Congrats. It's an awesome feeling to see will power overcome compulsion.
Quitting smoking, need some encouragment!
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Awesome! Congrats Deathy McDeath
Well done Deathy!
How is everyone else doing?
How is everyone else doing?
Sigh....sadly I slipped back into smoking again for awhile, though these days I'm using e-cigs rather than annalog ones. Not uber great but at 1/1000 the carsonigens of actual cigs I get my nic fix, and way cheaper too. My running and over all PT have benefited from not smoking cig cig's. I know it would be best to completely quit overall, but I feel a man needs at least a few vices 
SoldiersCreed
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You can do it!! Its been 3 months since my last cigarette...I quit cold turkey and its extremely difficult, but itll be worth while in the end. Stay with it
sic vis pacem para bellum
sic vis pacem para bellum
LibraryLady
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Cold turkey. Did that 25 years ago. Only way you could back then. Glad I did.
LL
My man! Keep the faith, Deathy McDeath . Its better on the other side.
Sigh....sadly I slipped back into smoking again for awhile, though these days I'm using e-cigs rather than annalog ones. Not uber great but at 1/1000 the carsonigens of actual cigs I get my nic fix, and way cheaper too. My running and over all PT have benefited from not smoking cig cig's. I know it would be best to completely quit overall, but I feel a man needs at least a few vices
My stepbrother's girlfriend has had a lot of success with using an e-cig. I think it's a good way to help with quitting, the act of smoking can form a strong habit. You don't get that with patches or pills, it just helps with the nicotine aspect of it.
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So it's been a while, but I figured I'd pop in say that it has been two years since I've touched a cigarette, as of today.
Well done mate, I'm at month 3 or some shit.
...as do those around you who abhor the smell.
Good on ya!!
Good on ya!!
Food must be starting to taste better by now plus there's lung capacity you never knew you had.
Gay porn and Bourbon?Sigh....sadly I slipped back into smoking again for awhile, though these days I'm using e-cigs rather than annalog ones. Not uber great but at 1/1000 the carsonigens of actual cigs I get my nic fix, and way cheaper too. My running and over all PT have benefited from not smoking cig cig's. I know it would be best to completely quit overall, but I feel a man needs at least a few vices
SexyBeast
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Updates ladies n gents!!
Dip free since July 9th. Tony Gywnn's death is what did it. 54 years baseball great taken by cancer of the salivary glands caused by a tin of dip a day habit. To hell with cancer. I'm not going to help it along.
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It is hard, stick with it.
I smoked for 30 years. Been off them 17. I still smoke...about 1 pack of Marlboro Lights a year. And that's when my bro comes down from Philly with his cigs and we get sh*tfaced for the Corps. I'm gonna feel like crap for the next week anyway, so I might as well have fun and not try to fight it.
But this how I quit. As stupid as it may sound, I imagined the addiction as a Beast living inside me. A beast that would do anything he could to get "fed". He'd lie, he'd plead, he'd cry, he'd threaten, and the only way to kill him was to starve him. And every urge and pang I felt during withdrawal, I just imagined, was the beast's pain, his death throes. It made me feel better to know I was killing him. And it worked.
But this how I quit. As stupid as it may sound, I imagined the addiction as a Beast living inside me. A beast that would do anything he could to get "fed". He'd lie, he'd plead, he'd cry, he'd threaten, and the only way to kill him was to starve him. And every urge and pang I felt during withdrawal, I just imagined, was the beast's pain, his death throes. It made me feel better to know I was killing him. And it worked.
