If you hold quit smoking or are trying to quit, what is your biggest resist?
I quit smoking in 1971. Except for a few cigars I haven't smoked since and my last cigar was within 1977. Have you quit or are you trying to kick the habit? I quit cold turkey without a support group or any style of medicine or other aid. Once I firmly decided to quit I had no trouble staying quit, but I did backslide several times on the approach to successfully quitting. I never doubted I could kick the habit, though it was not confident to quit after years as a smoker.
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I Have tried and failed at it and i Applaud you .keep hold of up ur excellent work
The hardest parts are when im at work i have that little voice contained by the back of my head that says purely have one, or share one with a friend. I haven't gave into draw, i find that if i say the phrase it will not kill me to not smoke out loud or contained by my head and then start branching off close to my girlfriend likes it when i don't smoke so it will not kill me to not smoke, This type of reinforcement helps me a great deal of the time when i am having an urge. I think that is the toughest segment about quitting is the conscious mind that wants you to smoke.
I am indeed impressed. I salute you, congratulate you, and no one could possibly bestow enough accolade that you so richly deserve: I am dead serious - "scouts honor".
I'm only about 7 yrs. your senior, and I've given up totally trying to quit. My closing attempt was about 2 mos. ago, when I tried Chantrix I think it be called: a medication program that is designed if I recall correctly, to pilfer approximately 8 wks. or so to be effective - results were supposed to have be noticeable after the 2nd wk.
I had begun the 3rd wk., but I begin to feel so strange and really rather ill, that I have to quit.
As an adolescent(child-?) around 11 yrs. old, my brother and I were persuaded by our smallholding friends, peers - lived in rural Arkansas - to try a cigarette. Become hooked good, shortly thereafter, and have smoked around 2 + pks. a daylight, ever since. Stopped once for 6 mos., and another time for maybe a week or two; but for never as long as you have.
And guess what? Even though I have COPD, I hold no signs of lung cancer. So I've just forgotten about my smoking, and decided to try and live duration at it's fullest during the time I have left - and you know who, only know how long that will be.
Cheers,
Alberich
its seeing a cigar within a store and knowing Ive got my drivers license in my purse. But it helps not to filch youre drivers license to the store so u cant buy em
Ive been smoking for 5 years, and i own tried to stop many times but its hard being contained by a social environment where there are smokers. And sometimes i enjoy a smoke whether i am bored, out for coffee, drinking...thats where on earth i will find it hard....i know i shud stop cas i can feel the effects but it is VERY hard...i know that within a month or so they are putting cigarettes up to $20 a packet...that mite influence me not to! I kno its going to take a few goes before i really stick to it..
Sex...we used to always enjoy a cigarette after sex.
So since we quit smoking...we don't have as much sex.
But we drink a lot of ice cream.....
The hardest thing for me was getting to the event that finally forced me to quit. It was a sore that wouldn't alleviate.
Warren, I first quit about six months ago, after smoking for nearly fifty years. I did pretty good for a few months. But my daughter who lives at home, also smokes. So yes, I have backslide too. (Sorry Charli)
I have since quit again, sneaking a few drags here and there. But I know I cannot afford even this.
The one thing that keep me firmly rooted to my final destination is my breathing. My breathing sounds so horrible (like a death rattle) it keeps me awake at night, and at times it get difficult to breathe.
My last pack of cigarettes, I was rolling my own! They had gone over $5.00 a pack!
"Cold turkey" is the solely way and without all the support.
The more attention drawn to it the harder it is...
I commend you, my friend! I am still surrounded by battle!~
Hi warren..
congrats on that time its impressive.. i have been free for over 5 years presently.. after smoking for more than 40 years.. the thing that worked for me was a support group..
the biggest challenge, be to become convinced, i couldent smoke just one..
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I began smoking at 17 and decided I needed to quit at 38. I did use the patch (21gms nicotine for 6 weeks, 14gms nicotine for 2 weeks and 7gms nicotine for 2 weeks). Got through the first 8 weeks with a plan and didn’t obligation the last 2 weeks of patches. The last cigarette I ever smoked I did it within front of my mirror. I made it as unpleasant as I could by taking frequent long drags (I wanted it to be the most unpleasant memory of smoking that I could create) and asked myself if this is what I wanted to be a slave to for the rest of my life or did I hold the courage and will power to conquer it.
My plan: I decided in advance that I be going to tackle all of the things around my house that I thought about for years and never get around to them. First on the list was to refinish my kitchen cabinets. I chose the most difficult and time consuming article first. By the time I finished that project I had pretty much kicked the habit. Keeping my hands busy and focusing on something that I have committed myself to really helped. I also chewed on straws, all day! Honestly, it be easier to overcome the addiction to nicotine than it was to overcome the habit of actually going through the motions of smoking.
Every once within awhile, even after all the years that have gone by, I still get a craving for a cigarette but it is individual after a meal and the craving lasts for about 1/100 of a second.
I am immensely glad that I quit and I know I would never ever go back to smoking, if only because it is so darn expensive very soon. Besides, I can’t stand the smell of it.
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