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Author Topic: How Did You Ex-Smokers Quit Without Relapse? Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-05-2003 09:11 PM                     Paul, for a birthday present for me...quit smoking! It's August 14th so you chose a good time!  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-06-2003 01:24 AM                        quote: One thing I discovered is that I have too much time on my hands. Seems like when I find something to do I can keep my mind off the problem for the most part. Get a bike. Keeps you busy. I also went to swim for an hour a day. A bike or swimming keeps your mind occupied unlike hamster wheel activities like treadmills or walking. When you get restless, get on the bike & ride around. Get a cool bike, like an old Raleigh or Schwinn Varsity from Goodwill. quote: I also know much of the smoking problem is stress related, and I have discussed that issue with physicians in the past. Stress is really sort of a vague, broad term. Usually what people feel in withdrawal emotionally is irritability & anger, & physically they usually get the shakes & severe muscular tension. I think it's important to see what always happens: when you go through withdrawal, you have HUGE neurochemical changes, to the extent that it actually effects your personality. Someone else admitted to me that when they were quitting, there were times that they felt like they were going to cry, for no reason - I had the same thing happen a couple of times, it was weird, unmotivated, just like a sweat or something. Jack Ondracek made a reference about when his wife quit cold turkey. That's typical, it's a cliche that people turn into someone REALLY different & hard to deal with while quitting. My personal feeling is that the personality change is what drives you through it. If you're turning into a hard-ass, you should appreciate that it takes a hard-ass to drag you through this. If you're feeling irritable & a little angry, you KNOW what you're irritable about, & it's nothing to turn that irritability & anger into belligerence & f*ing REFUSE out loud to have a cigarette, dammit. Long car trips can be a problem. I found though that the constant mental agonizing over having a cigarette/not having a cigarette burned up the trip REAL fast & you got there sooner. Leave the window rolled down, get distracted by the heat, feel the wind blast on your face, smell the chemical plants, cow pastures, & sometimes sudden smells from flowers & stuff. Another interesting thing was that anger & irritability are REALLY exhausting, & I didn't have much trouble sleeping like some people who quit do. Just conked out at the end of a HARD day of not smoking. It is HARD & NASTY, like working on plumbing with the water on, while hanging upside down, on a job where it's scratching your knuckles, or just having to mop up when the toilet backs up. It lasts for a couple of months, but it goes by. Just be angry, belligerent about not quitting, & be a hard-ass about what you are NOT going to f*ing do. Embrace your inner asshole! Put that sumbitch to work for you! quote: If smokers get special breaks just because they are smokers, then non-smokers should get special breaks as well. Hahaha Joe, they don't get special breaks! They just take their breaks! They just go! Who told you to chain yourself to the oar? Walk out the door, stand up next to the wall, walk around the building! The special breaks are parents who always take off early to pick up the kids, go to the kids' pageant or concert, take them to the doctor, etc. Every now & then, just knock off early & tell folks you're going to take the children to be spayed or pierced or something.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-06-2003 03:16 AM                        I would do that if I didn't mind getting written up or replaced. They'd ask me my excuse. I wouldn't have one. Of course the employers are to blame as well, letting smokers do this. Of course many employers no longer do (hopefully). Children should be spayed. That would help our population problem!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-06-2003 05:25 AM                     Hmmmm, Joe you should go out and get a bogus job somewhere. Nothing where you are stationed somewhere specific, but maybe in a video rental store or something. Every 30 minutes, just walk outside and stand around for 5 minutes. When you are asked just tell your boss that you are taking a non-smoker break and see just how far that word "discrimination" will take you. Be sure and alert the media when you get fired.  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-06-2003 06:06 AM                        being a smoker, one who soon hopes to be an ex smoker (October will be ten years) and also a manager, all employees who work in a customer service/customer related business should have breaks from there respective post just about every 90 minutes... it will relax your employees, give them a little bit of a break, help sell more concessions and keep lines moving. Smoker or not. A good employee will always appreciate four minutes of freedom. For concession and box, once between sets after post show clean/stock/drop verification. And a bad employee well, they shouldn't work for you. Should they? And Paul, keep it up, I'll be feeling for you! I WILL be there in November... I was a "two and a half" pack a day smoker. I'm now down to about 18 cigs a day... Two things have helped so far, the NYS smoking ban... and going for five mile walks four nights a week instead of the bar (which is now only two nights a week!) Whatever works for you keep us updated!  |  IP: Logged Brad Haven Master Film Handler Posts: 300 From: fremantle, West Australia Registered: Aug 2001 posted 08-06-2003 10:53 AM                     i personally have found nicotine patches the best way to stop smoking, especially if cold turkey proves to be too traumatic. it gives you time to get over the habit/action of smoking, while weening you off the nicotine over a period of two months, after the first couple of days(which are admitedly still hard) it becomes easier every day after. by the time i finished the patches, i actually felt like non-smoker and didn't miss it at all...untill a couple of years later when i relapsed (forgot my reasons for stopping/motivation), so here i am again after 6 months of smoking, i'm going to stop on the 16th of august (moving house), i have my patches and motivation...it's time to stop!! good luck paul  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-06-2003 03:12 PM                     Here's an idea taken from some of the traditional 12-Step programs: Just because you have a momentary relapse, it doesn't mean you have failed in your attempt to quit. I think a lot of people who want to quit smoking don't think about that. Being hooked on drugs or alcohol is so much worse for you that people are more willing to say, "It's okay to fall off the wagon if you get right back on." Smokers, on the other hand, seem to say, "I had a relapse so I give up. I think it's important to be able to smoke zero cigarettes for a good long time. (At least a month or more.) After your appropriate "drying out" period, if you have a smoke you're STILL quitting smoking. Just don't give up!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-06-2003 03:41 PM                     Randy, that's a great point. I went through the same "oops, I lit up a cigarette, now all is lost" syndrome several times before I finally made it. If I would have just realized that those were one-time relapses, I would have been smokeless for 30 years now instead of 20.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-06-2003 03:42 PM                        Paul, Now you've done it....with all this support, you HAVE TO quit!  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-06-2003 05:04 PM                     Yup!  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-23-2006 02:00 AM                 It has been 1112 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 08-23-2006 02:00 AM                        Bumping this baby up... Someone PLEASE tell me the withdrawl headaches go away! I've smoked 10 years: started end of highschool and now this weekend is my 10 year highschool reunion. Thought it's probably a good time to quit. But the headaches...good god! oh the pain!  |  IP: Logged John Hegel Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Lake Mills, Iowa Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-23-2006 02:33 AM                        The first time I quit I had headaches on and off for a week. I'm going to take another shot at it one of theses days, but when you work in a casino where most of the other employees smoke its hard to do. On the bright side, the casino has cured my movie theatre addiction.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-23-2006 06:30 AM                     Allison, it will take about 3 weeks for the major withdrawl symptoms to subside. After that it's just mind over matter thing. You can do it.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 08-23-2006 10:16 AM                        I find that if I make an extra effort to get all of the flames out the first time, the smoking will stop soon after. A good CO2 extigusher works best since it's non toxic if you hold your breath. Then again, I don't smoke, only smoke when I'm on fire, which I try to limit that due to the risk of nasty 3rd degree burns.  |  IP: Logged

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