Stopping Smoking STILL Sux...

[tkrexx]

21 days I have been completely without nicotine...and it's driving me mad, it's driving me mad...I must say my prospects for remaining a non-smoker are gloomy.
19 years ago this month I bought my first pack of smokes...Yes, I still remember the month & year...1 month before my 21st birthday...Old enough to know better.
So why quit? My son (TkO) turned 17 two days ago, and I've passed the curse on to him. I've been a pretty good example for him to follow over the years, in most respects...Here's hoping he'll follow this latest. He's seeing the HELL I'm going thru now after smoking for so long, maybe he'll quit NOW while he's still able to relatively painlessly.
And then there's my Wife (TkRegina) and her constant gentle reminders (notice I didn't say "nagging") of the promise I made 3 years ago when our daughter (TkTot) was born...while I haven't exactly broken that promise, I haven't kept it yet, either. She has been VERY patient with me.
They tell me I can't quit for anyone else, I have got to quit for ME...because I want to. Truthfully, I don't want to. I wanted to 3 weeks ago, but now it's all I can do to keep myself in this chair. It's like Lycanthropy...Tho I'm against it with all my being, the curse is stronger even than my Tower of Iron Will...It Sends me loping into the night like a ravenous, slathering beast of prey, seeking some poor, unsuspecting smoker...I can smell them now, you know...Did I smell like that???

Okay, I've talked myself out of it again for the night. Every day I don't smoke is a success story. If I stove one up now, the past 21 days of unspeakable suffering will be all for nothing. So, one more day of grinding teeth, popping knuckles, nervous twitches, working thru smoke/coffee breaks, biting nails...Oh, why do you let me prattle so?

So, how's YOUR non-smoking going?

Rxx

 

[MarzJuggalo]

Man...

Man, f*ck cigarettes! that sh!t's bad for you. I smoke the always lovely Marijuana. Yes, marijuana! Smoke that as a substitute for cigarettes, you'll be JUST peachy, my friend, oh yesiree, you WILL get better! Smell that? Ahhhh, the sweet sweet smell of burning ganja--nothing like it my friend. Goes easier down the throat than nicotine, tastes better, AND it makes ya look COOL(haha, maybe not cool, but it makes ya FEEL cool). Whadya say!?

 

[qjakal]

Hell indeed....

Yup...the memory of those days of dry heaves and cold sweats still lingers after over 10 years. My wife says the month of depression that followed was actually the hardest part...very lethargic and uninterested in anything, which is the exact opposite of my nature normally. 20+ years...3 packs a day...quit cold turkey out of sheer anger at the hold the little bastards had on my pysche...I'm a fairly dominant person, who was being subdued by inanimate souless objects....not a good ad for ones claim to being a superior being! It will be worth it...eventually...but you have to want it...not just try to want it, but actually get pissed off enough to fight a battle with yourself that many drug addicts younger and fresher than you have lost. Be the ball man, and suck it up...it doesn't last forever. Q

 

[Krokus]

Yea

Hang in there!!! 🙂

 

[MN Tikl]

Yeah -- hang in there tkrexx. Being a slave to drugs is no way to go through life! Break free of your bonds!!!