So i'm trying something new. Quitting smoking

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yeah..my dad quit cold turkey two years ago.after he stopped coughing up tar he was fine. :-D
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That unfortunate thing is, of all the smokers we have, how many of you actually started smoking at a legal age? I reckon here in the UK practically all habitual smokers started pre-16, possibly as young as 11. By the time you get to 16+ if you haven't started smoking you're far less likely to start IMO. The other crazy thing is I wouldn't want to smoke myself but of course I have *tried* smoking when I was younger only to discover that I didn't like it. I wonder if I'd now be a habitual smoker if I *did* like it?
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i really started when i was 20. i smoked here and there when i was 16
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Last June made 9 years for me. I turned 20 on the 16th of the same month. :- /
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I started smoking when I was 15... I had lot of urgent boring work, I was sleeping for 2-3 hours a day then. Cigaretes had helped me to finish it by keeping me awake and concentrated.

I still smoking.
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I smoked my first cigarette when I was 18. I only did it because I had a really good friend that used to smoke and who actually really cared about me. I didn't like smoking. So when he would take out a cig, I would take one of his other ones and crumble it up in front of him. If he really needed a cigarette, he needed to lose another one at the same time. The only thing that would prevent that is if he would light my cigarette for me, which, up until the time I smoked my first cigarette, he refused to do out of care for me.

Then one day things got really bad for him, and he needed a cig. So he lit one up. Then he lit one up for me. I smoked for two weeks with him. Then one day I lit a cigarette with a match. The match flared up, torched the cigarette, scorched my mustache and burnt some of the skin on my upper lip and finger. The smell of burning hair and flesh made me so ill that I almost puked and vowed never to smoke again. That was 12 years ago and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Moral of the story: Burn half your face off and subconsciously associate your half burnt off face with cigarettes. You will literally never smoke again.
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Post by daedalus__ »

I should try that...

I had a cigarette put out on my hand once though and it doesn't bug me a bit.

Maybe I'm tolerant to Aversion Therapy?
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You know, another thing that might work, have ten of your friends use your next bottle of Guiness Draught as an ash tray, then 'accidentally' drink it in one gulp. See if that helps. Otherwise, you're gonna have to resort to sheer will power or my crappy sense of humor. The second may save you from smoking but will almost certainly push you to drinking. :wink:
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ahaha

i already drink so we are good to go!
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Sweet, then keep relying on my sense of humor. But I am not paying any therapy bills.
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i have health insurance ahahah
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(Mental?) Health Insurance?
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A .357 in the closet.


lololol just kidding
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That seems remarkably disturbing... 8O
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I wonder if MrPotatoes has grabbed his .357 yet?
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