Anybody here smoke

[moondogg]

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My name is Chile-Willy, and I am a nicotine addict.
I have stopped nicotine for 1 month, 8 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes and 50 seconds (38 days).

I've not smoked 1750 death sticks, and saved $372.40.
I've saved 6 days, 1 hour and 48 minutes of my life.

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You were spending $372.40 on just over a months worth of cigarettes? WOW. Everyone has thier vices but I just cant understand this one, its so -EV in every way imaginable it just doesnt compute.

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I quit a week ago. I have not been able to concentrate on poker or bonus whoring since, costing me a few hundred bucks. I have saved about $40 on cigarettes.

If my brain don't get back to normal in the next week or so, I'll have to go back to smoking for purely financial reasons.

[Rednax]

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If my brain don't get back to normal in the next week or so, I'll have to go back to smoking for purely financial reasons.

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Hang in there. Right now your brain will come up with a lot of gooood-sounding reasons to get the chemicals it wants. But when it returns to normal you will be so grateful you quit!

It's chemicals, baby, drugs, and right now you can't think straight. Quit, and you will.

But it is the hardest thing you will ever do. THE HARDEST THING YOU WILL EVER DO. I mean, quitting's easy, I did it myself a hundred times (cha-ching). But staying off for the first week is harder (some say) than staying off heroin. But the second week is easier, and after a while you just don't want them anymore. ime

[wbrumfiel]

Sorry man I respect you a lot as a poster and a person but this just sounds stupid. Obviously the chemicals affect your brain and all but if it were impossible for people to concentrate without smoking then I would never make money. Its not like you are stopping use of a smart pill or something. You are quitting something that is eventually going to kill you. No amount of financial gain is worth that to me, YMMV.

[EdBankz]

I've smoked for about 15 years and have tried to quit millions of times. I've tried everything, ppatches, gum, etc. I am now into month 3 of quitting, the longest I've ever gone. I went to the doctor and got a prescription for the Nicotrol inhaler and it has done wonders. You take a drag of it whenever you need a shot of nicotine and you can hold it like a regualr cigarette so it gives you something to do with your hands as well which was always a big issue for me when I tried quitting in the past

[Synergistic Explosions]

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My name is Chile-Willy, and I am a nicotine addict.
I have stopped nicotine for 1 month, 8 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes and 50 seconds (38 days).

I've not smoked 1750 death sticks, and saved $372.40.
I've saved 6 days, 1 hour and 48 minutes of my life.

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You were spending $372.40 on just over a months worth of cigarettes? WOW. Everyone has thier vices but I just cant understand this one, its so -EV in every way imaginable it just doesnt compute.

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I quit a week ago. I have not been able to concentrate on poker or bonus whoring since, costing me a few hundred bucks. I have saved about $40 on cigarettes.

If my brain don't get back to normal in the next week or so, I'll have to go back to smoking for purely financial reasons.

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Yeah, I had the same problem with concentration. It takes at least a month or so to get back some of it for playing poker the way you did before. It's not easy. It's been tough, I won't lie.

I thought about starting back again for the same reason. So far I haven't. I figure with the passing of each new day, some of my concentration will come back and eventually I'll be back to normal.

I'm more afraid of picking up a smoking related illness if I continue. Dealing with that will make playing poker kind of hard also I figure.

Anyways, it's all on you, your quit I mean. How serious you are about it is entirely up to you. Quit or don't quit, it really makes no difference to anyone but you in the end.

For cold turkey quitting, check out this site though. It has really helped me figure out some things.

http://groups.msn.com/FreedomFromTob.../welcome1.msnw

[poker-penguin]

I thought this was going to be a thread about the P.O.T.

I love the P.O.T.

But back to the point - I only smoke death sticks when I'm drunk now, so not when I'm playing poker.

[Dacoops3]

I tend to go outside...a bad beat or a huge win will be times I will have a smoke break. If I smoked at my computer, I would be smoking waaaaaaaaay too much. In live games, I step away for a smoke every 1.5 hours or so. More if I am running bad...which lately has been often.

[thesharpie]

I usually smoke 3 times a day max. Lately once or twice a day, but I've gone months without doing it before. I've never smoked while playing poker, am I missing out?