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The bad part is, I have to give up coffee. I drink 2-3 pots a day. I'll report back in a week and let you know how this works out. I'm eating sugarless suckers, one every ten minutes. ;)
I have quit as well - 10-20 a day for 10 years - gave up on Saturday just gone.
The cravings are short and sharp but disappear after 2-3 minutes - It's not funny :(
Have yet to got out on the beers tho - That'll be the real test!
[edited by: limbo at 12:53 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2003]
I tried sugarless candy sweetened with Sorbitol a few times. Each time I got abdominal cramps. Hope you're doing ok with the candy. ;)
Oh yeah, I haven't had a cigarette for about 31 years. It can be conquered. As Dan Rather said, "courage."
lawman
Last night however, I was informed that I talked in my sleep, in complete, coherent sentences, about math formulae and theological history. :)
your sick man. What next CSS and JS
I stopped when my daughter was born (almost eleven years back), and one facile, but I think useful approach, was not to say 'eight hours since my last smoke' but 'that's another hour as a non-smoker'.
I was given a good Cuban for my last birthday (first ever decent cigar), really enjoyed it, and plan on having a few of those a year. But cigarettes, nah, they're crap.
Good luck.
Edited to add: and remind me not to cross you when you step out in your (impending?) new role.
I wish I could, but breaking habits and the daily routine is part of this process, the temptation to have a smoke with a cup of coffee is just too great. I plan on doing a lot of skeet and trap shooting. :)
Okie dokie... let's see now ... yer tossing out caffiene and nicotine AND planning on having close and more frequent access to buckshot? Please tell me I haven't gone and ticked you off about anything of late, lol.
Good luck and best wishes to ya!
Day 15 here.
Drink tea instead of coffee, has a little caffeine but will never be the same as coffee. Cola also contains caffeine.
I use nicotine inhalators, thats a great help, patches also helps. First you break the habits, then the nicotine (which is much less than the 20-30 cigarettes)
It's no fun, but you can do it!
I found it essential to quit coffeee and booze when I quite smoking.
I think you will find that after 1 week you won't have the physical cravings, only psychological. From what I know of you, you seem like a pretty strong minded person, so you shouldn't have much problems.
I went cold and didn't use any patches or anything like that. I just woke up every morning and told myself that "today I will not smoke".
Buy lots of gum and everytime you get a craving sit down, count to 10, stick a peice of gum in your mouth go and do something... anything. A couple of minutes later the craving will be gone.
Once the cravings go the hardest thing to live without is the little stick that used to sit between 2 of your fingers so regularly every day.... Be prepared to do a lot of figiting and tearing up of beermats when out!
Best of luck with it!
smiled so big, that my nicoteen gum almost fell out of my mouth.
I found it essential to quit coffeee and booze when I quite smoking
That has to verge on sadism!
Dude, your telling me?
After I kicked the habit I was able to go back to my other vices. :)
You inhaled!?
Glad you've jumped on the bandwagon. Now if the rest of the WebmasterWorld Conference attendees would quit... ;)
quit coffeee and booze
Egads... I never would have made it. One bad habit at a time, in my book.
Stick to it, DG. If you can handle a cigar twice a week without going back to it full-steam, you'll be back to coffee before you know it. Just without the smokes. :)
the hardest thing to live without is the little stick that used to sit between 2 of your fingers so regularly every day
How true BlobFisk!
Just replace one behaviour with another.....hmmm....
sex?
Goober
As someone who gets headaches, I'm not sure quitting coffee at the same time as smoking is going to make you feel so great. Maybe you can drink espresso shots instead of coffee - you'll get the small caffeine hit (if you don't have too many) and they're too small for any accompanying smoking to be required.
That said, good luck! Your health will eventually thank you.
No matter what you do, it will be a tough time, especially day 3 and 4 was hard, take some time off if possible, spoil yourself in any possible way (if thats possible without smoking)...
They both have no sugar(carbohydrates) and no caffeine. Wal-Mart's has aspartame, Food Lion's does not.
I've been drinking these for a month now(Black Cherry is my favorite) with only occasional plain water's and some decaff tea.
Try to stay away from stressed situations, that's when you might fail.
And be succesfull, you could be the good example when Nick_W will quit smoking (oh, yes, he wil...) for the third time since I've known him.
I gave up 4 years ago. I wasn't actually the smoker I thought I was, it wasn't that difficult and I can now have the occasional (when drunk) cigarette with no fear.
Ivana
The toughest time may be after a few days when the nicotine is really flushing out of you system. But at the same time, you can begin to smell and taste and breath like you'd totally forgotten was possible. That's what will carry you over the hurdle.
The most dangerous time is when you think you've got it totally licked in a few weeks, and you say "gosh, that was easy, certainly I can cheat now and have a smoke ... I'm no longer addicted". Well, if you do that, you might as well have a whole carton because you'll be right back on them. Right back to ground zero!
You can't have one smoke! Not one. And no cigars. That's stupid. You'll be mainlining the nicotine right through the tissues of your mouth.
And dump the patch. That'll just prolong the addiction. Go cold turkey. You'll be loving yourself again in a matter of days.
DG please don’t give up I want to but it’s hopeless, it’s impossible Nick_W please keep smoking. I’m weak, I can’t stop, I’m not even sure that I want to -- well I do but I can’t… Youuuuu see what this thread is doing to me.
But if you do give up DG don’t forget the alcohol a cold pint of beer, a great glass of red wine, that 20 year old brandy nah, oh no no no, leads me straight back to the fags (Uk based) I’ve given up 3 times and it’s the alcohol each time…
HTH
Rich
I have a new Ericsson t226 phone I don't have the patience to set up, lots of bells and whistles and a camera to go along with it. I have a new shotgun to play with and I've been shooting a lot of clay pigeons. Caught a whiff of cigarette smoke as a car drove down the road, man, it gets tough sometimes...
Pretty soon that smell will cease being attractive - dumb platitudes, but, you know, whatever it takes.
Forza!
Day 16 here, worst day so far, the secret formula of cigarettes has launched it's secret weapon, the "Start Again Secret Trigger" also known as the SAST effect.
Thanks to Johnny Cash I will stay on the right track ;)
Throw away that patch and by this time Friday I bet the headache will be gone and so will the shakes. You'll still be suffering but more so from the anxieties of a rapidly evolving lifestyle change than from the withdrawal ... lots of doubts, lots of excuses to go back ... but don't.
Plan on going out to dinner Friday night. Pay for it with the money you've already saved. Get ready to really enjoy the smell and taste of food (you've forgot what it was like when you were a kid). Oh, and ask for a non-smoking section at the restaurant. Practice saying "non-smoking" before you go into the restaruant. That's a new word for your vocabulary.
As long as you're using that patch you're only kicking the habit, not the addiction. So quit screwing around and get it over with.
... advice from a heavy smoker, ages 13-50!
