Smokers of Jow Forums thread

Smokers of Jow Forums, what is wrong with us. I keep trying to quit but can't. The addiction meme is real. Why did you guys start? Do you plan to quit?

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Ive smoked for 5 years, I quit half a year ago.
Ive started just becouse it felt good to smoke a cig between beers with the boys. It escalated from there.
I quit becouse I kinda stopped enjoying it, felt bit weird right after, no other reason really

My life is pretty empty atm so I take pleasure in the little things and a ciggy goes with all of them. After a good meal, with my morning coffee, with a good book, with some evening drinks and collecting thoughts. I've never smoked more than 10 a day but I savor each one. I think I'll quit when I better other areas of my life like job and living situation.

white knuckle it for 2 weeks and you should in theory be able to go forever, provided you don't hang out with smokers while drunk. That's the biggest threat to an ex-smoker

I can not buy a pack and be fine

Problem is everyone at work smokes so I keep buying packs

Does not apply to long term and/or heavy smokers. It gets much worse at 4+ weeks.

I bought a pack on tuesday so I could take smoke breaks at work and then someone broke into my car and stole all my change and my cigs
wtf is wrong with people, I'm not buying more though, I'll take it as a cosmic sign or some shit

the addiction meme isnt real, you're just weakwilled

Unironically fasting cures smoking addiction

That's literally what addiction is though

i started smoking because i was working an incredibly stressful job 50hours a week, struggling to pay bills and doing poorly in college. everyone at my job smoked so i was always handed ciggys.One thing led to the next i was smoking hand rolled sticks about 10 a day. I think after a year and a half my life changed considerably for the better and well pretty much i said i dont need this anymore. As well as my breathing started to get this weird weight to it which i figured could mean really bad things. So i quit cold turkey pretty much.

uwot? addiction is a physical dependency on a substance, its the nicotine you're addicted to, not the smoking which you can get around by being a vaping faggot/nicotine products or just wait out the 4 weeks where you'll get the worst of the withdrawal

read it. might work, might not.
worked for me.
provided you aren't retarded or dyslexic, it'll take only an hour or two of your time, and pirated PDF's are easily available on the googles

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It's the inability of the prefrontal cortex to overpower the amygdala that causes an addict to engage in addictive behaviour, and the cravings aren't caused by the substances you're consuming but the lack of them

because you've developed a dependency...

which is because you have no will power due to the hypofrontality

20upvotes and I show my boipuccy beside a box of smokes

>tfw just picked up cigs while international
should I keep going or not boys? what are the downsides? I cant seem to score any weed and this is the next best thing. i dont even really enjoy it past the 10 minutes or so its lit and im standing on my balcony contemplating

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Your approach to quitting is off. Nicotine is a sensory gating stimulant.

Sensory gating is why in a crowded bar you can hear your friend say your name halfway across the bar through the drone of noise and music. Its how you can focus at work even though Sarah answers the phone like that fat cow in Office Space.

Nicotines neurological impact lasts between 15-20minutes. This short duration of action and its gating properties explains why something like 95% of schizophrenics are habitual chain smokers.

Pay attention to the times you get a craving to smoke and what is going on around you impacting your senses and focus. These triggers can then be avoided or handled differently. For example a white noises generator or radio to drown out background noise.

Been clean for the past month or two, not some AA fag that remembers the date.

What helped me was just getting it in my head as much as possible how truly bad it is, that no one likes it cause it stinks, girls won't think you're mysterious and that it's just a social crutch.

I think I kicked the actual nicotine addiction by drinking coffee and fasting, but the chemical dependency was never really that big of an issue for me.

What also helped was not carrying any credit/debit carbs and having just enough cash for gas.

It's a dumbshit habit, there's better ways to feel happy in life than a drug, and it's a waste of fucking money. Just stop.

I smoke for suicide. Hope I get cancer and die. Can not hang myself because familie. Getting sick and die is best option. I hate this reality

If that's the case you'll probably end up one of those anomalies that lives to be hundred despite smoking like chimney, drinking like a fish, and eating like a pig.

I smoke like 5 fags a week. There was a period when I smoked like 20 a week but I got bored of it and it was needless expenditure. Now I smoke only when drinking or when I happen to have some left after nights out.

I smoke a lot of pot lately. I need a minimum of 3 bowls a day to function normally and like half a pot of coffee too. I haven't lifted in over 4 months and look skinny fat now.

I keep doing it to deal with being miserable about my life but the part where I'm being stupid is in knowing to stop being miserable I just need to quit pot and get fit again. It'll be a shitty first 3 days when I do quit, but then I'll get my energy/motivation and better moods back, things will turn around. I'm pretty sure my test has plummeted too.

I do realize this is about cigarettes but pot is the thing I smoke that I need to quit, it's a gains goblin for me

How many cigs do y'all smoke per day?
15-20 here.

>tfw smoking a ciggy with the boys out at the boneyard.

Smoke weed bro it's for true alpha males

How different people react to cannabis.
I smoke weed while working out. Good mind muscle connection. I listen to music, lift and have a good time

Haha me too. I smoke fags every week. Sometimes when they’re all lite up they start crying and begging for me to stop. Haha smoking fags is funny.

that's what I was doing for a long time too, and slowly I think I'm starting to /make it/ so I'm trying to quit again

I smoke a joint everyday and I'm the fittest I've been in my whole life. I use it as a reward after I'm done working out tho. It doesn't affect my appetite as badly so I'm not binging late at night anymore. Honestly half a pot of coffee a day would fuck me up more than smoking a shit ton. I went from 3-4 cups a day to 1 cup a day and feel way better.

My first 48hr fast definitely reduced my cravings. I smoked only 5 cigs in that period. I think I'll try quitting on a 72hr fast since they say the first 72hrs are the most difficult for cravings.

never gonna make it. I'm sure your physique is shit

YOU SMOKIN YET?

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What

Started social smoking at the end on my teens, started buying packs in my early twenties. Never smoked much, and now I only have an after meal cig(3 a day) if i'm not drinking. Planning to quit by the time I turn 30, i've read you can recover most of your lungs if you do so. Smoking's adverse effects are overblown, doesn't mean it isn't a bad thing but it won't kill you quick.

>but only after destroying dyel asians

This, obviously we've all heard of the bad health effects, and while there is no denying it's unhealthy, having like a pack a week I am not convinced is even that bad, and I stopped buying them months ago. The problem is with abuse, just like with everything in life. Binging regularly on McDonald's? Bad. A McDonald's every now and again? Fine. Binging nightly on alcohol? Bad. Having a glass of wine with a meal occasionally? Fine. Binging on fags smoking 2 packs a day? Bad. Having the odd cigarette with the boys? Fine.

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Oh

I started smoking again during finals stress. I was a hard smoker for 3 weeks and I straight up stopped on the same day of the last test. I haven't had a smoke for 5 days now and I'm not even craving it. Maybe you're just weak.

I could definitely do some workout while high, it's Because I'm using the drug to distract me from realizing I hate my life rn. Infact the only times I start smoking pot like this is in times of weakness. If I was using it purely for fun or to chill out a little I think I could do that I guess it'll be something I revisit after I've gotten healthy again

>what are the downsides
You know exactly what they are faggot.

Inhibited muscle protein synthesis proven in studies with control groups. It doesn't kill gains completely but it sure as hell slows them down.