Smoking Addiction
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Boxdyn
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I have a dumb question. How long does it take someone before they get hooked on ciggerettes? What is your experience? :shrug:
I ask because I used to smoke and quit for a few years, but I'm thinking about taking it back up for a week or a month or two, I never realized how much better my coping skills, thinking skills, emotional control and personalty was.I would like to use it as a crutch for a bit but I'm afraid I'll get hooked. I dont recall how fast I got addicted to nicotine because I denied it most of the time and it was too long ago.
How long before you realized you were hooked? :shrug: Anyone quit then go back for a few weeks and be able to quit effortlessly?
I quit for 2 1/2 years. Smoked one to keep from strangling my ex-wife and was back to a full pack the very next day. Not worth the risk.
SoMD_Fun_Guy
Do you like apples?
You put your hand up on my hip and when I dip you dip we dip!
haven't heard that in a long time.
Smoking is a habit, not an addiction. And I do not care what the hysterics in the special interest groups say. I know any number of people who are what we call "social smokers", as in they only smoke under certain circumstances, and rarely do they go beyond one or two cigarettes even then. I also know people - Larry is one of them - who simply...quit. No fanfare, no Chantix or patches - they just woke up one day and decided they didn't want to smoke anymore and that was that.
Clearly and demonstrably, smoking is not nearly as addictive as the crazy people would like you to believe and anyone who insists otherwise is retarded.
That said:
Cricket, you have kicked your habit. Why pick it back up again? It's expensive, it's inconvenient, you catch hell from the innumerable Nazis flitting about looking for something to be angry about - what's the point? And I say that as a dedicated smoker who has no intention of quitting.
Take up a better hobby. Paint me some decorations or something.
Clearly and demonstrably, smoking is not nearly as addictive as the crazy people would like you to believe and anyone who insists otherwise is retarded.
That said:
Cricket, you have kicked your habit. Why pick it back up again? It's expensive, it's inconvenient, you catch hell from the innumerable Nazis flitting about looking for something to be angry about - what's the point? And I say that as a dedicated smoker who has no intention of quitting.
Take up a better hobby. Paint me some decorations or something.
Dakota
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I've quit smoking numerous times - sometimes for long periods of time, and I know first hand that "smoking just one or a few" never ever works out the way you think.
Smoking is completely psychological. I know this yet have struggled. I have been very happy for your success in quitting so long and think this will pass if you don’t give in. I want to one day say "I haven't smoked in years," like you.
oh and please don't even consider chewing.... 'cuz that is just totally nasty
Smoking is completely psychological. I know this yet have struggled. I have been very happy for your success in quitting so long and think this will pass if you don’t give in. I want to one day say "I haven't smoked in years," like you.
oh and please don't even consider chewing.... 'cuz that is just totally nasty
cricketmd
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Smoking is a habit, not an addiction. And I do not care what the hysterics in the special interest groups say. I know any number of people who are what we call "social smokers", as in they only smoke under certain circumstances, and rarely do they go beyond one or two cigarettes even then. I also know people - Larry is one of them - who simply...quit. No fanfare, no Chantix or patches - they just woke up one day and decided they didn't want to smoke anymore and that was that.
Clearly and demonstrably, smoking is not nearly as addictive as the crazy people would like you to believe and anyone who insists otherwise is retarded.
That said:
Cricket, you have kicked your habit. Why pick it back up again? It's expensive, it's inconvenient, you catch hell from the innumerable Nazis flitting about looking for something to be angry about - what's the point? And I say that as a dedicated smoker who has no intention of quitting.
Take up a better hobby. Paint me some decorations or something.
I dont think I know how to paint!
What kind of decorations?
Katelin
one day the dark will end
I have a dumb question. How long does it take someone before they get hooked on ciggerettes? What is your experience? :shrug:
I ask because I used to smoke and quit for a few years, but I'm thinking about taking it back up for a week or a month or two, I never realized how much better my coping skills, thinking skills, emotional control and personalty was.
How long before you realized you were hooked? :shrug: Anyone quit then go back for a few weeks and be able to quit effortlessly?
You might go look at photos of a smokers lungs...By now, your lungs are nice and healthy. After that first pack, lung disease starts..heck, it starts after that first inhale!!!!
Want the nicotine? Go buy some nicorette gum..and chew to your hearts content..but that too is addicting, but does no damage to your lungs...think COPD.
Your lungs, your choice... but please don't start.
(smoker for 25+ years, quit Aug 2, 2000!!! Still stopped!!!)
MMM_donuts
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- Definition of Addiction:
Addiction is a persistent, compulsive dependence on a behavior or substance. The term has been partially replaced by the word dependence for substance abuse. Addiction has been extended, however, to include mood-altering behaviors or activities. Some researchers speak of two types of addictions: substance addictions (for example, alcoholism, drug abuse, and smoking); and process addictions (for example, gambling, spending, shopping, eating, and sexual activity). There is a growing recognition that many addicts, such as polydrug abusers, are addicted to more than one substance or process.
- How smoking is an addiction:
Smoking is a physical addiction that produces a "chain reaction" in the body:
- Nicotine acts on receptors normally used by one of the main neurotransmitters in the brain and nervous system (acetylcholine). Neurotransmitters are the "chemical messengers" released by nerve cells to communicate with other cells by altering their electrical activity.
- The body responds to nicotine at these receptors as if it was the natural transmitter (acetylcholine) and the activity and physiological functions of many brain systems are altered.
- With repeated nicotine dosage the body adapts to what it regards as extra acetylcholine in an attempt to restore normal function. One way it does this is to grow more acetylcholine receptors.
KDENISE977
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I smoked for 10 years. Quit about 4 or 5 years ago. I tried to have a smoke a few times when had a cocktail or two.... YUCK !! I can't stand the smell now, the taste is blah... more than anything, I smell smokers at work now and it gags me...I SMELLED LIKE THAT TOO, I still miss it from time to time, then I try one and YUCK, blah...
struggler44
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Which is worse; sitting next to a smoker or next to someone with dog poo on da shoe........
Katelin
one day the dark will end
Dog poo can be washed off, the stench of a smoker can't.
doubtfull24
New Member
Same with me!!! I quit and then I tried one because I was stressed and it was gross tasting! I guess I was hoping for that same calming effect but it did the opposite it made me sick to my stomach and dizzy.I don't miss the smell and the taste or cost just that feeling?
KDENISE977
New Member
I honestly used to really enjoy going to a bar, having a drink and a cigarette, but now...it's just ick... Funny, can't tell you what has changed? It really was a nice feeling, that first drink settled in on a bar stool and lighting a cigarette....is that weird? LOL...
KDENISE977
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Ugh, I smell it on others now and I've actually asked..."did I smell like that after I came in from a break" I think they were lying when they told me no
I smoked a pack a day or so from maybe 1978 to 1985. Then I quit, cold turkey.
In 1991 I was at a shipyard in a very high stress situation and another guy I worked with chain smoked. In the midst of a really heated throwdown with shipyard management I grabbed a cig from him and smoked it. Within a week I was back to...a pack a day.
Fast forward to 2010. Yes..only two years ago. And I was up to almost 2 packs a day. I finally quit again, cold turkey again. But this time the only difference is that I now know that smoking one lousy cigarette is all I need to do to be right back where I started.
Just my experience..FWIW.
In 1991 I was at a shipyard in a very high stress situation and another guy I worked with chain smoked. In the midst of a really heated throwdown with shipyard management I grabbed a cig from him and smoked it. Within a week I was back to...a pack a day.
Fast forward to 2010. Yes..only two years ago. And I was up to almost 2 packs a day. I finally quit again, cold turkey again. But this time the only difference is that I now know that smoking one lousy cigarette is all I need to do to be right back where I started.
Just my experience..FWIW.