quittin smokin

finally decided to quit smokin.. after 28 yrs. feelin ok.. mildly hostile but not to bad... always heard if you make it three days the rest are ez..

I quit 16+ years ago.

Walk away from it and never smoke anything again. No chew, no victory cigars, no "one cig while were drinking", no "bum me a smoke", no chewing tampons, nothing. Never again will you smoke anything and you will be okay.

Everyone once in a while I still dream about smoking.......

Good luck. I've quit more than once. Made it six months once. After three days it does get easier. The only thing that is easier yet is starting back. Stick with it, you will still get that urge at the worst times. It's on my list of things to do. I'm not looking forward to it.

only been 2 days... my biggest thing is i am a major stress smoker... wife told me i can take my cigarette money and stash it and buy sumtin i want in 6 months...

Congrats! keep it up.

Look at all the money you'll be saving for car stuff ;)

barnca wrote: only been 2 days... my biggest thing is i am a major stress smoker... wife told me i can take my cigarette money and stash it and buy sumtin i want in 6 months...

Set your sites high and it will be easy.

My dogs occasionally deem it to be okay...

27 yrs of smoking... 4 1/2 pks of non-filters (while is SW Asia ... quit April '94... one puff ~ 2 mo after quitting ... tasted so nasty I knew I'd never touch another one

barnca wrote: only been 2 days... my biggest thing is i am a major stress smoker... wife told me i can take my cigarette money and stash it and buy sumtin i want in 6 months...

Congrats on quitting!

Just curious, how much $ will you save by that point by not smoking?...

I seriously considered quitting this weekend. I made it one day then I hung out with a friend that smokes so I started again. One of these days I will quit for real...

I mostly smoke out of boredom. Not a whole lot (1 pack every 2 or 3 days) but it would save me about $18-24 a week if I quit.

do you still have an emergency pack stashed away somewhere close?

The day you ditch that pack, will be a milestone.

Brag about quitting, then if you get the urge think about all the people that will be disappointed if you start again.

Think about all the time you have invested so far to quit, would you really want to do that all over again?

Those are things that have helped keep me smoke free for the last three years.

Here is hoping you can stay off the cigs

10 years this coming April for me

If my dad has a super power, it's willpower, and he said quitting sucked more than anything. He did mention after 3 days it was better. He had some good motivation- Kids were comming (my brother, not me at that point)and that was 35 years ago or so. He's much happier now, and he said he feels better now (even though he's in his 60's) then he did in his 20's when he was still smoking. I wish you luck!

We got my old man cured by throwing hard candy at him every time we saw him fumbling for something to stick in his face hole. It worked.

Quit 35+ years ago. I had been buying cheap cigs at the Student Union, and got over 3.00 dollars per day. They were running about $ .85 per pack, so do the math. About 3.5 packs per day...and I gave it up cold turkey, because I couldn't afford the habit.

The worst time I had was about 3 years later when I was in Germany on my mission. Smoking was very prevalent at the time, and they sold cigarettes in machines bolted to the sides of buildings. Some of the teaching appointments we had were absolutely reeking with magnum Turkish cigarettes...yeah, it was tough.

But keep up with the same principle that Weight Watchers uses: one day at a time, and don't overthink it. Take care of today's business today and let the chips fall where they may. You can do anything for one day.

Cast in stone fact, that is.

I was a 5 pack a dayer.

Quitting was tough, but well worth it. I've been off for 24 years.

Don't think anything is too stupid to try. One idea that helped me a bit was to track how many smokes I DIDN'T have on a calender. If I went a whole day without one, that was 100 less coffin nails. If I had a bad day and broke down, it would have been easy to think, "Well, now you've blown it. Might as well start smoking again." But instead I'd say to myself, "That's STILL 99 I didn't have".

After a week or two, it was amazing how many I had NOT had.

I have 5 kids. None of them have ever seen me smoke. I'm gonna keep it that way.

Good luck!

Datsun1500 wrote:

pete240z wrote: no chewing tampons,

Isn't that just good life advice in general?

I have made it 15,153 days. Hang in there buddy!

You can do it! I quit a pack a day of Camel Wides in 4/09.

SVreX wrote: I was a 5 pack a dayer.

My wife was good for 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day, and it looked to me like she had a smoke in her mouth constantly.

I don't know how you could find the time to smoke 5 packs a day

I was a pack and half a day smoker, started when I was 15, 29 now. Decided to quit about a month ago when I was driving to work and ran out of smokes. I had been thinking about it for a few weeks and just decided it was time. I'm a cranky bastard anyways so no change there. The wallet is a little thicker as well as the belly. After about a week I smoked a cigarette at work and thought it tasted gross, put it out and that has been it.

I mainly smoked when I was bored, now I'm just bored.

In reply to paul:

roughly 720 bucks

If you really think you're going to fall off the wagon, grab some of that nicotine gum. That stuff works great for me, but I have to chew a lot more than they specify. Granted, you'll be addicted to gum, but it's better than smoking again. I type this as I have a cigarette in my mouth. Maybe you shouldn't listen to me.

Like pete240z said, never touch it ,or any substitute ever again. I quit in 1979 and still have an occasional craving (thankfully, they're mild cravings) for a cigarette. But I've never regretted it. It's not easy,but hang in there because it's worth it. You're worth it.

Hang in there... I'm six years smoke-free. It's tough but oh, so worth it!