Has Anyone Here Quit Smoking?

I quit a few years ago. Honestly for me I just got sick of how this nasty, stinky habit was controlling me rather than me having control of myself. I don't let people control me the way I seemed to be controlled by the cig. So, I personally decided that I wasn't going to have some little pencil thin, harmful thing get the best of me anymore. I put myself in control and then I quit. But also to be perfectly honest, even though it has been 7 years I still find momemts when I think "a smoke sure would be good right now" - then I go jog!

hello there; i was a 3 pack a day smoker for 21 years. i quit 10 years ago on 6-26-1997. i used the nicoderm patches. we had just lost a family friend to cancer in 1986. i was constantly in the hospital e.r room with pnemonia. the last trip they told me if i wanted to see my kids grow up i needed to quit now! they said i was getting emphsemia. at the same time my son was studding lung cancer in school and i had a hard time getting him to go to school as he was afraid i would die of lung cancer.i never smoked in my house or car. so, for my kids and husband i quit. i can remember sitting there listening to the training tape that comes with the patches laughing as i was smoking. it wasnt so funny the next day when the patch was on my back and i no longer had my ciggaretts.it was hard as i quit for my family , but still wanted them! i will be honest the third week was the worst! to this day ciggarett smoke still smells good to me but there is no way i would ever smoke again! i gained 100lbs after i quit and keep telling my doctor i would be skinny if i was still a smoker. he says, no- you would be dead! and i'm only 47 years old! in 2002 i got pnemonia from one of my day care kids and lost 35% of my lungs. i have asthma and copd now. i wish i had listened to the docs warnings sooner. now i'm working on my weight. find something to do and stay away from places and things that you used to smoke.we smoke by habbit and association so remove yourself from things that remind you of them.hang in there as you can do it! angelicangels

I smoked for 15 years and I tried several times to quit but never could win that battle, while I was pregnant I cut down to around ½ a pack a day. But soon after birth I was back up to 2 packs a day even though I tried to not do it in close proximity to the kids. In February 2005 my pastor and close friend came to the house and talk to my husband and myself about it and we prayed and ask our church family to pray for us, my husband quite in march 2005 but I was more stubborn than that. BUT I made rules for myself that made it very hard to actually smoke and I stuck to them. Such as do not smoke around the kids or my husband so I got down to maybe 5 or 6 a day. Then started asking my husband each night to pray with me. And in July of 2005 I came to a time were if I followed all my rules I was to busy to smoke I would only be able to have on in the morning, one after work and one before bed, for a week because we were holding Vacation Bible School and I was working in it. and the following week I would be going to my moms and she doesn’t let us smoke in her house. So that was when I said “that’s it” , I told everyone to pray extra for me and I made it and it has been 2 years and 4 months. Yea ME!!! But the biggest Yea is “YEA GOD”