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[AudiA8Quattro]

Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I  only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.

I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?

Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.

I love smoking it wil be the death of me  
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals

I don't think all of that is strictly true 
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.

Your a non smoker aren't you?

I really should be yes, but i've been really wanting a smoke for the past couple of months 

[richw911]

[clipperjay]

True I hear what you are saying but I like to smoke simple as that!
Far more worse vices out there, but mine just happens to be smoking!
I used to smoke 60 a day benson mobo the lot, these days Amber leaf and maybe 20 small roll ups a day if that?
LOOL @ richie!

[AudiA8Quattro]

True I hear what you are saying but I like to smoke simple as that!
Far more worse vices out there, but mine just happens to be smoking!
I used to smoke 60 a day benson mobo the lot, these days Amber leaf and maybe 20 small roll ups a day if that?
LOOL @ richie!

Don't get me wrong i don't hate smokers at all.
Smoking makes the brain release dopamine, that's why it's enjoyable.
Unfortunately for most people it's not a case of being able to have the odd one.
It's very much a case of enjoy it now and pay later 

[Seanl]

I've had a phlemmy cough ever since quitting. 

[stainesy]

Also not sure if it related but since quiting also for the past 5 days I have had tonsillitis. And it has been the worst I have ever had it.

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[DubUpYork]

I used an electric cig and have since quit smoking, now ive not read the whole 6 pages of this thread but I would recommend them to any one who really does wanna quit. It takes a couple of days to get used to the novelty of it not being a real cig but once your past that it is easy.

Basically after 4 weeks of using one, over that time i was using it less and less, now I don't use it at all. I'm 23 now and had been heavy smoking since I was 16/17 (could buy cigs at 16 back then).

There are lots of different types of e-cig, but i went for the kind of "top" one which was a 'Totally Wicked Tornado Tank', i went for this because you can use different flavour niqotine liquids in it, literally any flavour you can imagine, I liked vanilla and cherry :p

but yeah blah blah blah

If you WANT to stop smoking, this is a good, satisfying, tasty way to go about it!

Hope this helps somebody to quit

[Mitching]

Also not sure if it related but since quiting also for the past 5 days I have had tonsillitis. And it has been the worst I have ever had it.

Most people have a constant chest infection when they smoke, but it's just kept at bay underneath a layer of tar.
When you stop smoking, you stop adding to the layer of tar, slowly it breaks away.
This means sometimes you will cough up bits of black, and eventually when the infection surfaces you get a full on chest/throat infection.
Don't be surprised if you start coughing up blood  

I quit smoking for a year, it was 3 months before I went to uni. After a year I had put on 6 stone!
Most people put on weight at uni and after smoking, and the two mixed together didn't help.
I've now been smoking again for a year and a half and I love it.
Tempted to get the e-cigarettes for when I leave uni and go into the big bad world.