Actually, I need to try Snus on a ride sometime....

I've tried to quit twice this year. How did you guys quit?

it took me maybe half a dozen tries to finally quit smoking for good... they would always tempt me after i quit, until i finally made it stick, now i have absolutely no desire to smoke, i think it's the multiple efforts and failures that made it possible to get rid of the desire.

yeah, i know, my 16 year old brother was bent on entering this race and signed me up in the process of signing himself up. sneaky little ba5tard.

intimidate their rivals?

That's pretty much my experience as well. I "tried" to quit several times. This time seems to be for good however. Haven't cheated at all and pretty much am over the whole thing.

I'm going to be pissed when they come out with a cure for lung cancer though, thinking of all those cigarettes I could have smoked in the meantime!

When do you have your first cigarette of the day?

like 10m after i wake up :\

you're patient.

I used up about a third of a can on my 300k on friday. Great stuff indeed.

I stopped smoking.

And no, you can't 'just have one' in the bar three months later. Remember that. It's the first cigarette that makes you start smoking again. That is the key thing to wrap your head around.

this.

You're right about that.
I was able to quite for about 2 weeks each time. But started up again with "hey bro can i bum a cig?" to people at work. The nicotine aids (i used the lozenges) helped me not need to smoke, but physically i still craved that "bite" of a cig and would want one every 4 hours.

Probably the only solution is to just HTFU

Who remembers, the 80's Cannon EOS commercial with Andre Agassi ???

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What worked for me was quit cold turkey. No nicotine substitutes. Plain chewing gum. I tried nicotine substitutes before but I caved. My wife bought this for me on the one year anniversary.



It was more than covered by the what I was spending on smokes. As I said in my earlier post, I still miss it sometimes.

Others I know have sworn by Allen Carr's books.

Smoked for 20 years. Tried to quit cold turkey and almost decided to drive my truck into a freeway abutment. Got some Skoal and put in a pinch for a couple months, then it was a lot easier to stop that.
That was in 1987, now I am allergic to tobacco smoke and it gives me headaches, makes my eyes and nose swell shut, and causes fluid in my lungs.

my ex gave me his book. unreadable.

My ex gave me the book - I guess it helped me give her up

Ex what? A new piece of the puzzle I'm trying to put together of you.
I knew about the smoking but I never knew about any females.

Well, one thing that would work would be to smoke a Chillum before the race!
Bom Shiva!!!
Shiva Power!

$5 a pack? Where do you live? It's more like $10 a pack here, thanks to 'Mike the Mayor.'

1. If you are going to smoke, the least you could do is understand that you are throwing money at your government for things like kindergarten, public transportation, science, etc. If you smoke you are a patriot! A slowly withering, flag toting PATRIOT, sir! Now keep puffing while my kid learns about colors and how not to end up like you.
2.Smoke rollies. Youll pay less tax, get more flavor and nicotine buzz, and youll look like a badass all the time forever. Bali Shag, anything by Peter Stokkebye, etc. is good.
3. I quit smoking before I turned 18, because I knew if I didnt quit before I could walk into a store and buy smokes like anything else, I WOULD NEVER QUIT.

Good for him. It ought to be $50 a pack. If people are too stupid to avoid ingesting dangerous, highly-addictive substances to begin with the least we can do is make them pay out the wazoo to do it.

BTW - I said $5 a pack went to the manufacturer.

That's it. Don't mark it on the calender. Don't talk about it. Just HTFU and stop.

fixed