before i knew how cars worked i was always afraid that a car would suck up the butt all the way into the engine.......i may have been 6 at the time though.....i do still hate this. One reason Illinois is pretty awesome. No smoking in bars anymore. They make the smokers huddle out in the cold

smokers :gtfo2:

me :happydance:

ya but now all the bars here smell like stale beer and piss instead of smoke.

that must be chi town for you. down in Southern IL we are much classier than that:stirthepot:

Sh!t whatever. I mean given all the other crap strewn all over the road I don't see what the big deal is with a little cigarette butt in the tray.

Now why oh why can't I change my oil and find a diamond ring or at least a fiver in there!

People get cancer who have never smoked, drank, or did drugs, in their life.

Sometimes those patches dont work... I have heard of people who light up with a damn patch...or with the gum

because....

Nicotine is out of your system in less than three days... Your cravings for a cigarette are ALL habits.
-get in a car and light up
-finish a meal and light up
-go to the bathroom and light up
-get out of work and light up, etc...


Best thing to do is substitute the habit with another temporary one, to keep your brain busy, that way an action is still being carried out. Personally i went with these little sour candy things, with no sugar to prevent becoming diabetic.
http://www.sugarstand.com/images/sc/sc0108c.jpg
I used to go through a box every week or so... I now don't even buy them anymore, so they did their job.


But at the end of the day.. you just need to say... its enough and not light up... is it hard? sure. I quit cold turkey and it sucked for the first month or so.

it is one hell of habit though I must admit... if it wasn't because I really want to dedicate myself 100% to cycling... i would have probably kept going on.

Good luck with the quit.

Yes and they are a huge minority compared to smokers. Your point?

90% of lung cancer cases are from smokers, 10% from non. So it's ok to smoke?

Another laughable argument from smokers: George Burns smoked and lived to be 100. So it's ok to smoke. Gotcha.

I don't think that's what he was getting at. The point being, to each their own. I personally think it's f'ing disgusting and stupid given the risks involved but let's face it, the government is getting WAY too much profit to kill it just for the sake of our "health".

Quit 30 years ago. But when I take a call at the office, I still find myself reaching into my shirt pocket----though now for a Tic-Tac!
Cigarette smoking was a very tough habit to break. I sympathize with all those who are dealing with it.

one bad habit i need to get rid of is DietPepsi. i was a ClassicCoke person until i saw my PDR trainer fix a ding in less than 2min and i thought it had to do something with the drink he was sipping. :confused:

now i drink the poison like 5-6 cans a day on the weekend. :icon14: since there's no sugar like coke, it's healthier.... :icon14: i will probably die soon...

:iagree:

I too quit cold turkey. It takes will power (which doesn't cost anything) and nothing else. If anyone really wants to quit, then just have the balls and stop. Yeah, it sucks for a few days or a week. But get through that and it gets easier. It took months and months for the urges to subside but fortunately you only had to overcome the urges that lasted just a few seconds.