Nicotine Free Cigarette’s (FReeper input please)

Jhoffa_X

[Jhoffa_]

My name is Jhoffa_ and I am a cigarette junkie.

I have been smoking for years, tried to quit but it's very difficult for me.

I have tried patches, gum, zyban and cold turkey, but I am too big a degenerate smoker to give up that easily.

Now, the other day I overheard a conversation (I wish I would have just been rude and interrupted them to learn more) about Nicotine Free Cigarettes. Two people were discussing their merits.

This appeals to be because I think allot of it is the motions you become accustomed to while smoking and such so I went looking for these things.

I checked the local retailers, the local tobacco specialty shops and drug stores but no one had any clue as to if these things exist, what brand names they are available under or where to get them locally.

So, if you ever heard of these things, know which retailers handle them (I don't want to mail order or anything) or if you have any experience with them personally, please help me out here.

[discostu]

HEY, I like softcore porn.

The only money shots I wanna see are my own, and I'd rather not see those.

[VoiceOfBruck]

These gimmicks might or might not work, but one thing is in your favor--each time you try to quit, it becomes easier to quit the next time. So keep trying, and eventually you'll succeed.

Also, healthwise, less smoking is better than more (cheaper, too!). Some people can't quit completely, but can cut down significantly.

[Xenalyte]

Wellbutrin is the same thing as Zyban; I think the coating color is different, but they're the same medication. Supposed to work pretty well.

[beowolf]

If you are going to die anyway...the very least you can do is enjoy doing it.

I believe in real butter, booze, cigarettes, motorcycles....enjoy and become comfortable with the idea of dying.

It's going to happen anyway, so why live a life wherein you are totally surprised and disappointed when it (dying) happens? What ever happened to personal responsibility? Doesn't this concept apply to your method of living and dying?!-)

[lsee]

Congratulations for taking the first step. I have struggled with addictions in the past and can tell you that it takes a mind-change to stop repeating habitual behavior. We develop behaviors for reasons, usually to somehow meet a need we had in our lives at that time. The moment of truth comes when you take the behavior apart, examine it, and see whether or not it is meeting any of those needs NOW. When the mind figures out that the behavior is pointless, it becomes much easier to change that habit.

Here is a webpage (http://www.nowillpower.com/index13.htm) that kind of sums up what I'm trying to say. Even those who are able to quit cold turkey without much soul-searching had a moment when their mind accepted that they would not do that behavior anymore. Something convinced their mind and the behavior followed. How to quit smoking without willpower or struggle

I've never read this particular book, but this little section sounds like the program I had success with. Here's the truth. It's not about the smoking,it's about the wanting to smoke! Once you no longer have the urge to smoke, why would you? Once you reach inside your subconscious and pull that original decision to become a smoker out of the dark and examine it, you see what a foolish thing it is. From there, it's all downhill.

In my opinion, using substitute behaviors or gadgets or gizmos might help you quit, but unless the change comes from the mind, there will always be a possibility of relapse. I watched my daddy quit smoking when I was young and hopefully he will live to be an old man. I watched my grandfather NOT quit and got to watch him die from emphysema before he was an old man. I miss him.

[RightWhale]

Quit cold, just tough it out. When you quit smoking, the 3rd day is the hardest. Drink plenty of water. Don't eat any extra. Get past that and the nicotine craving eases up. It never goes away, but you don't actually have to light up again.

[Publius6961]

Nicotine free cigarettes? All the carcinogens and none of the addictive nicotine? Why?

That is a serious question.
Is your goal to quit? or simply to avoid the damage smoking may do to you?

[discostu]

Not my experience at all. The first time I quit I went three months with not one craving, no big deal. After then every attempt has been more and more difficult. So far I'm at a little over a month. The nagging twitch is still there (which tells you something since nicotine is out of your body completely in about 72 hours) but I just keep giving it the finger.

[Lurker]

That's pretty much it my friend.

I suppose I could eat non-fat cheese, drink alcohol free beer, and quit smoking. But the truth is that the first two taste just plain nasty and I still like doing the third.

Life is to be enjoyed, savored like a fine wine or a really good IPA. I never trust someone who won't indulge themselves to excess on occasion.

Not that I endorse gluttony, but if something is worth doing it's worth doing to excess once in a while.

We only live once and we will surely be dead a very long time. But, if you do it right, once is enough.

Regards,

L

[Xenalyte]

I tried cold turkey too. They're a bitch to keep lit.

Try thawing them in the microwave about halfway. Lightly chilled turkeys catch fire much more easily than frozen ones.

[VetoBill]

You are so right about chew. I smoked and chewed for years. I gave up smoking, but still having a hard time with the chew. In my experiences, I would rather quit smoking ANY day of the week compared to quitting chew. I can smell smoke and it doesnt bother me... but if I get a whiff of chew, immediately I begin to have cravings.

[headsonpikes]

Marijuana cigarettes are nicotine-free; if you lit one of those suckers up every time you wanted a cigarette you'd soon be free of the tobacco habit.

(/humor off)

[Warren]

Hey, thanks. Which end do ya puff on? Want to maintain an even ass , I mean ash.

[discostu]

True true. But sometimes the short term side effects just get to you. That's why I quit smoking, tired of my sinuses being backed up like an LA freeway every morning. I still intend to have my 2 or 3 cigars every year, ain't a health nut or anything. And if I get the cure all for my mucked up nose I'm going right back to the smokes.

[muggs]

There is a new (perscription) product out, a Nicotrol Inhaler
http://www.nicotrol.com/4_inhaler.asp
You get the nicotine and it's shaped like a cigarette, so it gives you something to do with your hands.

I'm thinking about asking my doctor for it but I'm worried I'll gain back the 36 pounds I just lost.

[Warren]

Humor or not, when I was into Mary Jane many years ago, I never used tobacco.
In those days ya could get a decent commercial lid for $10.

[snippy_about_it]

I see links below to nicotine free cigarettes and I took a look at them.

I recall recently seeing someone on tv, a representative from a cigarette company, they said soon they would come out with a nicotine free cigarette, this year.

The thing is, what I remember is it was a big tobacco company but I can't remember which one, not one of these in the links. I know it was from a manufacturer I would recognize as I am a degenerate smoker myself.

I'll ask my husband if he remembers and look around on the web.

[muggs]

Yeah, and I would gain 100 pounds.

[Xenalyte]

Which end do ya puff on?

Depends on whether you're hickory-smoking it.