Quitting Smoking

Same here............

 

Its gettin kinda Brokeback Mountain in here

 

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

Positive reinforcements, such as "wow, you smell nice now that you've quit."

Quitters can be grumpy and there can be a degree of loss - a pack of smokes and the smoke itself is oft referred to as an always-there friend.
Try to keep the perspective that all the withdrawal symptoms, as frustrating as they can be, are welcome indications of progress.

Mark the quit date on a calendar so you can celebrate in some way a year from now. Not waiting for the one year anniversary can be good for some people, too. But one year is a pretty good milestone.

 

Chewed snuff almost fifty years . Back when I was in grade school Copenhagan was .27 a can .I would give my lunch money to one of the town kids and they would buy it for me. First time I tried to quit I carried gummies bears and tootsie rolls in my nail apron went 18 days an d Robin ask me to start again. I was like a bear with a sore azz. Had one other failed attempt to quit a few years later. About three years ago when I had all my teeth pulled I decided it was time to quit. I still miss it and sometimes catch myself putting my hand in my pocket reaching for the snuff can that is not there. It is all mind control and if I can do it I think anyone can. Good luck

 

Lets face it. FHC is an addiction!

Now just WTH are you two talking about?

 

It is??? I thought it was a support group?

 

It is , everyone here supports your addiction.
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Glad she has kicked the habit.
Now some simple math.

OK lets see ; 12 dollars a pack and 2 a week = $24
x 52 weeks = $1248

so now lets say bar oil is $6 a gallon give or take a little that $24 would get you 4 gallons of bar oil
x 52 weeks again = 208 gallons of bar oil

The hard part is convincing her that you need that much oil.

Seriously , that's great she was able to stop ,
she'll save a pretty good amount of money each year and extend her life and be here for the grand kids !!

 

I thought $12 a pack was a little generous so I went and looked up the price of smokes at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and marlboros are $11.xx. Camels are $14 !!!!
(I don't know any one who smokes any more. My sister used to roll her own to avoid the tax but she finally quit.)

 

Ct is right around 12 a pack give or take a few cents ; I just kept it as simple math

Maybe an advanced class where we break it down to the penny for the cigarettes and bar oil down to the ounce.
If you want to do it with the generic no name cigarettes we can figure the oil out using the waste oil from your car.

 

I remember how expensive those "all natural" American Spirit cigarettes were 10 years ago. They've got to be well over $15 a pack now. Not to mention it felt like you were smoking a Philly blunt stuffed with grass clippings and dried coffee grounds. Nasty.

 

Wow it's $12 a pack now for cigarettes? That alone is enough reason to quit.

When I was a foreign exchange student in Eastern Germany, right after reunification, my host family had me go on a trip to Poland to get their allotment of cigarettes. Apparently it made sense to go to another country to buy a couple cartons. It was a pretty interesting trip going on the train to another country. One could only bring back so many cartons legally into Germany from Poland. I know that was one of the main reasons why we went to Poland, but I had an awesome meal and great polish beer and took in some sights while I was there. It sure beat shovelling coal into the basement for my host family for the winter heating season

 

And here you go.....handling wood instead of coal!

 

I quit 27 years ago after several failed attempts. Hardest thing I've ever done.

I used the 'patch'. About midway through step 2 I just quit and never looked back.

Two years ago I watched my sister die of lung cancer. I hope I quit in time. Trust me, you don't want to go that way and you don't want a loved one to go that way.

 

I need to quit and I'm sorry about your sister.

 

Do you have a machine to make your own and the filter tubes to go with it? A large bag of tobacco in the freezer will keep for a long time. I did that for a while before I quit. Saved quite a bit of money and the upfront investment wasn’t much to begin with. Just have to get into the routine of sitting down and making them.

 

If the smokes become unavailable you won’t have any choice but to quit. Believe me, the thought of it is worse than doing it. Like I said, I never smoked but chewed a couple tins a day for many years. The hardest thing to break is the habit. The addiction is gone in a week or so. The chantix worked for me but be prepared for some weird azz dreams like really happening first person at the moment. You just HAVE to want to. You HAVE to have the desire to quit, you NEED a goal. I never really picked a date to quit like they say to do. I just got up one morning in Utica New York and had to drive home, put in a chew for the last time. Had a mostly full tin on my bed stand for almost a year after that morning. Get some support from a friend who’s been there and having people preach you need to quit makes you not want to. Get rid of those people.

 

Pardon Me, Do you have any Grey Poupon??