How many of you are smokers ? and do you smoke while you game ?
for me , i smoke way more when i game compared to when i am not gaming . for example every i lit one when match ends on bf4 . or in any cutscene in any single player .. i finish like 2 pack a day , but half of it is just lighting the cigarette and forgetting about it after the action starts …
also i wanna add another question , if any of you were like me , and quit smoking how did you quit ? how did you cope with it especially while gaming …
First, do you smoke ? *maryjane, god damn this forum
Second, the games you play, are they stressful? Competitive? & do you smoke as you play to help ease the tension & deal with your nerves?
I smoke cigarettes but I’m not crazy about them, & don’t see how anyone could be tbh. But I do know what is to just crave smoke inhalation & the stimulation that comes with it. Seemingly always provides a release of tension.
If you replace the cigarettes with Maryjane, your desire to have cig after cig will almost certainly lessen. You’ll be more concerned with enjoying your “High”, as you play, instead of constantly having your mind wrapped around “that next smoke”. Any kind of head rush or body high from cigarettes are so momentary I find them to be very much not worth it. They’re also infinitely worse for your lungs, which is important to me.
Do you workout? Helps when trying to quit. Chasing an Endorphin high, essentially. Replace the artificial high with a natural one. Get out of the house, see some friends, don’t come home until its late, try to get to sleep at a good hour…things like this will get your mind away from the withdrawl. Taking really hot showers helps during the low points of withdrawal. Bong rips spiked with some spliff (tobacco), might be your thing. Upper+downer, you need some downer. Blunts too, as that’ll keep your lungs busy. Get away from pointlessly torching your lungs though
i do work out . i have been working out for 23 years now , and been smoking for 20 years. ..
i dont smoke maryjane , i used to back in collage but where i live it is kinda hard to score some … and its illegal .
but thanks for you reply anyways .
also if you are in good relations with mary jane and not crazy about cigarettes just put aside those damn cigarettes because they will get you … just saying … it is a pointless habit …
also i never knew they called it mary jane . i learned a new thingy .
Lol yeah its a popular term in the states. I figured that suggestion may not work though. Understandably so. But I am familiar with that Itch to smoke as you play, & without smoke, I for the most part will just not play.
& the biggest reason for that is just to ease my nerves. To stay relaxed. So if your issue is at all similar, you’re not alone lol.
Good to know you have a passion for fitness though, that is Always my answer for when I know I need break from party lifestyle. Just need to get past those first few days where its rough
funk me, am i glad i live in the netherlands, cant wait for my friends new crop to dry, ghegheghe. i play worst when stoned/high so back in the days i was playing competition i was “clean”. dont play competition any more
Ex-smoker here and I had a similar situation even though I quit before I started really gaming.
I used to be a professional musician (yes, I actually made 100% of my income playing drums for about 10 years.) Anyways, I played a lot of bars and would practically chain smoke on my breaks between sets. It wasn’t uncommon for me to open a pack before a show and only have 1 or 2 left on my drive home. I had even “mapped out” when to have cigarettes on my way to and from gigs. Anyways, yeah… It was bad and looking back on it now, I wish I had never put one in my mouth. Very stupid of me for ever picking it up.
How I quit? I just put them down and never bought another pack. I did it cold turkey. I remember standing outside at 4am (after a show) in the middle of December freezing my off just so I could have a smoke. I remember thinking to myself “WTF are you doing? Why are you out here when you could just be inside, warm and comfortable.” A few days later, I played a New Years Eve show and bought the last pack. I had my last cigarette around 6:45pm Jan 1, 2008 and haven’t touched another one since.
I don’t know if cold turkey is the way to go for you. Some have tried the gum… Others have taken that anti-depression med that supposedly helped them. The only advice I can really give is you (pretty much) have to reach that point where you’re sick of them and the control they have on you. That can be difficult because of the addiction and, let’s face it… You enjoy smoking. That’s one of the things I miss about it - I really enjoyed smoking (which is very difficult for non-smokers to understand.) You have to find what works for you, but the biggest thing is keep trying to quit, even if you pick them back up. Don’t make excuses for yourself like “everyone else is smoking around me” or “I have too much stress in my life right now.” (You will always have life stress and using that excuse is a cop out.) Eventually, you will succeed, but like you’ve probably heard, you have to want to quit. Quitting for someone else won’t work. I wish you luck because I know how hard it is (it took me 5 or 6 tries until I finally had enough.)
