Smoking.
Was going to be over the weekend, but I figured no sense waiting.
Threw away two full pacts and smushed them to make sure I wouldn't go dumpster diving. I have only six single smokes left here. My time line will start at noon or when I smoke these out. My wife wanted me to do a nonstop smoke fest to blow them out,but I don't think an overload of nicotine would help.
Cold turkey is the way for me. I'd rather just get it over with rather than do patches or gum that to me just prolongs the act.
Just doing the math of saving over 14 bucks a day is reason enuf. But I could add on the health benefits too I suppose LOL
And the cheaper insurence rate to boot.
So I'll quit. Started when it made me look cool when I wore leather jackets and ran hot cars.
Those days are long gone,now I wear flannel and drive a Kia Soul. Scary stuff thinking about how a life changes.
And why,you wonder ,do I bring this here?
Two reasons really
One, because I pretty much can do what I damn well want to here. And the second, just in case someone else is thinking of quitting maybe this will help knowing I'm going thru it too .
So bring on the withdrawals , the irritability,the cravings,the crazy coughing and anything else that's coming along
I'm done with you smokes.
P@ss on ya!

you wish.

health benefits come years later.

It has been exactly 2,700 days since I quit smoking. Havn't cheated once because I know I can't have just one. Still want one almost every day. Good luck!

Oh, and I used the patch. Crazy dreams while wearing that thing. Crazy indeed.

No doctor marshal ,some things improve quickly.
I think Mayo knows a bit about this.
Nicotine levels drop dramatically within 72 hours and by 2 weeks are negligible.
Oxygen levels increase within 72 hours.
Blood pressure begins to lower after 24 hours. Heart rate begins to lower at a similar rate.
Lung cilia begins to repair within 48 hours.
It will be years before many things get back to pre smoke levels and some never will.
Bottom line is things will be better than they are smoking. Can't ask for more than that.

Good for you Ford!
You feel better for it?
My Dad tried the patch but didn't help since he kept right on smoking. He never got cancer but his heart gave up.

Sure I feel better. I can run much better now and my O2 lasts longer when diving. But the reason I quit was more important. I went out and got a box of the patches the day we knew my wife was perggers with our first.

You need a good reason. Hopefully you have one and lean on it. I avoided drinking and all my friends who smoked for a month atleast. It was rough, but worth it.

Its something only time can fix, I've been quit for 5 years now. hang in there! you'll stop wanting too kill everyone after a couple months :D

I tried quitting smoking with patches and gum... i couldnt do it esp in my line of work.

Vaping was the ticket.

Blade, honestly, cold turkey may be tough, you should seek doctor's guidance on it.

if you see or feel symptoms, you should use a patch or gum. heck chewing regular gum may help curb the need for having fluff in your mouth.

I've seen people fail on cold turkey.

Srsly tho. I started vaping not even trying to quit smoking... just to cut down basically.

I havent bought a pack since. Vaping has replaced smoking for me and is about 15% the cost.

We get it. You vape. Lol.

congratulations, Blade ! :)

Kia Soul tyres will replace smoking as your expensive habit haha ! ;)

you've got me beaten, ford
5-6 years

I tried the patches, but the fluffs started me coughing as soon as I lit them ;/

Good luck!! I quit back in 2010 cold turkey when I had those two surgeries on my foot.

You are just smoking the cheap ones :P

Congrats!

I quit cold turkey years ago and have not had a cig since then :)

Good luck, my dad quit cold turkey, but replaced it with food

good luck!

Good luck blade. Dont pick up another self destructive habit to replace smoking.

^ as he said

I quit July 2009. Haven't looked back. Money saved let me buy a new car. Just make sure you stay busy and watch the snacks. Idle hands will make you fat.

Buy a stress ball and gum...helped me. stress ball help me keep my hands occupied all day. Coworkers thought I was losing my sanity squeezing the damn thing all day but it really helped. I'm going on two months cold turkey.

good luck on the journey

The word journey is used by fat pigs losing weight on reality tv and the Kardashians describing bruce jenners mental illness.

if you find a need to have a smoke dissident is right about vaping, it's been 18 months for me since I had a smoke, was only tough the first week after that I didn't even think about cig's, I started at high dosage too 24 mg/ml now down to 3 mg/ml and my flavored juices have 0 mg so it ranges between 0-3 when I mix it. Also I'm not using it even half as much as I did when I first stopped smoking cigs.

if your will power fails this is the best choice out of all other alternatives.

I tried gum, after a week or so I kinda liked them and started to chew them while smoking. Then I quit gum. I haven't tried patches but I guess it would have been the same scenario. Besides. Coffee doesn't taste the same without a cig, beer doesn't taste the same without a cig and I'll die anyway eventually, with or without cigarettes so why bother. That being said, good luck!

Day two and no smokes!
Have had boomers of headaches tho,guess that's part of it. I'm drinking water like crazy and that seems to help.
Weird thing tho is I am very very tired. That doesn't make sense to me.

I would also suggest avoiding any triggers while you are kicking the habbit. People, places, activities that remind you of smoking... Avoid at all costs until you're strong enough to resist :D

It's not about dying or not dying... Everyone will die you are right but its more about quality of life. After seeing my grandpa's decline his quality of life was most definitely affected no matter what rational you want to throw at it.

I don't know you and thus don't care about you but don't believe your life will be as good with cigs than without.

It's the year 2016.. Why people still smoke cigs or inhale metals via vaping is beyond me. Just replacing one habbit with another :P

Good job Blade. All de-toxices are rough. My ex quit. Smoked 1/2 cig 3 weeks later and got a headache/disliked it. She was cig free for at least the rest of our relationship. Dunno if she still is.

LI... vaping makes you inhale metals?

How do you figure?

The gawd damn coils. Made of home made fluff. Temp conrolled wire is nickel ..
Thats real good for you

Not to mention the lovely cotton swab wick that they use...when that baby starts to get old it sure tastes like fluff!!!

fluffin kanthol fire proof wick lol. Its like a b-12 shot.

Also the Chinese 18650 batteries that are junk and vent constantly. Especially at .010 ohms and 15+ watts...

So you started vaping without researching? Metals aren't the only danger...

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a244/

https://student.societyforscience.org/...cle/vaping-may-harm-lungs

http://www.discountvapers.com/risks/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...-tobacco-scientists-warn/

will take vaping any day over smoking or gums/patches/inhalers/pills without a second thought.

Just don't smoke, its all in your head.

LI... please note that all the "research" is inconclusive. Vaping "may" do this and vaping "may" do that.

Ill tell you one thing... I went from a pack a day smoker to an ex smoker instantly. No willpower required.

i think youre on the wrong side of history on this one. In the next decade you will see heart and lung disease drop drastically as tobacco use falls like an anvil. Everyone will struggle to take credit... heart and lung associations etc will say its because of this campaign or that.

But, in the back of your mind you will remember... oh ya, Dissident said something like this that time on the forums. Vaping is very useful for quitting smoking and WORTH trying if you can't kick the analogs.

I agree vaping is "better" but its not the "best" solution. To me, blowing any smoke out of your mouth is unnatural, unattractive and can't possibly be healthy for anyone, no matter the source of the smoke.

Its not smoke tho. Theres nothing burning. No combustion.

Its vg (vegetable glycerin)70%, pg (propylene glycol) 30%, then pharma grade nicotine (im on lowest setting of that 3mg), and flavourings.

Now im aware of some companies that have dodgy flavouring ingredients... but there are communities that teat all the juices and publish those results for all vapers to see. Its a consumer regulated industry with little government and pharma and big tobacco oversight. Pharma and big tobacco hate that... and will spend billions of dollars to stop the whole thing. And governments want the tax dollars. Well screw that. A lot of the "research" and articles are put out by organizations funded by pharma and big tobacco. Even the heart and lung associations are funded in large part by big pharma. Do you think their opinions arent influenced by lobby?

Food for thought

The nicotine burns. Same as a cigarette..

It doesn't burn anything? What is the coil for?

contraception ?

Don't jam it in your pee hole... This isn't a proven form of contraception.

Man rule #1
Never drink out of a straw. Never put something round up to your mouth and suck. It makes you look like a flufftard and other stuff.

#2
Never make eye contact in a public restroom. Its just asking for trouble.
(Needed to be said in blades thread)

The third and final rule for today is
Never fight a man with cauliflower ears. He got those for a reason. Turn and run away.

A frying pan gets hot too... doesnt mean you always burn your food. The coil heats the juice up but theres no flame or burning. No combustion.