Thread: I am going to give the smokes up

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

^^ maybe if you had to pay 255 baht for a pack you might reconsider

That's cheap, a year ago back home it was more than a fiver (340 baht).

Ok, I have just started quitting.
lets see how long it lasts.

Originally Posted by keda

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

^^ maybe if you had to pay 255 baht for a pack you might reconsider

That's cheap, a year ago back home it was more than a fiver (340 baht).

the average salary in singapore is around $2000 per month

a guy earning the average salary and smoking 20 a day will be spending $350 a month or 18% of his salary on cigs. I still think here is one of the most expensive places to smoke even compared to the UK........

Stopping smoking is mostly about making a decision. The decision to no longer be a smoker.

After that it's a matter of not smoking the first one. That's the only cigarette you a quitting, the first one. We all can do that.

Cravings do pass fairly quickly.

SBF has some great tips in post #49.

Sometimes the cravings will sneak up on you.

I'd been off the cigs for about 5 years when I made a business trip to Paris.
I'd lived in Paris for a year, when I smoked a lot. All the sights, sounds, smells, food triggered intense cravings where I felt I have to have one. I just kept putting it off. After three weeks of that the cravings suddenly disappeared and never came back.
It's important to tough out those times.

^
well, I've toughed out the first hour ok.

I think that's a book a friend in Korea's just read and he absolutely swears by it.

I think it's been near a month now and he hasn't had a cigarette.

IA

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

^ well, I've toughed out the first hour ok.

well I am 3 hours with out one and havent felt like one yet. Tonight will be the hard time for me but not really as I have made the decission to be a non smoker and just keep telling my self how shitty smokes are and how they do nothing for you other than make you stink and posions your body. I dont enjoy cigs I was just a slave to my nicotine addiction

Is this what they're serving down the local sari-sari then Scamp :-

"Carpaccio of Lancashire duck breast with toasted walnuts, beetroot and aged sherry vinegar dressing followed by Grilled Black Angus rib-eye chop with beef marrowbone and port wine braised shallots, green beans, walnuts and lemon and for dessert, vanilla panna cotta with pick Champagne rhubarb and shortbread."

Nicorette gum can help a lot the first few days getting over the nicotine addiction.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Nicorette gum can help a lot the first few days getting over the nicotine addiction.

'Easy Way' is scathing of the replacement/substitute method. If you're going to quit putting toxins and other crap in your system via other methods than smoking isn't going to help.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Nicorette gum can help a lot the first few days getting over the nicotine addiction.

Not according to this book as the idea is to get it out of your system as fast as possible by tring to cut back or use nicorette gum all you are doing is keeping the evil little addiction alive in your body

Rigger, can I borrow that book from you?

^ Sorry mate not my book but I think someone said their was a computer copy. Well not smoking has been very easy but last night I didnt get to sleep until late and kept waking up during the night but I sure do feel better and so much easier to breath

i have a pdf file of the book.

if anyone wants that they can PM me with their email address and i will send it

Would like to know how it feel when you stop smoking since you smoke for a long time. I've never smoked, not even tried coz i've known many people who try to quit smoking. So i realize it's better not to start smoking it becoz it's hard to quit, isn't it.

Anyway, cheer up. I've known many who can quite so do you.

Originally Posted by goykanok

Would like to know how it feel when you stop smoking

Its like you want to scratch your balls but you cant because you are standing infront of a few 100 people thats the best way I can discribe the feeling a itich you cant scratch because if you do you will be back to where you started smoking again
I have tried before and failed but this time I feel good about it and so far it is very easy. I recommend the book to anyone that wants to give up

I doubt that she knows to much about how itchy balls feel, well she might know how they feel, but not to the one that they are attached to, And why would 100 people standing around keep an Aussie roughneck/biker from scratching his balls?


Good for you on the smoking tho, I still can't quit, But like Frankie, I enjoy smoking, always have enjoyed it, so looks like I might die a smoker.

There are quiet a few studies which indicate that there is a strong genetic component to nicotine addiction. This is why even compulsive people like me can smoke a few (or even a pack) one evening and then not have another for months while some people get totally hooked after just a few.

I have a friend that lives in Ensenada, Baja Mex. He was a saloon owner and worked as a machinest, he quit smoking about 25 years ago because he was getting Emphazema,, he doesn't smoke all year and on New Years he will buy a pack of Marlboro and smoke them as fast as he can and not touch another cig until next new years.

How's his emphysema? Did stopping smoking restore his lung function?

No, you can never restore it once ya have it, Just by quiting you can contain it longer.
Maybe longer than 25 years ago he quit, time flies ya know.

But I heard that he now has lung cancer [polyps?] that they supposed to have removed with laser, but shit he won't have much longer if it is true.
and the damage that you have done will always be there and the first 10 years mean nothing as to cancer and stuff happening.

Here is some good reading for people that have or wish to give up smoking
Google Answers: Rebuilding Lungs after smoking

Quitting on Impulse May Be Smokers' Best Bet - Stop Smoking - MSN Health & Fitness

SUNDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are often told the best way to nix their habit is to have a game plan, including a quit day and a quit strategy. But could that advice be counterproductive?
In a recent study putting that question to the test, smokers who quit spontaneously -- without advance planning -- had a greater chance of succeeding than those who planned ahead. The results, published in the British Medical Journal, seem to flout traditional smoking-cessation guidance.
Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at Boston University who examines tobacco control policies and smoking behavior, said the findings make a lot of sense.
"Planned quit attempts are implemented gradually and thus the level of motivation is probably rather low," he said. "But these unplanned, sudden attempts probably reflect some sentinel event or great tension that precipitates a very high level of motivation to quit. And thus these attempts are more successful," he reasoned

I still say the best way is to get pneumonia.