Quit smoking >100 days ago.

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  • Earthgirl51
    Earthgirl51 Posts: 73 Member
    My last smoke was Dec 2, 2013. I had a bacterial infection in my lungs. I am so happy to be able to breathe that a cigarette is the last thing I want. Lol. I am so happy for all of us. Cheers to taking a deep breath.
  • Hiker_Rob
    Hiker_Rob Posts: 5,547 Member
    I quit after smoking 1 to 2 packs a day for 30 years. It's been just over two years and it was the best choice I made in life. The first 6 months were tough, not hell like some people think, but they were tough. Ultimately I think the time comes to a smoker that they decide they really do not want to smoke any more (not the casual "oh, i should quit because it's bad for me" times), when this clicks, it makes it easier. If any one wants to know what I did to quit feel free to pm me, quitting is the best choice you will ever make.

    To all the smokers out there - you really can quit!
  • onechaoticrose
    onechaoticrose Posts: 23
    I quit smoking more than 100 days ago, just before the end of 2013. In that year I already did several attempts, some of which were successful for months, but eventually I started again. I see these as useful experiences.

    So I quit again and in the 100+ days after that I discovered something had changed - I didn't have a single moment of temptation. Never did I want to smoke again. Every time I saw smokers, I held my breath to avoid breathing the smoke in.

    Now I see smoking as a disgusting habit that's really bad for both short-term and long-term health and that makes people, including me, behave like addicts. And I really don't want that anymore. And I don't want to spend all that money!

    Just wanted to share that for all of those who are struggling to quit. I hear a lot that it's hard to keep going and my story shows that it can be different. It can be really easy to not smoke! :)

    Another advice: start doing cardio exercise before you quit. This creates a lot of motivation to quit, exercising is a nice way to deal with the stress of everyday life and you'll see the your performance will improve a LOT in the first weeks and months after you quit - so it's a really good way to find out how big the influence of smoking is on your body!

    Congrats!!! It has officially been 372 days since I quit, Just hit my 1 year on the 16th. Honestly it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but am so glad that I did and that I was able to stick with it!
  • evee7340
    evee7340 Posts: 24 Member
    First, congrats on quitting. It isn't easy!

    Def. agree with starting cardio before you quit. I was doing a lot of walking, but still smoking--in fact I would walk a couple miles to a park where I could sit down on a bench and have a smoke. Ugh. But eventually the love of walking won, and I got tired of having pain in my chest and difficulty breathing every time. Part of the reason why I quit in 2004-ish. (Other reason was I moved in with my fiance/now husband, a nonsmoker.)

    Also agree with how gross I find the smell of cigarette smoke now. Can't stand it. But I do think about smoking again, all the time. My mom once told me that even 15 years after she had quit, she still thought about it a lot. It happens. I'll never go back, though. I feel so much better without it.
  • orchidee1987
    orchidee1987 Posts: 97 Member
    All these replies make me think it's time for me to quit too !!!!
  • Amberh82
    Amberh82 Posts: 468 Member
    Congrats!!! I've been trying to quit for a while now. but after feeling crappy all month...I finally put them down (hopefully for good this time) Saturday night. So I'm 3 days without....my toughest times are on the weekends and being around family and friends that still do it.
  • gkauf744
    gkauf744 Posts: 128 Member
    I tried to quit smoking so many times I lost count! I'm coming up on a year now!! So excited. And yes, I did gain weight, and yes it was worth it. But I've already lost all the weight I gained and then some. And yes it was hard, and yes I sometimes still want a smoke, but I'm never going to have one. I quit for real this time.
  • suejoker
    suejoker Posts: 317 Member
    Congrats on your successfully quitting smoking. I'm really good at quitting. I'm just really bad at maintaining. I've quit for up to 18 months and then started again. What always triggers me? I get so angry at people and want to kill them. Then, I weigh it out. Cigarette or murder? Cigarette or life in prison? Cigarette or being locked up and never seeing my kids again? So, I smoke. I'm at another "sick and tired" juncture in my smoking career (I started smoking at age 9) and I may just go for it. I feel like I've gotten into a great routine of healthy eating & exercise, so quitting probably won't disturb it. Of course, if I want to kill people, I'll be at risk of smoking again, but maybe I can breathe through it.

    If anyone would like to friend me and help me through this process, please do!
  • AmyJ421
    AmyJ421 Posts: 4
    I quit in September 2013 on my birthday. Cold turkey. I had a ecig around just in case, but found I didn't like it, so I never used it. I was just done with it, done with feeling bad. Someone mentioned being tired after they quit, I felt like I could finally sleep through the night all night...for like 30 days, I slept between 10-12 hours per night. I did put on about 15 lbs, but have since lost 5 of that, and working on the rest. I feel better now than I have in 10 years. Congratulations on everyone for quitting. It is hard, but if you are determined you can do it.
  • soberlicious
    soberlicious Posts: 121 Member
    excellent job! i hear it's the hardest thing to quit. i quit drinking/got sober and it was definitely difficult mentally, but not as hard physiologically. with smoking, i've heard it's extremely difficult because of the mental/physiological addiction. anyway....congrats to you!
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    way to go!!!
    "D
  • ChaplainHeavin
    ChaplainHeavin Posts: 426 Member
    I quit smoking more than 100 days ago, just before the end of 2013. In that year I already did several attempts, some of which were successful for months, but eventually I started again. I see these as useful experiences.

    So I quit again and in the 100+ days after that I discovered something had changed - I didn't have a single moment of temptation. Never did I want to smoke again. Every time I saw smokers, I held my breath to avoid breathing the smoke in.

    Now I see smoking as a disgusting habit that's really bad for both short-term and long-term health and that makes people, including me, behave like addicts. And I really don't want that anymore. And I don't want to spend all that money!

    Just wanted to share that for all of those who are struggling to quit. I hear a lot that it's hard to keep going and my story shows that it can be different. It can be really easy to not smoke! :)

    Another advice: start doing cardio exercise before you quit. This creates a lot of motivation to quit, exercising is a nice way to deal with the stress of everyday life and you'll see the your performance will improve a LOT in the first weeks and months after you quit - so it's a really good way to find out how big the influence of smoking is on your body!

    Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I've ever done. There were times I would break my cigarettes in half and throw them in the trash can only to retrieve them and try to smoke them. Haven't had a cigarette in 31 years. The smell makes me get physically sick, my teeth aren't yellow and I don't smell anymore from the smoke. Keep up the good work.
  • ooBombshellBeautyoo
    ooBombshellBeautyoo Posts: 232 Member
    Congrats!! Never been a smoker, but I hear it's not easy!!
  • judykat7
    judykat7 Posts: 576 Member
    Big congratulations to you! It is tough to quit smoking - I think of more as you just stop till the next one and hopefully the next one is decades away. Once you start to be offended by the smell of it on and around others though it a big step in never wanting to start again. Because... you really did stink like that too.
  • rkalin779
    rkalin779 Posts: 14 Member
    I quit...again...about 100 days ago too. Vaping does count as quitting smoking. It is a nicotine delivery system just like the patch and gum. It does not have any of the other thousands of chemicals associated with a cigarette. When I told my doctor I was using an ecig instead of smoking cigarettes he said I quit smoking. I started out at 24 mg nicotine and I just bought my first round of 12mg yesterday stepping it down from 18mg. I have not had the munchies, can breathe better, sleep better, and not bite my kids heads off because I am feeling antsy. I am so very happy for the ecig. It also allowed me to start my weight loss without feeling like at any moment I would pack on 45 pounds like I did when I quit cold turkey 2 years before. Plus during that time I felt like a crazy lunatic. I was not able to concentrate, would get pissed at the snap of a finger, eat, eat, eat, and eat. I haven't had to deal with that on the ecig. It took me six months to feel somewhat normal again quitting cold turkey. I LOVE my ecig and it has been a blessing for sure. My only advise on the ecig is find a flavor and stick with it. Typically with a cigarette you have brand and the flavor of the brand does not change. Sticking with a flavor has enabled me not to relapse.
  • RenFairFan
    RenFairFan Posts: 3
    Good job OP, I lost track after three years without smoking, but I still often think about how much happier I am. The way I quit was by doing nothing at all, just forcing myself (I tried all the methods you can imagine, finally hit success by doing nothing at all but just bearing the cravings through force of will).
  • JojoEffeckt164
    JojoEffeckt164 Posts: 146 Member
    I´m glad you quit! I still wonder why we don´t make smoking illegal! States are talking about a special tax for "unhealthy" groceries like butter while millions of people die because of smoking! :angry:
  • Dagnova
    Dagnova Posts: 68
    Thanks for your compliments, I can tell you that I still quit and that will never change! :)

    Great to read about all of you who quit, well done! I know it isn't easy to get there, I hope though that it is as easy for you as it is for me to not smoke again now that you quit!

    I agree that it is important for smoking to be discouraged very strongly, it is so bad for people's health! I don't know if making it illegal would be an effective method, it really is an addiction and I think that making it illegal would encourage people to get buy their cigarettes from criminals and other people to become dealers. Here in Europe a package of cigarettes become more and more expensive, you pay around 5-6 euros for a package of 20 cigarettes (could be higher, I am not sure since it is a good while ago since I bought them) - and I think they want to increase prices to 10 euros per 20. Advertisement for smoking is not allowed and neither is it allowed to smoke in pubs in the Netherlands. Though a strange thing is that the government earns quite a lot of money from the taxes on cigarettes, making the party who should discourage the smoking the one of the parties who benefits the most from the practice.

    I hope though that smoking becomes less and less and that it will become something of the past. Now that I can look back on the habit, without any desire to go back, I see how it really was just an addiction. Not worth my time, money and health at all, and it really does not make sense for anybody to smoke, other than that they are just addicted. Which I totally understand and I hope for their sake that they manage to break the addiction.

    Now I remember that the concentration of addicting substances (nicotine) in cigarettes has gone up so that people (literally) stick with them. It's so bad that the industry wants to keep people addicted! Here's an article on that: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/opinion/even-more-addictive-cigarettes.html?_r=0

    For those who are still trying to quit... you can PM me for support!
  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    Holy Mother of God (to whom I prayed daily) that SUCKED!!! I was a train wreck. A determined, cranky, *****y, horrible wife and mother train wreck. In the end I saved my family (who were supportive despite my horribleness) a ton of money, time and aggravation by quitting. It was so worth it! Go YOU!!!
  • JasonKnight85
    JasonKnight85 Posts: 67 Member
    Been 112 days for me now, definitely don't miss it. Loving the extra money saved however!
  • Dagnova
    Dagnova Posts: 68
    @Jason & PJPrimrose - Oh yeah the money is great too. I quit about 140 days now. Let's say I smoked 2 packages per week. That would mean I would've smoked 20 (weeks) * 2 (packages/w) = 40 packages. 40 x 5 = 200 euros. That's a whole month of rent (I'm a student) or 1.5 month of groceries or enough money to do a (budget) weekend city trip in Europe about every month.

    BTW I just save the money ;)
  • ReneeCK
    ReneeCK Posts: 63 Member
    Way to go, OP! :flowerforyou:

    A lot of quitters on here, including me! Day 31 today! (It just felt sooo weird trying to lose weight and working out so hard "for my health and beauty" and then stick a cig in my mouth!)
  • rps67
    rps67 Posts: 163 Member
    I have a few days until I hit 300 days not smoking and I'm so looking forward to my 1 year anniversary on Aug. 1. It's been a tough year with a difficult pregnancy during which I wasn't allowed to exercise so I gained a lot of weight. I had to go back to running (just restarted c25K) at 4 weeks post-partum or I was going to take up smoking again. Baby is now 9 weeks and I've been doing a combo of running and weight training that I started at 6 weeks post-partum.

    My husband smokes and every once in a while, I'll catch a wiff of his smoke and think I really want a cigarette. I've also had some stressful stuff going on and that really makes me want to smoke, but I haven't and I won't. I'm really proud that I've gotten through a bunch of struggles in the past year without giving in to nicotine.
  • tbenjamin73
    tbenjamin73 Posts: 4 Member
    First of all great job on kicking the habit! One of the best things I ever did for myself was quit smoking. I haven't had one in over 4 years now.

    It took me a few relapses before quitting for good. Now even the smell of cigarette smoke repulses me.

    Dieting while quitting smoking is a great idea!! I really wish I had gone that route. After you quit smoking food tastes sooo much better! :(

    Again, congrats and stick with it!!
  • minky_r
    minky_r Posts: 95 Member
    congratulations to you all!! I know this is not a quit smoking site...but its been 42 days quit for me after 33 years of smoking..also with 0mg nicotine vapor..It took me 6 months to lose 10lbs on MFP...mind you they were very heavy 10lbs :). Gained 5lbs on day 30 and lost it this morning:)
    One question to you all; I am experiencing severe bloating..any of you experience this? and if so for how long? Thanks in advance.
  • SoreTodayStrongTomorrow222
    SoreTodayStrongTomorrow222 Posts: 252 Member
    woot woot go OP! good job - keep it up
  • Ulfgard
    Ulfgard Posts: 49 Member
    I had my last smoke in Oct of 2002. smoked about 2-3 packs a day minimum and when I couldn't smoke I chewed. It took 3 bouts of pneumonia in a two year period to get me to quit.

    Awesome work to everyone who's quit quitting or still trying to quit.
  • These_goto_11
    These_goto_11 Posts: 81 Member
    Nice thread, I have been trying to quit since Oct 2013. Five days here, three days there.

    So for my final quit, I'm on day two, 4 out of 6 days total, and those two days I smoked was only 4 smokes. I'm hoping this long weekend gets me through the rough part. I remember when I quit for five days, and going thru those emotions, I told myself I was never going to smoke and put myself through that again! Ha! Smoked the next day.

    Congrats to everyone! Thanks for taking the time to post your success stories! When I get a craving, I'm going to come back to this thread!
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    Awesome job!

    I quit in 2010. Can't even imagine doing it now
  • TriciannT
    TriciannT Posts: 58 Member
    I certainly did. I had no idea how much nicotine affected my metabolism. Even though I am on the move at work everyday it happened.

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