Do you still smoke?

karmahunger
karmahunger Posts: 373 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have been eating (most days) healthy, but I still smoke. Does anyone else do this? How did you quit?
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  • kaned_ferret
    kaned_ferret Posts: 618 Member
    I just stopped and took up vaping instead (never had a problem with nicotine addiction but enjoy the physical act of smoking so this enables me to stop smoking and enjoy the health benefits, but continues to let me fulfil my behavioural desire - plus there's all sorts of groovy flavours!)
  • JaxDemon
    JaxDemon Posts: 403 Member
    My partner read this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718194551

    And she quit smoking around half way through it. Just stopped and not smoked in like 4 months now. Very proud of her. Hope you kick the nasty habit.
  • Sandytoes71
    Sandytoes71 Posts: 463 Member
    Nope! :)))) Quit cold turkey a few months ago :) Watched youtube documentaries on the evils of cigs. Helped alot.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    Yes, smoker checking in here :embarassed:

    I have been known to go for a run & have a ciggie on the way back. It's not big, pretty, nor clever, but I really enjoy it. I know the stats & that its seriously detrimental to my health & goals... but.. well.. :smokin: ,
  • marciebrian
    marciebrian Posts: 853 Member
    Quit 5 years ago. For whatever reason, it was easy for me this time and I never picked up or even thought of having a cigarette again. I was taking my teammates out for a holiday lunch and they were in the car behind me. All I could see was smoke and puffing through the rear window and it grossed me out and that was that.
  • oiseau17
    oiseau17 Posts: 142 Member
    I loved to smoke but switched to vaping in Aug 2012 and never looked back. Best decision I ever made.
  • ktstacy
    ktstacy Posts: 14 Member
    I quit cold-turkey for my husband, because I felt bad subjecting him to being around all the smoke. I couldn't even think of going back to smoking.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Quit two years ago the moment the second line appeared on the pregnancy test. I don't recommend this as a quitting strategy. :tongue: I will say that there are still times when I really want to smoke, and it sneaks up on me randomly. Today I had a moment when I was in the car (sans kids for once). Just driving down the road listening to a song, and the urge hit me. I'm not sure that will ever go away.
  • mortyfit
    mortyfit Posts: 354 Member
    Unfortunately, yes, I do.

    I know all the reasons not to backward and forward. Doesn't seem to make a difference though.

    I am down to a pack a week, so at least I've made some progress.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    Unfortunately, yes, I do.

    I know all the reasons not to backward and forward. Doesn't seem to make a difference though.

    I am down to a pack a week, so at least I've made some progress.

    If you don't mind me querying.. How much were you originally smoking to cut down to that? I'm on average 15-20 per day. I'm actually not too bad if I can distract myself around "trigger" times (my dog gets dragged around the block a lot when I do try to cut back). Have you used any substitutions instead? I'm the same common sense fails me. I just enjoy it far too damn much to quit full time.
  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    This coming Tuesday is my two year quit date. I quit by taking Chantix. I probably would not recommend it, though it made quitting very easy.
    The side effects were hell, but I quit.
  • mortyfit
    mortyfit Posts: 354 Member
    Unfortunately, yes, I do.

    I know all the reasons not to backward and forward. Doesn't seem to make a difference though.

    I am down to a pack a week, so at least I've made some progress.

    If you don't mind me querying.. How much were you originally smoking to cut down to that? I'm on average 15-20 per day. I'm actually not too bad if I can distract myself around "trigger" times (my dog gets dragged around the block a lot when I do try to cut back). Have you used any substitutions instead? I'm the same common sense fails me. I just enjoy it far too damn much to quit full time.
    I was at a pack a day for a long time before I started running a few years ago.
    I did the Chantix thing--did NOT work for me because although it decreased the urges and cravings, it also gave me pretty nasty dreams, when I could sleep at all.

    My only motivation to continue cutting back (and finally quitting soon, I hope) is that every time I decreased my smoking, I was faster and more comfortable in my next race.
  • zekni
    zekni Posts: 25 Member
    I smoked a pack a day for about 15 years. One day I had been coughing a lot lately, and the last one in that box didn't taste very good, so I decided I was done. And I've been done for about 8 months now, and it wasn't really very hard this time.
  • angulasalajillo
    angulasalajillo Posts: 84
    I smoke roughly 5-8 cigarettes a day still.
    It's bad, I know, and I will quit, but I believe you have to REALLY want to quit or you will go back to it(just like I have done in the past).
    As I am approaching 30 I am feeling more and more like I want to stop.

    The weird thing is, it doesn't *seem* to affect my ability to exercise. I walk brikly 6 miles a day and I put in 3-4 days a week at the gym.

    When I do quit it will be cold turkey... my Nan and my Dad did it after smoking 20-30 a day, so if they can do it - so can I :smile:
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    I smoked as a young man and was able to quit easily 20 years ago. However, I switched to smokeless tobacco. Nicotine is a nasty drug, difficult to kick. It took me close to 15 years to finally kick it. I have been "smokeless" free for over two years now. The truth was, even though I knew all the reasons I should quit, I just didn't want to. I finally came to a state of mind where I wanted to quit more than I wanted to continue........I hope that makes sense. Good luck to you!
  • Noamsh
    Noamsh Posts: 79 Member
    I smoke a pack a day, and honestly, I just love smoking.
    I do think about quiting though, mainly because of financial reasons and not becaue of my health (even though I have asthma - and don't start, I've heard it all), maybe it's because I'm still young.
    With that said, I know that my life won't allow me to quit right now, so I plan on quitting in the summer.
  • pinktoesjb
    pinktoesjb Posts: 302 Member
    Quit a couple of years ago now from about a pack a day, had a couple of small incidents off the waggon but it will be a year in january since any of my little fails and it completely grosses me out now, can't see myself falling again.

    Health, exercise, advice, asthma, stress none of it matters until you want to do it, and you decide to do it and you will. And you can!
  • losing88
    losing88 Posts: 7
    Quit in 2009. Been fat ever since. Glad I quit though!
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    I stopped smoking 9 years ago because I couldn't afford $70 a carton anymore. I still want to smoke and have to be dragged away from people outside on their breaks who are smoking.

    I don't feel it makes you a bad person or your should be down on yourself for smoking. :heart:
  • mrsamanda86
    mrsamanda86 Posts: 869 Member
    I had quit for two years before, cold turkey, then in Jan. 2012 started smoking again, due to (pathetic excuse) boredom on 15 minute breaks at work. I quit again in July of this year by switching to e-ciggs. I tried smoking a regular cigarette about 2 months ago and it tasted awful and made me stink LOL I'm happy with my choice, and don't really plan on giving up the e-ciggs any time soon. They give me something to do and keep me from ever really needing to go back to the real ones.
  • ElegantSlenderChic
    ElegantSlenderChic Posts: 41 Member
    My sons kept giving me lectures, hiding my lighter and getting emotional about cancer and my dying and leaving them alone (I split up with their father in March so this was a real concern for them) I woke up one morning four months ago smoked my last cigarette from my last pack and I have not looked back. I did gain 4lbs from the subsequent candy habit but I kicked that too and I am so proud of me.:smile:

    When the time is right and your mind is made up quitting will come naturally. Good luck:flowerforyou:

    ps...I am so intolerant of smokers now :laugh: and I had to change my curtains, bedding, cushions etc becasue I can't stand the smell of stale cigarette smoke....
  • vniemo2
    vniemo2 Posts: 25 Member
    I quit using a E-Cig 4 months ago. I smoked 2 to 3 packs a day.. My next step is to wean myself off of nicotine completely.
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    My opinion is quit smoking is a lot harder than dieting, I'm a smoker, I did quit, but I felt I needed to start again, as the myth goes, that smoking speeds up your metabolism.
  • brownbeauty2013
    brownbeauty2013 Posts: 50 Member
    I do. I would like to quit as I know it is bad for me but it is hard. I still work out hard, run on the treadmill, pump weights but long term I know I need to kick the habit. I'm working on losing the weight and I may try quitting alittle later. It is easier said than done, never really gave it try!!
  • _Resolve_
    _Resolve_ Posts: 735 Member
    Quit 2 years ago, if you need motivation Google respiratory arrest.
  • MrJThomasEsq
    MrJThomasEsq Posts: 144 Member
    I quit 12 years ago after having smoked for 17 years. I finally quit by buying a pack of More brand cigs. They are some really harsh brown ones that taste like a cigar that has been dipped in cat uring and left to dry our in the sun for a few years. NASTY! Then whenever i had the urge for nicotine I would only let myslelf have on of those. I think I made it half way through the pack and never more than 4 or 5 puffs per cig and I was done. I still get cravings sometimes though, but I get cravings for alot of things LOL.
  • loriq41
    loriq41 Posts: 479 Member
    Yah unfortunately but I think it would be too hard to quit eating like I was and to give up my guilty pleasure. Plus, I feel so much better emotionally than I did a year ago and I am honestly afraid to quit as I really am scared of how I will react emotionally...that feeling and the denial of something I love seems to hard a mountain to climb at this time. I know I need to..just not quite there yet.
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I quit, but was a smoker.
  • loriq41
    loriq41 Posts: 479 Member
    This coming Tuesday is my two year quit date. I quit by taking Chantix. I probably would not recommend it, though it made quitting very easy.
    The side effects were hell, but I quit.
    I second not using Chantix...especially if you have ANY mental health issues..my hubby tried Chantix and when I tell you he turned into the BIGGEST a-hole on the face of the earth that is an understatement..you could walk by him wrong and he would flip out. I ended up taking it away from him and tossing them..I told him it was either that or divorce..no joke, that stuff is really bad for alot of people.
  • patrickblo13
    patrickblo13 Posts: 831 Member
    This coming Tuesday is my two year quit date. I quit by taking Chantix. I probably would not recommend it, though it made quitting very easy.
    The side effects were hell, but I quit.

    My wife used Chantix and she said the side effects were awful. She was having crazy dreams at night and couldn't sleep

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