Update Page 5! anybody else smoke or have quit smoking?

[sonew123]

im on day 13 no smoking--its real this time for good! I use chantix but...Its makes me very sick so I only take 1/2 the dose and its just enough to make it taste like crap when I smoked-If after 25 years I can quit so can you! LOL..

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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you started smoking in Kindergarten?!?!?!

I thought you were about my age!!!!!!!!

 

[Melissakins]

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Worked for my husband too - when it got to taking a couple of the chantix pills a day is when he quit both the chantix and the smoking cold turkey. He said the pills were making him WAY drowsy. A lady I work with smoked for at least 40 years and took Chantix along with her sister who's older than her and smoked for as long and neither of them have smoked since taking the Chantix - at least two years now.

He's not smoked in over a year now!!!

 

[Dar]

I quit a year ago..
I was dusting the coop with dri-kill not wearing a mask (not smart) wound up getting pneumonia and because I am me

refused to go to the doc for a cough until DH dragged me when my lips and nails were blue, wound up being admitted into the hospital for 3 days, 3 more days on total bed rest.. so that was 6 days with out a smoke I figured the hard part was done.

BUT I highly DO NOT recommend my method

 

[jerseygirl1]

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I've heard a lot of reasons to quit smoking, but being embarassed by it is a new one. Why are you embarassed by it? Millions of Americans smoke. If you want to quit because of your health, then good luck and wish you the best, but if you're just quitting because society has made you feel ashamed to smoke, I doubt you'll be able to....

I've smoked since I was 13. In my teen years and early 20s I did quite a bit of other bad things which I've since given all of those up. But I've never tried to quit smoking, and at this point, have no desire to.

I understand- I was quite embarssed about it - I hated being able to smell smoke on myself, it was highly embarassing.

 

[Melissakins]

Congratulations to all who have made the decision to do it and big kudos to those that did do it and haven't had a smoke since then.


My hat's off to you. I lost my FIL to lung cancer - course he smoked 3+ packs a DAY for YEARS and drank like a fish.

 

[ranchhand]

LOL Dar, always the hard way. Mine started when DH was in the hospital for 5 days after being too sick to smoke for 3-4 days before that. I said that's it, time for us both and he agreed. So we are really making an effort to gradually taper to zero.

I find that my mouth does want something to do, and so do my hands. I suck on a lot of sugar-free hard candies and carry a pencil a lot.

 

[jerseygirl1]

Maybe this will help

I am 47years old - four years ago, my mom, who was 77 at the time, was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer - she died with us at her side within seven months of the diagnosis

I don't know anyone who would want to die like that. I still continued to smoke until two years ago, when I started taking Chantix

I quit because I didn't want to die young. Can you imagine how old my mom would be alive til if she DIDN'T smoke? Longevity for women runs in our family.

Don't quit because you want to do it for you - quit because you don't want your children to watch you suffer like my mom did. It was a horrible, slow painful death.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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When my sister was pregnant and Doctor told her to quit one tip was to put a half inch ater in a jar with a lid on it and put all your cigarettes out in it and screw the lid back on. Next time you want one...smell the butts in the jar and if ya still want one go ahead, but that smell is supposedly a deterrent for your craving one. She did quit for the length of the pregnancy at least. Started back at 3 am about the first week...ya know since she was up anyway

 

[Penturner]

If you want to quit I wish you well. I won't try and make that choice for you either way. I started smoking when I was young. I think about 12 years old and was hounded about how it woudl stunt my growth. Thank God I am 6'2" as it is. I was told it woudl ruin my health. Nope never need a doctor. I was told it woudl kill me young. to late for that one also. seems cigarettes can't anything right lol. Anyway i have also quit before. for several years at a time even. I like smoking. That is me. I know for me it is a frame of mind that allows me to quit.
The addiction is broken in three days. The Habit or craving they say takes 21 days to break. anything beyond that is just missing it. Knowing that and more importantly believing that is very helpful. It helps me to know when it is just my mind and not the addiction. My mind says all sorts of weird stuff that I have to ignore anyway. ignoring the thought of smoking is treated the same way. So for me quitting is nothing but a long weekend away from access and it is a done deal. After that it is the same thing as telling myself I can't spend money when I don't have it to spend or stay home from work when I don't really feel like going and all that. discipline is what I think they used to call that. See there now I dated myself.
Best of luck
Oh yeah I heard wrapping a rubber band around your wrist and snapping it hard every time you take a drag off a cigarette really helps turn your mind off the idea so that when you get past that first three days your mind does not tend to remind you quite so much. I never tried that one but my wife did and says it did work. but you have to make the snap hurt.