Do you smoke cigarettes?

[Guest]

Hi all,

- This poll is indefinite (no time limit).

- Voters may vote for mutliple choices.

- Voters' names and choices will be displayed.

- If you have been a smoker and have successfully quit, don't vote.
You are, however, invited to write an encouraging comment, below, to those who are trying to quit.

Babe,
xoxo

[Gypsy1955]

If I smoked

Babe,
xoxo

Sorry Babe, I'm not down playing your thread/survey. But if I did smoke, I'd smoke you!

[toban]

I might have been a smoker if things had gone right!

Well this is slightly off your instructions but I was about to post it in the original thread you just deleted so I put it here anyway! Can't waste it.

I put a lot of effort into trying to join the in crowd about 70 years ago (when it seemed just about everybody smoked), and soon found I didn't care for cigarettes, so I bought a pipe and tried that for a while but soon found that to be a big pain to use but finally it was cigars that turned me off for life. I feel quite lucky in that despite trying so hard to smoke like most everybody I found smoking unpleasant and fortunately I never got hooked.

According to Dr. Evans I should now have $3600 x 70 or about $262,000 stashed but I don't.

[Guest]

You CAN quit IF you really want to!!

Hi, to all the hacking, choking smokers who want to quit,


If you want to quit, you can do it.

I found the trick to quitting was 1. to realize that i REALLY wanted to quit and 2. to develop an insane hatred for cigarettes, and 3. feel an ultra intense self love and 4. feel an ultra obsessed desire for healthy living.

I really broke out of my usual lifestyle and (as Nike ads used to say)...i just did it. I forced myself.

I transformed myself from being pretty lazy to being extremely active. If i sat around, i would want to smoke when i had decided to quit. You can't do both.

I woke up early, went to the washroom, and before going into the kitchen, i quickly got dressed and went running for 20-40 minutes - every morning no matter what the weather was like.

I quit smoking in winter time, by the way, which meant putting on heavy clothes and boots to go run in the park in about 1 foot of soft snow in the park. LOTS of effort.
I ran to the park and ran home so i would stay warm in my sweaty clothes.
I would come home and peel off my wet clothes and wash them, have a quick shower, and then eat.

I completely stopped drinking coffee and black tea, and i began juicing vegetables, and apples, instead.

After my morning run, i ate a big breakfast and i would do cardio-dance for 1 one hour soon after.
After the cardio, i would do an intense 7 minute ab routine. EVERYDAY without fail.

I found out about free indoor swimming pools and i went swimming twice per day for one hour. I would go by bicycle, once in the afternoon, and then again, at night - again, no matter what the weather was like.
I started off having difficulty breathing, trying to complete one lap, but within a few weeks, i was able to swim laps without a problem.

I bought a chinning bar and did hanging leg raises.

I used the cigarette money to buy healthy foods.
I stopped eating junk food altogether.
When i watched television, i would mute the sound when an ad started for pizzas or other junk foods and i would do jumping jacks, sitting leg raises, or sit-ups until the program started, again.

I quit smoking in only 4 days after being addicted for more that 25 years.
In just the first two weeks, i had lost 22 pounds of body fat.
I didn't lose any more weight after that, as i reached a plateau.

When spring time came around, i would wake up, get dressed and go for an intense bicycle ride. I put my 21-speed mountain bike in 14th gear and i would maintain a constant speed of 20 Km/h with NON STOP fast peddling for 90 minutes straight, with no breaks at all.
I would come home after 90 minutes - drenched in sweat.
I'd get undressed, eat, then shower and relax for a few hours and then off to the pool, or do dance for an hour, followed by leg raises, and the 7 minute ab routine.
Sometimes, i would dance TWICE per day for one hour each time, once in the morning, and then again, after supper.

When summer came around, i continued with all i've mentioned but i included a hard hour of wall tennis with myself - no breaks.

DAY 1 of quitting.
I applied a smoker's patch, and allowed myself to smoke about 4 - 6 cigarettes while still wearing the patch, but i cussed myself out, in front of a mirror, talking right into my eyes - sometimes i was yelling at myself telling myself that, "It's over!! You have to stop smoking now or you will die."
I did that before EVERY smoke for a blistering 10-15 minutes before each cigarette. To top it off, when i smoked my cigarettes, i did it in front of the mirror so i could see how stupid i looked because i WANTED to smoke - when i was quitting.
I had taken control of my life for the first time in over 25 years.
I kept telling myself in the mirror, "I AM WATCHING YOU, NOW!! AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SMOKE!"
I had even poked one huge hole into every cigarette (near the filter) so i would get very, very little smoke. And i would cuss myself out again for having no self control - telling myself, "This is stupid, and you look stupid, and the faster you quit, the faster you can stop doing all this."
Before going to bed, i removed the patch.

Day 2
I did everything the same as day 1 but while wearing no patch, at all.
Again, i smoked a few cigarettes and again i severly blasted myself in the mirror before and during each smoke.

Day 3
I put on the patch when i woke up and did the same as day 1 and day 2.

Day 4
I was cured. I woke up, went to the mirror, looked into my eyes and i didn't put on a patch.
I never smoked again after that. That was in late 2009.

I started my extreme fitness regime on day 1 and continued it all throughout 2009 and 2010. It became a HUGE part of my life.
I maintained a daily hatered for smoking, which was (and still is) so strong, that every time i passed people on the street who were smoking, and i smelled it, or even saw them smoking, i hatefully muttered under my breath how stupid they were for smoking. I muttered to myself how strong i was and how i would never EVER be like a smoker again.
I would not let my passed efforts EVER be wasted.
I had put my mind to it, and it paid off.

I never really wanted a smoke when i decided to quit. It was the evil little smoker inside of me that tried to play games with my head by making me feel like i deserved a smoke because i had not smoked.
I gave myself shit for allowing that addict in me to have that smoke and i was sure to poke a HUGE hole in every one of those cigaretes and told the inner smoker in me to "Face it! It was over. I am going to vandalise every cigarette you want."

In a short while, i felt great and felt the great sense of accomplishment of what i had done.
The swimming, alone, let me realize just how great i felt when i passed people in the water and i quickly kicked off the wall to go do another lap. I really surprised myself.
I feel so great when i can peddle like heck on my bicyle and i no longer wheeze like an old timer, i hardly even breath heavy - it's incredible.

When i started to quit, i was able immediatey to be in the presence of hard core smokers without ever wanting a smoke because my personal head space was so filled with hateful thoughts about smoking. I was untouchable.

Nowadays, five years AFTER i had quit. No problems. I still think anyone who smokes is pretty dumb for smoking - for being so caught up in smoking and for convincing themseves that it's so hard to quit.
When some folks tell me that "Smoking is the only pleasure i have left in life!", i ask them in astonishment, "THAT!....is the only pleasure you have in life?"

If i can quit, YOU can quit, too.
Stop being so stupid for yourself, and just quit if you want to quit. Keep yourselves really, really busy. When you want a smoke, confront yourself in the mirror and then and go for a run if you have to get out fast. There's NO OTHER WAY.
Be as active as a little kid, again.
Never bring smokes with you - as a matter of fact just throw them away.

You really don't look cool, or tough, or sexy, or serious, or macho, or smart, or intense, or deep in thought, or moody, or whatever you feel how you think you look when you stand or sit there with that ridiculous cigarette in your hand. It's NOT you. It's not how you were supposed to be.

It used to be cool to smoke at one time.
Now, it's just stupid to smoke. They have you all standing outside in the middle of winter to puff on your breaks.

STOP all the posing. The industry has conditioned you all to "pose" like the Marlboro Man, like Humphry Bogart and Frank Sinatra and all the other tough guys like, James Dean and Marlon Brando or whoever. You don't look like that sexy, female diva who smoked years ago.
YOU don't look nothing like that...you only look like a brainwashed sheep, a puppet on fire...you only look like someone (to me) who is NOT IN CONTROL of your own life and health.

If you don't hate it like you should hate it, well, i dunno - you must not be ready to quit! YOU must still enjoy smoking too much. Well, it's much easier to think THAT than to admit that you're dumb to smoke.

Those little addicts in that back of your brains are still making excuses for you to smoke, and all you smokers believe it. You are fooling YOURSELVES. Don't let yourself fool yourself. It's too easy to give yourself smoking passes.
Wake up!! Put the cigarette down and throw the pack away if you want to quit and go for a long, fast run, or a slow jog and do a real inventory on your lung capacity, and do an inventory of your health.

I once brought a friend of mine, who as a teenager (before smoking) use to be a really fast swimmer.
She really surprised herself at how out of shape her lungs were when she couldn't even do 10 (foreward crawl) strokes without almost sinking. She said, " I used to be so good at this."

Talk to yourself constantly, reminding yourself who you ARE and WHAT you want to DO which is to stop smoking and WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO which is smoke.
Haven't you had enough by now?
Listen to yourself coughing when you laugh. It's NOT a laughing matter.

"Expert textpert choking smokers, don't you think the joker laughs at you?
(Ha ha ha! He he he! Ha ha ha!)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snied? (grunt)
I'm crying!"
...............................................~ I Am The Walrus - The Beatles

Good luck, and most importantly - butt out!

Babe,
xoxo

[Guest]

Wash my dishes!!

Sorry Babe, I'm not down playing your thread/survey. But if I did smoke, I'd smoke you!

Hi Gyspy,

I am NOT a cigarette - but i may be highly addictive. Approach with caution, and don't try to light me up with a lighter. There are much better ways to make me "lighten up".

Lucky for you that you live so far away.

When i wash my dishes, now, i keep thinking you should be doing them so i can do "other things". AND you know what that is...riiiiight?
Mr. LUCK-KEY!

Babe,
xoxo

[Guest]

You could have if you would have...

...According to Dr. Evans I should now have $3600 x 70 or about $262,000 stashed but I don't.

Hi toban,

You are one the smart ones from back then if you are over 70 (geez, you must be about 83 now) and never was fooled by on-screen Hollywood movie-star smokers.

Well, don't cry now! If you would have put aside that money, every day, you certainly would have THAT money, now.
You can't have now what you never thought to save then.

I'll tell you one thing - if you would have saved it all through the years, you would, indeed, have it now - plus interest.

Babe,
xoxo

[Gypsy1955]

Some Day Soon...

Babe,
xoxo[/FONT][/SIZE]

Hopefully we will meet, I look forward to it. What kind-a guy lets a lady do all the work!? I wash a few dishes, switch, you wash a few dishes then I wash then you wash then I wash then you wash :-) Fair is fair Boo-Boop De Boop Boop...BOOP!!

The active lifestyle you describe helps in so many other ways and hits very close to home for me. Back in my younger days I was drinking too much alcohol. During lunch breaks my buds and I would head to the mess hall, play pool, darts or cards, have 3 or 4 drinks then back to work. Every day! Then more alcohol after work, every day! Although I wasn't an alcoholic it was affecting me and my job performance which means had I continued I may have been on my way to being an alcoholic. I grew very tired of it and wanted change.

Then one day I decided it was time. I got up early and went on a 2 mile run followed by enough sets of push-ups till I had 100, then sit-ups. Back to the gym at lunch for circuit training and another run after work. Like you, weather didn't stop me. That was over 30 years ago and I still work out and am in good shape, as I know you are 'cause from your photos I see the muscle in your legs, arms and deliciously sweet body.

GOOD JOB!! I will definitely rate this thread 1 million stars!!

[anat89]

"I've smoked a couple of times when drunk with friends."

[Kisa]

where is option - quit?

anyways, I quit smoking!!! It's one of my personal achievements hehe. ∩(︶▽︶)∩

[Guest]

Ahh a quitter! Let's ask her to say how she did it.

Hi Mia,

Thanks.

I did not include a "quit " option in the poll.

People who have successfully quit smoking are invited to tell everyone HOW they quit to encourage the smokers who want to quit.

So, how did you quit? How long did it take you? First try, second try?
For how long did you smoke? Heavy, or light smoker What motivated you to quit?
Was it difficult?

Babe,
xoxo

[Kisa]

So, how did you quit? How long did it take you? First try, second try?
how long did you smoke for? What motivated you to quit?
Was it difficult?

Hi Babe, ^_^
First of all and foremost is the desire to quit smoking.
especially if you are on HRT you just have to do it asap.
I tried few times, i tried electronic cigarettes, gums, pills, patches and sprays... didn't work to me.
i was very skeptic about that movie called "how to quit smoking" by Allen Carr i was even smoking during the video but hey it's 6+ months now and am puzzled how i could be a slave of these lil bastards. I have downloaded his video on torrent and when I'll get some extra money i will buy his video just as a token of appreciation.

so many benefits: good breath, silky skin, great mood, sleep better, less stress, less aches (cuz i was going outside to smoke when was cold outside, as a result aches or cold), I save money for things i like. ( i bought lots of books, movies, games, etc. ^^ ) good erection, haha.

good luck Babe

[Guest]

Cool, Mia.

So, how did you quit? How long did it take you? First try, second try?
For how long did you smoke? Heavy, or light smoker What motivated you to quit?
Was it difficult?
Babe,
xoxo

Hi Babe, ^_^
First of all and foremost is the desire to quit smoking.
especially if you are on HRT you just have to do it asap.
I tried few times, i tried electronic cigarettes, gums, pills, patches and sprays... didn't work to me.
i was very skeptic about that movie called "how to quit smoking" by Allen Carr i was even smoking during the video but hey it's 6+ months now and am puzzled how i could be a slave of these lil bastards. I have downloaded his video on torrent and when I'll get some extra money i will buy his video just as a token of appreciation.

so many benefits: good breath, silky skin, great mood, sleep better, less stress, less aches (cuz i was going outside to smoke when was cold outside, as a result aches or cold), I save money for things i like. ( i bought lots of books, movies, games, etc. ^^ ) good erection, haha.

good luck Babe

Hi Mia,

No,no, i don't need luck as i've already quit since 5 years, already.
If you care to read how i quit, it's in this thread on page 1.
We share a common idea you and me, about the mental process for quitting.

I didn't know about Allen Carr 5 years ago.

Here is the Allen Carr method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBVVqZHvOWw

I added this link after i realized the Allen Carr video was removed from youtube.
Here's the Allen Carr E-book.
http://media.wix.com/ugd/74fa87_2010...5b7234a829.pdf

Thank you, Mia.
Babe,
xoxo

[Kisa]

oh sorry Babe, was bit confused by quote style messaging.
yeah awesome topic sis!!! ^_^

[eastcoastprincess]

Great thread Babe!

I'm quitting. I'm going to have to check out that movie Miya is talking about. Do you have a link to the torrent?

[Guest]

They took it down!

Good morning Heidi,

Damn! The video was up but they took it down due to copyright problems. I was going to post it in your smoking thread today as i was busy yesterday. In any case, they still would have removed it.

I don't use torrent, i never did. I usually find things on youtube or other sources. Usually i can find stuff.

I watched that video just after i posted it, just to see what it was about.
I found the Allen Carr method to be like my method but without the mirror, the temporary use of the patch and the excessive activity i used.
I feel lucky to have been able to watch it while it was up.

You should contact Mia for the torrent link, she brought that video to my attention.

Geez, Heidi. Sorry about that.
I will search youtube for clips of it and post them if i can find enough to make the full movie.

Babe,
xoxo