OTUG's Space Odyssey 🛸

[Oldtimerunderground]

Thank you for your kind words everyone

@Slick1

Not an easy feat

It most certainly was not…
The path I chose on my journey was extremely arduous mentally, but necessary. With the stress of having to move twice and with my wife still smoking cigs, the temptation to just grab one and light it up was there, a couple times…but I persevered! I couldn’t have done it without her love and support though, and the love and support from all of you here on OG. She’s been vaping some too, especially in the car with a nice disposable vape I got her.

Anyone looking to quit smoking cigarettes, I urge you to just keep trying. My lung capacity and taste buds have come back tenfold. It’s the best thing I’ve done for myself the past 20 years. I feel like I’m finally free from the vice grip tobacco had on me. I’m still vaping, but now down to low nicotine 1-3mg/ml max. Won’t be long before I’m at 0mg and finally stop vaping altogether. By next year I’ll be home free!

Here’s a few pics from last night of the young buds forming to start your day

Amnesia Haze x Chocolate Rain

Buddha’s Sister x Cocoa Kush

Meridian Haze

[Shadey]

I think understanding what happens when we quit anything is important to success. So I hope you don’t mind me putting this here for everyone else as well that are improving their life

Although its not good to put anything except air in our lungs, and nicotine is a toxic nerve poison, they have used it for putting animals to sleep. Its all the other crap in a cig that damages the lungs and trachea.

So long as what the nicotine is in, is less harmful to the lungs when you vape it, your winning the battle.

This is hard for some that are quitting to fully appreciate and not what is advised by the media or tobacco companies that also sell things to help you quit. They promote the idea you have a physical/chemical addiction.

Why would they do that🤔 because if you believe you have an addiction, you will be less likely to try or achieve success in quitting.

There are no chemically addictive substances in tobacco, its a behavioral, habit addiction, you have conditioned yourself to, allong with a small dopamine reward.

Although studies show tobacco smokers have reduced D2 and D3 dopamine transporters, it still seems this is the primary reward our brains get out of it, apart from taking our minds off our internal anxieties for the time we are smoking.

At least with a chemical addiction you can break it within 3 weeks of abstinence, its the dopamine reward and psychological aspects that are more complex to deal with.

The next part of your programming you need to break is association.

Which is, whenever you reach for the vape look at what you are doing, you will notice either similar behavioral or emotional triggers every time. Once you recognise the triggers its easier to avoid picking up the vape in an unconscious awareness.

Its funny as this shows how powerful our minds and programes are. A lot of people will light up when stressed to relax.

Relaxing is the complete opposite of what smoking a cig does to our mind and body, yet we are able to reverse the biological effect of a cig and actually relax while smoking it

[Terpsnpurps]

Man I’ve been trying… did u just quit cold turkey??

[Terpsnpurps]

Amazing… this shall help me while thinking about smoking when I am quitting… thank you!!

[Oldtimerunderground]

It looks like the pollen I smothered all over the Mango Smile x 24 Carat didn’t take

I’m overcome with a feeling I can’t explain

I reach into the auto tent to pick out 2 magnificent specimens

Big Yield x Mi5

Fat Banana

And teleport them into the closet with the Spaced Limes female

And the Spaced Limes male

Nothing can overcome the need for seeds!!

Male plants be like

Have a great day everyone

[Terpsnpurps]

@Oldtimerunderground I love this log… always so cool to head into the unknown with y’all

[Qtip]

@Oldtimerunderground

6 months since I quit smoking cigarettes

Congratulations! Glad you are staying strong. I chewed tobacco for 20 years and quitting that was a true challenge, enjoy the improved health OTUG.

[Heliosphear]

Looking great!

Live long and cultivate.

[Slick1]

@Shadey

The next part of your programming you need to break is association.

Definitely the hardest part. I’ve always called smoking a cig at work “lighting a fuse on my break”. It’s the perfect few minute timer for a break. I can’t even count how many times I’ve smoked just cause I was bored and it was something to do for a few minutes.

@Terpsnpurps

Man I’ve been trying… did u just quit cold turkey??

I haven’t quit yet OTUG did. I have quit cold turkey for like 2 months before though.

[Barefrog]

Hola Gang

You don’t have to quit smoking
You have to change what your smoking.

I switch tobacco for cannabis

Bare

[Slick1]

My boss doesn’t like me gunning a joint every time I would have smoked a cigarette through the day and on customer’s properties. He says after my first smoke break my work ethic goes to hell.

And that’s saying something cause I’m my own boss

[Terpsnpurps]

Man I tried that… and it doesn’t work for me… as soon as I’m done w the weed I want a cig very very bad… I’m just going to have to deny myself the ability to smoke… like don’t buy more… etc. I mean don’t get me wrong… the plan in that sense is to smoke bud every time I want a cig… but damn I don’t think I’ll get a single thing done otherwise

[ReikoX]

Buy some nice CBD flower and roll up a bunch of doobies. That’s what worked for me. I still get triggers when partying or drinking, biut weed goes well with those situations.

[Slick1]

@Terpsnpurps

as soon as I’m done w the weed I want a cig

Same here. It would be very odd to not have a cig after.

[Terpsnpurps]

As time goes on… I’m learning to grow… and each day that goes by smoking weed is getting harder and harder to do… I finally said…wtf am I doing?!! I’m spending all this time and putting my heart and soul into growing yet I smoke cigs to the point that getting blazed isn’t fun… I got to change this… I will change this… self denial is the key to purity

[MoBilly]

@Slick1

And that’s saying something cause I’m my own boss

Too funny man!

[Rhino_buddy]

You guys should try to quit with - How to stop smoking – 10 tips to quit smoking
We’ll the book he wrote anyway.

I have at least 5 friends who have quit using his book. I never could get hooked on cigarettes, so I can’t vouch for the process, but from what I’ve heard, he has you smoke as much as you’d like the whole time your reading the book. Anyway, I have many friends who’ve quit and haven’t started again, and it’s been 5-6 years for most of them, and they’ll all swear by his book.

[Terpsnpurps]

Interesting… I wonder what the trick is there

[Rhino_buddy]

I don’t know for sure, but it seems to work well.

[Mithridate]

You have to accept that you are quitting. I’ll read the book. Shit, smoking cigs gets pricey eh.