So I'm going to attempt to quit smoking tomorrow. Whenever the hell I wake up. Since I smoke more when I'm drinking, I've got to stop drinking for a bit also.

   Stop laughing.

   SOooooo, tonight I'm getting really tore up and smoking like a Chinese convict. Go figure. This is the '5 drinks in' series of posts. I'm gonna play some poker, drink more, and probably post some drunken stuff later that will just embarass me rather than amusing you, which would've been the actual intent.

   You know, the kind of posts you think are witty and clever when you've demolished 15 drinks in 4 hours, but end up being horrible, abusive, mean spirited, and downright shitty.

   Yeah, those.

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Kill Whitey.

  Ok this is the 12 drink post, and i'm ashamed to admit that i'm fairly trashed. As Carckpanther points out, i post pretty well when i'm drunk, due to the fact that i will work on a paragraph for hours to ensure it reads correctly

   unless i get pissed off enough to smash my keyboard, which hasn't happened yet.,

   whatever i said in the first post still applies assuming its r elevant in any way.

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Kill Whitey.

Good luck dude. For me the first few days were fairly easy, but at the end of that first week week I was jonesing bad. Now the cravings come and go, but it's still a struggle when I'm drinking or around others that smoke.

I've been good for 24 days now. I've only smoked a single cigar and a few hooka hits since then, and I gotta say I didn't really enjoy either.

Stay strong and keep us posted!

doin OK so far. i got some Zyban and i guess its helping.

thanks for the encouragement

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Kill Whitey.

Dude you can do it and it doesn't suck as bad as you think, for a few reasons. I quit on 27 September 2006 after 11 years and a few tips I found were:

1) Understand that it CAN be done. Don't assume that everyone else who's quit before you 'wasn't really even a true smoker anyway'. That's the mistake I made at first. I figured that because I'd smoked two to three packs of non-filtered Camels daily for years, quitting would be harder for me than it would be for my wife's Virginia Slim 120 party puffing friends. Wrong wrong wrong. Smokers are smokers.

2) Start Exercising (not with getting into shape necessarily as a separate goal but because it helps). You don't have to become a triathlete, but geting back into your fighting shape will keep you motivated. Plus, it's one of the few things you'll now be physically able to do that makes quitting seem worth it. Getting hit on constantly by the chicks working day shift at Taco Bell is a bit more rewarding than sitting around your smoke-free apartment trying to convince yourself you're 'doing it for all the right reasons.'

3) Don't think you have to cut out drinking because it makes you want to smoke more. If you want to be a non-smoking alcoholic then you can. I am. For me, it wa a lot easier to be honest with myself up front and say, 'Hey Self, why not get back in shape AND drink a fifth of rum every day and a half?' It worked because quitting anything that's 'bad' for you is all about having realistic expectations of what you want to be at the end of the process. Do you want to be a Boy Scout or just an AngryAmerican without the smokes? Me, I got no problem with not being the Boy Scout. I've settled for the back in shape Alcoholic who can run 10 miles and do 30 pullups. I knew all along that to go 100 percent clean would kill me completely. For some, maybe that's the only way to do it, but I think you have to sit down and be honest about what you're able to do before trying it.

4) If you set a goal at first and fail even a little bit, you've failed completely. If you're going to quit tomorrow, quit tomorrow. Don't cheat by standing too close to your podnas who are smoking. Don't have a cigar because it's not a cigarette. Quit smoking completely. Keep drinking. Don't work out if you don't want to. But quit smoking. I recommend making that your only goal because if you say you're going to do all them at once and you fail even one, you''ve failed them all as a whole, and that will kill your confidence and motivation. But if you succeed at not smoking, you can always cut down the drinking or get into killer shape or finally put up a headstaone for the hooker you killed or learn Esperanto later as a separate goal.

Anyway, good luck.

thanks Cracky, its been most of a day and i've dealt with it pretty well.

i'm gonna invest in some niggertette gum for those times when i get a bit edgy.

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Kill Whitey.

AngryAmericanZyban is the fucking bomb. i smoked for 9 years and started taking Wellbutrin for depression and one day i realized i hadn't smoked in like 4 days. i wasn't even trying to quit, i just forgot to smoke. so i just rolled with it and haven't smoked in 5 years. turns out, as you probably already know, Wellbutrin is Zyban just marketed under a different name for different things. anytime i hear about someone trying to quit, i always tell them to try Zyban/Wellbutrin.

the only hard part i encountered was trying to figure out how to "spend" my days. on cigs, my days were mapped out, 30 peaks a day since i smoked about a pack and a half. once those peaks ended, it was like i didn't understand what i was supposed to be doing. it was a weird feeling, hard to describe. kind of a "how can i get through the day" + "what do i have to look forward to" +"what am i supposed to be doing" all rolled into one. anyway, it passed in time.

good luck

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what if nigger meant kite

   Honestly, Zyban's not doing it for me. I feel good about trying to quit, but don't feel any diminished cravings. The niggerette gum worked fairly well, and about an hour after I spent $40 on it, I found out my friend in Biloxi is sending me a 3 month supply of Chandix.

   People say crazy shit about Chandix. Makes you want to kill yourself and stuff they say.

   I say I already want to kill myself sometimes (when I hear Dubya for instance) , and every time I light up, I'm killing myself a bit at a time. So why not take the chance that I'll give myself the hemp fandango. It'd be quicker.

   -AngryAmerican In '12. I'll Do What Needs To Be Done.

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Kill Whitey.

Hey man for real I don't know anything about Chabix but Well butrin was my first attempt and it didn''t do shit for me but the patch was the greatest. Different strokes for different folks. Sorry for the grammar --- loaded.

Keep up the good work

Quitting for someone else never works.  Even if you're gonna start a whole fresh new young life with them.  Ask bunnerabb.

I wish you the very best in caring enough about yourself to kick the habit.  *hug* 

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

I used to smoke 12 packs a day until I finally had enough and had my mouth and nostrils glued shut.  It didn't stop me from trying to smoke through my ass, but that didn't get the nicotine into my system, so I quit.  (It did give a new meaning to "bumming a smoke," though.)

The trick is to get a needle and poke hundreds of holes in each cheek so you can still breathe, but not smoke.  You should also practice absorbing nutrients by osmosis.  For example, put some pancakes down your pants for a few days before you attempt this.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

crackpanthermust be different strokes because Wellbutrin made it butter for me and the patch didn't do dick except make me nauseous. i'd think about upping the dosage. you can go to like 350, 375mg on those bastages if i remember right

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what if nigger meant kite

I'm not gonna quit smoking, cause I ain't no fuckin' quitter.

Actually, both of my roommates and I have all been trying to quit all year.

Good luck, AA.

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what happened to my rustic monologue? ...i'm not sleeping with that producer again

I'll never stop smoking. I love it. I like to burn down about four pounds of tobacco in a big aluminum funnel while sucking the smoke through a vacuum cleaner hose. By the end of the day, my lungs feel like they've been coated in hot roofing compound. It's awesome. You guys are wimps.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

I've failed to quit smoking three times, and its hurt a little more every time.

Attempt 1 - Late 2005: My girlfriend, who I'm still with and who is the most low-maintenance yet loving, caring and awesome person I've ever met, broke down in tears about how I was so addicting to niotine. This is sort of like a New York cop breaking down into tears because you won't give him his hat back. I felt a bit pissed off about being guilt-tripped into quitting, and had myself a cigarette on my way back from her flat that night, but nevertheless made a concerted effort to quit smoking the morning after.

I lasted about four days before I thought 'Hey, it won't matter if I buy a pack of ten, just for emergencies'. One-a-day became two, then five, then ten, then fifteen, which is what I was putting away before. FAIL.

Attempt 2 - Mid 2006: This time I had one of those epiphanies. I said, one day, I can't remember which, that I was going to quit smoking. 'For good this time'.

I lasted six days. I found out my dissertation for Uni had to be in seven days time, and I still hadn't done any writing and/or research for it. Went to the shop, bought cigs, caned cigs, wrote essay, passed with flying colours. FAIL.

Attempt 3 - Late March 2008

This time, this was it. I'd promised my girlfriend, the same lovely understaning girlfriend as before, that I would quit. I booked a week off work to help me (I work in a pub) and booked a small holiday in Edinburgh for us. All through the trip I was grumpy and irritable, but I lasted. On the second day, rather than have an immediate cigarette, we simply scaled Arthur's Seat, the big hill thing in the middle of the city. It was nine in the morning, I was on top of this big hill thing in the gorgeous sunshine, the sky was clear, my lungs were clean, and I felt brilliant.

I lasted three and a half glorious weeks, before I asked a work-mate to roll me one when I was drunk. I smoked it and felt dirty, guilty, yet also like I actually didn't need that cig in the first place. That didn't, however, stop me from stealing the odd cig after shifts here and there from other work colleagues, until one day there I was buying a small pack of ten 'just for emergencies'. I'm still 'quitting' now, after nabbing four cigarettes throughout tonight's shift, as well as two from my dad when he came up to visit during the day. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.

I am a weak-willed moron, and these continual failures to quit the weakest of all 'vice' drugs has made me feel awful. Smoking 15-20 cigarettes a day against the will of your loved ones feels a hell of alot better than smoking four small rollies a day behind their backs, and then telling them you're 'doing well' with quitting.

Don't be a dick. Do it properly.

And good luck fella.

So how 'bout an update, fuckface?!

What I wanna know is, when are you guys gonna stop smoking cock?

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

limaoh man, i wouldn't agree with that. i've heard quitting smoking is 2nd hardest to quitting heroine. i know the times i tried quitting without medicine were harder than when i quit meth as a teenager

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what if nigger meant kite

its coming along, for the past 4 days i've had 3 cigs or less per day. whenever i feel like having one i pop a piece of niggerette gum and that seems to kill the craving.

so by my retarded way of looking at things, i'm almost there!

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Kill Whitey.

i am there. i am a non (tobacco) smoker. still chewing niggerette, but not smoking cigs.

the first real test is gonna be when i decide to drink next. that'll be rough. i know some people who can only smoke when they're drinking, but i doubt i could be one if them without relapsing.

i like vodka.

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Kill Whitey.

?!?! Awesome!

Sorry I haven't replied - been camping for like the last three weeks. Fucking cold outside, too.

noice job!

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asssss

I've never tried to quit smoking, but I did quit drinking.  Since the ridiculous state tax went up another ten dollars per carton, I couldn't afford both vices so I gave up the one I wasn't actually addicted to.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

How's the lumberjack porn addiction coming along?

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Poop.

Rabid_Weasle

i can't get past that. lemur porn either, i fuckin love lemurs.

now if they could just get a lemur into a flannel shirt, i'd never leave the house.

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Kill Whitey.