my temper at bay, but lately I've had certain things set me off more than usual and so I've been falling off the wagon with the odd cigarette every few days. ... then you got chinese motorbike and now you're on 60 a day! lol Quote
Paul-Kent Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Is be devastated if I had been smoke free for a year then started again. Quote
RantMachine Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 After the third time it becomes a habit in itself Quote
Joeman Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 thats why you are never really an "ex-smoker" you're just someone who's not had one for a while...(ive never smoked or intend to, so I dont really know what im talking about) Quote
RantMachine Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Hit the nail on the head Joe! I've given up telling people I've quit, now I just say I'm a smoker but it's been several months since my last cigarette Quote
onesea Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Sitting here thinking I should give up....Then I have 2 Cartons sitting beside me only £15 each that's the next 30 days sorted :/ Still worried I might run out!!! Quote
Joeman Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Sitting here thinking I should give up....Then I have 2 Cartons sitting beside me only £15 each that's the next 30 days sorted :/ Still worried I might run out!!! Only 15 quid, so doesnt matter if you dont smoke them Quote
Guest Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 coming upto 2 weeks for me.. Easy peasy prefer this e-cig anyway... the nictone intake, but with a better taste. Quote
Phooey Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 I started when I was nine. By the time I left school at fifteen I was smoking twenty a day and gave up, cold turkey, nearly ten years ago. Best thing I ever did. Thirty years of smoking didn't do my respitory system any favours. Quote
motomarino Posted July 30, 2015 Posted July 30, 2015 TBH - Not keen on the flavoured ones - If you are a smoker, you have an addictive trait, so having something else to get addicted to is not a great idea - in that I mean sweet flavours!Use a normal E-CIG and DO NOT try to give up. It ends up being a side effect, which is far more permanent than you trying to stop. Smoke normally for a week.After this, smoke as you wish - if you only have a few puffs, then go back to what you were doing, then so be it. Don't worry. Slowly you will find you are puffing less and less naturally - then, when you are only on 10 puffs a day or similar, you can play a game in reducing it.There is a really strange effect. You will be able to stand next to someone smoking, and you brain does not connect it with smoking at all. You have no cravings as you are used to 'steam' as it were with no flavour or smell. You get used to nothing, you crave nothing I guess.Been well over a year - never crave, sit next to smokers, never crave or register they are smoking other than the stench, which I cannot believe I smelt like!ALL of the people I know that have continued smoking with e-cigs all went for flavoured ones, or gave up when the coughing start in the first few weeks - this is hair standing back up on your throat (is why your taste/smell improves) previously slicked down with tar from cigs, but does tickle until you get used to it again as the e-cig has no tar.Good luck! Don't try and give up at first - do it because it costs less. Quote
MrBrightside Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 2 years off the ciggies for me, still On e-cigs though only on a tiny amount of Nicotine and I'll probs stop that this year too.I went to Czech Republic last year and a girl asked me what I was smoking. I told her I was a vapist and didn't see her for the rest of the night... Quote
Grumpy Old Git Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 I went to Czech Republic last year and a girl asked me what I was smoking. I told her I was a vapist and didn't see her for the rest of the night... Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.