Gonna try quitting cigarettes (again)

[JasonW]

Gonna try quitting cigarettes (again)

I saw the thread at CT that had the electric cigarette link. I sure hope this does the trick. My wife and I have tried everything, but this seems very hopeful.

I'm tiered of all the smells in the house, yellow fingers (on one hand), the overflowed ashtray in my truck, the smells in my truck, the smells on my cloths......

I could go on for a while more, but I think I'll stop there:(

We ordered the e-cig this morning and should have them early next week. Here's hoping for the best!

[Silvertree]

Me too, I don't smoke in the house, and no ashtray in the truck, but I got a cig pail by the back porch. Keeps the raccoons away anyhow.

Good luck Jason

[JasonW]

This is the link to a US retailer. It's mostly in Europe right now and the chargers won't work in the US. These do.....

http://www.smoking-everywhere.com/

This is awesome it if works. I'll give you my review soon.

[Mike(VA)]

You guys will never quit until you are mentally ready. I smoked for 30 years, set them down 8 years ago, haven't looked back since. No patches, gum, or gimmicks. Any habit is an escape from something. Find out what that something is and deal with it; you'll be mentally ready to quit.

[RidgeWalker]

If I stop smoking I will have to stop drinking coffee. = (

[TulsaRemodeler]

I had to have a physical before shoulder surgery, Dr did a cholesterol check, high!!! From being a smoker he said. Thats not fair, I eat better then most.

[HomerJ]

You guys will never quit until you are mentally ready. I smoked for 30 years, set them down 8 years ago, haven't looked back since. No patches, gum, or gimmicks. Any habit is an escape from something. Find out what that something is and deal with it; you'll be mentally ready to quit.

This is the correct answer.

I gave them up 2 1/2 years ago after having smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years.

Just go cold turkey. It really isn't that hard.

[WarnerConstInc.]

That e-smoke thing looks sweet. Watch out movie theaters.

[JasonW]

Well, we got them today and all I can say is WOW! This is gonna work! I am so freaking happy about it.

I smoke 2 - 3 packs a day and this seems to replace everything that smoking does but no harmful smoke at all. They taste like a cigarette, has a smoke affect from vapor that you actually inhale and exhale.

Basically, I keep the habit, but lose the dangerous side affects. The cartridges cost about $1.25 each and equals a pack of smokes.

Good bye smelly house, smelly cloths, smelly truck, and yellow fingers!:D:D

I'll keep you posted!

[WarriorWithWood]

That's what I was looking for, I'm ordering them this week.

[JasonW]

Get an extra battery with it so you can swap them out. They take about an hour to charge up and give you no warning when they're running low.

Not sure if they have menthol.

[tinner666]

If I stop smoking I will have to stop drinking coffee. = (

I couldn't stand the taste of coffee for about 4 years after I quit. :D

Here's a tip. ( Worked for me AND the wife). I'm anal retentive and stock up on everything. Can't stand to be out of stuff I use.

Anyway, whenever I tried to quit before, the nicotine fits were terrible. Went crazy looking for cigs. One day I decided to try another way.

When I decided to quit last time, I bough a carton, and decided the 3rd pack was going to be the last. The other 7 packs???
I kept one in my pocket. One in each vehicle. One near each ashtray in the house. Everytime I had the urge, I could hold a pack and realize it was THERE!!!!. I could quit quitting at any moment. No nicotine fit because of not even having them around. After a few months, ot a year, I gave those 7 packs away.

After I got married and wife said she had the same problem, I bought her a carton the day she quit. She gave those 10 packs away some months later.

I heard that a few of my old friends tried it and succeeded too.

[Augie Dog]

I feel for you guys.
I have never smoked but I understand that the industry's mission is to make them as addictive as possible. Worse than heroin, I'm told.

Good luck, I'm sure you'll feel better all around if you can kick it.

[Augie Dog]

Thats not completely true. I smoked for about an hour when I was 18.

You see drinking age was 18 and I started going to O'Tooles Bar and Grill in Wappingers Falls NY when I was 16. The owner, Joe, took to me and my best friend.
My friend had gone off to college while I was a senior in HS. He was back in town for the holidays and we were at the bar. He had picked up smoking that fall. Offered me one and I smoked it. Joe was at the end of the bar looking grumpy but at 75 he always did.
A while later I asked for another and was about to light it. The old man came storming down to the other end of the bar where we were. "What the hell is going on here?". I'm sure I looked as though I was about to soil myself. "You don't smoke!"
He grabbed the butt from my mouth and crumpled it up and through it the trash. "Thats enough of that sh!t" and he went back to his stool.

I quit the habit right there, cold turkey.:)

I really liked that old man

[kornerking]

Hey Jason, How's this working for you?

[kevjob]

I smoked cigs for ten years quit cold turkey then 7 years later started again for a year and quit them forever 2 years ago, just have to want to do it, no patch, gum, hypnosis etc.. works without resolve to quit, i hope you quit Jason.

[WarriorWithWood]

Hey Jason, How's this working for you?

they lasted him about a week.:rolleyes3:

[Bodger]

I'm into my 25th hour of no smoking. Not really a new year's resolution, I lit up yesterday at around 9 PM and had real good chest pain.

Probably just the spicy chicken I had for dinner, but scared me shitless nevertheless.

I can think of better things to kill myself with. And besides, American Spirits are up to nearly $7 a pack.

Times a pack a day, that's $2500 a year for a stinking useless deadly habit.

Fuggeddaboutit. They gotta go.

I'd rather live longer and buy guitars. :grin:

[Eieio]

I got a pack that I am finishing off and said the samething.. I need to let these things go.. $7.60 a pack this is crazy add a Redbull to that and its 10 bucks a morning..

300 bucks a month to speed up my demise, this has to be the definition of insanity.


Newports are a plot to kill the black man off I tell ya.

[paulie]

Inhaled a pack of cigars every day for...... hell I don't know but awhile.

I went the drug route. I forget what it was called, I think the wife (she's a nurse) said it was also used for depression but REALLY took the edge off and was not that bad while quitting. She just informed me it was Wellbutrin.

Still miss lighting up while I'm fishing but could care less about the habit anymore.

[Leo G]

Chantix seems to be a pretty good way to quit, high success rate.

I smoked my first cigarette when I was 6, asked Dad if I could try it, he said sure, here ya go. Nastiest thing ever for a 6 yo. Never touched them since.

I think all 6 year olds should have a good drag off a butt. Should reduce start-ups pretty good.

[paulie]

I don't know Leo, might not work for everyone.

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[Leo G]

I saw that vid a while ago. That kid is a smoking fiend

[Bodger]

I tried Wellbutrin when I was in the no-smoke program over at the the VA. That crap made me agitated as hell, I couldn't deal with it and I still smoked too.

Oddly enough, this is my second morning in a row of not smoking, and I can't stand the taste of coffee. Which is probably a good thing, since coffee makes me crave a ciggie.

I suppose I could give up the booze too and lead the clean life.:grin:

[Blue]

I suppose I could give up the booze too and lead the clean life.:grin:

You may go into complete cardiac shutdown. :laugh3:

[Leo G]

What's next, no red meat or real sugar. You are still gonna die. Might as well die happy.

[Bodger]

I'm fine managing the urges. Really. Not a problem.


Except.......


















I WANT TO KILL SOMETHING NOW!!!

[kornerking]

Go ahead,just do it cleanly.

[Bodger]

Go ahead,just do it cleanly.



800 meter head shot ought to do it. :mad2:

[AndyGump]

800 meters?

Carlos Hathcock could do that fo' sho'.

Andy.

[Bodger]

800 meters?

Carlos Hathcock could do that fo' sho'.

Andy.

Without a doubt, the finest sniper this country has ever produced. He once mounted a Unertl scope on a Browning .50 cal M2 machine gun using a bracket he designed. His mounting allowed for precise traversing and elevation sighting of the weapon and made it accurate to out to 2500 yards when fired as single shot.

Carlos was bad ass.
On one of his confirmed kills of an enemy sniper, he zeroed in and fired on a flash of light he assumed was the enemy sniper's scope. He was correct, the round went through the scope tube and into the sniper's eye.

[AndyGump]

He was the best of the best by far. I have friend that graduated the Marine sniper school, he got a lot of history about Mr. Hathcock.
I understand that Hathcock was the main developer of the present of the 'single purpose' sniper rifle the Corp uses now.

Andy.

[Taylordhome]

I ordered the V2 Cigs and they are working so well for me...and the menthol actually tastes better than menthol. It just kinda seems like you are hitting off a one hitter sometimes, but I am getting used to it. They are made of metal, but man I don't cough any more or have a hard time hauling around all my tools
My partner Jon is actually put in his order after trying mine...I got him the delux pack, so he has two batteries, I find I have to charge mine twice a day...

[asprice84]

Great story (about the snipers eye) but Mythbusters could not replicate it at 20 yards so...

Good luck with the electric death stick. I hear they are the rat's pajamas.

[Bodger]

Great story (about the snipers eye) but Mythbusters could not replicate it at 20 yards so...

Good luck with the electric death stick. I hear they are the rat's pajamas.

Yeah, it's been done to death in movies as well, like Saving Private Ryan. The Marine Corps claims to have photos of the Hathcock scope shot.

I saw the Mythbusters thing. The first place they screwed up was shooting at variable power scopes. These have more lenses than a 6" Russian PU scope and I'm not surprised in the least that they never got a bullet all the way down the tube.

Also, if I recall, they weren't using a FMJ round in the test, which perplexed me at the time because Hathcock would surely have used that type of ammo for his shot.

[Dusty]

I ordered the V2 Cigs and they are working so well for me...and the menthol actually tastes better than menthol. It just kinda seems like you are hitting off a one hitter sometimes, but I am getting used to it. They are made of metal, but man I don't cough any more or have a hard time hauling around all my tools
My partner Jon is actually put in his order after trying mine...I got him the delux pack, so he has two batteries, I find I have to charge mine twice a day...

I see governments are now aiming at restricting these smokeless cigarette machines. Sure wish they would just leave us alone.

[Bodger]

I see governments are now aiming at restricting these smokeless cigarette machines. Sure wish they would just leave us alone.


They'll like them just fine once they've figured out how to tax them like a tobacco product. That's probably what these rumblings about restrictions are all about anyway. Make the manufacturers think they'll get banned if they don't pay up.

Gawdamn goverment is getting to be worse than the mafia.

[naptownCr]

If you're over 50 smoke alot, drink alot, overweight and out of shape, don't make the mistake of telling your wife you have chest pains on New Year's day.
On the upside after a day and night in the hospital being poked, nuked woken up every 15 minutes for some bulls$%& Having to consult with every passing doctor that came through the emergency department so they could each bill me for $200 I came out with a clean bill of health and a non smoker for now anyway.

[Bodger]

If you're over 50 smoke alot, drink alot, overweight and out of shape, don't make the mistake of telling your wife you have chest pains on New Year's day.
On the upside after a day and night in the hospital being poked, nuked woken up every 15 minutes for some bulls$%& Having to consult with every passing doctor that came through the emergency department so they could each bill me for $200 I came out with a clean bill of health and a non smoker for now anyway.


Damn Nap, that's my worst nightmare. I would rather sit on a nest of black ants and stand up in a firefight than be in that hospital bed again with the tubes and the wires and the $40 aspirins.

Hope you're okay, I'm so OCD and hypochondriacal about my heart I think I'm dying of 50 heart attacks a month. It's a known syndrome, reliving a heart attack, you get damn near every symptom but it isn't really happening. Mouth dry, heart rate about 160, can't breathe.

I relapsed on the quitting cigs last night. Somebody oughta just shoot my weak ass.

Coffee tastes good again though. :grin:
Take it easy Nap.

[Bodger]

Meanwhile, does anyone know if Jason was successful in quitting and if the electro-cig did the trick?

[JasonW]

Meanwhile, does anyone know if Jason was successful in quitting and if the electro-cig did the trick?

It worked really well for me for about 2 weeks. Came home one weekend and the wife was smoking in the house again and I just gave up.

I'm using it again and having good luck with it so far. I joined a quit help program and I'm cutting down first, then at a certain point, I'll quit completely. Was a 3 pack per day smoker for the last 2 years and they suggested I cut down heavily before going cold turkey. I've tried a lot of different ways in the past, hopefully this will work. Both me and my wife are trying to kick the habit.

Having some relapse today; we had to put our dog down this morning.:thumbsdown:

[Bodger]

It worked really well for me for about 2 weeks. Came home one weekend and the wife was smoking in the house again and I just gave up.

I'm using it again and having good luck with it so far. I joined a quit help program and I'm cutting down first, then at a certain point, I'll quit completely. Was a 3 pack per day smoker for the last 2 years and they suggested I cut down heavily before going cold turkey. I've tried a lot of different ways in the past, hopefully this will work. Both me and my wife are trying to kick the habit.

Having some relapse today; we had to put our dog down this morning.:thumbsdown:

Damn Jason. Sorry to hear about your dog. At least you had him through the holidays.

[Taylordhome]

Yeah, sorry about the woofie! I miss mine, they are back home while I am in Chicago working...My Houndo is like 16 now...that is pretty old for a 90 lb lap dog.

The E cigs are working for me. I got mine from V2 Cigs.

Here's a coupon code...15% off...http://www.v2cigs.com discount code 50066

[Bodger]

Today is day three, smoke free. No cigarettes or tobacco products of any kind.

Using some nicotine patches I got from the VA last year. Not too hard so far.

[kornerking]

How bout women?

[Leo G]

He smokes women?

[kevjob]

smoke some green it will help with urges!! Uh thats what I am told anyway..:laugh3:

[Bodger]

It's weird, I quit smoking and now I'm coughing like hell, something I rarely did even when I smoked. Maybe everything is sloughing off and breaking up in my lungs.
Or I waited too long to quit and now it's too late. :grin:

[kornerking]

If it's over no sense starting up again. Good for you Bodger.

How did you come up with the name Bodger any way. Better than codger or dodger.

[Tommy]

Today is day three, smoke free. No cigarettes or tobacco products of any kind.

Using some nicotine patches I got from the VA last year. Not too hard so far.
:2thumbsup::2thumbsup:

It's weird, I quit smoking and now I'm coughing like hell, something I rarely did even when I smoked. Maybe everything is sloughing off and breaking up in my lungs.
Or I waited too long to quit and now it's too late. :grin:
When my wife quit, the Dr told her it was part of the healing process, and could last anywhere from a few days to a couple months.

[Bodger]

If it's over no sense starting up again. Good for you Bodger.

How did you come up with the name Bodger any way. Better than codger or dodger.

Bodging is a traditional wood-turning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to create cylindrical wooden woodturning via a traditional wooden-bed, polelathe, most commonly chair legs and stretcher poles, historically for the Windsor chair manufacturing industry.


The origins of the term are obscure. It may be a folk extension of beech or birch+suffix -er- one who works or is involved with beech or birch- common woods employed by the bodger. Another theory is that bodges, defined as rough sacks of corn, closely resembled packages of finished goods the bodgers carried when they left the forest or workshop. Yet another theory is that bodger was a corruption of badger, as similarly to the behaviour of a badger, the bodger dwelt in the woods and seldom emerged until evenings.[1]


The bodger's equipment was so easy to move and set up that it was easier to go to the timber and work it there than to transport it to a workshop. The completed chair legs were sold to furniture factories to be married with other chair parts made in the workshop.[2]

Common bodger's or bodging tools included:

* the polelathe and a variety of chisels, and likely sharpening stones or grinding wheel for honing the rapidly blunted tools (which are blunted far more rapidly than if used to shape seasoned wood stock- for turning and finishing the chair leg or stretcher pole (the horizontal structural member joining the chair-legs- to prevent them splaying
* the spokeshave-like drawknife: for crudely rounding billets of green wood to be intermediately finished for the wood-turner. This is because "green" wood is far easier to slice near-finished to shape with the grain than to cut against the grain as per turning on the lathe.
* trestle or saw-horse (likely fabricated in the forest as required)
* a coarse saw: for cutting fallen or newly felled wood to length
* axes and adzes: for hewing wood into rough billets
* a shave horse to firmly hold the wooden billets for using the drawknife

[edit] Accommodation

A bodger commonly camped in the open woods in a "bodger's hovel" or basic "lean-to"-type shelter constructed of forest-floor lengths suitable for use as poles lashed, likely with twine, together to form a simple triangular frame for water-proof thatch roof. The "sides" of the shelter may have been enclosed in wicker or wattled manner to keep out driving rain, animals, etc.[3][4]

[kornerking]

You were a hippie ?

1960's hippies were different then the ones portrayed today.

[Bodger]

I was a hippie for a while after I got outta the USAF. But I wasn't very good at it. Mostly I slipped into being a long haired gun toting redneck with a blue collar Teamster job, confused by all that went on around me except for booze, women and guns.

Meanwhile brothers, I have gained SIX FREAKING POUNDS in three days of not smoking. I say SIX pounds.

I suppose the fact that I am eating everything in sight might have something to do with it. I'm placating my ciggie deprivation with copious amounts of food, including Haagen Daz milkshakes that I am concocting in the blender several times a day.

I'm at 192 and holding, on a 5'11" frame, that ain't good my people.

[kornerking]

You got nothin to worry bout. 201 on a 5'6".

[Leo G]

I was a hippie for a while after I got outta the USAF. But I wasn't very good at it. Mostly I slipped into being a long haired gun toting redneck with a blue collar Teamster job, confused by all that went on around me except for booze, women and guns.

Meanwhile brothers, I have gained SIX FREAKING POUNDS in three days of not smoking. I say SIX pounds.

I suppose the fact that I am eating everything in sight might have something to do with it. I'm placating my ciggie deprivation with copious amounts of food, including Haagen Daz milkshakes that I am concocting in the blender several times a day.

I'm at 192 and holding, on a 5'11" frame, that ain't good my people.

You got nothin to worry bout. 201 on a 5'6".

190 on a 5'9 body. Damn Pete you are in shape

Round is a shape, right?

[Eieio]

I am going to smoke a cigarette and think about this for awhile..

[Bodger]

I am going to smoke a cigarette and think about this for awhile..


AAAAAHHHHRRRRGGGGHHH...you bastard!!

[Leo G]

Have another Cheese Cake Bodger.

[Eieio]

Bodger this is my last one then I am going to join you..

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[Leo G]

Damn, that's ugly from that angle

[Eieio]

Its ugly from any angle..

[Bodger]

Git some Rory.

I tell ya', at $7 a pack for my American Spirits, I'm saving over $200 a month, or $2400 a year. Not to mention the better health.

I've been smoking since 1971. Even though smokes were a lot cheaper back then, if I had saved that money instead of spending it on smokes, I'll bet I'd have a fat six figures in the bank right now.

[Leo G]

You'd just have more ammo kicking around and you know it

[Bodger]

You'd just have more ammo kicking around and you know it


Sad but true. :grin:

[J F]

Its ugly from any angle..

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv135/Jay123_bucket/Smileys/2da89756.gif

I forgot you were a brotha Rory, it has been awhile. http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv135/Jay123_bucket/Smileys/2da89756.gif

[framer55]

Git some Rory.

I tell ya', at $7 a pack for my American Spirits, I'm saving over $200 a month, or $2400 a year. Not to mention the better health.

I've been smoking since 1971. Even though smokes were a lot cheaper back then, if I had saved that money instead of spending it on smokes, I'll bet I'd have a fat six figures in the bank right now.




I just quit buying my Winston's. $9.25/pack with $4.16 of that state tax. NYS will now go broke as I am not paying my share.

2 packs a day is so hard to stop....

Wonder how long I can quit this time???

Love the nicotine lozenges though, except the gas...:grin:

[Leo G]

When you fart does a puff of smoke come out :laugh3:

[Bodger]

I just quit buying my Winston's. $9.25/pack with $4.16 of that state tax. NYS will now go broke as I am not paying my share.

2 packs a day is so hard to stop....

Wonder how long I can quit this time???

Love the nicotine lozenges though, except the gas...:grin:


CA is headed that direction as well, upping taxes on booze and smokes.
My dad smoked Winstons and I can remember when they were 25 cents a pack down at the Sohio station on the corner.

Hell, back in the eighties I was only paying $1.00 a pack for Marlboro reds in the hard pack.

Filthy expensive habit.

And now, a lot of these municipalities are not allowing smoking anywhere on the street or sidewalk. I was in Burbank a while back and there were signs everywhere "No Smoking, $100 Fine for smoking in public"

I guess if you're in your car or your own house you're okay, but not out and about on foot.

[Blue]

12 days not a drop of alchohol. No reason, just nothing in the house and have been busy at work and after work.

I'm at that age where most of my buddies are graduating kids from highschool. Have a couple parties to go to next two weekends, so not to worry, will be back off the wagon.

On a side note I feel sooooo much better and wake up at 5 ready to conquer. That is the down side.

[Bodger]

I've been off the booze lately as well. And coffee. Both of those make me want to smoke. Well, I stopped with the booze before I went off the smokes. But it was clear to me right away that I wasn't going to make it through a cup of coffee without a smoke so that had to get pole-axed too.


I'm turning into a Mormon over here. I suppose I'll have to stop shooting heroin and snorting coke pretty soon too. Where will I be without my morning speedball?:grin:

[Blue]

I've been off the booze lately as well. And coffee. Both of those make me want to smoke. Well, I stopped with the booze before I went off the smokes. But it was clear to me right away that I wasn't going to make it through a cup of coffee without a smoke so that had to get pole-axed too.


I'm turning into a Mormon over here. I suppose I'll have to stop shooting heroin and snorting coke pretty soon too. Where will I be without my morning speedball?:grin:

Once you cut the cough syrup then lookout its over!!

[Bodger]

Once you cut the cough syrup then lookout its over!!

Never. Robitussin and warm club soda is my afternoon toddy.