cigarettes

how many of you fine addicts have tried to quit smoking cigarettes too? almost all the addicts i know smoke. this is so hard. talk about relapse! plus its' legal.

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11%

 (2) 

never was a smoker

64%

 (11) 

still smoking

17%

 (3) 

quit while using

5%

 (1) 

quit still using

17 Members voted

[j34]

I have been off smokes 70 days today. plus caffine for 3 months and am clean 10 months on wednesday. Feeling great even thought I have put on 10 pounds!!!!!!

[mtgoat911]

i quit aorund 2 yrs clean, it was really hard but worth it

[mojorisin64]

i smoke a lot......

[philster]

tried many times. finally found one of the nicotine gums that I liked and decided I would chew it as long as I had to but NO going back to smuts. After two to three years I was able to quit the gum and it is so good to be free of nicotine. i've quit a lot of things that I still miss once in a while but this is not one of them. Cig burns in car seats,etc., foul smell, ashes all over, kids bugging me, bronkitis, morning cough, nicotine stained fingers and lips and teeth, almost four dollars a pack, airplane flight without smoking, need I go on. I wish you  freedom from smuts

[day5]

Do you qualify?  I am smoking still, WAY less than before, they make me tired.  I smoke a pack of Newports a day but only smoked 3 in the past 2 days.

[gizzy32]

I want to quit smoking, but i have never put a real effort into it, kinda like my drug use for awhile, lol. I am not gonna wear a patch and I am not gonna chew gum, I will just be a miserable **** for a week and not pleasant to be around, ok that is not possible, haha. I WILL QUIT SMOKING SOON.

[minim]

one thing at a time....

[avisg]

quit 2 1/2 years ago

[Ella789]

I wish everyone who quit would say how they did it, pleaseeeeeeee?  My husband and I have  smoked ever sinse we married, and before.  That's a long long long long
time. lol  Now that they cost enough to make a car payment a month we have been talking about biteing the bullet and quit.  I can quit lortabs, can I quit my best friend who is murdering me slowly and quietly?  I don't know, I hope so.  So, like everything else, I will let my husband decide so we can bit&$ each other to death and get this done.  I don't like being nasty like that, I'm a bit passive and want to get along with everyone, except my former friend,,,,,,,, Lora.

Ella

[lboogie7729]

I quit drinking, smoking pot and smoking cigarettes all at the same time, cold turkey. I did the patch for the first week or so and then whenever I felt like I needed one for about a month after that. I OD'ed (combination of pills) and ended up in a hospital for 5 days so I figured once I came home I was better off just continuing on with the momentum I had going. It was more of a psychological thing for me. Just visualizing smoke filling my lungs, thinking about death from smoking related illnesses, smelling that disgusting smell after being away from it and knowing I didn't want my vehicle, my hair, skin and breath to keep smelling like an ashtray, the thought of how much money I was saving by quitting everything, the fact that an AA advocate/drug alcohol counselor told me I was setting myself up for failure by trying to quit everything at once ( I LOVE proving people wrong on stuff like that) the fact that I promised my grandma over 9 years ago when she was laying on a hospital bed after open heart that I would quit someday, all of these thought kept me from buying another pack or bumming one off of someone and I am coming up on 6 months. When you start to look at it from a health and financial point of view it becomes so much less appealing, at least that was the case for me. I smoked on and off for about 19 years, now I am hoping to get my mom and dad to quit as soon as they possibly can!

[cattalina]

I quit smoking last week then went on a 13 hour road trip this past weekend and smoked. :(  Only cuz I really had no idea what else to do while driving that long! I was used to puffin tough and broke into pressure from the HABIT not the need or want. Lboogie is so right - it's totally psychological for me too. When you really break it down and think about what you're doing, how much money you're spending, the fact that you can no longer breathe while walking.... lol  I read a book about quitting smoking last summer and it made me more aware of actually smoking. I think that's what really planted the seed in my brain to quit - looking at the whole deal from a different perspective... like why am I paying all this money to choke myself? lol Even tho I relapsed over the weekend, I'm back on the non-smoking wagon today... I don't plan on another road trip anytime soon! haha

[worried878]

I do not smoke but still do nicotine lozenges...tough to give up, nicotine is...expensive but since it doesnt bother anyone nor make me smell like an ashtray, it is hard to find the initiative to quit/other than the expense...and i quit smokin 9 yrs ago!  now that is pure dumb to turn around and get hooked on mints.first it was the gum but i am a loud smacker when i chew gum so found the lozenges...i am gonna do this tho..i am!

[enough170]

still smoking but my doc is going to give me a tablet called champix to help me quit, it has a 97% success rate or so i am told anyway, i am a bit sceptical about it, but hey i am willing to give anything a try!!!

[ProdigalGirl]

They say that quitting cigarettes is harder than quiting dope. Not sure about that one. I started smoking again late  in 2/09 after quitting in 8/08.Smoked for 24 yrs.  Stress. triggers etc lead me back to smoking. Sometimes, I could take or leave them. Depends on what is going on. Tried everything out there 2 quit...just have 2 b ready and want it. My motto... one addiction @ a time. Never let outside triggers give u an excuse to start to light up again. It is a nasty habit.....smells bad and reaks terrible consequences on the body. For me.... I do not want my lungs or looks to appear as if I was 65 when I am at my young age of  what I am. I enjoy to reap the benfeits of not appearing like an old bag at my age. This will change soon if I don't stop though and look old and wrinkled before my time. You have given me incentive. I am gonna cut back and stop. Gonna get rid of all bad addictions. 2 weeks and counting! :)


ProdigalGirl

[dominosarah]

still smoking.......still like it.

[newchapter]

It will be 2 years June 4th since I quit. I used the nicotine inhaler. You put a little cartridge in a holder that you actually puff on to get the nicotine, so it helped both the physical and the mental addiction. In certain situations I still want a cigarette, but that is usually when I've had a drink. I am 10 days oxycodone clean, and today is day 1 of no alcohol. I don't think that I have a problem with it, but I just know it's not good for me, or my liver, (who know what damage I've done to that with the pills), so I'm quitting that too!
I already feel much better although still somewhat tired, and not sleeping all that well. I'm sure that  will get better in time. For me, dealing with one addiction at a time was best, but certainly to each his own.

[Tired58]

Trying to kick vicodin now and it is so much harder than smoking.  Actually, with smoking I felt awful the first day, but by day 2 just had cravings. At least for me, quitting  smoking was not that hard at all. By the end of a week, my brain said ok, by two weeks I could breathe and by then, you will NEVER go back. That's not to say that in certain social situations I still once in a while want a smoke, and I quit 18 years ago.  My suggestion would be to cut back as much as you can, pick a quit date, then stick to it.
If you tend to gain a few pounds, add in a little jogging or running to your routine.  Heck, with the money you are saving, you can buy a treadmill or bike!  Good luck

[sway1]

when i read about how hard the body works to constantly repair the damage smoking causes, taxing it terribly, it really gave me pause. my husband has a rough job and gets cut and dinged alot. he has about 5 weeks clean from smoking and his healing time has increased so much. i am back to the beginning and i really want success.thank you all for your responses.  i want to but a shiatsu massage gadget that i tried out the other day. i decided that will be my reward to myself. that thing was awesome! peace.   sway

[guv338]

I am refusing to give up my last vice.  Even though I did go about 10 days without and
have cut down to about 4-6/day.  Baby Steps.