Posted on 09/07/2012 1:20:27 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
I've smoked since I was 15 years old. I turned 55 last March and now it's time to quit!
Cold turkey, Jan 91. 4 packs per day. Hardest thing I continue to do.
If I quit smoking, there will be a thread on FR with a reference to the local newspaper, chainsaws, axes, hostage situations, and tactical nuclear strikes.
Best I don't quit. I tend to get grumpy. ;)
/johnny
I was 49 when I quit; just a few months short of 50! I had smoked since I was about 16—probably 1/2 pack a day. My son was still in college and visiting home and had just quit the habit he had begun a few years before. We were discussing his success and he asked me to tell him ONE good thing about smoking. Obviously, I couldn’t think of anything! So, just kiddingly, I threw all my cigs away and never smoked again! (I am 56 now!) There is a website www.quitnet.com that was instrumental in my quitting. Lots of people helping, advice. Good luck!
LOL!! As Rush says if you eat carrots you will die as well!!!
I tried the inexpensive one’s and hated them. I bought the Smoke Smart brand & find they taste better. They’re not cheap, but it’s a good substitute.
I’ve never smoked, but my late mother smoked until she was well into her 60s. When she started having shortness of breath, she prayed and asked God to take the desire for cigarettes away from her. Starting the next morning, and for the rest of her life, she never wanted—nor smoked-—another cigarette.
God bless you; I hope you succeed.
I quit 3 times. Once for 6 weeks than again for 3 years and then finally for the past 13 years. I would say I am now cured. All three times I went cold turkey.
The two times that it really worked I had a terrible upper respiratory infection and cough so I didn’t smoke for about 2 weeks. By that time I was through the worst of the withdrawal and I just did not pick them back up. Its actually a lot easier that way.
I applaud your decision to quit. It will be the best decision of your life. Get the monkey off your back.
The company I worked for got me a new Chevy Caprice in March of 1986. I couldn’t bring myself to smoke in it, so I quit.
12/9/09
Picked up an e-cig.
Threw away most of a pack of Marlboros.
Haven’t smoked since.
I CAN BREATHE!!!
They taste like anything you want.
There are HUNDREDS of flavors. No pepperoni pizza, but I’m sure someone’s working on that.
Right now, I’m “vaping” coffee-flavored juice in one e-cig, and butterscotch in the other one.
I change flavors now and then. I might to to caramel-cappuccino, or a tobacco flavor.
I avoid fruit flavored liquid. Don’t know why. I just do.
Marlboro 100 Lights are my favs.
Hope I can find a substitute.
I smoked for fifty years Randy. I was told how hard it was to quit many times over the years, and believed it.
April 9, 2009 I stashed my last pack of cigarettes that had a grand total of 18 cigarettes left in it in one of the little cupboards up over the stove. That’s the same cupboard that has about a cup of Scotch still in the bottle from when I quit drinking alcoholic beverages in 1997, but that’s another story.
From that moment on I simply ignored any urge to smoke. That was it. Never smoked since, and last year I threw out the cigarettes that I had stashed above the stove in 2009.
There was none of the tearing out by the roots of my hair. No bashing of the head against the wall. No tears, no pain, just ignored the urges, and kept on truckin’.
BTW I’ve never had a drink since 1997, but I don’t throw away the Scotch as I did the cigarettes, ‘cause someday somebody who does drink might drop by, and I can let them have the stuff. The Cigs would have been pretty stale after two years above the stove, so in the trash they went.
I am now on a diet to lose about sixty pounds, and I do accredit that weight gain to quitting smoking. I have no problem with dieting at this time. I’m over anything that might be associated with quitting smoking after three years me thinks.
Hopefully us Randy’s are alike that way, and you Randy can quit smoking as easily as this Randy did.
One time, I quit smoking, chasing wild women, swearing and drinkig. To this very day, that was the longest 20 minutes of my whole life,
Agreed, and sooner than non-smokers, but I would like to be able to go out and do things without gaining a bunch of weight.
I had not given hypnosis any credence before going.
Mel
HOWEVER since I didn't want tobacco to rule my life forever, I have intentionally smoked a cigarette here and there, probably 50 or so in 25 years just to know that I was in charge. (they tasted great and I could have gone bact to 3 packs a day instantly)....it does not get easier as you go along....you just have to make up your mind and DO IT !!!!!
I quit smoking cigarettes 13 years ago at the same time as my wife. She used the patch, I used the gum. It took about two weeks before I was comfortable physically, although I was somewhat at a loss what to do with my hands, and a cup of coffee was just not the same for awhile. So, I carried a nice new pen to hold onto, and switched from coffee to Pepsi for about 3 or 4 months. I’m very glad I am rid of the damned things.
I was hoping this was a thread about Sister Simone Campbell.
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