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Title: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: oneway on December 31, 2009, 09:33:29 PM
This is it...

The day is coming fast...

Rauchen Verbotten

 :confused:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: texasmom on December 31, 2009, 10:30:35 PM
Not for me.  Good luck to you though!
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: kvuo75 on December 31, 2009, 10:39:27 PM
I just had a smoke..

 :devil
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Blooz on December 31, 2009, 11:44:48 PM
If it didn't bother so many people every time I light one up I'd have quit years ago.

Now I smoke just to tick people off.

I love the look on their faces when I pull out a new stick, clench it in my lips and bring up that shiny zippo...lol

The horror!

The HORROR!
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: trax1 on December 31, 2009, 11:44:53 PM
No, but I'm gonna try and cut back, some days I'll smoke 3 packs, so gonna try and keep it to 1, it's getting to expensive.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 01, 2010, 12:36:52 AM
Andy Roony has it right with his resolution. Which is. To not stop doing anything.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Yeager on January 01, 2010, 12:52:54 AM
any day is a GOOD day to quit that filthy habit.  Think of everyone who loves you and just stop killing yourself.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: potsNpans on January 01, 2010, 01:08:44 AM
Ahh ,just reminded me to put a lite to my stogie :aok
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: 100Coogn on January 01, 2010, 01:16:20 AM
I just bought a pound of tobacco the other day.  I'll have to smoke that up, before I think about quitting.
 :x
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Whitey33 on January 01, 2010, 03:27:00 AM
This is it...

The day is coming fast...

Rauchen Verbotten

 :confused:

Good luck Oneway :aok I´ve been without tobacco for nine months now :rock
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: greens on January 01, 2010, 04:40:43 AM
i quit sept 11, 2009 still tobacco free. thank god. used tobacco for 15yrs straight. copenhagen for few yrs then moved to cigs then off n on both at same time.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: onan on January 01, 2010, 05:26:31 AM
Good luck to anyone who gives up.
Have decided I am going to finish with the Evil Weed
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Stixx on January 01, 2010, 09:16:43 AM
Good luck. It's been three years today since I quit.
It can be done.  :aok
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: uptown on January 01, 2010, 09:33:48 AM
Quit!? Hell I'm still waiting for them to legalize it!  :rock
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: saantana on January 01, 2010, 09:41:21 AM
Quit!? Hell I'm still waiting for them to legalize it!  :rock

 :D

1 year and 3 months free. Feels like I never started.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: gyrene81 on January 01, 2010, 12:09:37 PM
any day is a GOOD day to quit that filthy habit.  Think of everyone who loves you and just stop killing yourself.
Better quit the "filthy habits" of driving automobiles, eating any processed foods, eating fresh anything from a store, drinking tap water, eating any type of fish, talking on cell phones or cordless phones, taking any manufactured pharmaceuticals...blah blah blah...oh and don't forget to stop breathing unless you're using an oxygen tank.



Amazing, the things people overlook in their lives when they are trying "save someone"...  :headscratch:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Yeager on January 01, 2010, 12:54:09 PM
quite the wonderful attitude there.  By all means  quit breathing lol...
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: MadHatter on January 01, 2010, 01:49:03 PM
I have 1 cig left, after that, no more. Started smoking when I joined the USAF. Before, I used to run a 12 min 2 mile (pt score), now I get winded walking to the car. Good luck to all.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: saantana on January 01, 2010, 02:24:40 PM
I have 1 cig left, after that, no more. Started smoking when I joined the USAF. Before, I used to run a 12 min 2 mile (pt score), now I get winded walking to the car. Good luck to all.

Yes. I hope you succeed in defeating this habit.

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Better quit the "filthy habits" of driving automobiles, eating any processed foods, eating fresh anything from a store, drinking tap water, eating any type of fish, talking on cell phones or cordless phones, taking any manufactured pharmaceuticals...blah blah blah...oh and don't forget to stop breathing unless you're using an oxygen tank.



Amazing, the things people overlook in their lives when they are trying "save someone"...

Retarded comment.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Flench on January 01, 2010, 02:30:18 PM
Wish I could quit , wait but I kind of did . I went to the E-Cig and have been using it for 6 month's . Work's great for me because I deer hunt a lot and they can't smell the vapor off the e-cig where they can a regular cig . Anyway Good luck to the ones that are quiting <S> .
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: hitech on January 01, 2010, 08:32:17 PM
I quit by using chantix 2.5 years ago. had smoked for 25 years 2-3 packs a day. Good luck.

HiTech
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: USRanger on January 01, 2010, 08:41:42 PM
I quit by using chantix 2.5 years ago. had smoked for 25 years 2-3 packs a day. Good luck.

HiTech

I've been thinking about trying the same HT.  I've heard it gives you some pretty whacked out dreams.  Sounds like a pretty successful product though.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Madkow on January 01, 2010, 10:54:15 PM
I quit March 1st of 2008 by using Chantix. It really does what it says plus you get some really cool dreams. I even  lost 10 pounds the 3 months I was on the pill. Good luck you can quit when times get hard just tell yourself " I have X number of days without one and don't want to start over at day 1". I still have to tell my self that at least two times a month still.  :salute
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Delirium on January 01, 2010, 11:58:52 PM
I quit smoking back in May of 2003, it took me a couple tries but the Nicotine Gum is what got me to quit. I ended up chewing it for about 3 months and slowly titrated off it switching to regular gum.

I didn't quit because of health reasons but because of cost. I couldn't stand the fact I'd be giving the state more tax revenue. When I quit, cigarettes were close to $4 a pack in 2003. Well, the taxes have gotten so high on cigarettes that a pack is almost $8 now. Anyone to smoke even half a pack a day with those prices is a lunatic.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Scherf on January 02, 2010, 04:55:02 AM
Good luck to all of you guys.

 :salute
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: tassos on January 02, 2010, 06:42:14 AM
Me and my wife Quit smoking sep 2009 cause
-of new Baby in April
-480 euro of Cigarette's a Month both
-Half hour in the Morning I couldn't Breath right,started smoking with 24y.
-Headache every Morning
-teeth getting Black
-in Vacation my Hometrailer parked direkt on Beach,needed 20 min. to clean sand in front every day of cigarette's
-I smoked about 75 cigarette's a day in Vacation
-couldn't swim far out
-you will not see my computer room
-You cant smoke anywhere when you go out in Germany,you have to go outside,but I'm Married...
-Asher in all my cars where always full
We was buying both a New box of cigarette's,than we decided to stop smoking after result of new pregnant
we throw full boxes in trash,cause cigarette's is trash for us.
The 1st 3 weeks are Horrible,when Stress beginns in Job,when I want to smoke one I buy a box and throw it away without opening it,and I tryed the Telly Savalas trick but I started Hating Lollypops and My daughter saw me as Enemy
I hope I will never Smoke again I feel so free and day after day stronger...
You can smoke in my House,my car i dint care....
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: stran on January 02, 2010, 07:43:59 AM
 :rock
This is it...

The day is coming fast...

Rauchen Verbotten

 :confused:

smoking is a pointless waste of money. who really needs a cigarette anyway?
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Penguin on January 02, 2010, 08:37:36 AM
Good luck to you all, my uncle smokes and I just HATE it.  It's nice to see you guys setting a good example for the younger generation.    :salute
-Penguin
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: kilz on January 02, 2010, 09:11:11 AM
going on my 7th day cold turkey   :x
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: PanosGR on January 02, 2010, 09:15:42 AM
quit smoking? aaaa sure in an other parallel universe
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Flench on January 02, 2010, 09:47:53 AM
OK , For the ones that quit and start back check into the electrical cig's . The DSL901 work's really well . Been smoke free for 6 month's using them and there a he!! of alot cheaper .. I could not quit after smoking for 35 year's 2 pack's a day and the Chantix like to killed me . Be carefull with that stuff ...The e-cig work's !!!
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: 100Coogn on January 02, 2010, 11:37:21 AM
I just bought a pound of tobacco the other day.  I'll have to smoke that up, before I think about quitting.
 :x

I'd like to retract that statement.  I like the looks of these positive posts on this subject.  It gives me hope.  :)
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: chewie86 on January 02, 2010, 11:39:47 AM
I quit and start back every 2 weeks
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: shiv on January 02, 2010, 04:51:13 PM
Got up to two packs a day and had to quit.  Spent $40 or so on the strongest Nicorette gum there is, 4MG, and had a piece whenever i wanted a smoke, which was basically all the time.  But as soon as you chew the gum and all the nicotine hits not only do you not want to smoke you really can't smoke.  I'd have so much nicotine in me I'd be hiccupping.  About 2 or 3 days of that I was fine, although I do go through a lot of Tic-Tacs and cough drops now.  Lot cheaper though, and now I can run again. 





Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: 2ADoc on January 02, 2010, 05:11:25 PM
I had all but quit back in 04, I was down to 3 cigs a day.  I had finished lunch and was getting ready to leave, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in our chow hall.  I decided that it was not a good time to quit and, well that is the closest I have ever come to completely quiting.  1/2 a pack to a pack a day.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: MrMeanie on January 02, 2010, 08:57:10 PM
you can have my smokes from my cold dead fingers,
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: 100Coogn on January 02, 2010, 09:33:01 PM
you can have my smokes from my cold dead fingers,

Why, that's, that's just mean.  lol Mr.Meanie.
 :banana:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: dunnrite on January 03, 2010, 02:25:16 PM
Quit!? Hell I'm still waiting for them to legalize it!  :rock

Well, it's the third, I have went from smoking 3 packs a day to a quarter ounce every 3 days.  The ole lady might come back home tonite.   :x
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: gyrene81 on January 05, 2010, 10:58:49 AM
Retarded comment.
Ever feel like you just didn't get it? You had one of those moments...my comments were/are quite appropriate and correct...welcome to the world of staying informed. The health hazards of smoking are no worse than almost anything else people do in their daily lives...10 minutes in the garage with a running gasoline engine is worse than smoking a carton of cigarettes...we are exposed to so many health hazards in our daily lives and yet people want to point the finger at a single item. Drinking alcohol kills more people in a day than a truck full of cigarettes.

Fact is we "civilized" people ingest so many hazardous chemicals every day of our lives, voluntarily or not...it's a wonder we aren't all 2 headed.




:rock
smoking is a pointless waste of money. who really needs a cigarette anyway?
Actually, it's a known fact that the effects of the chemicals in cigarettes has the same effect on the brain that some addictive drugs have...and that's what causes the dependence. Drugs like Chantix actually block the receptors in the brain that causes the addictive response...takes a while for the brain to be "weened" and that's why the docs recommend 4 months of Chantix use (that and at $180 per 30 day supply, there is a tidy profit for the pharmacy).

Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: kilz on January 05, 2010, 12:06:29 PM
how long does the coughing stay
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: gyrene81 on January 05, 2010, 12:10:52 PM
how long does the coughing stay
Til your lungs heal as much as they can...depends on how long you have been smoking and adding to the lung damage with exposure to other chemicals...some people never get rid of the cough completely...last time I quit, the cough lasted a month.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Bizman on January 05, 2010, 01:12:17 PM
When I was a kid it was quite common to smoke indoors. I guess no kids love doing the dishes, but what I really hated was to wash those little ashtrays. The smell of wet ashes was disgusting!

My dad quit smoking about a decade ago at his mother's funeral, without any pills, gums, stickers or toys. Just a man's decision, and a real man stands behind his decisions, as he says.  :salute He started at the age of about 12, and even got it accepted by his father, because it made him feel less hungry. Getting cigarettes in Germany in the late Forties was easier and cheaper than getting food for a family with eight children... He is now 74, but due to his healthy manner of living, I still wouldn't win him in arm wrestling! OTOH I've always been a weakling...

Non smoking doesn't hinder social life, I've been going 'round the corner for a smoke with the guys since my schooldays without ever smoking myself.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Penguin on January 05, 2010, 04:06:17 PM
Cyrene, running a gasoline engine for ten minutes in a closed room IS more dangerous, so much so that you'd never do it again.  Smoking a box of cigarettes, on the other hand,you're gonna want to do it again.

As to alcohol, look at the death rate per thousand, you'll see that smoking kills more.

-Penguin
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: REVRAND on January 05, 2010, 05:50:43 PM
Day #2 COLD TURKEY.........nicorette helps alot.........Will never quit THE NUG'z!....Been smoking Herb longer than CIGS.....and one had to go.................. BUB BYE   Marlboro Man........HELLO Ganja Guy!    LMAO!!!!!!!



<<<!S!>>>   YOU QUITTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :O :neener: :banana: :O :neener: :banana:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Simba on January 05, 2010, 06:00:12 PM
It's easy to stop smoking. I've done it hundreds of times . . .

<sits back and puffs contentedly on a fine Havana cigar>

 :cool:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Penguin on January 05, 2010, 06:26:33 PM
Simba, you should think about the example you are setting to the children in your squad. :(

-Penguin
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Sonicblu on January 05, 2010, 08:58:15 PM
I think it was Mark Twian that said Quiting is easy its not starting back up thats the problem.

Anyway good luck to all trying to quit.

Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Flench on January 06, 2010, 08:25:42 AM
Day #2 COLD TURKEY.........nicorette helps alot.........Will never quit THE NUG'z!....Been smoking Herb longer than CIGS.....and one had to go.................. BUB BYE   Marlboro Man........HELLO Ganja Guy!    LMAO!!!!!!!



<<<!S!>>>   YOU QUITTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :O :neener: :banana: :O :neener: :banana:
HAHAHAHHAHA
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: gyrene81 on January 06, 2010, 01:35:08 PM
Cyrene, running a gasoline engine for ten minutes in a closed room IS more dangerous, so much so that you'd never do it again.  Smoking a box of cigarettes, on the other hand,you're gonna want to do it again.

As to alcohol, look at the death rate per thousand, you'll see that smoking kills more.

-Penguin
Actually 10 minutes you could still walk away...don't ask how I know. When was the last time you heard of a person being killed in an accident due to the driver smoking too many cigarettes?? The stats on the annual number of deaths related to cigarette smoking that the public gets pushed in their faces leaves out the massive amount of information per person related to overall lifestyle, genetic background, eating habits, environmental contributors at home and in the work place...not to mention the fact that Americans are so bent on what everyone else is doing, we don't pay attention to the crap we do to ourselves.

You should do some cross reference research on the diseases associated with cigarette smoking and the large number of other things that are known or suspected of contributing to the same diseases...including lung cancer. For instance, the chemicals released into the air by arc welding are known to be poisonous and carcinogenic...yet wearing a filtration device is not mandatory. Gasoline and gasoline fumes are known to be carcinogenic but you are not required to wear any protection when at the gas pumps or putting into your lawn mower...imagine a lifetime of exposure to that stuff as a refinery worker or gasoline delivery driver. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and the related compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are often added to foods to preserve fats...but no one advertises the fact that both are possible contributors to some types of cancer. There is a fungus found on roses that when ingested in any manner can cause an untreatable form of cancer.

Smoking ganja is known to be more harmful to the lungs than cigarettes...yet light up a joint and no one will wrinkle their noses and say "that's a nasty habit".

I'm willing to bet before we started polluting our environment and our food with dangerous substances...the per capita number of deaths related to cigarette smoking was far less than those related to alcohol consumption.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Raptor on January 06, 2010, 01:39:28 PM
I'm glad I never took up smoking. When asked if I smoke by smokers... they always say "Good, I wish I hadn't, it's an expensive addiction"
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Simba on January 06, 2010, 03:18:07 PM
We're all big kids in DuxWing, Penguin, with only two hard-and-fast rules: have a good time online; and no po-faces in the Mess. These days, this ol' cat finds relaxed enjoyment of a very good cigar and a glass of good cheer infinitely more comfortable than preaching to sprogs from atop a soapbox, so please indulge me.

 :cool:
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: B2B on January 06, 2010, 03:50:59 PM
I involuntarily quit smoking on June 30th,2007.  I remember the date well because I woke up the next day with the onset of a stroke. Droopy mouth, slurred speech, right side weakness,yada yada yada. It got progressively worse and I ended up in the hospital that morning. I didn't return home until the middle of August. I won't bore you with the details but, suffice to say, I still go to rehab 3 times a week. If I didn't have the stroke I'd probably still be smoking and promising my family that I was going to stop "real soon". I don't judge those who smoke, it's their choice. All I can say is, I felt real selfish for everything I put my family and friends through. I'll never smoke again out of respect for them. The scary part is that I still get the urge to smoke, after 2 1/2 years. Best of luck to all of you who decide to quit.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: 2ADoc on January 07, 2010, 04:09:08 PM
All this talking of smoking makes me want one so I will walk outside and have one.
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: Flench on January 07, 2010, 05:32:16 PM
6 month's smoke free with the e-cig ...
Title: Re: Anyone else gonna quit smoking tonight
Post by: greens on January 07, 2010, 09:06:08 PM
15 yrs of tobacco kicked it after my horrible bout w swine flu maybe not sure wth kinda sickness that was, maybe after hanging out w betty and kermit and the killuminatti . sept 11,09 my last day smoking a marlboro. pretty dam hard somedays but god and my family keeping me strong through this ordeal. my 5yr old girl needs me to get old and give her money and she can showoff her kids to me when im old and breaking down. I hope you guys can think about not just yourself when u put a cancer stick in yer mouth, think of your kids your loved ones and EVEN better youll have more aces high time  :aok ill pray for you guys to quit too.  :salute