I used Grizzly dip both in loose form and pouches in combination with the pipe to cut way back on the cigs. I smoke a pipe with a pouch of Grizzly in my lip and never think about smoking a cig.
Ditching Cigarettes Questiong?
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I've smoked since I was twelve. 1958 it was. Started the pipe in '67. Always chewed when working around the barn and later, on the flight-line. I quit cigarettes one time for five years, not sure why. When I returned to cigarettes I switched to luxury cigarettes as the wrapper wasn't infused. What I'm getting at is, why quit something you like.
My first suggestion would be to get back into shape. It's a lot easier to make serious life style changes when your body is up for the change. Nicotine deprivation is a serious change. Give thought to dropping tobacco totally if health is a concern. If that isn't an option you wish to consider, use the pipe sparingly until you've attained a reasonable lung capacity, body tone and stamina. Then, begin to delve deeper into the world of pipe smoking, always maintaining a reasonable state of condition.
It took years to get into the condition you are currently in. Should only take a few months to get into a reasonably fit state. Then you should reward yourself with a wee vice, smoking if that is your choice. I always enjoy kicking back and watching my hard earned moneys waft gently towards the sky.
I smoke for the nicotine and a bit of pleasure, pipe, cigarette and cigars. Chewing days are pretty much over unless I'm in close contact with an animal subject and the odor might drive it further away.
My first suggestion would be to get back into shape. It's a lot easier to make serious life style changes when your body is up for the change. Nicotine deprivation is a serious change. Give thought to dropping tobacco totally if health is a concern. If that isn't an option you wish to consider, use the pipe sparingly until you've attained a reasonable lung capacity, body tone and stamina. Then, begin to delve deeper into the world of pipe smoking, always maintaining a reasonable state of condition.
It took years to get into the condition you are currently in. Should only take a few months to get into a reasonably fit state. Then you should reward yourself with a wee vice, smoking if that is your choice. I always enjoy kicking back and watching my hard earned moneys waft gently towards the sky.
I smoke for the nicotine and a bit of pleasure, pipe, cigarette and cigars. Chewing days are pretty much over unless I'm in close contact with an animal subject and the odor might drive it further away.
I haven't had a cigarette in 2.5 months. However it wasn't my focus.
I picked up vaping to have nicotine in the car since I don't smoke inside my house or vehicle. After a stressful weekend, I realized I hadn't had a cigarette in 1.5 days. So I wanted to see if it would last.
So far it has (and I just bought a carton before stopping). I do vape in the house and car, but my clothes and hands no longer smell. However, I still smoke a pipe on the weekends, but it has tapered off due to weather.
Good luck in finding what works for you.
I picked up vaping to have nicotine in the car since I don't smoke inside my house or vehicle. After a stressful weekend, I realized I hadn't had a cigarette in 1.5 days. So I wanted to see if it would last.
So far it has (and I just bought a carton before stopping). I do vape in the house and car, but my clothes and hands no longer smell. However, I still smoke a pipe on the weekends, but it has tapered off due to weather.
Good luck in finding what works for you.
The reason I stopped smoking almost two packs of cigarettes a day and started smoking a pipe 48 years ago was to help my wife quit smoking cigarettes, she was pregnant with our son. She was quitting cold turkey so I thought I would quit so I wouldn’t be a temptation. Well she made it ok but I didn’t last two days, I had to have something to satisfy my oral gratification I guess, the nicotine never seemed to be an issue. I bought a Dr. Grabow pipe and some drug store pipe tobacco and just began trying different tobaccos and it became an adventure.
Dive into learning about pipes and tobaccos, maybe it will distract you until you will forget about cigarettes. For many years when I have not been able to smoke my pipe for a full day I didn't miss it. I have not had any desire to smoke a cigarette in many many years.
Everyone is different but like MrHowell said “it boils down to willpower and want to. Plain and simple”.
Stick with it and good luck on your adventure, you can make it.
Dive into learning about pipes and tobaccos, maybe it will distract you until you will forget about cigarettes. For many years when I have not been able to smoke my pipe for a full day I didn't miss it. I have not had any desire to smoke a cigarette in many many years.
Everyone is different but like MrHowell said “it boils down to willpower and want to. Plain and simple”.
Stick with it and good luck on your adventure, you can make it.
I got back to pipe smoking to help me get off of cigarettes. It has helped alot but I still always have a pack of cigarettes around. I truely enjoy the pipe more, but for me to enjoy my pipe I have to have time. I don't smoke in my car and have a designated spot in my house where I can smoke my pipe. A quick smoke at work on a break, a quick one on the way into the grocery, I still find the need for a quick fix. I will be retiring this year and I hope that quiting the rush rush of life will help with giving me more time to enjoy my pipe and kick my cigarette habit to the trash can.
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I found that delaying the first cigarette of the day was a big help, and then trying to replace the first cigarette with a pipe.
The other thing that helped was eating something or brushing my teeth.
The other thing that helped was eating something or brushing my teeth.
I too used to smoke cigarettes, though not so many as you; then I started to alternate with pipes for some years and finally I said to myself: "why should I go on with cigarettes if I don't like them anymore?". So I switched totally to pipes. And so I think you can do if you want...
I used to roll my own but then my favorite tobacco vanished. I recently opened a tin of Three Castles from circa 1980 and shared it with a few friends on here. One of them like myself will partake in 'twisting a dizzy' as we say. It gave me many fond memories of the very late 1970s and early 1980s at boarding school and then straight back to my pipe. I suppose it is down to a matter of taste, if they don't make your poison of choice I guess you cannot be tempted.
My late wife, who departed too early but not from a smoking related illness so far as science has so far determined, had a two-pack a day habit. She was a teacher and smoked when grading and preparing for class. She made three major tries to quit smoking and achieved this on the third try.
The program she used was an American Lung Association group. She only smoked in a designated place and put all the butts into a tall mason jar to see the quantity clearly. There was more to it, but with a lot of will and effort, she quit. i blew up at the end of a New Years Eve party when a "friend" was plying her with cigarettes. Love can make you crazy. But my wife stayed quit.
If you succeed in making the transition to pipes, you will need much less nicotine and will come to associate the pleasure of it with the flavor, the ritual, and the serenity, with a little nicotine as background music.
The program she used was an American Lung Association group. She only smoked in a designated place and put all the butts into a tall mason jar to see the quantity clearly. There was more to it, but with a lot of will and effort, she quit. i blew up at the end of a New Years Eve party when a "friend" was plying her with cigarettes. Love can make you crazy. But my wife stayed quit.
If you succeed in making the transition to pipes, you will need much less nicotine and will come to associate the pleasure of it with the flavor, the ritual, and the serenity, with a little nicotine as background music.