Quitting smoking

[69 Jim]

[spyvsspy]

I used to love smoking. I started at 17 and quit at 28, cold turkey on June 2, 2010. To date, I have not even had one puff of a shitty ass cigarette. Why? I tallied how much I was spending a month on cigarettes and the total was $180. That figure alone was enough for me to quit cold turkey.

With the money I saved I bought me a motorcycle, hehe. Traded one dangerous habit for another!
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[Erik G]

has anyone been succesful with the ecigarette?

I have a friend in Berkeley that swears by hers, Berkeley is not a smoker friendly town, her landloard was giving her shit, etc. So she bought one and hasnt smoked a real cigarrette in a year. Only uses it when she is really freaking out and wants to go buy a pack.

Looking for un-biased real reviews is difficult. all the reviews look like ads to me. Thanks
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[69 Jim]

[txdunebuggy101]

i smoked pot for twenty years and thought i could not go without it. this july 4th i was able to quit cold turkey and havent done it since. i started with like a couple doobies a week as a teen. got into selling as an adult and smoked as much as a half pound a week, it was free... i finaly told myself to quit , for my kids. after many times failing to quit, it was agreeing to myself it was for my kids that helped me make it. been smokin marlboro reds since 15. it has been HELL trying to quit. even though i say its for my kids, i cant seem to make it. i think its time to see a doctor for help. do the patches or other crap really help? whats the best crutch????
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[69 Jim]

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[yamaducci]

Although I have read some but not all posts in the 15 pages here; I thought I would share and support anyone who is quitting or thinking of quitting.
After starting at somewhere around 14 I smoked for nine years and then finally met the Girl of my dreams who didn't smoke and didn't really care at the time. I knew eventually that would change so I tried to get ahead of the curve and wanted to improve myself so I quit cold turkey; even after a large Italian Dinner.
I never smoked another one for 7 years and never even thought about it until I had a Motorcycle accident. While on pain killers, out of work for a while with a broken collar; I decide to smoke a Al Capone inhalable Cigar.
I liked it and enjoyed one a couple times a week while putting my bike back together with my brother. After a while I knew I was getting addicted again and the rational side of me took over and said I can get double the Marlboro's for half the price.
as I went back to college and was "sneaking" Cigs for a while trying to be a closet smoker I met another women who did not like them yet dealt with it. After 6 years and a marriage later; I said I would try Chantix to sort of shut her up for a while. After a couple months she went to the doctor and the doctor asked if I had ever taken them and she said No.
The doctor said, Tell him to just try the first one and tell him he doesn't have to quit if he is not ready".
Again to shut her up for another minute I took one.
Cigarette's started to taste bad and I could see that this could work if I gave it a chance. Right around that time my mother called and said she had quit years ago but was just diagnosed with COPD and she thought I should quit too. I had already started the Chantix but only for a few days.
I wanted to test out if all the trigger scenarios could be overcome on Chantix including the classic Beer/Cigarette combination.
I proceeded to the smoky bar on Friday and got wasted. I woke up the next morning realizing I never had a Cigarette and didn't want one. I was a 1-Pack per day or more on drinking nights kind of guy so I tested it a couple days later in the same fashion.
Still no smoking and I was only up to like 8-9 days.
About the 12-14th day I went to an Orioles Baseball game with 3 Cigarette's knowing I would be drinking beer all day and will have no access to a machine. I figured I would bum one if needed.
I got home that day with one left. I smoked half of it on the front step while saying Goodbye to family and flicked the rest!.
It was my last one since 2008.
With the arrival of my daughter in 2009; the new love of my life, I will never be a Smoker again thanks to Chantix and will-Power.
Three pieces of advice:
1)Don't read the website as you will learn too much and begin to predict how you are going to feel and that may work against you.
2)If you get nauseous when you take it; take it first thing in the morning so you will be too nauseous to want your first cigarette of the day or toeat too much.
3) Start walking/jogging/ excercising 3-5 times per week Before you quit so that you are getting your metabolism revved up to prevent weight gain. I actually lost weight when quitting using this tactic.

Best of Luck!
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[69 Jim]

Man up, put the smokes down and move on. Or don't.

[andk5591]

You damn former smokers You guys are the toughest on us that still do because you had the balls and willpower to pull it off. My hat is off to you. One of these days I will join your ranks - but just not ready yet. And that is the one thing that I have learned - you have to really want to and I don't yet.
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[69 Jim]

[don't_bug_me]

Quit cold turkey in 2000, my granddaughter was only 2 and lived with us, was my inspiration, I wanted to be a better example, and didn't want her to grow up thinking I might influence her to smoke one day, today, I can't stand the smell, and she is 15 and has no desire to ever consider it. That makes me feel better than any reason to quit for myself.
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[zozo]

Smoked 2 PPD for 21 years. My kids asked me to quit because it made me stink, and they didn't want me to die.

Stroke of midnight, New Years Eve, 1996, last drag on a smoke and haven't touched one since. I wasn't a happy man for about 3 weeks, ate about a metric ton of sunflower seeds, had dreams and nightmares about smoking and not smoking. It got better with time, in every respect.

Do it. Decide who is stronger, you or a cigarette. I had that conversation thousands of times. Talking to the smokes, telling them I was stronger than they were. Corny, but effective for me at least.

My wife continued to smoke, which made my quitting more difficult, but more convincing somehow. She was up to about 3 PPD until about a year and half ago. Routine doctor's appointment, diagnosed with lung cancer.

As it turns out, it was an INCORRECT diagnosis, thank God, but it scared the shit out of her.

She went to the Vaporescence store, invested the price of roughly 2 cartons of cigarettes on an electronic cigarette kit, and hasn't had a real cigarette since. The cheap ass things in the mall aren't going to do it. The Vaporescence product "bites" your throat when you take a drag, like a real cigarette. For her, that's what kept her on it, otherwise it would "just be air".

Her success was noticed by friends and co-workers, and she has more than 20 converts to her credit. Many of whom smoked as much or more for longer than her.

It may not work for everyone, but given the alternatives, I think it's worth the investment to try if you don't believe you can just put them down and be done with it.

My $0.02

[steezkitty]

[Zero419]

Quit 5-6 months ago
Marlboro Red
16-36 20 years.

I did it with this. Never even craved them after I was done reading.

http://media.wix.com/ugd/74fa87_2010cc5496521431188f905b7234a829.pdf
Lots of people I know have.
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