What I really wanna know is.....

[coyote bob]

maybe this ain't gotta f#@*in thing to do with tattoing, but this is the most interesting forum on the net......and i love the wide range of responces...they is a wealth of knowledge here!...what i wanna know is "am i the only fool in the universe that can't quit smokin cigarettes?!!!" been smokin for over 25 years and i am getting to the point were i really hate it....tryin to quit and this has got me by the ballz....i'll go a day or so and then i'll usually torch up cuz some idiot has a no smokin sign up or some goody goody will make a comment, and i show them!!!
so have any o you fools quit?....lotsa s%#t on the market..patches, gums, hynosis (thats probably what i should do) has anybody had any success with this ....i'm really starting to loathe this cigarette thing!!! other than that i jes finished a eagle and it rocks, the best feeling in the world is to cover up some mess crap with a nice tatt, this chick is a sea boat capt and had a (suposed to look like) a unicorn that a dude did with a sewing needle whilst she was drunk...(i think the other guy was drunk werst) i never say bad thingz to folks bout theyre tats but when i saw this i almost puked..shes a happy camper today and i feel good........her lover really likes it and now she wants a moutain lion tat....(round an round it goes)

[Papa Gee]

I quit for 7 years Bob. But then I got divorced and started smoking again. The way I quit was kinda weird. I kept an unopened pack of Marlboros sitting on my speaker in the living room the whole time I was quitting. I always panicked when I would run out of smokes. Just knowing that they were there was a great comfort. That way the only demon I had to fight was the urge to rip open the pack and smoke 5 or 6 at the same time.

I also ate tons of Wurthers Originals candies. Something about them was more satisfying than chewing gum. Kind of a rich taste to them. Also I rewarded myself at the end of each week with a new CD or something that I would have otherwise spent the money on smokes.

Thing is that after even three or four years I would see someone light up a cigarette and I would think "Man, I could smoke the shit outta that Marlboro." Damn addiction is a funny thing.

[voodoo]

buy a big ass bag of dum dums ! :lol: put a lolly pop in yer craw instead!

[MedusaQueen]

Well, unless you can get pregnant....lol....that's the only way I was able to stop. It made me sick, I HAD to stop. Quit for a whole year, but now I'm smoking like a freight train again. *sigh* It's a mental thing. Just put them down. Don't pick them up. If you really want to quit, you will, but your mind has to want to. Mine doesn't. I gave up. I'm a smoker plain and simple. ROFL....some advice, huh?

[voodoo]

god damn im glad i never started! everyone in my family smokes those cancer sticks!
now i see the long term effects on my mom,and let me tell u its not a good thing!!
:cry:

[skullman]

Yeah loosing some one to there own habits, sucks. I recintly lost my dad to lung cancer. Yeah I quit a year before he found out his fate just, hoping that I don't follow too soon.

[coyote bob]

good stuff guyz, thanx......(btw keepin a pack around heps me, i only smoked bout 5 this weekend, usually do a pack a day min)