i have not smoked a cigarette in 9 days
 

the longest i've been since i started when i was 15.

fucking go me. i can smell shit again.

:smoke:

Good work man

I have not smoked a cigarette in 9 minutes.

Congrats. Hope you keep it up.

numba nine. numba nine.

wow, sounds like it was really worth it then!

Nice job. Keep it up.

have a cigarette to celebrate. you deserve it!

i always fall for this one

I quit 6 1/2 years ago.

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Congrats!! Keep it going, don't give up - the hardest part is over now.

I've been taking Chantix for a week now, today I start my full dose of 1mg tablets, as opposed to the .5 mg tablets I've been taking every day. Yesterday I think it finally started "kicking in" because I felt like I didn't get much out of smoking a cigarette - what I think it's doing is slowly making it so when I smoke, nothing happens physically to make me feel good, so I still get cravings...but when you quit cold turkey it's like "I'll kill someone for a cigarette!" whereas my cravings right now, it's like go ahead, smoke a cigarette...so I smoke one and I get pissed off because it does nothing so I put it out halfway through. I think that's what's eventually going to happen and that's how I'll quit. My friend who did Chantix once before said "You'll know when it's time" and I see what he means now.

I guess it's a little better than cold turkey, it's different. I'm excited though. I'm so ready to just do this...

you ever try gum or a patch?

I have the odd cigar at xmas

I'm actually starting to smoke and it's fucking awesome!

You must spread your legs before giving it to smashingjj again.

I tried the gum. It sucks...

See, without going into a whole essay here, basically the gum/patches keep you addicted to nicotine while you ween yourself off of the actual habit of smoking a cigarette. This new pill weens you off of the nicotine addiction while you're still smoking...it's a trick on your brain, basically. I have no problems with the habit, but I have lots of problems with the addiction.

I hated the gum because it just prolongs the inevitable...the problems come in when you start getting those heart-pounding cravings and you don't get those until your receptors stop processing nicotine...which until this pill came along, meant you had to stop putting it into your body. Does that make any sense?

I've also had a horrible continuous headache for the last two days which I've been keeping at bay with asprins and such, but that's a good sign that I'm starting to get weened off of it.

i can smoke whenever i like and stop whenever i like and lately i ust don't feel like it. the concept of addiction is too irrational for my clearly superior brain

yeah... i dont smoke right now but I can start whenever I want. trust me.

congrats! :) I decided to quit about 4 years ago it was hard, it still is but you can do it... good luck

Actually it's an enzyme in your liver that determines how much you need to smoke.

Perhaps, but it's nicotine's affect in your brain that makes you addicted.

i don't listen to enzymes.

Right, but I was referring to his not having to smoke every day like most smokers.

Perhaps he's just started or doesnt smoke often. I used to know someone who only smoked when the went out drinking. Gradually they started smoking more often. ie they took a bit longer to get fully addicted than someone who smoked every day from the start.

WTG! I hope you manage to do it!

Those people are assholes.

I live in a constant state of fear because I always think that the cigarette I'm about to light will be the one that gives me cancer. Fortunately all the cigarettes I've smoked have been cancer-free.

:D:2thumbsup

Statistically smoking is safer than suicide.

I don't know anyone that smoked every day from the start...

lol

BTW:

http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35513.html

Rather interesting. Your experience with Chantix sounds similar to mine KS. You will soon reach the point where you've just had enough with it. I'm more than a month out and I only ever think about smoking when I'm having a beer or two and around other smokers. Other than that smoking has completely lost the appeal.

i stopped smoking for a while during the summer but i've started again. i generally don't buy any of my own cigarettes anymore and just bum them from friends if they're around.

Yeah it's really weird, to say the least. I quit once before cold turkey, for almost a whole year - so I know what the withdrawl symptoms feel like and I'm definitely feeling them today. I've been sitting here chewing on my lips and fingers so much that my jaw is sore, and I can't seem to get rid of this headache, I feel antsy and ready to tear my hair out...

I can easily see how this is going to turn out, like you said you just get fed up with it. Because I could go outside right now and have a cigarette, but I know from the last day that it won't help anything. When before doing it cold turkey, I would've ran outside right now to have one and sunk down on the street with this euphoric grin on my face, then proceeded to smoke one after the other and never quit. I'd go out there now and smoke half of it, feel gross and just end up putting it out and coming back up here.

I'm kinda worried though because I don't have a full supply, I got them from my friend (long story). I think I have 2 more weeks of pills left and today is my first full week on it. Do you think I'd be okay? I mean, as long as I stay away from smokers for a few months I know I'll be okay, I just have to get my body rid of the nicotine without losing my sanity...and that only takes a few days - at best a couple weeks, so I'm hoping I'm right and it works out.

hell yeah. on top of that, smoking cigarettes is really cool.

if you drink large amounts of alcohol - which is also cool, by the way - your liver will eventually fail to produce this nicotine-enzyme and you will be freed from your cigarette addiction.

to the brewery!