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1 Cigarette a day
I smoke just 1 Cigarette a day , not more than that.
so how much harmfull it is ?
so how much harmfull it is ?
Wow I've never heard of anyone just having 1 cigarette a day. I'd say just dont even bother, eventually you'll end up smoking more than 1 cigarette a day sooner or later. I believe smoking cigarettes is harmful no matter how many you smoke a day.
It is not completly harmless I'm sure. The worst thing is it keeps the addcition going.
Hmm.
This is a step of mine in the way of stopping smokking.
previously I used to smoke a lot. now I've minimized it to exact 1/day. never more than that strictly.
However smoking just one is not much harmfull. Is it ??
This is a step of mine in the way of stopping smokking.
previously I used to smoke a lot. now I've minimized it to exact 1/day. never more than that strictly.
However smoking just one is not much harmfull. Is it ??
Cutting down to 1 is a great thing, i'm sure its not as harmfull as smoking a pack a day, i'm no expert, I just think smoking isnt good for you no matter how you look at it, but hey if you cut down to 1 than good job.
Jizi & Mr. Lucky are correct........In order to quit, you must stop all together. You may think you are capable of stopping this way, but because you are a smoker, then when something happens that sets you off, you will most likely return to smoking more.
If you can go with 1 of a half one per day, then you absolutely do not need any at all so just don't smoke period, that's the best and only way to quit.
Good luck!
Kathy Jo
If you can go with 1 of a half one per day, then you absolutely do not need any at all so just don't smoke period, that's the best and only way to quit.
Good luck!
Kathy Jo
Sure it's way better than 1 pack per day but you need (and want?) to get to 0 smokes a day. There's an older lady from church who calls me and she does the same thing, 1 per day in a few puffs at a time. She really needs to quit 100% as she has COPD. I smoked for 38 years and it killed both my parents. I didn't have COPD or cancer yet but it may have happened soon.all the best
Hmm sometime I think I should leave. But acctually I dont have any addiction on the point of smoking. My addiction is to go to a relaxing place and sit quite alone and smoke. the place and the climate etc.. is my addiction smoking is auxaliry. even If I have 1 Cigerate on my hand Its ok I dont need to smoke.
To test wheather the above statement is true or not I justspent 3 days without Cigerate. just by going to same place. and 4 days just by liting it on mouth and then holding it on my hand and I found that last 4 days was as relaxing as I smoked today.
LOL Its a rather Psycological problem. (But this problem doesn't harm at all rather it gives me the same relaxation of smoking).
To test wheather the above statement is true or not I justspent 3 days without Cigerate. just by going to same place. and 4 days just by liting it on mouth and then holding it on my hand and I found that last 4 days was as relaxing as I smoked today.
LOL Its a rather Psycological problem. (But this problem doesn't harm at all rather it gives me the same relaxation of smoking).
If I could get away with smoking only one a day (which I can't), I still don't think I would. Why suffer through the horrid taste and stink up my breath, skin, and clothes once each day?? Makes absolutely no sense to me.
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Wayne Baker
Nicotine Free: 1Y 3w 2d 23h 57m
Not Smoked: 11,309
Money Better Spent $1,865.99
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Wayne Baker
Nicotine Free: 1Y 3w 2d 23h 57m
Not Smoked: 11,309
Money Better Spent $1,865.99
Happy 1 year anniversary Wayne (3 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes late).
Congratulations to you!
Kathy Jo
Congratulations to you!
Kathy Jo
1 a day will still add up to hundreds of cigarettes over time. I think the effect is the same, only slower.. Here's a video that I got from youtube. It shows how much tar will end up in your lungs after 2 boxes of cigarettes.. If you're smoking 1 a day, you will have finished 2 boxes of cigarettes after 400 days. Since when have you been smoking 1 a day?
http://cigarette-facts.com/cigarette-smoking-the-scary-facts/
Watch it there, I got so scared since I know I've smoked way more than 2 boxes... But I quit already and going strong : )
http://cigarette-facts.com/cigarette-smoking-the-scary-facts/
Watch it there, I got so scared since I know I've smoked way more than 2 boxes... But I quit already and going strong : )
I feel it is harder to quit smoking 1 a day then if I smoked more. I have such a built up daily mental release that is fixated around that one ultimate relaxation cigartette before bed. I am so relaxed I am usually out when my head hits the pillow. The only problem is I start associating that one cigarette as a nightly sleeping pill and finding myself not wanting to go without it. To make matters worse if for some reason I wake up during the nite I find myself having another cigarette to fall back asleep! Now what?!?!
That's the mental addiction, which is, in my opinion, a lot tougher to break then the physical one.
If you recognize it as an issue, and it sounds as if it is, then it may help to try to understand the reason why you associate smoking with relaxation.
Have you tried substitution? Maybe a glass of warm milk or decaf green tea? It's odd that the smell alone isn't an aversion!
Try to read some of the articles at whyquit.com Concentrate mainly on the "behavioral" articles.
Good luck to you.
If you recognize it as an issue, and it sounds as if it is, then it may help to try to understand the reason why you associate smoking with relaxation.
Have you tried substitution? Maybe a glass of warm milk or decaf green tea? It's odd that the smell alone isn't an aversion!
Try to read some of the articles at whyquit.com Concentrate mainly on the "behavioral" articles.
Good luck to you.
Look, there is so many false facts about smoking out there. Yes 1 cigarette a day will add up to 400. But your theory that there will be that much tar in the lungs is false. It will add up to that but your lungs do rebuild themselves. People that smoke a pack a day or more put more tar in there lungs than there lungs can get rid of. And when to find information about cigarettes try to stick with independent studies. So many studies are either backed by Cigarette companies or anti smoking organizations. My opinion is that if u want to smoke 14 a day go for it. Its all about self control. I always loved this quote, its from a independent study. "If you smoke for 50 years you will die from a heart attack, or a stroke which is a normal way for a smoker to die. If you dont smoke for 50 years you will die from a heart attack or a stroke, which is the normal way for a non smoker to die. And both will die a normal age". Plus my opinion is who wants to live till they are 80 anyway?
Really!? Just one a day...seems hard to believe. Ciggarettes are an addiction there is no way to just smoke one.
You have good self control thats all i can say! LOL
You have good self control thats all i can say! LOL
well i guess its kinda like second hand smoke but not really, but its hard to believe you just smoke once a day. i live around smokers and they smoke like every 15 mins.
I've always thought that if I could smoke ONLY the cigarettes that I really enjoy each day, which would be about 6, I would never even think about quitting. It would still be a risk, but I would accept that risk. Unfortunately, it is the other 34 cigarettes a day that I'm not even aware I have lit that skews my risk ratio. LOL (Sort of)
Personally I say if this guy really can only smoke one a day, go for it.
I also have friends who only smoke if they're having a drink, and no, they aren't raging alcoholics. I don't know how they do it, I know I wish I could. Must be wired different is all I can think.
I am 59 and have smoked since I was 15. Last Monday, the 28th of June, I had the first of two stents placed in my heart. I smoked a cigarette before I walked into the hospital and now, 9 days later, I haven't even considered digging through the garbage looking for a smokable butt. I guess for some of us, we have to have the $hit scared out of us before we really do it.
I did make one promise to myself which was that I will never allow myself to become one of those obnoxious, self-righteous ex-smokers! I know about the addiction, I know that nicotine is one, if not THE, most difficult of substances to quit, I know what it feels like to try and quit and fail time after time. In the past few years, I have found out what it feels like to be a leper in our society, I'm angry that every time our state needed more money, it was the smokers who got taxed the hardest. Someday the smell of smoke may really turn me off, maybe I will stand by a smoker and think they smell bad.........but I hope like hell I will remember when I was the smoker and keep my mouth shut.
Sorry for the rant...........at least it kept me from smoking about 5 cigarettes! Now if I could stop reaching for my cell phone like it's my pack of smokes.................
Greenlydia
Personally I say if this guy really can only smoke one a day, go for it.
I also have friends who only smoke if they're having a drink, and no, they aren't raging alcoholics. I don't know how they do it, I know I wish I could. Must be wired different is all I can think.
I am 59 and have smoked since I was 15. Last Monday, the 28th of June, I had the first of two stents placed in my heart. I smoked a cigarette before I walked into the hospital and now, 9 days later, I haven't even considered digging through the garbage looking for a smokable butt. I guess for some of us, we have to have the $hit scared out of us before we really do it.
I did make one promise to myself which was that I will never allow myself to become one of those obnoxious, self-righteous ex-smokers! I know about the addiction, I know that nicotine is one, if not THE, most difficult of substances to quit, I know what it feels like to try and quit and fail time after time. In the past few years, I have found out what it feels like to be a leper in our society, I'm angry that every time our state needed more money, it was the smokers who got taxed the hardest. Someday the smell of smoke may really turn me off, maybe I will stand by a smoker and think they smell bad.........but I hope like hell I will remember when I was the smoker and keep my mouth shut.
Sorry for the rant...........at least it kept me from smoking about 5 cigarettes! Now if I could stop reaching for my cell phone like it's my pack of smokes.................
Greenlydia
Congrats on day 9! Most of us have had something happen to us, health-wise and thankfully we are the ones that will live and be here for those who haven't had bad news yet.
I hope you recover frm your surgery quickly. Hopefully the heal will be quicker now that you are an ex-smoker : )
I too was one of those who couldn't just have one and I know a few that only smoke at weddings or while having a few drinks and I can't tell you how many times I coveted them ; )
Quitting was the best and hardest thing I have ever done and I can honestly say that I have never felt better! You will too, soon, if you already don't.
I'm here if you need an ear or to rant : )
Kathy Jo
2 yrs., 9 mos. and 22,062 smokes I haven't smoked!
I hope you recover frm your surgery quickly. Hopefully the heal will be quicker now that you are an ex-smoker : )
I too was one of those who couldn't just have one and I know a few that only smoke at weddings or while having a few drinks and I can't tell you how many times I coveted them ; )
Quitting was the best and hardest thing I have ever done and I can honestly say that I have never felt better! You will too, soon, if you already don't.
I'm here if you need an ear or to rant : )
Kathy Jo
2 yrs., 9 mos. and 22,062 smokes I haven't smoked!
Well hey Greenie! Wow, so sorry about the stents! You must be scared. Congrats on the quit, however. I'm not sure from your post if you've completely quit, but I do hope so. I would think sometimes something like this where you're Forced to quit could cause resentment. I don't know, that's a little of how I feel, anyway. I'm 72 days today and know without a doubt I was headed for disaster if I didn't quit smoking, but was I completely ready?...I thought so, but now I'm finding I'm having these ridiculous thoughts of envy about smokers who are young and can just smoke without a care...for now. Just dumb thoughts.
You will certainly heal faster without smoking, that's for sure. You'll feel much better too - maybe not right away - it took 45days for the increase in anxiety to back off and 65 days for the hot flashes to ease up, but it's all coming together - you just have to be patient and tell yourself the w/d will not last forever.
Good luck, hon!!!!!!!!
You will certainly heal faster without smoking, that's for sure. You'll feel much better too - maybe not right away - it took 45days for the increase in anxiety to back off and 65 days for the hot flashes to ease up, but it's all coming together - you just have to be patient and tell yourself the w/d will not last forever.
Good luck, hon!!!!!!!!
Geez.........it's like a reunion! The three of us go back a few years! I often wonder how some of the other "old timers" are doing?
The stent business WAS a massive wake up call, when both the cardiologist and the cardiothoracic surgeon said I was a heart attact just waiting to happen, there was a major shift in my thinking.
When I got out of the hospital the next day, normally the first thing I would have done is light up. What blew me away is that we were almost home, a one hour drive, and I realized I hadn't even so much as thought about a cigarette. Then I figured that just the relief of having the first procedure over and getting out of the hospital and being tired had kept me from thinking about smoking but now the real hard craving would begin. But it didn't. And 13 totally smoke free days later, I still have no diesire to smoke. Well, I DO get urges, but they are very weak and go away very quickly. I can go for hours and not even think about a cigarette. Nobody will ever know just how amazing that is for me. I was one hell of a hard core smoker, I loved my cigarettes, both packs I smoked every day. I was not ready to quit when this heart business came out of left field. It was my plan to have these procedures and go right back to smoking.........I mean, I'd be "fixed," right, good to keep smoking for many more years. I really am not sure what happened. Obviously between walking into the hospital and walking out 24 hours later, I had had some sort of epiphany. Don't recall a bolt of lightening hitting me, I just know that I'm done smoking and on a 1-10 scale of how difficult it's been, 2 is the very worst. Every other time I've tried to quit, I started out at 10 and it would just keep climbing until I was out of my mind from the w/d.........the urge would hit but it never went away, it just kept growing and getting stronger.
Like I said, I'm not positive what's different about this time, but I think what may have happened is that I chose life over the train that heading straight at me.
Thank you both for your words of congrats and encouragment and I hope you are both very proud of yourselves! I am.
I go in on the 16th for the second stent, so that will be a good reinforcement. And don't worry, if I ever feel myself growing weak or tempted, I'll be on this forum like a cheap suit.
Love you both my friends
Greenie
The stent business WAS a massive wake up call, when both the cardiologist and the cardiothoracic surgeon said I was a heart attact just waiting to happen, there was a major shift in my thinking.
When I got out of the hospital the next day, normally the first thing I would have done is light up. What blew me away is that we were almost home, a one hour drive, and I realized I hadn't even so much as thought about a cigarette. Then I figured that just the relief of having the first procedure over and getting out of the hospital and being tired had kept me from thinking about smoking but now the real hard craving would begin. But it didn't. And 13 totally smoke free days later, I still have no diesire to smoke. Well, I DO get urges, but they are very weak and go away very quickly. I can go for hours and not even think about a cigarette. Nobody will ever know just how amazing that is for me. I was one hell of a hard core smoker, I loved my cigarettes, both packs I smoked every day. I was not ready to quit when this heart business came out of left field. It was my plan to have these procedures and go right back to smoking.........I mean, I'd be "fixed," right, good to keep smoking for many more years. I really am not sure what happened. Obviously between walking into the hospital and walking out 24 hours later, I had had some sort of epiphany. Don't recall a bolt of lightening hitting me, I just know that I'm done smoking and on a 1-10 scale of how difficult it's been, 2 is the very worst. Every other time I've tried to quit, I started out at 10 and it would just keep climbing until I was out of my mind from the w/d.........the urge would hit but it never went away, it just kept growing and getting stronger.
Like I said, I'm not positive what's different about this time, but I think what may have happened is that I chose life over the train that heading straight at me.
Thank you both for your words of congrats and encouragment and I hope you are both very proud of yourselves! I am.
I go in on the 16th for the second stent, so that will be a good reinforcement. And don't worry, if I ever feel myself growing weak or tempted, I'll be on this forum like a cheap suit.
Love you both my friends
Greenie
Well then big huge Congrats on day 13!!!! Whoo Hoo!!! You sound so positive and sure about this. Right on, you!!
Shhh...don't question *why*...you might scare it away, lol. Maybe call it divine intervention?
Good luck on the 16th!!
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Shhh...don't question *why*...you might scare it away, lol. Maybe call it divine intervention?
Good luck on the 16th!!
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My husband and I have decided to quit smoking. He left for a business trip and absolved not to smoke while he is away and has quit for 2 weeks cold turkey. He was smoking about 1/2 a pack a day. I smoked about 7-10 a day. I tried Chantix and had a bad reaction to it, so I had to stop taking it. I did really good on the Chantix. Since off of it I still want a puff of two a day. I have a cigar (I used to enjoy these occasionally before I smoked cigarettes) I'll take a puff or two, then I'm done for the day. The strongest urges are at night when "the day is done". Its a release for me too. I really don't want to be smoking when he gets back and I have like 2 - 3 more weeks before he gets home. I don't want my smoking to impact his success, and I want to support our decision but its really hard. I'm open to some suggestions!
I'm with you my friend. I smoke 1 a day or one every other day. I don't get addicted to things very easily. I know this is almost 3 years in the future from when you first posted that question. I can drink like crazy with folks and then not drink for months until another chug fest, or simply just a beer.... BUT!
Before I started smoking 1 a day or every other day, I'd run a mile a day. I clocked my times. Before smoking I was able to clock in late 4 minute runs. After just the simple switch to smoking once a day or even every other day, I'd try just as hard if not harder, and clock mid 5 minutes. Couldn't break the 5 minute mark.
I dunno! Thats all I've got to go by! But I'm not an athlete, and I sell insurance for a living, so I really just like to relax after a stressfull day.
- Jake
Before I started smoking 1 a day or every other day, I'd run a mile a day. I clocked my times. Before smoking I was able to clock in late 4 minute runs. After just the simple switch to smoking once a day or even every other day, I'd try just as hard if not harder, and clock mid 5 minutes. Couldn't break the 5 minute mark.
I dunno! Thats all I've got to go by! But I'm not an athlete, and I sell insurance for a living, so I really just like to relax after a stressfull day.
- Jake
Not harmful at all. My grandfather smoked just one cigarette a day all his life. After dinner he would drink a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette and read his newspaper.
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