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Quit smoking cigs 12 years ago now and counting. I'll still get that craving when I smell someone lighting up. Once you get a week out the dreams will start. It was very hard, but can be done.
 

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Sounds like you are off to a good start keep it up. I never smoked but dipped for years and that was a tough one to break. My dentist showed me pics of the results of long term dipping and that's what did it. I play in an over 40 wooden bat league and many of those guys are still dipping, just a hard habit to break. I keep the sunflower seed companies in business.

Best of luck, you can do it, tobacco is an evil product
 

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Thanks Jack. Small milestones are important, I learned that when putting down the bottle.

You're definitely better off with the gum than the cigs. You can step that down, right?

Side note, I wasn't planning on quitting yesterday. I was going to continue with 3 or so per day for a week and then down to 1, etc. Realized how silly that was, as it just puts you in a state of perpetual withdrawal. Just setting the clock back to zero every time I had one. Decided to dive in and power through 72 hours and take it from there.

The truth that I need to keep telling myself is that I probably haven't really enjoyed a cigarette in many years. Smoking was not giving me pleasure, it was giving me the illusion of pleasure by easing the pain of withdrawal. Smoking to feel normal, not good.
Yeah the Gum comes in 2mg and 4mg. I started with the lower dose and that does the trick. One day will have to go cold turkey off of the gum. But for now using about 10-12 pieces a day and staying off the smokes.
 

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still smoking pot?

My pot consumption has gotten so low over the last couple years anyway. Like once, maybe twice a week - 1 or 2 hits.

I tried to smoke last weekend while I was at 5 cigs per day, and it just made reducing the cigarette intake realllllllllllly hard. Pot definitely makes cigs better for me. So I'm off it all together for a couple months until this gets further into my rearview.
 

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Sounds like you are off to a good start keep it up. I never smoked but dipped for years and that was a tough one to break. My dentist showed me pics of the results of long term dipping and that's what did it. I play in an over 40 wooden bat league and many of those guys are still dipping, just a hard habit to break. I keep the sunflower seed companies in business.

Best of luck, you can do it, tobacco is an evil product

Thanks mountain. Yeah I love sunflower seeds. I'm chewing them in my car now when I'm driving somewhere, in place of smoking. It's helping a lot.
 

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36 hours now, no real cravings yet this morning. Washed all my clothes and bedding yesterday, man it is nice for everything to not smell like an ashtray.

Got to sleep really easily last night. Woke up 3 times to piss though; not sure if it the lack of nicotine is acting as a diuretic or if it's because I was chugging water every time I got a craving yesterday, or both.

Anyway I woke up feeling good. For the first time in a week or so I didn't have the "ok time for a cigarette...oh shit, I can't" moment.
 

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My pot consumption has gotten so low over the last couple years anyway. Like once, maybe twice a week - 1 or 2 hits.

I tried to smoke last weekend while I was at 5 cigs per day, and it just made reducing the cigarette intake realllllllllllly hard. Pot definitely makes cigs better for me. So I'm off it all together for a couple months until this gets further into my rearview.

I'm about to attempt the same after this weekend. Rough, I tell ya...
 

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I've been in detox with heroin addicts. I disagree. Alcohol w/d can kill you, heroin can't.

I'm not talking about the shakes. I'm talking about full-on DTs. Ugh

Anyway, both are nasty, no doubt about it.

And thanks. GL to you if you decide to try.

can you actually die from a lack of alcohol ?
never heard about that before
 

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I have never smoked a complete cig in my entire life.
glad I never picked that up.
But I do dip some
 

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Thanks mountain. Yeah I love sunflower seeds. I'm chewing them in my car now when I'm driving somewhere, in place of smoking. It's helping a lot.

You chew sunflower seeds? Are you one of those that just chew them up and swallow them? I love sunflower seeds. I split open and spit out the shell
 

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You chew sunflower seeds? Are you one of those that just chew them up and swallow them? I love sunflower seeds. I split open and spit out the shell

Same. Put 6-8 in my mouth, keep them in one cheek, crack them open one at a time and eat the seed, put the empty shell in my other cheek.

Spit it all out when they're gone, refill.
 

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Same. Put 6-8 in my mouth, keep them in one cheek, crack them open one at a time and eat the seed, put the empty shell in my other cheek.

Spit it all out when they're gone, refill.

Thats professional status. I just do the 1 seed a million miles an hour. I can wipe out a bag pretty quick.
 

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makes you think maybe its not so bad even tho they are just really lucky to be that age and not have health issues from smoking

Visible health issues.

Tobacco is incredibly lethal to proper cellular reproduction and when smoked the respiratory system disperses it throughout your body. Someone who has been a chronic tobacco user 30, 40 or more years is a walking carcass with a range of skin and other body parts which have not fully reproduced (healed) for many years.

You might notice that older (50, 60 yrs and more) people, especially men who have smoked for decades most often wear full length pants and long sleeved shirts to better conceal their decrepit skin. Most commonly you can see it in their necks, face , hands and wrist areas
 

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Well since you live in Alabama you can get you a can of dip and when the urge gets strong take a dip and it will satisfy your nicotine cravings cause one dip has about the same amount of nicotine as 5 cigs.

I mean don't start a new full blown habit just use that in place of the gum or patches
 

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Visible health issues.

Tobacco is incredibly lethal to proper cellular reproduction and when smoked the respiratory system disperses it throughout your body. Someone who has been a chronic tobacco user 30, 40 or more years is a walking carcass with a range of skin and other body parts which have not fully reproduced (healed) for many years.

You might notice that older (50, 60 yrs and more) people, especially men who have smoked for decades most often wear full length pants and long sleeved shirts to better conceal their decrepit skin. Most commonly you can see it in their necks, face , hands and wrist areas

while i agree this is what is supposed to happen. these guys are in their late 60s and older still digging wells and pouring concrete looking healthy as can be.
 

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Well since you live in Alabama you can get you a can of dip and when the urge gets strong take a dip and it will satisfy your nicotine cravings cause one dip has about the same amount of nicotine as 5 cigs.

I mean don't start a new full blown habit just use that in place of the gum or patches

oh my goodness, No!

Nicotine is not without it's adverse effects, but it is the other core properties of tobacco which are so incredibly toxic to human cellular reproduction. Tobacco ingested orally rots the cells inside your mouth, your gums, your jaw, your throat and by extension your skull and hair
 

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while i agree this is what is supposed to happen. these guys are in their late 60s and older still digging wells and pouring concrete looking healthy as can be.

As mentioned, it's a delusion. Muscular and skeletal portions of the body are less impacted. But if you could see their naked bodies (no homo....just medical peek) in contrast to most men same age who are non-tobacco users you would likely be astonished at the difference in skin condition. It will be drier, any and all cuts will be more scabbed and/or unhealed lesions. The insides of their mouth will be frankly in a decomposing state and most of their internal organs will be smaller than those within non-tobacco users due to decades of inadequate healthy cellular reproduction.
 

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