I traded my Marlboro's for Copenhagen pouches. My fiancee is allergic to smoke. Occasionally I will have 1 cigarette but that's only when I bum off someone else. Been good for almost a year now without buying a pack of cigarettes.

 

I never could stand snuff and its not really any better than ciggs as far as the whole cancer thing but to each his own if it gets you thru the day more power to ya

 

it made it to where she would not break out into a coughing fit every time I came in from smoking. Nicotine is a Son of a Beyotch!

 

sure is im using the gum this time and im dooing ok with it at least if i get hooked on the gum there is really no chance of cancer and i still get my fix

 

I could never get it to stay lit for me.

 

 

As someone who used to go grab a smoke with a dip of Cope in, I can tell you that it is most assuredly a kickable habit. It's rough though. At one point I smoked 2 packs a day and or did a can of dip a day. Sometimes one of each. Just earlier this evening I told my wife that I wanted a dip, but it would probably make me sick now. That's a good thing. Just kick it for your own good and stick with it.

 

man were you trying to play cancer russian roulett

 

Hopefully if you really want to give up you will. My wife went cold turkey years ago (before we met) and I am glad she did I am not into kissing ashtrays!

 

Yeah, that's why I quit and hope and pray like hell I never get it.

 

I know I'm comming off a fifteen year 2 pack a day average and it's kinda like waiting for test results where you question every drunken night of

 

Quitting is a head game that you play with yourself. One side comes up with an excuse to have a smoke, while the other side tries to resist. If you can get yourself to say no, I will never smoke again, and get both sides to agree, then the battle is over and it's easy.

The cravings are intense, but they only last for a few seconds, unless you let the head game start, then they can last for hours. The cravings fade dramatically over 6 months, but even after 20 years they never completely go away.

If you let yourself start again, you you will pick up exactly where you left off, almost immediately. The same is true for alcohol and almost every drug.

 

i know about the backslide part and almost did it this morning went to go check on rental prop this morning and the tennants decided to repaint the inside, of course it all dark colors that i will have to put three coats of kills over to repaint the walls when they move out I dont think im goint to renew them in 6 months and they are not getting their deposit back

 

week 1 in the bag no so bad, interesting things coming out of my lungs, but overall I'm feeling better thanks for the words of encouragement

 

Good job man, keep it up