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buckaroo

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Okay, now that majestyx has quit and Paul is trying, how many of you are ex smokers and how long? I quit about one week before Challenger blew up and stayed that way til mid '95 when I picked it back up. Then quit again in November of that year when I moved down here to NC. Both times, I quit cold turkey. While the smell of stale cigarette smoke is something I dislike very much, a very freshly lit cigarette doesn't bother me at all. I still would love to smoke again, but because of many reasons, I choose not to do so. So for me, it's been sixteen years with about a four month break in the middle.
 
same here mustang and nascarwoman.........never have and never will........
 
Quit December 13th 1999 when I discovered I was going to be a father. Actually the doctor said now that your going to be a father shouldn't ya quit? I needed the patch. But I haven't had one since. Its now been 3 years and 3 days :)

BTW, I know I'm young, but I did smoke for 7+ years and was smoking about 2 packs a day. So it can be done.
 
Finally someone besides me is an ex smoker. I smoked for over 23 years before I first quit and at that time, I was at 3 packs a day and when I took it up again, I got back to that same 3 packs a day before I quit again. Also, seems that when I did smoke, I was around people that smoked, but now that I don't, I'm not around very many. I do realize that more people my age have quit, so that could be one reason I'm not around smokers much any more. Although, there is one person in this household that smokes. The daughter! Man, when she was a little girl, she wanted everyone to quit smoking, and now that everyone in her family has, she's taken it up. She's about your age gopherguy...27. Will she ever learn?
 
I don't smoke, but I have many friends that do. I just ask them not to smoke around me, and usually they are pretty respectful.

I've seen what second hand smoke can do because that is what my grandmother died of. She had the blackest lungs the hospital had ever seen, and she had never smoked a day in her life. Her husband and father both were heavy smokers, but ended up dying of other things. She was the one to pay the price.
 
3 packs? WOW!!! I could barebly find time to smoke 2 a day. Of course if I was real stressed out, I'd smoke 2 at a time.

After I quit all my friends still smoked. But it was a good test sitting in the smoking parts of resturants ect. i figured if I didn't smoke one then, I'd be fine. Slowly over the last 3 years most of my friends have quit. Only have 2 left who smoke and one is attempting to quit as I speak. Guess now that we're in our late 20's (yeah wet behind the ears still!) we don't feel like being the badseeds anymore :)
 
besides have you seen the price of cigerettes? it is crazy...........I would not waste my money on something like that...I remember when cigerettes were 35 cents a pack too.....now they are up to almost 5 dollars a pack........what a waste.......look at all that money your saving not smoking......you can put aside all that money and go on a nice vacation at the end of the year.......:)
but just my opinion............:) guess I shouldn't talk since I have never smoked and don't know what it is like to have an urge like that...or rather an addiction.............:(
 
Smoking 3 packs a day is not a nice thing! My appartment seemed like a steam house, only it wasn't steam. When I moved down here, we had to have everything fumigated! :) When I took my computer apart, it reeked of smoke and crude inside. All my clothes reeked. When you smoke, you don't notice these things, but those who don't smoke notice for sure. The first time I quit, the price of a pack of fags was a buck fifty. The second time I quit, the price was two fifty. Now think of my savings! :D
 
When I quit in 99 it was about 2.25 here. Now they are pushing 4 to 4.50.

Supposedly next to herion, smoking is the hardest addiction. I don't know if its true or not, but it is hard, I remember planning my day around smoking. If I get to work a few minutes earlier, I can sneak a extra smoke in. 2 smokes on every 15minute break. You could set your watch by it.
 
I've got a little brother who, while in the Army, got hooked on heroin. Once he got out of the service, he kicked that habit easily. He's said that quiting smoking was much harder for him. Now I can't say what it's like to kick heroin, but I've heard that cigarettes are harder to kick. I didn't have any trouble once I made up my mind.
 
I smoked for six years, but have been smoke free for 14 years now. It wasn't real easy, but it definitely was worth it. I more or less just decided I wanted to quit, so I did. I went from 1+ packs a day to 5 one day, 3 the next, 1 the next and no more ever.
 
I don't know how you could quit cold turkey from 3 packs. If my patch fell off when I was quiting I would go crazy. Thankfully I always had an extra one or two with me.

I have no idea about herion either. Just glad he quit :)
 
When I quit, I had only taken on smoke out of the pack. I put the rest of the pack along with the lighter, on top of the fridge and said that if I'm smoke free for a year, I'll throw them away. I didn't want to spring for a new pack if I decided to take it up again. After the year had gone, I threw that pack and lighter away. And now you know the rest of the story.
 
Quit smoking back in 1980. Smoked 2 packs a day. I could not afford to smoke today.
 
Never have and never will!!

I am trying to get my mom to stop smoking, she has been smoking for more than 20 years,. She has cut back some since we moved in our new house(she only smokes in the garage) but I think even if she stoped now it will still exstend her life some. I just want her to be around when my kids graduate and thats not even insight of having kids yet.
 
I smoked for 16 yrs. I was around it all my life, seemed like everyone in my family smoked. I quit with help from the patch. I didn't smoke for almost a yr and then I had a run of bad luck for 3 weeks in a row and the last thing that happend was the last straw. I started back for almost 2 yrs and I just quit a month ago. I've had 3 the last month and they were all when I was drinking. I couldn't even smoke the whole things becaue they tasted and smelled so bad. This time I used wellbutrin instead of the patch. I had tried the patch all summer long but it just didn't work this time, so I got the prescription. I'm VERY happy to be smoke free again!!

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never have smoked never will, but I delt with alot of second hand smoke my mom was a smoker and her dad (my grandfather) smoked cigars alot. My grandfathers smokes pipes now and very very seldomly and my mom has quit for 3 years.
 
I quit smoking because I wanted to, not because someone else wanted me to. I was smoking 1+ packs per day when I quit. I still have the last pack of cigarettes that I had purchased in my car as a reminder (kinda like you buckaroo). I started smoking when I was a teenager and quit once when I was pregnant with my son. That lasted for 13 months, and I started back smoking when he was 3 mos. old. I had tried to quit twice before, once about 9 years ago, using the patch, and the last time about 7 years ago with the Rx Wellbutrin. Neither worked for me, simply because I wasn't ready and committed to quitting. I simply made up my mind this time that it was just getting too expensive to continue smoking. It doesn't bother me that other people smoke around me, as I have three other people in my office building that smoke (rather heavily). I still sit in the smoking sections, or bar areas of restaurants where the smokers sit.

My wish for you Paul is this - Do it on your own time, and take pride in what YOU decide to do for yourself. Don't let other people pressure you into quitting smoking. Unless YOU have made up your mind to quit, then the effort will be futile.

***off soapbox now***

:)
 
Back in the mid 80's I stopped smoking because I caught myself lighting up one while I had one in my other hand. When I went to put it out I found I had one still burning in the ash tray. Threw them out the window, wasn't going to let anything control my life like that. Then after about 4 years I started chewing on cigars while I was working on the Hot Rod. That lasted about six months before I started lighting the up. Have tried to stop several times since, but haven't been able too. Got to go for a Heart Cath tomorrow and the Doc say's as soon as we get this over with he'll help me quit for good. Hope so. As much as I would like, I just don't seem to be able to do it on my own.
 
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