Well Sort Of
I am in the process of quitting smoking. Well sort of. I smoke too much and have to quit because I am always huffing and puffing at the smallest exertion. So I have come up with a schedule of how I am going to quit. First I’m going to cut down allot then after I’m use to that I’ll go cold turkey. Right now my smoking schedule is; when I wake up I can smoke all I want until 1100 then from 1100 to 1700 there’s no smoking, then I can smoke from 1700 until 1900. No smoking until 2100 then I can smoke until I go to bed at 2200. There is no ashtray in my bedroom so I can’t lay in bed and have a smoke. Smoking has been regulated to just in my living room. Now once I get use to this new schedule I’ll increase the time I don’t smoke. Instead of not smoking from 1100 ’til 1700 I’ll make it 1100 to 1800. Once I’m use to that it’ll start at 1000 instead of 1100.
Please don’t think that because I’m quitting smoking that I’m going to become some rabid anti-smoker. Nothing could be further from the truth. I consider myself a militant smoker and my attitude will not change. I don’t believe smoking causes cancer or emphysema or any of the nasty things it is suppose to do. I do believe that smoking can aggravate these things but do not cause them. If you disagree with me then I suggest you check out this website.
This is something that has been rattling around my head for some time so now is the time to do it. I have smoked cigarettes since 1974. It is well past time for me to cut it out. I’m taking my time in quitting but it’s going to work for me. Baby steps for now. Great leaps will come later. Wish me luck.
If you want a bit of advice from an old codger, I would suggest that cutting down rarely works. Cigarettes are moreh a habit than an addition and it’s very hard to change habits. Cutting down may work for a while but you will probably creep up again. My advice would be to go cold turkey. If you stop completely [and keep telling yourself that you are a non-smoker and not an ex-smoker] you stand a better chance of success.
If it all fails, there is always the pipe? I switched forty years ago and never went back on the fags ever.
Just a thought.
The New Moon is THE best time to do stuff like that. Call me a loony (haha, see what I did there?) but sometimes the most unlikely things have a big part to play in success. Stamina, strength, resolve.. I wish ‘em all for you.
Cold turkey IS best, if you can survive that first 48 hours, and then the following um.. year, but in the meantime smoking less is definitely more I think. I’m in that territory now, life just seems too damn harsh for cold turkey.
Or.. take up the pipe! I’d do that but I haven’t the strength to put up with all the slaggin’s.
G’luck, boyo.
Grandad and K8, I believe that you both are correct. I’m having a heck of a time not smoking between 11 and 5. I think cold turkey is the way to go. Though I think I am smoking allot less than I did a few weeks ago. The pipe is not an option. I want to be a non-smoker. I like that better than an ex-smoker.
K8, I thought the full moon would be the time to quit. Planting by the moon always goes from full moon to full moon anyways I’m always wound up on the full moon. I don’t need a calendar to tell me when it is. I can tell you if it’s a full moon just by my mood. When I drank I always got really drunk on the full moon. Today is the new moon and I don’t want to quit right now. I like the idea of cutting down. Maybe I’ll quit at the next full moon. We’ll see how that goes. I’m in for the long run with this quitting thing.
So when do you weed? After the full moon? I’d completely forgotten that gardening advice,never plant when she’s waning, ’tis true, makes sense what with underground water level tides and all.. Speaking of weed…
I haven’t done any weeding since 1985. I use to do allot of weeding when I was young but just kinda’ got tired of it. In the end I use to call it “getting stupid”. I use to weed every day. I had a very nice garden too.