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[Cristina]

So it was an idea my bf and had when he found out his favorite brand of cigarettes was discontinued, he was to quit smoking after a carton of his bran of ciggs, camel special lights. I agreed as I have been smoking since i was 14 and I like going to the gym.

We smokes our last ciggs last night and said this would be the end.

Let me tell you, it's sucks some donkey testies! 

I have given up before and know how hard it is to break the habbit. Addiction is terrible. Withdrawal is terrible. I am emotional, crabby, and bitchy. I burst out in tears than out in laughter cause I think it's so silly how some shredded leaves, some paper, and a little bit of fiber glass has such a control over me! God i feel like such a loonatic! I know it's like that with all addicts no matter what the addiction is, but this doesn't get you high! It's no fun! It's just something you do twice an hour just cause you can!

  I know it's for the better of me and it's becoming taboo, so I am trying to keep that in mind. I will be able to get in better shape and my house or my clothes wont stink. Smoking is disgusting, I always thought so but god my lungs want a nice big inahalation of good ol nicotine.

My method of choice is cold turkey. I think the patches, gum, and that inhaler is cheating I feel like it's like giving methadone to heroin users. I also feel like that if you use these things, your not really quitting. It's the method of getting nicotine in to your blood stream that your quitting. Chantix on the other hand, makes you feel so sick that you dont want to smoke. I felt like my inside were turning inside out.

Yeah, so I hope I can stay quit. If I relapse I will try again. Do any of you guys have successful quit stories?

[Kitten7]

I can't give you a success story but I wish you all the luck in the world! I've been on and off smoking for too long. I want to quit. I watched my dad die from it's effects. I have Chantix but haven't started it yet. How sick does it make you?

[Cristina]

I've slipped

Bur there is always tomorrow. My mind says gross, my body says gross, but that demon inside of me is happy.

Chantix makes you pretty sick. Your really gassy but not farting gassy, but the gassy in the way that you can feel your digestion tract moving around and turning inside out.

this sucks. smoking sucks. quitting sucks. I wish i never started to begin with.

[SkedAddled]

It is difficult.

I've quit for several months to over a year, a couple of times,
but managed to find weak excuses to start again.

I can take some small consolation in the fact that I only smoke
outdoors, and that I am intensely aware of how my clothing
and car smells because of it.
Maybe those are signs I'll quit for good the next time I quit.

[Aussie Paul]

9 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 2 days since I last had one. How'd I do it?

I just told myself "Hey I just had a job interview for a job in the Health system. What sort of person who's working in a hospital would smoke?" I crushed the pack I had (with about 5 smokes to go) and Cold Turkeyed.

Yeah it's hard, and I added about 20 pounds just like that. (Comes from training yourself to have SOMETHING in your hands, so you go from a ciggy to a chocolate bar, say). They've dropped off, but it's all about willpower. You have to really WANT to do it. I decided I did, so I did it.

You'll do fine, Cristina. Just hit the gym more, or find a way to break the habit of having to replace the smokes with life savers, or something, and I'm sure you'll break it.

[Todd]

I cant breath normally let alone while smoking so i never started although i do VERY occasionally bum from someone on the VERY RARE occasion i drink a few beers

[bill door]

Quiting is dead easy. I did it dozens of times.

Then I had a heart attack, brought on by smoking.
If you've not had one, let me tell you how they hurt!!
Never felt the need to smoke again - 3 years and one week exactly.

The patches are foolproof though- so long as you stick the thing over your mouth.

Seriously - best of luck.

[Cristina]

I have been smoking for so long, I dont even try to rationalize why I need to smoke. I am addicted and alaway will be. Nicotine addiction is just like any other addiction. The only difference is, is that it's more acceptable then let's say a meth head or heroin addict. You will always have craving no matter how long you quit. Thats how it's going to be. It's going to suck for the rest of my life if I "stay quit" (Thats the term in nj).

but the pay offs are incredible! I may have blew 7$ by giving in to my stupid addiction but i have saved 2 hours from my life.

I quit for 1 1/2 years and decided one day by peer pressure "geeze I sure would like to light up." Of course it didn't help being kind of loopy at the time but peer pressure is a bitch and I'm a sucker for it.

I really wish that they had some kind of S.A (smokers anonymous) with sponsers and such, cause seriously............ it's a harder addiction to break than crack or powder cocaine and alcohol. Even if it takes not drinking for a bit i will.

The addiction is worse at night when I have nothing to do. I don't go to bed till late cause i can't sleep, but during the day i find stuff to keep occupied.

Thanks for your support. I'll keep ou up dated. If you hear nothing, I probably relapsed. (no news is ever god news when it omes to an addict)

I really really wanna stay smoke free, I have the desire to, but the will is hard.

[Cristina]

9 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 2 days since I last had one. How'd I do it?

I just told myself "Hey I just had a job interview for a job in the Health system. What sort of person who's working in a hospital would smoke?" I crushed the pack I had (with about 5 smokes to go) and Cold Turkeyed.

Yeah it's hard, and I added about 20 pounds just like that. (Comes from training yourself to have SOMETHING in your hands, so you go from a ciggy to a chocolate bar, say). They've dropped off, but it's all about willpower. You have to really WANT to do it. I decided I did, so I did it.

You'll do fine, Cristina. Just hit the gym more, or find a way to break the habit of having to replace the smokes with life savers, or something, and I'm sure you'll break it.

How long did you smoke for?

[Cristina]

Quiting is dead easy. I did it dozens of times.

Then I had a heart attack, brought on by smoking.
If you've not had one, let me tell you how they hurt!!
Never felt the need to smoke again - 3 years and one week exactly.

The patches are foolproof though- so long as you stick the thing over your mouth.

Seriously - best of luck.

Oh yeah I know pateches are foolproof! I love the way my lungs just fill with smoke, it's like a massage, but when you try and run a mile your lungs dont feel so massaged anymore. Unless they are tar free.

[Cristina]

I feel like the zombies from "return of the living dead", BRAINS..................BRAINS!" but it's "CIGGS CIGGS" lol it sux

[Aussie Paul]

How long did you smoke for?

About 7 years seriously (ie pack a day)...Maybe 10 all up, if you include the occasional puffs at social occasions.

I also gave up smoking ummmmm herbal cigarettes too, on the basis that it's often mixed with tobacco to get it to burn better.

[Aussie Paul]

I feel like the zombies from "return of the living dead", BRAINS..................BRAINS!" but it's "CIGGS CIGGS" lol it sux

Or the vegitarian zombie?

GRAIIIINS! GRAIIIIIINS!!!!

[Magnum]

I'm also trying to quit smoking right now, and i'm on my 4th day, with only 4 delicious lounges of smoke 

But yeah, it is so not funny 

[carmen]

Good luck, I know how hard it is to quit.  I have tried several times with no luck.  My Dad quit after smoking for 40 years, and he was up to three packs a day with the help of this web site:

http://whyquit.com/