How did you quit Smoking cigarettes?

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  1. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    The actual nicotine addiction, I had beat by the end of the first week. The rest is changing your habits. Those triggers you speak of. Some were harder than others for me. Like that after dinner smoke. But there were so many others. 10 years after I quit, I would still find myself reaching for my shirt pocket every time I got that green light at a scalehouse.
     
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  3. olddog_newtricks

    olddog_newtricks Medium Load Member

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    Sugar free chewing gum and cinnamon toothpicks help a little.
     
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  4. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    God has a sense of humor.
     
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    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    I like to have a cough while smoking a cigarette.....triples the menthol. The feds want to get of menthol cigs so I'll just smoke milds with a cough drop lol....I dont have it too bad, i only go through 2 or 3 packs weekly.
     
  6. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Yup, he does. We can see proof of that every day. Some of his followers need to lighten up a little though.
     
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    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    I agree, 7 billion people or so in the world, not even comedy central could provide that much entertainment....he probably likes Bonehead Truckers of the Week
     
  8. Dockbumper

    Dockbumper Road Train Member

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    I've ridden that merry go round!
     
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  9. sirhwy

    sirhwy Medium Load Member

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    I quit cold turkey March 15, 2001 @ 7:30 PM. It helps to know when your last one was. Then you can tell yourself, that was my last cigarette. It is a bit of a mind game, but it helps. Just decide, and do it.
     
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  10. scott180

    scott180 Road Train Member

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    It was kind of simple for me. I quit cold turkey from a one to two pack a day habit.

    All you got to do is be the one that has to tell the doctors to turn off life support or give the "do not resuscitate" order. After doing that a few times with family that had cancer it makes it quite easy to quit.
    Ordered the machines turned off for the man that raised me, walked out of the hospital and tossed my pack on the dash. I was done. Ya see, simple.
     
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  11. sirhwy

    sirhwy Medium Load Member

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    Kinda makes it real simple don’t it?
     
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