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This Sucks!
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Sean,
Chew is better than smoking. doing the gum better for you than chew. You are headed in the right direction.
I f I remember, once the nicotine is completely no longer being "intaken", the nicotine is gone from your body in about 72 hours....then what you have left is the habits associated with nicotine intake. "All you need to do" is change those habits. That is a tough part of the process but you CAN do it.
I had occasional cravings for "a smoke" for a few years but fortunately the cravings tapered off to nothing. Now I once in a while get called "one of those durn ex-smokers". I can live with that!
Congratulations for so far. Good wishes for each day going forward!
Chew is better than smoking. doing the gum better for you than chew. You are headed in the right direction.
I f I remember, once the nicotine is completely no longer being "intaken", the nicotine is gone from your body in about 72 hours....then what you have left is the habits associated with nicotine intake. "All you need to do" is change those habits. That is a tough part of the process but you CAN do it.
I had occasional cravings for "a smoke" for a few years but fortunately the cravings tapered off to nothing. Now I once in a while get called "one of those durn ex-smokers". I can live with that!
Congratulations for so far. Good wishes for each day going forward!
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Yeah listen to John. He gives pretty good advice. I truly believe that cold-turkey is the best way to go. Screw that stinking gum, and to hell with the smokeless tobacco. It'll all kill ya, and its all nicotine - you are just swapping one addiction for another. Grit yer teeth, hunker-down, and ride it out for a week. Every time you feel like having a smoke, go for a stroll outside in the fresh air. Oh, and drink LOTS of water to flush yer system of all the bad stuff. It works!
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Hoooweee, had a test today. I went to get my tires rotated at the local shop and those boys were puffing away. All my brain was telling me is one won't hurt, just one is ok. I didn't listen and it felt good to have the strength to say no. It wasn't that my body wanted one, but my brain did. I am 86 hours into it and things are going well and I think the worst is over.
Woke up today and my first thought was not about having a smoke.
I was pissed instead about missing the end of an Ebay auction for a GPS unit for my truck.
I had two chews yesterday and I am working on one now but it has been 19 hours since the last dose of nicotine. I really did not have any cravings for it, but I took some anyway. I want to try to disassociate giving myself nicotine when my body tells me it needs it. That way I fight through all the cravings and break that relationship. I need to work down to one chew a day and hopefully by Monday stop all nicotine intake. By then I hope I can deal with what cravings I do have while starting the new job.
Thanks again for the all the encouragement.
Woke up today and my first thought was not about having a smoke.
I was pissed instead about missing the end of an Ebay auction for a GPS unit for my truck.I had two chews yesterday and I am working on one now but it has been 19 hours since the last dose of nicotine. I really did not have any cravings for it, but I took some anyway. I want to try to disassociate giving myself nicotine when my body tells me it needs it. That way I fight through all the cravings and break that relationship. I need to work down to one chew a day and hopefully by Monday stop all nicotine intake. By then I hope I can deal with what cravings I do have while starting the new job.
Thanks again for the all the encouragement.
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Everytime you get the craving, smack yourself in the head with a golf shoe. I'll bet that works. 
Seriously, good luck. You CAN do it. I was lucky; I never actually liked smoking during the one week I smoked cigarettes in High School. Now, smoking the Hippy Lettuce was another story.
(and, if I can quit that, you can quit cigarettes!)
I'll bet that works. Seriously, good luck. You CAN do it. I was lucky; I never actually liked smoking during the one week I smoked cigarettes in High School. Now, smoking the Hippy Lettuce was another story.
(and, if I can quit that, you can quit cigarettes!) 
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Well Sean it's Monday morning, good luck in the new job! And good luck quitting this habit, it's a tricky one. I quit last time for five years, and got sucked in again thinking Aw, I can smoke just one, a Pall Mall would feel so fine tonight! Boy, did it ever. Now I've been smoking for two years again and seriously thinking I'm going to try to quit again this summer.
Back then, I used Zyban and a class from the American Lung Association. For whatever reason that seemed to help me but probably the most important part was comittment. I used the gum a few times to get over a big hump at work or when the "little lady" was being unusually specific about whatever domestic issue was foremost in her mind at the moment. These trials always passed in a few minutes.
I do remember one day driving along in rush hour, totally concentrating on not smoking, when I saw a STOP sign flash by in my peripheral vision...hit the brakes and slid into a very busy intersection. Fortunately, other drivers coming from all directions were either already smoking and and enjoying their stressfree drive home, or not smoking and paying attention to what other dumb asses were doing. I felt really dumb looking out the windows of my stalled car with all those grills up close like that...
Think anyone was giving me an evil look? I sure don't remember, just started up my car and got the hell outta there. That went pretty far on breaking the habit for me - for a few years at least.
Back then, I used Zyban and a class from the American Lung Association. For whatever reason that seemed to help me but probably the most important part was comittment. I used the gum a few times to get over a big hump at work or when the "little lady" was being unusually specific about whatever domestic issue was foremost in her mind at the moment. These trials always passed in a few minutes.
I do remember one day driving along in rush hour, totally concentrating on not smoking, when I saw a STOP sign flash by in my peripheral vision...hit the brakes and slid into a very busy intersection. Fortunately, other drivers coming from all directions were either already smoking and and enjoying their stressfree drive home, or not smoking and paying attention to what other dumb asses were doing. I felt really dumb looking out the windows of my stalled car with all those grills up close like that...
Think anyone was giving me an evil look? I sure don't remember, just started up my car and got the hell outta there. That went pretty far on breaking the habit for me - for a few years at least.