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What is the best way to stop smoking?
I currently smoke 30 a day & have smoked for more than 20 years.

Alt Q: What do you want to give up?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 13:58, 262 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
lung cancer

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
Thanks Bert. Really fucking helpful.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)
i was going to suggest time travel
I'd have trouble giving up something I did for that long
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
snap!

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
all the cool kids
think of time travel 1st and practical considerations later
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
I actually stole your idea and went back in time to post it

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
fires up
TARDIS/flux capacitor/time tunnel/quantum leap accelerator
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
sorry. I'm a smoker also
I gave up once for about three years but now smoke when I drink. I didn't conciously decide to quit I just gradually started to hate fags until one day I just didn't spark up. My friend said he found it quite hard until having hypnotherapy and then it was simple.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
This has started to happen to me with weed
I still want to get stoned every now and then, but the thought of smoking has started to really disgust me.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
Try a vapouriser. Check out the volcano.
all the high, none of the carcinogens. (apologies for spelling)

edit - I still love spliffs though. Something about building them is therapeutic.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
I totally agree
vapourisers just don't do it for me
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
The only way to get a decent hit
is to turn it up to max which raises the temp to 200 odd degrees which releases carcinogens utterly defeating the point of the bloddy thing.

edit - bloddy is a word.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
Haven't had a spliff for years. Quite fancy one now.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
I had a sneaky one for lunch. I am working about 3 minutes away from my house for the summer. It is ideal.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)
if I lived that close to work I'd be going home for a wank several times a day

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)
I am Englands laziest wanker
in every possible interpretation of that sentence. Twice a week max.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)
that should be your sig.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)
Good effort.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
Well done.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
fuck it
I like spliffs.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
I've never been a smoker
but one or two friends I know who have given up just did it cold turkey. Said they found it difficult to be around cigarettes for a fair bit after that

Alt Q: I'd like to give up crisps. Worst thing for my health and for the calories
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
I was thinking about taking up heroin to reduce the nicotine cravings of quitting cold turkey. Should help I think.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
I reckon cold turkey is the way forward
that's how I quit fentanyl, and while at first it is terrible, it feels like a cleaner break (and it is quicker)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
Someone here
recommended those electric cigarrets, as you still have something in your hands and they give you some nicotine, so you don't miss it so much.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
Women who smoke
end up with a mouth like a cat's arse by the time they hit 50.

(Someone on here once pointed that out, and I liked it so am repeating it here).
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
if she smokes, she pokes

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
What if the woman
takes up smoking AFTER 50?
(, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 3:22, Reply)
Never having smoked
I've no idea how to give up, other than by just not smoking. But I know that's not easy.

I passed a grotesquely obese girl in the street the other day, with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. I commented to my mate, "Aye, I bet if she gives up smoking she'll start piling on the weight".
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)
go back in time and kill yourself before you start smoking

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)
Hmmmmm
It's different for everyone. I've been smoking on and off since I was 18. I don't smoke too much but I'd still like to quit. A couple of years ago I quit for a whole 6 months using gum, but as soon as stress got the better of me I went back to smokes. Same with the last attempt. Quit for 3 months with those lozenges, stress happened and I went back to smoking. I'm thinking that basicaly the best bet is to find something that you use when you're stressed that works as well as smoking but doesn't kill you slowly.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
a few people I know read that Alan Carr book and said it was really good
the hypnotherapist guy, not the annoying fairy.

EDIT: I just stopped. I know it sounds silly, but I just stopped. After a couple of years of "Right, I'm definitely quitting soon, this is my last fag" and then binge-smoking every weekend, I just stopped. I don't remember when my last cig was because it wasn't a big ceremonious thing.

I still smoke weed occasionally though so I'll probably still get the cancer.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
I did read that a couple of years ago. Cut down then but my consumption has increased again. I should re-read this.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
If you can get to the stage where you hate smokers then you've won
I can't stand walking behind smokers on the way to work and it really bugs me when people smoke in bus stops and things because it stinks and you can't get away from it.

Conversely, I have a friend who used to proper have a go at me for smoking when I was younger, he would call them cancer sticks and if I'd sit next to him after a cigarette he'd tell me I stunk of smoke and he thought I was vile. He now smokes 10 a day. He is a wanker though.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
I hate walking behind smokers
It's fucking vile!
But smoking does look damn cool though.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)
it doesn't just look cool
it makes you more cool
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
Only smokers
think smoking is cool!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
that's because we know

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Oh man, I really hope you get cancer.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
love you too darling

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
I bought that book to my mother
waste of money (she never really wanted to quit, but she spends fortunes on things to stop smoking)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
my friend quit smoking with nicotine gum
but he was still chewing the gum ten times a day, two years later, so he just switched his addiction from one thing to another, albeit the other was less cancerous.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)
My mother has done that
used patches, hypnotism, psycologists... everything.

She's still smoking.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:22, Reply)
My Dad just stopped
Went from a pack a day to zero. We didn't even notice for a week or two, because he didn't tell us or make a big deal of it.
Mind you, his angina attacks were a good prompter for quitting.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
I did the same thing, Kitty.
Just kinda stopped buying smokes sometime at the beginning of the year. I hadn't really been enjoying them for awhile, so I guess that helped.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Don't give up
Smoking is class.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
it is undeniably cool

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
^this

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
Plus it is the only time when you go to a club
where you can actually socialise with people, in the smoking bit. If you stand there without a cigarillo you look a right hat-stand.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)
Eating
I go from being a very good girl one day to eating like a pig the next one (proper pig: croissant+another pasty for breakfast, 2 bananas, fruit all day, some chichen and mashed potatoes thing for lunch, 1 big bag of peanut M&Ms, half a quiche, some salad with more chicken and cous-cous and crisps)

I'm never going to be slim for January.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
I'd rather smoke 30 a day than be fat (not that I'm suggesting you are)

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
Well, I could lose some weight
But I'm not a whale. I rather be as fat as I'm at the moment than smoking.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
Sensible choice
however if you smoke enough you might lose a lung which I reckon weighs a few pounds!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
^this
Some days I'm fine, other days I have no idea why but I can't seem to stop eating
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
Me too
It's like if something was burning inside me and I had to eat and eat, non stop.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
exactly
I've tried just having fruit/ low calorie things around, but it doesn't really work.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
It doesn't, does it?
It's like a craving for carbs and fats. And salt.

I hate those days. I'm ok today, but yesterday was awful.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)
i like the idea of being thin
but planning meals (like they seem to demand in diet books) makes me want to tear my eyes out
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
Just eat less
It's a piece of piss. Forget the diet books.

Eat a balanced diet, and eat less than you would normally. You'll feel hungry but once you get used to it, you'll find it OK.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
I do that, but I really need to
do a big deal one to lose a decent amount thanks to dumbass thyroid issues. Currently the gym is my friend
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
diets always suggest giving up coffee
and I'd rather be fat than do that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:10, Reply)
Coffee freaks me out how can something
that smells so good taste so foul.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I think that about herbal teas
coffee is brilliant. Although I toyed with the idea of switching to decaf and Wiggy said "you know people don't drink coffee for the taste right?"
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I only have a couple a day
But if I have a work day without coffee, I get splitting headaches. Oddly doesn't effect me on weekends though.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
I hate coffee
I'm with Bobby: smells good, tastes awful.

When I need a coffee I follow carefully this recipe to avoid dissapointments:

Pick a big mug. Put 1 finger (horizontally) of coffee, add milk, heat, add 6 full tea-spoons of sugar. It's just about drinkable.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Or bung a shot of espresso
in to a mug of good quality hot chocolate. It's drinkable that way, too.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)
I don't like chocolate either
unless it has milk, biscuits and peanuts.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
I still have a child's palette (not sure of spelling) I don't like coffee, whisky or beetroot or ale.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:28, Reply)
You don't like ale?
Really? Bah, and I thought you were a nice guy.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:34, Reply)
Cider me up landlord.
I used to love Ale when I first started drinking then I discovered cider and never went back.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)
Yes
they suggest stop drinking beer. I can't stop drinking beer. Beer is gooooood
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
simple
just replace with a pint of delicious low calorie vodka
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
Mmmm
delicious
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
then get used to not being as thin as you'd like
simple as that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
but then what would I have
to complain of?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I reckon
if I stop eating and do lots of exercise, I could still have beer and get thin.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
and die of malnutrition

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)
Yes
But slimmer.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
corpses are all slim after a while

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:55, Reply)
I'm not willing to wait
though I have lost a stone recently
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
I can recommend a course of flesh-eating bacteria

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:14, Reply)
I have considered the merits more than once
but I don't think I'd want to take the risk of dying. Also harder to source than you might think
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
I hate that as well
I did it for a while, but I don't have the time or patience to do it. Counting every single thing to make sure you prepare it right and you're not eating too much.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
Double what you smoke
It'll get to the point where you don't enjoy any of them and you'll think, sod this. Smoking it rubbish.

Otherwise, go to your GP and request they put you on Chantix. That seems to help people.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
Chantix might be difficult to mix with my epi medication but I like the idea of doubling to quit.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
I would really like to give up
spending money I haven't got on things I don't need. Drink, dope and food I can moderate just fine, but I'm either tighter than a nun's chuff or pissing money away like it's going out of fashion.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
I want to give up refreshing this
sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
to see if the holy grail of straight A's twins going to Oxford will come up.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
I had a look at that site earlier (Rob tweeted the link) - not quite enough wanking material but by tomorrow there should be plenty.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
haha I love that slight dig
...Rob did it first...jus' sayin'
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
It's the third time I've mentioned that site today by the way.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
I've only seen two
but that's probably because I don't care.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:22, Reply)
ha ha

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
I look at it for the gymnastic skills on display
27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eej9MMLb1qa0o1do1_400.jpg
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
you'd think photographers would be more original
although when they're being sent off to photograph students like this they probably hate their jobs too much to care.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:23, Reply)
The ones that don't are probably the creepy kind

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
They're probably told
"go take some photos of cute girls jumping"
I don't think they'd hate their job that much.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
I hate your job
and by job, I mean face.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)
And by "hate" you mean "want to sit on"
but I don't fancy you so you can't.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)
I hate that phrase 'sit on my face'
it's just distasteful. But if it would obscure your revolting visage I would do it. Taking one for the team and all that
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)
I cannot believe you actually entertained the idea of sitting on Chompy's face
You know he's going to go home tonight and wank himself stupid to that thought, don't you.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:49, Reply)
I'm trying really hard to be nicer to him
so if he wants to wankbank me he knows where my facebook is.

Hey Chompy, if you want I can take a picture of myself crying and looking scared if that'll help.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:51, Reply)
hahahahahaha

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:57, Reply)
I'd rather play WoW

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:53, Reply)
That's quite harsh

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
but probably true.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:57, Reply)
most Wowwers would rather play Wow than anything else
so I'm not too insulted by this.

I wish I had the time to play WoW, I really do.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:58, Reply)
You should be insulted,
very insulted, you should probably cry or something.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:00, Reply)
+ and then take a picture

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
you'd like that wouldn't you?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)
and by WoW he means
painting a W on each of her buttocks.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:33, Reply)
that's lovely.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:59, Reply)
It's certainly an arresting image

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 16:25, Reply)
I did work experience as a local press photographer
basically, you end up having to make small talk with boring people about boring things, then taking a shit, cliched picture and making up a pun to go with it

I'd like to have done it for a living
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
I knew two blonde female twins who got straight A's and went to Oxford
They went on holiday together beforehand, and by all accounts were complete whores, despite one of them having a long term boyfriend. I didn't judge them for it, the boyfriend was a floppy haired, acoustic guitar playing, Smashing Pumpkins loving smug wanker.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
Good, whores are mens best friends.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
^ this ^

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)
we had a pair of American twins
who came to our college for two terms.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I hope that all four of them had fun

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
I know a pair of Italian twins
and they're both absolutely gorgeous, you can see why god made two of them.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
a pair of twins is FOUR people

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)
ok I see what you mean and you're very clever for pointing this out twice
but I disagree. Is a pair of trousers two trousers?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:40, Reply)
like the Carlson twins- definitely worth two
these twins were odd though. They were identical but one of them was geeky and slightly slenderer than the other, and his twin was massively into sports etc so was really muscled
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:28, Reply)
I'd love to give up my apathy
But, eh.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:10, Reply)
http://instantrimshot.com/

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
Oooh!
Watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, or wichever one it is where George Lucas's cutting satire has a nasty alien selling 'death sticks'
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
dislike star wars
awaits flaming
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
everything since Empire Strikes Back is shit

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)
shut up Bert

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I thoguht you were Bert?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I'm Chompy
you're Bert.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)
Shut up Bert

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
good lad.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
Shut up, Berts

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Shut up homosexual

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)

homo
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)

shut make ual
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
I just stopped smoking cigarettes
might struggle if I stopped the weed altogether, but that's more to do with sleep issues.

I'd like to give up abstinence
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
Lord, make me good
but not yet
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)
I'd like to give up being fat and miserable
I can stop smoking for up to 2 weeks at a time, but I have to be in a situation where I CAN'T smoke at all, like at my parents'. You could replace your fags with weaker ones, but that goes against my yidstincts :/
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
I found that having a double heart attack 5 years ago
proved to be the best way for me to give up smoking. Smoked my last fag waiting for the ambulance to arrive - I didn't realise at the time that I'd had a heart attack. Had the second one soon after arriving at the hospital.

I would currently like to give up experiencing this piss poor weather, having spent the past 10 days in Crete.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
Hopefully I'll find an easier way to quick than that.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)
It was meant to be partly facetious and I'm in no way evangelistic about it,
but I was relatively fit, not overweight and had lower than normal cholesterol levels. But fags and stress fucked my heart right up. Having said that though, I still feel the urge to spark up at least twice a week even now. Good luck, they're evil little bastards!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
I am 2 stone overweight, have high cholesterol, drink too much & have a lot of work related stress.
At 37 I am wondering if I will make it to 40.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Don't want to scare you but I was 39!

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)
*shits self*

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:34, Reply)
There's some good advice on here but just think,
if Slash can do it, any fucker can!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:46, Reply)
I would love to give up buying clothes
I have zero willpower regarding that. Booze, fags and drugs I'm fine. Clothes though, christ, I do definitely need help with that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I've just brought a Modern Toss t-shirt: Mr Tourettes the master signwriter.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
Carry a pair of scissors.
Cut off the end of your cigarette incrementally more each day. You'll be so incensed that you're wasting money even faster than you were before that you'll switch immediately to hard liquor.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
this is actually quite clever.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:42, Reply)
I was ten a day for about as many years
I promised myself I'd give up before I hit thirty, so I did.

I reckon the best way to give up smoking is to actually want to. If you aren't sure, you're going to fail no matter how many patches you slap on.

At the risk of sounding smug, I went cold turkey. It was hellish for a couple of weeks and my temper was on a knife-edge, but the regular craving eases off remarkably quickly. It's the stress-fag instinct that's the hardest to shift.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
I think I would miss the first cig after a meal the most.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:28, Reply)
I never developed that particular habit
but the not-smoking-with-a-beer urge was a total cunt to get rid of.

It's the psychological habit that's the addictive part of it. By the time you've broken that, your body's already got used to the lack of nicotine.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
totally this
if you don't want to you won't
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
I am a little jealous of those who still smoke
I'll never look that cool again :(
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
No one likes a quitter. Man up and stick to something for once in your life, for gods sake.
I just stopped. That's shit advice, but after a couple of weeks, it was actually hard to think about what the action of smoking (Put fag in mouth, light up etc) were, if that makes sense. Its like you just forget HOW to smoke. I guess the best advice is yeah, just stop. Its pretty much the only way.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
My best advice
and this is serious.

Don't tell anyone. Don't make a big deal out of it. Just do it quietly and get on with it. Make excuses as to why you aren't nipping out for one if you are at the pub or whatever.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
I will try this - makes a lot of sense. Ta.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
I've seen countless people failing to give up
after announcing they are doing so and making new years resolutions and stuff.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:34, Reply)
This is what my Dad did
Worked for him!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
Yes, this.
Vipros is right. Don't make a fuss at all. A mate just mentioned last week that he'd noticed I didn't smoke any more, had I decided to quit? I stopped in january.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)
My uncle
chewed gum. The mint taste made the cigarettes taste so foul he ended up being physically averse to them.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
I can't hack the gum at all
it makes my heart go all twitchy
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:00, Reply)
Don't chew it when browsing pics of me on FB then

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
yeah definitely this
every time I made a big song and dance about it being my Last Fag I always returned to them, but one day I just stopped and when my friends offered me one I'd say "no I'm ok at the mo". I think the idea that I could have one any time I wanted made it easier to quit, whereas if I told myself I wasn't allowed one then I wanted one even more.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:44, Reply)
It's music for me
There's certain songs I associate with smoking (likewise drugs) and if I plan to listen to a certain album I go and buy a pack of cigarilloes. Or if a song comes on that I associate with smoking I'll more than likely have a tab.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:34, Reply)
this was me when I was on the MASSIVE DRUGS
still can't listen to the songs associated with it
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:44, Reply)
I can listen to them, they just don't sound half as good. Same with everything and drugs really.
I could do with some drugs now I've mentioned drugs. I do like drugs. I'll make do with ten Marlboro Bright Leaf.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:50, Reply)
Oh, what the heehaw is a malboro bright leaf?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
They're the same as Marlboro Lights but cheaper.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:00, Reply)
that's interesting

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:07, Reply)
jayzus, I can barely smoke half a pack a day without my throat hurting
I'd like to give up food. Just can't quite figure out how to do so.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:43, Reply)
my dad smoked 40 a day for 25 years.
he got the Big C. Three Times. He now can't work. He has no vocal cords, no thyroid gland, and has lost a lost of muscle that had become cancerous. He has limited movement, has to take 20 different tablets a day, some of them up to 3 times a day.

I cannot remember my dad's voice.

So if you want to stop smoking, think about what it'd be like if your future kids grew up with a dad who is always angry because he can't work, and takes it out on them. If they can't remember his voice at all, and it's just normal that he's always sick and has to go back to the doctors for checkups.
Really think about how it's going to affect your life in the future and I bet you'll quit somehow.

Alt: I want to give up being a doormat.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:43, Reply)
you're not a doormat,
you've already told your brother that you're not his maid, that's pretty good.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
first time in 17 years though.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:53, Reply)
it's a start
and part of the self-confidence building process

you're doing well ;-)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
Yeah and think of how fucking tough you will be at 18, then 19 and so on etc
You are gonna be alright I reckon my little Antipodean friend.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:55, Reply)
I am 18 - he's 17.
I think I am too, eventually. I'm seeing a psychologist every 3 weeks and it's helping a lot.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:57, Reply)
you're 18 and taking control of your life
that's highly commendable. I am 28 and have just started to do the same. I was a right waster until last year and now everything is on track. If you're smart enough to make changes at 18 you have every chance.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)
by 21 you'll have him chauffering you around
and making dinner for you
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
god that'd be the day.
he can barely stand me, he only does anything nice if he wants something.

But hey, I can dream. ;)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:03, Reply)
Make me a sandwich

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:57, Reply)
make it yourself.
I'm in bed and I don't want to get up.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:58, Reply)
careful - don't tell him you're in bed... he'll start gazzing you for pictures

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
hehe

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
I prefered you when you were a doormat.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
I'll make you a sandwich when I visit then.
good enough compromise?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
IT'LL HAVE TO DO

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:05, Reply)
woah, caps overload.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:06, Reply)
FUCK.
That has given me the kick I finally need. Sorry to hear it but I appreciate you posting that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)
I came to terms with it a long time ago.
But I really and truly can't remember his voice. I remember him smoking a lot - then after the cancer, he started drinking a lot. Make sure you don't make the same mistakes please.
If you go to the docs they're usually pretty good about helping you stop I think.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
important question
anyone tried that B&H rolling baccy?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
anything B&H is terrifying
it's like smoking lava.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
No - I am strictly a Marlboro lights person.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)

Marlboro lights person massive pansy
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
have to agree
almost as bad as smoking Gayfair Shites
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:06, Reply)
Marlboro Lights arent that bad. I found a pack of Mayfairs in the kitchen a couple weeks back, it was like smoking air.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
yeah it has the worst fucking after taste ever
It is foul. Why do you like it?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:06, Reply)
nope, not tried it
but was curious as I've only just started seeing it around.

I'm a Drum Gold man these days
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)
don't do it to yourself man
I was taken in by the shiny shiny new packet. I have settled on Cutters Choice. That B&H crap ruined my spliff.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:10, Reply)
I used to smoke Cutters Choice for rollies many years ago
Went off it for some reason.

I always found it smelt really good in other people's rollies though
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:12, Reply)
nutty sweetness to it I like.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
only smoke occasionally
but once had some rather nice vanilla tasting/smelling stuff
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
If you like it for flavour
I would reccomend a Shisha. Apologies for spelling.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
I find they dry the throat horribly
and don't like the flavour much
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
I suspect I liked it
because it was sweet. In which case I might as well stuff my face instead of smoking
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:21, Reply)
I quite like them. It's quite a social thing though I find so good for non smokey types.
God my lungs must be fucked.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:23, Reply)
gangrene
my grandma got gangrene in her foot. after about a year of being told it was athlete's foot, they had to amputate her little toe because it went all black and nasty. the doctor told her to give up. she said what if she didn't. he said, he would see her in 12 months to take off the rest of her leg. she gave up.

also it made me never ever ever want to touch a fag, ever. you don't know what aversion therapy is until you have helped an old lady pull on a shoe over a four-toed foot. i also refuse to snog guys who smoke, it tastes like licking out an ashtray!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I still haven't got my new phone you should sue vodafone for me k?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:07, Reply)
interestingly
I have never kissed a girl who smokes without having first smoked myself so always thought that was an exaggeration.

I was ill a couple of weeks back, so didn't have a spliff when Mrs V did. Not only was kissing her a bit minging, but she brought in a full on reek of smoke. Never experienced that before.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:07, Reply)
nope
if you smoke, i don't think you can imagine how it tastes/smells to a non-smoker. as soon as you give up, you'll realise why we bang on so boringly about it

also, it's not just your mouth that tastes different.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:10, Reply)
yeah, I've heard that

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
it's often the difference between swallowing happily and secret retching!

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
Stop talking about sex you perve and get sueing vodafone for making me wait.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
is the pineapple rumour true?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
That she can take a whole one?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
this made me laugh
only the little cubes, one at a time please.

otherwise i don't know about pineapple. i'll report back if i ever get to find out though.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
After a moment of thought
I would totally eat pineapple cubes out of a woman.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:20, Reply)
fucking hell this sub thread is disgusting.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:21, Reply)
You say the sweetest of things
*Prouds*
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:22, Reply)
You say things that make me retch.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Please
You're praising me too greatly!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
i meant in my mouth!
and i was talking about those little sweets, like kola kubes, but pineapple flavoured.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:23, Reply)
That's what I meant too
Chompy's just being filthy.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
I imagine it'd be difficult
for your teeth to gain purchase. Are you allowed to use a fork?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:26, Reply)
you have to pay extra for that

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:27, Reply)
I'd use barbecue tongs
*stabbity-stab*
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Cocktail sticks!
Then you put some cheddar on the end, NOM.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:33, Reply)
Oh yeah
Then it'd be all classy, you could just reach into the cocktail clungehog and consume at will.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:36, Reply)
only time I've had a complaint about the taste is after I've been ill
and I've never been with a girl who wouldn't swallow.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
The opposite's the case for me
I don't really mind though.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:17, Reply)
I wouldn't mind either
once it is out of me it is no longer my concern what happens to it. Within reason.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
I was going to say the same thing
Almost word for word.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
*high fives*

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:20, Reply)
*resounding high-fives*

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:21, Reply)
You've put me off my yogurt you cunt.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:18, Reply)
I jizzed in your yoghurt

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Dear Liza
Dear Liza
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)

put made off cough
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:20, Reply)
my gf has mentioned this. She has never smoked & is v keen for me to quit.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Second girl I ever kissed
Did so after smoking, and it was exactly like Swipe described. She was also a complete nutter who reminds me of Fairuza Baulk's character in The Craft.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:10, Reply)
what, you mean she was strangely hot?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
Looking back, she wasn't
Just very strange. Heavily interested in witchcraft. Fucking scary at times.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
People who are into witchcraft are generally self important twats.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:17, Reply)
generally
but not always. the friend I mention below was completely the opposite. She was actually studying it among other things for her masters.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:18, Reply)
I can imagine
a friend of mine from uni was a bit like that. not too scary most of the time though.

now and then I have to remind myself how hot she is by looking on facebook
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:17, Reply)
The friend, or Fairuza Baulk?
I had a couple of wiccan friends at uni who were a little odd, but lovely and harmless.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
the friend

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Because I just looked on IMDB and Wiki
And Fairuza's still oddly attractive.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:21, Reply)
she is

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
She has shark teeth which scares me.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
So do I
See?

Ok, now it works!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:29, Reply)
fail

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Whenever I try and sign up for that it errors so have given up

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:31, Reply)
Click on my link now, it works

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:34, Reply)
It's worth the sacrifice
in return for looking so fucking cool.

I'm never going to get over losing that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
I know this might sound unhelpful
But stop, right now, don't make a date or a plan to cut down or any stuff like that. Act like you have just crashed on a desert island and there simply aren't any cigarettes. The first two weeks will be hell on earth but once you've got through them it gets easier everyday rather than harder. A year after doing this I tried a cigarette and puked, I will never smoke again. 20-30 a day to zero. It was tough but so worth it. Also you have to really want to. My inspiration was the birth of my daughter. You sound like you want to so I would say just do it. Next time you want to go for a smoke, don't. Don't make an excuse saying you'll quit another day, just quit right now.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:09, Reply)
Yeah, this
If you set a date, it's because you don't really want to give up and are giving yourself some extra smoking time before you have to think about it again.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Interesting point.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:16, Reply)
Right own up, who's gone out and bought some tabs since this thread started
*lights up*
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:20, Reply)
No but I have smoked a couple

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:44, Reply)
I think everyone has to figure out the best way for them to give up
but I did it by taking a long weekend away and taking only nicotine gum. Lots of sightseeing to keep me busy and no psychological cues to trigger a craving meant that by Sunday Afternoon I was hardly using any gum.

Then I sent a massively smug text to all my mates about how easy it was. Of course as soon as I got back and was doing all the things and being all the places I used to smoke I had massive cravings. But I was too embarrassed to start again after that text as I'd never have lived it down.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 15:51, Reply)

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