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Anonymous
Hey /fit/, has anyone here successfully quit smoking? I need to quit for a shitload of reasons, one of them being that I can't really do any kind of cardio for more than like 45 seconds. Any tips other than 'just do it, pussy' ?
>> Anonymous
Tell every single person you know that you are quiting

instruct them to attack your testicles should you fail in your task

stay away from smokers! even if they are friends or family
>> Anonymous
do it faggot
>> Anonymous
>>478543
I'm hesitant to give my friends permission to attack my testicles. They're likely to take me up on it whether I fail or not.
>> Anonymous
>>478537
Near death changes nothing, death changes everything.

Mark my words, you will get cancer.
>> Anonymous
try this: the next time you smoke, don't swallow the smoke. just keep it in your mouth. you only want the thrill of smoking and the nicotine, you don't actually want the smoke in your lungs.
>> gay
>>478561
do you actually smoke?
>> Anonymous
i quit smoking six years ago. how? cold turkey.

just do it, pussy.
>> Anonymous
>>478555
>you will get cancer.
I know this, but sadly, it doesn't motivate me NOW. Yeah, I know, I'm a moron. But still, it seems far enough away that I don't care to let it worry me.
>>478561
This seems like tempting fate--like the equivalent of putting naked, horny supermodels in front of someone who just swore off sex.
>> Anonymous
"Estimates for smoking among gay teens ranged from 38 to 59 percent"
>> Anonymous
>>478581
So if I keep smoking I might score with a gay teen?
>> Anonymous
why the fuck did you start in the first place?
>> gay
Coincidentally i've also quit just last week.

Just stopped cold turkey after 5 years. No cravings yet, let's see how long I'll last.
>> Anonymous
>>478593
Eh, I was offered one and accepted it. Kept doing it... fast forward quite a while and I realize that first one was a bad idea, but hindsight is 20/20, right?
>> Anonymous
I quit cold turkey after 4 years or smoking a pack a day.

The first 3 weeks suck really bad, I had headaches and had the urge to smoke every 20 seconds. After that it's just those moments you allways used to smoke, like in the morning with a cup of coffee or when having some beers with friends. With time the urge to smoke will become less frequent and severe. After 3 or 4 months I hardly ever thought of smoking again. I've quit for 1.5 years now and I allmost never have the urge to smoke again. Very rarely I still think about how nice it would be to have a sigarette, but not in the way a smoker craves a sigarette after not smoking for a while. More like wanting a cookie but not having one because you know it makes you fat.
>> Anonymous
>>478607
Ever just have one just for the hell of it? Like once or twice in the past 1.5 years? Just curious.
>> Anonymous
>>478612
Cant do that, thats how I fucked up, quit for 6 months after smoking a pack a day for 3 years, out having some beers with the boys about 2 months ago, got a little wasted, was offered one and it was all downhill from there, back to a pack a day :(
>> Anonymous
>>478537
smoking isn't your problem
you are just out of shape
>> Anonymous
Throw away all the cigarettes you love. Buy the shittiest brand you can think of; utterly disgusting. Smoke them for a week. Smoke a whole pack till you throw up. Shock yourself out of it with disgust.
>> Anonymous
smokers = fat people

both are disgusting
>> Anonymous
You won't be able to quit unless you have a good reason. You must find that reason, my son.
>> Anonymous
>>478648
Well yeah, but I'm not going to get into shape unless I do something about the poor lung capacity.
>> Anonymous
smoke weed instead
it tastes better and doesn't hurt the throat as bad

also it's better for you
>> Anonymous
>>478661
exactly
quitting smoking won't magically make you fit
you have to get off your lazy ass and actually move
if you don't have the willpower to do that, good luck quitting smoking
>> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. !3GqYIJ3Obs
>>478664
lol
>> Anonymous
>>478669
I work out every day, you assjack. I don't think this is a magical solution, but since cardio is an aerobic workout, it'd be in my best interests to stop further limiting my lung capacity and improve my oxygen intake.
>> Anonymous
>>478675
you work out every day and yet you can't do cardio for 45 seconds? get your fucking story straight.
there is absolutely no way that you can blame being out of shape on smoking.
>> Anonymous
>>478683
Oh give me a break. "45 seconds" was an obvious exaggeration. If I couldn't do cardio for 45 seconds, I'd be a god damn hospital bed hooked up to an iron lung or some shit. Fuck. lrn2sarcasm.
>> Anonymous
>>478579
If this doesn't motivate you to quit you don't want to quit. Because apart from that smoking is super awesome, and if the reason that it will kill you is not enough for you to quit, nothing is.

Next time you are about to light a cigarette imagine you can see yourself when you are 60 (although you can get cancer from it a lot earlier - maybe you already have it). Someone is holding you at gun point. Smiling as the flame makes the cigarette crackle.
Then, as you inhale, his face gets stiff and he puts a bullet in your alter ego's head.

Remind yourself that everything in that story is true, except it won't be so quick and smooth.
>> Anonymous
>>478696
You can desire to do things without the threat of death, you know...
>> Anonymous
some of the best runners i know are smokers.
taper down ur smoking
or everytime u feel like smoking do some pushups etc
>> Anonymous
>>478692
My point is that you are an idiot if you really think smoking is preventing you from being in top shape. Be honest. How often and for what duration do you actually do cardio? I bet it is not very often.
>> Anonymous
>>478704
You can desire a lot, but that doesn't make you get it.
>> Anonymous
>>478715
Currently I'm running 30-45 minutes a day, but I tend to slack on weekends. So say 5 times a week, more or less.

>>478720
But the threat of death doesn't guarantee getting what you desire either. Death is a strong motivator, yes. But it's not the only one.
>> gay
>>478715
>you are an idiot if you really think smoking is preventing you from being in top shape

Wow. Do you even fucking smoke?
>> Anonymous
>>478733
I think he means he's blaming his problems on smoking instead of facing the real problem: lack of determination
>> Anonymous
ive smoked, but everytime i dont see whats so addicting about them they only give you light headed for like 5 minutes tops
>> Anonymous
>>478739
Again, I'm not blaming my problems on smoking. But you can't tell me that smoking is not inhibiting my ability to do a workout that requires a large supply of oxygen. Jesus, I never expected so much opposition to this in a fitness board.
>> anonymous
yes, I have. get a prescription for generic welbutrin.
>> Anonymous
>>478741
Try smoking a pack a day for a few months, then you can give your opion on how hard or easy it is to quit.
>> Anonymous
>>479398
hey bud
i used to smoke 1-2packs a day.
when im out clubbing/drinking abt 3-4 for real
then suddenly, my uncle was hospitalised for lung cancer
and here's the kicker. he's a none smoker.
they found a lump the size of a golf ball in his lungs from second hand smoke. made me wake the fuck up.
so i just went cold turkey. srsly. just stopped smoking altogether. started working out and learning new stuff like baking to get my mind off it. so yea. stop making excuses and just do it bro.
for real.
>> Anonymous
>>479473
same for me, brah. Only I woke up because I suffered from a spontanious pneumothorax (collapsed lung).
Just reacting to a kid who smoked a few sigarettes in his life and now thinks it's not addictive.
>> Anonymous
I quit after 14 years (about a pack a day)
No other advice other than just quit pussy!!!!
>> Anonymous
You wanna know why there is no other advice anywhere besides "Just do it you fucking fag!"?

It's because there is no way around it.

Theres no easy way out.

Just do it for fucks sake. The physical whitdrawal are halfed after one hour and fifteen minutes. And completely out of your system by the next day. It's all in your head, and therefore anyone who cant quit is a Galactic Faggot.
>> Anonymous
Make a decision and stick to it. Also try reading The Nicotine Trick. It explains exactly how nicotine addiction works, knowing this will strengthen your resolve.
>> Anonymous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fqpfd

OP, watch that. There's a part about 20 minutes in where this guy is rushed into hospital because his lung has collapsed. He'd been smoking so much that his lungs were like that of a 90 year old's, and he's only in his mid thirties. He looked like fucking death.

As you might have guessed, I don't smoke and never plan to. Not worth it - it's fucking stupid.
>> Anonymous
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smoke da hookah!
>> Anonymous
Find a different addictive drug instead
meth will help your stamina
>> Anonymous
>>479574
>Also try reading The Nicotine Trick.

I would if someone posted rapidshitz.
>> Anonymous
>>478572
damn yeah.

seriously, you really just want the TASTE of nicotine and tar. don't swallow it. inhale smoke, blow it out, spit that fucking nicotine.
>> Anonymous
>>479591
This video is only available in the UK
>> Anonymous
it's fucking hilarious how all your parents probably told you retards not to smoke, and your schools did too, but you thought "nawwwwwww i wanna be kool like my friends" now look at you. So far OP sounds like he doesn't even want to quit just makes excuses and changes his facts each time someone explains an idea.
>> Anonymous
>>479669
At least we got laid in highschool, so it was worth it.
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
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>> Anonymous
would you like to be able to walk up stair quickly?
would you like to be able to ride a bike for more than 20 mins?
would you like to be able to run away from the cops?

I sure as hell would
>> Anonymous
Former smoker here (8 years.)

This past January I switched from smoking to dipping (for about 2-3 months) and slowly cut that down to nil. Cold turkey sucks too much, and the patch is expensive...and dipping is pretty gross, so it's more of a way to cut down.
>> Anonymous
I cut back for a long time. I used to go through a carton in a week, week and a half give or take. Finally, I just decided I was going to cut back.

First, ration your cigarettes to reasonable amounts. Be concious of every time you light up. I found I was smoking 9-10 smokes at work, and then who knows how many when I got home. When I drank, I chainsmoked.

First tip is to quit smoking at work. Ration your cigarettes to one smoke every break, and none before you go in. You will be a surly, snapping miserable bastard, but deal with it, pussy.

After being able to maintain this without too much effort, limit yourself to one a day - have one smoke at your lunch break, then wait until you get home before you light up. Find excuses not to smoke - go and do something active, hang out with friends who don't smoke, or just go to a place where you have to get up and mvoe from where you want to be to have a smoke (like a mall, or in a friend's house who doesn't).

I cut myself back to about 3 smokes a day like this within 2 weeks. Eventually, only smoke at home, and don't smoke at work. If you do that for more than 2 weeks, you're in the home stretch. It becomes normal to spend 8 hours or so without a smoke, combined with howevermuch sleep you got, because we don't smoke first thing in the morning, right?
>> Anonymous
I was on this schedule of having maybe a couple puffs a day in the afternoon, but the weekends were still rough - I would get drunk and go through a pack on the weekend, then back to not smoking at work during the weeks.

Finally, after I started going to the gym, I realized I like ym throat and lungs not killing me, so after I spent 3 weekdays without having a cigarette, I locked myself in my house for the weekend and didn't smoke, then continued all through the next week without smoking.

I went out the next weekend, but I didn't drink and I had to use a fair amount of will power not to smoke, but I mean if you're willing to tough it out at the gym, you have the willpower necessary to quit at this point.

After you spend 2 weeks without smoking, it becomes an occasional tug, where old habits make you want to have a smoke, but when you think about it, it becomes more unattractive to you.

We say we smoked because we wanted to, but I never really realized how much of that was simply addiction to it. It's pretty repulsive when you think about it in detail.

I haven't had a smoke in over a month, and last weekend I, completely hammered, went out with a few friends, chatted wiht them while they had a smoke and didn't even think about or crave it at all.

So it can be done, you just need to control yourself, cut back and maintain your levels, reducing by as much as you can take. Baby steps until cold turkey is not so harsh.
>> Anonymous
>>479557
qft
>> Anonymous
Has OP tried not being a bitch and quit cold turkey? Because that's what I did. I constantly berate myself for having weak will if I even think about having a cigarette. Smoked for 5 years, and haven't had one in 2