3 Days smoke free

[Tristik]

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The main thing to realize when you quit smoking is after the first time you have a monstrous craving, and wait it out, that they all pass like that. Once you realize that craving goes away after a little while, they become easier and easier to ignore.

I'm talking about the craving to actually have a cig, not the nicotine part. That's harder than quitting nicotine.
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[Snusdog]

Just don't stress it. The path is usually bumpy. If you smoke again, fine, just keep using the snus.

And congratulations. :wink:

Best advice ever! Take it to heart.


And a big congrats for day 3

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[MojoQuestor]

Re: 3 Days smoke free

Yayyy for me. lol Ok I was a 2 pack a day smoker for 25 years, since I was 15. Well, proably a pack a day smoker for the first 5 years, so lets say a 2 pack a dayer for 20 years.

Been snusing for about 3 weeks now. The first couple weeks I had anywhere from 4 to 10 smokes a day while snusing. Last week I was only smoking about 5 a day, couple in the morning, a couple late at night.

Sunday morning I had the last smoke of my pack and said, screw this, I am not buying anymore cigs. I haven't had one since, and a nice strong ES snus takes care of any craving that might creep up. At home is the toughest if I am not occupied and I am even finding that easier than I thought.

But anyway, 3 days smoke free for me is amazing, LOL, so I am proud. Hopefully its the end of smoke in my lungs (well cig smoke in my lungs anyway, ) I feel SO much better. I LOVE ME MY SNUS!!!!!!!

Congratulations. I know how good this must make you feel. Your experience sounds so much like mine. I was 2 packs a day for most of 22 years, then rollies for about a year and a half. Once I started snusing, last August, the smoking tapered off quickly, just about like you described yours. By late September, I might have had a cig or two a day. Between October and November I smoked one cigarette, and if I smoked any in December at all it was only one.

Long story, but I smoked a cig or two a day almost every day last month. Finished the can of tobacco on the 24th. I think I might open the last can I have tomorrow. That'll be ten days without, and I'm going to try to see how long I can make this can last. The amazing thing about this is that I can really take them or leave them. I would have never thought that could happen. Like sagedil and lxskllr, I think, I didn't really decide to quit, this time, it just sort of happened. And, well, obviously I'm not totally quit, but the plain fact is I'd much rather have a snus.

And as far as prefab cigarettes, I'm done with them, unless, say, a beautiful woman in a bar were to offer me an English Oval or something.

[BadAxe]

Re: 3 Days smoke free

The amazing thing about this is that I can really take them or leave them. I would have never thought that could happen. Like sagedil and lxskllr, I think, I didn't really decide to quit, this time, it just sort of happened.

Exactly!!! I had not planned on quitting this time, it just kind of happened. And I am amazed that my feelings on cigs are now "ehhhh, who cares". lol. No matter what I used in the past to quit, when I wasn't smoking, I was DREAMING of smoking, lol. So hard to fight that battle like that. This is like, hmmmm, a craving. If I don't have a snus in, I will them pop one in, and craving all gone.

And Man, what an appetite suppresant. I guess because of the way the nicotene enters our systems slower, and for a longer period of time than a cig, I am just not hungry that much. I am definitely not snacking much anymore. And I have found that if I do get a hunger for snacks, and pop a snus in, hunger all gone. So I told my wife I am going to be the first person to quit cigs and not gain weight. lol

To the person that mentioned introducing snus to the wife, I have, and am trying like mad to get her to try one. I have a can of mini mints in the freezer just waiting for her. She has yet to give in yet. But I will never give up.

4 days smoke free and counting.

[tom502]

I tried to get my father to try snus, and even gave him a few Ettan portions, but he just refuses to even try it, and smokes, and has said he wanted to quit. But getting him to even try snus would be like trying to get Roddy Piper to put sunglasses on.

[CoderGuy]

I tried to get my father to try snus, and even gave him a few Ettan portions, but he just refuses to even try it, and smokes, and has said he wanted to quit. But getting him to even try snus would be like trying to get Roddy Piper to put sunglasses on.

LOL Tom I am in the exact situation. He sees how convenient snusing is but won't even try, says it's disgusting as he opens his 3rd pack of the day and fills his coffee can with old smelly butts in his yellow walls, everything smelling like cigs. Go figure.


BadAxe, congrats! Stick with it. I quit last April after 2 packs per day for 26 years. I continued smoking in my dreams for months after quitting, even though I wasn't missing smokes while awake.

Snus is excellent NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) and enjoyable.

Snus On!

CG

[BadAxe]

I have gotten the "I won't even consider it look" from people as well as soon as they find out its smokeless tobacco. No matter how I explain the differences and the lower risk, they just blow it off. lol. Their loss. But I do want my wife to try it with an opne mind so I will not stop working on that.

Its amazing when I am telling a smoker how easy of a time I am having, how I am not having really bad cravings, how I am not eating as a substitute, how I am not irritable, and they say they are jealous, yet they won't try snus. Change is just too hard for most people I believe.

[LaZeR]

... But I do want my wife to try it with an opne mind so I will not stop working on that.

:idea: Tie a portion to your penis? Might work.

[sagedil]

How's that working with the snuff LaZeR. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[LaZeR]

How's that working with the snuff LaZeR. :lol: :lol: :lol:

It doesn't matter what I tie to it, she doesn't go down there. I think its just too big.

[sagedil]

I have no words to say to you. I just don't understand why you........

[chadizzy1]

How's that working with the snuff LaZeR. :lol: :lol: :lol:

It doesn't matter what I tie to it, she doesn't go down there. I think its just too big.

[Veganpunk]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LaZeR]

Questions?

[chadizzy1]

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