First full day of not smoking

Noo Yawk · #1 06-25-2003, 07:32 PM

ARRRRRRRGGGHHHH!
I feel like tearing the carpet up with my teeth.
I'll report back tommorrow.

HDPM · #2 06-25-2003, 07:43 PM

Hang in there. Last one I had was almost nine years ago. 5:25 PM September 2, 1994. But who's counting? [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

First day is hard. Second day a little easier. Third day is hard. After three days it gets easier IME. Try to go do things where you couldn't smoke. Places you didn't smoke before, etc... Do something different and try to keep busy. GL. Cold turkey is the best and only way really.

scalf · #3 06-25-2003, 09:10 PM

[img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] about twenty years ago, i put that pack of marlboros up on my dresser...every day when i woke up..walked by that pack and told it i was tuffer than them smokes...lol..never took a cig again...lol..are you tuffer????gl [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img]

Zeno · #4 06-26-2003, 01:27 AM

You are smarter than the smokes. You will win the War.

-Zeno

Vehn · #5 06-26-2003, 01:34 AM

Smoking puts hair on your chest.

Actually quitting isn't so bad after the first few days.

Of course I'm smoking now..

Al Mirpuri · #6 06-26-2003, 06:44 AM

I read somewhere that John Fox in Play Poker, Quit Work And Sleep Till Noon advised players to seek out tables with smokers at them. His reasoning was that with the ill effects of smoking being so well known smokers were either compulsives or stupid. Either way you wanted them at your table.

I hope you stick to it.

Best Wishes.

scalf · #7 06-26-2003, 07:27 AM

[img]/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] i bet ya still a quitter..... [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Noo Yawk · #8 06-27-2003, 05:00 AM

Haven't lit up and it's getting easier. We're headed for the home stretch.

Ray Zee · #9 06-27-2003, 10:12 AM

n.y. what are you going to do when you get to start tasting food again. or when people stop shunning you and you dont know why. or when you start to smell things again.
or when you notice the older people that smoke are all full of wrinkles and look like death warmed over.

good luck. failure is a shorter life and a painful death someday.

adios · #10 06-27-2003, 12:55 PM

"good luck. failure is a shorter life and a painful death someday."

FWIW, my father is 75 which is old but isn't that old by today's standards. He HAD 3 brothers and 2 sisters who all smoked like chimmneys. He was the only one who quit smoking something like 30 years ago. His father and mother, my grandparents, smoked like a chimneys. Everyone had a painful and early death do most likely to their smoking. Why grandfather whittled away to 80 pounds and died when he was 65 from lung cancer (he had other smoking related diseases). My grandmother died a few years later from heart failure (perhaps not smoking). Two of my fathers brothers and his two sisters died of lung cancer. His other brother died of throat cancer as he was a heavy cigar smoker and pipe smoker. My dad's youngest brother died 5 years ago of lung cancer. Every one of his siblings went through excruciating pain before they died from their cancer.