you can message me if you want. i still smoke, but i'm here to listen if you need someone and can't afford a shrink haha. i could quit. some people might not like me if i quit, but i could. one day at a time i reckon.

 

i was going to quit as my new years resolution, but thanks to a girl i have recently met who doesn't like smokers i have quit tonight. lets hope i can keep it up.

 

First day was the hardest for me man, just stick through it and don't give in

I quit last Saturday, had a few Thursday when I was drunk (watch drinking mixed with cig availability, you WILL smoke), but haven't wanted any since, still don't, it's weird, I've just lost the craving it seems, might come back to bitch slap me in the face later, but for now I'm good.

 

yeah i can go without smoking just as long as no one around me lights up.

 

I read a book called Tipping Point by malcolm gladwell, also he wrote a book called Blink, both heavily examine sociological/psychological behavior with A TON of scientific studies and whatnot as backup. Tipping Point is based on "things" that go from nothing to super popular. I'm not going to get deep into that but a chapter or two covers smoking and the different types of smokers as well as why people smoke, possible reasons why it's so popular and how much anti-smoking ads are so ineffective. I recommend these two books to anyone with a curious mind because things aren't always what they seem, you'll really be surprised by a lot of the stuff in the two books. Anyway, a few studies concluded that different people respond to nicotine differently. Some are highly susceptible to addiction while others are completely "immune" to the addictive effects, something about nicotinic receptors in the body. I can recall numerous times a friend and I would sit around and puff black and milds 1 after the other(one night drinking the two of us sat around and drank some tequila and I smoked 18 captain black cigars(1.2mg nicotine) over the course of about 4 hours, just something to do I guess lol) I'm not a smoker but I've partaken and it's never once affected me, while some people, friends of mine, can quit for a year or a few months but get right back on at the slightest tense situation. Interesting to think about.

seriously those two books are really hard to put down
good luck to those quitting, my grandma was a chain smoker all her life and is sitting in a hospital bed slated to die this week. The only usable lung she has left is a 1/4 of her right lung. Her death will be attributed to simple pneumonia but with ****ty lungs you can't fight it very well...smoking gets to sneak out the back door as the real culprit.

 

sorry for your loss. i might have to check those books out. they got em at books a million? i've been good for 2 days now and surprisingly haven't had the urge even when friends light up around me. we will just have to see how it goes when i go to work friday and get stressed out.