A very close friend was recently diagnosed with a liver disease so we’ve decided to quit Ms. Nicotina together. I’ve been ingesting nicopeen competitively for around 15 years, ever since I worked as a busboy and couldn’t take a break unless it was for a ciggy (thanks food service industry!!!!).
Genetically I’m fucked from an addiction standpoint. My dad’s mom is 84 and gave up on quitting 20 years ago and her mom didn’t quit until she was forced by the nursing home after she went blind and started a few fires. Both women are living/had lived very long lives but they never successfully got off the nicoco.
However, I have a good feeling about this time because this is the first time I feel I have a good reason outside myself to motivate me: my friend’s health. In the past my attempts at quitting were either motivated by the fear of disappointing a partner or my general lung performance. The former never worked out cos I couldn’t wait to cop a pack as soon as the break up hit (or a big fight for that matter) and the latter worked up to a point but there’s plenty of ways to ingest nicorobin without putting partial-combustion bullshit or even mystery vapors in your air sacks.
Anyway, if you’ve been there tell me how it’s going! What are good nicofleen replacements as a habit or tick? I’m not too worried about oral fixation but I’m considering keeping a surgical steel needle on hand to poke myself with. In your opinion, do I need to turn down grabba/backwoods blunts from my friends? swishers? Is my partner about to be living with a huge baby for a few weeks??
Thanks!!
I have successfully quit smoking twice. I know it sounds silly to say successfully when it happened twice, but still: I smoked for about 10 years, about half a pack to a pack (rarely more, if drinking heavily). Then I finally decided to seriously quit, cold turkey, and managed to stay off nicotine for over 3 years. At that point I periodically tested smoking again, by asking friends at parties like "hey can I just see if it does anything for me" and could literally not pull a proper drag even, I felt as if I lost the ability to smoke, similarly to how I was before even starting.
Then I had a very stressful situation in my life, bought a pack of cigarettes on a whim, and started smoking again. After about 6 months I decided that it was a super bad idea and stopped again. Now it's been about 5 months clean, again.
Anyway, the first two weeks are the worst. If you get through them, it will get way easier. At this point I can't stand the smell of smokers, i.e. them just standing close to me. Hydrate properly, have a snack, go for a walk (though admittedly walks can suck if you're used to smoking on them).
Also not sure about the blunts slang, but I was able to smoke joints and take bong hits without nicotine addiction piping up.