Ruphus -> RE: About to quit the smoke (Jan. 3 2013 10:08:17)
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Thank you for asking! I was since quite a while thinking of digging out this thread to see how much time passed from the quit, but always forgot to do when roaming the foro. So, it´s 3 months now. And yes, I have not taken a drag in that time. - Meanwhile even serving as example for my best friend who must quit now for physical reasons. We have been appointing these days for him to fly over to here next month and I suggested that he shall keep smoking in that time to fully enjoy his stay, and quit right after his visit. There are folks standing vis-a-vis while we talk in the street and smoke `into my face´, and same when smokers come by and make fume in my house. I even leave the ashtray with their ends on the table for days and don´t care. Fruther there are opened tobacco packages in reach all the time and lighters flying around still in every room ( except of bed rooms). My approach is that one must ensure to avoid any slightest of external dependency. No appointments to quit, no attempts to keep environment off challenges ... nada. I always disliked hysterical ex-smokers who´d want you to siver away on winter balconies, and adored my ex-smoker brother who would let folks smoke even inside his cars without the slightest sign of discomfort. - Mostly even sports cars with relatively small cabines. The nonechalance is certainly contributing to the surprisingly easy abstain. Another reason I assume to be that tobacco ( for cigarette roling ) is much less treated with addictive chemistry cocktails than common cigarettes. ~ 95% of the time I am flabbergasted how easy it actually is, with ocassional returns of minutes where you are an inch away from rolling yourself a yummy stick. Usually under depressing news, but also with positive emotions. ( Like Christmas night, with me depressed about being isolated from its hemisphere - and with most of my dear not being among us anymore to celebrate anyway. Then I opened the DVDs a friend had sent me and watched gigs and interviews from a David Gilmour tour. Can´t even try to tell how it moved me; - and it was hard like hell to NOT light up a cigarette.) Damn, heavens gate music without a smoke ... Living smokeless is just a tad too sterile, well-behaved and bland for me. I had it twice already. Waking up from a nightmare. Both times, in a dream I had unconsciously fired up a cigarette and been smoking it with sparkling pleasure when suddenly midst of it I realized to have broken the lent / inevitably returned to the sin, shocked so much that it woke me up. I guess Todd has it right. It certainly contributes to the abstinence that I manage to almost not think of smoke at all. - In my experience the first three days are the worst ( it is being said that it would be four days actually), so I suppose that you will be feeling some relief from tomorrow on, my friend. Hold out, and wellcome in the clean club! [:)] Best, Ruphus
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