Motivate Me to not Smoke!

[ChrisCo]

Just got back from a cruise in hawaii and met some girls there and had a blast. I'm fairly young and was plastered just about every night and one of the girls I was with was a smoker. She kept on offering me cigarettes if I would go back to the room with her so I obviously obliged.

Now the cruise is over and I am getting some cravings for them after a week of smoking. I have seen several threads talking about people that have chosen to stop after heaving smoking for several years and what a living hell it is to go through. Just scare the [censored] out of me so whenever I get the craving when I have been drinking or whatever I can come back and look at this thread.

[jakethebake]

Send me $10 for every cig you have. That will motivate you.

[mason55]

Don't smoke. It's really that easy. You really don't want to, you just think you do.

I quit a month ago and after the first week it was fine. Seriously, once you make it through three days and one night of drinking you will forget about cigarettes.

[ChrisCo]

It's not really about smoking on a pack a day. I just want to not have anything to do with it when I am hammered. If I keep on smoking everytime I get drunk then I am going to eventually become a chain smoker. I just need some way to have it stick in my mind that I should not touch it even when I am impaired.

[zaxx19]

Wait a sec...im gonna smoke a square and then respond.

[xadrez]

I havent smoked in 1 month and 1 week after smoking for 13 years (since I was 13).

Its a complete nightmare to quit and if you havent started its not worth the pure physical and mental hell that quiting entails. I have a nicotine patch on and I still want to punch everyone I see smoking out of jealousy.

One thing I meditate on everytime Ive gotten a craving was closing my eyes and reliving an experience I had in a cancer ward a year or so ago. People all over dying, families in shock, a priest on call roaming around giving last rites, etc. It was horrid.

My other savior is Halo 2.

[ChrisCo]

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Wait a sec...im gonna smoke a square and then respond.

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LOL

On a side note, do you go to Chico state Zaxx? I remember talking to someone on this board that goes to chico and I am planning on going there next year.

[mason55]

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It's not really about smoking on a pack a day. I just want to not have anything to do with it when I am hammered. If I keep on smoking everytime I get drunk then I am going to eventually become a chain smoker. I just need some way to have it stick in my mind that I should not touch it even when I am impaired.

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That's how I got started. The one thing you can do is NOT SMOKE WHEN YOU'RE NOT DRINKING. But then you say well hmmm... I'm having a beer, i can have a cigarette with it too. If you're disciplined you can actually smoke every once in awhile (this is what I do now, 2 cigarettes/week maybe) but if you're not just don't touch the [censored]. it's really really not worth it. anytime you want a smoke, just have another drink.

[zaxx19]

Uh, no.

[ChrisCo]

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Uh, no.

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My bad.

[zaxx19]

I hear good things about the gurls there though.

This is only 2nd and 3rd hand stuff....and of course its from Midwestern kids going to Cali for the first time.....

[JGalt]

http://www.smokehelp.org/assets/images/Smokers_Lungs.jpg

http://faculty.washington.edu/kepeter/119/images/smokers_lung.jpg

I died young (http://whyquit.com/whyquit/BryanLeeCurtis.html)

So did I (http://whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html)

[moondogg]

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My other savior is Halo 2.

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GTA SA has been a godsend for me.

I used to hate that it was almost impossible to play the game and smoke at the same time, it just keeps your hands too busy. Now I love it.

[ChrisCo]

DING DING DING

We have a winner!

Thats perfect! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[jakethebake]

My solution would be far more effective, whether you want to admit it or not. My solution would force a committment out of you. Since you don't like my idea, I assume you're not really serious about quitting.

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DING DING DING

We have a winner!

Thats perfect! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

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[zaxx19]

YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DO QUIT....

Seriously, if those pics scared you away from sweet tobacco smoke, you are probably one of those punks who wears condoms and stuff....pathetic. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[nolanfan34]

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DING DING DING

We have a winner!

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Yeah, those are good. My wife has some good pics from her dental hygiene classes of what mouth and throat cancer looks like, those would work too.