Quit Smoking for another habit ?

[discn]

I smoked for over 20 years and I finally quit 3 months ago I was using the nicorette inhalator. After about a month I noticed my throat was sore and it was not getting any better, so i tossed that damn thing away but i was still craving the nicotine, so I went and and bought some berry skoal (chew, dip, snuff) and i didn't like it but then i tried the mint thinking i wouldn't like it but now i'm hooked. should I start smoking again ? or is this a better option? obviously to kick the nicotine would be best

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Minelab PRO-FIND 35 Waterproof Pinpointer Metal Detector for Experts with Tone ID & Adjustable Sensitivity - Grab it through Amazon!

[jeff of pa]

I quit smoking almost 2 years ago & regret it

Not because I crave cigarettes, but because My health seems to have suffered since.

Yes you read that Right.

I didn't Stutter.

last Friday, My latest doctor said he has heard this allot.

I not only gained about 40 pounds & climbing
I've got all types of aches I never had before, Sleeping is harder,
I lack energy to do things,
and I am now expecting I will start catching Bugs like colds,
and flu.
Because I have no Nicotine in my system to kill them

But if you insist on trying, Try 3 step nicotine patches.
It is what worked for me. I think I used them for a year
4 months of each step. Memory has suffered also

I should have took a cue from George Burns

Fyi The oldest people on Earth are all smokers. According to the World Health Organization and the statisticians of the anti-tobacco cartel, however, these are (or will be) all premature deaths, for the simple reason that they are smokers.

http://www.forces.org/evidence/hamilton/other/oldest.htm



Of course you may have to check if the patches work for chew

 

[discn]

I quit smoking because of my lungs, I did try the patch but i had a allergic reaction to them same with the gum which is weird because i can smoke and chew with no reaction. My grandfather was the same, he smoked every day but if we drove by a tobacco feild he couldn't breath and his face would swell up.

 

[mercury1]

Sorry you folks have such a hard time quitting but thank you, from someone who has a hard time dealing with second hand smoke. I think most smokers have no idea how negatively their smoke can affect others but for me, I just can't stand it and do what I can to avoid it.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I quit smoking almost 2 years ago & regret it

Not because I crave cigarettes, but because My health seems to have suffered since.

Yes you read that Right.

I didn't Stutter.

last Friday, My latest doctor said he has heard this allot.

I not only gained about 40 pounds & climbing
I've got all types of aches I never had before, Sleeping is harder,
I lack energy to do things,
and I am now expecting I will start catching Bugs like colds,
and flu.
Because I have no Nicotine in my system to kill them

But if you insist on trying, Try 3 step nicotine patches.
It is what worked for me. I think I used them for a year
4 months of each step. Memory has suffered also

I should have took a cue from George Burns

Fyi The oldest people on Earth are all smokers. According to the World Health Organization and the statisticians of the anti-tobacco cartel, however, these are (or will be) all premature deaths, for the simple reason that they are smokers.

FORCES International - Archive



Of course you may have to check if the patches work for chew

That's interesting Jeff....

I started smoking at age 8, 56 years now. The only apparent issues for me are that I do get winded, but not such that I couldn't do a 5k Warrior Dash obstacle course the first of June.

I do not smoke in the company of others, step outside to smoke.

My father passed at age 89, and chain smoked unfiltered Camels for 70 years. He also drank a half gallon of bootleg every day for 70 years. It was the whiskey that killed him....

And, why was it that whiskey got him?

He was drunk, fell and broke his hip..... Ended up in a nursing home and was quite unhappy with that and did not want to live then. So he willed himself to death.

His lungs were clear - even after 70 years of smoking. They wouldn't let him smoke at the nursing home and he was plenty PO'd about that as you can imagine. At the time I lived a thousand miles away and worked heavy overtime (an economy unlike today's), so his fate was in the hands of my sisters...

 

[DizzyDigger]

Started at age 18 with Camels (unfiltered) and eventually moved to a filtered
cig. by the time I was 25. Continued smoking till Sept. 2010...when I quit.

Life was OK for a few weeks, then things started getting "weird". The anxiety
was creeping up daily, although I had no craving for a smoke. This went on
right through the summer of 2011, and by the end of that summer I was a
complete basket case. I was starting big arguments with my wife over
literally nothing...basically, I'd become a complete jerk, with my emotions
running right at the edge of insanity. Over this time I'd been proscribed
a anti-depressant and also went back on Adderall for the ADHD..and I was
still a nutcase.

Sept 2011 I got into a major argument with my wife (we never had fights
before I had quit) and was actually prepared to leave her. I jumped in my
truck to go take a long break somewhere, and passing the only convience
store for 30 miles, I stopped in and bought a pack of Camel lights.

One smoke and I was back to being my old self...completely. I had no idea
whatsoever that the lack of cigarettes was what was causing all the issues,
as after the 2nd week of quitting there were no cravings. STILL, it was the
lack of cigarettes that was the basis for ALL the issues I'd had in the previous
12 months.

Drove up to a vista point way back in the hills, called my wife, apologized
for what had taken place over the previous year, and then told her about starting
smoking again. She said she had thought all along that me not smoking was the
problem, but she didn't want to say anything that would make me start again.

Since that day we haven't had a single cross word with one another.

I won't quit again...not a chance. A miserable, mental life is not life at all,
but simply existing, and that's just not acceptable. Told my MD the same thing
when they asked about me quitting...basically I said: "I smoke, and will continue
to do so, so encouraging me to quit is off-the-table, as it's not gonna happen."

Good, bad or indifferent...I smoke, and life is better as a result. My fault for getting
so addicted in the first place, but I can imagine there's a hundred other things
that will kill me equally as fast that we don't even know about yet.