http://www.kylequits.com Documenting my attempt to quit smoking Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:03:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 6 months seems like and incredible milestone: For .5 years I have not smoked a cigarette and I did not change my lifestyle at all except that I don't smoke 2 packs of cigarettes at the bar. In fact, days after I started putting off smoking (I really abhor the ... http://www.kylequits.com/6-months-after-quitting-smoking.html Every time I go out here in Portland, and someone asks to bum a smoke or a light, I tell them I haven't smoked a cigarette in five months. People ask me how I quit smoking. They say they aren't ready, that they don't have the willpower, or whatever. I ... http://www.kylequits.com/sure-fire-method-to-quitting-smoking.html So here I am, and it's been 1/3 of a year since I have had a cigarette. Lately, I really abhor the fact that I named this "Kyle Quits", since that is not what I tell everyone. In truth, what I tell them is that I have been putting off ... http://www.kylequits.com/4-months-i-still-havent-smoked-a-cig.html When I first started this blog, I did it as a distraction to help me in my "quitting smoking" process. I use quotes because, well, I've screamed my Positive Powers of Procrastination theory in enough drunken hags faces that I'm sure everyone in the world has heard it. I digress...in ... http://www.kylequits.com/the-longer-ive-been-quit-the-less-i-talk-about-it.html The longer I go without having a cigarette, the more I loathe the term "quit" and wish I didn't buy "kylequits.com". One would think that I should be super excited that I haven't smoked a cigarette, which I am. However, I can't deal with terms like "quit". Really, I like ... http://www.kylequits.com/3-months-after-quitting-smoking.html If so, you are fucked. Not that I don't applaud your efforts for trying, it's just that picking a date to quit smoking means you aren't ready to quit. It's that freakin' simple. You know what I did this New Years? I made a resolution to start smoking again. That ... http://www.kylequits.com/did-you-make-a-new-years-resolution-to-quit-smoking.html Smoking cessation products that make sense: Nicotine Inhalers, Nicotine Gum, and wacky ass pills like Zyban. Products that seem pointless: Nicotine Water. Developers in California who invented Nic Light said the drink is the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes. Testers said it tastes like water, with a hint of lemon and nicotine.Article I've ... http://www.kylequits.com/nicotine-water.html Every few years, it seems there is a new stop smoke aid on the market that touts itself as the new wonder drug: like it magically kills any and all desire to smoke. So far Zyban has been the most effective pill, touting a 30% success rate. Personally, I think ... http://www.kylequits.com/champix-the-new-anti-smoking-wonder-pill.html The thought of quitting smoking is what scares most smokers. The finality of it is overwhelming ala "I'm never going to smoke again". That's a long time. The rest of your life is a long, long time. The real trick, I found, is to take that huge gap of time ... http://www.kylequits.com/quitting-smoking-or-positive-procrastination.html While I might not have had a cigarette in nearly 6 weeks, I'm still eye the "ban it everywhere" zealots with a great deal of uneasieness. The slippery slope of "good of the public" has makes me wonder what they'll come for next. At one time, the Nazi party had ... http://www.kylequits.com/is-the-cure-worse-than-the-disease.html