F****** Trying to quit somking!!!! Is a B****!!

Ill show you a few tricks i learned.
Eat oranges when ever you feel like a smoke ,just bite the top out of one and squezze the juice down fast and it takes one of the edges off.
Brush your teeth after every coffee and every meal and every snack for the first month at least as the cemical reaction in your mouth triggers your mind to want a smoke.
Hide your smokes from yourself by covering the packaging as the advetizing on them is a strong link to your mind and you relate to even the color on your prefered brand.
Package them in something else ,dont keep them where you can feel them in your pocket and never leave them next to you in sight when working.

Your mind is clever, so clever that if your killing yourself even slowly the subcconsius part of your ego cant be wrong so it will make up excuses for why your doing it.
smoking is killing yourself it is slow suicide.
This is because the mind is built with an ego inbuilt originally for our own protection before the modern crap we do became a threat and the animal stuff has fazed out,so now it protects itself!
So if you actually think your wrong or incorrect your ego automatically tries to justify reasons for you physically doing it to yourself so that it doesnt get proved wrong and dies off.
Its a tough bitch and it works through your sub consciouss.
The answer is to bring out the hidden reasons it has sneakily hid in your sub mind out into your consciouss thought so that if they arise you already know about them and you dont fall for any surprizes. (write them down)
So you imagine all the nasty things that could happen to you in the future that would definatley make you pick up a smoke again ,write them down and deal with them out in the open right now and tick that box before it occurs so there is no unexpected downfalls for the future.
What if your mum died? your dad? your brother? what if you got caught at ten red lights in row when you were late and pissed off? etc .what if you get pissed and tell yourself you dont care?are you going to waste all these weeks of pain on one night and a few drinks?

This is how anti/clever the sub consiouss ego is ,you will reward yourself with a smoke for getting caught at a red light and it will also reward you with a smoke for getting a fantastic run of green lights too.
thats how cagey it has become.
It is as much about sub consiouss reward/punishment when you are in way beyond just the physical addiction.

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Originally Posted by Andre

Ill show you a few tricks i learned.
Eat oranges when ever you feel like a smoke ,just bite the top out of one and squezze the juice down fast and it takes one of the edges off.
Brush your teeth after every coffee and every meal and every snack for the first month at least as the cemical reaction in your mouth triggers your mind to want a smoke.
Hide your smokes from yourself by covering the packaging as the advetizing on them is a strong link to your mind and you relate to even the color on your prefered brand.
Package them in something else ,dont keep them where you can feel them in your pocket and never leave them next to you in sight when working.

Your mind is clever, so clever that if your killing yourself even slowly the subcconsius part of your ego cant be wrong so it will make up excuses for why your doing it.
smoking is killing yourself it is slow suicide.
This is because the mind is built with an ego inbuilt originally for our own protection before the modern crap we do became a threat and the animal stuff has fazed out,so now it protects itself!
So if you actually think your wrong or incorrect your ego automatically tries to justify reasons for you physically doing it to yourself so that it doesnt get proved wrong and dies off.
Its a tough bitch and it works through your sub consciouss.
The answer is to bring out the hidden reasons it has sneakily hid in your sub mind out into your consciouss thought so that if they arise you already know about them and you dont fall for any surprizes. (write them down)
So you imagine all the nasty things that could happen to you in the future that would definatley make you pick up a smoke again ,write them down and deal with them out in the open right now and tick that box before it occurs so there is no unexpected downfalls for the future.
What if your mum died? your dad? your brother? what if you got caught at ten red lights in row when you were late and pissed off? etc .what if you get pissed and tell yourself you dont care?are you going to waste all these weeks of pain on one night and a few drinks?

This is how anti/clever the sub consiouss ego is ,you will reward yourself with a smoke for getting caught at a red light and it will also reward you with a smoke for getting a fantastic run of green lights too.
thats how cagey it has become.
It is as much about sub consiouss reward/punishment when you are in way beyond just the physical addiction.

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SC for the ideas mate

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Originally Posted by USA LOVES THE KLITSCHKOS

Hey Daxx I feel your pain,I smoked for 21 years I quit in 99 and sometimes when I drink the urge comes back and I have gave in a few times.The only way to quit is to keep trying anyway good luck.

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it may have taken 99 times but at least in the end you prevailed CC

^^^ I think you meant CC for Andre, though you wrote SC... I guess that's what coming of cigarettes will do.


Hey Andre, I've been wondering if you have studied any type of psychology or hypnosis/NLP or spiritual type things for self healing/development.. I've read quite a few posts that highlight the mind and beleifs are as important as just about anything physical you can do... I certainly like where you're coming from in these posts, and wondered if you had any particular influence in such areas by reading books or learning from someone, Or have just found yourself thinking in that way from general life experience?

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

^^^ I think you meant CC for Andre, though you wrote SC... I guess that's what coming of cigarettes will do.


Hey Andre, I've been wondering if you have studied any type of psychology or hypnosis/NLP or spiritual type things for self healing/development.. I've read quite a few posts that highlight the mind and beleifs are as important as just about anything physical you can do... I certainly like where you're coming from in these posts, and wondered if you had any particular influence in such areas by reading books or learning from someone, Or have just found yourself thinking in that way from general life experience?

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Gotta take a look at Andre's CC/SC Ratio mate....Andre only likes SC's....A cc to him and like and SC to us

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Originally Posted by Daxx Kahn

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

^^^ I think you meant CC for Andre, though you wrote SC... I guess that's what coming of cigarettes will do.


Hey Andre, I've been wondering if you have studied any type of psychology or hypnosis/NLP or spiritual type things for self healing/development.. I've read quite a few posts that highlight the mind and beleifs are as important as just about anything physical you can do... I certainly like where you're coming from in these posts, and wondered if you had any particular influence in such areas by reading books or learning from someone, Or have just found yourself thinking in that way from general life experience?

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Gotta take a look at Andre's CC/SC Ratio mate....Andre only likes SC's....A cc to him and like and SC to us

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Thanks for short cutting the cc process for me ;) Saddo will be happy too.

Yeah ,I have and I do to the other question,Diz.

Sorry for the shortness but if I told you what I get up to you would think Im stone wall crazy.

IF you want to hop on your own freeway to where ever it is your heading ,I will tell how you can mentally land on it within a week or two , just pm me.

Glad to see im not alone..

Its for the best that i help my addiction to boxing by quitting on my addiction to smoking..

I quit as of the 2nd and its real hard.. especially around friends.. ive had a single Fag in 5 days so i cant complain really..Doing ok and im in the gym three times a week after work trying to keep occupied..

Wearing patches and chewing shit loads of gum..(Not nico gum just minty gum) Keeps my occupied.. But ive been flying off the rails a fair old bit over silly things..Lol

Good luck to you all brothers, I'll be checking back how your all doing ;) :)

Any updates on this? Anyone succeeding?

I have been pretty good since January 1. For me getting to the gym on a almost daily basis and cutting out alcohol worked wonders. Even times when I was really craving one I just told myself "no" and thought how I would feel running or sparring later in the week.

My lungs did a little "house cleaning" which was pretty nasty. It's funny once they are not under the stress of breathing in carcinogens and tar daily they can focus on getting rid of all that stuff that built up. Remembering what I coughed out is enough to make me not want to start again, especially now that I feel I am pretty much in the clear.

My problem is still when I get more than a few drinks in me, wow do I want a cigarette. As a result of that I have quit having over 5-6 drinks at a given time. This was something that would have been smart for me to do anyways, but it was the desire to quit smoking that made it necessary.

Yeah, I quit about 10 minutes ago, then started back again about 4 minutes later. I have 4 cigs lit right now:p

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Originally Posted by LEGION

Yeah, I quit about 10 minutes ago, then started back again about 4 minutes later. I have 4 cigs lit right now:p

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Haha.. I'm actually getting to the point when I'm walking down the street and have to inhale someone else's smoke I'm thinking "mutherfucker :mad: "

Problem is if my past record has anything to say, I will probably be one of those "mutherfuckers" again myself in a couple months !

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Originally Posted by Cortez The Killer

Any updates on this? Anyone succeeding?

I have been pretty good since January 1. For me getting to the gym on a almost daily basis and cutting out alcohol worked wonders. Even times when I was really craving one I just told myself "no" and thought how I would feel running or sparring later in the week.

My lungs did a little "house cleaning" which was pretty nasty. It's funny once they are not under the stress of breathing in carcinogens and tar daily they can focus on getting rid of all that stuff that built up. Remembering what I coughed out is enough to make me not want to start again, especially now that I feel I am pretty much in the clear.

My problem is still when I get more than a few drinks in me, wow do I want a cigarette. As a result of that I have quit having over 5-6 drinks at a given time. This was something that would have been smart for me to do anyways, but it was the desire to quit smoking that made it necessary.

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Ahh Drinking and smoking are like siamese twins...LOl cant do one without the other...Thats why I gave up coffee....I have not quit yet but I am down to about 5 a day from a Pack plus....

Not all the way there but making progress....

I feel better though just with the reduction.....soon enough I will quit for good

I went from 40 cigarettes a day to none...

it was easy... how i did it i reversed the craving in my mind.

when i really wanted one bad i would step back and say fuck look what this is doing to me so the more i craved the stonger i got and hated them :cool:

worked for me mate ;)

lasted 4 years and i'm natrually thin but put on a shitload of weight and the strange thing was i was eating less and more active to help me :confused: and it was really hard to shift the weight... started smoking again and the weight fell off me and i'm back to my thin self again and feel great i will not stop smoking again :o

but if you are dedicated to stay in shape and can do that while giving up then that is the way to go mate... but for me i wasnt 100% commited to staying in shape so my cigs keep me in shape ;D

good luck :D

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Originally Posted by Saddo

I went from 40 cigarettes a day to none...

it was easy... how i did it i reversed the craving in my mind.

when i really wanted one bad i would step back and say fuck look what this is doing to me so the more i craved the stonger i got and hated them :cool:

worked for me mate ;)

lasted 4 years and i'm natrually thin but put on a shitload of weight and the strange thing was i was eating less and more active to help me :confused: and it was really hard to shift the weight... started smoking again and the weight fell off me and i'm back to my thin self again and feel great i will not stop smoking again :o

but if you are dedicated to stay in shape and can do that while giving up then that is the way to go mate... but for me i wasnt 100% commited to staying in shape so my cigs keep me in shape ;D

good luck :D

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4 YEARS AND YOU WENT BACK!!!!!!....YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!!!

(No offense Boss;)).......

I am doing better...I even feel better just cutting down but need to quit all together.....It will happen....To cut down I use a simular method to the one you described...but I kind of make a game of it to myself....I set times on my cell phone for the alarm to go off...abt every 5 hrs...I think about having a cig before the timer I argue with myself..look at the cig and say "Who is stronger you or that stupid ciggarette?.....Sounds silly but works to an extent.....

Crazy thing is I smoke less like that then any of the perscription methods..the patch. inhalers etc....

I am going to get that new medicine Chantex...it stops the cravings through a chemical balance in the brain...takes 1 week and each day your mind and body crave less nicotine.....til the point you have no craving and if you light up anyway you get sick from the nicotine....

The med is expensive though about $550...My sons godfather kicked the habit with it and he smoked 3 packs a day for 35years

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Originally Posted by Saddo

I went from 40 cigarettes a day to none...

it was easy... how i did it i reversed the craving in my mind.

when i really wanted one bad i would step back and say fuck look what this is doing to me so the more i craved the stonger i got and hated them :cool:

worked for me mate ;)

lasted 4 years and i'm natrually thin but put on a shitload of weight and the strange thing was i was eating less and more active to help me :confused: and it was really hard to shift the weight... started smoking again and the weight fell off me and i'm back to my thin self again and feel great i will not stop smoking again :o

but if you are dedicated to stay in shape and can do that while giving up then that is the way to go mate... but for me i wasnt 100% commited to staying in shape so my cigs keep me in shape ;D

good luck :D

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I always hear about the benefits of quiting.


Then Saddo comes in and gives the benefits of smoking!

Arse ;D

What gets me is this sounds like it was a conscious decision "well...I better make myself start smoking again" ;D

I was on Holiday and having a drink and fancied a smoke so i had one.... boy was it good ;D

i lost well over a stone on the 2 weeks holiday and i was drinking like a fish and eating like a pig ;D

if you are sucessful with giving up on a long time basis you will know what i mean... the only way to do it is get to the gym or do a shitload of excersise.

if you dont you will be smoking soon enough you idiot ;D;);D

but you will feel as fit as a fiddle :cool:

As long as you don't smoke too much, you can still be in fairly good health.