How to quit smoking?

[Anonymous No.6280510]

90% the people that quit smoking did it cold turkey

Does /fa/ have any tips for sealing the deal? Avoiding triggers, how to fight undeniable cravings, and so on?

How did YOU finally quit smoking?

Picture unrelated because I don't want to post something that glamorizes smoking

[Anonymous No.6280515]

Just smoke E-cigs. Help me quit

[Anonymous No.6280523]

>>6280515
Interesting - will take that into consideration

I'm sure that helps with the smell, too

[Anonymous No.6280532]

cessation works better

I got down to about 3 cigarettes a day by taking six drags and putting it out, and trying to do that as infrequently as possible

i fucked up when i got so confident that i was ready to kick the habit that i stopped paying attention

also, american spirits are great for this because the burn so slowly

[Anonymous No.6280537]

>>6280532
Cessation means to stop - unless that's what you meant.

I don't think I have the self-control for this approach because I enjoy smoking so much, but thank you for your input

[Anonymous No.6280541]

>>6280510

ecigs make you look like a fag. in a bad way.

If you want to go cold turkey it helps to stop hanging out with people that smoke, or think of something else, like, having grandkids someday and being healthy enough to live that long and play with them.

Ultimately, you don't have to change anything about your life except never putting a cigarette in your mouth again.

If you think about it in terms like that it's not hard.

[Anonymous No.6280722]

>>6280541
>don't have to change anything about your life
>never putting a cigarette back in your mouth again

[Anonymous No.6280731]

>>6280722

it's not that hard.

admittedly, i don't really get it because i've been smoking for 4 years now and i still don't smoke unless i go out, but if i really put my mind to it i don't think quitting completely would be THAT hard.

[Anonymous No.6280736]

>>6280731
Yeah, I think it really does come down to just willpower and avoiding smokers. Thanks for the advice. I think I need to figure out something like that. MY reason to stop smoking

[Anonymous No.6280748]

>>6280541
it's not like "omg I can smoke indoors and sneak tokes and my 10th grade history teacher won't even know lol"

It's nicotine vapor, not nicotine + 400-something chemicals to cut your life in half

[Anonymous No.6280749]

>>6280541
Harm reduction really is the best solution to this health crisis. You can go on about how weak people are, how they just need to man up and face it, courage wolf, etc.
And you'd be right. People DO need to face up to things like this. But being right doesn't do anything about what truly is a global drug problem. People are drowning in the own fluids over the course of years - the strain on the healthcare system unimaginable.
Being right and telling people to man up isn't an answer for a LOT of people. Maybe that makes them weak, or less than you in some department. Maybe that drug is an anchor for some people, their last refuge in a life they don't want. Who knows?
You know what IS an answer? Giving people their drug safely and at low cost. That's E-cigs. They're a glorious tiny step towards a future where where cancer rates are finally bottoming. It's all very humanist and a solution that really could work.

[Anonymous No.6280756]

>>6280749
OP here - so honored to get some input from you

[Anonymous No.6280757]

>>6280537
oh wow I thought it meant to stop slowly, sorry

anyway I'd try it, I found that it helped me with the self control issues because I could smoke all the time while still smoking significantly less

[twerk it No.6280760]

>>6280541
tbh everyone i know who smokes has enthusiastically embraced ecigs bcuz theyre p cheap and some of them have models u can smoke dabs of hash oil off of. i don't know anyone irl who hates on em but plenty of h8rs come out of the woodwork on /fa/ lol
420 smoke dabs

[Anonymous No.6280766]

>>6280760
Fucking awesome

[twerk it No.6280771]

>>6280766
kvltcore

[Anonymous No.6280804]

>>6280749

>You can go on about how weak people are, how they just need to man up and face it, courage wolf, etc.

see, that's where you're wrong.

We don't want to help you, we want you to die.

>>6280760

>dabs

you faggots are the most fucking awful sorts of people. every fucking dj i know that likes pot likes dabs, and is always talking about dabs, and how awesome dabs are, and how they're going to dab up soon and want to know if anyone is DTD, or Down To Dab, just flagrantly broadcasting their drug use to anyone who cares and a fucking lot of people that don't.

And ecigs. god, you faggots. god damn. i hate you THE MOST. you are taking the most simple act of rebellion and self-loathing there is and just shitting on it. you are the poser of posers.

"ooooh my widdle lungs are dyyyying, i can't control myself! thank god for FLAVORED E CIGARETTES, i don't have to have self control anymore! and i can smoke whereever i want! and noone cares because it smells so good!"

fuck. you. if i was a few years younger i'd be making prissy fags like you swallow those fucking things if i saw you out at a bar.

[twerk it No.6280812]

>>6280804
if you were younger, you'd still be bitching impotently on the internet about shit that no one but you cares about.

[Anonymous No.6280817]

>>6280756
I'm flattered, but don't be honored or anything, it's something I feel a bit strongly about. I think that at the end of the day, a lot of (often secretly) traditionalist types simply don't like the idea of people having their pleasure and not suffering in return. There's this notion floating around that we have to pay the piper at some point if we want to maintain a vice. Suffering is the price of indulgence, it always has been. It's this very dichotomy that gives way to the concept of sin and thus shuffles the deck in favor of the patriarchy and upper management.

But wait! Here comes science with a way to smoke and not die! Studies are coming back one after another with good news about how minuscule the risk of these things is. Of course, this really throws a wrench in that puritan/fundie/totalist mindset (E-cigs are now illegal in dubai & singapore, among other nations) because think about it: it's emblematic of the present clash between traditionalists and those who would write a new future. I really believe that this simple innovation will shape culture in ways we can't imagine. It's a perfect drug delivery system, really!
So there's that, and besides - it's not very easy to tax effectively.

[Anonymous No.6280826]

>>6280812

maybe you're right.

maybe i should actually punch people for doing shit i perceive to be stupid. Maybe i should stop just letting people behave any old way around me. Maybe i should tell my gay friends i don't like them being gay around me, even if i like them and don't care what they do on their own time. Or fuck up those armanians who grind on anything that moves. God i hate foreigners.

when did i start hating EVERYTHING. i never used to be like this.

[Anonymous No.6280833]

I've smoked for 8 years, then quit and my friend failed (he sat close to me at one table after that and smoked, well it was his flat after all). Everything I did is eating jelly candies like crazy.

[Anonymous No.6280834]

>>6280804
>And ecigs. god, you faggots. god damn. i hate you THE MOST. you are taking the most simple act of rebellion and self-loathing there is and just shitting on it. you are the poser of posers.

Except cigarettes were never an act of rebellion or self-loathing. The complete opposite of it until the last few years. They're the most casual drug next to coffee.

>muh Rebel Without a Cause

[Anonymous No.6280836]

>>6280804
>We don't want to help you, we want you to die.

That's great, you want us to die. Well, here's what's going to happen. We're going to die slowly, in hospital, with tubes running out of our necks while we piss in a bucket.
regardless of the fact that you seem to think we deserve to be tortured for having an indulgence, I want to remind you that our slow and painful death will be a drain on YOUR resources, YOUR medicare funding, YOUR workforce, YOUR family and friends, YOUR ambulance response time and YOUR tax dollar.

Why not just give the people a way out?

[Anonymous No.6280838]

>>6280817
Damn, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I'm going to try the electronic cigarettes. Even if I can't kick the nicotine habit, at least I won't reek of burned tobacco

[User !4JmiEPm2.s No.6280841]

>>6280826

>armenians

lol how do u like LA

[twerk it No.6280842]

>>6280826
probably when you crawled up your own ass, it is none of your business how gay people act or if those armenians are grinding on things that have given them consent to be ground upon. take a breather and let people be.

[evrt No.6280848]

>>6280804
>>6280826
you honestly need to chill the fuck out and contemplate your views.

[Anonymous No.6280859]

>>6280842

i can't do that man. I can't just be indifferent.

People are wrong and i am right, and im not prepared to let my country become another Sodom.

>>6280836
this is why we need to legalize euthanasia.

[twerk it No.6280860]

>>6280836
that filename

[evrt No.6280868]

also OP i stopped smoking by going to the gym, after an intense workout i would smoke afterward and it made me feel terrible/would intensify pain, i used this to ween myself off. although i will agree that being around or engaging in conversation with other people that smoke greatly increase the chance of you smoking again.

[twerk it No.6280869]

>>6280859
sodom's destruction didn't have anything to do with homos and it's been posited that early abrahamic mysticism involved psychoactives similar to and possibly including cannabis, so maybe what you could do is read the old and new testament and learn 2 love thy neighbor
(i aint even christian)

[Anonymous No.6280874]

>>6280834

yeah, like "i can't quit, so now i'll buy this and smoke everywhere. at work, on the toilet, next to you, while im waiting on a customer, while im doing file work. Im actually going to surgically attach it to my face. maybe i'll just intraveniously inject nicotine into my body all day.

Oh, and im DEFINITELY going to make sure and blow it in your face every chance i get, along with the customary white guy "sorry". because im sorry. but im really not. becaue i get to smoke. but im not."

[Anonymous No.6280875]

>>6280868
I know what you mean. Sometimes I smoke, and it just makes me feel like SHIT. I'm trying to build that consistent association, but on the other hand at times it is so satisfying.

I'm going for e-cigs, though. I'm doing everyone and myself such a favor by not smelling of tobacco

[Anonymous No.6280881]

>>6280869

im not a christian.

i don't want them to reform, i want them to die. the drug users, the gays, the foreigners, all of them. they're just fucking awful to be around and i hate them. not that i hate them more than white people, but they're the ones that stick out.

[twerk it No.6280885]

>>6280881
lmao, this is some str8 up poe's law shit

[Anonymous No.6280887]

>>6280874
Except no considerate person would do that. The ones who do are douchebags in every other part of their life, and the ecig is not the enabling factor.

[aiouh No.6280888]

Girl told me I taste like ashtray

Then I never smoked again

[evrt No.6280891]

>>6280869
this isn't true "just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire." this verse has been interpreted as a metaphor for homosexuality being wrong.

not saying that it's my opinion, just saying that sodom is relative to homosexuality being viewd as immoral/wrong by some people.

[Anonymous No.6280892]

>>6280888
Congrats on not smoking, but with such little discretion over a bitch? Damn

[Anonymous No.6280895]

>>6280510
Damn, reading this thread made me go smoke a cigarette

[twerk it No.6280896]

>>6280891
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_and_homosexuality#References_to_Sodom_and_Gomorrah_in_the_Bible

[aiouh No.6280898]

>>6280892
She means/meant a lot to me, it seemed like the natural thing to do.
I was trying to quit anyway so I just promised her and the cravings were gone.

[Anonymous No.6280903]

>>6280875
The buzz you get from an ecig is cleaner, you'll find. You don't get that shitty "I want to die" tired feeling. Just buzz.

>>6280874
He's a fucking moron, then, and you should be saying something to his face about it, instead of complaining on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6280906]

>>6280896
In before any can edit Wikipedia

>not twerk

[Anonymous No.6280911]

>>6280887

yeah, but it's impossible to exhale in a closed environment without it getting on someone. And anyway, it smells good, and it fades after a second, so its not like you're REALLY blowing it in their face. everyone will just assume you didn't mean it. I mean, they should be happy im not smoking real cigarettes. and we haven't been able to smoke inside for so long its like they owe us the ability to smoke inside.

MAN i love this vanilla pineapple twist cartridge, i'll have to remember to order more!

[evrt No.6280919]

>>6280896
"but the passage has historically been interpreted within Judaism and Christianity as a punishment for homosexuality due to the interpretation that the men of Sodom wished to rape the angels who retrieved Lot"

wouldn't that still hold relevancy and support the fact that some(not all) hold this in context to homosexuality being immoral/wrong?

[Anonymous No.6280957]

>>6280919

lets assume angels exist.

someone, somewhere, is going to look at them and the first thing they think is going to be "i can finally realize my fetish!"

[Anonymous No.6281007]

I only smoke when i drink. I work in the service industry too. I wish i didnt do it at all but once i start drinking it jyst goes hand in hand

[Anonymous No.6281010]

>>6280510
>How to quit smoking?

You get some will power faggot.

Addiction is the sign of a weak personality.

[Anonymous No.6281563]

>>6280510
You stop being a weak pussy.
That's it.

My father decided to stop smoking when he was, I think it was around 43, and he started smoking when he was 12. He decided that he had had enough of that useless shit and stopped. I remember when he came home from one of those "stop-smoking-gathering-group-shit"<wbr> (he thought it would help him deal with not smoking, but he only went like 3-4 times) and said how none of the faggots there could believe he had stopped without contacting Voldemort or brewing remedies in the family crypt.

>tl;dr daddy was not a weak pussyfag

[Anonymous No.6281589]

In about 3 hours it will have been exactly a week since I have smoked a cigarette. Reading this thread made me crave heaps bad. Fuck you OP

[Anonymous No.6281642]

>>6280804

If you were even one year younger, you couldn't get into a bar.

[Anonymous No.6281671]

Smoked like 10 cigs a day about a year ago. Then autumn came and I decided it's time to stop smoking. Also started to eat healthy+drink green tea etc. Just felt like it'd be stupid to poison my system with cigarettes or so.

Haven't smoked since autumn. Pot now and then