how many days less you will have of your life and imagine me i can easily smoke 1 pack a day because i cut down from 3
215106
smoking has not been proven to take away any time from your life.  \n\nBesides......what if you never smoked so you could live as long as you wanted to.....then you step out in front of a city bus and get squashed......that city bus is much easier to measure thatn the 'smoking kills' farce.
559025
You can try this , cut back but be serious about it. if you smoke a pack go to half until you are use to it. then cut that in half again. do this until you can get to 1 cigarette a day and keep that routine for a year. Now , when you do one a day, you will have stressful days where more than one will seem needed. It's okay to smoke another as long as the next day you go back to just ONE! after a year of one a day, then go to one day off a week without any smoke. after that is easy for you , you are ready to try more days off, until you are without the craving. it's not the nicotine as many think , it's the actual act of smoking that stick that is hard to kick. you need to rehab yourself and time helps. you'll feel much better once your all through, and your skin and hair will show the improvement. God bless.
477650
Yes I totally agree with the last poster, I too believe that the only real way to give up smoking is just to drop it cold turkey, I took my last pack of cigarettes and threw them in the trash 1 week and two days ago and yes it is very hard at first, but it keeps getting easier every day and as long as you have someone to support you, you'll be fine. DROP THEM COLD TURKEY!
646593
2 days. 3 at the VERY most.
469755
I'd go down to the next lower step and see how your urges are.\nHope you succeed in your attempt to quit.
597904
I dont know I am trying myself.  every week on monday I try again to quit.  on tuesday I buy another pack.  It is hard.  I am getting better. though.  just keep trying.  Pick one day of the week where you are not going to smoke, but leave your self one or 2 emergency cigaretts for when someone will die if you cant smoke and try to make it the whole with out touching them.  If you can great if not well try again next week.  It takes practice.
177351
F*uck man - so long as you use responsibly, its no problem.  Smoke on Friday and Saturday nights, then leave it alone - you'll be fine
62915
that is very relative. I know a person who's lived for over 90 years smoking 2 packs of "PielRoja" ("redskin", unfiltered cheap colombian ciggies) since age 24. and there's plenty of factors: if you don't have the precise protooncogene, you could never develop cancer even smoking 2 packs a day. \n\nthen again, people can live with an emphysema for long, stuck to an o2 tank all their lives. you could develop Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (I think this is the exact translation), live with an annoying bronchitis for decades. ruin your skin and teeth and get to age 80 looking like shit.\n\nwhat's the point? it's not a matter of quantity of life but quality of life.\n\nanyway, from an unorthodox point of view (having discussed this with a few teachers of mine), they'd say a ciggie a day is no big deal (but if you have the protooncogene I won't be responsible).
546706
hmmm well i smoke 2 cigarettes a day but sometimes i can chain smoke a couple.  Ive been doing this on and off for about four years. \nOne day i hope to stop.
187389
quit smoking now.. you won't be allowed during Basic anyway.  Might as well get a jump on it.  As long as you can meet the minimum standards on the first day, you'll BE in shape by the time you are done.
6990
Thats going to be 851 hours and 40 minutes (or 51,100 minutes a year) a year exactly.  So, if you smoked for 14 years, that would be 11923 hours and 20 minutes in 14 years.  That equates to 496 days and 19 hours and 20 minutes for the whole 14 years.  496 days is 16 monhts and 16 days 19 hours, and 20 minutes.  This is taken that a month is 30 days.
155394
First of all, your body only needs 3 cigarettes to fulfill its nicotine addiction daily.  If you can get through the first three days, you have pretty much quit.  The hardest thing about quitting really is the psychological aspects of smoking.  After the three days, your biggest craving will come from your psyche wanting to engage in the act of smoking.  My suggestion, is as long as you can get past the initial quitting, buy yourself a pack or two of clove cigareetes.  You can go through the action of smoking without the nicotine.  Plus they smell so gross, that you will soon get past smoking those as well.  If I could suggest anything, Zyban was the most help for me to quit. I had tried the patch, nicotine gum, laser treatment, accupressure...when I did the Zyban, there were some side affects, but getting through the first three days of quitting was a breeze in comparison to the last five times I had tried to quit.  Good luck!! It really is worth it!  PS depending on how long you smoked for, it could take six months to a year for you to stop thinking daily about smoking.
420599
yes.  stop smoking.  you'll live longer.  well, not that much longer.  i mean, you could get hit by a car or struck by lightening.  or the flu could do you in.  no matter.  regular smoking will take 10 years off your life.  of course the last 10 are usually pretty crappy, but you see my point.  i sure don't.
230176
I used to smoke Cigs. I quit in 1994. I now smoke anywhere from 1 - 8 cigars per day. BY CHOICE. If I'm in my house and smoke bothers you there is a choice. Hold your breath until I'm finished smoking or LEAVE.
219540
Quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do.  I quit 4 months ago.  I smoked 2-4 packs a day for over 40 years.  I never considered quitting until they took me to the hospital by ambulance.  I have 1st stage emphysema which is a miracle but will live with the consequences of smoking for the rest of my life.  I wish you well.  I can not imagine smoking one cigarette a day.  It seems a bit ridiculous.  However, if you smoke one cigarette a day, it seems that would not necessarily be bad for you.  Tobacco is an herb and has medicinal properties, but you would have to grow the tobacco yourself, since each cigarette produced by our huge tobacco companies has been enhanced with over an hundred chemicals which go directly to the brain and cause the craving and addiction which has proven too difficult for some people to quit even to the point of death.  I loved smoking for most of my life but have been devastated at the horror of coming "off" of this drug for the last 4 months but am determined to remain smoke free.  I have tried the commit lozenges, nicotrol gum, a nicotrol inhaler and the patch and am using the gum right now.  Hopefully, I will be able to get off of all nicotine by the end of this year but in any case, I am no longer polluting my environment and causing grave harm to my health.  There is a huge pool of resources available to "quitters".  I have used them all, even down to a counselor that I got by calling 1-800-nobutts.  Again, I wish you well.
29359
Pack years are common calculations in the medical field.  Basically, you ask the patient how many packs per day they smoke on average.  You also ask them how many years they've been smoking.  Then you multiply these two numbers for their "pack years".  So if I smoked 1 pack per day for 10 years that would equal 10 pack years.  If I smoked 2 packs per day for 10 years, that would be 20 pack years.
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10 seconds maybe !!!\n\nLucky u , too many cigarettes smoked my time away ...\n\nSwim, a lil bit\ntoo fagged out ...