Sooo much propaganda and browbeating but an excellent resource for giving up nicotine.

I really liked the article, "Nicodemon's Lies." (Seriously.)
http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_NicodemonsLies.html

Things I didn't know:

Quote :

"My coffee won't be the same: More junkie thinking! Your coffee's flavor will remain identical. In fact, it may even taste better once your taste buds heal after years of being numbed, coated and poisoned. Your sense of smell may become so refined that you'll smell fresh coffee brewing more than one hundred feet away. Although you don't need to give up your coffee or any thing else except nicotine during recovery, be aware that nicotine somehow doubles the rate ( 203%) by which caffeine is metabolized by the body. As a new ex-smoker you may only need half as much caffeine in order to obtain the same effect. If you are a heavy caffeine user and find yourself experiencing increased anxiety during recovery, or encounter difficulty sleeping, try reducing your intake by roughly half."

Quote :

"I like to smoke when I drink and I find myself smoking even more: The effects of drinking and stress upon our body's nicotine level are nearly the same. You smoke more when you drink not because you "like" to but because you MUST. Like stress, alcohol is an acid producing event that causes urine to become more acidic. The greater the acid level of urine, the quicker our kidneys remove and eliminate nicotine reserves from the bloodstream. Thus, the more you drink, the more nicotine you'll need to smoke or ingest in order to avoid sensing the onset of the anxiety of early withdrawal. Although early alcohol use contributes to destroying a great many quit attempts, understanding the nicotine-acid relationship can be of benefit in accelerating physical nicotine withdrawal so that quitters can begin feeling relief sooner. Acidic fruit juices, such as cranberry, may help reduce the normal 72 hours of withdrawal required to remove all nicotine from the blood. In that roughly 50% of all relapses are associated with alcohol use, if at all possible don't drink during the first few days of recovery. When you do decide to drink, consider drinking at home first without cigarettes around before testing your resolve around smokers. By doing so you'll help to break the your mind's psychological links between smoking and drinking with as little risk as possible. As millions of ex-smokers can attest, your beer or drink will taste better than ever once your taste buds are allowed an opportunity to heal."

Have y'all ever noticed that after a night of very heavy drinking, you don't want to smoke as much the next day? People say it's cause you smoke so much when you drink that the next day you still have a bunch of nicotine in your body, but I think it's related to the heavy drinking...I mean after a night of heavy smoking, I still crave just as much nicotine the next day...so it's the heavy drinking that must be doing it. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Like, there's something that overconsuming booze does to your brain that blocks nicotine cravings the next day. Anybody study this stuff?

Anyway, I'm off to look at pictures of teenagers with the bottom halves of their faces cut off.

[Edited on January 21, 2011 at 11:51 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2011 11:44:34 PM

Say what? After a night of smoking the roof of my mouth is sore, and I take a month or two off.

1/22/2011 12:47:59 AM

She's talking about cigarettes, not penis

1/22/2011 1:44:09 AM

damn

1/22/2011 1:44:35 AM

I smoked way too many cigarettes tonight

I have a monster of a headache

1/22/2011 2:29:07 AM

thank you for posting this

I'm seriously considering never buying another pack

1/22/2011 2:37:27 AM

I don't think I know a single person who has actually quit smoking.

I know lots of people who "don't smoke" up until halfway through their first beer of the night then a pack of cigs magically appears in their hand and they chain smoke for the rest of the night.

1/22/2011 2:52:02 AM

I quit, cold turkey. My last cig was the day before I got my braces, its been 2 years.

1/22/2011 3:12:50 AM

when i quit i didn't want to.
i was smoking upwards of a pack a day.
one drunken night i binge smoked and the next day i didn't one. nor the day after that. nor the day after that. etc etc.

i tried to start back i liked smoking. but i couldn't.

so i quit. not a single cig in about a year.



now i smoke very, very occasionally and usually only around certain company (there are 3 people in particular i can think of). and even then i only have one or 2. i still have a pack i bought around my birthday (in august) with about 7 left in it. ahahahaha

1/22/2011 7:54:14 AM

I quit cold turkey in April 1999 after smoking for 11 years. I am part of the group of people that believe its a mind thing and you just need willpower - basically if you really want to quit you will quit. The mistake a lot of people make is that they believe that if you go like a few months without smoking they should be good, then all of a sudden they start back smoking. This causes you to be discouraged and think you cannot quit, which is bologna. The process of actually quitting may take a year or two, as I remember myself staring at people's cigarettes for about a year or more after I quit and I just resisted the urge until the point it felt as if I have never smoked. If you are trying to quit seriously plan on a year or more of resisting the urge.

[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 8:14 AM. Reason : /]

1/22/2011 8:13:33 AM

I agree with seedless. I quit but even 3 years later I see someone smoking or smell it and I have a little urge to smoke. It just takes willpower.

1/22/2011 11:25:12 AM

I only smoke if it will make me 203% cooler.

1/22/2011 1:00:22 PM