Quit Smoking

David Stifle

David Stifle

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I smoked a pipe for over forty years and really enjoyed it. But lately, it's become hard to find good pipe tobacco, and when I could, it was anywhere from $30 to $50.00 a pound. It was also affecting my dental health, so I quit. It's been 23 days now, and surprisingly, stopping was quite easy. I can smell better now, taste better, and my breathing is smoother.
Decided to start excercising too, haha. Maybe I've gone bonkers:)

Dave
 
Thanks Jerry,

I still have a faint urge to smoke, but it's not bad. As I said, it's been much easier than I thought it would be.

Dave
 
Don't worry, it will get worse. I mean better hehe. I quit 7 years ago but then I only smoked for 20 years. That urge will stay with you for a long time, don't try to ignore it, that just makes it worse. Realize it's there and then go do something else. Whatever you do, don't stop drinking right away though hehe. Congrats and good luck.
 
I am doing the same. I had quit for 10 years then fell on my ass when everything was going wrong last year. I have made it a week again. Don't fool yourself into thinking it wasn't that bad and you can handle a little bit. A little quickly becomes a lot again. Jim
 
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
Smoking a pipe is one thing I never did do! However I did smoke cigarettes, from about 16yrs old to about 41yrs old, and during the quitting periods I tried smoking cigars, chewing tobacco, but always went back to cigarettes.
I had tried to quit many times over the years and the longest I ever made is was about 9 months.
Well to make a long story short. Three heart attacks and two stint operations later I was laying in a hospital bed on Christmas Eve about 12 years ago and facing a second surgery. I went against everything I had ever been taught about making deals with the Lord and told the good Lord if he would let me live I was done smoking.
Well he let me live obviously and I quit. When I came out of the hospital I was on a patch and felt I was doing well for a man that was smoking 3 1/2 packs of Marlboro reds a day.

We went to a New Years Party at my wife's niece and she was ragging me about the patch and said I would never stay quit using a patch. On the way home I made the wife stop at a convenience store and I bought a pack of cigarettes. She asked me if I was crazy but I put that pack of cigarettes in the door of my truck and said. “if I want one, now I know where to go to get it”.
One year later I burnt the pack of cigarettes. Quitting smoking was one of the hardest things I ever did. I would dream of smoking and I would wake up smelling and tasting the cigarette. I have even got up in the middle of the night and went to my truck to check to see if I had actually caved in and smoked a cigarette.
Once again congratulations on quitting it really makes you realize all the things you missed, smell, taste, not smelling like smoke and oh yes, breathing!!!!!
 
I smoked Camel Lights for about 12 years.
One day I woke up to how bad I smelled. haven't had a cigarette since, and that's been 7 years ago.

I still smoke my pipe occasionally in the wintertime when I'm in the shop, but I don't touch it when it's warm out... some weird thing i guess.

I smoke cigars exactly twice a year, at Blade with my buddies and at Christmas with my Dad and brothers.

best luck to you man, you can beat it if you really want to
 
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