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Hmm. I decided to post here as this is sort of "news" in my life at the moment (and also I'm a bit bored) so here goes..

I've decided to quit smoking, and cut down on my "usage of alcoholic beverages" due to a few reasons:

1. I spend fuckloads of money to that crap.

2. I'm and idiot when I'm drunk and I always have to end up hearing about it the next day, week, forever, mainly "ha ha youre an idiot, remember what you did that one time?" and it pisses me off, so I'm sort of planning to not get totally wasted every time I decide to have a few beers and actually stick to the few instead of "Drink as much as you can as fast as you can and return home dirty and suffer the next day" (last sunday is still clearly on my mind, laid in my bed with lights off for pretty much the whole day after waking up at 3:40 pm or so.

Another reason for quitting smoking is that a few of my friends are planning to quit too, my parents are quitting, so I decided that I really don't wish to continue spending money on it and ruining my health, of course there's no actually "visible" effects etc. from it yet, but that's just another good reason to quit while it still hasn't done any serious damage to my lungs etc. but in 10-20 or so years I'll know and regret not quitting when I was younger, as it should still be easier for me to quit. On the other hand my school has a policy of supporting people that are planning to quit smoking, so I can get free nicotine gum and stuff for a few days every few days as they want to monitor my progress so I won't just sell the stuff to get cash for cigs etc. :p

Anyhow, I've tried before and failed, but this time I'm more cereal about it.

I don't think there are too many smokers here on SRL, atleast ones that have quit, but if you have any kind of "tips" on quitting then go ahead and share them. My friend is sort of addicted to bubble gum (not the nicotine filled crap) as he started chewing it when he quit and felt like smoking to sort of replace the need to smoke with some other stuff :p I guess it helped him and might work for me too, as it's a big time habit to always start rolling a cig the minute I step outside from my house and smoking it :D So if I could get rid of that it'd be an easy ride.

I've also cut down on the amount of time I spend at the pc quite alot and I even shut it down when I leave due to complaints about electricity bills from my parents (pfft) and won't just leave it running :p

So yeah. (waiting for Hugo to post "You will fail" and other peoples "/care" etc.) Wish me good/bad luck.

You are gonna be a good boy? :/

From: mastaraymond
You are gonna be a good boy? :/

Nah. Mainly doing it for the ca$h and health.

I believe in you GoF. I don't have any tips.. because I don't smoke, nor do any of my close friends. But I will always be there to offer support :)

Give up the nasty stuff like tobacco and alcohol and smoke mother nature's plant!

From: GoF

So yeah. (waiting for Hugo to post "You will fail" and other peoples "/care" etc.) Wish me good/bad luck.

haha, no, I think you'll make it.
Then again, if you have trouble to like stop thinking about it you could try buying these stickers or w.e that you stick on your arm to help you stop thinking about it and do something you like. (I would run to keep my mind of it but do something that works for you)

also, Claw is correct but that stuff is even more expensive -,-

Haven't started/given up smoking myself, but my mum did and she always told me that the most important thing was not to think about them. She filled the gap mainly with puzzles and a couple of small part-time jobs (she helped out at a couple of charity shops). Of course, she did first give up when she got pregnant with me, but I think it may be hard for you to get lai…err.. pregnant GoF :)
Hope you manage to do it, though I will miss your drunken progress in IRC with the beers tally slowly mounting ;)

I've finally stopped biting nails. :)

My godparents quit smoking, and they didnt really tell me what helped them most, but there was this website where you can see how much money you are saving a day from quitting smoking via how many cigarrets (or packs) you are smoking a day, so if the money is important to you, then maybe you can set up and account there or something… But, best of luck to you, I hope you succeed!

Yesh, the beer tally was fun, but if you are spending so much $$ on beer/cigs then ok, just don't replace smoking/drinking with another "bad" habit. Good luck?


So who else is left that smokes? :(

From: [-jesus-]
Yesh, the beer tally was fun, but if you are spending so much $$ on beer/cigs then ok, just don't replace smoking/drinking with another "bad" habit. Good luck?


So who else is left that smokes? :(

Your bird should stop smoking, seriously.

From: mastaraymond
Your bird should stop smoking, seriously.

He switched to smoking crack now :/

From: Zytex!
I've finally stopped biting nails. :)

im going to also try break that habit :p

GoF you seem to have exactly same problems as me haha.
Sometimes I drink too much, yesterday I ran around town naked chasing my friends with a large spoon.
I used to drink a lot more than now, last summer I was drunk like ATLEAST 2-3 days per week. Now I drink maybe once in a month. Drinking is much more easier to quit than smoking.
First weekend is hardest, but then it get's alot easier. After two weeks it should be really easy to quit drinking.

But smoking… Harder, but not too hard.
There are two addictions in smoking:
-nicotine
-social habit

That's why I'm gonna buy some snuss/snuff for like 2-4 weeks so I get all the nicotine I need. In month I have lost the social habbit, and so I can quit using snuss/snuff. It's much easier to quit snuss because it's illegal to sell it in Finland, so I can't buy more.

From: Secet

Sometimes I drink too much, yesterday I ran around town naked chasing my friends with a large spoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55PLMSPijmc

GoF, you can try buying a pack, then soaking them all with a lot of Vinegar, then smoking it. Will taste like shit, and if you still get an urge to smoke, do it again, then usually after the second time you won't want to do it again.

Or do what The Claw said x)

gj :) and gl

how old are you?

What my old friends dad did to make his son(my olds friend) to stop smoking was he would smush all those cigs and then keep smushing them and made him eat what he was smoking. He quit cold turkey after that.

Ty for support etc. and P1nky aka Joker I'm 17 >_>

Nice Secet >_> Any idea what made you do that x)? But yeah, drinking is way easier to stop as I don't drink pretty much every hour of every day :)

Oh, and mix, my mom didn't smoke at all when she was pregnant too >_> But after that started again -.-

Oh and rofl, biting nails… I'll get to that once I'm done with smoking..

From: cnr sport
What my old friends dad did to make his son(my olds friend) to stop smoking was he would smush all those cigs and then keep smushing them and made him eat what he was smoking. He quit cold turkey after that.

Only problem with eating tobacco is that it's poisonous and you'll most likely die :/

Good for you and say totally cereal about mbp =p

From: Kave
im going to also try break that habit :p

Hah! It started when I read a thread about how many bacteries there are under your nail… And when I traveled to spain (it so much sand there O_o), it didn't made things better (or.. It did made things better, depends on what point of view you are looking at :p )..

Biting nails is epic, should post a pic sometime, they look like the earthquake print thingie of them poor Indonesian after an 8 Richter earthquake :p


Another problem I have is kicking doors :( I kick when I come from da toil, I kick when I leave the house :p

From: n3ss3s
Another problem I have is kicking doors :( I kick when I come from da toil, I kick when I leave the house :p

Lolwat? So you like shout "IIIIIIT'S n3ss3333333333333sssssss!!!!!" and *BANG* kick the bathroom door down and your mom shouts "god damn you kid thats like the 50th door this week you bastard!!!"?

E: And do you do some trademark dance after stepping over the kicked down door outside from the bathroom?

From: GoF
Lolwat? So you like shout "IIIIIIT'S n3ss3333333333333sssssss!!!!!" and *BANG* kick the bathroom door down and your mom shouts "god damn you kid thats like the 50th door this week you bastard!!!"?

E: And do you do some trademark dance after stepping over the kicked down door outside from the bathroom?

Just a "Hm." :p

Big thing when you are your age is the social group. You probably started to 'fit in' with someone or a group of someones. The best way would be to take yourself out of that group for a little bit until you 'good' at saying no to the pressure.

Don't totally abandon them and don't ever do anything with them, but instead of going to the party that night where you KNOW there will be smoking/drinking just say you have other commitments.

Trust me ;) the social part will make it a lot easier. I didn't have to quit, since I never started, but I had to help a friend quit back in high school.

Big thing when you are your age is the social group. You probably started to 'fit in' with someone or a group of someones. The best way would be to take yourself out of that group for a little bit until you 'good' at saying no to the pressure.

I lost all my friends when they started to drink and smoke and I didn't :(

Anyway, when they are 43 year old and call me drunken saying "Should've never started smoking man…" , I'll just tell them "You go to hell loser, YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!" :p

From: n3ss3s
I lost all my friends when they started to drink and smoke and I didn't :(

Anyway, when they are 43 year old and call me drunken saying "Should've never started smoking man…" , I'll just tell them "You go to hell loser, YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!" :p

You is not nice :(

From: HyperSecret
Big thing when you are your age is the social group. You probably started to 'fit in' with someone or a group of someones. The best way would be to take yourself out of that group for a little bit until you 'good' at saying no to the pressure.

Don't totally abandon them and don't ever do anything with them, but instead of going to the party that night where you KNOW there will be smoking/drinking just say you have other commitments.

Trust me ;) the social part will make it a lot easier. I didn't have to quit, since I never started, but I had to help a friend quit back in high school.

Pretty much the hardest part, yes.. I'm fine when I'm home etc. but when I go outside and most of my friends are smoking it's harder. Also at school you quite easily get to know the "smokers" and sort of become a part of the group (aka. always going for a smoke with them on every break at school). So I thought that if I fail now I'll wait a few weeks so there'll be a 1 week (or longer) vacation. Might make it easier not having to go to school.

From: The Claw
Give up the nasty stuff like tobacco and alcohol and smoke mother nature's plant!

i agree. no harm in a lil pot =]

the first 3 days are the hardest after that its easier, after a week id say u have officially quit smoking.

I heard sticking a pencil in your mouth helps as you might miss something being in your mouth

I got a few (hard to explain in English will try some other time) bad habits. Anyways good to see you actually care about yourself/your future :), unlike some other people here who will not be mentioned.

From: JuKKa
the first 3 days are the hardest after that its easier, after a week id say u have officially quit smoking.

Not really. Once you haven't smoked for months, then it's pretty much officially quitting. Tho it might become a habit again, even after many years. So once you have smoked, you have never actually "quit". Hard to explain, hope you understand.

From: Bobarkinator
I heard sticking a pencil in your mouth helps as you might miss something being in your mouth

Yes, oral fixation. Some smokers suck matches or tootpicks when they try to quit. :P

From: Secret
Yes, oral fixation. Some smokers suck matches or tootpicks when they try to quit. :P

Heh, I wondered why the smoking girls always were appealed to me.. >_<

Don't procrastinate quitting. Don't say, I will quit after this cigarettes or something of that nature. Quit right now. Otherwise you will just keep putting it off.

Call 13-QUIT. Quitline :D Oh, i forgot you are not in Australia. But maybe it works for International calls as-well ;)

From: JuKKa
the first 3 days are the hardest after that its easier, after a week id say u have officially quit smoking.

Nah. My mom never smoked when she was pregnant and always started after it :/ And my dad hadn't had a smoke for years but then on one occasion decided to smoke 1 cigarette and smokes even today. You can get rid of it after some time, probably depends on the person but you sort of can't "ever smoke again" or so, kind of like with alcoholics, they'll only need just a tiny bit of something with alcohol in it and boom, drunk 24/7 :p

Klean, I quit yesterday at around 1pm :p Haven't had a smoke since, but I wish so much I could have even 1 cig :/

/carez… :p

Good luck :D

From: Hy71194
Heh, I wondered why the smoking girls always were appealed to me.. >_<

So your organ is comparable in size then? ;)

Smoked 3,5 years(last 1,5 about 5-10 cigarettes per day) and quited at day, no help or something just strong wish to leave smoking.

The Prince of Randomness? Ur back?

BTW: All smokers: You know that a smoke makes you live 7 minutes shorter. So 10 sigs a day, makes you an hour older.

GoF - To be honest, You stupid f**k! Why start smoking? i get the drinking but why in the fucking destory yourself?. While your at it wanna buy some radioactive shit?. That will kill you softly aswell :D

However, Quit while you can, Make some money, Be happy :)

From: N1ke!
GoF - To be honest, You stupid f**k! Why start smoking? i get the drinking but why in the fucking destory yourself?. While your at it wanna buy some radioactive shit?. That will kill you softly aswell :D

However, Quit while you can, Make some money, Be happy :)

I'm sure he wants to be flamed while going through a really tough time…

Thats really great that you want to quit smoking, I haven't done that, the problem isn't really nicotine but morelikely the social habit.

From: DaWu
Thats really great that you want to quit smoking, I haven't done that, the problem isn't really nicotine but morelikely the social habit.

Exactly. I RARELY smoke when I'm alone. And at work I don't even smoke.

I'm sure we'll all miss the beer tally over at the IRC =[

But good luck to yer!

And can that "cigarette==seven_minutes" thing ever actually be proven? Seems unlikely to me. That a little smoke in your lungs will shave seven minutes off your life.

From: Jason2gs
That a little smoke in your lungs will shave seven minutes off your life.

(10:59:40 PM) Widget^: quick, someone name something that's toxic when you burn it
(10:59:44 PM) R0b0t1: Linux.
(10:59:46 PM) Jason2gs: Pepper.
(10:59:48 PM) Jason2gs: I mean
(10:59:50 PM) Jason2gs: Tobacco
(10:59:51 PM) Jason2gs: Nowait
(10:59:53 PM) Jason2gs: Uhm…
(10:59:56 PM) Jason2gs: Plastic!
(10:59:58 PM) Jason2gs: Uhm
(11:00:00 PM) Jason2gs: Styrofoam
(11:00:04 PM) Widget^: close enough, i'll just quote you for your reply

Those might be a little more than 7 minutes, and it just "a little smoke" :p

Styrofoam produces the nastiest smell though.

Probably gets you high, however…

From: R0b0t1
Styrofoam produces the nastiest smell though.

Probably gets you high, however…

Wouldn't try it though. :redface: :stirthepot:

From: Jason2gs
I'm sure we'll all miss the beer tally over at the IRC =[

But good luck to yer!

And can that "cigarette==seven_minutes" thing ever actually be proven? Seems unlikely to me. That a little smoke in your lungs will shave seven minutes off your life.[/QUOTE]


If someone feels suicidal enough, mind smoking


24*60 / 7 * 365 * 1000 ~ 75085714 smokes, if you did, you are atleast 1000 years old :)


So anyway, which's point the above was, to die a year earlier than 'normal', you have to smoke 75085 smokes. So, having an effect on your time left, unless you intend on a dramatic scene at the hospital - "Peter… Tell you mother that…. *AHHH* ", you have quit smoking before it makes any difference.

My bad habit: Addiction to symmetry.

My sister walks by and punches me in one arm, I'm half tempted to piss her off, just so she'll punch me square in the other. It's terrible!

I also have this thing where I see lines extending from all flat surfaces of the room. Be it walls, tables, legs/bases of chairs, etc. I'll force myself to not step on these lines. Otherwise… I don't know what happens :S

Every rug, table, and any other piece of furniture in the house has to be in its correct spot. Or else everything is blown. R0b0t1 can vouch. Do the notches in the screws in my desk have to be perfectly linear, or no?

im going to also try break that habit

Yeah the biting the nails bit is hard to break. I stop, then I find my nails all cut down :( Good luck. Save some money by quitting lol.

Cut em2 it

The least of my evils is that I always need my function prototypes to line up :(

From: R0b0t1
The least of my evils is that I always need my function prototypes to line up :(

Really? I don't believe you but I won't say anything :P

Ontopic: Good luck with that. I hope you get everything right and back together :D

From: Jason2gs

Every rug, table, and any other piece of furniture in the house has to be in its correct spot. Or else everything is blown.

Basically the same for me too :( drives me nuts sometimes…

That's just OCD lol but i completely understand what your talking about as well.
I smoke too much but not cigs ;) the only bad thing is i get nothing done.

From: Jason2gs
My bad habit: Addiction to symmetry.

My sister walks by and punches me in one arm, I'm half tempted to piss her off, just so she'll punch me square in the other. It's terrible!

I also have this thing where I see lines extending from all flat surfaces of the room. Be it walls, tables, legs/bases of chairs, etc. I'll force myself to not step on these lines. Otherwise… I don't know what happens :S

Every rug, table, and any other piece of furniture in the house has to be in its correct spot. Or else everything is blown. R0b0t1 can vouch. Do the notches in the screws in my desk have to be perfectly linear, or no?

Is that really a habit or addiction etc.? Seems more like some obsession like thing or something, no offense.

Quitting is good. I quit Cold Turkey, aswell. You dont need any of that stuff if you REALLY want to give up, cause they dont really work anyway. Well they didnt for me.

And Im off the alcohol too. Most of the time at parties I'm the only one not drunk/stoned cause last time I got drunk I ended up kissing a guy (I'm male) and I've had the whole "HAHAHAH GAAAAAAY" and shit at me for a while now. That's even worse because I'm really considering starting again, which isnt good ):

Good Luck Mate.

Btw, how is it going?
Having any success?
GL in advance from me,
Feeling good, because I have no such bad habits.
~Eerik~

From: GoF
Is that really a habit or addiction etc.? Seems more like some obsession like thing or something, no offense.

Meh. It's something… It's certainly annoying.

From: heavenzeyez1
Btw, how is it going?
Having any success?
GL in advance from me,
Feeling good, because I have no such bad habits.
~Eerik~

Just a few days ago, he changed his nick to GoF`BRB`CANCER on the IRC. So… I'm guessing no.

/me smokes a cig in front of gof and has pleasure spasms

/me has trouble keeping my right hand away from myself as i smoke

hows it going if ur still trying and failing i say stop trying to quit

dont quit smoking just dont do it then u dont have the pressure and it wont feel as hard