Not gonna smoke... right now...

[Grrr]

This is day number two with no tobacco. "Laying off", I am, 'cause the concept of "quitting" "forever" scares the shite out of me.

Sooooo - please tell this very very new k00k something about the effects of smoking one thing or another.

Logic would suggest that my endurance and breath-holding ability will only be helped out by getting away from this LONG-time habit.

(Aaaaw shove it - the antilogic don't care, it just wants what it wants right now. Rawr!)

So I post this hoping there will be some backup.
Also sorta fearing that the ancient grom might get taunted with "hey, you don't have to completely quit or anything like that, it's not that bad" !?!??
Not that I'd mind hearing some great rationalizations so I could go right out and -
Wait, wait. Um. Bad idea. I think.
Yeah, not good.

I need to lay off everything for a bit. Maybe eight or nine bits. I dunno.

It would be great to partake in certain kinds of burning vegetable matter occasionally... but I've never had a good working relationship with that O-word.

Drat.
Aaaargh.

((deep breath))

((and... another deep breath))


Okay, I'm gonna head toward the beach now.
With my gum.
(dang it)


Have a healthy, hearty day out there y'all.

<grrr>

[Big Man]

I gave up 2 1/2 years ago and don't regret it one little bit. I breathe easier, I'm not constantly coughing my lungs up, I feel more than 100% healthier than when I was smoking. More importantly I know there's a higher chance of being around to see my son catch his first wave.

Other side effects of giving up?

I don't snore anymore, I don't have a problem with the UK wide ban on smoking in public places, me, my hair, and my clothes smell of the fragrances I choose to use, not of stale smoke which, now I;ve given up smoking, I realise is actually a hideous smell that I couldnt notice before. Food tastes better, cos my tastebuds arenlt covered in a crappy smokey tarry mess.

You can do it, it only takes a bit of willpower and the DESIRE to give up, thats the most important part. you truly have to WANT to quit, half measures won't work. give it your all and in a week or 2 you won;t really even notice the cravings.

[Stone Fox]

dude, I feel your pain man, I'm still struggling with the nicotine dragon.

Dunno about you, but it helps me if I stay away from the booze. And the exercise (especially surf) keeps my mind off it.

[Hang11]

Hear you there mate. I've been struggling to quit, just read that book by Alan Carr, which is good, but had a stressful morning and lit up

Pisses me off that it's so hard.

[Johno]

Stay stang man, i ve quite for 3 weeks found it hard after not having one for a day i was pulling my hair out surching my flat for fags! it got that bad i was looking in the bin for fag stumps (er I am sick) thats when I thought to myself "what am i doing" so i sent myself to bed.

still havent had one so with the money I have saved going to buy myself a new board, stay strong and set your self a goal
I feel much better for not smoking

And one tip stay away from the herbal stuf as well coz that just gets you back on the nicotine

[Dr Rev]

keep with it, you will feel the benefits soon !!

[^*^BATMAN^*^]

Bennifits of not doing it? Well Big Man said it very well. Quality of life overall improves. Things like aerobic fitness and VO2 max will come up easier. Making it so so much easier to paddle out back. Or paddle your way out of the inside.

[Grrr]

Thanks to all...

I know full well how annoying threads like this can be (thus, the direct title - at least the topic is ID'd and can be easily avoided)...
Maybe the least I can do, with the emphasis right there on "least", is try to inject a little humor here as my neuroreceptors turn on each other in some kind of cannibalistic inner equivalent of a ganja resin-scraping frenzy.

This new big deal - the key motivation that's resulted in me being stretched taut with these exquisite Day 3 cravings - is this aquatic pursuit.
Efforts to make the way I'm feeling all _your_ fault will continue...

(I don't drink or toke either.
hey call me MIStah Fun.)

(This was my last flat-out vice, dang it.
I -owned- that disgusting stench. This here's the deep South. Hey, it may not even be legal here for me to ride a motorcycle in public without something, uh, hanging out of my... uh...)

A little more and I'll get off your nerves.
I don't know about "really wanting to quit". If my brain was working correctly I bet I'd understand what that means.
Smoking was still often quite great - such as after running or working out, weirdly - but I finally came to understand it felt "great" largely because I was constantly re-dosing myself... with whatever brain chemicals were getting "low" and nudging me to light up the next smoke.

What I do know is that I really want some other things more... than a smoke (which = "a pack", realistically, which really = 2 or 3 packs. The past showed I can't reward myself with "just one".)

And so on.
Aw, this gets thoroughly tedious. I'm not gonna log in here and whinge daily about this.
Thanks for reals y'all. I believe you. It helps to read, again, that somebody else found this antsy super-frustration to be "worth it" in the end.
Also a relief to be reminded that I'm not the only one wrestling with this, whether "under" or "on top".


Young turks - yeah, buck, such as you frickin' dynamos who can get away with savage excess all night long and still ride 'em hard in the morning - do what you've decided to do with zeal, I guess... before your tissues and organs catch on to that pesky cause-and-effect thang.

(wow, that sounded Dad-like)

[drowningbitbybit]

a little humor here as my neuroreceptors turn on each other in some kind of cannibalistic inner equivalent of a ganja resin-scraping frenzy.
....
I'm not gonna log in here and whinge daily about this.

Feel free to whinge daily if you can keep on coming up with sentences like that

[Grrr]

"I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are."

- Lily Tomlin

[thrisiakaye]

Smoking isn't really good for one's health

[Bewilderbeast]

Smoking isn't really good for one's health

Well done you!

Just in case none of us had got that bit!

[CheeZee]

"I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are."

- Lily Tomlin

...lmfao ... what a pile ! ... and thats coming from me the Prince of psycho babble

What Lily meant to write was.... " I worry that drugs have forced my egotastic personality to believe that i am more creative than i actually am " .

" We can never be more creative that we actually are.. drugs have no influence on creativity.. only ego" ...CheeZee 07

[Babooze]

Hang in there Brother! I quit a month and a half ago. The best thing I ever did for myself. It isnt easy but it is worth it.

[isaluteyou]

" We can never be more creative that we actually are.. drugs have no influence on creativity.. only ego" ...CheeZee 07

Cheezee the philosopher sounds good though

[CheeZee]

Cheezee the philosopher sounds good though

.. do they get paid well ?!! ... i'd like to think of meself as one of the philosophers that are babbling on the street corner in Life of Brian.. you know the bit where Brian falls from the balcony onto a philosopher ?!..

the one thing that i did take from philosophy was ... if you ever hear the words " you think too much ... then you can be sure that that person does not think enough "

[Grrr]

Yah, well. Thanks. I, uh, er, dodged this thread for awhile 'cause my quitting was off-again. I'm already a total, spontaneous manic wreck from actually having a board to stick in water and "learn" on (got my first board two weeks ago today). It's absolutely bizarre how choked up I'm getting over this sometimes, oh boy oh boy oh boy, etc. etc.
Sheesh.

And then, of course, not only are most of the surfers I already know also smokers, but most of the ones I've met this week are too. (Well, there were reasons I felt at home in the southern US.)
My whole new motivation for giving up tobacco is feeling a bit undermined here. "Oh good, these experienced surfers smoke too" / "Oh crap, these experienced surfers smoke too".

So my local rabid-antismoking organization is trying to nudge me into their online cessation program - as, for the first time, I'm embarrassed enough to call about classes / group support.

I dunno. Try, try again, I suppose... (Too old to look cool anymore, anyway)
(Or maybe that's one of the little side effects I was looking for, from surfing)


Aw, now, I'm fairly sure Lily was joshing...


/such a freakin' catch, here

[Luke]

Cheezee the philosopher sounds good though

.. do they get paid well ?!! ... i'd like to think of meself as one of the philosophers that are babbling on the street corner in Life of Brian.. you know the bit where Brian falls from the balcony onto a philosopher ?!..

the one thing that i did take from philosophy was ... if you ever hear the words " you think too much ... then you can be sure that that person does not think enough "

Yeah man, you are!...i'd listen.

I have also been compared to a certain monty python character...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA

can't understand why?

[CheeZee]

lol.. class

i think the world would be a better place, if we all were a Monty Python character

[IDynamite]

want some inspiration?

Tabocco companies eat babies

You surf better when you don't have nicotine in your blood-its science.

white teeth are chick magnets

all the money you could spend on cigarettes will get you a new board in about a week

BAM! go for it brah!