I quit smoking today.

[JB88]

i quit.

i am still quit.

kick it's everloving bellybutton nilsen.

good luck.

[RTSigma]

Congrats Nilsen!

Always good to see smokers quit. I lost my father when I was 2 to a heart attack related to smoking and now I'm watching my brother do the same thing to himself.


The only thing I have quit since 2004 was being a horrible a pilot...but thats a hard habit to kick.

[bkbandit]

A real good friend of mine used to smoke. A pack and a half a day, it was funny because we would be driveing around and he would pull other by some bunches get out and smoke in the rain snow 20 degree weather etc(he hates the smell of smoke in cars:lol ). So one day i asked him, "why do u smoke, what does it really do for u". He looked at me and said nothin, it doesnt help when im stressed and all it does is waste my money. He stoped right there and hasnt smoked since. Funny thing is that i smoke cigars now. BUt i ask myself the same question and came up wit the same answer. If i smoke now its when im reallyy bored and it might be once every couple of months.

I dont know how anybody can smoke with those anti smokein commericals on tv, the guy wit the hole in his neck buggs me out.

[Nilsen]

wtg 88



You seem to be alive Curval so atleast your flying skills have not gotten worse.... Ill take your word for it.


Feels good to have gotten the crap out of my system and beeing "clean" for 2,5 years have sertainly done wonders for my health. Didnt feel like the smoking had done anything to my health, but now that i dont smoke anymore I have noticed some real difference.

More energy, less drinking actually and my skin has gotten real soft and more color. That last part is actually the biggest visible improvement.

I havent noticed any improvment in my teeth, but my dentist has commented on how much cleaner everything is in there. I also like some other foods that I didnt enjoy as much before so i guess what foods and flavors tastes like have changed too.

I do less workout, but it makes more difference now than when i smoked so im a winner.


I do enjoy a cigar one or two times a month with some Havana Club 7, and the odd cigarette when i have a drink, but its not something i then miss when i wake up the next day. I would say that i maybe have smoked 50-100 of them over the laste 2,5 years while drunk.

[bikekil]

The trick is, if you want to quit you will quit... if you HAVE TO qiut - it won't happened.

After 11 years of smoking i quit because i wanted... then after 2 years off i wanted to smoke again (my life changed) and i started to smoke... then another 3 years passed and i quit again... then i changed the job, and realised, that the only thing i can do, to have some time off during the work hour is to go out  for a cig (1-2 per day) so i started to smoke again and i enjoyed it.

Then my daughter apeared I dont' want her to remember THAT dads smell, so i quit again, but once for a while (like a week or a month) i'm smoking few cigs when i'm sure my lil one won't smell it, but now i'm starting to thing about my health... i wish i enjoy my family for a long time, so...

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Update.

Still a non-smoker


Anyone else quit after I did in 2004?

WTFG Nils!    Happy for ya, and you'll never regret it.  My old man smoked Pall Mall Red Non-Filters for 37 years, he regrets not having the willpower to quit sooner.

[Neubob]

I quit 6 weeks ago. I've cheated a couple times, usually while drinking with friends that smoke, but I'm averaging less than 2 cigarettes a week, which I think is acceptable.

BTW Nilsen, how many quits does this make for you? It's gotta be at least half a dozen for me.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Neubob
I quit 6 weeks ago. I've cheated a couple times, usually while drinking with friends that smoke, but I'm averaging less than 2 cigarettes a week, which I think is acceptable.

BTW Nilsen, how many quits does this make for you? It's gotta be at least half a dozen for me.

Only once Neubob.

I had to give them up for just about a week back in 94 during "hell week" at the Officer Candidate School/Navy but as soon as that was done with i got right back on em.

[ChickenHawk]

I quit for good on Feb 1, 2003 (no relation to the Columbia accident) and have not touched any form of nicotine since.  I can't tell you how good it feels to not be a slave to cigarettes.

Congratulations to you guys who have quit.  As a former smoker, I fully appreciate what it takes.

[RightF00T]

For those of you that quit....did you notice any weight gain?  As of now thats the only thing keeping me from quitting....terrible logic I know.

[Mustaine]

I am going out for a smoke break.

[lazs2]

like I said.... smoked 3 packs a day of unfiltered camels for decades....  Never noticed any ill effects except slightly sore throat once in a great while and some throat clearing issues.... no lack of wind etc.

I quit because I didn't like the dependency.

It was not that difficult.... least..... no compared to how some would tell you.... any person with normal will power could easily do it.

lazs

[Debonair]

See Rule #7 (tmi)

[Debonair]

i guess that was a bit harsh for this BBS.
sorry i cant help myself it its funny.
not so guilty feeling as i tough i guess.....LOLROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!11111!!1!!!11!@@111one

[Stone]

I quit about 2-3 years ago. Not my first attempt, but this time it worked.

Now it does not bother me to be in a group where ppl smoke. I have no urge for a cigaret. It is great

I have smoked one or two cigarets when drunk, and I have no urge to smoke the next day. That is also great
Before, even if I had not smoked for a year, it took just one cigaret to be hooked again ! Smoked at a party and had to buy a pack the next day.

But now I feel that I am in total controll about smoking.

Yesterday I had a tooth removed. The dentist gave me instructions how to heal, and mentioned that I should not smoke, but that he can see that I am not a smoker. That was nice to hear
Tho it will take some years, before my lungs are cleaned from all the cigarets I have smoked during my life

Before I tested the nicotin patch and gum, did not work for me at all.

But the nicotin "mints" worked great. When I was at work, and got that "I want a cigaret" feeling, I took the tablet, and 15sec later, I forgot all about it.

One week later, no need for the nicotin mints.

I was a smoker for 25 years. Tried to quit for 10 years !
Yes ten (10) years ! My longest period of not smoking was 1 year, but all it took was ONE cigaret, and I was hooked again !
But now I do not have that problem. Even if I smoke when drunk, I have no interest to continue smokeing.
(I strongly recomend not to party smoke, cos it has destroyed 4-5 attempts to stop smokeing for me!)

I did pray for help this time, and I realy think it helped, cos I am realy amazed how easy it was to finaly quit.

I hope all of you who like to quit will succed, cos its a great feeling being in controll of your own body / mind.

Nicotin effects your brain directly. It is a physical thing. It is as strong a feeling as hunger / thirst and you know what.

Be in controll ! Give nicotin the finger You can do it !