Becoming Nicotine Free

[STRONGBADF1]

Day 6:

I removed the patch last night to sleep for the first time. I'm a little edgy this morning. Gotta get a fresh patch on before I snap. I noticed that I can leave a single patch on for almost 48 hours if I sleep with it. I am looking forward to reducing the dosage to 7mg and then finally going through the business of nicotine withdrawal. If I just up and quit right now I don't think I would make it. I figure the main thing at the moment is to not smoke.

I may trap some rats so that I can bite their heads off when the real withdrawal symptoms kick in. If it's gotta suck for me I wanna make something else suffer too. My monkey ain't diggin' this.

ARGHHHHHH !!! ... or however you spell that.

Hang in there Pork Chop!

My wife smokes (I politely mentioned that you stopped) She has tried and failed to quit 3 times in the last 10 years. When she did the patch it had to come off before bed time. Her dreams became too much for her with that stimulant still flowing. So yea, the mornings were ruff on her.

What pisses me off is that her "friends" at work would get her back to smoking again by offering her a smoke if she was having a bad day or just asking if she wanted to go outside with them when they were having a smoke. Like I said before. Thinking you can have just one doesn't work. My wife has to want to do it for herself. The times she has tried was when she was pregnant (she did until the boy came out then as soon as she could get outside at the hospital she lit up.) Then it was for me then because her dad got cancer... she says she wants to but...

Sorry for the rant I guess I needed to vent.

Anyway you are going to do better than my wife right! We will help ya.

You can do it!,
Doug

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Oh yea Pork Chop, remember to offer your lady "your" substitute for her oral fixation.

 

[Warpdrv]

Oh yea Pork Chop, remember to offer your lady "your" substitute for her oral fixation.

In the mortal words of Dane Cook in his last movie....

"Its not going to suck itself !!!!!"


Hang in there Pork Chop.... Things get better after a week, then its smooth sailing from then on in....

 

[majorloser]

Oh yea Pork Chop, remember to offer your lady "your" substitute for her oral fixation.

You just reminded me...

How's the monkey doing?

 

[Alex2507]

My g/f is no lady. Her new oral fixation is yelling at me now that she happened to stumble on that post. She says I should take notes next time I go back to the lonesome monkey pic.
What do you suppose she means by that?

Just kidding.

I'm doing fine with not smoking. That's not the same as being free of nicotine though. The patch is making my dreams pretty strange. Coming from me, that's a huge statement. Not wearing it at night that one time made for a pretty tense morning. This is a good opportunity to see if I can make good decisions in a dream state. I'm going to be doing this for another month with lessening doses of nicotine. I think when it's time to put the patch down I'll make sure that it's on a Thursday night. I'll make sure that I have everything I need in the house and maybe a pile of movies so that I can hibernate and detox until say Tuesday morning.

In the words of George Foreman: Plan your fight, fight your plan.

 

[Adam]

Her new oral fixation is yelling at me...

Hee, hee, hee! You crack me up, man.

 

[majorloser]

With both of you quitting at the same time, you're gonna to drive the monkey to start smoking.

But then again, the monkey might need something a little stronger!

 

[Adam]

Fight them off, Alex. Fruit, my man. It's in your blood. Search your feelings...you know it to be true.

 

[markw]

Hang in there. It ain't easy but you can do it.

Heck, I gave it up dozens of timers until I finally got it right.

Use whatever means works for you but two thingg I might add.

1) You have to really, really want to do it for yourself. If you do it because someone else wants you to, or you just think it's the right thing to do, it won't work. No half-assed justifications will work. You have to really, really want deep down inside to do it, and be ready to make a full commitment.

2) No matter how many times you tell yourself you can handle it, you can't have just one.

FWIW, what finally did it for me was hypnosis, and even that took three tries.

Hang in there. We're pulling for ya.

 

[Alex2507]

what finally did it for me was hypnosis

No way , nuh-uh, are you out of your freakin' mind? My subconscious is where I keep stuff buried. I don't think I'm bonkers or anything but I don't wanna go poking around in there. I played around with self hypnosis in high school and there's no way I'm gonna let somebody else be a party to that. Look what happened to Adam:

 

[Adam]

I must have been hypnotized - I'm normally way too terrified to dance.

 

[Rickster71]

Look what happened to Adam:

Adam, you would've been getting many PM's from me, had I known you were a hot Asian women all this time.
My one weakness...

 

[Alex2507]

had I known you were a hot Asian woman

Wow, that is great!

I'm gonna go watch The Dark Night again right now but I just had to let you know that this is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Thanks.

 

[Adam]

Rick - ha, ha, ha!!! Excellent.

KUMAR: "Well, if you have the yellow fever tonight, there's a rocking Asian party over at Princeton tonight."

GOLDSTEIN: "Man, I have the yellow plague. There's nothing sexier than a hot Asian chick...or dude for that matter..."

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I am just happy that everone is calling you "Pork Chop", it just cracks me up.

You are doing good brother, keep hanging in there. If you lived in Texas, you could smack the GF for popping off.

 

[Alex2507]

Hang in there Pork Chop!

Oh yea Pork Chop,

Hang in there Pork Chop....

I am just happy that everyone is calling you "Pork Chop", it just cracks me up.

Just in case you missed it Adam has done me the honor of calling me Pork Chop in another thread.
Don't we have some sort of code?

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=504303&postcount=35

Just because I'm a little porky doesn't mean that I don't have feelings.

 

[Adam]

Don't we have some sort of code?

Code? Code?!?

Exhibit A, Chop Master P.

 

[MidnightSensi]

I'd rather he be taking bong hits than smoking cigarettes, its healthier and it helped my friend with his nicotine cravings allowing him to nix the patch. After he got off cigarettes he then quit smoking weed, which is pretty easy because it doesn't have withdrawls other than the occasional thought like "this meeting would be less boring if I was high right now" and air travel absolutely sucks when you don't eat a brownie before the flight.

 

[Adam]

Adam, you would've been getting many PM's from me, had I known you were a hot Asian women all this time.
My one weakness...

BTW, if you think that I'm hot in that picture, then you should see me when I'm not wearing the chicken suit.

 

[Alex2507]

I'd rather he be taking bong hits than smoking cigarettes, its healthier and it helped my friend with his nicotine cravings allowing him to nix the patch.

I've been smoking for 28 years.
When the time comes, I'm thinkin' crack.