Vinter: I can sympathize. I quit once for seventeen days on the gum.
Cliffie: Unfortunate for you, hilarious for me.
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Nicotine gum! It’s the only thing that helped. Only problem is, now I’m hooked on the gum.
Never started, never have to quit.
I’d love to quit.
But, I’m afraid if I did, I’d just go right back to sucking diicks.
I quit on the 8th of this month. No cravings at all. Just decided to stop burning my bucks…well, that, and the chest pains were getting to be more than just a minor annoyance.
Just quit. Drop ‘em. You don’t need drugs or nico-gum. All it takes is the cojones to quit.
where I worked my boss would rather have me smoke while I was working. I was a change smoker, in 8 hours of work I would smoke a pack.I went cold turkey.It was hard for the first 6 month. I would chew lots of gum,or have a tooth pick in my mouth.Also avoided being with smoke for the first 6 month.I was had it in the back of my head was my new born son
I quit when my wife was pregnant with our daughter. The smell made her deathly sick and going outside to smoke just wasn’t worth it. I had been smoking for 17 years, at the time, and had a two pack a day habit. I just went day to day saying, “I can do anything for one day”. It was nearly a year before the total desire for a cigarette was gone and it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do, but it was the most satisfying accomplishment of my life. When I quit, 1972, smoking was still permitted indoors and still very prevalent. Quitting while everyone around me continued to smoke and blow it my way, just made it that much harder. I had tried several times before and tried various ‘methods’. I don’t believe crutches are the answer. It really comes down to desire and will power. Until you have them the task is impossible. Basically the question to ask yourself is which is more important, your and your loved ones health or the habit of sticking a cigarette in your mouth. Good luck.
I struggled with trying to quit for a year and a half or more. Cold turkey didn’t work at first, so I weened myself by setting a limit to how many I could have in a day. 12 then 8 then 4 then 1. One a day worked for a while, but then sometimes I’d have two. I didn’t beat myself up over it though. And, then I’d have a major life change and I’d be back to smoking like a chimney for a while, but then it was easy to switch back to one a day. Finally, to really quit, I sort of psyched myself out. I thought about all the bad things about smoking, how gross it was, smell, color of my nails and teeth, what it did to my lungs and the people around me. Then one day I went from one a day at lunch time to a few puffs and I just couldn’t do it. It just seemed too gross. After a week or so of a few puffs a day, I was done. Thinking about it even made my stomach ache. It was mind over body. I had completely convinced myself to quit.
I listened to people here who were worried and told me how scary easy it is to be addicted to smoking and how vicious it is to get off it even when you know you are killing yourself..
I quit smoking in 2002 and it was very hard. I had smoked for 45yrs. I still want a smoke but I know my life is worth more then making a tobacco grower rich. I donated money to the cig. companies long enough.. I knew I needed to quit and it took patches, sunflower seeds and also I sucked on jolly ranchers Candy’s. I did gain weight but not that much. Good luck to any one that tryies to quit. I am smoke free now for 6yrs April 12.
first, made the decision in my head and my heart.
then replaced coffee (my constant companion to a smoke) with drinks I hated, like water, grapefruit juice etc. the stuff that left a terrible taste in my mouth. then i quit eating snacks at night – quit the chocolate, chips, etc. then, i picked a day and time for my last smoke. I forced myself NOT to watch the clock to see how long it’s been since my last smoke as a ‘pat on the back’ because I knew that would only keep the idea of smoking alive and well in my consciousness. Lastly, I made the decision that being around others who smoked was NOT going to affect me.
I had my first smoke when 9 and started buying my own at 12 and at my peak, would be into my fifth pack for the day. I never left home without at least four packs in my purse – heaven forbid I get caught somewhere without a smoke…
It was the first and only time I even thought about quitting and that was in 1998.
I quit the moment the pregnancy test came out positive, and have been smoke-free for 15 months now.
It’s a rather extreme, not to mention expensive, method of quitting smoking.
I did well with patches to start, and then moving onto the gum.
I have also noticed that nicotine patches give me VERY lucid and vivid dreams when I am on them.
Of course I am a huge addicted loser, so I was only able to keep quit for a year.
I still use gum when traveling or hanging out with non-smokers, and I went back on the patch last summer after having a tooth extracted- but only stayed on it long enough to make sure I did not get dry socket.
Nothing worked except being ready to quit.
I smoked my first at age 9, and put out my last at age 37. I got tired of my chest hurting. On January 8, 2004, I woke up at 7:45 am, lit a cigarette, and answered a phone call. About halfway through the cigarette I had my usual round of morning choke-coughing … and said “That’s it.”. I put that cigarette out, gave my pack to my (now ex!) husband (who continued to smoke – still does as far as I know), and never lit another one. He still smoked, in the house, in the car, wherever. Many of my friends (then and now) smoked. I just didn’t want to anymore – and that made quitting the easiest thing imaginable. I’m not the least bit tempted to light up when I’m around them, either.
I’d tried before, for pregnancy, for church, because it was getting too expensive … none of that worked. You have to quit because you don’t want to smoke any more.