For SMOKERS ONLY!

[Boomer]

Are you ready to lay 'em down?

 

One of my Southern Cruiser Brothers and I have started a forum for Motorcycle entusiasts as a support group to kick the habit. We have just started it and I posted it locally. Since I am a member here, I thought there may be some of you who would like to join us. There is no cost.

 

Official start date is Saurday, December 1st, so go buy your Chantix, gum or lozenges this week and join the soon to be smoke free!

Check it out: http://forums.delphiforums.com/smokeout

[SilvrT]

Kewl... I went there and "did my thing". I'm just going into my 5th week as a non-smoker! It's great!

[RoadKill]

Since I will never quit, would you like me to post how good they are and how I'm enjoying them?

[cbmel]

Since I will never quit, would you like me to post how good they are and how I'm enjoying them?

 

Oh, you'll quit. Maybe not by choice, but you'll quit.

[SilvrT]

Since I will never quit, would you like me to post how good they are and how I'm enjoying them?

 

Funny... I recall saying those exact words..."I'll never quit..."

 

Yes, please... do tell how good they are!

[Guest hank]

Smoking is non-addictive for me. By smoking a pipe, I can take it or leave it no problem.

[SilvrT]

Smoking is non-addictive for me. By smoking a pipe, I can take it or leave it no problem.

 

If neither is a problem, then I challenge you to leave it.

[Guest hank]

If neither is a problem, then I challenge you to leave it.

 

I do lot's of times. I might go two to three weeks without lighting up, then maybe smoke a bowl once during the entire week. Yup, fun but not habit forming for me in the least.

[SilvrT]

I do lot's of times. I might go two to three weeks without lighting up, then maybe smoke a bowl once during the entire week. Yup, fun but not habit forming for me in the least.

 

Kewl... that's great hank... I thought about a pipe...even smoked one many years ago (was more of a novelty) but I've just come to the point where I don't even like the taste of tobacco anymore....even those flavoured cigarillos.

 

ummmmm...what kind of pipe tobakky ya usin?

 

[skidrow]

Roadkill- Old Saying Goes Like This:

"lung Cancer Cures Smoking"

[Cougar]

Chantix made made me sick to my stomic.... I still have 30 days in the drawer only $106.00 per box!

[SilvrT]

Chantix made made me sick to my stomic.... I still have 30 days in the drawer only $106.00 per box!

 

yes, it does have side effects, that being one of them but not everyone experiences the same side effects or to the same degree. I rarely feel sick to my stomach unless I've eaten a lot of spicey stuff. One of the other side effects is dreams... normally I don't dream...or at least I don't remember them. Since taking Champix (funny that it's spelled differently in Canada), I've been dreaming like crazy...most are quite vivid. That doesn't bother me.

 

Too bad you had to pay so much. I have a prescription plan through my wife's medical insurance. It costs me only $19 per package of 2 weeks supply.

[Cougar]

Yeah, mine with insurance is $35.00 of the $106.00 for 30 days.

 

I can only have 30 days a year. Soooo I am holding my 30 days

I have now then in JAN I will get 3 more months and give it a try

again! It seemed to cut my smoking in HALF right a way!..

 

I did eat food before taking it as well.. my doctor also told me

(Do you think Chantex is a new product?) They have been using

it in Europe for 14 years now. *lol*..

I think of I put my mind to it a little better next time I can do it.

Jeff

[SilvrT]

Yeah, mine with insurance is $35.00 of the $106.00 for 30 days.

 

I can only have 30 days a year. Soooo I am holding my 30 days

I have now then in JAN I will get 3 more months and give it a try

again! It seemed to cut my smoking in HALF right a way!..

 

I did eat food before taking it as well.. my doctor also told me

(Do you think Chantex is a new product?) They have been using

it in Europe for 14 years now. *lol*..

I think of I put my mind to it a little better next time I can do it.

Jeff

Jeff... nothing... but nothing will cause you or anyone else to stop smoking if ya don't put your mind to it. At least that's my feeling and for me, it's working but keeping focused mentally is not always an easy task.

It's like you have to have this other "little voice" inside your brain telling you stuff (LOL... skitso's have that all the time). When you get the urge to have a smoke, somehow the voice tells ya... "NO". The pills are only there to assist and cut down on the number of occurences of the need for the little voice LOL gawd... I think I'm going crazy...gimme a smoke!!

 

 

NO!

 

[Cougar]

*LOL* Yeppers!

Mine was this small money telling me to smoke

and I would just swat it off my shoulder. chantex

is the ONLY thing that has come so close for me.

I have tried it ALL I mean Hypnosis , patches, gum,

food, yadda , yadda yadda. the one time I stopped

I went so crazy (my wife non-smoker) went out and

got me some smokes. I was fine after that -hehe-.

 

I am the type that will have to be put away I think for

about 30 days.. what I do not understand is I can be

a Heron addict or a drunk and my work place will help

them go away and get fixed for a couple months. (paid) but

not a 40 year addicted smoker.. ummmm (like heron)

Jeff

[Thom]

with the new job i keep thinking just 1 !! or may be a nice cigar , just 1 a day , i will not get the habit again YA RITE

i quit on may 6 2003 at 10 am , i now the time be cause i missed my 10 am appointment because i was out of cigs. i picked up a box of commits instead , after 5 packs of Viceroys a day , i have not had one since than . a funny thing happed about 6 weeks later , i always buy cigs. at the same place at least a carton every 2 days , they always had my brand and the owner and i became friends over the years i stopped going buy his place so he came out to see my wife 1 day , he thought i had died , he brought flowers :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Cougar]

Ohh My! To funny!

[hipshot]

ok boomer. i joined up!

does that mean i won't smoke anymore????

 

 

 

lol, just kidding.

i hope i can help someone, or be helped by someone, whichever the case may be at a given time.

 

thanks to both you and your brother, for thinking of the rest of us!

just jt

[eagleeye]

Well, I'm sure that my comments will be blown away, but I'll say this:

 

I smoked from 63 to 87, a pack a day, every day, quit 3 times, twice for 9 months or so, and once for a couple years, no problem starting back up.

finally quit cold turkey, in 87 and haven't had a drag from a tobacco product since.

I bought a swisher sweet to smoke at the venture in the pines, but could'nt bring myself to smoke it.

It is the most addictive thing that I have ever done, including lots of other stuff.

When I quit, I always said that if I ever come down with terminal anythilng, the first thing that I will do is go out and buy a pack of winston reds.

It took 5 years for that to change!

 

Sooooooooooo, what I have to say to you all, is--------GOOD LUCK!

 

It ain'nt gonna happen over night.

 

Steve

[cowpuc]

Wellllll,, I remember last year at Sturgis,, I came into the backside of town on opening weekend surrounded by about 20000 harleys.. We were only doing about 1/2 MPH and one by one all the bikes in front of me were moving toward the center line or the side of the road like there was a skunk in the road.. As usual when riding at a crawl,, instead of dragging my feet I was standing on my pegs riding my fully loaded 1st gen like a trials bike.. Because of this, I got a good view of what was ahead early enough to plan for it.. It was a spot of oil about 2 feet in diameter.. I motioned to the riders behind me to move over and then I rode thru it and stopped with my back tire in the middle of it.. I got down off my pegs, tapped the front brake a little and LIT HER UP.. Sat there for what seemed like 20 minutes with this HUGE ball of smoke rolling around me.. Bystanders were cheering and Harley riders were glapping like crazy.. I am sure it was a sight to behold to see a completely loaded down 1983 Yammie lighting it up and smoking it down... Anyway,, sorry gang but its a flaw in my charector since childhood,, I will be keeping her lit as long as I am able.......

Now if your talking tobbacco,,, nawwwwwww,, got to much to live for..

'Puc

[FROG MAN]

Hey Cowpuc! I just love how all threads end with a statement about a good running first gen. :rotf::whistling:

 

For the rest good luck on quit smoking.

[James Ardrey]

I have just ended the third week of Chantix and 24hrs without a cigarette. Over all it's been pretty painless so far. I noticed in the last week a gradual reduction of cigarettes smoked. I have tried inhalers, patches,food,sunflower seeds, and other various ways to try to quit with little or no success. I'm feeling hopeful this time. I guess the chantix really detoxes you from the nicotine. Also Steve about 27 yrs. ago I quit smoking for about 7yrs. cold turkey. I went to a Boy Scout reunion at our old Will Rogers council and we started talking about the times we would sneak around with Swisher sweats. To make a long story short we went into town and got a pack of Swisher sweets. I started smoking cigars and about a year later during attempts to quit cigars I bought a pack of cigarettes and the rest is history. It has been next to impossible for me to quit cold turkey after all these years of smoking. I absolutely love to smoke but I can't resite one positive benefit of smoking. It's the damnedest thing. I really want the monkey off my back though. My wife has been cigarette free for about 6 mos. She was in the hospital with Pnuemonia for a week and that was the motivator for her. I want to be a real support for her also by not being a smoker. Even if I don't smoke around her I reak and my clothes reak. I pray that we all have success one day at a time. Will report as time goes on.

[az1103]

"Smoking is non-addictive for me. By smoking a pipe, I can take it or leave it no problem."

 

 

Oh yah right! You just light-up because you enjoy the foul smell, or is it that wonderfull taste of sewage in your mouth! No it must be the excitement of anticipating the cancer chancres on your lip!!

[RoadKill]

Roadkill- Old Saying Goes Like This:

"lung Cancer Cures Smoking"

 

You certainly have a point there. Seriously, I wish you all the best of luck and admire you all for trying. Over the years I have cut back from 2 1/2 packs a day to just over 1/2 pack a day. You would think seeing my father suffer through COPD would have done it for me.

[funrider]

Roadkill- Old Saying Goes Like This:

"lung Cancer Cures Smoking"

 

 

I had lung cancer at 44years old and was told that I probably wouldn't see my next birthday, that was 11 pluss years ago. Went through kemo and radiation, no fun. I quit (and have nerver started again), six days before lung surgery that removed about 2/3 of my right lung. The fact is most people that get cancer nerver quit and out of those that do, the majority will start smoking again. It is a small % that acturally quit.

Cancer doesn't cure smoking, death form it does. Maybe you should encurage people who have quit to help encurage those that are trying to quit.