Thread: Quitting Smoking cold turkey.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Grab a chunk of dark chocolate.

...leave family members out of this...

Very good information. Thanks

Very good Dill!
30 per day is what I used to say when people asked me how many I smoked in a day. Of course I lied, both to them and to myself, I was rarely below 40..
Smoked for almost 50 years and quit cold turkey. Shit simple to stop smoking if you are 100% motivated. Difficult if you don't really want to stop which I didn't want the other 20 times I "tried" quit smoking.

Originally Posted by lom

Shit simple to stop smoking if you are 100% motivated. Difficult if you don't really want to stop which I didn't want the other 20 times I "tried" quit smoking.

I agree with all that

This should be it now. I did my record- 6 months last year and I 've given up that many times now that I know when the cravings and hard times will come, which for me is Day 1, then day 3, then it comes back with a vengeance in week 2 which i battled on Tuesday, then 3 weeks 3 months and then 6 months.

Originally Posted by tunk

Morning #2 for me. This ain't so bad, I can do this. I am a non-smoker now

let's see tomorrow eh? Day 3 is probably the worst bastard of all of them.
Get some fishermans friends. Good luck with it

Hard to understand how someone could get to six months and then relapse.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Hard to understand how someone could get to six months and then relapse.

Not really, grief will bring many back to the crutch of smoking, in my case it was England's world cup campaign and vast quantities of alcohol

Originally Posted by Dillinger

in my case it was England's world cup campaign and vast quantities of alcohol

...drinking around smokers doesn't help either...

^ for sure, especially hardened drinkers with bags of powder

Originally Posted by Dillinger

with bags of powder

it's like flour, innit..

As I said in a much earlier post apropos Chitty's abortive attempt, once you have passed the three month waypoint and the brain's receptors are accustomed to a nicotine-free regime you have pretty much cracked the addiction. Returning to the smoking habit is simply a triumph of self-delusion over intelligence - you convince yourself you need it, it will be satisfying and it will not be a problem.

For me, the experience in quitting was so traumatic that I vowed never to repeat it again and I doubt I shall ever light one up again.

However, I still have the odd moment when the Thai's penchant for idiocy drives me beyond reason but so far I have resisted.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

However, I still have the odd moment when the Thai's penchant for idiocy drives me beyond reason but so far I have resisted.

It happened quite often, during my first 6 months without smoking, that I found my hand in the left shirt pocket trying to fish up the nonexistent cig pack.
I also found my self walking out onto the balcony , sitting down on the bench, and then realizing that I could as well walk in again since I didn't smoke anymore.
Great is the power of habit.

Its been about 12 days for me now. Still havent had any. Still on the nicotene gum but down to the 2mg tabs. When there finished i will likely be missing them as well. Cant get them in Laos so unless i need to pop over to thailand its gonna be cold turkey for them fuckers to.

You are only feeding an addiction that in truth takes three days to cleanse physically from your body. After that, it takes three weeks for the mental cravings to subside. Once that is over you are effectively clean but still prone to trigger event cravings that can ambush you at anytime but this recedes after two months.
Take it as it comes and concentrate on the benefits that come with quitting the poisonous habit that was slowly killing you.
The gum is worthless, it is just an illusion you are quitting and for pussies. Stop all nicotine consumption now. And remember, only 3% of cold turkey quitters succeed.

10 a day for 25 years.

Day 2 for me!
£120 per month and a niggling cough are my reasons for stopping.
I am now officially a non smoker

Originally Posted by lom

It happened quite often, during my first 6 months without smoking, that I found my hand in the left shirt pocket trying to fish up the nonexistent cig pack.
I also found my self walking out onto the balcony , sitting down on the bench, and then realizing that I could as well walk in again since I didn't smoke anymore.
Great is the power of habit.

For several months when dining out, I would get twitchy and restless and on occasions actually found myself about to go outside for a fag.

Having a good curry followed by the chocolate mint cream and a cup of coffee still reminds me of one of the best cigarettes you can smoke.....

It's odd really, but that addiction was like having a good friend who was always there when you needed them.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

10 a day for 25 years.

Day 2 for me!
£120 per month and a niggling cough are my reasons for stopping.
I am now officially a non smoker

Congratulations Chitty, and good luck. May the force be with you.

I've decided to go down the route of cutting down to five a day.
Had a cig after a long day, this cold turkey has got me clucking.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

I've decided to go down the route of cutting down to five a day.
Had a cig after a long day, this cold turkey has got me clucking.

Everybody knows that route doesn't work. Who hasn't been there? At 5 a day you are still an addict.

My father carked it at age 62 1/2 after having cut down to 1 or 2 a day, having smoked or over 40 years.

I'm now 63 and when I go for a daily walk, I run up the hills.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

I've decided to go down the route of cutting down to five a day.
Had a cig after a long day, this cold turkey has got me clucking.

This thread is about men who quit smoking cold turkey. Bye, bye, chitty, chitty, chicken shit. FO back to the 5 a day thread.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Had a cig after a long day

What a loser.

Don't come back to this thread until you've done more than 8 hours without a tab you shitcunt

Originally Posted by Latindancer

My father carked it at age 62 1/2 after having cut down to 1 or 2 a day, having smoked or over 40 years.

I'm now 63 and when I go for a daily walk, I run up the hills.

A sobering thought.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

What a loser.

Don't come back to this thread until you've done more than 8 hours without a tab you shitcunt

I did more than 8 hours today without a cig,had 2 today.
Maybe 1 more then that's it!
Gonna give it a shot tomorrow. .

Originally Posted by tunk

This thread is about men who quit smoking cold turkey. Bye, bye, chitty, chitty, chicken shit. FO back to the 5 a day thread.

Point taken.