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Post by HandsomeHollywood on Jun 3, 2020 13:09:30 GMT -5
Any smokers here?
I've been smoking for over 10 years and started at the stupid should-have-known-better age of 20. I'm giving quitting my first honest go.
Anyone else here successfully quit? Or unsuccessfully? What's your story?
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Post by charabro on Jun 3, 2020 13:19:11 GMT -5
Shit, I started when I was about 14 and I'm 22 now ahaha, been trying to quit for ages but its just finding something to do instead when I get breaks at work
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Post by Mongo Bears on Jun 3, 2020 14:26:56 GMT -5
I’ve smoked since I was 18 with a few breaks in between.
I don’t want to quit but sometimes I have to for one reason or another.
I had quit for about 3 weeks when covid first showed up but I gave in.
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Post by The Real Valbroski on Jun 3, 2020 14:35:25 GMT -5
I used to only smoke when I was out drinking but I stopped. I didn’t want to get to the point where I was regularly buying packs sober.
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Post by HandsomeHollywood on Jun 3, 2020 15:54:55 GMT -5
crap, I started when I was about 14 and I'm 22 now ahaha, been trying to quit for ages but its just finding something to do instead when I get breaks at work I smoked while drinking in the summer going into senior year of high school. I quit when school started back up no problem. A buddy of mine visited New Orleans with his university and he returned with a carton of Marlboro Menthol smooths. I started smoking them on my breaks at work and that's how I got hooked. I still enjoy smoking but here in Canada it's very expensive. A pack costs around $18CAD/$13USD here. It's just throwing money down the tube. My wife doesn't smoke and has been beyond a champ about my smoking, complaining very little. But now we're having talks about having a kid and that makes me not want to continue it. My mother died from smoking young and I'd hate to do the same to my kid. |
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 3, 2020 16:47:10 GMT -5
I smoked on & off for 5 years. A pack would last me about a week. Once smoking started getting banned in businesses, I didn't want to smoke mainly in my car.
Cancer is an unfortunate trait in my family, so that helped in me quitting cold turkey (I hate that term).
I haven't had a cigarette in over 15 years.
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jun 3, 2020 18:06:21 GMT -5
When I was 18 I’d smoke a pack of cigs in 2 weeks. Mostly I’d smoke socially. (Camel Wides were my go to brand/pack.) Then I got into cigars. While on cigars I’d smoke 2 or 3 cigarillos a day & 1 big cigar a week. Quit cold turkey due to the price of cigars just being so high. Haven’t smoked in over 6 years.
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Post by Mr Angry Cena on Jun 3, 2020 18:15:06 GMT -5
I smoked for a couple of months in 2016. One day I finished a smoke, then lit up another immediately after. That was the day I quit for good. Absolutely disgusting.
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 3, 2020 18:32:49 GMT -5
I don't smoke but several relatives of mine are smokers. My dad was a lifelong smoker, he quit shortly after I was born. 2 of my brothers smoke. The one quit several years back and then started smoking again a few years ago. I think my other brother is trying to switch to vaping. It's one of the toughest addictions to break.
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Post by IRS on Jun 4, 2020 5:22:44 GMT -5
Started sneaking my dad's cigarettes when I was 15 or 16. Started buying my own around 18 or 19, and one pack would last me two weeks to a month. Been smoking regularly for the last three or four years, and I'm up to 3/4 or a pack a day now.
Don't have any plans to stop, and don't really know if I ever will.
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Jun 4, 2020 10:19:52 GMT -5
Never smoked. Asthma. And I think it just looks feminine as hell. Like...you cant gently hold a cigarette, press it between your lips, and blow smoke in a manly way.
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Post by K5 on Jun 4, 2020 11:55:23 GMT -5
I don’t believe the addiction. It completely exists, and compels people to not break the habit, but it is not what keeps people under control. what keeps people under control is their own denial and lack of will.
if you TRULY wanted to quit, you would. but I don’t think you’re being honest with yourself totally. you still love cigarettes. to truly quit, you need to learn to hate them. that’s easier for some than others.
that’s how I stopped smoking. I started to hate them. then it was easy.
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Jun 4, 2020 12:30:50 GMT -5
I’ve been smoking for 11 years since I was 16, don’t really plan on stopping because I don’t smoke ALOT maybe about 3 a day whilst at work. I’ve done the Stoptober campaign a few times where you stop smoking for a month and didn’t find it hard to do tbh.
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 4, 2020 16:32:04 GMT -5
I work with a guy who smokes like a pack a day. He tried quitting for a week once and couldn't take it.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 4, 2020 19:38:26 GMT -5
Something will eventually kill me.....but it sure the  aint gonna be that. |
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Post by Scott! on Jun 5, 2020 16:31:57 GMT -5
Smoked since I was 14, now I'm 26 but a few years ago moved on to a vape. I'm just addicted to that now and I love it. I don't think I could go back to actual cigarettes now, but I'll smoke that all day long.
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Post by Sleeping Like An Angel on Jun 7, 2020 11:27:56 GMT -5
Started sneaking my dad's cigarettes when I was 15 or 16. Started buying my own around 18 or 19, and one pack would last me two weeks to a month. Been smoking regularly for the last three or four years, and I'm up to 3/4 or a pack a day now. Don't have any plans to stop, and don't really know if I ever will. Two packs a day. Nobody likes a quitter. |
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Post by dollarbill04 on Jun 13, 2020 6:08:52 GMT -5
I am a smoker, and am resigned to the fact that it will be what kills me. I cannot stop. I have tried every method you could possibly name, multiple times, and failed. Except Chantix because the commercial says it can give you suicidal dreams. I got enough of that ish when I'm awake, BRO. Kicking painkillers after 10 years was easier than any attempt Ive ever made at cigarettes.
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Post by The Real Valbroski on Jun 13, 2020 15:40:03 GMT -5
I am a smoker, and am resigned to the fact that it will be what kills me. I cannot stop. I have tried every method you could possibly name, multiple times, and failed. Except Chantix because the commercial says it can give you suicidal dreams. I got enough of that ish when I'm awake, BRO. Kicking painkillers after 10 years was easier than any attempt Ive ever made at cigarettes. I have a lot of friends who have said the same thing. |
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Post by K5 on Jun 14, 2020 11:07:40 GMT -5
I am a smoker, and am resigned to the fact that it will be what kills me. I cannot stop. I have tried every method you could possibly name, multiple times, and failed. Except Chantix because the commercial says it can give you suicidal dreams. I got enough of that ish when I'm awake, BRO. Kicking painkillers after 10 years was easier than any attempt Ive ever made at cigarettes. I had a cousin who had a psychotic episode while using Chantix and has never been the same. perhaps chantix brought his illness out or worsened it, who knows... that’s awesome that you stopped taking painkillers, you made a great choice. |
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