Posted: 7/13/2008 2:12:17 PM EDT
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I quit chewing at 11 pm last night. I am starting hear little voices inside my head. They are telling me to do very bad things. I just got sick of it and decided "That's enuff by God". The thing that scares me is that when I quit I wanna eat EVERYTHING. So hears my question. How have you fine gentlemen and Ladies ever quit smoking or chewing without gaining 40 pounds? All suggestions welcome. Thanks, Mike |
I quit on Memorial Day because I too was sick of it. I stopped once before and that lasted a year until I started the remodeled on the house with my first kid on the way. So now I know your pain and the weight gain must be part of the deal. Hell I will take my odds with the heart attack because cancer is what gets all of my family. Only advice I have is to get on the patches 21mg and pick up some 2mg lozenges to help out when you need something to get you by. I had a can a day habit and need the above to stop. Just half to be careful because too much nicotine can harm or kill you but that is what it took for me. On the bright side I get a new gun an (AK74) for stopping for 90 days. That worked out as pretty good deal with the wife. Good luck and enjoy the sunflower seeds and gum…. 
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back in 04' my pop quit smoking cold turkey after smoking nearly his entire life, he was up to 4+ packs a day and said he just got tired of buying them, and he lost weight, approx 20lbs; went from approx 205 to 185lbs. of course he had a heart attack like 3 months after he quit smoking that the doc told him was brought on by stopping cold, said quiting shocked his system after smoking a lot for some 55+ years, whether or not that's fact or a ploy to keep him from going back to smoking idk, but the old man hadn't had any tobacco in nearly 4 years, he's kept most of the weight off, hadn't had anymore heart attacks either, but he has had to have stints put again since, and he takes meds daily. as for me, I'm still smoking, because I like to smoke, don't like the price though, they cut into my booze fund  .
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I've quit, sort of. If I'm around people who smoke, I may or may not bum one. People I really like being around are the ones I am most likely to bum one from. There is an old man in the nursing home where Bud died (his room mate) that I have gone to see a few times since Bud died. I always take him a pack of Kools and we'll go out on the smoking porch and burn one together. We both enjoy it a great deal. We'll shoot the shit and kick Old Bud's ass around like we did when he was alive.  I remember reading an article about communications and being informed about issues in the work place. It seems that smokers are the most informed workers in any company. 
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That diet plan sounds a little hard on the body. I hope my luck is better than that. |
That's my story as well.....I smoked in the military, got out and started chewing because I thought it would be easier to quit. What a moron I was......Now I am fighting the urge. I don't miss smoking, but I am missing that after dinner dip. 
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More sex will drop that weight off, Higgie. That's why most people gain weight AFTER they get married. I'll tell you how smart I am. I grew up around smokers - both parents - but never smoked until I was 35.  Yeah, I'm a dumb ass. Coffee and smoking was a deviation from a very dull every day routine. And it became a habit.
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no doubt man, he's gotta see the doc every three months for tests/checkups, and every time they're just checking to see if he's gotta have bypass surgery or somemore stints, but he's stuck with the diet the doc put him on, his big meal of the day is a diet pepsi with either a dry salad and piece of fruit, or some lean beef/chicken/fish with a piece of fruit. fuck if I ate like that I'd lose weight and keep it off too. |
Higgie, Ndenway, try this website: www.thedailyplate.com/ It has a calorie counter - you enter what you eat every day, it'll tell you how much protein, carbs, and fat you've consumed. It will track it for you day after day. If you look under the calorie counter section, it will calculate how much you can eat every day to drop weight. I've been dropping two lbs a week now for over three months so I can verify it works. You just have to want to do it. |
That's me all the way......I was looking for something to waste time with while hunting or hanging doing nothing. Then it became a serious want. As for sex......Well I screwed up and fed my wife wedding cake about 5 + years ago and we all knows what happens you do something foolish like that don't we? |
Yeah I hear ya loud and clear.....I should eat that way as well.... But I got this nasty fried, fast food, Ice cream, Pecan pie habit that keeps jumping up and biting me in the rump. Well... Maybe this will be some incentive to start a healthier lifestyle. |
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Sunflower Seeds. Keeps your mouth occupied, and supposedly, (I have no link or info to support, so take it for what it is worth, stimulates the same chemical reaction as nicotine??? Don't know if I believe it, but it helped me to quit smoking) Other than that, I agree with mooching. |
Sun flower seeds and mooching are definately cheaper. Good advice. 
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man, food that taste good is what's bad for you, take for example what I had for dinner today and it was the lunch plate special, not the dinner sized plate: two cheese enchaladas, crispy beef taco, beans and rice all covered in cheese and chilli, with flour tortillias, queso, salsa and some green sauce (avracados with chopped up jalapenos) all washed down by three tecates and a coke. hell I was so full after the meal I couldn't even burp, the waitress looked at me like this when I turned down the sopapillia pastry.
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there's always the dirt looking snuff that you snort, can't think of the name of the stuff, it was sold in a cardboard canister with steel caps, I used to see quite a few old indian men snorting it, and the women dipping it, resembled mud when wet. I tried snorting the stuff once when I was 6 or 7 and looked like this  ETA: had to fix the watering eyes |
You are right....No one likes a quitter. SO does that mean you are gonna QUIT let me bum off of you. That's just wrong dude. Besides I am a pretty good cook, so your Mrs. might like having me around occupying that spare bedroom. I even do laundry and take care of the lawn. 
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Do you guys ever remembering seeing someone cutting a plug then chewing it? I've seen my great grand pa do it when I was a tyke barely out of diapers. Maybe you should try finding some of that to chew on, Higgie. Old Bud went to 106 and he always had chew in his mouth. Geez, he was nasty!!!!!! |
My grandpa was a plug chewer as well. he used to chew this nasty old stuff that was braided was like a rope. If it tasted as bad as it smelled it would be no problem quitting.
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Problem solved!!!! But it's been YEARS since I've even see a store that sold plugs of tobacco.
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plenty of smoke shops and IGA grocery stores that still sell the plug tobacco, I've heard if your going to chew it's some pretty good stuff, I've tried it when I was a kid and got dizzier than hell. don't know about if the twist can still be found, the dude that owned the pool hall in town used to chew some twist he called cotton bowls/bohls(sp), that stuff would burn too, so it could probably be smoked as well as chewed. |