Thank you! Yeah it is very tough. My first year of college i was smoking like 6 or 7 cigarettes every day. Start with cutting back everyday and add up how much money you will save by not smoking. You can do it! Good luck!
During your college years you were only smoking seven cigarettes a day? Even if you stayed with that amount, you would still be doing better than me. When I was about that age, working I was all ready up to two packs a day, and now, retired, 2.5 packs a day.
Again glad to see someone who can do it, if you can, would appreciate some tips on how you kicked the filthy habit.
Wow that is a lot of cigarettes! Im still in college actually so it is very hard to not smoke anymore. I quit because it was really causing my allergies to act up to the point where i had trouble breathing through my nose. It was also really expensive. It sounds like you would save about 15 dollars per day if you quit. That money would add up really fast! If I were you I would start by cutting down to like 4 a day. Morning, noon, and two night.
Thank you for your kind reply, I think I will try cutting back, but slowly at first, like by a 1/2 a pack per week, cutting down to your suggested amount that quickly, would "KILL ME" and I would save more like 32.50$ a day, a pack of cigarettes here in Wellington, is 13-14 Canadian Dollars.
I am going to take your suggestion, and start cutting back. :D
I was(am) in a boat very similar to yours. I haven't been a smoker nearly as long as you have but quitting is very hard for me. I have successfully "quit" three times now. (I know some smartass it about to say "you can only quit once hahahahaha) well by quit I mean gone over a 5 months with out smoking. I smoked for two years.. and quit for two years. That time I had lots of support. The second time I quit was boot camp.. that time I didn't have a choice. This last time I quit I didn't have any support and I had a choice in the matter. I even had coworkers tempting me when they knew I was trying to quit. I developed a way that REALLY worked for me. Here is what I did.
I kept smoking but I also started dipping. Eventually I got to where I actually preferred the dip.
Then (the hard part) I kept dipping but I also started using snus. The stuff is weak and unsatisfying. Eventually I made the shift from dip to snus. I had a snus in practically all day every day for a month.
Then I bought nicorette gum and I started interchanging it with snus and slowly shifted from snus to nicorette (don't buy the cheap shit either get the real nicorette. trust me.)
Then I chewed nicorette for like a month longer than they suggested. OH WELL.
THEN I bought the patches and I'm almost half way though the patch cycle.
My number one time for stopping smoking. Distance yourself from smokers if possible for at least the first week. Tell your smokin buddies what you really wanna do and make them promise to support you. (I'd do this after the dip phase)
p.s. Dipping is WAY healthier than smoking. Google it. But is is disgusting.
[Fellow smokers] How long does it take you to finish a cigarette?
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Congratulations on being able to give up filthy, stinkey, and expensive cigarettes, wish I had your willpower. Keep up the hard work. :D
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Thank you! Yeah it is very tough. My first year of college i was smoking like 6 or 7 cigarettes every day. Start with cutting back everyday and add up how much money you will save by not smoking. You can do it! Good luck!
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During your college years you were only smoking seven cigarettes a day? Even if you stayed with that amount, you would still be doing better than me. When I was about that age, working I was all ready up to two packs a day, and now, retired, 2.5 packs a day.
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Wow that is a lot of cigarettes! Im still in college actually so it is very hard to not smoke anymore. I quit because it was really causing my allergies to act up to the point where i had trouble breathing through my nose. It was also really expensive. It sounds like you would save about 15 dollars per day if you quit. That money would add up really fast! If I were you I would start by cutting down to like 4 a day. Morning, noon, and two night.
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Hello:
Thank you for your kind reply, I think I will try cutting back, but slowly at first, like by a 1/2 a pack per week, cutting down to your suggested amount that quickly, would "KILL ME" and I would save more like 32.50$ a day, a pack of cigarettes here in Wellington, is 13-14 Canadian Dollars.
I am going to take your suggestion, and start cutting back. :D
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Hi moron,
I was(am) in a boat very similar to yours. I haven't been a smoker nearly as long as you have but quitting is very hard for me. I have successfully "quit" three times now. (I know some smartass it about to say "you can only quit once hahahahaha) well by quit I mean gone over a 5 months with out smoking. I smoked for two years.. and quit for two years. That time I had lots of support. The second time I quit was boot camp.. that time I didn't have a choice. This last time I quit I didn't have any support and I had a choice in the matter. I even had coworkers tempting me when they knew I was trying to quit. I developed a way that REALLY worked for me. Here is what I did.
I kept smoking but I also started dipping. Eventually I got to where I actually preferred the dip.
Then (the hard part) I kept dipping but I also started using snus. The stuff is weak and unsatisfying. Eventually I made the shift from dip to snus. I had a snus in practically all day every day for a month.
Then I bought nicorette gum and I started interchanging it with snus and slowly shifted from snus to nicorette (don't buy the cheap shit either get the real nicorette. trust me.)
Then I chewed nicorette for like a month longer than they suggested. OH WELL.
THEN I bought the patches and I'm almost half way though the patch cycle.
My number one time for stopping smoking. Distance yourself from smokers if possible for at least the first week. Tell your smokin buddies what you really wanna do and make them promise to support you. (I'd do this after the dip phase)
p.s. Dipping is WAY healthier than smoking. Google it. But is is disgusting.
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pss. writing this made me really want a piece of nicorette gum. I'll miss that gum.
But tobacco is a gift from the Lord. He want us to enjoy all consumable plants.
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Yes. We should smoke poison ivy as well. You first.
But not the thousands of added chemicals in those consumable products.