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Almost a year off the smokes

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October 23, 2019, 06:42 AM
Modern Day Savage
Almost a year off the smokes
Way to go! what approach did you take to quitting?
October 23, 2019, 07:11 AM
V-Tail
Good show!

I quit, cold turkey, November 1984. I missed it at first, but now I find tobacco, especially in cigarette or chewing form, repulsive.

I do not object to the smell of a good cigar or pipe tobacco as much, but I will not do either of those myself, I just do not want to risk getting into the habit again.



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October 23, 2019, 07:26 AM
Bytes
Nice work. I was at a convenience store the other day when the person in front of my bought a pack of smokes. $7.60. I'll bet your bank account does look much better.
October 23, 2019, 08:28 AM
joatmonv
Good job.
I need to do this also. Tried many times and failed on every attempt.
Keep it up.


I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
October 23, 2019, 08:39 AM
molachi
Congratulations and keep up the good work. This past Aug. was 30 yrs for me.
October 23, 2019, 08:52 AM
610
Congrats and keep up the good work. I know it's hard (this Christmas eve will be 21 years for me) but well worth it. Just think of all "Things" your wife can buy with $$$ you save..... Big Grin


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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford
October 23, 2019, 09:21 AM
1967Goat
Great Job! May 7, 2007 for me...after smoking for about 19 years (dumb, dumb, dumb).

A decision you'll never regret.
October 23, 2019, 11:43 AM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Bytes:

Nice work. I was at a convenience store the other day when the person in front of my bought a pack of smokes. $7.60.
WOW! I had several reasons for quitting, one of them was that I was pissed when the price went up to $1.75 / pack. That was 1984.



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October 23, 2019, 11:49 AM
jhe888
Good work.

I quit a long time ago, after smoking for about ten years.




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October 23, 2019, 01:03 PM
Texas Bob C.
Good job, you don't need it! Six years and four months today for me.
October 23, 2019, 01:07 PM
P-220
Congratulations, keep it up.


Niech Zyje P-220

Steve
October 23, 2019, 01:09 PM
egregore
quote:
My Dr. told me to give it a year then go treat myself with the savings.
That has got to be a fair amount of money. Just one pack a day of the cheapest smokes for a year is over $2000.
October 23, 2019, 01:20 PM
400m
Modern day Savage, I took Chantix. I tried the patch before that. It may have worked, I think I just wasn’t ready to commit.
October 23, 2019, 01:41 PM
SPWAMike0317
Congrats, I know it isn't easy. Smoke free 19 years.



Let me help you out. Which way did you come in?
October 23, 2019, 06:03 PM
NavyGuy
Congrats. That is no small feat. I smoked for near 30 years, usually of a pack a day. I did the cold turkey deal and man did I suffer for months.

After about 10 years, your lungs should be back to lovely pink instead of chimney black. Yeah it takes awhile although you really can't feel it.



Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

-D.H. Lawrence
October 23, 2019, 06:08 PM
RHINOWSO
Congrats!

I had urges occasionally through year 2, usually when the weather was cold or some other event where I would particularly 'enjoy' to light up.

But I haven't had that in 3+ years (going on 5+ since my last).
October 23, 2019, 06:10 PM
Redhookbklyn
Congratulations and keep up the good work!



“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape."
—Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

October 23, 2019, 07:35 PM
Sunset_Va
That it helps your body to quit is the best reason to quit.

Another good reason is getting rid of the anxiety and frantic fear of running out of tobacco, and constant thinking of getting more smokes.

I look back now at how addictive smoking was.


美しい犬
October 24, 2019, 09:04 AM
P220 Smudge
Congrats, OP! Quitting is easy, staying quit is hard.

quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
quote:
Originally posted by Bytes:

Nice work. I was at a convenience store the other day when the person in front of my bought a pack of smokes. $7.60.
WOW! I had several reasons for quitting, one of them was that I was pissed when the price went up to $1.75 / pack. That was 1984.


A major price hike was also the final straw for me, and I quit cold turkey on Thanksgiving Day, 2010.


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October 24, 2019, 09:11 AM
pbslinger
quote:
Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
That it helps your body to quit is the best reason to quit.

Another good reason is getting rid of the anxiety and frantic fear of running out of tobacco, and constant thinking of getting more smokes.

I look back now at how addictive smoking was.


One of my best friends who has now quit and hates tobacco, showed me the power of nicotine addiction. We were out on the lake enjoying a lovely summer weekend day, when he starts talking about going and buying a candy bar or something. I was having a good time and didn't want to go anywhere, so I blew off the idea. I watched him go through several levels of getting more and more serious about going to the store when I figured out it was cigarettes he wanted.
That was a quick lesson on the power of nicotine addiction.