Quitting

[Bonzi]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

 

[depotoo]

Hang in there.

 

[Bonzi]

I'll never quit coffee! Unless Doc tells me it would kill me, and even then, I'm clinging to my last addiction!

 

[Bonzi]

(I'm not even covering the psychological/emotional addictions.. the is entirely ANOTHER story!)

 

[Iceweasel]

I quit drinking a bunch of times. There's nothing to it.

 

[Auld Phart]

Had no problem stopping smoking or drinking

lost the taste for alcohol, and couldn't inhale so it was easy to stop

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Once upon a time it was smoking, drinking, drugs & a not so ladylike lifestyle.

Quit all but smoking. Yep it's THE hardest to give up.

Just take it one day at a time, one moment at a time.



Coffee? Coffee is an addiction? I thought it was a necessity of life.....

 

[saveliberty]

Addictive personalities just find something. Workaholic qualify?

 

[Mad Scientist]

I quit smoking 27 years ago. I had 5 days of jitters and haven't smoked since.

I like coffee but its real addictive to me. Every few years I'll just stop drinking it and the next day I suffer a MASSIVE migraine that lasts for two or three days. Then a few months or a year later I'll get over confident and start drinking it again.

 

[Bonzi]

I quit drinking a bunch of times. There's nothing to it.

Like Mark Twain said about smoking....

 

[Bonzi]

I quit smoking 27 years ago. I had 5 days of jitters and haven't smoked since.

I like coffee but its real addictive to me. Every few years I'll just stop drinking it and the next day I suffer a MASSIVE migraine that lasts for two or three days. Then a few months or a year later I'll get over confident and start drinking it again.

I drink several cups in the morning - rarely in the evenings except when I go out to dinner or run out of hot tea!

 

[Iceweasel]

I quit drinking a bunch of times. There's nothing to it.

Like Mark Twain said about smoking....

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Great minds think alike! I think he died of throat cancer though.

 

[Bonzi]

I quit drinking a bunch of times. There's nothing to it.

Like Mark Twain said about smoking....

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Great minds think alike! I think he died of throat cancer though.

yes, well your liver...........

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

Drinking - It has been a week...

Never smoked except the Herb and gave that up when I moved to Texas.

 

[Bonzi]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

Drinking - It has been a week...

Never smoked except the Herb and gave that up when I moved to Texas.

ooh! we are quitting together! It's been about a month for me though, maybe longer....

 

[Bonzi]

I did drink some Vanilla and Orange extract... but... not the same...

 

[Bonzi]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

Drinking - It has been a week...

Never smoked except the Herb and gave that up when I moved to Texas.

What was your beverage of choice?

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

Drinking - It has been a week...

Never smoked except the Herb and gave that up when I moved to Texas.

What was your beverage of choice?

Jim Beam or Snow Queen Vodka... ( Straight in a double shot glass )

 

[Bonzi]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

Drinking - It has been a week...

Never smoked except the Herb and gave that up when I moved to Texas.

What was your beverage of choice?

Jim Beam or Snow Queen Vodka... ( Straight in a double shot glass )

well PM me if it ever gets hard. I'm not here 24/7 (tho I'm sure it seems like it)....

 

[Muhammed]

Have you ever quit an addiction?
If so what kind?

If you had to quit several addictions, which was the hardest to quit?

For me, I used to smoke (about 10 years ago). That was the hardest.
2nd hardest was drinking. That was recently - but, right NOW its hard (because I have ZERO desire to smoke), but I want to drink about ever day.

Those are the only 2 addictions I have had.

I quit smoking cigarettes in high school. It was harder to quit than I thought. There was several failed attempts.

I used to do all kinds of illegal drugs but the one I developed a serious problem with was crack cocaine. One hit and I was hooked. I was smoking it every day. I was a crack head for about a year back in the 80s when it first hit the scene in a major way around here. The stuff suddenly just everywhere. It seems like overnight everybody was smoking it or dealing it or both. I was doing both.

Crack wasn't really difficult to quit. The withdrawal symptoms were uncomfortable. Anxiety and intense cravings. But unlike cigarettes, the cravings were gone after a couple of days. When I quit cigarettes I was still having cravings weeks later.

Cigarettes were definately much harder to quit than crack.

I also was addicted to alcohol. I used to dink alot.
By a lot I mean the Budweiser truck would deliver to my house every week. How many people drink so much that the beer that they are on the beer distributors route? I wonder what the neighbors thought.

I developed so much tolerance to alcohol that I was drinking a case of beer a day and wouldn't even catch a buzz. To catch a buzz I had to hit the liquor bottles.

When I decided to quit I tried to just wean myself off of it by drinking less and less each day until I was dry. But that didn't work.

Finally I said enough is enough and just went cold turkey. When I was about 10 years old my mother was studying to be a nurse and I would help her study by giving her quizzes and stuff. I knew her nursing textbooks inside and out. So I have a lot of medical knowledge. I knew that going cold turkey could potentially have some very serious consequences and could even be fatal.

When I went into withdrawl my whole body was shaking, my heart was racing, I was paranoid and I was projectile vomiting. But the worst was the extremely vivid and terrifying hallucinations.

I called 911 and they took to me the ER. I ended up in the hospital for 5 days.

That was about 30 years ago. Today I only drink in moderation and have no desire to get drunk.

In my experience cigarettes were the hardest to quit but alcohol was the worst. The doctor said that if I would have waited much longer to get to the hospital I probably would have died.