+TourSpecGirl Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 I have been smoking since the 9th grade in High School about a pack a day. I just quit on Jan 24th. So far it's been about 11 days, and I feel GREAT!! I have quit a number of times in the past, sometimes for several years, but I have learned from my mistakes, and I will NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!! If there is anyone who is thinking about quitting the habit, contact me. I have many websites, smoking facts, and even a Quit Keeper Tracker program that allows you to track your success. My Quit Keeper Stats: I have quit for 1 Week, 4 Days, 11 hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds (11 days). I have saved $57.35 by not smoking 229 cigarettes. I have saved 19 hours and 5 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 1/24/2005 I hope to help others feel as GREAT as I do, and NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!! :smile1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Slaughter Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 i dont smoke and never will. i dont want to ruin my health. although i am a second-hand smoker. my parents smoke so i inhale the fumes everyday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TourSpecGirl Posted February 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 i dont smoke and never will. i dont want to ruin my health. although i am a second-hand smoker. my parents smoke so i inhale the fumes everyday Me too. When I was growing up, my Dad would smoke in the car with a Window only Cracked an Inch!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe295 Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 My Dad smoked like that too, only he smoked cigars!!!! the whole family was stinky :surprize: Congratulations on quitting..I quit in 1986 after my habit reached 4 packs/day..but then my theory has always been if you can't do something to excess why bother :laugh: ..I really don't miss having burn holes in all my clothes a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 Over 20 years at 2 to 3 packs a day. Wife and kids harped and harped for me to quit. 1985 was having some problems with feet going to sleep. Doctor I saw asked a bunch of questions, then told me I could go ahead and leave. When I asked if he knew why my feet were going to sleep, he said it was due to the smoking hurting my circulatory system. Asked what he could do? He told me he could do nothing... He then asked what years my kids would graduate from high school. I had to think a bit and came up with the approximate years. He said to get a good visionary picture in my mind of my girls in their caps and gowns because, if I continued smoking, I would not be there in person to see them graduate. Said it was totally up to me and he couldn't do any more and I could leave. Went out to the car... tossed what was left of a pack in the trash and have never smoked again. Clean for 20 years. I've often said, however, that when the doctor gives me 6 months to live... One of the first things I will do is go out and buy a pack and take up smoking again. I have never lost the craving after all these years. (Of course, we could still buy cartons at less than $3.00 when I quit. Don't know if I could bring myself to spend that per pack today!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish555 Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 29 years old, never drink, been clean from drugs for 7 1/2 years and smoking is my only vice. My son was born June of '04 and have been saying that I'm going to quit, but just can't get the will power together. Every time I see my doctor for my yearly asthma check up (yeah, I know :punch: ) the first thing he tells me is to quit smoking. The wife an I just can't seem to figure out how to do it. My brothers both smoke, my mother smokes, all my friends(literally) smoke and I have a sister who smokes. Any advice, without having to take any more drugs than what I'm on for my asthma, would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillypete Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 i dont smoke and never will. i dont want to ruin my health. although i am a second-hand smoker. my parents smoke so i inhale the fumes everyday I said that same thing when I was younger... then I started going to bars and parties. There is something about being at a bar or nightclub that brings out the smoker in everyone. I had been smoking for about 3 years, then one day a few months ago I just got tired of smoking and stopped. Haven't smoked since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLMelton Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 16 years of smoking and using "dip." I went to see the Army dentist when I was stationed in Mannheim and he said I had some lesions on my gums from the dip and that if I didn't quit I was basically digging my own grave. At the time I didn't believe him and had no intention of quitting. He tracked me down at my unit and brought me a bunch of literature and some extremely graphic pictures of what could happen to me. I decided it was definitely time to quit after he took his own time to do all of this for me. At the time the Army would only prescribe the Nicorette gum, which I had tried before and knew was only giving me nicotine in the same manner. I spent about $300 out of pocket to get the patch and have been nicotine free since March, 1997. I still get the occasional nicotine craving but I will never go back to the way things were. Tobacco is such a brutal substance and I really wish that those who use and abuse it could understand how much better off they would be without it. -CLM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TourSpecGirl Posted February 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 I have never lost the craving after all these years. (Of course, we could still buy cartons at less than $3.00 when I quit. Don't know if I could bring myself to spend that per pack today!) Unfortunately, this is very common to those who quit on their first try. Quitting takes practice. The first time is always the most difficult. Facing the unknown with no experience on handling the hard times is tough. I must have "stopped smoking" about 3 serious times before this (9 months, 3 years, and 1 year). The first time was for about 9 months, and I too craved the whole time. But I noticed that although I eventually became a smoker again, it wasn't a battle lost. It prepared me for the next attempt, as a more experienced "Quitter". Each attempt was Obviously and Unbelievabley less challenging to quit. I knew how to prepare and motivate myself before the last cigarette, I understood how I personally was affected being nicotine free, I knew better ways (besides eating) to overcome the withdrawls and handle stress, and learned many more necessary tools to overcome my most RIDICULOUS "#1 Priority"!! Thankfully, every attempt made it easier to handle, the cravings subsided, withdrawls weakened, my concentration sharpened, and it seemed more normal to live without. This time around, I had no "REAL" cravings after the first 2 days besides "forgetting" that I quit, thinking about smoking, and simply saying to myself.."s**t, I forgot.. I don't smoke..oh well." But the most importantly, I learned that no matter how long it's been and how much I'm convinced that I'm not addicted anymore...It just takes ONE PUFF to become, once again, a Full Fledged Smoker. So NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryMB Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 well i had so many smokers in my life that i didnt want to smoke, what reinforced it was when i would date someone who was a heavy smoker, it left me gasping for air :yuk: , its hard to kiss someone who tastes like a ashtray, I am glad to hear your quiting Jacque :smile2: JerryMB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKFLY Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 I did not have time to read evreyone's replies but will later. I am happy to hear evreyone's success. My friends wife died of lung cancer a year ago - and if you see the pain first hand - you just shake your head wondering how anyone can smoke. I started smoking when I was twelve. Got up to over two packs a day at one point and then quit - about twelve years ago- then after three years started again. I was amazed at how fast you go right back to smoking at the smae level. Anyway - I quit again about 14 months ago and have not had a cigerrette since. This time i went cold turkey where the last time I was on a program. Quiting cold turkey is the best way IMO - only because it hits you like a freight train and the experience is hard enough to make not want to go through it again. I am avery happy to be anon-smoker again. Now I need to stop making excuses about the 40 pounds I gained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junior_golfer Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 My grandpa use to smoke upwards of three packs a day!! :surprize: In any event while on his way to his car dealership he was doing his regular morning hack job/cough, he took his cigaretts, placed them in the glove compartment and that's where the dried out. Luckily he is still alive (after a quad. bi-pas surgery, ouch!!) and hasn't smoked a cigarette in over 35 years!! Fortunately for me I don't smoke and don't plan on ever starting. Congrats to everyone who is quitting!! :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_duffer Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 It will 6 years Feb 16 since I quit :cool: Smoked for over 20 years. My apologies to everyone I subjected my nasty habit to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimal302 Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 It was a year on January when I quit. I had smoked for 11 years. I have never felt better in my life. My girlfriend smokes and I can honestly say it doesn't bother me one bit. Congrats to all that have quit and are in the process of quiting, it isn't easy but it is well worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Slaughter Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 i dont smoke and never will. i dont want to ruin my health. although i am a second-hand smoker. my parents smoke so i inhale the fumes everyday I said that same thing when I was younger... then I started going to bars and parties. There is something about being at a bar or nightclub that brings out the smoker in everyone. I had been smoking for about 3 years, then one day a few months ago I just got tired of smoking and stopped. Haven't smoked since. i can agree, but if i really wanted to start smoking it prolly would have started awhile ago. ive seen what happened to my parents from doing it and my grandparents, i dont want to ruin my life. my parents r having trouble quitting. dont want to do the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 About time Girl !!!! I quit myself back in October , not like I really had much choice in the matter . Has been real hard for me as I am having big time cravings for Cuban Cigars . But have been able to ignore them so far . But no such cravings for cig's at all which I am extremely happy about . Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Slaughter Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 I said that same thing when I was younger...then I started going to bars and parties. There is something about being at a bar or nightclub that brings out the smoker in everyone. I had been smoking for about 3 years, then one day a few months ago I just got tired of smoking and stopped. Haven't smoked since. Well I don't have worry about that. With the smoking ban in ontario that won't be happening. I feel so much better going to bars and casinos now that it is smoke-free. I won't smoke, I've seen what it's done to people and I don't want to be like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleAA Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) Tried one cigarette when I was 16 cuz I thought I was a "Gangsta" and choked my a$$ off over a Newport Menthol. First, last, and only time this chicano will ever think, hold, puff, or choke on a cancer stick. :tsg_smiley_no: Edited September 1, 2006 by DoubleAA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt411 Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 are you still a non-smoker??? when i have quit in the past, the golf course was the place that always gave me the most cravings. at one point i spent about 6 months with a carton of cigarettes in my bag but no where else. if i didn't play for a week, i didn't smoke for a week, but on the course, i would smoke about 1/2 a pack. its a shame, but if i wasn't a golfer, i probably wouldn't be a smoker but i don't think i'll be giving up golf any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taipanli Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 (edited) What if you want to quit but actually really enjoy smoking??? Makes it kinda tough... I have smoked 2 packs a day since I was 18. At that time, I had an accident in an elevator and snapped my tibial plateau clean (the top part of the bone just below the knee). I was an obese youth and weighed 275 lbs. at the time (i'm 5'9"). Had a 5 hour operation and stayed in hospital for 3 weeks during which time I was bored out of my mind. Most of my friends being middle-eastern and smokers, one day I just took one when they visited and tried it out of complete boredom (there was no VCR, DVD or internet back then in 1983). Physiotherapist told me that if I didn't drop a lot of weight during my rehabilitation, I may develop a limp from having to support all that weight on a weak leg. Over a couple of years, I dropped to 165lbs (now 180 :tsg_smiley_yes: ) and psychologically, I attribute part of that to my smoking helping curb hunger. So i've shed almost 100lbs and kept it off for 23 years which to me is a huge achievement. Then with the numerous accounts of how you automatically gain weight when quitting smoking, I'm afraid to even TRY quitting for fear of having to struggle with weight issues again. I'd rather stay a slim smoker than a pudgy non-smoker. Some may say that a little weight is no big deal and that quitting smoking will prolong your life but unless you've been an obese teen, you don't know how torturous that can be. Regardless, I would like to quit but I have a mental block over the potential weight gain. On top of that, I'm half chinese and half french - the two heaviest smoking populations on earth! lol Just as with weight loss, there are NO special cures, remedies or medecines that can help you. It's 100% will-power and you have to make up your mind to quit and not quit for a day and hope it lasts... I'd prolong this post but gotta go out for a smoke :tsg_smilie_whistle: Edited November 6, 2006 by taipanli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acousticsam Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Me too. When I was growing up, my Dad would smoke in the car with a Window only Cracked an Inch!! :) I had to deal with the same issues. I actually started smoking when I was in college, but gave it up a ages ago. It's a terrible habit to let take over your life. Smoking really does affect quality of life. Just the other day, I went to the local Starbucks and saw a kid who couldn't have been more than 12 years old asking a young man for a "smoke." I was even more disturbed when the guy gave it to the kid. Very sad habit to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubHoUno Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I only smoke at parties - besides that I'm a NON smoker :tsg_smilie_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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