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[nnuut]

I worked on subs for 19 years at a Shipyard, I think I've had enough, thanks anyway!!!

 

[CountryBoy]

Thanks for the info and the encouragement. Didn't know about the depression. Now that I think about it a friend used it to quit with good results, but had a serious panic attack, which is just not like him. He's always in control and is 6'6" tall. He's over it now and still doesn't smoke.
I just have to catch the flu before I try again, I guess?
Norman

Norm,

I quit cold turkey, but it took me about 4 times and 5 months, but I finally did it. I had to just pysche myself out and say if I can last 3 days I got it whipped. Well after the third failed attempt, I finally did quit on attempt 4. But I still get the cravings, but they pass real fast now. Good Luck.

CB

 

[Show-me]

I quit smokeless tobacco about 14 yrs ago after 20+ years of use. Went to sea on a sub for 3 months and didn't take any with me. The guys that worked for me didn't enjoy the trip m uch but I quit. Want me to try and book you a trip??:nuts:

:laugh::nuts: LOL The new government cessation plan. Join the Navy submarine fleet.

 

[Show-me]

I quit at least 6 times and finally did it with my second fight with cancer. No link to my cancer and smoking but you start to think real hard when you are in you mid-thirties. I chewed a TON of sugarless gum, two and three sticks at a time, 12 to 18 hours a day. I think it helped. Took another five years to give up the gum. Damn human conditioning.

 

[nnuut]

Smoking is a terrible thing, extremely hard to quit, harder than heroin they say!!!

 

[turbo23dog]

Keep toothpicks handy. Chew em after a meal. Also have chips and salsa handy for those times the urges are strong. The bite of the salsa gives your tounge something to think about.

The other thing to keep in mind: the urges will come but will eventually pass and like mentioned above, they will pass more quickly over time.

Lastly, its a habit and an addiction. Focus on breaking the habit and that will help wean you off the addiction.

 

[nnuut]

Thanks TD you are speaking from experience, I can tell. I've tried this before with some success but nothing lasting!!

 

[kar_crazy]

I quit for 8 years when my daughter had asma, then struck with stupidness and have smoked about last 5 yrs been trying chantx,and the nicerett gum just about every night i say i am going to quit , next morning i cant wait to get to truck and light up . i have tried waiting a mile or 2 ,the next thing you know your back at smoking in driveway. G L Norm i know its tuff

 

[nnuut]

Really tough to do especially when you've got other problems to deal with!! You're just like me, the way you're going you won't make it!! :worried: I guess the only way to do it is to BUCK UP and say "I QUIT RIGHT NOW" and do it. I'm going to work on that one!!

 

[hessian]

Chantix man! I tried everything - and this after my quad bypass (on it for 2 months). -Im free of that after 25 years! (2+ years now).

I told my sister - she said her concern was more the psycological addition - she'd tired other stuff as well - she guit after only 1 month!! (she's been fre for about 2 years now also).

I even today still find a repulsion from seeing others "light-up" (unlike previous attempts (lasted 5 and 7 months).
Bottomline, it takes away 85-90% of cravings - the rest is your to deal with - but that's pretty awesome really.

My Doctor recommended I try it after it came out - he said his feedback was 99% success!! It works by blocking nicotine recetiors in the brain, so chewing nicotine gum or other nicotine product won't help. Just decide this is it - NO MORE. You can do it!!!

 

[Birchtree]

hessian,

Sorry to hear you had a cabbg - I'm going to be nice to you from now on.

 

[nnuut]

Great you were successful, probably feel better too? Looks that is probably how I need to do it the next time!!

 

[presskh]

Great you were successful, probably feel better too? Looks that is probably how I need to do it the next time!!

I also smoked for about 25 years, but managed to quit "cold-turkey" about 11 years ago. Although I believe the really bad cravings went away after a couple of weeks, it was actually a couple of years before I no longer thought about it. The worst craving times were after a meal or when I would drink a beer. Today, I am repulsed by cigarette smoke just like life-long nonsmokers are, although there is certainly a familiar feeling I get when I smell it.

Increasing exercise also helps - every time you have a craving, get up and walk around, if nothing else. If you are in a multi-story building, try walking up and down two or three flights of stairs.

Good luck - you can do it!

 

[EW_ret]

I've been free of the cigarette habit for over 5 1/2 years now. I was determined, and I had a good non-smoking woman encouraging me every step of the way. Long term success of smoking cessation requires determination, keeping busy in smoke-free environment, and having a support network of people. It’s after the physical addiction (first few months) that you need others to support and encourage you. The psychological addiction takes several years to overcome. In my case it was around three years before I no longer felt the urge for a cigarette when under stress. You need to developed new stress reducing habits to replace the "I need a cigarette" habit when under stress. That could be exercise, a hobby, or sex with a wonderful partner. Of course this is just my opinion based upon my own experience.

 

[nnuut]

I think I need a brain transplant!!!!!!

 

[love-to-bike]

You need to developed new stress reducing habits to replace the "I need a cigarette" habit when under stress. That could be exercise, a hobby, or sex with a wonderful partner. Of course this is just my opinion based upon my own experience.

Jeez, I may need to take up smoking if quitting guarantees sex with a wonderful partner!:nuts::cheesy:

 

[ATCJeff]

Jeez, I may need to take up smoking if quitting guarantees sex with a wonderful partner!:nuts::cheesy:

That's great as long as you can keep up with your partner!

 

[nnuut]

That's great as long as you can keep up with your partner!

I'm not quiting if that's the case!!

 

[nnuut]

Lemmings have enough bad trates without the weather messin' with them!!:worried:


Climate pushing lemmings to cliff

In warm years, lemmings are the most plentiful mammals


Climate change is bringing wetter winters to southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the region's lemmings.
Scientists found that numbers of the animals no longer vary over a regular cycle, as they did until a decade ago; there are no more bumper years.
The snow is not stable enough, they think, to provide winter shelter.
Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers suggest the lack of Norwegian lemmings is affecting other animals such as foxes and owls.
In boom years, lemmings are the most plentiful and important prey for these carnivores.
Until the mid-1990s, the lemming population in the study area in southern Norway varied on a cycle of three to five years.

The animals can live for three to four years making use of snow cover


Rather than hibernating, lemmings spend the winter living in the space between the ground and a stable layer of snow above.
Dry winters would allow large numbers to survive until spring, resulting in a population explosion.
On occasions, there were so many that snowploughs were deployed to clear squashed animals from roads.
These years often saw Norwegian lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) having to compete hard for food.
The desperate search led some to jump off high ground into water, leading to the popular - but wrong - assumption that they were prone to commit collective suicide. But the peak years are not occurring anymore. The research team, composed of Norwegian and French scientists, believes the winters are now too humid, leading to the "wrong kind of snow". This results in a less stable subnivean space (the space between the ground and the snow layer above), meaning substantially fewer animals survive until spring. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7711709.stm

 

[nnuut]

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