Maybe the HTFU part should come into play before one lights up his/her first cigarette.

I understand that nicotine is highly addictive and that it can be nearly impossible to quit once one is addicted. What I can't understand, however, is why someone would fire up the first cigarette to begin with given that, post 1950's, these facts are public knowledge. :twitchy:

1. you must be a very incurious sockpuppet.

2. your dates are wrong.

IQ > curiosity

eh...im a believer in "relapse" and a gradual quitting process. when i "quit" i still had to smoke when i was drinking...now that's done with also. it is extremely impressive to quit cold turkey. but its not wrong to put yourself on a "come down" plan. go from a pack a day...to 5 a day....1 a day...1 a week. then have your last hurrah with a drink and never look back.

cigarettes would be freeking awesome without the whole killing yourself part.

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I've haven't smoked in 10 months....after 30 years of smoking...I cut down to about 4 a day, then I went on Chantix for 2 months and now I'm free.....I still think about every single day.

We are all addicts.

I quit about 30 years ago because a young lady who I wanted to impress told me I didn't have the will power to do it. I bet her a steak dinner. I won, she lost, we ended up getting married, and still are.

^awesome story

i smoke occasionally when i go clubbing or out with friends who smoke. But I never buy my own, and this means I can't get addicted.

This is just like me and my coke.

I do have to go clubbing more than I like, though.

I usually snus after a ride. I'm still contemplating whether or not I should order a roll of cans online of the real swedish snus.

I tried the camel snus. It was f'ing terrible. I'd rather have skoal berry pouches! :roflmao2:

I haven't dipped in 2 months and miss it something awful.

Everyone loves a good nicotine buzz... Do a lot of pros dip instead of smoke for their fix? I've been wondering about that for a while.

I go with Frost Camel Snus. Works for me. I'm not a fan of dip, though it does give you a great buzz :D

As for the pros, I feel that snus would be a lot easier to deal with while riding than dip.

I smoked Nat Shermans and Dunhills for a few years, but felt if I was going to start cutting weight and start cycling I need to stop so I did. Stopped drinking (just water now), smoking, and watching tv.

I smoked cigs and cigars,but mostly I was a pipe smoker. I quit cold turkey on Valentine's Day 1984. Overcoming the nicotine addiction was bad, but overcoming all the pipe smoking rituals was even worse.

Even after all of these years I still occasionally have a dream about smoking and then I have this horrible dread that I have to quit all over again.

"Do or not do. There is no 'try'"
--Yoda

Seriously. That's the secret. If you are "trying", you have already accepted failure. Commit to it.

Good luck with that.

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This is me smoking before a ride. What's the problem?

Goose you can smoke with me any time.

I hate the smell of all cigarettes except cloves.

Same here. I substituted with Altoids and then downgraded to Tic Tac. I also gave up coffee at the same time. Once the cigarette-coffee relationship had ended, I added coffee back into my routine. Bought myself lots of rewards for time without cigarettes, one day, one week, one month, etc. At almost $10 a pack, and a pack or so a day, you can buy a lot of good rewards. Most important is that I had reached the point where I wanted to quit. If you still want to smoke nothing is going to stop that. Will power will only take you so far.

Subby, is that jealousy I sense in your post?

Does your wife know about your tendencies?

The pouches are for girls and girly-boys, Grov Lös is where it's at ;-)

You know all of your smoking friends hate you for this right? Nothing as bad as a part time smoker who scrounges smokes.

The smell doesn't work for me either. I can't separate or differentiate the smoke smell from the ash tray smell.