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Posted by MULE (Member # 63) on April 25, 2008, 07:45 PM:
Only two people here have met me so this probably won't mean a hell of alot.
But I quit smoking. Hard as hell but I haven't faltered.
I feel so much better. I really do feel younger. Which is kind of dangerous because I'm immature anyway ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Like I said this doesn't mean crap...alot of folks quit. But I smoked ALOT.Picture a coal fired train heading up a mountain.
One thing that keeps me on the right path is telling folks I quit..If that makes any sense.
I'm at the point now that while I get the urge once in a while, seeing people smoke or having access to cigs doesn't tempt me.
Well anyway, like said, it doesn't mean shit. Except now Doug won't have to suffer hunting with me ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2008, 08:14 PM:
Only two peeps? Come to the campout, that will change quick.
Congratulations on quiting, you won't regret it.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 25, 2008, 08:31 PM:
Congrats Man.
"One thing that keeps me on the right path is telling folks I quit..If that makes any sense."
Makes a helluva lot of sense to me. That's exactly how I quit. I picked a date a few months in advance (my birthday), and told everyone I knew, for three months, that I was going to quit smoking on that day.
Be a nasty, bitter, FREEZING cold day in Hell before I let everyone I know see me not do something I told them I'm going to do.
That's all that kept me from lighting up through the hardest times. Knowing I'd have to live with having lied to everyone I know for all that time.
Smoked cigs for 20 years. Been off them for over 8 years now. Nicest thing I ever did for myself.
One of the best parts, was that after being off the cigs for a few years and getting my taste buds back, CIGARS tasted really, really good. For whatever reason, I can smoke cigars on the weekends only, and not be tempted by cigarettes, or even too tempted to smoke cigars every day.
- DAA
Posted by MULE (Member # 63) on April 25, 2008, 09:30 PM:
Responces like those DO help.
Thanks ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2008, 10:45 PM:
Well, I'm just like Dave. I haven't smoked in almost 19 years. Cigarettes. But I do enjoy a cigar once in a while.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by bucksnort (Member # 202) on April 26, 2008, 05:35 AM:
Congratulations! On April 15 (yes, tax day) it was 26 years ago that I quit smoking. After trying to quit several times, I found that once I made up my mind and, didn't tell anyone or make promises it was easy. Keep up the good work!
Posted by browning204 (Member # 821) on April 26, 2008, 05:58 AM:
The other night I said to my G/F, after these cigarettes are gone I am not buying more.
Yesterday I woke up and finished the last couple I had. I was fine all day and most of the night
(I still was dippin) until my 4 month old decided to scream blood murder in my face for an hour and a half. (tummy ache)
I called my G/F and told her to grab me butts on the way home.
I will try it again soon.
I have NO will power when it comes to that kinda stuff. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Posted by JoeF (Member # 228) on April 26, 2008, 06:37 AM:
Buncha quitters!
Glad to see it, and count me in, too. It was three years in early Feb.
Mule, did you do it cold turkey or some other method?
Browning - I did the auricular therapy thing and could not have been happier with the results.
The treatment is a series of electrical shocks to the ears, mild, although there was one spot in each of my ears that brought tears to my eyes.
It sounds like snake oil in its' finest hour but their claim was that it would take you through the 96th hour of withdrawal - past the end of the nicotine addiction and in to the part where you were simply dealing with the mechanical habit.
All I can say is that it works and comes with a guarantee, of sorts. If you have the treatment and it isn't working they're more than happy to shock you again. If you broke down and smoked I think they socked you 25 USD for the follow-up.
I was treated on mid-day Tuesday and by Friday I felt secure enough to venture in to a bar to test myself. I ran in to 2 gals I know that smoke and sandwiched myself right between them (at the bar....standing at the bar.... ) and had no desire to have a smoke, though I will say that theirs smelled nice.
I did (and still do) have an occasional momentary flash of desire for a smoke, but it passes almost as soon as I am cognizant of the craving.
Still not brave enough to smoke a cigar yet, but I'll get there. Actually had this discussion with 2 ex smokers yesterday.
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on April 26, 2008, 07:56 AM:
I need to quit, and have good intentions of quitting. I just haven't got it done yet.
I gave up Copenhagen right at four years ago, and still miss it. I did pretty good for a few months, but then after a few cocktails while sitting on a Mexican Beach, some kid walked up and sold me a cigar.
I had one of them going during nearly every waking hour up until a couple of months ago.
I made it a few days with out a cigar, then broke down and bought a pack of cigarettes. These things taste like shit, and most of the time I'm embarrassed to be seen smoking one.
I find myself lighting up, not because I want one, but because I have a good opportunity to smoke.
I have every intention of quitting sometime this summer. I go back East for my Grandmother's 90th Birthday at the end of September, and want to be done with them and well past the withdrawal stages when I go.
But I'm just not ready to quit right now.
Posted by 3 Toes (Member # 1327) on April 26, 2008, 08:28 AM:
I've chewed since high school, and like I always tell my wife "I'm not a quitter".
I hate the expense of it but thats about it. I enjoy it and figure I have a higher chance of dying in a car wreck or plane crash. Seen too many chewers die of other causes to worry about that particular one.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2008, 10:27 AM:
My son has dipped Skoal since Little League, absolutely disgusting habit, especially leaving that spit can lying around. Gross! In every photo I have of him, his lip looks deformed, like a freaking idiot.
My device for quitting was sunflower seeds. Made my tongue raw, cracking them suckers. I'm talking years! Especially driving, blowing 'em out the window, or if freezing, I had something similiar to my son's spit can sitting in the cup holder. Those things are as addicting as tobacco.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by 3 Toes (Member # 1327) on April 26, 2008, 02:39 PM:
Spit can! who the hell needs a spit can? The only guys I was ever around that have to have a cup or a can to spit in were pansy ass okies. I thought that was an okie only trait. I never spit, except to spit the chew itself out. One of my pet peeves about hunting with okies is they leave them damn half full cans everywhere. In my truck, in hunting blinds, tree stands, you name it. That is absolutely disgusting. They can't even set in a bar for a beer or two without having the barmaid bring them a plastic cup to spit in. Gross bastards!
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 26, 2008, 03:16 PM:
Sunflower seeds... Yeah. They didn't last too long for me, but I took up chewing gum, and still go through a "pack a day" of gum at work, still, 8 years later.
Have a coworker that used the nicotine gum to quit smoking. He hasn't smoked for 3 or 4 years now, but still chews the nicotine gum, and says that habit costs him twice as much as the cigarettes did!
- DAA
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on April 26, 2008, 05:19 PM:
I quit chewing Copenhagen just before my oldest son was born and have been without a dip for eleven years. I started when I was twelve and the stuff was $.65 cents a can. Even on junior high wages I could afford that. I was standing in line behind a guy buying a can of Copenhagen at the gas station today and it was $7.50! I damn near shit. Never did get into smoking and the price would probably be as good a deterent as any for me.
Dang glad I quit now. I gotta admit, the smell of a freshly opened can of Copenhagen is still tough to resist.
Posted by smithers (Member # 646) on April 26, 2008, 05:53 PM:
3 Toes, swallowing that shit is disgusting! LOL...
I know a couple other guys that don't spit in a cup, can, bottle. How can you stand it? Little dipper? I guess I pack too much and it's like drinking a quart of oil to me.
I started smoking in high school and also started to chew so I could get my fix during school hours.
Exclusive dipper now for the last 10 years or so. Worse than cigs to try and quit.
And I too look like some slack jawed yokel with a giant bulge in my lip in nearly every picture taken of me.
P.S. Congrats to all who have quit smoking or chewing.
[ April 26, 2008, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: smithers ]
Posted by Brad Norman (Member # 234) on April 28, 2008, 10:18 AM:
You mistakenly drink one can of spit and then proceed to hold it against all Okies for the rest of your life? I've also never seen a guy get so upset when he finds spit down the side of his truck? I've never set in a bar for a beer or two, and after two I only ask for a spit cup because I don't want you to take a drink out of the bottle I was spitting in. Remember that bet you made with the barmaid in Kaycee?
Smithers - 3 Toes is a top dipper. Meaning he puts it in his top lip. This doesn't generate much spit but it will sure knock you on your ass if you try it. I know it did me.
Posted by tlbradford (Member # 1232) on April 28, 2008, 10:50 AM:
I just want to know where Smithers spit when he was dipping in the classroom. I kicked the habit after the first year of college. Now the smell of Cope almost makes my stomach turn.
Spit or swallow? Sounds like a conversation I strike up with a Hooters waitress, not a topic for stubborn male coyote hunters.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 28, 2008, 05:02 PM:
Yeah, those brown streaks down the passenger side door frosts my ass, but I've seen Cal's truck....what's the big deal?
Good hunting. LB
You know; the one he drives fifteen miles under the speed limit, everywhere he goes?
[ April 28, 2008, 05:04 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by 3 Toes (Member # 1327) on April 29, 2008, 03:32 PM:
I think those brown stripes are the Oklahoma version of racing stripes. But come on, if you can't spit far enough to clear the truck, you should be chewing bubble gum! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Leonard, I drive the hunters around in style. I don't make them ride in one of my trapping trucks. They get the Dodge crew cab Cummins.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 29, 2008, 08:31 PM:
I always figured that any coward could quit smoking, but that it took guts to face lung cancer. Then I had a heart attack. Smoke free for 18 months now.
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on April 30, 2008, 01:02 PM:
Kok",
Sheesh man! Was your heart attack 18 months ago? Were we told and I missed it? Way to go on kicking the habit!
MULE,
Double sheesh to you!!! Heck yeah, it means something! Way to go! I've heard its the dang hardest thing a man can do - quit. When I met you and we went to the bar for grub and a beer or fourteen, first thing my wife wanted to know when I got home was if the building had been on fire when I left!?!? Congrats!!!
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 30, 2008, 04:42 PM:
Loco;
Now that you mention it, the heart attack was 18 months ago also. The last cigarette that I had was while waiting for a co-worker to bring his truck around to give me a ride to the hospital. I was feeling kind of "poorly".
True story; I once told my Dr. that smoking was actually GOOD for you.
Because...... Tobacco contains Nicotine. Nicotine is a powerfull water based alkaloid poison. When you smoke, you coat your lungs & airways with a protective barrier of this poison that will kill harmfull germs & viruses before they can get into your body. Therefore, you stay healthy.
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on May 02, 2008, 05:09 AM:
You may be on to something there Kokopelli,
I never got really sick, until after I gave up Copenhagen. I've been on short term disability twice since then.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on May 02, 2008, 06:37 AM:
I also used to have a theory that the liver is a muscle & needs to be excersised with alcohol every now and then, but after inventing the Everclear Martini I think that I may have strained something.
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on May 02, 2008, 03:58 PM:
No problem buddy,
I know where Joyce keeps the shaker, we won't have to strain nothing.
I used to make up lemonade with everclear and vodka, You couldn't taste the alcohol unless you tried to chug it, but two glasses would knock you on your ass!
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on May 03, 2008, 07:33 PM:
I smoked Marlboro's from 1981 to 2006. That was the hardest damn habit to quit. I'm still fighting it after 2 years. Those damn urges come and go, luckily they don't last very long anymore.
I went cold turkey and I'm still off those things. Hang in there.
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