Nine years ago today I quit smoking which for me was a whopper of a task. Used to love the old morning coffee and Marlboros Breakfasts until they started kicking my ass. This week I will reward myself by heading to Sam Ash Music and upgrading my amp to a better model. Happy days are ahead.
...I started smoking when I was 9 ...and about 7 years ago I woke up one day and said to myself, "I'm not gonna do this shit anymore"... and I quit cold turkey and have not had one since...one of the smartest decisions I ever made. ...but hey, I still gotta have my coffee beans in the morning.
Yep one went hand in hand with the other, I quit cold turkey as well, difficult method but got the best results. Still like the coffee but limit myself to one cup per day.
I'm part of the club also but I had to suffer a heart attack & open heart surgery (Quadruple by'pass) to wake my ass up. This August it'll be 8 years for me.
Well it didn't help that cigarette smoking was glorified back in the day as the thing to do. Just look at this ads, especially the quotes from doctors on the Lucky strike & Camels ads. http://gizmodo.com/14-absurd-ads-from-before-we-knew-cigarettes-could-kill-1499396560
I quit the day before my 40th birthday....will be nine years this May. Took a year on the gum to wean off nicotene completely.
A costly bad habit, no, and expensive worst habit you could have... Those who succeed in cessation, 9 times out of 10, whom I've met, usually are "cold turkey" quitter's.... 1 year with Nicotine gum, at least you quit Tote, how effective was the gum over that year, ups and down periods I assume...? Like patches, can't smoke & wear, will one get sick from trying a cig, after chewing a stick or 2 or 3...?
At O-dark thirty in front of a mess tent during a damp cold German Winter one would experience the best God-Damn coffee and Cigarette ever.
I bet, the two are synonymous, moreso than a Beer and a Smoke...esp on a cold damp morning in Germany, bet their beer was out of this world. My wife lived in Germany, on 2 different bases from 16-19, said Oktoberfest is to die for, or German beer in general... I still grind my coffee beans daily, and smoke too, tho' I've quit for up to a Year, not once, but twice....a 3rd time for 5 months...It's time to go cold turkey for me and the Mrs....
"My wife & I made an agreement that we would only smoke after sex, I've had the same pack for 6 six months. My wife though is up to 2 packs a day". Rodney Dangerfield.
Strange as it may seem my experience with German Beer was pretty much nil. My 1st tour was in Berlin with no local specialized breweries. If you wanted beer in Berlin you'd find Becks or Schultheiss or Heinikens. My second tour was what was then called the zone (West Germany) and I quit drinking before that tour started. I preferred driving over drinking and even back in the mid seventies Germany had wicked punishments for DUI.
Never lit another coffin nail once on the gum. I was a prolific gum chewer then anyway, so it was an easy transition...actually liked the gum more than smoking. But you follow the process, 13wks @4mg, to 2mg to 1mg to 0.5mg. Nicotinic receptors remodel brain plasticity, and for me smoking was when I did all the creative things in science. Cold turkey was like loosing focus and affected memory recall. Smoking was never a social or stress response for me, excluding Yankee playoffs lol! The gum also helped because I started traveling again and the gum on long international flights was a god send. Although now I prefer to do a line of Ambien and sleep through it, lol!
Thank You for this Information Tote...!! Yes, I began the 4mg, & am to follow the descent, as you noted. I've thought since I began recently, something about the Gum sounds, seems more the practical route I need to go. Too bad Big League Chew doesn't have a sugar free Nicotine Gum. A handful, and I'd not want to smoke for a week or 3..or get sick as hell... You had no urges? On patches, I have urges, scares the hell out of me.
Urges only in the beginning. Know lots of folks that flailed on the patch. Gum gives the oral habit stimuli without doing the vape thing.
tried the vape a few years ago, and never was impressed at all, (I was consuming more nicotine with those fkrs). You've got me sold, on the gum, oral stimuli is the key, no toothpicks, have a friend who can't walk without a toothpick.... and yes, here too I've not seen one person succeed, using patches....
Ya' mean "Saw Dust", I'm on my 1st cup of coffee, kinda' slow here....or did ya' say, "Sawed off", those NY accents are thick and stay with one for life. I'm gonna' need a translator...!
