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Wild. I've quit smoking multiple times, and thought the first week or so was unpleasant each time, but not awful. Each time I started up again it was because my ex-spouse started smoking again and was pushing cigarettes on me. Since the divorce a decade ago, I haven't had a cigarette. And that was after about fifteen years of smoking around a pack and a half a day.
I know that quitting drinking all at once can straight up kill you, if you're a hardcore alcoholic; I've known a few people that had the shakes every time they were sober.
Some people quit really easy, while others will go mad at the thought of it.
My grandpa used to smoke, and one day just put down his last cigarette and never touched it again. Meanwhile, my grandma probably tried to quit 20 times, but the withdrawal was so bad she was never able to quit.
Oof what? You must never have smoked a lot despitewhat you say. Because ive tried to quit a few times and ive only been smoking for 8 years, but every time after about a week i start coughing almost constantly. And the only thing to ease it wad smoking again.
I'm pretty sure I know what I smoked.
I quit because I started coughing up dark brown shit every morning; I always had some kind of congestion in my throat. I decided that I didn't want to do that anymore, so I stopped.
Everyone is different, maybe they got lucky. I quit about 15 years ago, and I still have cravings and I’m often smoking in my dreams. Nicotine is the worst.
Cigarettes, cigars, and pipes still smell wonderful to me, and if was free and wasn't going to kill me, I'd absolutely start again. But I haven't had any real cravings or dreams about smoking since about four months after I quit.
I got soooo lucky. I smoked a bunch for a bit less than a year. One day, I had my morning cigarette and it felt AWFUL. No pleasure, just debilitation. I tried again the next day, same thing. Since then, I’ve smoked a few times and it’s always a mistake. My brain just stopped liking them.
Unfortunately it did the same thing with caffeine. I really miss coffee.
Weed, too. I miss getting high without feeling like I’m going to die.
I quit could turkey twice. It was easy. I just focused on how much i hated the taste and smell.
The only reason i started up again the second time is because when you work as a server, you get a smoke break constantly but nonsmoker's don't, and i got sick of covering three sections every hour.
It was easy? Thats why you had to quit twice.
Benzo withdrawal will kill you, but goddamn is it hard to kill yourself with benzodiazepines... You'd think that something with a deadly withdrawal would also be easy to OD on, but no.
I think the fact that you've quit a bunch of times kind of shows how hard it is to quit
Per my original comment - that was because each time my spouse started smoking again, and was pushing cigarettes on me. If I hadn't been married to them, then I would have stayed quit the very first time I stopped. Each time we quit smoking, they would secretly start smoking again almost immediately, and would then start pushing me to re-start after a couple of months. Once the divorce was in progress and we had limited contact, it was fairly straightforward.
It would probably be super hard to quit heroin if you were married to your dealer.