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Paducah, KY
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I smoked 2-3 packs a day from age 19-44 years old. I wanted to quit many times, but it was tough. I tried the patch, gum, ect. that didn't work. How did I quit you ask?? You see I love baseball, its the greatest game man will ever play. I knew Cal Ripken was gonna break Lou Gehrigs record of 2,130 straight games played on Sept. 6, 1995.
I said to myself......If I dont quit on that day....I probably never will. So I quit cold turkey....got lemon drops, root beer barrels, hard candy to suck on, and it was very hard to do....but I did it...and my advice: Pick a date that means alot to you-- and quit cold turkey. If I can do it------ you can do it.
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| 5/19/2015 8:31:12 PM |
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aposorichie
Berwyn, IL
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You are nuttier than a fruitcake.
You have conspiracy theories up the yimg yang but when it comes to tobacco?
Really?
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| 5/20/2015 5:17:54 AM |
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_us4love
Salem, OR
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Ever notice how the simple, narrow minded folk have a need to attack others... 
I personally thought it was a great post with sound advice... advice I very well might use! 
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| 5/20/2015 5:29:29 AM |
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bluecougareyes
Chelan, WA
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Ever notice how the simple, narrow minded folk have a need to attack others...
I personally thought it was a great post with sound advice... advice I very well might use!
You must be referring to this MORONIC LOSER >> aposorichie
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| 5/20/2015 5:40:18 AM |
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be_great
Houston, TX
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You really don't need to pick a date. It's all mental but extremely hard to do once you're addicted.
You're right though, cold turkey is the best way to go.
Here's the thing:
It extremely hard to build up to that moment to quit. You contemplate it just about every other day or everyday; swearing to yourself that you will quit soon.
And that process can go on and on....the contemplating of it, getting mentally stronger and bide your time to "just do it."
And once you do find yourself on that glorious day that you went an hour past the time you'd normally lit a cigarette again, the pressure and temptation to not smoke just morphs into an insurmountable task.
You really start to doubt yourself and realize how easy it is to lit a cig. just to calm the craving, and that's where most just fail and give in to it again.
For those rare few though, they got the will-power to sweat it out. Suffer. Go through feeling frustrated and agitated and those are the birth-pangs to coming out of that dark experience of smoking.
And once you beat that, all of a sudden, the craving stops. Cold turkey.
And it's like a new perspective on life...a new "you" again. And when you sniff the smell of cigarette, you remember you been down that road and realize how bad smoking smells and get away from it.
That's when you know you really quited.
And then one day, such an event you never expect to find yourself in, be it, a hot chick that smokes, a good time at some place or just feeling good about yourself that day that you fire up a cig for good measure knowing you already quit that one puff will not get you hooked again.
And BAM!
Just like that, you're hooked back on cigarette and feels damned.
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| 5/20/2015 5:48:10 AM |
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w6o6l6f_1
Richmond, VA
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Nicotine is very addictive. Wonder why it is legal to sell and tax, when it serves no purpose. There is literally no other use for tabacco than smoking it.
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| 5/20/2015 5:48:52 AM |
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aposorichie
Berwyn, IL
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You must be referring to this MORONIC LOSER >> aposorichie
Coming from you it isa compliment.
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| 5/20/2015 5:50:35 AM |
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aposorichie
Berwyn, IL
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Ever notice how the simple, narrow minded folk have a need to attack others...
I personally thought it was a great post with sound advice... advice I very well might use!
Yes I noticed your one braincell giving all you have got.
Got any more A** umptions?
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| 5/20/2015 12:18:56 PM |
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naprinciple
West Plains, MO
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Nicotine is very addictive. Wonder why it is legal to sell and tax, when it serves no purpose. There is literally no other use for tabacco than smoking it.
It's a good bug repellent for plants...... Probably for the same reasons it's bad for us
BTW I quit cold turkey Apr 26 of 2010. The date meant nothing prior, but it's important now
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| 5/20/2015 12:36:51 PM |
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beanhammer
Denton, TX
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It is the nicotine that repels and kills the bugs.
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| 5/20/2015 12:55:59 PM |
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oppsii
Osseo, MI
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I quit cold turkey when I quit.
Now, i can hardly stand the smell of a person who does; nor, do i like that: cat took a shit in my mouth- taste/feeling just one puff gives you.: it's totally up to one's "mental" fortitude to quit when they truly decide to "quit."
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| 5/20/2015 1:01:53 PM |
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beanhammer
Denton, TX
50, joined Jun. 2014
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I googled medicinal porpose
Of tabacco and what i thought
Was funny is they used to blow smoke up a patients butt for curing multiple medical problems.
That is where the term blow smoke up your a** probably came from. Lol
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| 5/20/2015 1:10:14 PM |
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57channels
Paducah, KY
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us4love
I personally thought it was a great post with sound advice... advice I very well might use!
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Gosh, that would be great if you would. The date helped me to really never look back or think about starting up. Like I said....I love baseball [ hate the fact ballparks are advertizing casino's ] so it meant alot to me. Id love to meet Cal and tell him...wish he'd go to Milwaukee sometime, so I could tell him and thank him.
Pick a date you know is special or important to you [ that will give you time to psyche out for the big day withdrawal symptons and all ] and then do it. Good luck.
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| 5/20/2015 1:54:45 PM |
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catlover418
Arlington, TX
69, joined Feb. 2009
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You are nuttier than a fruitcake.
You have conspiracy theories up the yimg yang but when it comes to tobacco?
Really?
Are you serious??? How RUDE!!!! Someone tells a success story about quitting smoking, and you come up with THIS crap??? I quit smoking many years ago and I know how hard it is. You should be congratulating him and trying to encouraging him!!
I quit cold turkey too. I went to a 5 day plan at a church.
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| 5/20/2015 4:05:13 PM |
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louie6332
Falkville, AL
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I saw a chart from a study a number of years ago that showed that when the tobacco companies switched from natural cure tobacco (tobacco dried in the sun) to flue cure tobacco (tobacco hung up on silos and dried over a fire), the cancer rates exploded, shot through the roof. Not only did the method of cure change, but the tobacco companies also began to spray the tobacco with nicotine and other chemicals to make it even more addictive—and more dangerous. You rarely see references to this study, but it is an important study. People used to smoke and live to a hundred or more without serious side effects from smoking, but that is no longer the case. If you smoke long enough today, it is not a question of if, but when, you will die of it. You will die of it, if something else does not kill you first. If someone simply cannot quite today, I advise them to grow their own and natural cure it.
Concerning quitting, I think quitting cool turkey is the best way to go, on this I agree with the OP. Quitting is never easy, but people with a cast iron Will have a better success rate. My late Father had such a Will. He smoked most of his adult life. But the day came when his doctor told him that if he did not quite, he was going to die. So my Father determined to quite. He put a full unopened pack of cigarettes on the chest of drawers at the foot of his bed by the door so that he could see them whenever he was in the room. But he never touched them. He quit cold turkey. That takes Will power. My brother has the same cast iron Will. Us kids never smoked, but he liked beer, and as an adult he developed the habit of keeping a little metal keg of draft beer in his refrigerator at home. But it was too convenient, he began to go the tap too often for a refill. But when he realized that it was becoming a problem, he took the keg out and never touched it again. That takes Will power. I don’t have a cast iron Will myself, but I admire those who do. And I admire the OP for quitting smoking, and for quitting cold turkey. I have never been addicted, never had to kick a habit with substances, but I know it ain’t easy, and I feel for those who have to deal with the problem. The advise that I give to young people today is don’t get started, stay away from anything that is addictive. If the young person personally sees relatives sick and dying of smoking or whatever, my advice hits a nerve, and is usually taken to heart.
I myself never got started smoking, thank the good Lord for that. When I was a kid my Father chewed tobacco. I was curious about it, so my Father cut off a slug of chewing tobacco and gave it to me. Well, I put it in my mouth and began to chew, and chew, and chew--you can probably guess what’s coming here-- and soon I was not feeling too good. I started getting green as a gourd, and greener and greener, and sicker and sicker, soon I was as sick at my stomach as I have ever been. That broke me. I never touched the stuff again.
I also went to the basement a few years later and snuck a cigarette when I was a kid to see what that was like. We had hired a young black lady named Rubalee to help Mother iron the family’s clothes in those days. When I came back up and walked past Rubalee, she asked me immediately if I had been smoking. She smelt it on me. I still remember that. Anyway, having tried it, I did not see for the life of me what people got out of it, and I never touched them again. So I never got into tobacco, thank the Good Lord.
As far as peer pressure goes, I was never subject to peer pressure, so I never had that to contend with. And I was never into fads or anything like that. But the world in my day was not as wicked and dangerous as it is today.
Louie
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| 5/20/2015 4:48:03 PM |
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aposorichie
Berwyn, IL
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Good Post Louie.
You tell 'em.
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