Quit-ing Smokeing

JBKlyde · 10-09-2012, 08:02 PM

Has anyone here been successful on quit-ing smokeing??

limey · 10-10-2012, 07:04 AM

I have. Several times. But finally for good, as well. I went cold turkey. I made sure that I had no cigarettes in the house. I made sure I didn't go to places I usually smoked (like the pub, in the good old days) so that I was not tempted by smoking friends. That being said, my live-in partner smoked at that time, and I just didn't. Sometimes I'd choose to go and sit in another room than him, sometimes I just ignored it.
I was determined to give up for good. I don't remember it being particularly difficult emotionally, I just kept choosing not to have a cigarette. Again. And again. Until it was automatic. I don't miss it now at all (five years' stopped).

Stormieweather · 10-10-2012, 08:28 AM

I quit cold turkey, after 34 years of smoking. I smoked between 2-4 packs a day. Basically, I decided I wanted to be around for my children and grandchildren much more than I wanted to puff on a stinky weed roll. So I threw them away, then argued with myself over it for three days. Willpower won. It's been 3 1/2 years since my last cigarette.

henry quirk · 10-10-2012, 09:33 AM

Why the hell would any one want to do 'that'?

DanaC · 10-10-2012, 09:45 AM

Most I ever managed was a little over a year. Then I went to work at a place with a strong smoking room culture and ended up back on them.

I wish I could stop. Or, more accurately, I wish I could want it enough to stop. The health implications scare me, but not enough to want to not smoke.

10-09-2012, 08:02 PM	#1
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limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I have. Several times. But finally for good, as well. I went cold turkey. I made sure that I had no cigarettes in the house. I made sure I didn't go to places I usually smoked (like the pub, in the good old days) so that I was not tempted by smoking friends. That being said, my live-in partner smoked at that time, and I just didn't. Sometimes I'd choose to go and sit in another room than him, sometimes I just ignored it. I was determined to give up for good. I don't remember it being particularly difficult emotionally, I just kept choosing not to have a cigarette. Again. And again. Until it was automatic. I don't miss it now at all (five years' stopped). __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of Last edited by limey; 10-10-2012 at 07:04 AM. Reason: Typo

10-10-2012, 08:28 AM	#3
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	I quit cold turkey, after 34 years of smoking. I smoked between 2-4 packs a day. Basically, I decided I wanted to be around for my children and grandchildren much more than I wanted to puff on a stinky weed roll. So I threw them away, then argued with myself over it for three days. Willpower won. It's been 3 1/2 years since my last cigarette. __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

10-10-2012, 09:33 AM	#4
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	Has anyone here been successful on quit-ing smokeing?? Why the hell would any one want to do 'that'?

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