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Cadillac Forums: So I'm trying to quit the habit....
There's nothing better than having a Marb with coffee in the morning. I've been smoking for about 2 and a half years, half pack a day. I've tried quitting like four times already, for me the patch doesn't work for jack shit. But yea... I should really quit or else one day I'll wake up and realize I've been smoking for 20 years.
The worst part of my having smoked and quit is that I have developed the habit of looking at a smoker, any smoker, and saying to myself; what a f*****g idiot. Illogical prejudice at its worst.
I've been smoking for about 2 and a half years, half pack a day. I've tried quitting like four times already, for me the patch doesn't work for jack shit. But yea... I should really quit or else one day I'll wake up and realize I've been smoking for 20 years.
Exactly... I am by no means try insinuate that you are no less addicted to them than I or anyone else, because it really does come at you quick. But if you are seriously committed to the idea of quitting then now is the time to do it, because honestly... had I wanted to stop at the age of 17, it would have been so much easier to do so for two reasons in particular... First, while you are indeed addicted to them, you've yet to form a truly, deeply, inherently ingrained habit... that is to say you can look back at the vast majority of your life where the thought of going any appreciable length of time without a cigarette was natural. Second, you are still so young and your body is still so resilient (assuming you're in good health, which I wish you all the best of) that you'll be able to bounce back in no time at all.
Believe me... I don't want to come across as even the slightest bit self-righteous or hypocritical... please just take this as friendly, good-willed advice wrought from experience. If you have honestly tried four times to quit all to no avail... then my friend, you really don't want to quit. I am not, under any circumstances trying to question your sentiment nor your sincerity, you may "want" to quit or you may know you "should" quit... but if for nothing else than at a purely subconscious level - you don't see the need to quit.
And I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that or that somehow you are a bad person for it. I "wanted" to quit countless times and I always knew that I should quit... but deep down inside I didn't want to quit because I didn't really see the need to do so. The only difference with me was that I never tried quitting because I knew I wanted to keep smoking. And that's the honest to goodness truth... I always knew that I was young... that I had plenty of viable years left to continue smoking before it would become absolutely necessary to quit so then what would have been the point even trying and then before I knew it - two decades flew by.
The only reason I'm doing so now is because deep down inside, on every level, within the innermost fiber of my being I now see and feel the need to quit. There is no more time, I now have no clue exactly how much longer I will remain in as good of health as I am now... I now realize that it's now or never... It's not that I've suddenly realized the dangers and adverse health effects of smoking or that science has now come up with even more evidence to support such. Nothing has changed, except for deep inside of me.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you smoking is bad and that you should stop. If you like it and you feel you have many more years that you want to do so... then smoke 'em if you got 'em! I guess all I'm saying is you're never going to quit as long as at least part of you wants to keep smoking.. and there's nothing wrong with that! It's your body, you're an intelligent young man, you know the possible consequences and you're free to go about your business as you like. Don't ever try to quit because you "think" you should or because others want you to... only try to quit if you really (really) want to, otherwise it's futile. Bottom line is you'll quit when you really want to and you'll only want to after you really see the need to.
The only thing I can tell you for sure is that you're at the best time in your life to actually do so... it'll only get harder from here my friend.
Sorry for the diatribe... but as you can see it's 4am and I still can't get to sleep...
I hate smoking and smokers for a few reasons...not individually, but the act of smoking turns most people to inconsiderate bastards. I can't tell you how many times people have lit up in my car without asking or, almost as bad, lit up in their own car when I was riding. Yea, its their car and they should have the right to do what they want in it but I've always thought that was pretty disrespectful to do with a non-smoker in the car. Not as bad as actively blowing smoke in my face, but pretty danged close. I hate, despise and rue cigarette butts on the ground. At my old house, when I had social gatherings quite frequently, I spent two or three hours a week picking up cigarette butts. Whether or not there were cans placed strategically around the yard, people would just, out of habit, flick them away into the bushes or on the ground or street or curb. It got so bad that I quite allowing visitors over who smoked unless they promised to go to the street and stand three houses away before they lit up. Extreme, I know, but I was sick of cleaning up after them.
Also, being a non smoker, when friends who do smoke come over and they go outside to smoke on the front porch, then come back inside and sit on my rather nice, moderately expensive and usually well cleaned couches, the smell remains. It fawking stinks and they don't even notice it and get pissy with me whenever I mention it. I don't go and piss on their couch when I'm at their house, they shouldn't leave funny and offensive smells on my couch when they come over. My gf smokes cloves. When we go out it kind of sucks because when she goes outside for her smoke, I either get left behind alone at the bar or table or wherever we happen to be or I go with her and stand out in the rain and get nothing from it except a face full of smoke from all the other smokers. Also crappy.
Anyways, besides all that, and I'm all for each and every one of you quitting, but it sure as hell doesn't sound like any of you really WANT to. Each one of you says "I love it, it feels so good, its the best part of my day..." If you enjoy it THAT much, why quite? Health reasons aside, why take the things that you love most out of your life? I tend to think that if you want to quit enough to make it easy for you, you wouldn't be saying how great it is to keep doing it...
The best part of quitting was getting my senses back. Your senses of taste and smell are thoroughly intertwined but in smokers they both disappear. A couple of weeks into cold turkey and Coca-Cola tastes as good as it did when your were a kid. All of a sudden your GFs cooking starts to taste like MOM's home cooking because your taste buds and nose have come back to life. Coffee, flowers, the perfume on that babe you see in the elevator all return and bring back memories you didn't know you still had. Smoking takes away far more than it could ever give you but you''ll never know as long as you have your head stuck in a spittoon.
Oh no my friend... here in the land of Jersey it's closer to six bucks a pack (unless I'm ever in DE, then it's closer to $3)... So I'll get that HD set even quicker.
I thought about maybe trying to kick the coffee as well, but I figured that would just be suicide... or would it be homicide... lol.
Oh, you don't want to quit the coffee too...you WILL go nuts (or just pass out from the lack of stimulants).
And OMG -- forget the HDTV -- at $9/day on avg -- you're in car payment territory!
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AMGoff I fully agree with what you're saying and you're not the first person to offer that same advice. Its true, you'll never quit unless you actually WANT to quit.
