What's your Vice and how are you working to better yourself?

TiE2000

Well-Known Member
First Name
Tyler
Joined
Aug 2, 2021
Threads
10
Messages
74
Reaction score
122
Location
Tomball, Texas
Car(s)
2021 Toyota Supra
I'll start, I'm a smoker. Picked up smoking at the young age of 14. was a very popular thing to do at the time. Unfortunately, I've never been able to kick the habit, I'm now 40 and starting to think of my mortality. I officially starting quitting about a week ago. Only cheated a few times since then. I'm actually using the MKV Supra as an end goal incentive to myself.

Deal is, I need to go a full year without smoking. Figure if I can go a full year, I should have the habit beat, or at lease trained my body to resist and i've established new daily routines for myself. (the daily routine is what I've found to the hardest part of quitting).
Sponsored

 

SupraBC

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2020
Threads
6
Messages
163
Reaction score
251
Location
Vancouver
Car(s)
'21 Supra 2.0
I started smoking at around the same age as you. Did one of those hypnosis sessions and it worked for about 2 years then I picked it up again as in my new group of friends there were a couple of smokers.
It got to a point where I was spending around $150 a month in cigarettes and at the same time it was a moment in which I started thinking about replacing my FR-S so I realized that if I were to put those extra $150/month towards a car payment it would be money much better spent.
Long story short, 2.5 years ago I decided overnight to just quit (again) and didn't look back. It actually has been easier than I thought this time around.
Still kept my FR-S for a while as I hadn't found the perfect replacement for it but when the 2.0 made an appearance, I ran the numbers and thanks to that extra money I'm able to own one now :)
 
OP
OP
TiE2000

TiE2000

Well-Known Member
First Name
Tyler
Joined
Aug 2, 2021
Threads
10
Messages
74
Reaction score
122
Location
Tomball, Texas
Car(s)
2021 Toyota Supra
I started smoking at around the same age as you. Did one of those hypnosis sessions and it worked for about 2 years then I picked it up again as in my new group of friends there were a couple of smokers.
It got to a point where I was spending around $150 a month in cigarettes and at the same time it was a moment in which I started thinking about replacing my FR-S so I realized that if I were to put those extra $150/month towards a car payment it would be money much better spent.
Long story short, 2.5 years ago I decided overnight to just quit (again) and didn't look back. It actually has been easier than I thought this time around.
Still kept my FR-S for a while as I hadn't found the perfect replacement for it but when the 2.0 made an appearance, I ran the numbers and thanks to that extra money I'm able to own one now :)
Hypnosis sessions... interesting never even heard of that... I've tried a few times to quit before. Used a 100 different quit smoking cessation gimmicks out there. none of them work. Even tried to switch to vaping... that just made me nauseous. The only thing that has ever worked in some sort of fashion is cold turkey. Got about 6 months out of that. Still kicking myself of for picking it back up after that long of not smoking.
 

SupraBC

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2020
Threads
6
Messages
163
Reaction score
251
Location
Vancouver
Car(s)
'21 Supra 2.0

Diablo

Well-Known Member
First Name
Matt
Joined
Jan 18, 2021
Threads
7
Messages
527
Reaction score
755
Location
NKY/Cincinnati
Car(s)
2020 Launch Edition / 2018 4Runner TRD
Congratulations to everyone who quit! I picked up smoking around age 13. Quit too many times to count and always picked it back up. There came a day in Denver, 10/26/2019, where I stepped out onto the balcony of the AirBnB and it was freezing and high winds and I thought to myself ā€œwhy the f*** are you doing this?ā€. Crumpled up The remainder of the pack and threw it in the trash. Havenā€™t looked back since.

I also dipped since high school and had about a quarter can of Kodiak wintergreen at the house after my flight arrived back that day. I finished it the following day at work a d kicked that as well. I certainly believe it was much harder than cigarettes as Iā€™ve craved it much more frequently in the last years.

Anyway, been driveling on long enough.

TLDR version: no tobacco means more car parts! And you feel and smell better.
 

Zupra1776

Well-Known Member
First Name
Mark
Joined
Jun 1, 2021
Threads
16
Messages
474
Reaction score
628
Location
FL
Car(s)
2021 MKV Supra and floating toys.
For whoever needs to read it. Whatever you're trying to quit or think may not be adding value to your life you can absolutely get rid of. It won't be easy, you may not think you can, but you can. Just spend some time reflecting on who is around you, where you are, and what it is, then evaluate who you want to be around, where you want to be, and what you'd rather be doing. Set an end point and get there or somewhere close enough, then set another one.

Godspeed. :headbang:
 

Z4UPRA

Well-Known Member
Joined
Mar 16, 2021
Threads
6
Messages
110
Reaction score
65
Location
NY
Car(s)
2021 Supra 3.0 Premium
Congratulations to everyone who quit! I picked up smoking around age 13. Quit too many times to count and always picked it back up. There came a day in Denver, 10/26/2019, where I stepped out onto the balcony of the AirBnB and it was freezing and high winds and I thought to myself ā€œwhy the f*** are you doing this?ā€. Crumpled up The remainder of the pack and threw it in the trash. Havenā€™t looked back since.

I also dipped since high school and had about a quarter can of Kodiak wintergreen at the house after my flight arrived back that day. I finished it the following day at work a d kicked that as well. I certainly believe it was much harder than cigarettes as Iā€™ve craved it much more frequently in the last years.

Anyway, been driveling on long enough.

TLDR version: no tobacco means more car parts! And you feel and smell better.
Your discipline is commendable. I have heard this so many times where people stop for a year or more. All it takes is ONE puff and the smoking leash grabs hold of you and your wallet.

In my humble opinion, the trick may be to just not take that puff at all. Tell yourself "I am not a smoker" and you may have to do this discipline for the rest of your life. :)
 

supraterps

Member
First Name
aaron
Joined
Aug 30, 2021
Threads
4
Messages
20
Reaction score
30
Location
fullerton,ca
Car(s)
2021 supra 2.0, 2020 corolla le
gambling, i hit big recently and got the supra though, so it gives and takes but my girlfriend of ten years hates it because of how much i gamble
 

Dannyvandelft

Well-Known Member
First Name
Danny
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Threads
15
Messages
2,790
Reaction score
3,997
Location
44133
Car(s)
Ordered A91 edition Supra
Quitting smoking is easy. I smoked 27 years, then decided one day I had enough. Never touched one again. You don't need patches, or anything like that. You need to want it, really want it. And say, "that's it".
 

Andrew4Supra

Well-Known Member
First Name
Andrew
Joined
Jan 20, 2021
Threads
80
Messages
1,638
Reaction score
2,608
Location
Powell, Ohio
Car(s)
2021 Supra 3.0 / 2018 Mercedes GLC43 / 2016 VW GTI
Mine is golfā€¦ but itā€™s seasonal in Ohio (so my wife is fairly cool with it).
 

BobbyC1221

Well-Known Member
First Name
Bobby
Joined
Aug 19, 2021
Threads
2
Messages
73
Reaction score
58
Location
Raleigh N.C
Car(s)
2021 Supra
gambling, i hit big recently and got the supra though, so it gives and takes but my girlfriend of ten years hates it because of how much i gamble
Gambling is only a Vice if you lose. ? Iā€™m just glad there are no casinos in decent driving distance. Id prob be at a casino quite a bit. I only gamble on the big boy casino (stock/crypto market) the last few years.

call options are what paid for half of my Supra. See? Gambling can be good.
 

BobbyC1221

Well-Known Member
First Name
Bobby
Joined
Aug 19, 2021
Threads
2
Messages
73
Reaction score
58
Location
Raleigh N.C
Car(s)
2021 Supra
The only thing I would really consider a Vice for me is collecting watches. While I do smoke (vape mainly), thatā€™s a pretty cheap habit. Buying, collecting, fixing and flipping ā€œluxuryā€ watches is too fun. Sometimes, you make a killing. Especially these days where people are low on cash so they sell their Rolex or whatever. I scoop em up. Fix or service them and if I donā€™t want to keep it, I sell for profit.

Itā€™s a very time consuming hobby but something Iā€™ve always enjoyed. Nothing beats the feeling you get when you reassemble a broken watch that you fixed and it starts ticking

i guess it is a bit like cars. Mechanical engineering. Just on a micro scale.

my collection is thin these days since Iā€™m not spending as much as I used to. (had a kid 2 years ago). Still, if I see a good deal on an undervalued or easy fix piece that I know I can sell for profit easily, Iā€™ll be perfectly happy paying $50k or whatever for a watch. Especially if I know I can sell it for $80k later after spending about $5-$10k on parts.

just like cars though, 1 simple mistake can cost you a lot of money.
 

Toshi

Well-Known Member
Joined
Apr 13, 2021
Threads
8
Messages
71
Reaction score
86
Location
USA
Car(s)
2021 3.0 Supra Nitro Yellow
Probably a laughable vice but I'm addicted to caffeinated soda and the watermelon Mt. Dew that's out right now is just killing me. I quit for a week or so then I go out to eat or something and boom i'm drinking a soda and what sad is that every time I quit I go through MASSIVE multi-day headaches and its still not a deterrent.
 

StratBlu

Member
Joined
Jul 11, 2022
Threads
0
Messages
7
Reaction score
13
Location
Oh
Car(s)
ā€˜20 Civic Si/(soon) ā€˜23 Supra
Iā€™m a foodie, always have been. Never really been ā€œthinā€ since I was in my mid teens, but Iā€™ve taken up intermittent fasting and have lost 15% body weight since the beginning of February with an overall goal of losing 30% before taking delivery of my 2023
Sponsored

 
 




Top