did you quit smoking or are you trying?

I quit several years ago but it was due to a friend of mine that had a terminal lung disease. He had never smoked a day in his life so I figured if he could get Pulmonary Fibrosis being healthy, I could sure do it being unhealthy. I just quit smoking one day. Had a few slip ups but now, the smell of it makes me sick and I avoid it!

Alot of people suggest chewing gum or you might just have to go the route of medication to help you kick it! Good luck!

My husband and I are trying the same thing right now...We have foundaelectronic cigarette that works wonders for us....It is called the Joy 510....It is just like inhaling a real cigarette and it even makes you cough if you draw to much...It does have nicotine, but its available without and there is no second hand smoke even though it looks like it. It water vapors....Here is the link.....
http://www.thefogecig.com/

My mother quit 5 weeks ago using the step program nicotine patches. For the first 3 weeks on them she refused to leave the house for anything because she did not want to be anywhere that she would smell it on someone or anywhere that she would be tempted to buy cigarettes. She has realized in her case it was not the nicotine she really wanted but the oral fixation that came along with it, so now everytime she feels uneasy or tempted she grabs a dum dum lollipop and sticks it in her mouth. It is apparently working for her and my dad is home with her all day so he knows she is not cheating this go around. I have never smoked before so I cannot tell you that I know it is hard to quit, but it seems like you have some very good reasons to want to quit. Good Luck to you

:drinker: edited due to husbands feeling that i am to open about my past lol

I quit about 5 years ago. I just set a date that I would quit, got some folks to buy in to try it with me and then counted down to the date. Me and a couple others from the original 7 or 8 are still smoke free.

I quit back in Nov (2010) cold turkey, after a few days the physical side of having a cig, after a meal for example more or less went but the mental side of it is a lot harder to overcome, if I'm at home, I wonder outside with the dog into the garden like I used to do when I smoked and it seems to really help, you walk back inside and feel better and I drink plenty of water.

It's not easy but if you want it as bad as it seems you can make it work, just tell yourself you are no longer a smoker! I sometimes forget I used to smoke now so it gets a lot easier

Good Luck

Ben

I used Chantix. It worked for me. Not had one in over three years now. Was full time for twenty years.

I quit several years ago but it was due to a friend of mine that had a terminal lung disease. He had never smoked a day in his life so I figured if he could get Pulmonary Fibrosis being healthy, I could sure do it being unhealthy. I just quit smoking one day. Had a few slip ups but now, the smell of it makes me sick and I avoid it!

Alot of people suggest chewing gum or you might just have to go the route of medication to help you kick it! Good luck!

I quit 6/13/10 the 15 yr ann of my dad's death cold turkey. I had smoked the better part of 10 yrs. My dad was a chain smoker who died of a massive heart attack @ 56. I sit across the wall @ work from a lady who smokes and it makes me sick to smell her.

My husband and I quit 2 1/2 years ago with the assistance of Chantix. It really seems to take the edge off those first couple of weeks. I wish I'd had MFP then. It definitely would have helped me focus on exercise and calorie control. I suggest staying away from places and people who smoke for several months and put your energy into exercise. A few extra pounds are much easier on your body than the effects of smoking. You can do it!!!

I smoked for 15 years, started when I was ten years old and was a three pack a day smoker when I quit in one day. He's how I did it. My oldest son had been sick since birth. I never smoked in the house or in the car. No one could tell me what was wrong with him, but he was deathly ill all the time. One day my sister in law asked me to see her kids dr. At one point in the visit, the dr asked to me if I would leave the room. It was just he, the nurse and and my son for a few minutes. I worked for a social service agency at the time, so I figured they just wanted to ask him some private questions and I had nothing to hide, so I had no problems with it. When we left, the dr gave me no real info but asked to see us again in two weeks. As I was walking to my car, I lit up a cig in the parking lot and my then 5 year old son threw himself on the ground and began hysterical crying. I tried to pick him up but he was just totally resistant screaming "You want me to die! The doctor says I'm deathly allergic to cigerettes and if YOU smoke I will die!" I was caught between wanting to shove my pack down the throat of that dr or thank him for saving my son's life. And just like that, I put out my cig and threw out my pack and have never picked up another one since. That was ten years ago and I've never missed it. My husband quit that day also and has never had another one either. Make it a matter of life and death. It's that simple.

I too have been trying to quit on and off for what feels like forever. My boyfriend doesn't smoke, so I don't smoke around him, but I only see him 1-2 days a week, so the other 5 I'm huffin' away on a pack of menthols. I know I need to quit before we decide to live together, but I just don't know how to get in the right mindset either. If anyone decides to create a group for those of us wanting/needing to quit, please keep me informed!

A coworker and long time smoker was diagnosed with cancer and was dead within a couple of months.
He was in his 50s and that was the point where I looked at staying in a job I was only mildly enthusiastic about but had a good retirement and then making sure I very likely wouldn`t live long enough to ever see it.

I said to myself that at the end of the week I was going to quit and then kind of forgot about it.
March 7th 2003 was on a Friday and I remembered that evening what I had told myself.
Smoked a couple of cigarettes and then threw what was left in the pack in the outdoor wood furnace.
Almost at once I felt like a nonsmoker for the first time in decades and made it through Saturday the 8th without buying a pack and that was it.
Took a long time to finally get to that point though and still doubt that a person will quit until they really want to mentally.

I could start again tomorrow if I wanted to and it doesn`t bother me to be around someone smoking I just won`t let myself consider it.
Any time I get the urge I just push it from my thoughts with a "don`t be stupid" sort of mindset.

My husband swore he didn't want to quit and I told him "that's fine, but I'm going to quit". I never said another word about it and 1 week after I quit he asked me to get him a doctor appt for a prescription for the Chantix. You'll be surprised how many people want to quit but don't want to be the first. We all need a leader...you can be the leader!

I have been smoke free since Aug of 2009. I quit both times that I had become prego for the entire lenght of my pregnancy and then would start back again after my babies were born. This final time I just realized that I wasn't missing anything by quiting. It was actually the hardest but also the easiest thing I have ever done. I just made a choice to quit and no matter how hard it got I just didnt smoke. If you are serious about quitting you just have to stop. Not after this pack or after this weekend. Right now. You can't say " just one puff, or just one cig" it does not work that way. As long as you allow yourself that little bit you wont quit. You have to fight through the cravings and know that it gets easier as long as you don't smoke.. Good Luck!

I quit 6 years ago. its a decision, nothing more. You decide to quit, then you decide you can and will handle any difficulties....at least that is what I told myself and it worked. Good luck!!