I quit smoking!!!

Good for you, bro. Quitting is probably the single best thing you can do for your health. Hang tough - it gets easier as time passes.
 
Congrats! My mother quit when she was in her 40s after smoking since her teens. Within a decade, her lung X-rays were normal. She lived to be 83 (probably would have made it longer had she remained active).

My cousin smoked from age 14 until about a year ago. She died of lung cancer a few months ago at 55.

You made the right choice. Now if you could only transmit some of that terrific willpower and get me to lose my extra weight!

Best of success,

DancesWithKnives
 
6 years for me now. Eventually you don't much miss it anymore. Be careful though, you're not really out of the woods until you can deal with stress and social situations without smoking. Those were the two big ones for me.

Good luck to you,

-Sean
 
SeanC said:
you're not really out of the woods until you can deal with stress and social situations without smoking.
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+1

Especially drinking without smoking.
 
Put the money you no longer spend on cigarettes in a jar. Then when you have enough saved up, go and get your self a really nice EDC. If you start smoking again, you have to give up the knife and send it to me:p.

Congratulations! That's great that you quit. Stay clean.

Ric
 
That is awesome dude! Stay away from the smokeless tobacco. It is even more addictive.
 
Keep it up. Take it one day at a time and live by one simple rule...Never Take Another Puff. Simple but effective. It's worked for me after using for 26 years...been off 'em for 7 months now.
 
I smoked 2 packs a day for 50 years and quit 2-1/2 years ago. To this day I still have dreams that I still smoke and know I can't even take a puff or I'd probably start up again. Kind of like AA.
 
19 years here after smoking red Marlboros for 23..Good luck!You'll feel better daily after the first 2-3 weeks. Treat yourself to a nice long walk and see how much easier it is.--KV
 
softrockrenegade said:
Been a week and a day cigarette free!! I think the worst is over :)
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Good for you! I quit in 1982 because I thought 1.35 a pack was too high. I've since graduated to Cuban cigars at 20.00 or more dollars apiece. Talk about confused eh. Hang in there - it took me nearly a full year to get over the addiction, and all that goes with it.

Jim
 
I smpked for 19 years and finally quit in 1983 after several years of failed attempts.

Never reward yourself by having "just one smoke" for being good-thats a loser. I still have conflicted dreams about smoking, although after 27 years there is no danger that I would ever start again.

Whenever the thought starts to come up, just think about something else.
 
watch put for the "oh I'm clear now I can have just one socially" gremlin that pops up after a couple months smoke-free, he's gotten me back into smoking twice.
 
fishface5 said:
watch put for the "oh I'm clear now I can have just one socially" gremlin that pops up after a couple months smoke-free, he's gotten me back into smoking twice.
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+1

That one got me before. Another time I spent a week in jail for a DUI and I thought I could kick. Wrong again... another guy getting out handed us all cigarettes. Couldn't resist it.
 
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