Hey smokers...

[oldman]

Originally Posted by Plan B

Why is it so hard to quit?

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

[godsbutterfly]

Originally Posted by oldman

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

I admire people who quit. My Dad said it was much harder to quit smoking than it was drinking.

[High EGT]

Originally Posted by oldman

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

Its hard enough that drug companies are making millions on people trying to quit.

[High EGT]

What happens when smokers abruptly stop using nicotine? While you're using nicotine-containing products, your body adapts the way it works to compensate for the effects of the nicotine. For example, neurons in your brain might increase or decrease the number of receptors or the amount of different neurotransmitters affected by the presence of nicotine. When you no longer have nicotine in your body, these physiological adaptations for nicotine remain. The net result is that your body can't function the same way in the absence of the drug as it did before, at least in the short term. People trying to quit nicotine experience this as:

Irritability
Anxiety
Depression
Craving for nicotine

Over a period of about a month, these symptoms and the physiological changes subside. But for many smokers, even a day without nicotine is excruciating. Every year, millions of people try to break the nicotine habit; only 10 percent of them succeed. Most people throw in the towel after less than a week of trying,

For more info go to Howstuffworks "How Nicotine Works"

[Novus Collectus]

A few years when I was still smoking my three year old nephew would see me puffing on a smoke on occasion. Every time I noticed him watching me I convincingly faked a terrible cough like it was terrible and ruining my health. I think him seeing me smoke was probably a good way to keep him from smoking too because he got to see just how ugly and disgusting a habit it can be........I am just glad he didn't see me really enjoing the first smoke of the day and relishing every drag.

[sanchezf (Premo)]

My So and I are both smokers, we tell are kids that we made bad decisions in our younger years picking up smoking and that if at all possible they should try to never pick it up.

[virgovictoria (Premo)]

Originally Posted by sanchezf

My So and I are both smokers, we tell are kids that we made bad decisions in our younger years picking up smoking and that if at all possible they should try to never pick it up.

That is the approach I used with my niece. She is perhaps the only person I don't want to even see me smoke.

[sanchezf (Premo)]

Originally Posted by virgovictoria

That is the approach I used with my niece. She is perhaps the only person I don't want to even see me smoke.

Well I figure you can't tell them not to when you are sitting there doing it in front of them, but you can explain that everyone makes bad choices in their life and this just happen to be yours. I also explain why it's bad, so they have all the facts. My son wants me to quit and asked how come I can't just stop, I told him that would be like me never letting you have another piece of candy EVER !! He said "oh" well maybe you can just cut back

[Fubar]

I was in a house this Christmas tending to a very sick grandmother (COPD, CHF and emphysema) the house was filled w/cigarette smoke and there was Jr and Sissy sitting on the floor justa playing w/their new toys. What hope do these children have? All that $$ spend on advertising and the lecture's kids get in school, it starts at home-lead by example!

[Plan B]

Originally Posted by High EGT

What happens when smokers abruptly stop using nicotine? ...For more info go to Howstuffworks "How Nicotine Works"

Thanks, for everyone's answers.