For Smokers only.

[drelk001]

So I read this book (https://www.amazon.com/Smokers-Only-Smokeless-Tobacco-Save/dp/1939104300) called "For smokers only".
I then watched an interview with the doctor who wrote the book and it changed my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1StNipKMRwQ

I just wanted to know if anyone has ever read this or watched the interview?
What do you guys think?

If you are a dipper, what is ur goto dip? Mine is Copenhagen Southern Blend. Been trying Skoal apple because one of my buddies dips it, kinda like it.

[Ahldagor]

Does it suck to quit nicotine? Yes, but it boils down to quitting with action and no rationalizations other wise. A test of mettle.

[drelk001]

Does it suck to quit nicotine? Yes, but it boils down to quitting with action and no rationalizations other wise. A test of mettle.

truth. I one time tried to quit. after about 5 days in I was invited to go bowling. IDK if you have ever bowled, but I for one get VERY angry. like wiping in a hierophant camp in OS having to do a CR angry lol

I figured if I didnt have nicotine in me when I went bowling I would probably kill someone lol.

[khanable]

So I read this book (https://www.amazon.com/Smokers-Only-Smokeless-Tobacco-Save/dp/1939104300) called "For smokers only".
I then watched an interview with the doctor who wrote the book and it changed my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1StNipKMRwQ

I just wanted to know if anyone has ever read this or watched the interview?
What do you guys think?

If you are a dipper, what is ur goto dip? Mine is Copenhagen Southern Blend. Been trying Skoal apple because one of my buddies dips it, kinda like it.

played video, skipped ahead a bit, at the point I landed the doctor was going on about how he's presenting the 'scientific facts' and how it wasn't his 'opinion' and how 'tobacco zealots want to misinform you'.

immediately skeptical, closed video

sorry for your rotting teeth

[Tupakk]

I used to be a pack a day, and then on day I just said meh, and now im down to social smoking.

[surron]

i used to smoke a lot of cigs about 10 years then one day my lung collapsed having sex (26 yr old tall slim guy can bench press more than my weight) so i havent since then. still smoke ganja everyday but with an ice catcher to cool the smoke, no blunts. i think it may have been the BHO we were experimenting with back in 2010 before wax or shatter was really a mainstream thing.

it was easy to quit when I saw the medical bill was 11k and 3k out of pocket after insurance

[bigjerry]

i started smoking after quitting harder stuff. it was nothing to quit after 6mo. smokers are vaginas

[Pokesan]

smoking rules and is fun

[Darkatar]

Replacing cigs with dip is getting you nowhere.

If you're gonna continue to be addicted to nicotine, you should give vaping a shot, at least it has a -chance- of not giving you face amputations.

[bigjerry]

the gum works fine, you don't have to go gay or chew gross shit. If the gum is off the table and vaping isn't, you're straight up gay. can't wait to see you as a plaintiff in a class action suit in 20yrs.

i still chew the gum intermittently in place of coffee -- it's a better high and I seem to tolerate it better (no side effects or poor sleep hangover later like with coffee).

[bigjerry]

yeah the patch and gum both suffer from the methadone problem. Way stronger than what you're kicking. walking back my earlier post by saying here I have sympathy for child smokers - that's pretty rough my n@gg@.

How fucked is your health from smoking hard early? Do you feel like you can compete with normal people cardiovascularly now?

[Nymphomancer]

then one day my lung collapsed having sex

nearly fell out my chair, lol

[bigjerry]

I grew up breathing my dad's shitty cigar smoke. The brand was Backwoods. Then around 15, 16, I started smokin dank nugglets and cigs and slowly of course became addicted to die ziggaretten. My lungs have had lifelong exposure to smoke with brief periods in my 20s now when I don't use dank (cigs are only on special occassions, like if I'm traveling or drunk on a roof top in San Francisco about to have a threesome)

I had asthma problems as a kiddo whenever I tried to do long term cardio. It kept me away from some of the SPORT I wanted to do, particularly made swimming distance difficult. I got into short energy-burst SPORT like Fencing and Rock Climbing to make up for it. I knew I was going to have to train my lungs to operate at the capacity of other people's because I was far behind in my teens, despite being an active, forest dwelling kid.

Truth be told, the childhood exposure to smoke developed something of an allergic reaction for me and this helped a great deal as I kicked cigarettes. If I smoke for several contiguous months, I get bronchitis. There's no way around it. Last time I smoked was for about 2 weeks to a month of a spliffs. Got bronchitis.

I realized when I was 20 that I needed to quit smoking. it was too detrimental to my health on the immediate front to ever be worthwhile. But since I grew up around smoking as a kid, it was engrained as a manly activity. My training taught me to slurp coffee and suck cigz and eat all the cheese at the disco.

Only by eliminating social scenes where I was destined to smoke (bars, coffee shop, outside college class), was I able to start going weeks at a time without a cigarette.

Nowadays I have no problems anywhere except drunk at a bar.

I am happy to report I am in extremely good physical condition despite a chronic irritable bowel disease.

agreed!

[Gumbo]

The easiest thing I ever did in life was quit smoking. I smoked for 23 years and was a pack to a pack-half smoker until I saw how much the state was going to raise the prices and add additional taxes.

I had two packs left and I left one pack unwrapped and marked a date of 10/25/2010 on it in marker. The other pack was open I so left the pack in my car after I smoked my final cigarette. The pack is still in my car as a reminder if I wanted to smoke again then I would smoke a six year old stale cigarette.

I got through the final smoke and all of work the next day and that turned into 24 hours. I figured if I can go 24 hours without a smoke then I could quit and not even 48 hours later, I didn't have the urge to smoke.

Do I think about smoking? Yes... Did I like to smoke? Yes... Do I feel like spending 70 bucks a week on a carton? No...

[Ahldagor]

The saved money is a benefit. Been since Thanksgiving since I quit and have saved almost 800 dollars.

[R Flair]

you can vape a year for the cost of a months worth of cigarettes. I love my stimulants and quitting is for losers.

[maskedmelon]

smoking is gross :c not quite as disgusting as chewing (tobacco), but still :/

Kudos to all who quit or have taken up less gross activities like gaping or chewing gum ^^

[drelk001]

yeah. I agree with a lot. I want to vape but it's more about the big amount of money you have to spend in order to get the equipment. I bought a V2 starter pack and in order to get me fill of nicotine I had to kill the entire tank.

I made this thread for people like me, who just cant seem to quit nicotine. maybe should shed some light on some myths about smokeless tobacco.

My doctor actually dips grizzly straight and has been trying to get me to switch to smokeless tobacco so That's why I wasnt so skeptical about that video.

[Baler]

Smoked for 5 years. malbero reds, malbero menthal, newports and self rolled filter / no filter. Maybe an occasional pack of camel wides too.

Then there came a day when I noticed my breathing was irregular and I had what felt like a 2nd breath after my first. Stopped smoking and start spitting up black, brown and yellow shit. Especially after a hot shower, it was gross.

I know how much I was spending on smokes and that they just weren't doing for me what they originally had. It had become an addiction rather then a means of relaxation and settlement. Pretty much after every meal I had to smoke.

I take tolerance breaks from caffeine for a similar reason. At a certain point your body builds up a tolerance and the effects are just not as great. I felt the damage tobacco was doing to my body and decided the minimal effect was not worth it.
I quit cold turkey after stretching a pack out across a week.

I still get urges, especially when I'm around other smokers.

ps. I've seen that video for switching to dip. Dip is no better than smoke. You're just ingesting the chemicals in a different manner.
IF it helps people quit tobacco sure good for them,. But if you're just switching one bad habit for another well. That's not good.

[maerilith]

I can't smoke. It's physically impossible. Somethings wrong with me.

Oh wait....

[entruil]

My doctor actually dips grizzly straight

[bigjerry]

^thank god we got my main n@gga spelunking these posts

[Bubbles]

Smoked for 15 years. Tried vape pens. took a few different ones to find ones i liked... I ended up doing great with the little 10 dollar disposable jobbies you can but at smoke shops, etc..

I was a pack and a half a day smoker.. chronic hacking cough. all the usual trappings.

Shit worked. I cough once every 6 months when allergy season hits.. havent touched a dagger in almost a year and a half.

It works like a charm for 50% of smokers.. It doesnt work at all for the other 50%. You owe it to yourself to try. I am exactly the type of dude who should have just smoked for 40 years and died of lung cancer. I never dreamed it would be that easy. :)

[Tasslehofp99]

Smoked for 11 years now, quit for like 4years after catching pneumonia back when I was like 23-24 years old. Somehow I managed to pick the gross habit back up over the years, but not nearly as bad. I used to smoke a pack or more per day, but now I smoke maybe 5-8 cigarettes per day.


By this summer though, I plan on quitting completely again.

[Gumbo]

I think the worst time I smoked was when I played EQ back in 1999-2001. I remember doing all nighters and getting so wrapped up in the game. I would smoke and light up another one not even a minute later cause I couldn't remember smoking the first cigarette.