Superman, you're next!!!

Len - I'm in.
Just smashed the h-e double tooth pick out of 6 packs in a carton.
Smashed the ash tray, lighter, etc.
Copied and printed out many of the different posts on this thread and will hang them in the car, around the desk, etc .... as a reminder. Many of the posts have been moving to me. Especially the family aspect. My wife is expecting our first in July. I don't want in anyway to hijack this thread, but hope that you guys kick my a$$ if I fire back up.

Lets do this once and for all. F the tobacco companies. More $$ for Sports Seats.

Anybody seen my pack of gum ??

Awesome! I was hoping someone would be inspired. It's not easy, but you can do it. I like the anger too, channel it and use it to your advantage. Don't give in, and use the visualization tricks in your weak moments. Very cool!

Oh yea, don't worry about Hijacking the thread, this is a group effort and everything written here applies to us both. Now we just need a third(or fourth if K911SC is still in which I think he is) sorry!

FWIW , one of the things that has really helped is what Moses said. "Don't allow yourself the option of failure". Really think about that, then just flat out make up your mind. That has really helped me anyway.

I am currently enjoying a glass of champagne for my two day run so far.:)

lendaddy (and tabascobobcat),

Congrats!! Keep going... I'll be praying for both of you!

I may try this praying thing next if this works.
Seriously, thanks.

lenaddy, and others, i wish i could pass some willpower over to you, but i cant, i dont have enough to share. BEST OF LUCK, i know you guys can do it.

a buddy of mine quit for about 6 months now. he said everything smells and tastes "hyper". trouble is, i just saw him again. holy crap if he didnt get fat as hell. i mean, he musta gained 30lbs. so friends, watch that too. skinny and smoke free is the way.

tobascobobcat- my wife and i both quit before we we planned on getting pregnant. When my son was born, I was even more happy that we quit.
Oh yeah, i have gained back some of the 60 lbs I had lost after my divorce. My Mom tells me that if you are "husky" it means your have a happy marriage. I'm happy but I donawanna beafat. Besides, if I weigh less, my car is faster! WOOHOO!
Hang in there guys, the worst will be over before you know it.
Wayne

My next step is weight loss, maybe two weeks from now. One at time.

I quit smoking a few years ago, but nontheless this thread has inspired me to make some choices of my own. Starting this morning I'm taking the stairs instead of the elevator... I work on the 17th floor. I figure if I do that 3 times a day, up and down, that'll give me at least 30 minutes of exercise. That ought to help me avoid the "first heart attack by 50" family tradition. Thanks for the inspiration lendaddy.

Well earned!!!!

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It took a complete cardiac arrest for my mom to quit. She had two separate bypass procedures and can't walk more than 10 feet at a time due to emphysema but she's still here, god bless her.

Here is the best and surest way to quit smoking:

The next time you have an urge to smoke, get a cigarette and instead of lighting up, eat it. And I mean the whole friggin' thing with the filter. Don't stop (you will puke afterwards anyway) until you cram the whole thing down your throat.

The desired reaction will then occur and you will become very sick. This sickness will cure your cravings quite possibly forever. You will never forget the pain that you inflicted on yourself and the gut-wrenching sickness that results.

The last and final step is each time you have a craving in the future (if you don't immediately get disgusted) think about the cigarette eating incident and remember the nausea and torment. The more that your mind programs itself with that incident, and triggers a gut wrenching response, the more you will be repulsed by cigarettes.

Works like a charm;)

Hey LenDaddy, Up to 12 hours and no chew - what should I expect for the next 12 Hours? Anyone else with me?

12 hours is big, it will get a "little worse" moving forward if it's anything like mine. You'll be fine though, just make up your mind!
For me it was a focus thing. My eyes would actually go blurry and mentaly there was a cloud in my head. I couldn't hunker down on something for any period of time. But oddly I had/have tons of energy! I sweat/shook/etc... on and off, and I hope I'm done with that today. Day THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 WooooHooo

How's it going Lendaddy? Hope day four will be as successful for you as days 1-2-3!

-Z.

That sounds so disgusting that I am sure it will work. I don't have the courage to try though. I'll try and convince my daughter to try it;)

WooHoo.

Len, some might argue otherwise but I think the physical addiction largely fixes itself in a couple of days. Sure, there are physiological changes going out weeks and months, but I think the blurriness, focus problem, etc., has probably moved behind you now for the most part, and I think that's a massive victory. For a long time, and perhaps forever, there will be a desire to light up. But it's a two-stage thing, and I think you've pinned the physical addiction thing to the mat.

Yes, my recollection of previous quitting experiences suggest that your perceptions change quite a bit. Your senses of taste and smell just about quadruple. Your alertness and mental acuity double or triple.

It's HUGE. I cannot overstress the significance of this victory of yours.

It does work.

If you can't eat the cigarette, imagine yourself eating one as you light up in your mind 10 times or more. Take your time and imagine how sick you would get.

The next time you go to light up, your mind should respond with the sickness of imagining eating it as you have programmed it for a new thought pattern.

Once your mind is conditioned to get a painful response, or sickening response to anything, it rejects the idea. Just think of the first time you put your hand on the stove, you got burned and never did it again.:mad:

it's true that mental imagery, both positive and negative as the case may be, is an extremely powerful tool in motivation. It can be used for all different kinds of challenges that we face in life.

It's funny: to a non-smoker, going through a day w/o a cig is as easy as breathing. To someone trying to break the addiction it can be like bench-pressing the Sears tower, just plain impossible. :eek:

Here's to hoping that you guys can become non-smokers, I have to really "flip a switch" in my brain when I quit, the good news is that the obsession has been lifted 100%. I rarely think about smoking, at least in any attractive way. :cool:

Great Job! 12 hours w/o chew is huge. The thing about chew is you can do it anywhere. All you need is a cup. Cigs are regulated as to where you can have one. The nicotine in chew is also much higher, and more addictive, than a cig.

I'm quit chew after 10+ years on September 10, 2004. I went to chew to quit cigs after about 10 years - big mistake.

It's really the first three to four days that are really bad physically. After that it's more mental. I won't lie, it is still difficult mentally each and every day.

Hey thanks all for your help. A kind of quite confidence about this is building in me. The physical effects of withdrawal are really starting but are tolerable.

superman superman !! - with all due respect - this is YOUR body trying to tell YOUR brain something!

Another lovely side effect of quitting, hacking up massive amounts of gunk....the smoke paralyzes your villi, the now active villi work to expel all of the crud that has been building up in your lungs....I'd imagine your coughing up quite the luggies right now....

Anyway good luck, I pull for anyone trying to quit...

Adam

No massive luggage yet:) Perhaps I flat out killed em?

I thought it "killed" the little hairs called Cilia (sp?). I think it grows back in a year or two.....or ten.

Joel, if you're not hocking ginders then you're not drinking enough........water :D

Ok.....22 hours for me. Other than my eyes about to pop out and my ears feel like they are going to bleed, ....no smokes. Came home to a flooded basement. Sump pump fitting came loose. The stress didn't kill me. It actually helped because I had something very important to do. When I was done sucking up the mess I asked the wife if it was ok to burn one due to unforeseen circumstances. You'd be happy to know that she slapped me in the back of the head. Ragging on a can of peanuts right now.

Lol, that's good. It is the stressful times that make it easy to cave. Glad to hear you held up.

My wife can home today with, I kid you not, 4 Lbs of suckers. 4 lbs! Oral fixation be damned:)

I am trying to vent on the site instead of at live, in person people. I just coughed up something that reminded me of Cleveland.

I am up to 23 hours and things are going perfect - I can't see worth a damn, and walking feels funny and my temp control systems is trash. The good news is that since I don't smoke, I will not be coughing up stuff that looks like Cleveland, but I am sure there will be some sort of equvalent fun for me in the very near future. Now what to reward myself with: AHHHHHHHH torsion bars (28mm), strut braces, cams,........

good on you tabascobobcat!! congrats on having a wife who cares.

She just "distracted" me for a little while.

Now THAT is the kind of support I'll need. Thank her for helping. :D

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Three cheers for the Pelicanhead Quitters Society! Great work. Stay strong!!!

Hey, its been a day and a half and I am still good to go!!!!!! Are the others still hanging in there? This may be the most importain thread this site has seen.

Day four here. It is MUCH easier now on the physical side. No more shakes or sweats. I still have massive cravings, but the body seems to want no part of it. I am sleeping VERY well too! Is smoking a contibutor to insomnia? I woke up and felt pretty refreshed this morning. Do you have any idea how long it's been since I woke up refreshed?

Oh, yea, a few small pieces of Cleveland came up this morning:(

Go guys, go!!

Just want to bump this up to the top. I am rooting for all of you!

Yo LENNZO!

May I suggest a read-through of "Put Down Your Nicotine Rag" by beat poet Allen Ginsberg?


It can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/bc/villanelle/cigaretterag.html

You WILL get a kick out of it! He actually performed it at my undergraduate college (not too far from where YOU live, I'll bet. . . exit 121 off I-94)

Yup. Quote from a website:

"Tobacco is a nervous system stimulant that triggers complex biochemical and neurotransmitter disruptions. It elevates heart rate and blood pressure, constricts blood vessels, irritates lung tissue, and diminishes your ability to taste and smell. "

keep up the good work gentlemen - you will be well rewarded for the short term pain