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MsLadySue -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/27/2008 7:49:59 PM)

My advice is to keep a bottle of cold water with you. When you have the urge to smoke, take a long drink of water, you'd be surprised how that can actually stop the urge for nicotine.

Anther way to smoke less is leaving your cigarettes in another room. When you have the urge to light up you have to actually go to the other room to get a cigarette. Quite often you will be in the middle of doing something and want to finish it before getting up. You will find you smoke a lot less.



Aileen1968 -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/27/2008 8:15:12 PM)

Smoking is evil.



subfever -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/27/2008 11:30:31 PM)


 
quote:

Any suggestions?
 
Yes. Take a few steps back and look at the big picture.
 
What's really happening?
 
Are you processing acts of self-destruction?
 
Or?
 
You can figure it out if you really want to.



DomAviator -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 1:08:14 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: faerytattoodgirl

think of the money you are spending on cigs and then say....damn i could have bought a new hdtv....or stereo...or new car....or condo.... damn i could have filled my car up with gas for work today and not got fired for not showing up.

it will make u stop.




No it wont.. I already have HDTV in the living room, bedroom and den, all the vehicles I want, a house on the bay and a cabin, as well as a full tank of gas and I like to enjoy all of those things with a Camel in hand...[:D]



Evility -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 6:57:26 AM)

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ORIGINAL: candystripper
Part of why is that I've got a bad habit of lighting a cigarette and then 'forgetting it' until it's burnt itself out.  Since I never got my nicotine, I then light another..and sometimes the same damned thing happens.


The onset of Alzheimer's?



farglebargle -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 7:24:30 AM)

Just make up your mind. It only takes a second. You either smoke cigarettes, or you don't. Period.


From that second on, you're done. Fixed. It's not a problem anymore. You'll have urges, and you'll fell different AND your reptilian brain will tell you all sorts of lies to get you to light up, but that's all bullshit and you're too smart to fall for it.

So, make the choice, and then forget about the whole thing. There's no reason to stress since you decided you weren't a cigarette smoker anymore.

I got out at NY$1.25 a pack for Marb-lights back during Reagan. Now I laugh at the prices.






Maya2001 -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 7:39:14 AM)

Get rid of the ashtray  use a jar with water in the bottom  instead  which forces you to hold the cigarette until finished  rather than laying it down and forgetting about



MissEnchanted -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 8:11:54 AM)

OK, here ya go:

Place two cigs by the pc and bury the ciggy pack out in your locked car, in the pit bulls yard (j/k), at a neighbors, or?

Get a morning routine:
A) healthy food, gum to chew or hard candies, a fat straw to fiddle with, a large glass of water, brushed teeth, mouthwash, and a spray of perfume.
Two ciggies ONLY. Hide the rest far-far away.

B) However it works for you re: regular meals that work, and don't miss meals. Pick up that glass of water and suck some down to get that satisfied feeling that smoking can provide.

C) When you get that urge to chain-smoke: Have shoes to walk in on your feet, or by the front door and strut on out to walk it off for 10 minutes. Ten minutes is all it takes to get through that craving.

D) Step away from the pc, take a moment to be aware of what you are feeling-doing and thinking, take a deep breath when stressed, then breathe again.

E) For every ciggie you light up while at your pc: get up, clean the ashtray, wash your hands make yourself brush your teeth or gargle. This helps tremendously!

F) Take two hits off of a ciggy: Then put it out and move the ashtray into another room.

I had so many ideas to share here with you that work for me...The morning routine turned into a stream of consciousness...oops.

I enjoy a sub who has a smoking Me fetish and I also think smoking is pretty stupid, so I still argue with myself over the whole smoking issue. Plenty of my good friends in the scene smoke on play and social breaks, so "quitting ciggies is hard to do."
Sung to the tune of "Breaking up is hard to do." and you can get a giggle out of this o-so-serious subject.

Expert Ex-Smoker, several times over.   [;)]




came4U -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 10:25:43 AM)

The approximate time to smoke an entire cigarette is about 4 minutes, 5 seconds.

If someone cannot concentrate on something (even a bad habit) for for this amount of time...
there are bigger things than the price of smokes to worry about.

If an enjoyable vice as such requires so much effort and thought how can one expect you to put much effort into anything?


[sm=whoa.gif] OOhhh LOOK..a castle., Ohhhh loook, a castle.







abcbsex -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 12:39:52 PM)

I only smoke outside, never multi-tasking about it (unless talking with friends), concentrated on the cigarette. It takes a little more effort but I don't use so many that way (never been a heavy smoker anyways) and I can't forget about them while the end is creeping closer to my fingertips.



pissdoll -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 1:23:58 PM)

Actually, you need to be purchasing your cigarettes from one of the states that uses Reduced Ignition Propensity (RIP) papers.

In June of 2004, New York became the first state to require all tobacco manufacturers to use RIP paper.  It will self extinguish the cigarette instead of allowing it to burn down to the filter (or the end, if non-filtered). 

Vermont followed in 2006, California in January of 2007.

Other states now carrying the cigarettes are OR, MT, IL, KY, NJ, MA, NH, and ME.

Almost all of the other states are in the process of passing bills in their legisature, or have recently passed.  In your state it is HB500, which was passed in the House earlier this year. 

Bottom line, if you really don't want your smokes to burn down on you, take a little trip to Kentucky and purchase them there.  Or wait a year or two and your problem will be solved on its own!



kc692 -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 7:45:18 PM)

I smoke also, and have had a hard time cutting back, never mind quitting....... seems the more I'm stressed, the more I smoke, not an easy thing for any of us...



ps.Wow, I'm pleasantly suprised,,,,,,no slashy speak, no pink font, good job!!!!!!!!!!!![;)]



CraZYWiLLiE -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 7:56:00 PM)

Keep your smokes in the kitchen, smoke outside, and chew beef jerky.



pissthirstysub -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 8:06:40 PM)

I have a friend who quit by smoking a pipe instead. I think the reasoning was that it was less adictive?



Thadius -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 8:11:11 PM)

More likely that it was more labor intensive, having to clean and pack a pipe gets in the way of the instant gratification of just reaching over and lighting up.  Also, she wasn't looking for ways to quit.

This does bring up another idea.  Perhaps try rolling your own, with the packing machine and all.  It might focus you more on the act of smoking something that took some time to do, rather than letting it burn down.



laura2161 -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 8:50:04 PM)

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ORIGINAL: candystripper

This is a 'little bitty' Op, about 'better smoking'.  
 
Lately I'm smoking much more than normal, and I can ill afford it.  Part of why is that I've got a bad habit of lighting a cigarette and then 'forgetting it' until it's burnt itself out.  Since I never got my nicotine, I then light another..and sometimes the same damned thing happens.
 

 
Any suggestions?
 
(That was not an invite to post 'smoking is evil', LOL.)
 
candystripper


I used to do that all the time also, sometimes two or three in a row. I threw out all my ashtrays except one so that I would have to carry it from room to room with me while I was smoking. Voila', no more burned out cigarettes; Now it's just become habit to stay in one spot and smoke it till I decide to put it out.



Quivver -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/28/2008 10:33:04 PM)

With all due respect, I think the problem isnt as much the wasting as it could be that you've become less aware of what your doing. 
Sounds to me that your energy is scattered and your focus off. 




candystripper -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/29/2008 4:31:14 AM)

No profile on the other side Quivver?
 
<pouts>
 
How are we gonna dish the dirt then?
 
I hope you've been well.
 
candystripper



MmeGigs -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/29/2008 4:49:11 AM)

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ORIGINAL: pissdoll
Actually, you need to be purchasing your cigarettes from one of the states that uses Reduced Ignition Propensity (RIP) papers.


I think that Pall Malls use RIP papers no matter where they're sold. 





farglebargle -> RE: Advice from Other Smokers, Please (6/29/2008 5:13:52 AM)

I wonder what the heck these RIP papers are soaked in!

I remember, back in college using them Club rice papers made without glue just because of all the nasty shit in some rolling papers...

But that was back during Reagan, and not really current, huh...



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