Hi, I quit just over 15 months ago. I really don't know why I quit but I just did. I had been thinking about it for a while and I got sick and couldn't smoke for a couple of days so i just kept trying to make it one more day. I didn't get rid of my cigs, I just kept saying to myself that I could smoke anytime I wanted to and that I was choosing not to for that day. It is still hard some days but I know I am better off not doing it. Best of luck. I also didn't tell anyone until I had quit for a few weeks.
I quit 5 years ago. I said I did not want to be a smoker for longer than I was a non smoker (I started at 15) so when I turned 29 I started to quit....and start up again....and quit. It took me 3 tries but I finally quit for good before I turned 30.
I used the patch. It says it may cause weird dreams. I LOVED those dreams (I don't normally remember my dreams but I remembered those). I would put a patch on before I went to bed and dream away. I was a bachelor at the time so I would come home from work and just lay on the couch watching bad TV and not eating until like 9, eat and go to bed. I did the space out thing after work for about 2-3 weeks and then I started doing other stuff and being more normal.
I will say I had to learn how to BBQ again. I would put some burgers on, smoke a cig until it was done and it was a perfect time to flip them. Now I had no idea when to flip my burgers :chef:
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
I tried many times with no luck. Finally did quit for 9 months after using chantex. Problem being with a 18 year old stepson with many problems that turn into mine and my wife still smoking, I went back. When things around the homefront settle down again I am going back on it, it was the only way I was ever successful for more then a couple weeks.
After 43 years, at the age of 55. I had tried cold turkey, hypnosis (3 times), wellbutrin, and finally chantix. It's been 3+ years since I quit. (and 30+ pounds) Chantix works! BUT, so do some of the other methods I tried. It all boils down to , you have to want to quit. I mean really WANT TO. Otherwise, you'll be right back where you left off.
I quit smoking February 1st, 1984 (how come I remember that date so easy?)
Anyone can quit smoking ... it's just that no one can quit bragging about it!
But consider this (and I hate to kinda give away my age), everyone of my friends who were about my age at the time and continued to smoke, I have now help bury from either lung cancer or emphysema.
7-1-11 is hopefully my date final time trying to quit. I have always failed in the past because after a few months I would say I can have just one. Well, one turned into 2 and 2 into 3 etc.
After some recent smoking related deaths and illness's in the family, I have decided to try again. I really want to quit, I am now scared of the health issues and at 41 I hope to avoid them.
Good luck to everyone trying and congrats to those that have succeeded.
Ty
I smoked for many years. I had quit several times. Once, when I was in the Navy, I started back up while we were spinning donuts in the Red Sea before the start of the Kuwait War - boredom was my enemy. Fast forward 10 years later I was still smoking. I decided I'd quit.
Circumstances helped me a lot. We were having a going away party for friends at CFB Trenton (Ontario). We partied all night long - and smoked all night long. The next morning I couldn't look at a cigarette. The following day I said to myself, "I made it through yesterday, I can make it through today." It went like that for a long time. When I was out drinking, I chewed bar straws. If I was out with other smokers, I'd chew bar straws. Eventually even they got to be a pain in the ass. I quit them. That's been close to 10 yrs ago now. Yes, there are times I still want one but it's never been so much that I actually had one.
Good luck to you. It is about will power beating the addiction.
It's been 5 years since I quit. I made 4 or 5 attempts before the last one stuck. I built a new home and didn't want to smoke in it, and to help with that I used Nicotrol inhalors. I wouldn't even smoke in the driveway, I would walk out to the street. I guess you just have to set your mind to it, be determined to succeed, and use nicotine replacement to aid you. Best of luck 🙂
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