Smoking Cigarettes

[Rocky C]

I hear ya Billy and I enjoyed talking about this and other things on the phone as always Brother !!!

You speak straight from the heart

[doc h fmf]

Cograts!!!! Rocky ,real proud of you my brother,in 8 more days it will be 10years for me. I use to smoke 21/2- 3 packs a day didthat for 20 years then ,after that I smoked between 10 -15 cigars,thenAtthe end of my shift when I started to count the narc,my heart was beating a mile a minute so I gave a quick report and headed to the ER.I had my last 4 cigarrette in a span of 10 minutes.these were my last cigarrettes that I have ever smoked. What was weird though, my first 2 year I would dream that I was smoking , has anyone else had those dreams?Anyway,again congrats Rocky!!!!
God Bless and Semper Fi my brother.

Stephen Doc Hansen HM3 /FMF

[Rocky C]

Morning Doc and thank you Brother. Congrats to you also.
Yup still having those dreams.

Powerful thing that nicotine is.

God Bless Doc and Semper Fi my Brother.

[JimEnglish]

I had those dreams too.

[Rocky C]

There is no other way to say it Jim than " It Sucks " Brother....

[McT ontheRock71]

I started smoking as a twelve year old paperboy. I figured that I was earning money and I could spend it the way that I wanted to. Lucky Strike was the brand of choice back then and I could buy a pack for $.27. I quit 35 years ago as a 2 1/2 pack a day smoker. Cigarettes were $.75 a pack at the time. Smoked Camel unfiltered when I quit.

[McT ontheRock71]

Just like Jim was saying about dreaming that you still smoked after you quit. The nicotine is so powerful that it controls your thinking and causes you doubt.

[Rocky C]

Wow Ken 35 years ago ? Congrats Brother. I think about it everyday.....

[Zulu 36]

The funny thing about nicotine (if anything about it is funny) is one's PHYSICAL addiction to it is over in 24-36 hours. It's the PSYCHOLOGICAL addiction that is so powerful. Hence the dreams, occasional cravings 25-years later, etc.

Addiction specialists all agree that nicotine is probably the worst drug in existence to quit, and stay quit.

While I have been off ciggies since 1992, this time, I had quit for 10-years once before but started again in 1987 like an idiot and smoked for five more years before quitting again. I ended up with all the same health problems that led me to quit the first time, like having severe bronchitis three or four times a year. My doctor told me I was a case of emphysema looking for a time to happen. Since 1992, I have had bronchitis once.

[Rocky C]

True words Chris, it's the PSYCHOLOGICAL part. Imagine that. Decades later and people are still craving. I'm on year 3. Don't know if I can make it to 5,10,15 or 25.

One day at a time for me.

Hence the thread I guess. Sort of like a support group on the forum.

Keep going Brother...

[Zulu 36]

It does improve with time. For me I hardly think about smoking 99% of the time now. Just once in a while when I catch a whiff of ciggie smoke while under a bit of stress...

[Rocky C]

Yup for me it's stressors. Living and coping with PTSD most of my adult life does not help matters. I can't believe I quit at all to be honest.

[advanced]

I never smoked till I was 20 years old. Then one Vanentines day, a group of friends and I were on a walk in the park inching our way along the east wall of the Citadel in Hue City when all Hell broke loose. Believe me, everybody was smoking, even those of us that didn't smoke.

Over the years I learned to smoke healthy cigarettes (I bought natural tobacco and stuffed tubes myself) and later I switched to a pipe. 2 years ago I started sub-ohm vaping and put my pipe down.

Today I vape Naturally Extracted Tobacco with nicotine but without any of the 4,000+ poisons in burning tobacco. I'll never go back to "smoking" now, try vaping.

[awbrown1462]

they found a spot on my left kidney went in to hospital they took the spot it was cancer but the tissue around it was not keep the kidney was in for 4 days ask God to help me after the 4 days went home have not wanted a smoke nor a desire for one it has been 5 years now and cancer free for that long too

[Rocky C]

I never smoked till I was 20 years old. Then one Vanentines day, a group of friends and I were on a walk in the park inching our way along the east wall of the Citadel in Hue City when all Hell broke loose. Believe me, everybody was smoking, even those of us that didn't smoke.

Over the years I learned to smoke healthy cigarettes (I bought natural tobacco and stuffed tubes myself) and later I switched to a pipe. 2 years ago I started sub-ohm vaping and put my pipe down.

Today I vape Naturally Extracted Tobacco with nicotine but without any of the 4,000+ poisons in burning tobacco. I'll never go back to "smoking" now, try vaping.

I was thinking of that Russ, vaping....

Nice new Avatar too Brother