I am gonna quit smoking and save the $40.00 a week. Think I am gonna save up for a KH 24. Any tips for quitting??? Have been smoking for 25 years and its holding back my cokering. Want more distance and the 24 to play around with my sons.
Dont crave the smoke and dont think about it. If its there clear your mind and dont think about it. My dad smoke and its really diguisting. he said he was going to give up when I was born 16 years ago and still hasn’t but he has tryed
Yeah, do it. It’s a great thing to do. But it does take some will power, especially in the beginning.
I used to smoke a lot for about 10 years. At some point I found it so annoying that I quit. That was more than two years ago. I haven’t been tempted since I made it through the first couple of weeks. No regrets at all.
Here’s a post that I made after one successful year of being a non-smoker.
Thanks for the support. Liked your 1 year post MUNI, gives me strength to know someone went through the same thing. Can’t wait for winter to be over and see how much my lungs help my uni riding!
Quit SMOKING
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the cigarettes I smoked, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the cigarette & think about the workers in the cigarette factory & all of their hopes & dreams. If I don’t smoke this cigarette, they might be out of work & their dreams would be shattered, Then I say to myself, it’s better that I smoke this cigarette & let their dreams come true then be selfish & worry about my LUNGS.
Regard
kalamazuni…I just started to try to quit too. I have been smoking a little less every day trying to get to one then zero. I’m hoping it will help because like you by Spring I want to be able to ride without huff and puffing. If you need any reinforcement holla at me when you feel like lighting up! I have been trying to do a few exercises when I feel the urge or think about something else. Anyway, Good Luck I know what your going through.
Good luck with quitting. It is a mind over matter thing, and if you can get over the first 2 weeks through all the cravings you’re sorted. My advice is to just go cold-turkey. Thrown them away and stop. It will help you deal with it better than if trying to smoke less and less. Worked for me and have never regretted it.
Hey!
I think the exact same thing when walking through rough neighbourhoods, dressed stinking rich, carrying wads of cash in my pockets. Every time I think it could be my last time, but I simply cannot give up on these people.
Move into a house that is drippy in a climate that is windy (climate can also be drippy).
you are dreaming.
but dreams come true. good luck.
Try cutting amount in half every week until your are down to 2 cigs a day then go cold turkey.
Camping. Drive and then hike yourself someplace so remote, that tromping to the nearest 7-11 when you’re jonesing just isn’t feasible. Then stay there for a week. If you can make it a week, you can make it two weeks, then four, then 8, pretty soon 52 and you’re celebrating your first year clean.
If you can get a non-smoking friend to go with you, all the better. But they need to be prepared to deal with you at your crankiest.
If you bring a smoking friend instead, the two of you will mutually decide to un-quit, and you’ll bail for the car by the end of the second day.
Good luck, from one who has been down this road before.
T
Day 2 and doing pretty good. Had 3 yesterday. Had 2 today. Each day is one day closer to goal. Thanxfor all the support.
Here’s a thread I’ve been keeping (moderately) up to date.
Best advice I ever got was when I read somewhere that the average smoker has a couple of attempts at becoming a non-smoker.
They’re not all succesfull and you shouldn’t beat yourself up if you don’t manage to stick the first one.
Learn as much as you can from it and get going on your next attempt.
One day it will all fall together and you will no longer be a smoker.
Don’t try to quit.
Rather work on becoming a non-smoker.
Linguistics, perhaps, but this way you’re not denying yourself anything, rather you’re working on achieving something.
Wear a normal office rubber band around your wrist.
You will have cravings, your body will play some of the most diabolical tricks on you to try n make you think that you will not be able to NOT smoke.
When that starts happening, you need to, quite literally, ‘snap’ out of it.
Pull back on the band and let it snap against your skin.
The sharp, stinging pain is rather handly in helping you get thru the nonsense your brain is doing to you and help you sick to your resolve.
You’re going to thank yourself for doing this.
Hang in there, it’s going to be worth it.
Ooooh, also, start a savings account and deposit your $40 per week in there.
If you don’t, the money will simply disappear into your normal expenses and you’ll have nothing to show for your efforts.
I think Gild hit on a good term here. There’s something called a negative command. I know little about this but I’ll blurt out what little knowledge I possess.
If someone says don’t think of a blue elephant you have nothing else to reference and will visualize the blue elephant. People don’t process the negative part of the command. When someone says “don’t smoke”, what gets processed is “do smoke” because you think of the act of smoking, the feel of the nicotine and all the after affects. It would be much better if you could explain to those around you to just ask “how’s the fresh air breathing going?” or something to that affect.
Athletes can enhance their training of certain movements just by visualizing the movements. If you hand a child a full glass of milk to carry to the table and tell them “don’t spill the milk”. What happens? They visualize spilled milk and it happens.
So how’s your fresh air breathing going?
Oh, and I’m not the best looking and I’m not the best unicyclist in the world.
Set-a youself small goals.
If you can go a day without-a smoking, set-a goal of two days.
If you can-a go two days, go for four.
If you can-a go for for four days, go for a week.
A week’s goal turns into two weeks.
Two weeks goal turns into a month.
A month becomes two months.
Then three.
Then four-a.
And before you know it, you have-a quit.
Small goals.
I try to set myself small goals, like looking for the six-fingered man.
But it’s been-a twenty years and I’m-a starting to lose hope.
All good advice.
Don’t say your going to QUIT smoking. Just cut back untill its gone.
Shot for giving it a try man. Hate smoking with passion but respect anyone that gives it up or atleast tries.
Well after a week of having a couple cigarettes here and there… tonight is 1 week of TOTALLY tobacco free. Cold turkey, no drugs or aids!! Been tough but will be worth it. Saving $40.00 a week, won’t be long til I can purchase a KH24!!
Association… I smoked for only a year before I realized it was a dumb idea. I got food poisening and the last thing I did before being bed riden for 2 days(other than eat te bad food) was having a walk and a few cigarettes. So everytime I thought about smoking I would just think about being sick and associate the two. Might now work for you but it did for me. I smoked with some friends a month ago and felt like I was going to vomit =). Maybe you can find some way to look at smoking as just disgusting…
My girlfriends new years resolution is to quit smoking, I’m very happy ^.^
Good work.
Hang in there.
When in doubt, remember “it’s just for today…”