Giving up sucking on Fags:

[SARGE]

Didn't you hear the news Sarge? I'm off the ships now lol, with a nice student debt and alot of pissed of people

-Indy

loser

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i hear K'Rd is looking for a few good cocksuckers ...should be able to pay that student debt in a few weeks if you work hard ..

[dawnrazor]

march 2006 stopped for the first time in close to 15 years. tried before, but never really wanted to stop, wanted shot of the monkey this time round.

have had 2 lapsed evenings but have not followed through and taken it back up since. it wasn't easy, it wasn't pretty but its worth it, I still miss it, but thats more down to muscle memory and habit, I don't crave it.

so the only advice i can give is, YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO WANT TO STOP, if you don't you will talk yourself out of quitting faster then a fast thing with a poker up its yingyang.

The other thing to do is DONT TELL ANYONE YOUR GIVING UP, people love to watch people fail - its human nature. The vultures will start to hang out and take bets how long you can keep it up for etc.You don't need the extra pressure, just deflect the question if some one notices you haven't been smoking recently....

Lastly identify the key smoking locations or habits you have and change your life around these, if you like to have a smoke with your morning coffee...start having coffee someplace you can't smoke or have tea instead....

give up going to the pub for the first month also helps...

throw away all the smoking paraphernalia as well...

One of the hardest things I've ever done, but I was sooooo proud of myself for doing it on my own, I reckon its one of the things that has kept me off them.

just my 2 cents.

[The_Dover]

just replace the tobacco with marijuana.

[Big Dave]

my body is mid-60's

And that's just when it died.

[Kendog]

The other thing to do is DONT TELL ANYONE YOUR GIVING UP, people love to watch people fail - its human nature. The vultures will start to hang out and take bets how long you can keep it up for etc.You don't need the extra pressure, just deflect the question if some one notices you haven't been smoking recently....

Absolutely!!! Unless you think they're actually going to support you, don't tell people. I find the thing that most made/makes me want a smoke is people asking me about it or talking about it... a bit like this discussion, god I used to love smoking.....

[Ozzie]

don't tell people

Guess I blew that one then!

Perhaps I will encourage the betting.....$5.00 entry, the closest (if KB is still around when I die (cause I'm not gunna fail this time)) will get some green bling. The ones that I find offensive (ie. 5 minutes) will get red.

What do you think?

Thanks again for all the encouragement kids.

[Colapop]

As has been said, there aint nobody gonna make you do something you don't want to do. If you really want to do it, you will.

I believe that you never give up smoking. My mouth is watering now just writing this. I can have the slightest wif and get that "I feel like a smoke feeling" any more than a whiff though and I feel sick...

[WarlockNZ]

I've tried a couple of times to quit, i guess i could make all kinds of excuses as to why i failed but why bother, the point is i'm still smoking and the reason is that i have no incentive.

personally, i think the non smoking GF would be a goer .. lol .. but thats probably not something you can do, but do think of the incentive idea, also .. consider this.

1 x pack of smokes (and by the way winfield blue is not a smoke.. lol .. but i digress) = what now about $11 .. i pay 9.70 for a pack of 20s so lets run with that shall we ..

soo ..

1 x pack of smokes = $10
7 x 10 = $70 .. if you smoke a pack a day, we all know that we smoke more while drinking and shit so factor in and extra 2 packs .

7 x 12 = $84 a WEEK ..

52 (weeks a year) x 84 = $4368

Holy shit ... i'm gonna quit now as well .. lol .. but lets explore this a little more shall we.

Divide that by what it costs to fill my bike (about $20)

4368 / 20 = 218.4 and multiply that by the average milage (390k)

thats 85176 km of riding ..

thats what i'd rather be doing

This math leason has been bought to you by the letter F .. for fuckin hell .. lol

[Oakie]

How ever you do it, you have to want to give up. It's not really enough just knowing you should. Giving up is easy. I gave up 6 times! The first 5 times it was because I knew I should for my own good. The 6th time though, I really wanted to give up but it was for my kids, not just for me. Made all the difference. That was 15 odd years ago.
Good luck.

[Smokin]

I smoked since I was 11 and during the kids christmas holidays my son asked me to give up smoking, I asked why and he said "because I dont want you to die". To be honest I didnt want to give up smoking but I did it for him and I really didn't want my kids to smoke just so they could be like dad.
It's been 10 months now since I went cold turky and I still miss it from time to time. The money I used to spend on smokes now goes into it's own bank account and Its already bought me some damn cool toys and it's a bloody good incentive to keep it up.

[miSTa]

You've got to want to give up, end of story.

I was a pack a day for 23 years, got up one morning and decided that was it. Got myself some patches and have never had a cigarette since. That was 6 years, 3 months, 5 days ago....least I can say no now.

Best of luck.

[TLDV8]

The key is what has been said already.You have to want to give up and most of the doubt initially will be the addiction talking.... Just one more....... I gave up 3 years or so back from a 25 a day habit (and Big Dave,how can you put smoking and Winfield Blue in the same sentence the one time i tried them i couldn't find the hole in the paper)
I don't give it a second thought now but have no problem being around smoker's.... Set a time and throw anything to do with it in the bin then just go for it.Nothing to lose,plenty to gain.

[McJim]

I've said this before but not in this thread.

I gave up smoking to be able to make the payments on my bike - if I start smoking again I have to sell the bike to pay for the ciggies.

I REALLY want to be a non smoker coz I REALLY want to ride my bike.

No contest.

[gijoe1313]

This is sounding like AA (and not the roadside assistance lot!) - but as WarlockNZ and McJim have pointed out, its a tad expensive and its taking dosh away from where it counts...the bike!

Yeah, my Dad used to be a heavy smoker - a pack to two packs a day of Rothmans. When he found out a whole bunch of his peers were dying from cancers (a lot of lung...) and they just happened to be heavy smokers like him, he said "it's probably just a lot of arse them being smokers and having cancer...but just in case, I'm quitting"

And he just stopped like that! After all the bleedin' years me and my younger bro trying to convince him...he stops easily!

Turns out years later - he set himself a goal, which was uncompromisable... he wanted to see grandkids which his dad couldn't (Granddad died of...cancer! But he wasn't a smoker..go figger!).

Now I don't have any kids (that I know of, or paying palimony for!), but my younger bro' does now...and dads still here, waiting for me to get my soldiers out there!

PS - My younger bro' used to be a biker. Hard-core, until he got his 'Blade written off by a silly old cager and his missus said..."Insurance money will be used for other things...and not a replacement bike!"

[Turtle]

Thanks everyone so far, for the support and tips.

I don't think it is all doom and gloom, I can't think of one single reason why I smoke, I just do.

And to be honest, it is a pain in the arse whenever I go on a ride, trying to jam as many in as I can when we make a stop, then feel sick for a while after.

Anyway, thanks again, and to those that have given up and stayed given up

Well I have actually noticed you doing that Ozzie.....And I gotta admit as a non smoker when on a ride and ya wanna get going but everyone has to wait for all the smokers to finish aaarrggggghhhhhhh PETHATE.
good luck mate.