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quitting drinking and smoking cold turkey
Posted on 7/31/17 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 7/31/17 at 2:34 pm
last drink or cig was thursday. how much longer am i going to want to punt babies?
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Posted on 7/31/17 at 3:18 pm to Machine
If you can last a week, you will never have another craving again. Its science.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 3:46 pm to Machine
I would imagine until you drink or smoke again 
. Jokes aside, congrats. Quit dipping cold turkey, cravings went away in 2-3 weeks. Now I only want one when I'm at the camp.
. Jokes aside, congrats. Quit dipping cold turkey, cravings went away in 2-3 weeks. Now I only want one when I'm at the camp.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 4:01 pm to Machine
I had to quit both to quit the smoking. Beer was a HUGE trigger. I never missed the beer, and the cigarette cravings were only bad for about a week. It's been 10 years, and I still crave one every now and then, but nothing like that first week. Chewing on toothpicks helped me.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 5:50 pm to Machine
I quit drinking 27 days ago because my life was unmanageable and I had found a new bottom (for me). There are times where I want to drink mainly from the wreckage I had/ have created but doing that will lead to nowhere fast which is right where it landed me. I have also quit smoking cigarettes for that many days but that has been a breeze compared to the booze. I hope it goes well for you but I couldn't do it without going to meetings and people in the rooms of AA, as well as working passed step 3 (that's all I'll say on AA as many have mixed feelings about its effectiveness. It's working for me)
Hats off to you for making it this far
Hats off to you for making it this far
This post was edited on 7/31/17 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 7/31/17 at 6:03 pm to Machine
Congratulations and good luck. I had to separate from people who were doing the things I was trying to quit when I got sober.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 6:19 pm to Iron Sights
quote:
I quit drinking 27 days ago because my life was unmanageable and I had found a new bottom (for me). There are times where I want to drink mainly from the wreckage I had/ have created but doing that will lead to nowhere fast which is right where it landed me. I h
Damn man. Got this thread serious all of a sudden. Maybe the OP is in a similar boat.
Good luck to you.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 10:44 pm to Machine
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:52 am to Iron Sights
quote:greatly appreciated, and hope you keep it up, man. I was a functioning alcoholic, but to be honest, I want a cigarette more than a drink right now
I hope it goes well for you but I couldn't do it without going to meetings and people in the rooms of AA, as well as working passed step 3 (that's all I'll say on AA as many have mixed feelings about its effectiveness. It's working for me)
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:47 am to Machine
Good luck. The constant thinking about it (positive or negative) starts to rescind and eventually goes away completely.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:35 pm to Machine
good job bro, one hour, one day at a time
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:48 pm to shamrock
Reading Alan Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" got me off tobacco 3 years ago. I highly recommend it to anyone trying to quit.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:58 pm to Iron Sights
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I couldn't do it without going to meetings and people in the rooms of AA, as well as working passed step 3 (that's all I'll say on AA as many have mixed feelings about its effectiveness. It's working for me)
Congrats and whatever is working for you stick with it. I'm sure you know this, but screw what people think if you're doing well.
I didn't do AA, but was in a support group for something else and pretty much realized that it came down to coping skills and thinking errors that caused me to turn to substance abuse.
Seems like all of the support groups teach those things in one way or another.
Good luck bro.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:33 pm to Machine
Depends on how long and how much you used to smoke. If you were a half pack a day smoker for just a few years than less than a week. If you smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years it's gonna not only be the nicotine withdrawal but the actual habit that you are trying to break. For longtime smokers I usually tell people 1week for the nic withdrawal, 1 month for breaking the habit, and 1 year for the mental part. After a year you are good.
Now if you are one of those like many on here that brag about how easy it was to quit, only to realize they smoked 3 cigarettes a day for 2 years, yea don't be that guy.
The drinking part is tough, quit for awhile. Coffee was always my issues with quitting. Didn't drink coffee for 2 months after I quit.
Now if you are one of those like many on here that brag about how easy it was to quit, only to realize they smoked 3 cigarettes a day for 2 years, yea don't be that guy.
The drinking part is tough, quit for awhile. Coffee was always my issues with quitting. Didn't drink coffee for 2 months after I quit.
This post was edited on 8/1/17 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:03 pm to Machine
Webmd says alcohol withdrawal peaks at 5 days, but the third day is always the hardest for any substance imho
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:04 pm to Winston Cup
What about a 3-4 day hangover?
Same thing?
Same thing?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 4:52 am to TigerLunatik
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Congratulations and good luck. I had to separate from people who were doing the things I was trying to quit when I got sober.
What he said, its one of the most important things to do when fighting this battle.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:45 am to Paul Allen
quote:oh hell no. Withdrawals are so different and they suck so much arse. This time I had the shakes in my hands pretty bad for the first couple days and some nasty long lasting hallucinations at night while I was half asleep for a few nights. Luckily I didn't have any seizures which can happen with alcohol withdrawal. The withdrawals pretty much were done by the 5th day sober for me. I don't wish them on my worst enemy (and they can be fatal in some cases). I was close to needing medical intervention for them this go around but being the hard headed douche I am, I refused. Luckily they weren't worse
What about a 3-4 day hangover?
Same thing?
This post was edited on 8/2/17 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:15 am to Machine
I would also add that exercising regularly helped a lot too. Relieving all of that stress and anger that I was trying to mask in other ways was amazing and still is.
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