Alright boyos...

Day 1 (Nov 1st) - my official start day for quitting smoking. I've already warned my roommate that I am goona be a dick to live with for the next couple weeks

Question for you guys that have quit. Do you think the gum/patches really work? To me it's the actual "habit" I have to break. Like the usual lite up on the way to work, the one after eating a meal, etc. Does the nicotine replacement stuff really cut down on the cravings?

Got a feeling I'm gonna go through about 10 packs of gum today...

day 1 here too.......look out world, a dick head will be on the loose by .oh lets say
10 am

You can do it!!!!

It's probably a good thing I don't own any firearms....lol

Hey Baldy...you going cold turkey all together, or gonna cut back for a few days till you're down to none?

I don't know if I can pull the cold turkey off. Hard going from a pack a day to nothing. I'm gonna have to get some damned nic gum or something tonight.

God...losing 130lbs was easy compared to this shit

Well, I don't smoke, but I am here for you.

I think we need to do a thing like Major League. In case you forget, every time they won a game that got to strip off a piece covering their manager.

SO....I think we should have a willing party (FEMALE of course) that would be willing to do something like this for every day we go without smoking.

You game Jenn????

skate gonna try the cold turkey route.....oh and i thought i would up intensity of work outs and start a short 2 week m1t cylce to keep mind off the cigs......this is gonna suck.......i hear ya skate, loosing the weight was a picnic compared to this

Good luck fellas

If you all are quitting, I will quit too. Being sick the last week has cut my smoking down substancially, however, when I drink it is bad news. So I am going to cut down to half a pack a day, then 5 cigs the next week, untill It is down to zero a day. Lets do it!

We can have a contest, like when Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and George tried to quit masurbating!

Right now I'm at my school, where I have a cigarette tucked behind my ear. I plan to smoke it, then eat a protein bar and lift weights for a couple hours. Pretty hypocritical, huh? I tend to smoke for a month or two, then quit, then start all over. But after this pack I'll see how long I can go without one. If someone wants to make an official date for us to start counting, then I say let's all have a competition.

GL guys. So far, 3 of my close friends quit cold turkey. Two were smoking for about 2-3 years and one for almost 9! Gl once more.

well.. its 10 30 am in cleveland, so far so good.......
little edgy......but.......i say 11/1 is start date and so far so good...

replace your cravings with coffee?

2 cups coffee per day limit......water and protein shakes..........lol

when i tried to quit cold turkey from smoking regulary i made it fine through the days and resisting cravings, but i ended up laying in bed looking at the ceiling for 2 nights straight and being exhausted all day (not knowing why i wasnt' sleeping). the third night i had a smoke before bed and slept like a baby.

i think the last time when i actually QUIT i ahd sort of weened myself down and then just stopped and never looked back. i found that gum helps with the "habit" part of it. when i first quit i would go through a pack of 17sticks of gum about every 1-2 days. lol everytime i wanted a smoke i'd have a stick of gum.

Skate, I did not find the gum to be helpful or work. I quite cold turkey after 5 years with the aid of the patch, which I would put on at extreme cravings(well semi cold turkey). The best way I found to do this was to use the mid or highest dose patch, and throw it on for short while. This way you can get use to the cravings but then allow them to acclimatize per say. I would try and not have a patch on after 5 and especially not over night. The nights were tough, cold sweats, loss of sleep. The best feeling though is when it is all over, truly all over, and you see people smoking it makes you sick. The smell, sick, your clothes even near smokers end up smelling awful and now you can smell it as a non-smoker. On the other side, the air smells better, food has hidden tastes that appear, one might even find more pleasure in activities that have escaped due to the evil hold the nicotine had on their minds. Oh, your bench will go up 20 lbs and dropping weight will become easier, and your time for 1-mile splits will drop at least a 1 full minute. Some say that obtaining a six-pack can appear 4 months after smoking, so there are many incentives to quit. (*Results not typical. Individual results will vary. These statements have not been evaluated by the food and Drug Administration.)

i support you guys tryin to quit. although i don;t smoke, i heard it is hard quitting. goodluck fellas.

Not sure what you guys pay per pack but here it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.....damn, that's a lot of money to pay to legally kill yourself slowly.

Around here it's usually $3/pack for name brands. Across the border into Michigan it jumps to almost $5 a pack.

I admit, I'm gonna have to ween myself down a bit before going cold turkey. After doing a pack a day for almost 10 years it's a total bitch. Aiming for 5 total today and slowly work down.

Can't beat myself up too much...by this time of the day I probably would have been through half a pack already. The mornings are the worst for me. That's going to be my biggest hurdle.

And thanks for all the support from you guys (even those who don't smoke). Nice having you guys rooting us on