Smoking

[caddyman]

Right, here's the deal. I have in front of me a pack of NiQuitin CQ 24 hour nicotine patches. I am carrying on smoking tonight, but tomorrow morning, I shall put one of those on instead of lighting up. Let's face it, previous attempts to quit the evil weed cold turkey have failed, so let's try the patches. I have a stress-free three-day weekend ahead to get me started and these things are supposed to help wean a body off nicotine gradually. Here's hoping. Now all I have to do is fathom how to smoke them. A pipe, maybe.

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Once you stop please don't start again. You WILL feel so much better and sooner than you think

my god man how much do you smoke?

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

i have no plans to quit smoking, but then i'm not sure if i qualify for "two packs" a week ... i go through a pouch of rolling tobacco and a pack of Djarum cloves a week. i also don't seem to smoke before 5pm.

i _am_ quite addicted to caffeine. if i go two days without espresso i have terrible headaches and feel awful.

so how much do you smoke, and do you smoke machined cigarettes or hand-rolled?

Re: my god man how much do you smoke?

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

The headaches are the effects of the caffeine on your body - or at least the effect of not keeping up with your fix. all you have to do is drink plenty of water to stop your brain feeling dehydrated and the headaches will disappear. Drinking more caffeine just makes it worse - but it used to be sooooooooo good!

Re: my god man how much do you smoke?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Rarely fewer than 20, not often more than 25. But that has been pretty much every day since 1978, I reckon.

Re: my god man how much do you smoke?

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

yeah i can see why you need to quit. that's way too much.

when i worked at the TV station i smoked a pack of Lucky Strikes a day. after a couple months of that i said "fuck this. i like smoking but i want to at least give my weight a chance to do me in first!" and started only smoking hand-rolled cigarettes. it drasticly cut down on how much i was smoking.

my grandpa quit outright. no weaning no patches nothing. he claimed it was the only way to quit.

of course now he can't remember my name (calls me by his son's name, who by the way never visits him) and forgets to do things like leave the bed before using the toilet.

i'm going to continue my bad habit.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Good luck ;)

[fredlums.livejournal.com]

Good luck

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

Good luck!