LOL, thanks again Buddy
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Christopher Brunton <loosewatches@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Christopher Brunton <loosewatches@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Pipe smokers] Re: Giving up cigarettes
To: pipesmokers2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 12:30 PM
Hay Mo,
I agree with Joe here. (Seems like I'm always agreeing with one Joe or
the other;-)
He's on the button here. I used to smoke the old nails, but I don't
miss them a bit now.
One thing I would say is, and Joe may conk me on the head for this,
when I was trying to lay off the cigs, I found it helped me a lot to
inhale, halfway, the fourth and fifth puffs of a strong tobacco, in a
pipe, twice a day. (Or, whenever I felt I might 'relapse' back to a
cigarette). The first starting puffs are always a bit strong, so, yeah
the fourth and fifth. I plead the fifth.
I smoke some strong stuff usually, right now it's Dark Flake mixed
with Dark Navy flake, and a full on cig inhale is likely to kill. BUT,
a small ways down the throat and out the nose, and the nic fix was
enough. I didn't even think about it now, but I probably still do
that. As Joe said though, don't inhale on the pipe like a C
stick...Not a good idea, as he said.
I mentioned here before that there are a lot of pipe tobaccos that are
WAY stronger (nic wise) than ANY cigarette. But, you're not going to
get the quick fix and, as mentioned, the additives are absent....
Here's the kick though, your life will be better when those junkie
chemicals aren't in your system.
Wake up a little earlier, load a bowl of the strongest, nicest
pipe tobacco you've got, get a cup o joe (or tea) and enjoy a slower
start to the morning....that was, for me, the biggest help.
good luck
-loose
p.s. I do still smoke a clove cigarette about twice a year.
Inhaling hurts. Breathing is nice.
--- In pipesmokers2@ yahoogroups. com, "Joe Ahearn" <joeahearn@. ..> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just want to encourage you to keep working on giving up the
cigarettes. I
> did, and I was as addicted as anyone can be. I am glad every day
that I quit
> smoking cigarettes and you will be, too.
>
> Ways to taper down:
> -- roll your own from good tobacco. there really is some extra addictive
> agent in commercially made cigarettes. you can tell when you start
rolling
> your own b/c you go through a small withdrawal no matter how much
you smoke.
> go to hand-rolleds, then cut down on the hand-rolleds. make sure to
get the
> best, purest, most chemical-free hand-rolling tobacco you can get.
> -- use snuff to cut down further--I am talking about old-fashioned
inhaled
> snuff--get Freibourg and Treyer or Gawith Hoggarth--some of this
stuff has a
> huge amount of nicotine
> --smoke the hell out of your pipes and smoke a good strong tobacco. But
> don't inhale, ever. If you need to inhale, roll a cigarette. You
don't want
> to associate pipe smoking with inhaling/cigarettes in your mind.
>
> Tapering down is a good, but at a certain point, tapering down
becomes sheer
> hell because you're just always at a permanent state of withdrawal.
That's
> the time to take a weekend, get all of the cigarettes out of the
house, and
> just quit.
>
> I'm afraid I can't sugar-coat the unpleasantness of quitting. It is
not fun.
> It affects your sleep, your mood, your appetite, everything.
Cigarettes are
> a major drug addiction. I would not try to do the final quit any
time you
> are stressed or have major life events going on. I would do it over a
> weekend or take vacation. Get ALL of your cigarettes out of the
house. Don't
> go places or do things that you especially associate with smoking
> cigarettes. Expect three days that are pretty bad and several weeks
that are
> bad. You just have to be committed and get through it. After the
first three
> days, it gets better every day.
>
> I smoke my pipe for pleasure now, and don't HAVE TO smoke it. I haven't
> smoked a cigarette since 1994 and I don't miss them. I was a two
pack-a-day
> smoker. Like I said, if I could do it, you can. Best wishes for your
> success.
>
> Joe in Austin
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Jim <bocabenningtons@ ...> wrote:
>
> > Good morning,
> > Giving up cigarettes is hard, I saw that when one of my employees did
> > it. She did a really smart thing. First she cut down on the amount.
> > Second, she would break off about 1/4 of an inch of those that she did
> > smoke. And lastly she set a date and hasn't smoked since. She did cut
> > down on the consumption of alcohol and coffee and started working out.
> > Hope this helps,
> > Jim
> >
> > --- In pipesmokers2@ yahoogroups. com <pipesmokers2% 40yahoogroups. com>,
> > MoSouthAfrica <helderberg40@ >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have been struggling with this cigarette nonesence for most of my
> > life. Since i have been on the pipe, cig consumption has gone down. I
> > really want to leave this crap for good. Anyone else here have any
> > tips maybe???
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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