SMOKERS WHO WANT TO QUIT

Good luck! I quit October 17th 2010 and don't even think about them anymore & I smoked for 18 years! You can do this!!!!

we quit in december. one thing i did was i just let myself snack on whatever i felt like for 2 weeks when i quit. some people will warn against this, but it really did help me. eventually i got tired of eating poorly and settled back into my normal eating habits.

now the smell fo it makes me nauseous. my boss smokes like a chimney and i don't even crave it at all ... it actually makes me feel sick now and i can smell it a mile away.

so if you really want to quit, just quit. it only sucks for about a week. then it evens out. just take it one moment at a time.

I quit about a year ago for approx 6 months, then I started again. How stupid am I? Plus now I am smoking in secret so when I quit I have to pretend that I am fine!
So YES, I will join you damnit!

A warning tale for all smokers....

I have quit, just gone 3 years now but I must have quit too late.

I have emphysema, it struck early and it struck hard. Just climbing my stairs leaves me so out of breath that I cannot hold a conversation...just holding a long conversation leaves me so breathless that I end up doing all the listening! I quit before I got symptoms but obviously the damage has been done...now for the scary bit. I'm 43, I wasn't a heavy smoker, 20 on a bad day but usually between 10 and 15 a day but the last 4 years of smoking i was down to 20 a week. I never thought it could strike so young and never thought it could be me...I'm living (or is that dying) proof that it can be you, do what you have to, to minimise the risk of it being you.

To the original poster, you can do it, put the money you save in a clear jar so you can see it building up...its a great incentive!

Good luck

Today is going to be my last day. I have quite before many years ago, and I was hoping that getting back into shape would help me quit - but the reality is that it hasn't. I have been lying to myself that I have it under control and that I will be fine - I dont have it under control and I wont be fine - unless I take this last step to a better health and life.

Today is D-Day for me - from tomorrow onwards no more smoking - cold turkey - just like that.

I am hoping that by quitting smoking my exercise ability and stamina will improve and that it will help drive my ability to quit.

GL to you all, been almost 3 years for me, the almost $13 dollars a pack here in Canada motivated me lol

I quit 3.5 yrs ago. My motivation was my children. I pictured them without me and thought how selfish it was for me to continue to smoke knowing I was risking getting very sick and dieing and leaving my babies without a mom. I looked up stuff on line when I was tempted about the risks,stories of women getting sick, family members left behind telling their story, etc. and that motivated me enough. I wasnt like some of the other posters, I only smoked when I drank but I drank quite often and sometimes consumed a pack to myself in a night of chain smoking and partying. And unlike some of the other posters, it was very hard for me. Everyday it did get better, this is true, but even 3.5 yrs later I still think about it (although I am and always will be smoke free:) from time to time when Im drinking and around it, I also have dreams about it. So dont feel defeated if you find its taking a long time to ween yourself. You just have to picture yourself a non smoker, youre never smoking again, and find something to motivate you, really motivate you. I quit cold turkey no cheats, no air cigs, no patches, meds, etc. I was a raging *$#@*! but I did it! You can do it too!!!!!! Good for you for going for it!

well I would but one thing at a time...excuses I know...when I get the money I'm going to get the pill you take to quit smoking couple friends went on it and did it !! good luck

well I would but one thing at a time...excuses I know...when I get the money I'm going to get the pill you take to quit smoking couple friends went on it and did it !! good luck

If you mean the pill called champix [sp] i used it last time after two days never even thought of smoking and after 6 weeks i stopped it, got me past the major urge and munchie time..... and the anger lol

I think this is wonderful! I hope you all quit smoking and find your way to better health.

As some motivation:

My grandmother, Louise, died on March 31 after a 9 week battle with small cell lung cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking. In December 2010, she went into the hospital with severe back pain, and the doctors found a small mass on her spine. They did a PET scan and found tumors in her lungs, liver, lymph nodes, ribcage, and on her spine. The cancer had metastasized all over her body. After doing a biopsy of the liver mass, it was determined that the cancer originated in her lungs and had spread very quickly throughout her body. The oncologist told us that this cancer is nearly exclusively caused by smoking, and we had caught it far too late. My grandmother decided not to undergo chemotherapy because it would only prolong the misery for her. The next 8 weeks of her life were full of excruciating pain from the bone tumors that morphine couldn't treat. It got progressively worse as the weeks went on, and at the end of 8 weeks, she was 85 lbs, and her skin was yellow because her liver had begun to fail. She didn't know any of her family because she was delusional. The doctors told us that the cancer was releasing chemicals in her body that made her not hungry and delusional. She died at 4:00pm on March 31, 2011. She was a beautiful woman with a horrible addiction that not only took her life, but did so in a very painful and undignified manner.

It didn't start with her cancer though. For the last 30 years of her life, she could barely walk through the living room without coughing and hacking constantly. The addiction had taken her energy 3 decades before it took her life. It deprived the younger grandchildren of a wonderful grandmother that could travel and enjoy them. My grandfather tried for 40 years to get her to quit, but she just wouldn't do it. In one of her more lucid moments in the hospital one night, she told me she was so sorry to leave me so soon and that she is sorry that she won't ever get to hold my children. She told me that she wished she had listened to her husband 40 years ago and quit when it would've made a difference.

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I hope you will all find the strength to quit. If not for yourself, for those who love you and don't want to see you go through something as horrible as we had to see my beautiful grandmother go through. She was a beautiful wonderful woman who never deserved to lose what smoking took from her.

No cigarette is worth what it takes from you. Whatever you have to do, find a way to quit and live a healthy life if not for yourself for the ones who love you and need you.