STINKY SMOKERS!

I'm quit about 7 years or so now. Still have a cigarette here and there on a very rare occasion. Usually regret it the next morning.

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I was a smoker for 4 years and what helped me was working out and eating healthy. It just didn't ,make sense to me why people would go to the gym and them go smoke like 7 cigarrettes. Or they would tell me how I should eat but didn't care about lungs.I don't even do it socially anymore bc I wanna be all the way healthy. no point oin fighting obesity if I have lung cancer. And every time I would try to quit I would gain weight.

I quit on March 7, 2009--the day I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I had been a one pack per week smoker for 12 years prior to that. Never picked it up again--started running instead, because you can't do both :-).

I've been a smoker for 3 years.
I want to quit but it's very hard to with my anxiety. (Yes that is an 'excuse' but it genuinely is difficult for me especially because my gf is a smoker)
I want to quit because of my health and because it can prematurely age you.
I haven't quit before.

Planning on trying again quitting with e-cigarettes. I was doing really well and wasn't smoking actual cigarettes at all, but my e-cig broke and I couldn't afford a new one.

I'm quit about 7 years or so now. Still have a cigarette here and there on a very rare occasion. Usually regret it the next morning.

^^^^I probably over 10 years ago, but I still have one on occasion too (usually while drinking) and always regret it the next morning!!!

I've been an ex smoker for 3 years now. Smoked for 10 years. Never going back. I cut cold turkey after getting this gnarly bronchitis. I get nauseous now when I smell cigarette smoke.

I was a smoker for 16 years (started when I was 14) and alternated between a heavy smoker, social smoker, light smoker and non-smoker. I quit 6 mos before my wedding on Chantix...I quit cold turkey the day I found out I was pregnant and had no issue with being smoke free for a year... would always let myself be pulled back in b/c "I only smoked while I drank" which turned into "just when I'm stressed, hungry, angry..." you get the picture. I quit again this past March b/c I just don't want to be a smoker anymore... I read "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" and it seems to have stuck... I no longer envy the smokers around me... I'm enjoying be a tru non-smoker.

I quit 2 years ago using Chantix, I tired everything to quit before that and nothing worked. However, the taxes went up that a pack started costing $7. I did the math, one pack a day times 30 days was a minimum of $210 a month. I could pay a bill or two with that money. I smoked more if I was out at a bar. But now Wisconsin is all smoke free in public places and the price of them along with the help of Chantix, I can prougly say I am a non smoker. I have had one puff off a smoke since quitting. I still think about it but I am an all or nothing kinda girl. I know that if I had one it would soon turn into 2 and next thing I know I would be a smoker again

I quit on xmas eve of 2010 after trying to quit for the last 22 years. I've finally kicked the disgusting habit.
But the real miracle is when I was able to drink beer and not have the craving for a cigarette creep up on me. Thats when I knew I was completley done.

I quit cold turkey and by avoiding my smoker friends.
I got an app on my phone that tells me how long since my last smoke, how many I havent smoked, money saved and days gained.

I remind myself that smoking makes me smell like ****
smoking degrades my stamina
and most of all , I'm no longer a weak slave who contributes to the wealth of people in the tabacco industry who get rich off of people killing themselves.

I'm completley ****ing smoke free and I'm very ****ing proud of myself

I quit 2 years ago using Chantix, I tired everything to quit before that and nothing worked. However, the taxes went up that a pack started costing $7. I did the math, one pack a day times 30 days was a minimum of $210 a month. I could pay a bill or two with that money. I smoked more if I was out at a bar. But now Wisconsin is all smoke free in public places and the price of them along with the help of Chantix, I can prougly say I am a non smoker. I have had one puff off a smoke since quitting. I still think about it but I am an all or nothing kinda girl. I know that if I had one it would soon turn into 2 and next thing I know I would be a smoker again

Oh and I should say I started smoking at age 15 or so and quit at age 40. I also tried many time but never made it more than a month,m usually never more than a day or two. I loved smoking too. But now I think about it and think I would probably cough up a lung if I tried it again.

I am a smoker.
I started when I was 9.
I quit when I was 19 (pregnant with child #1)
Mostly stayed quit until after the birth of my 2nd child at 23. Had a REALLY bad day! and I was back to the old habit.
Quit again when I was pregnant with child #3, but shortly after she was born (at age 25) I began smoking again.
Quit again in 2004 and that stuck until 2006 - stress is always my trigger. Haven't tried to quit again. Not sure if I will any time soon...
At this point I have smoked for more than half of my life (even if you take out the years I wasn't smoking).

Honestly what keeps me from touching another cigarette is watching a person die from lung cancer. Have you ever seen anyone die from smoking all their life, I have. I watched my uncle die gasping for air and eventually suffocating because he had lung cancer. I don't want that for myself. That was traumatic to say the least.

I smoked for 14 years. Quit here and there but am finally DONE! Done for 4 years or so. Saturday at the gym a chick got on the machine next to me and I could smell she just smoked a ciggie & nearly moved to another machine. I thought "You're running your *kitten* off on the treadmill so you must care about fitness but you still smoke, WHY?!?!"

Oh, and I quit because of hearing it dries out every cell in your body. And one day I just...quit. If only unhealthy food was so easy for me...

I smoked my first cigarette when I was 7 I carried a pack when I was 10 I smoke for 40 years. I quit about 7 years ago and never looked back.

Easy to smell cigarettes and the smell it leaves on people and places they have been.

Started smoking, like many, because friends in school convinced me it was "cool." Didn't actually start in earnest however until I was in my mid-20's. Oddly enough, when I picked it up at that point, it was the pipe (with tobacco... no "wacky weed" for this kid!) I actually "graduated" to cigarettes because the place where I worked gave us 10 minute smoke breaks, and by the time I went downstairs to the smoking area, loaded the bowl, smoked it for a while, tamped it, smoked a bit more, then dumped and scraped the bowl, it was too high maintenance for the brief break period.

I basically gave it up about 8 years ago... I was unemployed, and New York has THE highest excise taxes on cigarettes in the country (currently around $4.30+ per pack. The price for a pack of cigs in NY state is between $9-11, sometimes higher.) Not to mention I kept getting respiratory sicknesses, related directly to the smoking. Early in 2010, when my mother was hospitalized with a serious and nearly life-threatening condition, I picked up a couple packs. They were nasty, I couldn't even enjoy them anymore.

For a little over a year now, I've been "vaping"... using electronic nicotine inhalators, or "ecigs" if you prefer. There's no combustion or burning of material, so you don't inhale smoke. Instead, an electronic atomizer heats up an inert liquid, turning it into a vapor that is 99.9+% water. You can choose to have varying strengths of nicotine to the "juice", or none at all. I find it keeps the cravings at bay, satisfies the various "fixations" smokers typically have, and is healthier by orders of magnitude than smoking any sort of plant-based materials. There's no ashes, no tar, no stained teeth or fingers, and no stinky clothes or furniture. And best of all, it doesn't screw up your breathing. I haven't picked up a regular cigarette since around February 2010.