20-08-2004 21:56									#61
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I'm off to have a smoke...brb

	20-08-2004 23:42									#62
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i think its been 6 months for me now. but i havent been so smoke free for those past 6 months. I've snuck out and bought myself a pack whenever i couldnt sleep.

Whenever I havent had cigarette for awhile, i remember cigarette tasting as sweet as honey.

When I buy a pack and smoke them for while I'm like "This is what I've been missing? It tastes crap and my head feels funny. I should quit. this sucks."....

	21-08-2004 00:16									#63
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Chili.

The ultimate answer.

Swallow a few tablespoons of sambal belachan. Its the cigarette replacement. No more are you smoking from your mouth, its from the ears!

Quite good at distraction, actually.

	21-08-2004 00:17									#64
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Zero, right. I have a pack, open pack with me. Day 1 is now done. But I have one pack with me, because you know, I hate more that I don't have smokes, than that I do but I just don't smoke them. I want to know that when ever I feel like it, I can smoke. It's like when I buy booze, I always buy too much, so I can't drink it all, because it pisses you off when you run out of drinks, even though you wouldn't drink anymore. I want to know that there is taht possibility.

	21-08-2004 00:18									#65
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I've joined.

I have my nicotine patch in place on my left shoulder and I smoked my last cigarette at 11:00 this morning. I've been napping for some of the time since then, so that has made it a little easier to get away from it, but now it's 10 hours and the craving is really starting to set in.

I've been keeping the pack of cigs I was on plus one more, unopened pack I had, just in case... But I'll go destroy them at the kitchen sink now. Burn all bridges!

Oh, thanks for all the encouragement, advice and stories from all who've posted here! It all helps, it really does.

	21-08-2004 00:20									#66
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Good luck Winston.

	21-08-2004 00:22									#67
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I have actually been cutting back my smoking. I was at about 1.5 pack a day, and now I am less than 1 pack. One cig less, but that's a 11 cig/day improvement! It's 1221 and I've already had 6

	21-08-2004 00:22									#68
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Good luck to everyone else too, but it seems Winston is facing the biggest struggle.

	21-08-2004 00:22									#69
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I won't destroy my pack.. I'll just grow more anxious if I don't have the possibility to collapse... It's been almost 24 hours now. I can't say that I feel huge urges. I want to smoke, yes, but I don't even think about it all the time. I don't feel like I absolutely havbe to smoke. I'll keep on going and I hope this challgence gets tougher because this is nothing!

	21-08-2004 00:22									#70
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Why? Maybe cause his name is Winston?!

	21-08-2004 00:28									#71
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But no. Because he has (had!) the longest smoking career, by what he said.

	21-08-2004 00:28									#72
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11 yesr? Come November it will have been 12 for me.

	21-08-2004 00:30									#73
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I believe he said 25 years.

	21-08-2004 00:31									#74
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Ah, yes... that was Serb

Winston ain't gonna make it.

Did we have this discussion before? Deja Vu

	21-08-2004 00:35									#75
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Thanks for the good wishes and @ the pic, VetLegion. I never thought about that, they aren't marketed here.

Yes, 25 years. I started in the 5th or 6th grade and I'm now 37. Only a couple of brief periods of trying to quit in all those years in between. The best I did was when I was 17 and actually quit for 4 months. Then I went to a party and after a few drinks I was back in the old chimney-mode. MORAN!!

	21-08-2004 00:36									#76
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TIme to use doublethink, Winston.

You don't HAVE a craving.

You DON'T. Simply because the Party says so. It is the truth. Its not existing. You don't have a craving, so there's no need.

There ISN'T. DOUBLETHINK ABOUT IT.

Or use some other mind over matter principle.

	21-08-2004 03:06									#77
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Pekka, get rid of your open pack. It is your invitation to fail. If you do not destroy your cigarettes, you have not truly made a commitment to quitting, only to seeing how long you last before failure.

Make a real commitment.

	21-08-2004 06:05									#78
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Well, after 16 hours I can now definitely say that this is no fun anymore.

I'm going to bed soon. At least there's a chance I might die in my sleep.

	21-08-2004 06:08									#79
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I'm hopeless - I was never even tempted to try.

I never plan on starting smoking or drinking. It's ****ing stupid.

	21-08-2004 07:00									#80
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Damn this thread! I'm sure it is responsible for that cigarette factory dream I had last night. How you can make cigarettes from a bucket of cud, I'll never know.

	21-08-2004 07:20									#81
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker I never plan on starting smoking or drinking. It's ****ing stupid.

And you want to go to school in the UK? Good luck with that...

I stopped smoking a couple months back, but then some friends came in for the week who smoked and I said to myself "I'll get one pack to be social and not smoke anymore after that...". Needless to say, I started smoking again, but I plan on quitting after today because I'll be visiting my girlfriends parents (who don't approve of smoking), so that will make the first week rather easy.

But after that, I'll be in your guys' boat. So I guess you can count me in too.

Good luck to you all.

BTW, here's my poison of choice (although this box looks different than the Canadian version). Post a picture of yours.

	21-08-2004 07:21									#82
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Winston, I feel for you my friend. Try to go sleep. I can't sleep for some reason. I haven't smoked, but I can't sleep. I have some craving, but it's not overcoming me, but it's stronger than earlier.

	21-08-2004 07:23									#83
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One thing about the US is pretty cool, the general attitude about smoking not being cool. Of course there are people who think it is, but there's a negative feeling to it. In here, no one cares, and sometimes if you don't smoke, you're weird. Everyone says 'it's good that you don't smoke, it's bad for you', and then they go smoking and let you party with yourself .

	21-08-2004 07:26									#84
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Check out how Canadian packs look. We go for the shock factor here:



Some of them are actually pretty funny.

	21-08-2004 07:35									#85
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Hang in there Pekka.

I would recommend going to a chemist tomorrow and get hold of some patches to use, because they really take the top off the craving.

If I wasn't wearing one right know, I know I'd have exactly two options, either somehow get a cigarette lit up within 10 minutes, or kill myself.

I plan on using the big patches for ~2 weeks, then the medium ones for 3 weeks, and the small ones 3 weeks, then I'm on my own. But you may be able to make do with the medium or small ones. Ask at the chemist. Those patches could be the best purchase you'll ever make.

	21-08-2004 07:55									#86
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Hmm I'll have to see those.. I think I can go to sleep now. I'll be back here suffering tomorrow, Day 2 . Don't you quit either now! It's started already, so you have to continue too.

	21-08-2004 09:03									#87
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka Zero, right. I have a pack, open pack with me. Day 1 is now done. But I have one pack with me, because you know, I hate more that I don't have smokes, than that I do but I just don't smoke them. I want to know that when ever I feel like it, I can smoke. It's like when I buy booze, I always buy too much, so I can't drink it all, because it pisses you off when you run out of drinks, even though you wouldn't drink anymore. I want to know that there is taht possibility.

I already tried "Buy a pack and carry it around as a symbol of being the last pack of cigarette i ever bought" strategy.

what happened to that pack was that it was smoked. and it was smoked well.

(We put the tobacco in some good european **** )

	21-08-2004 09:25									#88
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So no one uses the chili idea?

Westerners and their intolerant taste buds...

	21-08-2004 09:41									#89
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Something to think about:

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	21-08-2004 09:42									#90
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That roasted steak looks tasty. Yum!

Now all I need is some sambal chilli sauce to go with it.