Comments on: The Best Cigarette is the unlit cigarette.

By: Vox

Vox — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:10:45 +0000

I was coming out from my RHCE exam, after picking up my new car that morning…I smoked the last cig in the pack, looked at the brand new pack and…gave it to one of my coworkers and decided not to smoke anymore.

I don’t know if this is the one that sticks…as I said, I may *decide* to smoke a cigar now and then…the one reason I haven’t so far is that I’m not sure if it’ll make me want a ciggie

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:05:16 +0000

The last time I quit, the one that stuck I literally threw the last cigarette out the window half way through it on I80 East in Des Moines while driving for work one day. I was, at that moment sick of being addicted to them and I still had half a pack left. I threw it out, exhaled the smoke out the window and I never lit another one. I still wanted one sometimes, but at that moment something in me snapped, some internal switch flipped and I went from smoker to non-smoker in the time it took the cigarette to hit the ground.

By: Vox

Vox — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:38:25 +0000

The one thing I forgot to mention…I quit coldturkey…just decided to stop smoking and that was that…no patches or anything like it

According to my Quitter iphone app, I have saved about 1.1k USDlls (a bit over 15k pesos) so…not bad at all

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:24:08 +0000

@Chris – how goes your quit with the evil weed?

@Rob – Stilton cheese eh? that’s not code for hashgouda is it? I’ll have to see if I can dig some up. Thanks for the heads up and congrats on your quit!

@Dave – Yeah, you totally cheated with the surgery thing to scare the smoke out of you .

@Vox – Congrats on the year! I never got the cigar bug. I’ve thought I should catch it but it just never did anything for me.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:37:07 +0000

2 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes

4363 cigarettes not smoked, saving dollars 1090.75
Life saved: 2 weeks, 2 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes.

I would say I am doing good for the first time ever to quit. I used the patch and really it helped me. (dreams )
Being in the hospital for 6 days helped also !!! lol

By: Voc

Voc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:54:48 +0000

I hit my one year aniv on the 12th. I still think about smoking once in a while, specially sine I live with smokers…but so far the temptation hasn’t been strong enough.

On the other hand, I’ve been thinking about cigars again…that *is* tempting…more than cigs right now.

Anyway…I hope I’ll get to 4 years, meanwhile, congrats!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:32:37 +0000

Give Stilton Cheese a try. I’ve been wanting to give it a try myself, but I haven’t got the money together to buy some yet. But a UK study confirmed that it gave 85% of participants wild dreams.

I quit smoking about six months after you, about a week and a half after you came out here actually. I still have dreams where I smoke, and they’re happy dreams.

The tongue piercing helps alot, it gives me something to play with in my mouth when I’m bored.

I never thought the patches and the gum was a good solution though. Taking more nicotine doesn’t seem productive towards getting rid of an addiction. The only other drug you would do that with would be drugs that have a physically addictive quality that makes it almost mandatory for a person to be taken off in steps rather than all at once. Despite some propoganda claims, that isn’t the case with nicotine, and kicking heroine or meth is 100 times worse.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:15:31 +0000

So very, very impressive. Congratulations!