For those that do, please don't throw your butts on the ground or out the car window. It's extremely irresponsible -- yet I see it happening all the time.
In treatment to quit smoking. I've been a smoker for 15 years and recently I've decided to quit this bad habit. So my psychiatrist prescribed me Bupropion.
The treatment is working: 4 days without smoking. It feels great.
I've been a cigarette smoker for 14 years, but in the last 6 months i've switched to pipes. It's a whole new approach to nicotene delivery. Much more enjoyable, and healthier in some ways imho.
To other smokers, you should really try it. Cigarettes is to smoking as hearing the same loop of music over and over again while pipe smoking is like having all of the itunes store available for you to listen.
A side benefit is that as it's an active process, contrary to just lighting up a cig and letting it burn on it's own, you keep your attention focused on it, you relax, and your subconcious is free to engage in all sorts of thoughts.
(Although you can achieve similar results by taking a bike ride for example)
To those who have quit smoking well done and keep it up.
Never have, don't see a reason why. From the outside all I see is death, sickness, and billions of dollars in profit for huge corporations, and I have never tried nicotine so I don't know how it feels.
No. I'm curious about trying them, and might have a smoke some time in the future to see what nicotine feels like, but I have an aversion to things that are physically addictive.
Put the curiosity aside, please. I smoke, and I've tried to quit numerous times. I feel like crap several times a month, and I know it's directly related to my smoking.
My girlfriend hated it, so I quit. Only a smoker for 5 months or so... so it wasn't entirely too hard.
I have to admit I miss it... It's definitely a social lubricant. It helps when working too, to take a break for a smoke. It's also nice to have a cig after a good meal.
So, I guess I'm glad that I quit but I can certainly relate. And there's nothing I hate more than the whiney people that complain to smokers that they're ruining the earth. Sometimes people are far too quick to judge a person based on whether or not they have a smoking habit.
An old girlfriend, when we broke up, told me the one thing she will be grateful to me for is I got her to quit smoking. She breathed better, smelled things better and food tasted better.
