Quitting Cigarettes Is One Of The Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make In Your Life...

Cold turkey is the best way to go. I'd rather be an asshole for a week or two, then an asshole for a month as i slowly "cut back" lol. Good job OP, it's tough as hell, but worth it.

Never been a heavy smoker but I had 5-10 on an average day over a period of about 15 years, with some attempts of quitting and relapsing because these attempts where half assed to say the least. Finally quit 3 years ago. Best decision ever. You can do it OP!

My friend smoked for ten years. He just realized how it would hurt his health and then stopped cold turkey. That was 5 years ago.

5 months smoke free!


i kinda miss it, but feel much much healthier & enjoying having the extra $$'s

I quit about 16 months ago using e-cigs to taper down for about 2 months prior to finally running out of cash to pay for the damn things.

Rough first week, easier second, even easier third bla bla.

Don't even think about smokes any more.

I had been smoking for at least 25 years, 2 x 30 gram rollies (roll your own) every week at a cost of $25 - 30/each packet (say $60/week).

$60 bucks a week is a helluva payrise when you think about it.

The one thing I've found when it comes to quitting smoking or losing weight and doing exercise is that your willpower is strongest when you actually want the change for yourself and don't care what it takes. If you are slightly hesistant or reluctant in any way then you will struggle and have a hard time achieving your goal.

If you have a desire for smoking or eating junk food then your body craves it which decreases your ability to resist it. The first step is to decrease that desire which happens when you change your attitude and beliefs about it. So anything you can do to start decreasing your desire towards it will be a step in the right direction.

Absolutely. I'll be avoiding the bars/heavy drinking for a little while. Drinking is my ultimate trigger.

There's something quite comforting about a cig after a shot and a beer.

No more.

Nope, cold turkey. I think that is the only way for me. I used to think I could be a casual smoker, i.e. just in social situations, but that proved impossible. I cannot have any relationship with nicotine if I want to stay away from cigarettes. It's just too addictive.

Last Edited by Iconoclastics on 07/11/2013 12:53 PM

Just over 4 months free from nicotine for me after 38 years of slavery.

3 months for me since I quit.

Biggest part of smoking is getting out of the routine of it. Find an alternative when you crave and tough it out.

You will feel disgusted seeing people smoke in the future.

Good luck.

That's good advice. Also too....

If you live in a "Fire Safe Cigarette" state, the chemical they use to make them self-extinguish is carpet glue.

When I found that out I was through. No more real cigs for me. I use an electronic and a Nicotrol inhaler now. Gonna give them up too eventually, but for now they are working.

Going on a week, it helps a lot not being around other smokers, but my true motivation besides health is double premiums for Obama care.

Find another herbal smoke to wean you off of tobacco. Blue lotus, Damiana, Catnip, Wild dagga (there are others) all have there own mild psychoactive effect. It's relatively cheap to replace your tobacco habit. Just an idea.

You can just switch to American Spirits. 100% organic tobacco with NO additives, preservatives, etc. Just tobacco. Like the indians used to smoke. And tobacco's not bad for you. Cigarettes are only bad due to the 900+poisons they put in.

It's still bad for you, just nowhere near as bad as commercially sold cigarettes.

Fukushima has fucked us all, and we all are doomed to cancer anyway.

I quit a year ago now.I think my health went down hill for doing so. Something was good in the tobacco. It is said to raise DHEA. But now I'm off the inhalers I had to start after I quit smoking and we had a big fire for 2 months here. I just enjoy all the thrift store finds I decided I'd spend all that cig money to get the most bang out of it.We have great free bins here too but the cig money made the game. You'd be surprised st how much more money you have when you quit. I'm not even tempted sitting with smokers. I just think of the thrift store/yard sale addict I've become.

I'm not a hoarder yet but I guess I could have been said to be a nicotine fiend. I could wear a patch to quit and still be smoking a pack a day. Now all I have to think of is that $200 item practically new I bought for the price of a pack of cigs which are high here. I also had moved to an area that doubled the price of cigs on me a year ago. Like instead of $3.25 you went to $6.75 a pack. A real rip off price.

They have a larger amount of nicotine also, making them harder to kick.

Smoked for 10 years. Almost a pack a day. Quit February 21 2013 and haven't had one since. Not even a puff

Good for you!

The first 14 days are hard, just try to rest as much as you can and let it all drain out.

Don't shoot yourself in the foot. Find all the triggers and get rid of them. Smoke buddies, coffee, beer, talking on the phone, after dinner, after sex, etc. You have to avoid these for about 2 months or so. Take the ashtray out of your car and dishwash it. Take all your winter coats and jackets to the dry cleaners and have them cleaned. All ashtrays in the house into the trash. Never go into a 7-11 alone or any place you used to buy cigs. Whenever I wanted to smoke I would hyperventilate until the urge passed. Sunflower seeds help with the distraction. Soon you will smell things, taste things, walk up stairs, jog with a friend, ride a bike without any problems. No more hacking up your guts in the morning, constantly clearing your throat, feeling that stale ache deep in your lungs. Twin studies show smokers have a 30 point drop in their IQ's. 4/5ths of mankind will not hang around with you if you smoke, think of all the new friends. Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death and illness in America. Think of the money, I quit in 1979 when the price of a pack reached $1.25, I figured I had smoked enough back then to buy a Cadillac. Good luck and God bless.

2 Days as well here - longest I've gone in 11 years...

But like you - I've never felt so ready!

Peace and love!

you may FROM smoking, but you won't DIE SMOKING, like a fucking idiot.

never have another tobacco product and you've won.

I quit on september 25th 2011. Cold turkey, no e-cigs, no tapering, no gum. just will power and breath mints. it wasnt even a money thing although they are expensive and i resent the amount of tax that went to a gov I do not support. I couldnt breathe right in bed at night and coughed too much and the hit of nicotine was not worth the drama and pain.

I got really smashed at a fireworks party in november 2012 and smoked two of my old brand and thought my throat was bleeding liquid fire, totally disgusting. never smoked since. I bought a bike and can ride for hours on adventures where before I was a slob. I'm now in peak physical condition, have literally three times the energy that i used to, I sleep better, food and wine tastes better.

I think the trick is to grow up and accept that you are no longer that grungy teeneger. you are mortal, it is a waste of life and money. if you are cool you are cool without cigs. my sisters boyfriend of 5 years just cannot quit, he is drip feeding himself and wasting all the money on the patches and pills and all that. you have to want it, you have to use all your strength and not do it for show or to please others.

Smoking store bought smokes are very bad - 7000 chemicals on each and every cigarette.

I roll my own from organic tobacco and my doctor on my last check up could not detect I was smoking. He could not believe that I smoked - his quote "the test's are that of a non smoker". He re-done my test thinking that his nurse labeled the blood samples wrong - tests came back the exact same. Doctor said that he thought that the 7000 chemicals definitly without question causes alot more problems then the Tar and nicotine. He went on to explain that the filters used today keep most of the tar from the user so that the ORGANIC tobacco user will NOT see the same problems as the MASS PRODUCED GOV'T CONTROLLED CIGARETTE.

Good luck, the real fight happens from week 2 to the two year mark. If you feel like you're gonna fail buy some cheap electronic cigarettes. My mother stopped two years ago last month and she did the gum for 6 months then did the electric cigs for 1 year, then she did a combo of low nicotine electric cigs + water cigs to cut down.

As of today she is using nothing at all.

12 weeks and would never go back - even after 20 years of smoking.
I feel like a new man, as does my pocket.

The best advice is, they will never leave you alone but it gets easier, and it gets easier to be in control of 'them'.

A friend gave up recently and had one after three months, in his mind it would be the best smoke ever - instead it was rancid and totally regretted it.

He's still smoke free.

Good luck, it's easy if you want to do it.

I personally had enough of being a slave, ie, ooh the local shop/store is closing for the day and need to buy more...

My slavery is over and feel ashamed with myself for the years of abuse I've given my body.

If I have an urge I take a nico tablet and the craving goes away.

I'm not 100% there but can say I am cured!!!!

Good luck my brother/friend - I really mean that.

Regards,
Jon

Nothing I hate more then an ex smoker who preaches about how smoking is bad.

with that said I have been quit for 117 days. Nothing still compares to that first puff after lighting up. Yes I feel better, food taste better, running is easier but it still is fucking uphill struggle everyday.

why? that makes no sense unless you are resentful and shamed because you cant truly quit.

how about a devout christian non smoker who has never smoked or partied preaching about it? surely that is worse.

I recently took up smoking again, I love it!