Thinking about quitting smoking

[LizStreithorst]

Just thinking about it, mind you.  I know how much I'll have to suffer if I quit.  I hate making myself suffer. 

[Mugwump]

Just thinking about it, mind you.  I know how much I'll have to suffer if I quit.  I hate making myself suffer.

Tobacco, right?....

[LizStreithorst]

Of course!  The other does little if any harm.  Rumor has it that it can do some good!

[Mugwump]

Of course!  The other does little if any harm.  Rumor has it that it can do some good!

Another dose of medicinal help coming right up.... .............................LOL

[BallAquatics]

Next February it will be 10 years since I quit.  Best thing I ever did.  After 30 years of 2 packs a day it wasn't easy though.....

The key for me was that I really wanted to quit.  I'd tried plenty of times before, but always came up with a reason not to quit.  Like most things in life, it doesn't work out like you'd planned if your hearts not really into the task at hand.

Dennis

[BillT]

Here is something I found today that might help quitters:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sifter/2014/09/magic-mushrooms-help-people-quit-smoking


Magic mushrooms help people quit smoking

Just two or three experiences with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was enough to get 80% of long-term smokers to kick the habit, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The most effective antismoking drug on the market right now, varenicline, has a success rate of 35% at 6 months, Bloomberg reports. Don?t rush off to swap your cigarettes for psychedelics quite yet?the psilocybin treatment was paired with a cognitive behavioral therapy program, and researchers are still figuring out exactly why so many participants were finally able to quit.

[Mugwump]

Here is something I found today that might help quitters:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sifter/2014/09/magic-mushrooms-help-people-quit-smoking


Magic mushrooms help people quit smoking

Just two or three experiences with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was enough to get 80% of long-term smokers to kick the habit, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The most effective antismoking drug on the market right now, varenicline, has a success rate of 35% at 6 months, Bloomberg reports. Don?t rush off to swap your cigarettes for psychedelics quite yet?the psilocybin treatment was paired with a cognitive behavioral therapy program, and researchers are still figuring out exactly why so many participants were finally able to quit.

'shrooms' and scrambled eggs......??..wonder how peyote works...

[LizStreithorst]

There is a cow pasture a pleasant walk from my house.  My sweet young computer lived there for a while and enjoyed what the spores and cow poo produced.  I only tried the cow poo produce once, a life time ago, and it was delightful!  If they might help me quit these lovely imported cigars, all the better!

To hell with side effects.  I'm going to send a text to my computer guy. 

[GeorgeG]

Hope your journey to quit works. I tried it some 50 years ago and a puff was enough for me the same for the other stuff also. I don't drink either so I am pretty boring Liz. Good Luck anyway I hear it's tough to quit. 

[LizStreithorst]

Heck guys, I'm just thinking about quitting.  I never said that I AM quitting,  I'm for sure going to smoke up the lovely Honduran cigars I already have,   I know that they have lesser quality imported cigars walking distance from my shop.  Oh, the temptation for someone who hates to suffer

[EdKaz]

Just two or three experiences with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was enough to get 80% of long-term smokers to kick the habit, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology

Did somebody say SHROOMS

To help quit smoking

I signed up for one of the less official studies damn near a lifetime ago......despite repeated attempts, it DID'NT WORK to curb ANY urges of smoking.

I dunno........Maybe there's some "new and improved MAGIC" in them things these days.
How does a fella get signed up for one of these official studies nowadays?

[Mugwump]

Just two or three experiences with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was enough to get 80% of long-term smokers to kick the habit, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology

Did somebody say SHROOMS

To help quit smoking

I signed up for one of the less official studies damn near a lifetime ago......despite repeated attempts, it DID'NT WORK to curb ANY urges of smoking.

I dunno........Maybe there's some "new and improved MAGIC" in them things these days.
How does a fella get signed up for one of these official studies nowadays?

LOL..if you find one, we'll both go.... ...."""new and improved MAGIC""...w/shrooms....LOL

[Mugwump]

[LizStreithorst]

Update.....

I was sure 'nuf not going to quit while still had lovely imported cigars left that I'd bought and paid for.  I smoked up the last one early yesterday afternoon    But I've done this and this is shows exactly how low addiction can take you...from the moment I considered quitting I strarted saving all my old butts so I could put them in a beer can pipe and smoke them.  Disgusting, but not as disgusting as rummaging thorough the trash to find them.  I did that last time I tried  

Last time I went for a month without smoking.  I thought I was cured because I was no longer suffering, and decided to buy just one, because a good imported cigar is a lovely thing.  I was mistaken.  I was not cured.  I'm more addicted now than I was then!

I know that I can do it.  I just don't know if I want to do it.  It will make for suffering short term, but enjoying the benefits long term.  The choice is not an easy one.

[Mugwump]

Ah, the old hide the butts trick.....quitting is either you want to...pr you don't....no maybe's....I quit once, I took the two open packs of cigarettes, put a rubber band around them and threw them on top of the 'fridge'.....I knew if I was 'without' I'd go nuts..but walking past them and seeing them sitting up there enabled me to just say..( %^&$###) you...I quit for over 15 years. So why did I start again???....easy, I quit drinking, and needed a crutch....and so it goes.....