My apologies to anyone I may have offended.

[snubbyfan]

I started smoking when I was 16. Back then there were cigarette vending machines and you could smoke pretty much everywhere, even at school.
20 Years later there were more and more restrictions on where you could smoke and the price of cigarettes had gone way up. I was driving to work, smoked the last cigarette in a pack and decided right there that was my last cigarette. I told everyone I knew that I quit smoking knowing that I'd hear no end to the hassles if I smoked a cigarette. For the first 2 weeks I was a total poop hole and people'd offer me a cigarette.
My strength was my Dad, he smoked 4 packs of filterless Pall Malls a day and quit cold turkey. If he could do that then I could quit smoking 1 pack of Marlboro Lights a day.
I'll still smoke an occasional cigar but I have no cigarette cravings.

 

[speedyquad]

i started chewing copenhagen when i was 12. every one in my family chewed and i was with them most that summer as i was "homeless after a tornado." my cousin got me started, and by the end of summer i was well beyond addicted. i won't say how i got it, but i was chewing a can a day in no time. i'd even chew and swallow in school. then i got braces and i had to cut back a little...finally after a a few years, i tried to quit and was able to...sort of...i'd take a pinch here and there when hunting with my cousins...but not any other time

then off to college i went. i controlled myself at one can a week. i would only buy one can on sunday and whenever it ran out, i was done until the following sunday.

then i met my future and current wife. her younger brother chewed. one day were were getting some four wheeler parts. we had both bought bottles of pop and they were sitting between us in the center console. i still had left, but his was now a spitter...i grabbed his by mistake and took a big ole swig...AND SWALLOWED. we stopped at my house to get the quad. he was riding it to his house for us to work on it. i took a back road home and stopped along the way to toss my cookies. i have NOT had the urge to put any tobacco in my mouth since. I cannot even smell chew to this day without getting sick. i do still feel the need to have something in my lip on occasion. sunflower seeds and "jerky chew" fill that bill.

so keep going, you'll make it. it won't be easy, but it can and has been done.

 

[Onomea]

I quit smoking last night. I am so sick with my diabetes. I'll try not to offend anyone either but if you want a piece of me, come after it. lee

Steady, steady, steady, Lee. You can do it. It ain't easy, but it is doable. Get that monkey off your back, bro. Be your own man.

 

[snake803]

I went and got hypnotized in 1993...after 33 years and up to 2-1/2 packs of salems / day... haven't touched one since... But now I can breathe.. somewhat...Good luck and hang in there
JIM.............

 

[zzzippper]

You better hope no one posts the video later.

 

[Shooting Padre]

I went from 2.5 packs a day to 0 instantly. No withdrawal, no cravings, nothing. It was the first miracle I recognized in my life. I had told my wife if I ever quit smoking it would be Gods power not mine. One night just before I went out for a new pack, those words came back to me. I just sat down and that was it. Never had another one. I know that God works differently in everyone's life. This is the way he dealt with me. He show me what He could do if I trusted Him instead of myself. Just an encouraging word, and I wish you the greatest success, you will love not smoking.

 

[arjay]

Ive been through the quitting and restarting with cigs and snuff more times than I can count,even quit for a year, twice! Just keep on resisting.

 

[pawncop]

Never dipped, but smoked for longer than I needed to. Hardest time for me was after meals and when out for a beer.

Congratulations, it is well worth it.

 

[CO_Kid]

Hang in there! I can't say I know what you're going through, because I don't.

My advice is- pick something you really want to buy with the money you're saving by quitting, and keep picturing it in your head.

 

[Mickey D]

Accepted.

 

[sipowicz]

Still no excuse for calling me a weenie in a PM.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I am proud of you brother. I took the easy way. I tried to quit and could not. I was not strong enough. 11 years ago, on the 15th hole at Avon golf course, after a miserable approach shot, my heart blew out. My blood was so thin from all the obligatory beer (it's a league rule) that it saved my life. CPR, 8 hours of surgery and 14 days on my back, my withdrawal period was over. I had lain there full of morphine, oxycontin and hydrocodone for two weeks never realizing I had quit smoking.
So I applaud you your strength for doing it consciously.
You're a better man than I, Gunga Din!

 

[LVSteve]

Hang in there, ClassIII.

I'm sure dip contributed to the death of my sis-in-law at 53. She refused to give it up despite known heart issues.

 

[lonejacklarry]

I quit Skoal and Red Man after many years. Actually, it was quite easy.

On a six-month dentist appointment, the doc asked if I was still chewing. I said yes. He walked out and was back in about a minute w/ 8x12 glossy pictures of several people minus jaws, tongues, teeth, cheekbones. Some had one or two missing and a couple of the pictures showed folks that were missing everything from the eyes down.

That's all it took for me. Keep us the good work, III.

 

[keith44spl]

Man,

I know yur pain..........

For 45 years, I always sed, "Once On Cope, There Ain't NO Hope!"

But, I beat it and so can you.

I went cold turkey 9 months ago and would not go back for nothing.


Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[smokey04]

I smoked for 40 years,started on Kents[ like running down hill with your mouth open] finished on Camel filters[3 packs a day!]. I was 60 when I quit now I'm nearly 71. I tried patches, gum, every thing short of kissing a mules exhaust pipe. When push came to shove I quit cold turkey, well, I sucked on cinnamon sticks. I discovered it wasn't the nicotine that "hooked " me it was the "something in my hands and something in my mouth" once I realized that, I had it made. Nearly 11 years have passed and I haven't touched any form of tobacco! I don't believe a day has gone by that I haven't wanted one but the craving soon passes and I am A. O. K. ! Nick

 

[rimfired]

No offense here. Best wishes for your goals.
I started smoking (stealing from the 'rents)cigs
@ 12. when they passed I quit for ten years. Wasn't a day I didn't want one.

On a cruise, drinking, I asked my friend for a Pall-Mall. Bought a carton the next day. Gave up the cigs @ 10 years ago when I broke some ribs, got pneumonia and fluid in the lungs.

Still have a penchant for Cigars, beer, good whiskey and hot wimmen.

When I give those up, might as well toss me in the ground.

 

[SC_Mike]

You are stronger than any weed. Remember that.

Keep posting your progress.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I thought perhaps you been eating too many beans or hadn't bathed in weeks.

 

[shouldazagged]

I can do anything one day at a time, even if it gets down to an hour at a time occasionally. Today, right this minute, is all I have to handle because it's all I have.

I smoked for forty years, most of it three packs a day as it was the last twenty. I quit cold turkey, as you have, because tapering off just didn't make much sense to me. It was uncomfortable for a while, especially as my late wife was still smoking; but by keeping it a day at a time, the same way I quit drinking, I got through it and lost all craving.

When I got up in the morning I asked a Power greater than myself to help me not smoke that day. At the end of the day, before I went to bed, I thanked that Power for helping me not to smoke that day. I grabbed all the help and encouragement I could from friends and family.

I haven't had a drink (and I'm an alcoholic) for 33 years, and in two months it will be 23 years since I smoked. And I still only live life a day at a time. It still works. Kicking nicotine is one of the best things I've ever done for myself.

It will be for you too.