EX Smokers, I need help.

[RD]

Ok guys I need help. I've been hiding this from everyone I know (and myself) but I'm starting to notice some of the physical effects smoking has had on my body and it really bothers me. I've been smoking on and off since I was about 15, and it didn't become a genuine habit until about 6 months ago and I'm already noticing that I need to stop.

Cold turkey probably won't work. I have crappy willpower. But at the same time if I have a pack open in my purse, I'm a chimney..

A friend and I are going to be quitting together, she's just quitting cold turkey but I doubt I have it in me to follow through with that.... Any tips on trying to control myself? Ugh. I feel so stupid coming here for help with this but I can't turn to my family and I don't want to be a burden to my friend, who has her own habit to kick.

 

[Zoom]

Take one or more of the Borderkids out for a run/training session every time you would reach for a smoke? You can't breath and smoke at the same time. And get the new Blaqk Audio CD with what you save on not buying a carton of cancer sticks.

 

[blue]

Im of no help, Im still quitting every day.

I need a week away from here in order to quit with no stress. I should have broken my brothers arm as he was the source of my stress while I was in Chicago. Maybe a week at my dads with none of his danm projects, just relaxing would do it.

New tobacco taxes are soon. Mainly middle class and poor people smoke. The taxes are for the children, yet they are gonna impact the poor the most. The gov wants people to smoke for their pet projects. That should be a motivator for any smoker to quit.

Dont get me started on gas taxes.

 

[RD]

Aww, blue, come stay with me! Tomorrow evening I'm going to take the boat to my favorite bay, drop anchor and just hang out with Eve and fall asleep looking at the stars. After about 10pm the water is as still as glass, and the only noises are the fish jumping and the crickets on the shore. It's times like that when I get the urge to light up, but it's relaxing even without the **** cancer sticks.

 

[blue]

Take up fly fishing RD. With conditions like that the fish are biting and you have no urge to smoke.

 

[blue]

Thats my **** problem I HAVENT BEEN FISHING!!

 

[RD]

I love fishing - that's a good idea! Last time I was out at the bay, the fish were jumping all over the place and I remember thinking if I just had a net and a **** worm to dangle over the water, I'd catch a ton of fish. I don't have a fishing rod or anything here though. *Sigh*

I've never tried fly fishing, but there's a store around here dedicated to just that. D'you think they'd help me out with what to get, if I went in to buy some gear?

 

[blue]

Fly fishing is something you can lose yourself into, there are times it dosent even matter if the fish are biting.

 

[Renee750il]

Grace, it's a fly fishing STORE . . . .they'll be thrilled to help you get a fly fishing outfit together, lol! But get Blue and Buckshot to tell you what you really need so you don't end up buying a bunch of expensive stuff that you don't.

 

[RD]

That's exactly what I need, blue - a good hobby. When my hands have nothing to do and I'm bored, I reach for the cancersticks. I fidget compulsively and a cigarette is the perfect thing to keep my hands busy aside from petting a dog or.. inappropriate things.

I'll see if I can get someone to take me to that store tomorrow. In the meantime I guess I need to figure out what I should be catching. And get a license. Eek.

 

[blue]

Grace, it's a fly fishing STORE . . . .they'll be thrilled to help you get a fly fishing outfit together, lol! But get Blue and Buckshot to tell you what you really need so you don't end up buying a bunch of expensive stuff that you don't.

I fly fished on the cheap for a few years. It gets pricey the longer you are good at it.

 

[ToscasMom]

Which reminds me, how are you doing on your Quitting of smoking, Blue?

 

[RD]

Which reminds me, how are you doing on your Quitting of smoking, Blue?

Yeah, how goes it? I was thinking about you today.

I'm currently failing. Miserably.

Fishing was amazing but then my boat broke, and fishing off the docks here just isn't the same. It's great and this area is loaded with fish, but I find myself wanting a smoke even more when I'm just sitting on the dock . . . blarg. At least when I go out on the boat, I can leave the cancer sticks in the motor home.

 

[shadowfacedanes]

I'm currently failing. Miserably.

Same here. And I had such a good incentive too, but now my will power is kaput.

 

[Herschel]

To all of the smokers in this thread:

Next time you light up, please remember that there are thousands of children that are dying because they developed cancer "by chance". They will never drive a car, take a girl on a date, or even own a dog. Hell, they won't even get the chance to try a single cigarette. You have been given the gift of health and instead of cherishing it, you mock those less fortunate than yourself and invite illness.

You should be ashamed that you take their deaths so lightly.

 

[blue]

How can we quit smoking when so many children rely on tobbacco taxes for their health care? The less fortunet, the poor, are the biggest group of smokers. They are the least likely to be ably to afford healthcare for their children. Shame on us smokers without children or the ability to afford their health care for quiting smoking. With out tobbacco taxes those same kids have nothing.

 

[jess2416]

nvr mind

 

[iwantmypup]

Seriously guys, you have to quit.
I hear so many people say "well my grandpa lived until 85 and he smoked all his life"
Well guess what? Say that now.. but wait until you get ephasima, lung cancer etc etc.
And not only are you hurting your selves, but second hand smoking is the worst! You are hurting everyone around and guess what else?

Even your dogs.

You are absolutely right, Herschel.

 

[Aussie Red]

You know this kind of mentality is just wrong really. My mother who has never smoked a day in her life and has not been subjected to second hand smoke either has Emphysema. Why ? Because she lives in the Los Angeles area and suffered from breathing the out put of peoples cars and the out put of the refineries that produce the gas to run those cars. If you really believe that smoking is killing people as much as you say I hope you are not driving. There is the one major cancer causer as well as many other things the public uses daily and refuses to give up.

 

[Herschel]

How can we quit smoking when so many children rely on tobbacco taxes for their health care? The less fortunet, the poor, are the biggest group of smokers. They are the least likely to be ably to afford healthcare for their children. Shame on us smokers without children or the ability to afford their health care for quiting smoking. With out tobbacco taxes those same kids have nothing.

That is an incredibly flawed justification.

As you said, the low-income people account for the largest number of smokers. Those are the same people that can't afford health care when they fall ill from smoking and smoking-related illnesses. Thus, resources wasted on smokers could have been used to treat innocent children...

Smoking costs $100 billion in health care costs per year.
State and Federal cigarette taxes in 2005 brought in $21 billion.

In other words:
-Smoking results in $80 billion dollars (net) being spent on health care.
-That $80 billion dollars could be used to fund research/treatment for just about anything else.
-But smokers still pretend that they are saving children with cancer because of the "tobacco tax".