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Offline Arfy

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Re: Hallo!
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2012, 09:03:00 PM »
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aHi all,

I don't have some amazing story of how I quit after a huge amount of years...Smoked and dipped years ago (total time 8 years, ages 12-20). Quit three times using the patch.

Started up again last year in SERE school, brought dip with me to trade for food, ended up using it to stay awake and not feel so hungry. Started smoking after that, used e cigs to get off of real cigs, then dip and snus because I got tired of tinkering with e cigs.

Tried cold turkey yesterday and today, didn't make it through either day. Currently wearing a patch! Actually bought them on my lunch break and some lozenges.

Tried some of Jake's mint chew, but it just irritated me to have something in my lip that didn't make me feel different.

The fog for me is strange...for me it feels like coming down from a huge high off of weed (from what I can remember of it, I don't currently use marijuana and haven't in years and years), with cravings in between. Timing my cravings today, they lasted anywhere from 14-30 minutes.

I couldn't overcome the fog at work, so I am going with a patch wean over the next several weeks before I am completely off of nicotine, my hopes is that when I am off it won't be so bad. Could be wrong and it will still suck horribly, I'll let ya know

Read a couple of e books about going cold turkey, and it made sense to get the worst over in three days, but my job requires me to be sharp. The next time I have that many days off will be the end of the month, and I don't want to wait, so patch for me with a weekly decrease interspersed with some lozenges during the transition periods.

Huge kudos to all of you who can go cold turkey! I am getting off the nicotine, just going to be a little slower for me.



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How about instead of me coming to your house and beating the shit outta you constantly for 3 days, I'll just come over and give you a 10 minute ass kicking once day for a month. What you are doing...WILL NOT WORK!!!! All of us addicts on this site have tried your method before we found this website. It didn't work for us then.....and it's not going to work for you right now. Now sack up and rip that shit off your arm! And then....you can come talk to us!

A little extra reading for you while you make up your damn mind:

http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/LinksAAddiction.html

If you understand your addiction, it will be easier for you to quit!
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Re: Hallo!
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2012, 08:55:00 PM »
If there is quit in you at all, it is in you now. This very moment. If you have the balls to accomplish this, you have them now. Its a matter of believing that you can do it. That you are strong and worth more than being a slave to a chemical.
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Re: Hallo!
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2012, 08:51:00 PM »
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Hi all,

I don't have some amazing story of how I quit after a huge amount of years...Smoked and dipped years ago (total time 8 years, ages 12-20). Quit three times using the patch.

Started up again last year in SERE school, brought dip with me to trade for food, ended up using it to stay awake and not feel so hungry. Started smoking after that, used e cigs to get off of real cigs, then dip and snus because I got tired of tinkering with e cigs.

Tried cold turkey yesterday and today, didn't make it through either day. Currently wearing a patch! Actually bought them on my lunch break and some lozenges.

Tried some of Jake's mint chew, but it just irritated me to have something in my lip that didn't make me feel different.

The fog for me is strange...for me it feels like coming down from a huge high off of weed (from what I can remember of it, I don't currently use marijuana and haven't in years and years), with cravings in between. Timing my cravings today, they lasted anywhere from 14-30 minutes.

I couldn't overcome the fog at work, so I am going with a patch wean over the next several weeks before I am completely off of nicotine, my hopes is that when I am off it won't be so bad. Could be wrong and it will still suck horribly, I'll let ya know

Read a couple of e books about going cold turkey, and it made sense to get the worst over in three days, but my job requires me to be sharp. The next time I have that many days off will be the end of the month, and I don't want to wait, so patch for me with a weekly decrease interspersed with some lozenges during the transition periods.

Huge kudos to all of you who can go cold turkey! I am getting off the nicotine, just going to be a little slower for me.



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You can do this, and thinking that you can't means that you don't want to quit.

No matter how you cut it, you are going to have to get off the drug. And it is going to suck. There's no sugar coating it, and if it were easy, we wouldn't be slaves to overpriced nicotine products that promise us we can quit.

Toss the stuff.

Be a man.

You can do this. You are not special.
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Hallo!
« on: October 10, 2012, 08:44:00 PM »
Hi all,

I don't have some amazing story of how I quit after a huge amount of years...Smoked and dipped years ago (total time 8 years, ages 12-20). Quit three times using the patch.

Started up again last year in SERE school, brought dip with me to trade for food, ended up using it to stay awake and not feel so hungry. Started smoking after that, used e cigs to get off of real cigs, then dip and snus because I got tired of tinkering with e cigs.

Tried cold turkey yesterday and today, didn't make it through either day. Currently wearing a patch! Actually bought them on my lunch break and some lozenges.

Tried some of Jake's mint chew, but it just irritated me to have something in my lip that didn't make me feel different.

The fog for me is strange...for me it feels like coming down from a huge high off of weed (from what I can remember of it, I don't currently use marijuana and haven't in years and years), with cravings in between. Timing my cravings today, they lasted anywhere from 14-30 minutes.

I couldn't overcome the fog at work, so I am going with a patch wean over the next several weeks before I am completely off of nicotine, my hopes is that when I am off it won't be so bad. Could be wrong and it will still suck horribly, I'll let ya know

Read a couple of e books about going cold turkey, and it made sense to get the worst over in three days, but my job requires me to be sharp. The next time I have that many days off will be the end of the month, and I don't want to wait, so patch for me with a weekly decrease interspersed with some lozenges during the transition periods.

Huge kudos to all of you who can go cold turkey! I am getting off the nicotine, just going to be a little slower for me.



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