Proud of you kitty :3

Thank ye =3

Good hearing it... does this mean you're only going to be a once-in-a-while smoker like me now? O.o

Probably, actually. Perhaps still a good deal more frequent, but if I can turn my pack a day habit into a two packs a month luxury expenditure? I'll call it a massive, massive win =3

Shit yeah broski! *brofist* that's what it's all about! :D

*brofist* >;3

*licks the chocolate off your face*

*catches and hugs*

I quit for 4 days and fucked it up. Crept in the back door thru booze and talking to people who smoke. I honestly think I'd have to stop drinking to stop smoking which I am not prepared to do and is a little more worrying.

But gratz man I forgot to add.

*nods* I like it too much to quit altogether, I'm not gonna lie. But I know when I've got a problem, and I cannot afford to be a slave to a substance right now. Thank you, though. It's hard as hell to resist it; I'll take all the encouragement I can get.

It's tough. We gots yo back.

Thanks =3

Congrats man =3 And I'd have done the "make you a cake, steal your chocolate and get caught" bit, but  pentax beat me to it XD

x3

Still, may as well STEAL YOUR CHOCOLATE! *runs off with it* =P

*Sprinttackletakedown* Mah CHOCOLATE!!

See, if you ask, you get some. If you steal it... x3

*meeps and falls over* D=

*pets* There there. * offers a little bit of chocolate to you*

*numnumnum* Thankies ^_^

=3

*huggles, wagging* ^_^

Congratulations!

Cigarettes are the most damaging way to use nicotine. Please consider using an e-cigarette - a free base nicotine vaporizer:
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Another equally effective and much less damaging and risky way to get your fix:
https://snus.tobaccopleasure.com/mo.....ity/Login.aspx

The lie is required by the FDA and FTC; those products are roughly 100 times less dangerous than cigarettes.

*hugs*

Wow, me and you haven't chatted in ages. we need to touch base again, Foxy! Lol, almost forgot about you for a bit, there, till I was chatting with a friend about some of the cool people I know on FA, and some of the people I know who post something other than porn on FA, and then see you comment on Nomi's journal. Good to see you still are floating around. ^_^

*hugs*

Equally effective perhaps, but it lacks the same degree of satisfaction. I have an e-cig, and I stopped using it during my fast as well. It's not that it isn't a fine way of getting nicotine; it's that comparing it to smoking a cigarette is like comparing apples to oranges. They're two totally different experiences that share only the slightest similarity... and I'm not alone in this opinion x3

Still, I've found one that's pretty good, and because of its options to mix your own flavors of glycol suspension, I'm considering it very strongly. It may very well become my primary outlet for this habit.

Smoking produces acetaldehyde (and that is added directly to cigarettes to boost the amount). This compound is addictive in and of itself. There is none of that from a vaporizer or e-cigarette.

Now that IS interesting. I know about the e-cig... but I did not know about the acetaldehyde. Is that produced by combustion or simply released/evaporated at a certain temperature?

It is produced by combustion. Many cigarette manufacturers also add it directly to their products; it vaporizes very easily. It is also the first metabolite of ethanol, which may be why tobacco and alcohol are so often used together.

http://www.awesomevapor.com/Awesome.....ech_p_178.html The model I'm considering. I started out smoking Sampoerna clove cigarettes back when I turned 18, and after a year of smoking them exclusively I switched to something cheaper. According to some users, the fluids offered by that site could bring back the delightful experience that hooked me in the first place, and I've seen the e-Go in action. I like it; it produces a good strong hit of vapor, making it much more like the real thing I imagine. Even if it only resembles smoking from a houka, I could get used to that; but the e-cig I have is more like taking a hit from an inhaler for asthma in terms of flavor x3 It's really easier to just not use it at all when I'm abstaining, but I can't complain: It's better than nothing and I got it for free.

The cloves are a powerful antioxidant. The FDA has done a huge disservice to public health by banning clove/tobacco cigarettes.

That vaporizer is a far healthier way of getting your nicotine than smoking tobacco!

*smiles* I like the look of that one, and as soon as I can afford their package deal, I'm gunning for it.

I actually started back in my high school days; my first smoking experience was not tobacco, but a certain delightful green leafy substance that I found quite enjoyable. After one meeting with some of my friends, one of them offered me a clove cigarette, citing that it helped ' boost the high'. I liked the clove rather a lot; and for the first year or so after I started smokign it was those exclusively, and never more than about five a day *shrugs*. I have fond memories of those; fortunately you can still get something like them. Clove filtered cigarillos are still legal for sale in the U.S. last I checked, and the Djarum company sells them.

You can also buy clove oil in any supermarket and add it to the stuff in your vaporizer.

*facepalm* Do you know I hadn't actually thought about that?

Cheap and nice!

Gratz, Nomi. I may not be the first to say this, but I hope I'm not the last. You have done a great thing in doing this. Not only have you freed yourself of an addiction that has hold of far too many of us, but you did so and can be proud that you did not degrade into a fit that threatened to destroy everything you hold dear. You showed who you really are under that buffer under this influince, and thanks to you being blunt and forward with us, and myself, some of us have benifited.

Me and Tide have gotten back on talking terms, after a long time of being silent, and even talking going back to how things used to be with us. Thanks to you buckling down and telling me to talk to the guy, despite I'm bad about not messaging first save for few exceptions. you have also inspired me to be more blunt, and I'm proud to say me and Nobu teamed up and cornered his ass on his 'no, I said this' so that he can be right, as usual, and pissed him off bad. He got over it and apologized, but it felt good to stand up for myself. And I thought to do it because of your demonstration of self control, and being forward with me. Like I've wished you where from the start. I am also considering following in your footsteps on this task, and see if I can survive this trial that you have committed yourself and succeeded in. though I have a lot more temptations around, such as plenty of smokes to last more than long enough, and a family of smokers, who have no trouble throwing a smoke at me to shut me up if I get in a bad mood.
But if you could succeed where so many have failed, I would be no form of decent student, if I didn't follow the good examples you have set.

That said, when I decide on a good time to begin, you will know. As will all of FA, as I'll take notes down here on FA, to update people on my progress. And it'll serve double as a detraction to avoid temptation, so it's just useful to keep people updated.

Hope to see you soon, Nomi. My only regret is i doubt I'll be doing this, or be in a situation where doing this is logical until after you leave.

Just noticed I just referred to him as 'his ass', but if you can't guess, I was talking about Saki.

Oh, I know who you were talking about. Gee, no wonder he's been pissy lately.
And, just so you know.... I had all the cigs I could ask for. I had a full carton sitting in the freezer while I was fasting; I could have ended it at any time.
Knowing that you can gives you the strength to not give in.

Good for you and Tide, hon. You'd be good for eachother ;3