What about eating too much?
I need to quit......I’m almost 69. I’ve quit before with Chantix and have some the doc gave me recently but can’t seem to get in the right frame of mind to do it. It helped me before so I know it will work. I have COPD and I’m stupid......still smokin’. I guess I’m nuts too.....sigh
California just passed an additional $2.00 a pack tax on cigarettes. I had two packs left out of a carton. When I finished them I took up E-cigs. My intention is to wean myself off of nicotine altogether. I can say just going to the E-cigs I feel a lot better. Cheaper too. Just my way of saying FU to Tom Steyer.
And the success rate is abysmal when compared to using inhaler style devices which don't have medical patents to exploit (not to mention the considerable payoffs pharmaceutical aides get from state tobacco taxes...)
I've been able to get multiple people to quit with extremely little effort using the disfavored vaporizers with a near 100% success rate. (Alas, the only failures were people who had to travel to areas where smoking rates are much higher than the US and it was just too easy to pick back up the habit.)
It really burns me (figuratively) that so many zealots are out there campaigning against very simple, safe and effective devices only because the things 'look' like they are smoking.
Had these come from Pfizer with a fancy prescription and multi-hundred dollar dose bottles, they'd be heralded as a 'miracle cure' for smoking.
Just TRY to make me quit.....you’ll be dead long before I will be.
Bury me with a half smoked, $10 cigar.
I’ve been smoking for decades, and my lung feels great!
My sister was 64 when she quit smoking. She quit when it was discovered she had 4 aneurysms, and needed surgery to tie off her inner carotid artery which was feeding the largest of the aneurysms. She survived the surgery, but five years later was diagnosed with lung cancer. She died at the age of 69. Everyone in my family smoked but me. Besides my sister, both my parents died of lung cancer. My father was 72. My mother was 69. My brother died of a massive heart attack at the age of 51. He had stopped smoking at 49 when he had the first heart attack. My oldest sister lived to be 74 and died after suffering a stroke. I’m 69. Only God knows if I’ll make it to 70.
I quit 8 years ago at age 63, after 50 years as a smoker.
I’m not a smoke Nazi about it though. Any FReeper friends who smoke want to drop in, I’ll dig out the ash trays.
I quit last June.
And started eating...lol.
Why do these ‘helpful’ people always assume a person wants to live peeing themselves, crapping in their pants, shuffling on a walker, not reading....just existing. I’ve had a good run and at 67 I want out.
My grandmother quite smoking around age 60 and died this year at 101.
It all depends on how soon you start smoking and how old you are when you quit.
I know this much,my sis started smoking at 17 and died from lung cancer at 62.I reccomend not starting smoking.That way you won’t have to quit.