I really want to stop smoking.

[HeroicHeathen]

It sucks! Its expensive, makes me feel bad, it stinks and makes me get out of breath easily.
But getting off these things is also a torture because then I have anxiety and so on.

Anyone ever managed to get off smoking ?

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por Netaris:

Stop buying products that containt nicotine. There is other ways to deal with anxiety, avoiding stressfull situations is the main one.

Not all anxiety types are triggered by stressful situations mate. My life is certainly not stressful.

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

I managed this before. The problem is, after months, I sometimes get a craving and then I pull the :" Just one cigarette thing " and boom, I am back at it.

It's happening because the tar-encased nicotine in your lungs is flaking off in scar tissue, and you're getting a micro-hit from exposure as it's coughed up. Just ignore it.

This explains also the nasty cough I get when I stop, that almost makes me vomit.

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Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

It's happening because the tar-encased nicotine in your lungs is flaking off in scar tissue, and you're getting a micro-hit from exposure as it's coughed up. Just ignore it.

This explains also the nasty cough I get when I stop, that almost makes me vomit.

That's probably a pre-existing condition, like bronchial boreholing.

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

This explains also the nasty cough I get when I stop, that almost makes me vomit.

That's probably a pre-existing condition, like bronchial boreholing.

No idea what that is. But when I stop for longer durations, I don't have a cough.

[Netaris]

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Not all anxiety types are triggered by stressful situations mate. My life is certainly not stressful.

The very definition of anxiety is an "excessive reaction to situations percieved as dangerous". Anxiety is always triggered by stressfull situations, it's the very meaning of the word ...

If it's not your case, then your problem isn't about anxiety but something else or you're unable to pinpoint what stress you exactly.

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Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

That's probably a pre-existing condition, like bronchial boreholing.

No idea what that is. But when I stop for longer durations, I don't have a cough.

I dunno, asthma?

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

No idea what that is. But when I stop for longer durations, I don't have a cough.

I dunno, asthma?

I don't have Asthma.

[ZanyScum]

I can only think of one thing:
All the money you could use to buy games and good food, all gone for a bad taste.

That should be enough to stop smoking. No? :-)

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Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

I dunno, asthma?

I don't have Asthma.

even if you haven't had an acute episode (like unable to breathe or stand up to breathe for seemingly no reason) you could still have a mild asthma triggered by smoke. like extra-inflamed tissues.

combined with the first layer of tar and nicotine coming off, the stuff that's kinda fresh and not stuck on, this can cause a lot of stress on your esophageal spchincter. the hole for your lungs gets tight, and this forces the esophageous opens and triggers involuntary vomiting.

this can also happen if you just cough a lot, for example from whooping cough.

bronchial broeholing is when a virus bores holes into your brocnhial pathways, distending them slightly. the body doesn't really have a mechanism for closing these holes in most populations, and the ones that do aren't really foolproof. so the virus can kind of sit in them, getting wiped by antibodies occasionally, but slowly digging out a space thatt other viruses could live in when they're finally wiped out. This is one way to become a carrier for streptococus, for instance, requring multiple rounds of antibiotics to safely remove the population.

this can increase cough force, wear and tear on esophageus due to tracheal pressure, etc.

It's the same bio-mechanism as hitting someone in the solar plexus making them vomit. It puts so much stress on the tracheal valve that it presses the esophageal open. sometimes you can direct the force of a punch at the stomach 'upwards', so enough to trigger a diaphragm contraction in time with forcibly pressing on the stomach.

If you just hit them there they can stop a vomit; it has to hit their breathing as well.

This is obviously very dangerous because it's really easy to choke on vomit, and if that happens you could develop bronchial boreholing depending on what's in your stomach.

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

I don't have Asthma.

even if you haven't had an acute episode (like unable to breathe or stand up to breathe for seemingly no reason) you could still have a mild asthma triggered by smoke. like extra-inflamed tissues.

combined with the first layer of tar and nicotine coming off, the stuff that's kinda fresh and not stuck on, this can cause a lot of stress on your esophageal spchincter. the hole for your lungs gets tight, and this forces the esophageous opens and triggers involuntary vomiting.

this can also happen if you just cough a lot, for example from whooping cough.

bronchial broeholing is when a virus bores holes into your brocnhial pathways, distending them slightly. the body doesn't really have a mechanism for closing these holes in most populations, and the ones that do aren't really foolproof. so the virus can kind of sit in them, getting wiped by antibodies occasionally, but slowly digging out a space thatt other viruses could live in when they're finally wiped out.

this can increase cough force, wear and tear on esophageus due to tracheal pressure, etc.

Well whatever. I have been to doctors and did lung tests, they did not see any Asthma of any sort.

And if for some reason I should have that, fact is, if I don't smoke, I don't feel any of this and I can breath perfectly well. Which is what matters.

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Ok it could also be a genetic sloughing disorder which responds to smoke exposure and tar exposure, and which massively increases your risk for cancer.

This is literally every time?

[HeroicHeathen]

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Ok it could also be a genetic sloughing disorder which responds to smoke exposure and tar exposure, and which massively increases your risk for cancer.

This is literally every time?

No. When I smoke, I don't really cough, only once or twice a day, I cough up some slurm perhaps.
Its when I stop smoking.

I think you are being overly concerned. I checked online and it says, when people stop smoking, after like a day, the lungs start cleaning themselves, which results in a cough, to carry out all the waste out of your lungs.

Its not like when I cough I choke and vomit. This only happens sometimes in the morning, which I assume also leads back to a dry throat. Because during the day, I dont have this issue.

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Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Publicado originalmente por abcd:

Ok it could also be a genetic sloughing disorder which responds to smoke exposure and tar exposure, and which massively increases your risk for cancer.

This is literally every time?

No. When I smoke, I don't really cough, only once or twice a day, I cough up some slurm perhaps.
Its when I stop smoking.

I think you are being overly concerned. I checked online and it says, when people stop smoking, after like a day, the lungs start cleaning themselves, which results in a cough, to carry out all the waste out of your lungs.

Its not like when I cough I choke and vomit. This only happens sometimes in the morning, which I assume also leads back to a dry throat. Because during the day, I dont have this issue.

well you should ask a doctor for genetic screening imo, as the reaction is triggered when you stop. otherwise the tar is structural and halts the response until you stop.

Its not like when I cough I choke and vomit. This only happens sometimes in the morning, which I assume also leads back to a dry throat. Because during the day, I dont have this issue.

In 5 years of smoking this only happened to me once, so i dunno man.

[ZanyScum]

Publicado originalmente por Dusk of Oolacile:

If you wanted it, you'd do it instead of doing social media posts for internet points. You want the internet points.

Or he just can't stop smoking and wants to talk about it?

[EASY PETE]

Publicado originalmente por Beblokis:

Publicado originalmente por StarScream🔰:

According to Dr.'s vaping is 100% safer then cigarettes. As vaping cause no harm to your lungs.

Sorry but thats nonsense.
I did vaping and infomred myself about it, it also harms your lungs and makes a hell a lot more addictive than cigarettes. Because you have higher nicotine concentrations and have that thing in your hand like 24/7.

Worst advice ever.

Not to mention you are also inhaling traces of plastic which is also poisonous