Since I've Quit Smoking

Beezer said:
I've gained weight and I'm bored and grumpy.
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Alright, so you slew the big dragon, but you now have some smaller 'dragons' to deal with.
Bored? Make a hobby out of improving your fitness. Focus on tapering off the eats that is causing your weight gain. Throw in some physical activity that you can regard as fun. As you make progress along these lines that grumpiness will dissolve.
 
To be perfectly frank, I dearly miss my late older brother who died a year and a half ago.

He was my mentor, therapist, life coach...etc. I went golfing the other day and it just wasn't the same without him. He was such a dynamic individual to be around.

I'm bored because I dearly miss him but also because I'm not getting that 'hit' of nicotine...that little pick-me-up that i am so used to.

Swimming against the tide for now, but I'll turn things around. I always go into these funks then come out of them unscathed.
 
Lawrence said:
Maybe you should get a rifle and go out and shoot it at targets. The smell of gunpowder does wonders for nicotine withdrawals.
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Reminds me of the rifle range in Basic Training. The truck from the chow hall would show up at the range late morning, they would bring a big stainless steel container of coffee. We got to have a cigerette and a cup of coffee, it was like dying and going to heaven.
 
I'm feeling for you Beezer! Smoking more than 60 years and I struggle with it everyday. Didn't smoke the whole month of July, miserable and cranky, maybe there the same thing, so I was double angry about everything and nothing. So one drag will help right? So here I am, back at it again. Angry at myself but not at the world. Trying to quit again, it's been an hour!
 
iksentrik said:
I'm feeling for you Beezer! Smoking more than 60 years and I struggle with it everyday. Didn't smoke the whole month of July, miserable and cranky, maybe there the same thing, so I was double angry about everything and nothing. So one drag will help right? So here I am, back at it again. Angry at myself but not at the world. Trying to quit again, it's been an hour!
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The miserable, crankiness & a hair trigger temper was the longest lasting quit symptom for me when I quit. Lasted months off & on but it does even out slowly as do all the other quit symptoms leaving you as a beautiful, smoke free person able to enjoy every moment of each day instead of being enslaved to smoking relentlessly.

Once you stop, as you found out @iksentrik, you can't have 'just one' to take the edge off or you're right back to where you started.

Quitting is simple (notice I didn't say easy). There's only 1 rule once you put out that last cig and that's N.O.P.E. (Not One Puff Ever). Follow that one rule and you'll be quit for life.

Quitting's a long haul @Beezer but I guarantee you ... it's totally worth it in more ways than you currently realize. Hang in there. You've come to far to cave now!
 
@Beezer, you won't regret quitting. It will be hard & at times you will feel like you want just one puff to feel better. But keep at it, we are here for you to vent anytime.

I've known several people who smoked & went through the same thing you have, including my husband. They all say the same thing that they haven't ever regretted quitting & wish they had done it sooner.

Hang in their buddy! Your getting closer to your goal everyday!!!
 
Beezer said:
I've gained weight and I'm bored and grumpy.

Mr. McMiserable Fatass.

This should be my new Internet name.
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Now that you are bigger that should give you the advantage over a small cylindrical tobacco filled cancer causing high cost bad for your health cigarette.

Or you could wimp out, cave in to a habit you know is not good for you.

Boredom is temporary you will find something to do.
 
Well IMO you can be just as bored when you smoke.. after all how long does it take to smoke a cigarette ..5 minutes ?

I think you're very brave to give up smoking as you have, given you're still grieving the loss of your brother.. but if you can stick with it, you'll be invincible.. just gotta find more things to do with your hands when you're at home..take up whittlin'.. or model building.. or watchmaking.. so many how to videos on the Internet for new hobbies..
 
Beezer said:
I've gained weight and I'm bored and grumpy.

Mr. McMiserable Fatass.

This should be my new Internet name.
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Dear Mr. Fatass,
Apparently, you're new to this getting old business. First you give up booze, then cigarette's, then comes 'carbs' ( diabetes) and of course, since you're then fatter than hell, you have to give up calories.
And about being "bored and grumpy"- what's changed?:)
Take care, it takes a while to get back to feeling yourself. You were addicted to nicotine. It's easier to kick cocaine.
 
When I quit smoking in the early 90's I did it 'cold turkey'the nictoine patch or gum wasn't available
I gain 10 pounds but took it off by walking,certainly felt better
A couple months after I quit smell of cigarette smoke began to bother me and it still does today
 

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