I know you all are going to be disappointed in me, but I’m nothing but a lousy quitter.
I’m counting on all of you to help me keep on being a quitter.
It’s only been a little over 10 hours. You can keep up by looking at the countdown timer (that’s also a count up timer) found nearly at the bottom of the sidebar. I really need your encouragement. Please, leave your comments.
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Keep up the good work! it’ll be 3 years for me on August 4th.
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Thanks for the encouragement. I’m gonna need a ton of it.
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Well let’s see. I smoked pretty hard for about ten years. I had about a year in there where I completely quit (2006), but picked the habit back up in in 2007 and didn’t quit until early 2008.
When I say I quit I use the term lightly. I still had an occasional smoke (maybe once per quarter) all the way up until January of this year.
For me it was a simple matter of health. I’m 31 and haven’t been the most active possible over the years. For many years I told myself a day would come when I would turn it around. Well, at some point that day has to come and I just decided to draw the line. That day came and went.
Now the smell of smoke disgusts me. The idea of smoking makes me sick. I feel SO MUCH better in life since completely quitting. In fact, about three weeks ago I began a harsh daily routine of exorcize that hasn’t been easy, but I’ve lost 5 pounds and already feel a lot more bounce in my step.
There is no doubt in my mind that quitting smoking was the best physical decision I’ve ever made. It was really starting to wear on me and I began noticing signs of deteriorating health. Coughs and sore throat in winter, colds, etc.
Walk away from it man. You don’t need it and being a slave to something like cigarettes is downright terrible. As a long time addict I can verify we have it in our nature the ability to break free of tobacco addictions and never look back.
My two…
-Eric
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Thanks Eric. I’ve talked about it and talked about it, but I’ve never really tried to stop until now. I’m 55 and I’d like to see 60 and beyond. I’d also like to tie my shoes without getting winded. Thanks for the comment and encouragement.
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Sent you an email. It takes a long time for the chemicals to get out of your system. Remember, you aren’t really addicted to the tobacco, but the DNA altering chemicals they put in the cigarettes.
I smoked for about 15 years +/-.
Deep breathes, twizlers and bubble gum.
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You mean it’s going to take more that 36 hours? Man, I was hoping.
Your email was very encouraging.
Let me ask you, and everyone else, for forgiveness in advance, I’m gonna be talking about this (probably too much) for a little while.
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Never smoked, but I have a problem with BBQ.
Hang in there!
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Heh. Thanks Chris.
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Jim, getting (and surviving by the grace of God) lung cancer did it for me. But surprisingly, 2 weeks after the surgery I craved like crazy. I got those mini nicorettes and took one any time I needed one the first day, then one every 2 hours the second and third days, then one every 3 hours for three days, then one every four hours for four days then one every 5 hours for 5 days then one every 8 hours for 8 days then one only (usually after supper) for 10 days then nothing. It really helped, no cravings and then freedom… It also made it easier as I was on chemotherapy for the next 6 months and felt lousy.
QUIT, don’t end up like me with cancer.
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Thanks GM. I really do want to have a few more birthdays. I appreciate the suggestions and encouragement from you and the others I’ve heard from. More than anything I appreciate the honesty and openness.
I really do pray that you are, and continue to be, well.
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I’ve mentioned this before, on my own site, but not in connection with this post. Now that I have more time, I’ll tell you about my mother. She started smoking when she was young, well before cigarettes were “known” to cause the health problems that they do. She told us that she wished she could quit smoking, but she just couldn’t. I remember one of her lessons: she’d inhale a big puff, then blow it out through a white kleenex, and that would leave a yellow-brown ring on the tissue.
Eventually, my mother developed COPD. She was on steroids and had portable oxygen bottles. She owned a two story house, with ten steps leading up to the landing, a 90º turn to the right, and seven more risers to reach the second floor; she had to stop on the landing to catch her breath before she could make it up to the second floor, where the only bathroom was.
My mother was always a small woman, maybe 105 lb at her heaviest. When you eat, you automatically hold your breath, to keep from aspirating food or drink into your lungs. For someone with COPD, eating takes time away from breathing, and by the time she died, at only 61 years of age, she weighed maybe 80 lb. Her sister suffered the same fate.
Unlike Sharon, I am not “an intolerant anti-smoking Nazi (bastard),” because I believe that people are responsible for the consequences of their own stupidity. But it is exactly that: stupidity, and I am willing to say so.
As for me, I never started smoking, so I never had to quit. My mother finally quit, because she had to, but that wasn’t until she had developed COPD, so it was too late. My darling bride doesn’t smoke, and neither do our daughters.
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Dana – Thank you for sharing your story. Every bit of encouragement really does help.
Everyone – I can’t thank all of you enough for being open and honest with your own stories. I’m almost at 100 hours, and the challenge now is going to be to make it through a weekend. I’m gonna get a lot done around the house, that’s for sure. I mean, I can’t just sit around on the computer or watching TV. I need to be distracted!
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Keep busy, stay distracted. Clean a lot. Organize things.
Also, oral substitutes and plenty of them. My personal crutch was Extra Peppermint gum. Nice, strong flavor which lasts a long time.
Use it WAY too much. Go through a new piece every hour. Doesn’t matter. It’s cheaper than cigarettes and less carcinogenic.
Chewing on toothpicks is good, too. Go through WAY too many of those. A box a week if you have to. Same reasons.
Hell, chew a toothpick while you’ve got a piece of gum in your mouth. Whatever it takes.
On a personal note, I had to switch from beer to hard liquor/mixed drinks, just because the beer/cigarette association was too strong.
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