quitting cigs

Welp, tomorrow's the day my dad and I decided we'd both quit cigs. I've quit a few times, but it never lasted. I was quit for a solid month before I came down to Georgia to visit my dad. I just couldn't resist the cheap cig prices. I got 2 cigs left, not including the one I'm currently smoking.

I'm looking forward to not having cough attacks all the god damn time. I'm gonna miss em. It feels like I'm losing my best friend. But I've had a good run. What I'm gonna miss the most is having a cig after I toke. It's just routine. FUCK. Oh well. I really need to start getting into a healthier lifestyle. I'm gonna start exercising daily as well as eating better. Wish me luck! Me and my dad are gonna be such assholes tomorrow morning haha.

 

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm currently smoking one too

If you and your dad are doing it together, it'll be easier. Just quit if you say you're gunna quit. I always quit for a little then start back up again. I'm not loyal to the non-smoking side.

 

and you have 420 posts!! thats a sign

 

good luck.. may i suggest buying gum.. sugar free candy.. toothpicks.. sunflower seeds... things that you can substitute for the oral fixation part of cig addiction.. trust me.. it will help.. im on 4mo of no cigs.. quit cold turkey.. first month i used these things as "cig substitutes"..

 

good luck man

 

Haha yeah. I've quit a few times but I always bounce back. And yeah it should be much easier with my dad quitting too. I really just couldn't quit with my dad smoking around me. Who was it who said something like "quitting's easy. I do it everyday" or something like that. Also, I always loved Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "a classy way to commit suicide"

But as far as the gum goes, I'd rather just do it cold turkey. They say the nicotine's out of your system within 2 days. The hardest part for me is just not having something to smoke constantly. Toothpicks sound like a good idea though.

Edit: ahh, i thought you meant nicotine gum

 

I don't mean nicotine gum..
(if thats what you were thinking)

 

i only smoked cigs for 2 years...but i started when i couldnt smoke weed...i was addicted to the smoking...shits hard...smoke more herb

 

haha yeah. I realized that after I re-read your post a little more carefully. I must've been editing my post as you were posting. post post post post

 

get one of those electronic cigarettes, they produce alot of nice vapors

 

I actually got my dad one of those. They smell kinda strange to me and don't give you that "throat hit" that tobacco smoke does. Neither of us thought it was too great. I don't think he's even touched it haha

 

Kurt Vonnegut is awesome. Where from NY are you originally?

 

Well, I'm actually originally from Augusta, GA. But I moved from there to Ithaca, NY when I was 10 for a variety of fucked up reasons. It's a beautiful place to live.

 

well yeah, you arnt going to be getting the nice hits that a real cigarette will give ya, but at least with these its something. Nothing better then going to sit down in a movie theater, turn on your e-cig , then blow vapor rings and enjoy the show with some dank pop corn

 

e-cigs still have nicotine right? which kinda defeats the purpose of quitting.. nicotine is poison

 

The one I got was nicotine free

 

good luck quitting cigs man. Im inspired to quit soon, my mom quit and hasnt smoked a ciggarette in like 10-11 months, and she's been smoking forever, before I was born.

 

I don't smoke. So I don't know how it feels, sorry.

 

do people ever say anything to you? like (chappelle quote) "put that GOD DAMN cigarette out"

Yeah, both my parents have been smoking since they were like 16. My dad's 53 and my mom's 44. My mom's pretty much quit, like down to less than 5 a day.