Quitting Smoking Today | It's Been Fun!
After 20 years of density'ing the tobacco plants through my bodily system into the finer realms, becoming sort of the grounding rod for the tobacco spirit or whatever it is I am doing when I smoke tobacco - I'm taking a potentially dangerous decision for my health: I am stopping smoking. Altogether.
Most people would say "what are you talking about, it's a good decision!" but most people also go voting for politicians, think sending their kids to government schools is basically a good idea or believe pathogenic viruses invisible to the naked eye exist, so their programmed take on what is good for MY health means very little to me. Don't take advice from the herd, kids!
I have no idea what I'm doing, I just go with what comes up here, and quitting smoking has been coming my way for a while. I got reasons, but I just witness: today is the day.
But aren't you all still reading to hear the reasons?! Well, alright then:
I find it fascinating how governments all over the globe planet world have suddenly jumped at the chance advocating for people's health by banning or curtailing smoking to a huge degree, magically at the same time. The same governments who still advocate for chemotherapy to this day, if you can believe THAT!
I'm sure they have no ulterior motives, I mean do governments EVER?!, right?
They banned smoking because they are oh so keen on with having healthy populations that are not relying on any of artificial poison system like their pharmaceutical complex. Hmmm, OK, if you say so...
What else? Tobacco has been prescribed and celebrated by many peoples on Earth as a healing herb for an eternity, specifically for lung issues. Then we also have all the mainstream fakes about the lung cancer connection, and the germanic new medicine take on cancer and its origins having absolutely zero to do with the tobacco and plausibly more with the constant fear-tripping of inducing fright of death in smokers and the gullible people near them through scare tactics, marketing campaigns and ever audacious visualizations.
I will spare you the extreme black magic spell examples they print on their labels but make no mistake: It IS a spell. It's programming - so plain and simple any child will comprehend, but most "adults" will not. But you will never learn these things in school, your kids know them BEFORE they go there but not anymore after they graduate.
Then we got the chemtrail people: There is the argument that the extra mucus from smoking would be a beneficial extra lining of the lungs and breath apparatus against tiny particles like the aerosoles most people ignore or pretend are impossibly unlikely to exist.
As a smoker that idea seemed convenient, but since I'm stopping I no longer have that luxury. No idea if it's true but it doesn't sound any more far fetched than the common anti-tobacco propaganda we have been fed for 20 years.
Good thing I never wanted to live in a densely populated area anyways, but since chemtrails are out of my control I tend not to overly worry about them.
Fear is both free people's main enemy and control structures' main weapon.
So WHATEVER! ahahaha. In the end, this is pragmatic more than anything. It is time to cut system dependencies, the most stupid one by far is buying this damn tobacco all the time.
I may just start smoking again when I can grow my own, but voluntarily subsidizing these stupid tobacco companies with my life energy with increasing prices? Nah, I'm good now thanks! A 30g package is now around 7,70 euro and only going up. So we are long past the point of stupid.
"If the Fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
And I have smoked ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF THEM in the last two decades...
I've been feeling edgy all day, but not bad or anything. Had pulled an allnighter the day before and slept 13 hours afterwards so I already cut half a day of my detox.
I prefer to do it that way if I must go cold turkey.
We are moving out of our italian house sit these weeks also. And getting ready to move back into a van with all the stuff is never really something my lady and I are stoked about. So we started the move-out early.
We are glad things continue now, we feel we have learnt a ton here and are better equipped than ever.
The loose plan is going westwards, we'll see where we end up. Since syntropic agroforestry has suddenly become a topic of interest for me I am now learning as much as I can, and we'll likely take up a workaway offer to visit some established farms on-site when we do go west in freakin' high summer. We need a practical grasp before ever starting something like that ourselves.
So I am keeping busy and thus far I have not felt the urge. More of a habit knocking on my door, but no draw.
If I do get the itch I got some fisherman's lined up already. And I have become good at quitting long-held habits this lifetime.
I'm not convinced it's the tobacco that's so dangerous as the 200 additives. Just like food, you have to grow your own. Good luck!
totally!!!!!
Let's see we've been sold the evils tobacco, eggs, animal fats, animal meats, sun exposure, and tiny particles floating in the air that can make you deathly ill. All of these are teaching us to be afraid of nature. Enough. They lie. Stop listening to them.
Much of diseases supposedly caused by tobacco, a natural substance that has indeed been used therapeutically in most cultures of the world where it grows, are really caused by the chemicals used to process the cigarettes, from germination to your hand. No doubt your growing your own would be of great benefit, but everything in moderation my friend. There is such a thing as smoking too much.
This causes a nocebo effect, opposite of placebo, illness caused by the fear of illness. We saw a lot of this during the covid con, still see it a lot.
Smooth sailing!
aye, the dreaded moderation in everything. i have gotten better. so cutting this off was only a matter of time.
thanks for your input!
blessings to you <3
Apart from my health, this one nudged me to give up. I hated being dependant on it. Hated always worrying when I got to the end of a pouch, the yellow fingers, the clothes and hair stinking of smoke to what - ingest chemicals? Placate anxiety?
Best tip ever is to here on say to yourself and others: 'i don't smoke'. Accept yourself as a non smoker and you shall create that reality. Plus, delay. It's a mind game. Anything to delay the cravings - that gap gets longer. Get up, go for a walk, do the dishes, drink water, eat sunflower seeds, have a wank, whatever. Just don't be a weakling that gives in to base cravings ;) xx
Anything that makes us addicted and gives money to companies who are busy trying to find another way to hoodwink us and poison us is clearly evil.
thanks for your take! it's everything I'm doing right now, so that jives. i would like to keep smoke sometimes - ceremonially - and not factory tobacco but something real, self-made and infused with love and intention from my own garden.
i like smoking and have always liked it.
quitting smoking altogether is just the drastic measure now to get me off the industry tobacco. but i am really not sure i am a strict non smoker on principle. or maybe i just want to make it hard for myself ahahah.
it's been 36 hours or so and the cravings haven't been half as bad as i expected them to be yesterday, then delaying and gapping everything. worked beautifully as you say.
thanks for your support! it always means more coming from those who have walked it themselves! blessings
I loved smoking. I really did. But after years of off and on, I had to call it. I'm glad I did. I'm sure smoking tobacco you grow (such a pretty plant) is much better, and you can make a whole ritual out of it.
You know, I am also asthmatic, so continuing smoking for me was dumb. I was also an anxiety smoker, a fantastic chain smoker especially when consuming other things. A complicated relationship with my breath and emotions, both connected of course. Replacing tobacco with pranayama was a good thing personally for me. But I missed my smoking for a good long while. You know I haven't smoked for nearly twenty years now and sometimes I still feel my jeans pocket once in a while to get my lighter? Or my brain goes, momentarily, 'just ducking outside for a smoke'.
wow that is both depressing and encouraging. i will always know i have someone on hive to keep me straight.
it's better today but i can't say i wouldn't like to smoke one.
just distracting myself with chores of all kinds until it hopefully dissipates mostly. it was high tome
thanks for sharing river!!
It's an interesting process if you see it that way. Mu hubs never thinks about it ever and he smoked from 11 to 32.
sweet to hear that thanks!!! we all probably react differently, sort of excited to see what type i am turning out to be.
aye, i have always big on self-experimentation.
everything feels sort of airlocky here, like coming out of a dark forest hike, slightly elevated body feeling of fluff, like walking on air.
at the same time the cravings are going down. i just drink a ton of hot drinks now like a madman. and i delay.
i did think of you often yesterday with the "just delay" hack. it is so straightforward and helpful to hear it put that concisely by someone else, my gratitude for sharing that!
to have a concept to grasp when the body goes haywire for a moment. really looking forward to the crazy times ahead, i left so much baggage behind again this winter, im really happy about it!
blessings!!!
Oh I'm soooo pleased, and stoked you took that on board. I'd given up heaps of times but once I embraced that trick it got so much easier. So happy.
Huzzah!
Yes. I kinda struggled with that as I'm an air sign and when not balanced, it's like I needed to smoke to ground me, if that makes sense.
yeah that makes a lot of sense. smoking had this distraction quality to it, now i need to actively look for things.
i have a huge surplus of energy and yesterday i needed to literally go cut some trees to not go crazy. ahahaha
I hope you post about your journey growing your own tobacco, if it happens. It's my understanding that it is an incredibly difficult plant to cultivate.
oh really? i have a good friend who grows it with amazing success in austria.
it would be my absolute pleasure to post about practical things, just gotta find the place first.