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domahpet -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 9:00:07 PM)
I hate smoking- smoking SUCKS!!!!! i like the idea of making lists tho, thats a really good idea. my 10yr old and my new Dom have asked me to quit, Im so ready to and so afraid to. I dont know why!!!!! Does anyone have any good tips for "how to begin" the quitting process- im confident quitting cold turkey will NOT work for me...

dcnovice -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 9:04:05 PM)
My dad quit when I was a kid. He attended a smoking-cessation program at a local hospital, and they showed a film of what a smoker's lungs look like. That did it.

CuriousLord -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 9:09:07 PM)
Oh, PS- I've had to do a lot of hard stuff in my life. The trick is to do it. You can't? You're fucking up? Beat yourself up for it. Yeah, people often tell others to lay off of it, but it works for me. I mean, seriously, sometimes, you just have to have the fortitude to go through with something and to give yourself enough hell when you mess up that you wouldn't dare become weak enough to fail. Drugs and other things might make it easier, but, in the end, give yourself hell. You'll be all the stronger in the end. Or that's my approach, anyhow. Can't claim to be an expert on health.

marieToo -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 9:17:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: domahpet I hate smoking- smoking SUCKS!!!!! i like the idea of making lists tho, thats a really good idea. my 10yr old and my new Dom have asked me to quit, Im so ready to and so afraid to. I dont know why!!!!! Does anyone have any good tips for "how to begin" the quitting process- im confident quitting cold turkey will NOT work for me... The patch works quite nicely.

JoanieHoney2001 -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 9:20:00 PM)
The last time I tried to quit I was managing a Pizza hut in Terre Haute, IN. After three days the kids on my shift handed me a cig and said "we don't care if you chew it or smoke it just get some nicotine in your system!!" I guess I must have really been a pain in the ass. Right now I'm looking at the very LAST pack of cigs I will ever buy. I have promised my Sir I will quit, therefore I will. He said he would do anything he can to help me. He quit cold turkey 10 years ago and will know how I feel. I just hate the way I must smell to people who don't smoke, besides what it must be doing to our pets (2 dogs and 2 cats). With luck and determination I will be able to quit this time.

ownedgirlie -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 10:13:39 PM)
~ FR ~ After watching my uncle, who is as close to me as my Dad, become diagnosed with lung cancer...watched his wife and daughters suffer extreme stress when the docs said he probably wouldn't make it...sat at his bedside during his month-long coma after going into shock from a lung removal....well he survived, by way of a miracle, I think, but has lifelong issues as a result...there was no way I could pick up another cigarette. It just seemed too disrespectful to him to continue. I quit cold turkey. Then I met my Master. He said I will never smoke again. He wants me healthy and does not want me to get lung cancer. His order to never smoke again helped me abstain during some very stressful times. He has little tolerance for self destructive behavior, so even on my most tempted days, I was able to hold off. It's certainly an addiction, and not an easy one to quit. But it is definitely possible to quit. Good luck to any attempting this.

masochistneedsU -> RE: quitting smoking (12/3/2007 11:43:17 PM)
Mark Twain said, "Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times." i quit cigarettes by learning to smoke a pipe. However, i'm a grandfather so it's legal.

SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 1:53:17 AM)
ya'll are are nuts-lol-and full of good advice and great laughs......thanks again

Sanity -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 4:45:24 AM)
When I quit smoking and my taste buds came back alive I discovered chocolate, and lots of other goodies that I had been neglecting for years, and guess what? I let myself have them. All I wanted. I figured it was better than smoking. Then I had to start buying bigger pants, but I felt like working out, and so I did. I started slow, but I now climb anywhere from eleven to twenty two stories of stairs per day, and I do a lot of other exercises that make me feel good, and I'm getting looks now from some very attractive women who never seemed to notice me before.. and what a boost that is! I save a lot of money, my house looks better without the smoke stains, I can run like I never thought I would again... it's well worth it to quit, and give quitting the time it takes to begin reaping the benefits of quitting. quote: ORIGINAL: JoanieHoney2001 The last time I tried to quit I was managing a Pizza hut in Terre Haute, IN. After three days the kids on my shift handed me a cig and said "we don't care if you chew it or smoke it just get some nicotine in your system!!" I guess I must have really been a pain in the ass. Right now I'm looking at the very LAST pack of cigs I will ever buy. I have promised my Sir I will quit, therefore I will. He said he would do anything he can to help me. He quit cold turkey 10 years ago and will know how I feel. I just hate the way I must smell to people who don't smoke, besides what it must be doing to our pets (2 dogs and 2 cats). With luck and determination I will be able to quit this time.

OrionTheWolf -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 5:21:13 AM)
Fast reply: Also, you cannot stop any addiction for other people, and this is a drug addiction. If you treat it as an addiction, you increase your chance of quitting, dramatically. Changing your routine will help because you have subconscious triggers throughout your normal day, that trigger the cravings. Instead of the patch, I recommend the gum or commit. Even if you get hooked on using the gum, at least you are not damaging your body from inhaling the smoke.

chiaThePet -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 7:24:27 AM)
Chantix A twelve week prescription and online support program. The medication blocks nicotine from reaching the brains receptors. (Quote from the progam) When you smoke, the nicotine you inhale attaches to these receptors. This sends a message to a different part of your brain to release a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine gives you a feeling of pleasure. But it does not last long. Thats why your body craves more nicotine. (End Quote) Success rate of forty four percent. No replacement of nicotine to continue the cycle. No one can do it for you, but you are not alone, there is help and support. You are addicted to nicotine and as with all other addictions, you must become stronger and more powerful than the addiction. Take a deep breath, spread those wings of freedom and fly. chia* (the pet) Day Eleven And Soaring To New Heights

velvetears -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 7:44:54 AM)
You're not going to like my story more than likely, well it's not actually mine but my mothers. She was a 3 pack a day smoker (Lark) was her brand. She was having pain in her back and went for a series of tests. We got the phone call from my doctor (i dragged her there as she hated doctors and never went to them for anything her whole life) on August 27 1993 to say she had beyond stage 4 cancer of the lungs with metasteses to the bones, liver and probably other places. She quit that day. Had she done that 30 years earlier she'd still be here today. i'm not a smoker but when you consider the options how can anyone continue. She died a horrible death - her arm turned gangrene and they couldn't amputate because her cell count was too low from chemo so she had to tolerate a rotting limb for a month before they could do anything about it.

MissSCD -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 7:55:14 AM)
Your ten year old should be enough of a reason, and they stink. Regards, MissSCD

mhawk -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 7:58:46 AM)
first and most importantly look at your reasons for wanting to stop smoking.then look at all the options on what you can do to quit and what you can use to assist you to do so.personally,i tried the patches a few years back and had a bad allergic reaction to them,the reaction was also due to the medications i was on at the time. i know at one point they had an inhaler out but you would need a prescription for them.so look at all the options out there.if Nicotine Anonymous is an option for you look into that. i have been a smoker since i was about 13,i'm 35 now.recently i had a relative pass away and cancer was part of her demise.personally i don't want to go that route. i have an addictive nature as it is,i still attend Narcotics Anonymous when i need to.some around me constantly tell me,that "if you were able to quit drugs cold turkey,you should be able to do the same with smoking cigarettes." but these are not people that have ever been addicted to anything so they do not realise how difficult it can be for some. i too am going to be starting on quitting smoking next month(yeah a resloution) but it is not jsut for myself at this point. it is also for my Lord and His wife(my Mistress). they are both greatly concerned about my health and want to do all they can to assits me with that.plus we have talked about an "incintive" of sorts.they would much rather pay $15 a month for me to have my WoW account than pay $40 a week on a carton of cigarettes. we know very little of any potential health problems in my birth family due to closed adoption records so the concern is even greater. best sugggestion is find what works for you to quit smoking and try to find others you can talk to about it when you are having a hard time with it who would understand. but last and not least by any means is something my Mistress told me a couple of weeks ago when this very subject came up here at home. "just think about the difference it will make for all of us.especially with me,i will want even more to "play" with you and flog you more often than i already do" so if that's not another incentive i don't know what is.

dovie -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 8:12:10 AM)
Seeks, Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. It took valium, prozac, the nicotine patch and an always ready water bottle to get me through the withdrawal phases. Nicotine is a serious drug!! My realization or rather full understanding of how addicted I was to nicotine came after I was hospitalized with Meningitis/105.6 fever. To get my nicotine fix, I ripped out my IV’s, and climbed through a small window onto a hospital ledge 12 inches wide and 5 floors up. I agree with Master Orion here and strongly encourage you to look at a support structure, chemical or otherwise. Best of luck to you……. dovie

SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 1:50:05 PM)
im calling tomorrow to get an appointment with my dr......to discuss some kind of happy pills to get me through it.....i took them when i was going wacko with panic attacks years ago, and once i got the thinking process down to stop them, i was able to come off the pills n o problem...... hopefully, i can do the same once i get out of the grips of nicotine......

Zensee -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 3:46:14 PM)
You are not so much "quitting" a habit as you are replacing it with another habit. If you just sit around not smoking you'll go batty and drive everyone else nuts too. Find another activity to replace ones that trigger smoking or avoid triggers if possible. As others have said, replace the usual response to a nic fit with healthier rewards and distractions (gum, fresh air, a quick wank...). If going cold-turkey seems too daunting there are more gradual cessation programs but you may actually find them more irksome and discouraging than simply abstaining and toughing it out. Z.

SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 4:30:56 PM)
im going cold turkey-but if theres a pharmacutical to help....well.....ill take it i "quit" cold turkey before, and made it nearly 5 years.....one day i got a craving, and went to the store and bought some cheap ass pack, thinking it will make me sick and ill get over this shit....omg....i wrapped my lips around that thing, and sucked........and i been smokin since that day again..... i think i need to find something else to suck-lmfao-but finding a man who digs fat redheads and is sane, well, its a marathon, not a sprint.......

MissSCD -> RE: quitting smoking (12/4/2007 8:14:23 PM)
I quit cold turkey this last time because I had surgery. When I woke up, I could not breathe. They had me on morphene for two days. I was so stoned I did not know how to get out of the room to smoke. Then I made myself quit because I could not blow that breathing tester at all. Zero. *I am still caughing a year later.* *Quit.* *Regards, MissSCD*

OrionTheWolf -> RE: quitting smoking (12/5/2007 6:30:38 AM)
If you are going to quit cold turkey, do the list idea, drink plenty of water in the first few days (several litres), keep a mini list with you so that you can read it, and focus on the reasons you are quitting when the urges get bad. Read up on some stress relief breathing exercises to do when the urges hit. Those urges only last a couple of minutes, but it will seem like a lifetime when they occur. As you starve the nicotine receptors, they will scream louder until the receptors reduce in number. Also, to those that want to use the word habit, it is not a habit. Parts of the psychological addiction are habits, but those are easy to get over, the main problem is the nicotine addiction. Good luck.

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