I quit smoking.

[gw186]

Nice Work! Today is day 100 for me after smoking for 22 years. Has not been to bad at all for me. I really came to hate smoking and myself for doing it long before i quit. I feel this was a big help in quitting for me.

 

[BoomerD]

Good for you. I'm over 6 months without a "regular" cigarette...only the e-cig. I KNOW I'm still a nicotine addict...but this is still better than smoking. (even if only slightly better)

 

[JEDIYoda]

Just put water in it. Will help ease the desire to hold a real smoke.

ecigs are still a crutch...

 

[dbk]

i quit again 4 months ago.. don't miss it.. What really got to me was when I was cleaning my old car, the headliner along the driver side window was covered in some nasty shit. I just quit cold turkey. I really like how much better I feel in the mornings after I wake up. It's great!

 

[kushy26]

Very good for you and healthy too.

 

[etrigan420]

Awesome man.

I quit on September 11th, 2010. I wanted something *good* to remember on that day.

Did it the same way (Chantix) and for what sounds like about the same reasons (why the fuck am I paying people to kill me???)

IIRC, I was on Chantix for a week until my body just took over....although I'm just now getting to the point where I can drink a beer or two and not get the craving.

$7 and change for a pack of cigarettes...poor bastards...

 

[boomhower]

I'm going on a little over two months on the ecigs. Started at 18mg nicotine and am down to 6mg. Doing that for another month and then down to 3mg's for a month and then down all together. Yeah, it's a crutch but it's the only thing that's kept me from smoking the real deal for any extended period of time.

 

[nerp]

Morning is the hardest. It takes me a good hour to calm the voice in my head. Once I get going with my day, I'm good. But it's amazing how the addiction, even after 12 days of no nicotine, will be whispering when you wake up "the gas station is just around the corner. you can have just one. . ." as if celebrating not smoking with a cigarette makes sense. I forgive myself for wanting one by reminding myself that I smoked for 20 years and it's going to take a lot more than 12 days to forget it. It's like a divorce.

 

[mnewsham]

Morning is the hardest. It takes me a good hour to calm the voice in my head. Once I get going with my day, I'm good. But it's amazing how the addiction, even after 12 days of no nicotine, will be whispering when you wake up "the gas station is just around the corner. you can have just one. . ." as if celebrating not smoking with a cigarette makes sense. I forgive myself for wanting one by reminding myself that I smoked for 20 years and it's going to take a lot more than 12 days to forget it. It's like a divorce.

If you need to pick up a habit, look into flavored electronic cigs WITHOUT nicotine, my friend is using that to occupy herself from pulling out a real cig.

 

[nerp]

Weed helps a bit.

 

[mnewsham]

Weed helps a bit.

Haha, that was the next suggestion :thumbsup:

 

[Sluggo]

Monday will be 4 years for me, also quit with Chantix.

It gets easier and easier, before long you will wonder why you were ever a slave to them.

 

[Murloc]

The toughest part will be if you hang out at a bar, since it's just natural to light up there

smoking is not banned in bars and restaurants?

 

[highland145]

smoking is not banned in bars and restaurants?

Mostly now.


Grats to all of you. My 76 year old Dad is in the final stages of emphysemia. It's ugly and sad. Not for his decision to smoke but for his suffering. Man was a 5'10" 205lb brick at 21.....under 110lbs now. Yeah age, blah, blah but the smoking is his killer. Hospice and he have discussed more morphine...as requested by him. Won't be long, imo.:'(

 

[sze5003]

I have been smoke free 2 years thanks to the e cig. At first I was using 18mg juice. Then I went down to 12. I can go all day without using the e cig. The cravings and nicotine craving comes back after a stressful day at work or really extended periods of time. It definitely passes if I just eat a snack or drink something, not alcohol.

The juice without nicotine is nice too. I have this nicotine free bahama menthol flavored version that I use when I'm bored. The part of simulating exhaling the smoke is really what helps me feel like I don't need a real cigarette.

I had tried cold turkey for a while years ago and it always failed. Either I would get too many cravings or get so irritated and grumpy that it affected people around me.

 

[Phoenix86]

Takes 30 days to kick the habit, even then many return. Good luck!

 

[WilliamM2]

12 days and you've "quit" smoking? I know folks who have done that dozens of times. Check back in a year or two.

 

[nerp]

12 days and you've "quit" smoking? I know folks who have done that dozens of times. Check back in a year or two.

You can poo on my parade, if you wish, but I have not given in and I won't. I was a more-than one pack per day smoker for more than 20 years, starting when I was about 15. There were periods in my 20s when I smoked two packs per day, easily. The fact is I've quit smoking and that's that. There is no benchmark for quitting other than to say you've stopped. I've never stopped smoking for more than 1 day, tops. So 13 days for me is a huge milestone and I can say happily that I'm a nonsmoker. Do I have to deal with the ingrained habits and mental wiring that makes it hard when I wake up in the morning? Sure. But that is a battle I can win.

I appreciate your pessimism, though. It encourages me even more to not light up. Maybe the people you've known were lying to themselves about wanting to quit or they were much weaker than I am.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I quit for a few years once, then made the stupid mistake of dating the wrong girl. She wasn't a smoker like you and me were smokers, but she had cigs around, and she'd have one or two when we were partying. I thought I could manage it, but I couldn't. I quit again years ago, and now that I'm thinking about it I can't even say how long ago it was. At least 4 or 5 years, I'd say.

Addiction is such a weird thing. Conquering one will teach you a lot about yourself. I used the patch when I quit. I've also used the patch and failed to quit. I can say that the difference is that a person must truly WANT to quit -- not just lip service like what you tell your friends, but deep down where you can't even lie to yourself. Quitting aids make it less traumatic, but they won't change you. You have to change yourself, or it isn't going to work.

 

[twinrider1]

You rock. Keep it up. In a year, buy something nice for yourself with the money you've saved.

 

[nerp]

You rock. Keep it up. In a year, buy something nice for yourself with the money you've saved.

At about $9 per pack, it's already adding up fast.

 

[JujuFish]

Chantix helped both my mom and grandfather quit smoking several years back. :thumbsup:

 

[RossMAN]

At about $9 per pack, it's already adding up fast.

$9 per day x 365 days = $3,285 per year

Dayum!

 

[Mixolydian]

$9 per day x 365 days = $3,285 per year

Dayum!

Depends how much you smoke, though. For some people it could be half that, others it could be double that!

 

[chin311]

Good work OP. Save lots of $$$ and best of all you won't smell like an ashtray and harm your lungs/heart nonstop!