Quitting Smoking with PoE.

I've been cutting my cigarette consumption down by more than half, almost without effort, simply because I find this game more engaging than getting my nic on.

Anyway, thought it would be nice to start a little support group for others who might want to cut back as well, or quit altogether. Non-smokers welcome, of course. :)

Smoking is gross.

good luck brother, id suggest going to the gym regularly to cut that stress out of not smoking.

Thanks. That's actually been another trigger - been hitting the cardio pretty hard, and getting a lungfull of hydrogen cyanide after a good heart workout just doesn't feel right.

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necromuso wrote:

Smoking is gross.

Sure is, my fellow undead.

I dropped cigs a couple years back overnight from a pack a day to nothing. Also played quite a bit of videogames during that time, probably helped a bit.

Started hitting the gym after that too so I feel your lung's pain, heh.

I haven't gone back to cigs, but about a year after I had quit and got my lungs straightened out through exercise I picked up pipe smoking.

It tastes better, is less offensive to other people, and significantly less of a health risk since you do not inhale the smoke. And it's a relatively cheap habit to pick up.

Not a solution if smoking is all about the nicotine for you, but for me after a year without smoke I very much missed the taste of fine tobacco.

I'm down from a pack and a half every day to about ~5 cigs every day, but the reduction has just improved the sensation i get from every cig now.

I don't think that i'm ever going to quit completely.

I quit two weeks ago =]

Woke up on a Monday and heard a neighbor coughing his lungs out and thought about how I didn't want to be him. Haven't had a smoke again.

You can do it!

Good luck to you guys. From my experience it came down to a much stronger psychological addiction than physical, so it was a matter of breaking my associations with everyday tasks from smoking. Relearning how to eat without a cig after a meal or taking a walk without smoking, etc.

It is mostly a question of honestly wanting to stop the habit, rather than half-assing it because you think that you should. Also, I didn't have many supportive friends at the time, and most of them were jackasses making jokes like "was I getting the shakes yet". Don't let other people's insecurities or their judgements of you stop you from doing what you want to do.

I wonder how many forum members who "can't afford" $10 for a Cash Shop package with Beta access are smokers? Regular drinkers of "fashionable" coffee?

Give up a bad habit for a little while, play PoE. Who knows, the quit might stick! =^[.]^=

Nice man, Gaming > Smoking