Being a non-smoker is harder than quitting

It feels so fucking weird. I feel all goody good and mainstream and not me.

 

I haven't smoked cigarettes since May 2009. And, haven't drunk alcohol since May of this year.

Only now, am I getting used to not drinking. I used to feel like I was missing something by not going out to parties on Friday or Saturday night.

Socializing and daylight sobriety seemed like opposites. But now, I am starting to feel like I am missing something if I don't wake up early, exercise, get lots of sun, and play sports with friends.

It takes time...Are you doing anything when you get cravings?

P.S.: I even found a dancing party that starts around 3pm on Saturday. I will definitely go to it. Maybe this Saturday.

 

No.

 

cigarettes will be the death of me...

 

From the pictures they have on packets these days... I'd say not smoking it more difficult.

 

TOO. MUCH. TEQUILA



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I don't really get cravings, ever since my 'slip' where I realized I don't even like tobacco anymore. I get cravings for caffeine instead :S

I also get this uneasy, restless feeling -- and when I have that, I typically either work out or listen to music.

Oh and congratulations

 

it definitely makes you realize how rude smokers can be.
i like to enjoy my lunch outside without you blowing your smoke in my general direction thank you.

 

lol, we just made up and now I'm about to start a whole new argument.


Seeing as we're only allowed to smoke outside maybe you shouldn't have bitched us out of our smoking sections. (we gave you over half of the resturant, but no... you had to have it all!) We already feel like outcasts having to get up and leave you pink-lunged pansies to your clean inside air. No matter if it's cold or raining... you people just don't care.

And now you're bitching about us smoking outside too? What's next? We can't smoke in our own homes?

*sob sob* oh, the HUMANITY!

 

Inside air quality is often much poorer than outside.

 

i agree, I've quit like 6 or 7 times without a problem. I get really into the initial withdrawal of nicotine. I love how it puts my body into shock and it makes me feel like I'm actually accomplishing something. But after a couple of months I start to get really jealous of all those smokers for being able to smoke, even if the thought of smoking disgusts me. I wonder if the psychological addiction ever goes away...I've never quit more than 8 months at a time and I know it doesn't go away in an 8 month time frame.

 

If you quit 6 or 7 times you never quit once.Quitting means never smoking again.

They say when the chips are down, a smoker will smoke. It is extreamly diffult to truly quit.

 

I've been a smoker on and off, I still smoke tobacco occasionally, but I try to stay away from cigarettes.


I think its pretty safe to say I've never been addicted though, I always liked weed better.

 

I may smoke again eventually -- a cigar now and then on special occasions. But I really think the mental components of quitting aren't focused on enough, and that is what I'm having a bit of trouble with.

Over the time I was smoking black and milds, I started out just smoking them now and again, and then I started smoking them all the time. Eventually I identified myself with the black and milds.

I think the reason it was so easy to quit, is I worked a lot on focusing on how tobacco was hurting me and bringing down my quality of life. And I truly feel a lot better since I have quit. And I couldn't smoke if I wanted to.

But there is this chunk of my identity that is missing.. and I just don't know how to get over that..

 

ugh i know...i temporarily stopped smoking. But in that case, does anyone ever quit smoking? If you quit alcohol you're still considered an alcoholic for the rest of your life, does it work the same way with cigarettes?

 

Thanks, Duck. And congratulations to you, too.

Not smoking for this long was very hard for me, in the beginning. What saved me, was hard physical exercise.

The most amazing thing to me, though, was that exercise started regulating other areas of my life that I did not consciously set out to alter. My diet, my sleep patterns, and finally, my almost complete loss of interest in alcohol.

Which, is the most amazing thing that happened to me ever...since, alcoholism has been a big part of my identity since my early twenties (over a decade!), and going on the wagon felt like the easiest decision I've ever made.

Living without wasting 1/3 of my life on emotionally wrenching hangovers, and mood swings, and lack of energy, and inability to socialize or deal with problems without an aid...has been good to me so far, to say the least.

It was not enough to quit something, I had to do something else instead. I think you hit the nail on the head:

"By doing, we forgo." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

People keep telling me I am going to die, whenever I am smoking a cigarette. These people are always one of the following.

- Often on drugs
- Are eating a McDonalds
- Have drank too much, again
- Are driving a walk that could take them five minutes
- Are having unprotected sex with strangers

To all you people. I might die soon, but you might just die sooner.


I would love to quit, I know it's unhealthy, but I hate people telling me so. I'm not stupid.

 

I didn't really like smoking. I like being a non-smoker. I'm healthier, I have more money and I smell nice. I quit years ago, cold turkey. It was easy as fuck, didn't bother me in the slightest. Yet I feel envious of smokers. I feel 'cooler' with a fag in my hand. For me the grass is always greener on the other side. I'll continue to be a non-smoker though.

 

havent smoked a cigarette ina long time now. and it wasnt easy at first, but it gets easier every day.

just wishI could help my husband quit , he is so stuck on smoking.

 

Aaargh, I hate this! I recently worked with a girl who drove 50mtrs to a burger van every lunch time.




P.s. You're going to die.