If i can learn to ride a motorcycle around a racetrack, you can quit smoking. we're doomed, it's hopeless, isn't it? sigh... :roll: Lance
You know K3... I'm a professional quitter. Hang in there, it gets easier with each passing day. The best advice I can off you... Knowing that I keep starting and quitting... Do NOT pick up that first one... The first one, leads to the 2nd one and after that... All hell breaks loose! XIII
I quit for three months once, then spring came, and at the first track day of the season, I was so excited and happy to be back around the sport, I had just about forgotten how good a cigarette smelled till my track coach lit up. I bummed one off him and bought his book too. Quiting is not the hard part, its how you deal with the temptations that WILL come up. I hope you are succesful but if not keep trying, I do. barryc
Gee, thanks! I guess I should get used to it. I've already been blamed for divorces, unforseen racing careers, bankruptcies, big-ticket purchases, injuries and estrangement from family and friends, so I guess I might as well cop for your smoking too! There's just something about being a coach that make you a blame magnet.... :roll:
Naw, I just made that part up about bumming one from you, just wanted to get a rise outa you. The part about keeping on trying is for real. I've been trying on and off for a few years now. I wish you the best of luck, try commit losanges if you really start having a hard time, not that they workred for me?? gotta go, time for a smoke.
Barry, if I could go 10 days with this vulture ripping gashes in my back and not lite up, I mean ME, the most Type A addictive on the entire planet.... Oh, and that's why I quit now. There's no way in hell I could quit during the season. Right now I wouldn't last until lunch break without a ciggy if I was riding. It's like the more amped I get, the more I want a puff. I'll need a few smoke-free months under my belt before the season starts. But can you imagine how much faster I'll be? BTW, this was day 10 without so much as a cheater puff. I don't even stand around the smokers at my job and try to smoke secondhand. No patch, no sneaking, just 10 sweet days of nicotine-free living. (Somebody kill me.)
I understand exactly what you are going through. I can go for several days without smoking if i take those commit pills. 4mg nicotine each x 12 a day, thats about the same as you get smoking 1/2 a pack. My doctor friend Joe ( black R-1 ) said it's not the nicotine thats really bad, its the delivery system, cigs. Joe says take all those commits you want, just don't smoke. Well #1 thats easy for him to say and #2 they cost 40 bucks a box. Well thats my cross, but if you can go ever how long you feel you need to and are still having bad cravings maybe those commits would help you get by. You are like me when you say you have to smoke when you get amped at the track, I have been known to smoke whils sucking on a commit. That really drives Joe crazy, I enjoy doing that though. Good luck, I really hope you make it, it will give people like me more hope. Hang in there and be nasty, its ok...
When I was in my early 20's, I worked for a guy who smoked AND chewed tobacco. We worked the midnite shift, and one night around 2:00 AM I got a blazing toothache. He cut me a little piece of his chew and told me to pack it aqainst the tooth. WOW! There really is a way to kill a toothache, and that's it. Problem was that it got me so high I just wanted to go lay down. I think chew is even more intense than smoking. To this day, I'm glad I never got into the chew habbit. It just seemed pretty gross, and the rush was more than even a 2-packer like me could handle. There's a younger guy I work with now who smokes and dips. I don't know how he does it. So when I think of that, I guess maybe I could be even more addicted than I am. At least I have that to be thankful for.... So starts day 11. Still cold turkey, which to me is the only way. My desire for nicotine is so strong that if I take ANY, I want it ALL. From past attempts, I've learned that cutting back or using patches & gum just prolong the agony for me, and at some point I'll just say "Fudge it! I'm having a smoke!" At least by going cold, I'm getting all the withdrawal symptoms out of the way in the shortest possible time frame. I'm feeling stronger this morning. Yesterday was the toughest, most miserable day yet. Why isn't there a support group called Nicanon?
Uh, just for the record, aren't you still facing the possibility of a lung operation to repair the last of the damage from your big crash? No offense there buddy, but when the doctor tells me that smoking is gonna kill me, he's not pointing to a specific spot on my chest X-Ray. (Well, at least not yet....)
Wow! that's it!!! my ex-wife already blamed the track as a reason for leaving me- you were my teacherr and encouraged me, so... it's not my fault, it's K3's!!! whew! thanks Chris, that's the best thing anyone's ever done for me, really. :lol: L
Chris, There are several support groups for quitters, here is a good one www.committedquitters.com. Be strong livestrong, blah, blah, blah. I want a daily report on your success. Now you have two support groups already. barryc
Yeah, here and the CCS forum! I figure that if I let everyone know I'm quitting, I'll look like a complete loser if I don't make it. Shame as a motivational tool!
Obviously you aren't a loser if you don't make it this time. Just don't quit trying to quit. I am very good at trying to quit, advanced group in that regard. All this talk about quitting is getting me amped up for try # 7. Remember, daily reports posted here, or else!!!
Hey, but I like the short bus. The window taste like schnozberries!!!! :lol: :lol: ........Now about something serious that you guys were talking about earlier with the chewing tobacco. WHOAH is that stuff addictive. I actually was hooked for a short while there on smokes and dip. That's true about chewing tobacco too. That stuff is WAY STRONGER!! I had to quit it because my gums were just plain not looking right. Well, enough of this tobacco users annonymous stuff. I know you will quit. :wink:
I drove to Green Bay and back today, a 9 hour round trip. Sitting, steering, and smoking. Except I wasn't smoking. Talk about weird! I didn't know you could drive that far without a smoke. Today was so bad that I bought and wiped out a whole pack of really strong Dentine gum. It's the first time I've chewed gum since I quit, but the craving while driving was so strong that I just HAD to have something.... Another day without cheating. I'm starting to feel pretty good about that!
Way to go old man. You know just having a small box of nicotine pills for dire emergencies is not cheating, remember its the delivery system. After sex, after eating, if something bad happens, best to be prepared for anything that :!: will pop up. IMO, Congrats on another day. :!: