I quit smoking a few weeks ago–not a new years’ resolution–those NEVER stick!! I was brave and did it a few weeks before the holiday season began. 15 years of it was about enough for me I guess.
At the same time I miss it like crazy and I’m finding myself a little bitchier than usual–so I came here. Hopefully this helps cause I should stick with this right? Sure I smell better, have more $$$ in my pocket every month ($300 or so) which is nice , I don’t have to stand outside and freeze my ass off to have one in the winter and sometimes find myself chuckling at those who are even though it was me just a few weeks ago! Although a bit bitchier than usual might I say this: It was my first time ever trying to quit, I did it cold turkey and it really was NOT that bad to do so. I have had the odd craving now and then but have stood my ground and have not broke down, not even once.
For all of the people out there who say to me after finding out what I’ve done–“Oh, I couldn’t do that, that’d be toooooooo hard” I say, man (or woman) up and stop your damn sooking and just do it IF that is what you want to do. If you don’t want to then shut up about saying I should quit too and all that BS.
–The Quitter!
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
Sometimes its ok to just enjoy your own personal successes with yourself. Congrats on getting this far, don’t hate on those who aren’t
There is a time and place for everything…….which follows there are numerous times and places ‘not for anything’.
Quitting smoking is a peculiarly strange issue that the stars need to be in the right place at the right time and every thing will go smoothly, as it did for you. Don’t let this experience fool you, it doesn’t always go so well, you got lucky!
You need to understand this…….if you NOW think you can ‘fall back just a little’ because you know you could easily do it again, you are doomed!
The next time around could be completely different…..don’t ever quit quitting!!
I know!
There *is* a time and place for quitting an addiction (to cigarettes, to food, to drugs, etc…). You won’t be successful until you’re really ready to do it.
Congrats on being ready to quit smoking! My dad quit cold turkey 22 years ago and hasn’t touched one since because if he had just one, he’d be back on them, so good on you for not caving.
i quit 2 years ago and not a day goes by without at least one craving episode; i’ll bet i’ve had 25 nightmares/dreams where i have wioken up thinking i had started smoking again!
As my friends said to me when I gave up smoking …
YOUR A QUITTER ! (I think they meant it as a bad thing.)
Good luck…PS if you start smoking again, I have a couple of girlfriends who finally managed to quit after several other methods failed by following the complete champex (can you say that here ??) method.
I’ve tried three times… The first time was cold turkey, but I fell off the wagon after three weeks… I’ll eventually quit again, I keep trying to talk myself into it (ex: “This WILL be my last pack”) hopefully one day I’ll believe it.
Best of luck to you though I really hope you do better than me 🙂
well good for you,and to all those that tried/try to quit.that shit is really habit forming,and people who smoke and try to quit,should start a class action suit against the government.they are indirectly responsible for people smoking and trying to quit,but not quite making it happen.if the gov. were held accountable to some degree,like say a an indifference suit,people might wake up some.i smoke,have for a long time.i quit a number of times,and unfortunately,started up again.the aroma of smoke gets to you as an ex smoker.the governments,all of them,should make these things 100% illegal to buy,have,or make for sale.but no,the mighty fucking tax dollar count more than the people,vote btw, vote these assholes in office.all smokers should unite and sue the fuck out of the federal,provincial, and local governments.then see how fucking fast they stop prooducing them.
LIFE SUCKS…take a damn valium !
Or go take your medication or….
Smoke a joint…. do something to CALM DOWN !
That block of ramble on text, has hurt my eyes & I can’t decipher it… for one simple reason.
I can’t read the damn thing ! ! !
itreallyisn’tthathardtoseperateyourwordsintosentencestoseperateindividualthoughtsintonewlinesorparpgraphs…so slow down , & proof read please…if you can’t speak it without having to pause for a breath, then it doesn’t belong in mind numbing block of text…really, it’s not hard to do !
more,if you read it,then you know what it said,right.but if you are trying for a douche bag of the year award,forget it. that award already went out to someone luckier than you.so i guess that makes you a double loser.oh well, there is always the darwin awards,i think you might take that with flying colors.and btw,if you don’t like reading it,pass it on by.
Sorry LIFE SUCKS !- stop-
Could you try again.-stop-
Still can’t read your drivel.-stop-
try learning how to write English. -stop-
( I don’t care how bad your spelling is ,your large blocks of gibberish are not worth the effort to even attempt to read.) STOP !
so then don’t asshole.
Hey…LIFE SUCKS, you can write a sentence ! ! ! ! ! !
WOW, now all you have to do is work on stringing them into a paragraph.
very nice 🙂
OP, the first time I quit, I lasted over a year…then I made the mistake of having just one cigarette when I was under some stress. The point is: never say never…you could be setting yourself up for a fall. It is when you are aware that you will remain susceptible always that you protect yourself from weak moments.
Life sucks and then you die. Whether your sucking on a fag or not!
i’d rather die sucking on a tit sweetheart,yours?
More, I’ve tried telling him to chill the fuck out and grasp a bit of proper punctuation….
between he(r) and weedhog, I’d say they’re lost causes.
they’d prefer to sputter inane shit all over the board that takes everyone twice as long to read because they don’t want to take three seconds to clean it up.
assholes.
Smokes are like a bad ex. When you first break up with them you’re all ‘yeah, fuck you’ and then after a while you forget all the bad parts and only remember the good. Then one day, one really shitty day, you’ll think to yourself ‘maybe just once to make me feel better’. And then you wake up the next day with a bad taste in your mouth and a head full of shame and you have to start all over again.
So yeah, good luck with that.