Quitting smoking is so hard!

spooky scary bearatons · #1

So I've been attempting to quit smoking for the longest time as most people who know me well on VGF are probably aware, but holy **** it's just so tough, i'll stop for a few weeks suddenly stress and I buy tobacco again!! E-cigs do **** all and same goes with the patch. And I'm currently agitated that I have no money to shorten my lifespan. Oh good golly this blows. I wish I could like CTRL+ALT+DEL addictions.

other than that life is pretty awesome.

Kargath · #2

Step down slowly.

Valigarmander · #3

Val wishes he knew how to help friends stop smoking.

#4

Been over a month since I last smoked a cigar

guess it's easy when you smoke something you don't inhale also your little cigars break just by being in your coat pocket seriously why does Swischer only put the stuff in soft packs unless you get like those weird wood tipped ones which I've never even tried

Jesus · #5

It's probably the fact that cigarettes are so easily available to you. It still takes a lot of self control and being able to deter that addiction to something else when you're stressed such as an online game or eating something. Chewing gum supposedly helps with the oral fixation part of it. My recommendation if you don't like gum, eat jerky or sunflower seeds.

smol Kat · #6

I've had a lot of friends quit smoking, some of whom did it on the first try and some on the 17th. Don't go cold turkey, that just makes it worse.

(and if the fixation is with having something in your hand, take a pen everywhere. I had a pen fixation when I worked restaurant and I'm not even a smoker...)

#7

Cigars did get me outside a nice bit more during work. Still probably for the better to be off.

Jesus · #8

E-cigarettes in my opinion would theoretically cause pneumonias. You're inhaling a water vapor which enters your lungs and sits there and collects. I was surprised at some of my clinical sites to learn that they would prescribe them to patients who are smokers in order to keep them in bed. Some states do have tobacco helplines. Maine, for instance, won a lawsuit against a cigarette company and started the Maine Tobacco Hotline which gives huge discounts to residents with prescription help in order to get them to stop smoking.

#9

I thought the e-cigarette craze was enough

They have e-cigars now

How does that work even

Calamity Panfan · #10

^ What's the difference, even?

Also I tried a friend's e-cig last week and I did not like it. Makes the back of your throat burn a lot more than a cigarette/cigar/pipe will.

spooky scary bearatons · #11

uhh e-cigs are okay but its expensive as to start up esp when im entering a period of time whereby i have lit little to no money ahhaha

Mysterious NPR · #12

Have you tried sitting in a sauna for an extended period of time? You will sweat out the nicotine if you sit in it several times a week (while going cold turkey). Don't sit in it for so long that you dehydrate yourself though. Also, replace cigarettes with another habit. A friend of mine in High School chewed on ice whenever she got a craving to smoke.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #13

Cold turkey is what really works for quitting anything.

b l a n k · #14

Benjamin Franklin wrote: It is easier to prevent habits than to break them.

United Nations · #15

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! wrote:Cold turkey is what really works for quitting anything.

Except actually quitting cold turkey is impossible for most people. It takes incredible will power added to the wish to actually quit. Plus, quitting cold turkey can cause your body to freak out. Your moods and your health all get affected. An addiction is an addiction because it's addicting. With my friends who have successfully quit, they do it by weening off of it slowly. Less cigs a day, not smoking the whole thing, etc. The worst part is the nicotine. That's why e-cigs are nice. They stop the tobacco use and then you can get lower and lower amounts of nicotine put in until you're not addicted anymore. Except they're so expensive.

#16

Colonel KR wrote:dumb quote

you clearly don't understand why people even smoke in the first place

b l a n k · #17

Sure I do:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer- ... ople-smoke

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercaus ... ople-start

And a really old but still pertinent article: http://smokingsides.com/docs/whysmoke.html

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #18

User Name wrote:Except actually quitting cold turkey is impossible for most people. It takes incredible will power added to the wish to actually quit. Plus, quitting cold turkey can cause your body to freak out. Your moods and your health all get affected. An addiction is an addiction because it's addicting. With my friends who have successfully quit, they do it by weening off of it slowly. Less cigs a day, not smoking the whole thing, etc. The worst part is the nicotine. That's why e-cigs are nice. They stop the tobacco use and then you can get lower and lower amounts of nicotine put in until you're not addicted anymore. Except they're so expensive.

You make valid points. It's still the best way, in my opinion, if you can do it.[DOUBLEPOST=1394526535,1394526463][/DOUBLEPOST]

Loot wrote:you clearly don't understand why people even smoke in the first place

I really don't. Seems pretty stupid.

United Nations · #19

^You're right, it is stupid. Really stupid. I just hate when people argue to a smoker that smoking is bad. It's just like, "No ****." Every smoker knows it's bad. It's really difficult taking advice from someone who has never smoked and doesn't understand in the first place.

#20

Colonel KR wrote:Sure I do:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer- ... ople-smoke

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercaus ... ople-start

And a really old but still pertinent article: http://smokingsides.com/docs/whysmoke.html

I, too, can take search results from Google on "why people smoke".