See I was different, I stopped in June 2003, and that 2005 world tour I smoked whenever I drank heavily. Next day, it was like nothing happened, I didnt smoke.
Anyways, I started again mid 2007, and am in the process of stopping again.
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when i stopped in 2007, i just threw my pack away and didn't buy more. i don't know why i stopped, i just did. and i didn't use any kind of substitutes. i just quit. i don't think i would have started again if Andy didn't start smoking. i think that has something to do with it. maybe.
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I didn't start till I was 21 - and I can pin point it to a Chess Game I was playing... Now, as long as there is air in the atmosphere I will have a cigarette betwixt my fingers. Damn RJR
You know what's funny about parental advice about how to get kids not to smoke cigarettes? Their "I'll just make him smoke the whole pack" theory works. I did this to myself one night when I was first trying cigarettes. I was very drunk and I smoked most of a pack. The next morning I was hung over and I couldn't get rid of the cigarette smell. I felt like I'd been poisoned. It really worked. I can't smoke them for pleasure now.
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when i was 12, my dad went to a stop-smoking seminar, and the hypnotist made all the people smoke one cigarette after another until they threw up, and for him, it worked, he never smoked again. when i was 14, he did that to me, to try to get me to quit, i smoked and smoked, and pretty soon he told me that i didn't need to stop to take a breath, and that made me puke. i was smoking right away after my parents went to bed that night. Thrash, i think you are right. i have to be ready to quit. cigarettes smell nasty to me, and they don't even taste good anymore. i mean, they don't really taste good, but usually there was a sense of relief, and that is gone. i don't get any real satisfaction from smoking unless i have waited like, 4 or 5 hours to smoke. i used the patches for 3 days and then we cought more cigarettes. everyone says quitting together will be easy and it will be the best thing we can do, but i really think it is harder.
i mean, when we start to get anxious, after a few days without smoking, i think we should be talking each other out of going to get cigarettes, but instead, we don't want to see each other get frustrated, so we talk about smoking and then one of us goes to get more.
i really don't understand this. i think if i quit, and don't get any more, and i just stick to it, maybe one day he will quit too.
i just know that i cannot make him my reason to quit, because later i may use an argument between us to start smoking again.
I just heard of a guy who smokes 3 packs a day. Shit. Unless he's awake for 22 hours in a row I just dont see how thats possible.
When I smoked it was almost always at least 2 packs a day. And that's assuming I didn't go out drinking. A regular day followed by a night out, I'd smoke 3 packs easy, maybe even 3½.
As it happens, when my mum got pregnant with me, she cut down from 4 packs a day to 2 packs a day. And she smoked those nasty French black tobacco cigs, Gauloises and Gitanes. It's a wonder I'm not... eh, nevermind!
