Smoking

[TheAmericanDream]

The word Cancer should be enough of a scared tactic. If you ever see what this horrible disease can do to a loved one I can't see how anyone can pick up another cigarette again. I understand it's very addicting.

[Guest]

Cancer drugs cost anywhere from 5,000 - 10,000....per month. You think the cigs are expensive try fitting that into your monthly budget. I quit cold turkey 18 years ago. You can do it if you really want to.

[KendrickPanther]

I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's easy to quit. But there is a 100% chance it will cause misery in your future. There is already irreparable damage to your lungs. Every week you smoke it builds up a little more. It will cause you so much misery. It will cause your family more misery. My Grandma by the way declined treatment. She was in and out of the hospital for 20 years, it was a miracle she lasted that long. In the end she was tired of fighting. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

Actually don't have a horror story to help you quit. There are plenty of those. But a couple things that might help are.

 

1. Buy a pack of cigarettes (box top works best for this) and dunk the filters in a toilet after taking a piss. Make sure that's the only pack you have too. Whenever you want a smoke, you will have to suck on your own piss. Then it becomes willpower to go buy a pack vs just having a smoke. That was an easier urge to control for me. 

 

2. Take the money you would spend on a pack and put it in away at the same rate you buy smokes. Figure out something you want and you will be surprised how fast you get the money to go get it. I was a 2 pack a day smoker before I quit. It adds up really fast. 

 

3. Make your favorite meal the day you quit. Then make it again  a week later. Then 2 weeks. Then 3. Food tastes completely different once you stop. 

 

The first one is gross, but it works. 

[SOJA]

Horror story? Are you sure?

 

I watched my father die a slow painful death over the course of 15 months following diagnosis with inoperable stage four lung cancer. He made it much longer than many expected but he didn't have the energy to even enjoy his family and friends' company for the last six months of his life. He ate a diet of nothing but ginger snaps and key lime pie for the final two months because he couldn't find anything else that he could even get near his mouth without making him gag. Unfortunately he didn't die directly from his cancer. One morning he must have mustered enough strength to think he could drive my stepmother's car down the road a half mile to fill up her gas tank and get her some flowers. He loved taking care of her and it was so hard for him to be taken care of instead; he just wanted to do her a favor that morning. On his way back from the gas station, something happened - he crashed the car head on into a tree going at least 55 miles per hour. To this day we do not if it was an accident (did he pass out at the wheel?) or if he was trying to commit suicide. Sadly, he survived the car crash and spent his final 72 hours in absolute agony with a shattered pelvis, broken femur, and compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in the most awfully depressing room at WakeMed, this on top of not being able to breath because you have tumors that cover both lungs and have fully engulfed your heart in the process.We knew that he didn't have the strength to recover from the injuries. There were no options. We ultimately decided to send him for hip replacement surgery, knowing full well that there was little to no chance he would be able to come off a ventilator once they put him on it for the surgery. Two days after the surgery we had to take him off the ventilator. I watched him take his last gasping breath.

 

I didn't write all that for pity - absolutely not. I am at peace with everything that happened. I wrote it only because you asked for a horror story. And let me tell you, it can be horrific. I am also not trying to throw stones. I smoked from age 16 to 27. Been smoke free for five years. You can do it.

 

 

jesus christ

[Brooklyn Bully]

Recently I've given up two vices and have found myself hooked on tobacco yet again. I've probably stopped and started 5 times over the past 5 years. Was hoping some huddlers could tell me some smoking horror stories or stories about quitting to make me want to quit again. 

 

 

Shits costly and harmful..

 

Sure ...

 

Shits costly and harmful..

[SOJA]

I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's easy to quit. But there is a 100% chance it will cause misery in your future. There is already irreparable damage to your lungs. Every week you smoke it builds up a little more. It will cause you so much misery. It will cause your family more misery. My Grandma by the way declined treatment. She was in and out of the hospital for 20 years, it was a miracle she lasted that long. In the end she was tired of fighting. 

 

 

 

THIS IS BAD ADVICE

 

it is NEVER too late to quit, the effects of quitting smoking happen almost instantaneously and grow exponentially as time passes

 

It is already hard enough to quit addictive habits, one primary psychological reason is because once we feel like we've done it once the damage is done and there is no point in stopping 

[SOJA]

I started smoking sometime last year, I've actually made threads about it. at first it was just nights out with my friends, then it was having one after a nice meal, then it was having one after class, eventually I was smoking pretty much everyday.

 

I quit on july 12th, so it's been 3 months and a few days since my last one

 

won't lie I still get cravings, but the feeling of knowing I haven't smoked in 3 months trumps ANY feeling i had after a smoke 

 

also I started studying at a medical school this year, smoking is literally horrible for you and can kill you in some many horrifying ways. 

 

stay strong and if you need to feel free to PM me

[SmokinwithWilly]

Don't think he meant it the way you read it. I read it as some damage is already done, and it's only going to cause more misery if you don't stop. 

[Mvp2014]

Actually don't have a horror story to help you quit. There are plenty of those. But a couple things that might help are.

 

1. Buy a pack of cigarettes (box top works best for this) and dunk the filters in a toilet after taking a piss. Make sure that's the only pack you have too. Whenever you want a smoke, you will have to suck on your own piss. Then it becomes willpower to go buy a pack vs just having a smoke. That was an easier urge to control for me. 

 

dude....

[PanthaSan]

Nobody likes a quitter......

[KendrickPanther]

THIS IS BAD ADVICE

 

it is NEVER too late to quit, the effects of quitting smoking happen almost instantaneously and grow exponentially as time passes

 

It is already hard enough to quit addictive habits, one primary psychological reason is because once we feel like we've done it once the damage is done and there is no point in stopping 

 

That wasn't my point at all but ok.

[Anybodyhome]

I smoked from age 17 until 54. 37 fugging years. I quit and told no one, not even the wife. No one else's expectations, no one to disappoint but myself if I failed.

I planned my quit to coordinate going out of the country on vacation. There was no way I could continue my daily routine and just stop. I wanted to be in completely relaxing and stress free place- the Caribbean.

7 days later I went home without smoking for a week. Then I traded in my smoke-smelling Tahoe for a new one. Another reason not to start again. That was 4 years ago. I gained about 25 pounds, but my wife tells me she'd rather have bigger and alive than dying in front of her.

[SmokinwithWilly]

dude....

what....

 

Obviously that disturbed you. Now try to pick up one of those cigarettes and smoke it.