8 days. No tobacco

I was just doin' the math the other day on when i quit. I think it's been...12 years now? my kid is coming up on 14 and I *think* he was two.... hard to remember. Quit as randomly as I started so....

either way, success is success. good on you. 

Good job!
 

Years ago , my uncle quit cold turkey. He kept hard candy in his shirt pocket where he kept his smokes. He swore it helped to have a substitution. 

In reply to rustybugkiller :

that was the weird thing. I never needed anything. I was just...done. "ok this is over" and that was it. i've heard tell replacement is important, but it never meant much to me. 

In reply to Mndsm :

I'm pretty sure it's a mental switch. For 30 years I quit a dozen times using everything from hard candy to patches with zero success. The longest I made it was 6 months. 

Then I thought I had a heart attack. That flipped the switch instantly. When I quit, I carried a pack of smokes in my shirt pocket for a month and never had the urge to touch them. 

That was 12 years ago. While I still love the smell of tobacco, I don't have that constant urge to smoke. I enjoy a cigar a few times a week but it's like dessert, nice on occasion but not necessary. 

Keep up the good work wvumtnbkr!!

I agree on the mental switch. I tried quitting for years before we decided to have our first child. I was told not to quit while trying because it could cause issues and to wait until after conception. I chose a quit date which happened to coincide with my birthday and also paid for Chantix out of pocket. I think that's how it's spelled. Anyway, the insurance company wouldn't cover the cost so it was like $250 but I figured I spent that plenty on cigarettes over the years. This July it will have been 17 years since I quit. I tried a cigarette once a couple days into quitting but couldn't even finish it. 

I'm glad my children have been raised without a smoking household. Now I KNOW if I were to try smoking again it's basically comitting to starting back up. I can't do it. Not even a cigar after a special event. I just can't do it. Won't do it. Never again. If you can't say never again to it, you aren't ready to quit. It's that simple.

On to the drugs. Without Chantix I'm not certain I could have made it happen. The stuff isn't for everyone and I was only on it for two weeks. I started a small dosage leading up to the quit date, and one week after quitting I stopped. Pretty sure you're supposed to take it a month, but I never needed it again. This isn't to encourage you to take a substance to quit, but it worked for me and I know it's worked for others. I can't stand taking medicine so it took some effort for me to finally talk to a doctor about getting set up. I'm sure there are other options similar to it now and most I think are covered by insurance. It's worth looking into. I wish you the best of luck. Quitting changed my life, I hope you can do it.

Recently my nephew was prescribed chantix.  In short order he stopped smoking and also stopped drinking.