I have to quit smoking in 9 days...Any tips?

[aps]

I always get anoyed at virulent anti-smokers. Not the people who offer advice in quitting, but the sort of folks who'd start pointedly coughing when they saw a smoker lighting up, even if they were actually nowhere near them. There's concern, and then there's rudeness.

I don't do that. I completely ignore their existence. It's really that simple. They don't warrant my attention at all. I relish the thought of the damage they are doing to themselves and the fact that they are such sad individuals that they allow a substance to control them. It's pathetic.

 

[DeeJayH]

These days, I tend to tell them it helps with the stress of my swine flu diagnosis, then sidle up and cough on them, but that's just me. :2wave:

no channeling
just common sense, I am afraid to say
it always comes down to blowjobs :lol:

round and round we go, but where we stop, everybody knows :mrgreen:

best of luck dahlin

 

[Anima]

I don't do that. I completely ignore their existence. It's really that simple. They don't warrant my attention at all. I relish the thought of the damage they are doing to themselves and the fact that they are such sad individuals that they allow a substance to control them. It's pathetic.

That's a bit harsh. We've all got unhealthy habits, be it the fags, fast food, not enough exercise, and I'm not in the way of judging folk for it. They'll have to live with the consequences after all, not me.

 

[Cardinal]

1. Don't drink alcohol. That'll lower your inhibitions and make it seem perfectly reasonable to have a cigarette.
2. Avoid unnecessary stressful situations. Driving over a nail and getting a flat tire is out of your control. Getting into a spat with an annoying person in a supermarket checkout line isn't.
3. Create your new identity: "I'm not a smoker," or "I don't smoke," or "I'm a non-smoker." Either way, dispense with the old identity and stick to the new one like that's just who you are.
4. Occupy your mind with something entirely unrelated to smoking when the urges hit. Exercise is the best one, or pretty much any involved mental exercise that doesn't allow you to concentrate on your urges.
5. Combining these with the Smokeaway program really helped me. But a big mistake is putting all the onus onto the program instead of using it as an aide.
EDIT: 6. Batten down the hatches for a solid two weeks. That'll be about how long it'll take for the urges to die down. After that you just have to deal with all the various aftermath of quitting, such as figuring out what to do with your damn hands, or how to just talk to people anymore in casual situations.

 

[rivrrat]

I don't do that. I completely ignore their existence. It's really that simple. They don't warrant my attention at all. I relish the thought of the damage they are doing to themselves and the fact that they are such sad individuals that they allow a substance to control them. It's pathetic.

I feel the same way about coffee drinkers. Thousands of idiots who can't even start their ****ing day without their fix. I agree, it is pathetic.

 

[winston53660]

I feel the same way about coffee drinkers. Thousands of idiots who can't even start their ****ing day without their fix. I agree, it is pathetic.

Geee thanxs good thing I had I had my coffee today otherwise.....:mrgreen:

j/k

 

[rivrrat]

Geee thanxs good thing I had I had my coffee today otherwise.....:mrgreen:

j/k

hehe :mrgreen:

 

[aps]

I feel the same way about coffee drinkers. Thousands of idiots who can't even start their ****ing day without their fix. I agree, it is pathetic.

I'm glad you have smartened up since quitting smoking.

I notice you didn't acknowledge my comment about how your smoking a cigarette for spite would indicate my power over you. :lol: How you think you would punish me by doing such is beyond me.

 

[aps]

That's a bit harsh. We've all got unhealthy habits, be it the fags, fast food, not enough exercise, and I'm not in the way of judging folk for it. They'll have to live with the consequences after all, not me.

Okay. You're entitled to choose not to judge. I choose to judge. If someone wants to judge me for anything I do, I honestly wouldn't care.

 

[rivrrat]

I'm glad you have smartened up since quitting smoking.

Smartened up? I've hated coffee drinkers for YEARS. :lol:

I notice you didn't acknowledge my comment about how your smoking a cigarette for spite would indicate my power over you. :lol: How you think you would punish me by doing such is beyond me.

I didn't see that post until just now.

However, what I said had nothing to do with punishing you. Someone said your frantic rants about smoking made them not want to smoke. I said, they do just the opposite. When I smoked, and someone started in on me about smoking... I just lit up another cig, blew smoke in their general direction and that usually made them go away and shut the **** up.

Honestly, though, if someone were HERE and ranting about smoking to me the way you do, I *would* light up a cig and blow smoke right in their face. Out of sheer ****ing spite. And once that person went away and shut up, I'd put the cig out and continue my non-smoking ways.