So, I just quit smoking...

[Baneat]

You're quite lucky on withdrawal,

I only took like 5-daily and I had withdrawal for weeks after

There was a calm before the storm, around the period you mentioned a few days in, so don't alarm if it gets really bad soon

PS. years on, and even this mention of quitting is recurring some withdrawal (Dull, "I miss it" kind, but not even close to strong enough to become persuasive)

 

[Stasisesque]

I neglected to mention, and this is possibly relevant to my situation at least - that my family is retarded my nan has lung cancer. She did not smoke and none of the family have smoked around her for, well, we never did. Even the chances of second hand smoke causing her malady is miniscule.

You're quite lucky on withdrawal,

I only took like 5-daily and I had withdrawal for weeks after

There was a calm before the storm, around the period you mentioned a few days in, so don't alarm if it gets really bad soon

I'm way past it. But thanks!

 

[SillyBear]

Why, despite now being cigarette free (and to add insult to injury, alcohol, caffeine and drug free to boot) am I still looked upon with disgust for having given in to the foul temptress ciggie in the past?

Because stopping something you shouldn't have been doing in the first place doesn't enable you to expect praise.

Nor should people really scorn you over it. I'm indifferent. I'm not going to congratulate you, because it was a stupid thing to do in the first place. I congratulate those who have never smoked.

Having said that, it is a really really good thing you stopped and now you can look forward to a longer and happier life!

 

[Twilight_guy]

Congratulations. You should know that quitting isn't the hard part though, staying away is the hard part. I hope you can stay away from them. once again, congratulations.

 

[Dags90]

Because stopping something you shouldn't have been doing in the first place doesn't enable you to expect praise.

Nor should people really scorn you over it. I'm indifferent. I'm not going to congratulate you, because it was a stupid thing to do in the first place. I congratulate those who have never smoked.

Having said that, it is a really really good thing you stopped and now you can look forward to a longer and happier life!

I think this is where most of the scorning people are coming from. I don't get why anyone picks up the first cigarette, unless they're like five or something because pretty much everyone knows it's ridiculously unhealthy. I don't even congratulate people who've never smoked. I've never smoked, and I'm not an exceptional person for it; it's sort of the default rational choice. I'm not even that good with peer pressure.

 

[Tron-tonian]

Congrats!
I just crossed the one month mark, using a personal vaporizer (e-cigarette). Loving it - I'm not surly from nicotine withdrawl, I still get to feed the hand-to-mouth addiction, but I've regained my taste and smell, and my wife thinks I'm smelling better too. ;-)

Highly recommended, but if you're going to consider it, visit e-cigarette-forum.com and do a bit of research first, so you don't spend too much. (It's just a forum, not a commercial site).

 

[Cheezeypoofs]

I quit last month myself and often find myself wanting a smoke. It was more habit than addiction, though, so that might have something to do with it. In my math class, we filled out a data sheet for class statistics, and one question was on smoking. Apparently a smoker is anyone who had smoked in the past 5 years, regardless of quitting. Sort of pissed me off as I no longer consider myself a smoker.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Congrats! Stay away from that stuff forever now and enjoy your longer life! Don't replace it with other vices though.

 

[Charli]

Being a non-smoker having grown up around smokers, I can honestly say I can see how tough it is, and I do congratulate anyone with an iron enough will to let the habit go once and for all.

I just get confused some days at how I avoided it, I mean nearly everyone I associate with smokes. Mother, father, sister, best friend.

I'll congratulate myself for that too. Yay me, /chocolate bar. Nomnom.

So grats to you too, that probably helped give you the proper incentive to let it go, and some people can shake the habit much better than others. Some people are close to hard-drug withdrawal behaviour. Others can leave it a week with some mild discomfort and then just go on without touching another cigarette again.

I don't know what causes the difference, I'm no doctor, but it's always intrigued me.

 

[attackshark]

dude, don't quit. smoking makes you look cool.

 

[Phlakes]

Good job. I don't understand how people can keep doing it when they hear why people quit and how they feel after.

EDIT: Well, keep doing it and pretend they're completely fine.

 

[Infernai]

Congratulations on quitting smoking. I will say though that the people judging you on the fact you USED to smoke are just being asshats in my opinion. It just doesn't really make sense to judge you on the fact you USED to smoke considering you don't actually smoke anymore...if they don't stop, i'd just start judging them on various things they do that are hazardous or annoying (Eg. drinking, eating gum...watching twilight) until they stop judging you. Or hey, just pull a quagmire and completely unload on them in a 'reason you suck' speech if it gets that bad.

...Although, i would only recommend that last one if it really gets to a point where you can't handle it anymore or they just act really insensitive and end up touching a nerve.

 

[DJ-Oli]

Congratulations on giving up on the magic sticks

I've been planning on giving them up aswell...and just to think, i'm on my 11th year of smoking and i turned 21 this year :O

So, reasoning with the so called "anti smokers" is very difficult, but i'll try and give somewhat of a reasonable explaination to why i've been smoking all this time.

I was bullied. HARD. I was also diagnosed with Hyper-activity dificit disorder, which didn't help.

I did ritalin (by order from a phycisian for 6 years, from age 6 to 12, but when i started smoking 5-6 cigarettes a day, i felt "calmer" and i started getting my apetite for food again (ritalin took away my apetite, i was a skinny little fu**er.

More about the Bullying that took place in my life; I was bullied from the time when older kids could throw me off my tricycle, the bastards ruined 7 bicycles i had, and my parents blamed ME for ruining them, especially my dad. So i gave up on being outside for the most part, and got suckered into video games, and computers, along with technology in general. And i have to say that i'm pretty happy with that, except for the part where i'm socially awkward, and i have some problems talking to girls.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, Sorry for jackin' your thread bro.

But i gave up smoking last year, in january to be exact, as i told my friends that my new year's resolution (1280x1024) was to give up on smoking, so i did. but i found my life to be exctremely depressing, and being the person i am, i don't like drugs. (drugs as in pills, and needles scare the living shit out of me). So i started again, but last year, something pretty awesome happened to me, i gots a girlfriend, who unfortunately only dated me for about 2 and a half month (think it was because of me, but she left me for somebody she hadn't even met, and lived on the other side of the country). So after not having smoked for 2 months (thanks *****). i started Again, now i was just extremely depressed, didn't shower more than maybe once a week, didn't brush my teek more than maybe 4-6 times a month, and hardly got out of bed anyway, because i couldn't find a point in doing so.


But Anyway, onto the outro of this extremely long almost blog-like post.
I've made up my mind about giving up smoking, and it's going to happen later tonight (right now, it's 05:17 icelandic time) and i'm giving up right after work, because i don't want to be sweating like a dirty pig, so... Kudos to me if i can pull it through, which i will, i want to, and i'm going to.

Thanks for reading this extremely long reply, if you did.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

I think you need one of these:

Spoiler

HIGH FIVE!

 

[justnotcricket]

Congratulations ^_^

Don't mind the other people - enjoy your newfound freedom, cash and lung capacity.

 

[Moromillas]

Your own kin is disgusted by a show of strength? I find that in itself disgusting.

But you are right. That's often how people are remembered. Take Clinton for example - Most don't remember him as the guy that passed a shite tone of legislation that benefited a lot of people only to make a mistake, but rather as the president that got his knob polished by some broad. Kinda sad, but thems the brakes.

The only thing you can really do, is clearly state is a very mercenary way, that what they're doing is not ok, and be prepared to show causal effect to the bigoted bullshit and fight against what they assume is right. A public discussion might be a good idea, imagine if this thread was a facebook wall post with friends posting is dismay and family watching. Not gonna say that your family are bad people, it's likely that they're only doing it because they think it right.

I smoke and still do, and used to get the same disgust. Nowadays I still get shit about it from my family, but it's always just for lulz or concern. So don't go thinking it's hopeless yeah?

 

[cuppajoe1687]

God...this makes me want a cigarette

but congratulations buddy, I've quit cocaine, opiates and crystal but I still can't quit smoking. you truly are a strong person

 

[Chairman Miaow]

In the process of quitting now, I've got my plan and sticking to it, now down to 2 a day and none on weekends, but the anti smoking thing reminds me of something funny.

I met up with a few friends and the cousin of one of them was there as she was visiting from over seas, they were all drinking heavily but I was staying sober as I was driving several of them home and plus I enjoy a couple of beers but getting hammered just isn't fun for me.

We left to go to another bar and I moved away from the group to have a smoke, staying downwind from them so they didn't have to suffer second hand smoke. The cousin then took this opportunity to go into a full tirade about how disgusting I was and that I was killing myself and everyone around me (I was standing alone). I smiled and took it, choosing to not comment on the following things:

She was at least 40 kilos over weight (88 pounds), putting her at great risk of diabetes, hypertension etc.

She had just done 4 jager bombs with some sleazy dude she met at the bar and I'm not sure but I think they went off to the bathroom together for whatever reason.

I'm well aware of the science behind the health concerns of smoking but all factors considered I'd happily put a grand on the bet that I'd out live her. At the time I was part of my college ski team, was completing training to be qualified as a SCUBA Dive Master and had spent 10 years doing ju jitsu.

Smoking has become sort of a boogey man lately and in her case was just an excuse to feel superior to someone else.

As a side note, is it just me or does the current reluctance to accept climate change now by the media remind you of the reluctance to accept smoking causing cancer back in the day?

One of the lesser known dangers of obesity is that it also increases the chances for mental disease, which I was quite surprised at.

 

[Biosophilogical]

dude, don't quit. smoking makes you look cool.

Only to people who think smoking is cool.

OT: Congratulations. I don't understand the whole 'non-congratulations' thing. I mean, if they had known you for years and they only found out you smoked once you quit ... well they still have to process the smoking bit, so there might be some post-smoking reactions to work out first. Kind of like an emotional backlash or something I suppose.

But yeah, CONGRATULATIONS!!!