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I quit smoking today, anybody else want in?

Discussion in 'General' started by V5 Racer, Sep 18, 2006.

  1. Same here. I always see a sign for a pack or someone smoking one and ill crave one but I never act on it.
     
  2. panthercity

    panthercity Thread Killa

    Good on ya, Mike! :clap:
     
  3. V5 Racer

    V5 Racer Yo!

    Passed the nine year mark last week, woo hoo. How is it going for everyone else?
     
  4. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Excellent. Smoke free since 2005.
     
  5. Passed the 1 year mark just about a month ago. Feeling good!
     
  6. Roger@Arroyo

    Roger@Arroyo Well-Known Member

    1 year and 4 months
     
  7. StaccatoFan

    StaccatoFan My 13 year old is faster than your President

    45 years smoke free in Nov.

    <never smoked>

    I tried cigars once and just didn't grasp the perceived satisfaction derived from sucking on a burning tube of leaves.

    But major congrats to all that can beat this addiciton. It's disgusting and expensive.

    My Mom never smoked, my Dad did for over 30 years. She's the one that got lung cancer and died.

    And from what I witnessed, it's an ugly way to go. If you've ever witnessed it, you're crazy if you ever light up again after seeing that.
     
  8. scottn

    scottn Well-Known Member

    7 years 3 months
     
  9. panthercity

    panthercity Thread Killa

    You and me, Acree! :beer:
     
  10. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Still smoking here all these years later :D
     
  11. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    My FIL passed from COPD, and other complications from smoking.

    He died in a palliative care facility... basically a hospice unit. It's pretty much where people go to die & like you said, his last couple months were sheer hell.

    What boggled me, though, is that the facility had a smoking area for their staff. These people see the end result of that nasty habit day in & day out. They watch people guppying for breath while their O2 tubes run full blast right up their noses.

    Yet they still smoked.

    Boggling cognitive dissonance, that.
     
  12. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    One of my wife's good friends is a respiratory therapist...smokes like a chimney.
     
  13. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    A year and 3 months.
    My ex-BIL was head of respiratory therapy at a major Boston hospital, and he still smokes.
    He's also allergic to cigarette smoke, so he has the sniffles all the time.
     
  14. lightning97

    lightning97 Well-Known Member

    smoke free since dec98 after smoking since 72. I still feel older though!
    best luck and you only have to stay quit 1 day at a time!
    tim
     
  15. condon66

    condon66 Member well known

    It's good to see so many people stop. Though I've never smoked, admiration goes out to those successful in stopping. Now, just think of the money you saved or will save.
     
  16. notbostrom

    notbostrom DaveK broke the interwebs

    i really need to quit.. what got some of you through the first days and weeks? seripusly asking for help here
     
  17. It might sound stupid but I used jolly ranchers to replace the smokes. Then I started running everyday and after a long run I would hack up black stuff. I forced myself to be around smokers when I was quitting. Now being around them doesn't even phase me. The biggest thing was telling myself I don't smoke anymore. Plus I added up all of the money I wasted on smoking and figured out at 1.5 packs a day I would had saved 3k a year. That's two full race weekends, my suit, tires for the year, etc. Pick one.


    Plus. I hate to tell you but you smell friggen terrible. I didn't notice it til I quit.


    It took me 3 months of cravings to be over it and not think about it all the time.
     
  18. JohnS

    JohnS Well-Known Member

    5 years quit this past July...I used nicoret gum, switched to regular gum then just stopped chewing gum.
     
  19. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    First things first, you gotta be done with them. You gotta quit for you. Not anyone else. YOU have to want to quit FOR YOU.

    My crutch was dum-dum pops. You can get them in bulk from spangler candy. I'm talking 10# bulk. :D

    No nicotine replacement. That's just dragging it out.

    When you work through a craving... savor that bitch. Remember it. Remember that you beat it. Next craving, remember the ones you already beat. Think about how much it would suck to cave now & undo having beat all those previous cravings.

    Beware the third week. That was the hardest part for me. I actually left the house to go buy smokes but decided to stop at Whataburger first. Never went to get smokes.

    You can do it, you WILL do it. When YOU want to.
     
  20. V5 Racer

    V5 Racer Yo!

    Atomic fireballs for me.

    This. People that come in after having a smoke have no clue how bad it smells when they get in the elevator.

    You have to get off the nicotine wagon and you have to do it for you. Want to quit? Quit, and mean it.
     

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