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Trying to kick nicotine. This morning is killing me.

Stopped smoking 10 years ago. Started back last summer for some unknown reason. Kicked that in favor of the Snus pouches. Been on those for about 6 months now. The other night I realized I had a dip in almost continuously for the entire day. Time to quit!

Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend. Gum is my friend.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 6:04 am
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:clap: :hi5: YOU CAN DO IT SNOOP!! :clap: :hi5:

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 6:08 am
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Go somewhere where there is a sauna.

Sign up for awhile and get 'sweat' that stuff out of your body. It takes a little while like a few weeks or so.
If you can't find a sauna, use a hot tub and try to cover it with some sort of material. Crank the temp up where it will make you sweat.

You got to sweat it out, dude.
Eat more spicy foods. Push it to the max with hot peppres and cayenne etc

😉

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 6:12 am
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hang tuff snoop!

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 6:21 am
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I'm with ya. Been eating Chantix since May, ain't touched a smoke since July 1. That don't mean I don't WANT one. Good luck, it's only an addition.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 6:56 am
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no it doesn't

It's all in your mind. I was doing some web work for a friend who brought me beer and smokes. Now he's cut me completely off. Try going cold-turkey on beer and smokes at the same time. That'll test your constitution. Cold-turkey = (12 pack + 2 packs)/day to absolutely nothing for pretty much the past 3 weeks. My neighbor might give me a beer or 2 and a few smokes now and then. This week I've had zero beers and only one smoke since last Friday. Going without beers is actually pretty easy even for this heavy beer drinker. Smokes is another matter - too many associations especially that first coffee in the morning. I just had to put it in my mind "that's it, no more for now". I also remind myself that some go through their entire life and touch neither one.

Besides all that, this wasn't my idea to quit either. If it would have been my idea I would be enthusiastic. Right now I'm just kinda pissed. Who doesn't dislike being "told" what to do? As for work for my friend's site... let's just say "work embargo on!".

Best quit chewing ASAP!!! That was far harder to quit than anything. I haven't chewed regular in almost 30 years and still have dreams about it to this day. That's no joke.
E

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 7:04 am
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Speaking of kicking the habit

I remember listening to a radio interview with Johnny Van Zant and he was talking about the heavy drug use they had during their hay day with Lynyrd Skynyrd. He mentioned that to this day he still wants a smoke and that it was, by far, easier to quit Heroin than it was to quit smoking.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 7:32 am
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snoop

When I did it (kicked snuff after ten years and after a year I feel back off the wagon) I did 15 pushups every time I wanted a dip. That was like 7 to 10 times a day. 15 turned into 20, into 30, into 50 into 75 at a time over like two months. After that, I was swoll up and didn't want a dip. It took two months before I woke up without wanting one in the morning and it was always tough after a meal. Stayed clean for a year then hunting season kicked in with my buddies and it was all over. That and it's tough with a cold beer not to have a dip of snuff.

Good luck

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 7:41 am
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Speaking of kicking the habit

Richard Pryor said he wasn't addicted to cocaine, he just liked the smell of it.

Just keep telling yourself, Snoop, the cravings only last 7 minutes, I can do this.......

I wore the patch for 2 weeks, at least you get some vivid, colorful dreams;-)

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 9:03 am
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Snoop,

Nicotine is a highly addictive chemical, which, for reasons unknown, humans absolutely crave. I used to be a two pack a day smoker until I stumbled across the following site!

Check out this website: http://store.vapor4life.com/

After trying many e cigarettes those above are the best. And, you will regain olfactory senses thus being actually repulsed by the smell of cigarettes. Plus you will satisfy the nicotine craving.

Have a great week!

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 11:11 am
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I used the patches. They let you wean yourself off. Except for a few days in July I have been off of cigarettes since early June, after 42 years.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 11:18 am
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When I used the patch, I didn't think it was working. After 2 weeks I quit (ran out) and could REALLY tell the difference but I haven't smoked since and that was over 10 years ago.

Good luck Snoop, keep up the good fight!

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 11:47 am
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You big whiney baby!!!

Its hard but a man that really wants to quit, can.

Want to be around for your grandkids growing up, then throw it away.

Its not that hard, hell I did it after 25 years of smoking and dipping.

I still reward myself with a cigar every now and then, but thats it.

Stand up and be a man about it or don't.

Serious thinking ahead for you brother.

Good Luck.

Randy

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 12:54 pm
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Hang in there Snoop. You can do it (again).

Just remember that nicotine has many devious ways to convince you to smoke just that one, next one.

I'm smoke free for 3 years plus, and now I don't really even think about it much.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 2:58 pm
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So, Gum is your friend. He's mine, too. And his wife and his two kids. Met his parents about 20 years ago. He always referred to his father as Dad Gum. His ex-wife had the unfortunate name of Sandy Gum. That sort of sets your teeth on edge just thinking about sandy gum.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 7:40 pm
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A few good reasons to quit in pictures...

These pictures say it all. 🙁 Plus watching my beloved aunt die a slow, agonizing death because of a 3 pack-a-day habit at age 58 and watching what how it is slowly killing my mother was enough "don't smoke" shock therapy for me. I hope it is for my daughter too!!! :u:

Smoking-induced diseases usually tend to be very very painful, having both physical and psychological impacts on a patient. Although lung cancer might not kill you, you have to look out for other horrible diseases smoking can induce, some of these diseases even sound more painful than lung cancer itself -if you ask me, and most of these diseases won’t wait for you to age 60 to kick in.

 
Posted : September 22, 2010 9:16 pm
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> You big whiny baby!!!

sorry that you thought I was whining, that was not my intent.

I had quit several time before and the biggest problem I had was thinking the cravings will never go away, but I was wrong, they do.

I don't think I could pick it back up again, even the occasional cigar. Sometime, under the right conditions, smoke nauseates me.

Good luck to anyone who is trying to quit, you'll thank yourself later;-)

Radar

 
Posted : September 23, 2010 9:55 am