Dr. Sue and I quit on March 22nd, so we're coming up on 6 months. I smoked for almost 20 years, I smoked longer than I didn't smoke. If I can keep it up, so can anyone. Quitting is hard, stayin' quit is easy.

Just wanted to update this thread, to 12 months without a smoke. Not one, never cheated once. Not wanting to toot my own horn, but more so to tell you, that if I can do it, anyone can. You will be mean and grumpy for a while, but it will pass. It is worth it, I feel so much better. Somehow, managed not to put on any real weight either. I maybe gained a few lbs in the first few months, but it all evened out over the year.

Nice!

Excellent!

Whyy not toot your horn? It's a great accomplishment!

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Toot away! You've certainly earned it! Congratulations and great work!
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Doing really good there! Keep it up. No backsliding.

YEAH BABY!!!

My one year mark will be October 13th at 1600.

Terrific!

You have done and will do a lot of important things in your life...quitting smoking will have an impact on all of them, present and future.

Stay the course. Toothpicks work for me:cool:

Hey Fastfreddy - I've been 'off the butts' for 30+ yrs. now. If I can do it, you can - hang in there - it's worth it & you'll be proud of yourself.

Cheers
JB

Yo Fast Fred...........just now saw this thread........wow - GO GO GO.....you can DO IT!

The Pelican Nation is behind you!!!!!!

If you feel the urge...hey post a toon on the music thread! ;)

Keep up the great work - we're proud of you bubba! :D

Good for you Fred. Been since 1991 for me. You'll have urges as you know. Fight them with anything that works. I still could fire one up now but it isn't an urge. It is more, boy a cigarette would taste good now. It passes in a nano second and you know it isn't the right thing to do anyway. I went thru a divorce without firing up.

Good luck the rest of the way, (which is the rest of your life).

i'm 2.4 years out now, i rarely get such urges in normal life.. i do get em when i've been boozing.. but like you say, a nanosecond then they're gone. I can't get drunk enough that i would fall for it again.

Things people don't regret for 400, Alex!!

keep going mate!!!!
I quit cold turkey on March 1st 2005. never looked back!!!
so how much money did you save by quitting? smokes are so expensive these days, it must be in the thousands!

I remember when I quit smokeless tobacco back in 2000. It was a little over $5 bucks a tin. I was going through one and a half to two a week. When I threw it away, I never looked back. I don't miss it anymore. I have no idea what it costs now and don't care. I'm glad not to have any health problems related to chewing tobacco.
Good for you, quitting smoking and being clean for a year. It only gets easier. :D

Atta boy!!!

Drop and give me twenty.

No, make it fifty.

:) Seriously... congratulations... very few people can do what you did without cheating even once. Way to go.

Bud of mine did the electronic cig thing for a bit... then went back on the real deal.

I like to update this thread once a year, just to help myself keep on the right track, and maybe help nudge another one of you to beat it.
I see I recently passed my 3 year mark without a smoke. No cheats, not once. I'll never put one in my mouth again. Can't even fathom that I was once enslaved by those stinky , nasty , expensive, cancer causing , time wasting cigarettes.
Once you have passed about the 6 month mark, it is all downhill and gets easier every day. Every once in a while I get a whiff, of one, and for a split second, it smells good, but I instantly snap out of it.
A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. He is still smoking, and 100 % in denial about what caused it. Bothers the hell out of me. Sort of like a race to his grave, only he can't run, cause he cant catch his breath and coughs up blood any time he does anything more physically challenging than tying his shoes .
Put em down boys, you can do it!!! It is nice here on the other side , and smells better too.
If I did it, anyone can.

Congratulations Fred!
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I smoked for 10 yrs. - motorcycle crash and asked a smoker for one, that started it.
In May of 2010 I had a quad by-pass and I'm sure it was from smoking.

Even better...you've saved enough $ for a pretty nice 911.

2packs/day @ $10per = $20

$20 × 360(we'll keep major holidays off the calendar) = $7200 × 3 = $21600

Seriously, what an accomplishment!!!

I wish my mom and her dead brother had a will like you

Keep up the good work.

Great news and can't believe I missed this thread. I smoked for about 20 years and agree with Fred 100%
"Can't even fathom that I was once enslaved by those stinky , nasty , expensive, cancer causing , time wasting cigarettes."
I'm 46 and quit about 7 years ago, will never go back. I tried a bunch of times, using the patch, chewing the gum, both at the same time but finally realized those have nicotine and THAT'S what I need to get off of. Cold turkey worked for me and wasn't as bad as i dreaded it would be. Kick the habit, you will feel great about it!

Fred, you are an inspiring success story. Keep reminding us so that others will believe they can do the same. Congrats again! I quit about 45 years ago because I didn't want to be "enslaved by those stinky, nasty, expensive (although when I started, a pack was 23 cents), cancer causing, time wasting cigarettes." Something amazing to me is that tobacco has been used since the 1500's (? +or-), and some people on the earth are just now realizing it's not healthy to do and doing something about it.

Congrats Fred - and nice of you to provide support for those who are still hooked.

I've never met any smoker who didn't want to quit - maybe your thread will help at least one person - you never know.

Congrats again!

Since we're updating, still quit for both of us. We work out bootcamp style which we never could have done if smoking, and I'm now stronger that I've been since age 18 (hundred pushups? No problem! Pull ups? A-OK!). I even had a cigar on a cruise last November and didn't want a smoke afterwards. I did however get painfully violently sick a few hours later...but that's something I don't want to discuss :)


My aunt smoked heavily her whole life. She went in for lung cancer and had most of a lung removed, was in the hospital (and NOT SMOKING) for several weeks, any normal person would have quit from that. She got out, walked across the street and bought some smokes. Then she died 8 months later.

When you are forced to quit (because you're in a hospital bed for weeks, or because someone who loves you threatens to leave, or because you can no longer do basic things like walk up a flight of stairs) QUIT!!! Just freaking QUIT!

Good on you Fred. It would be a shame to die of something so preventable.

I went cold turkey. Nearly went mad, but haven't smoked since.



"Do you smoke after sex?"
"I don't know, I've never looked."






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Good job Fred,

i'am at 4.4 years now, i rarely even think about it now.
Might have 3 times a year where some kind of memory of nicotine comes up, and it doesn't even bother me, not even if there are smokers around and i'm ****faced.. it just smells awful now.

"Nudge away" brother & Good onya Fred

Cheers JB

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That's good news!

I quit snuff (Swedish version of chew) at roughly the same time as you did cigarettes. I can still feel the cravings from time to time. I dreamt of having a snus many times.

I calculated that my daily intake of nicotine while using was equivalent of having 80-100 smokes. Every day! (4mg nicotine in each snus, compared to ~0.5mg in every cigarette).

Honestly, cold-turkey was only way that could work...I had physical withdrawal symptoms for three weeks (irritability, loss of sleep), then psychical for roughly three months. Never had another one, ever.

I love hearing personal success stories.
This is one of them!
Congrats!

I quit chewing a few weeks ago when Curt Schilling shared his story on SC. At first I found myself turning the channel & realized that wasn't going to work this time like it did with Tony Quinn. Good luck to all that are trying to quit tobacco, it's well worth the hassle.

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cool.

pure cool............

Quit chewing 13 years ago, and haven't looked back. Nicotine is a crazy drug - I still think about taking a dip every now and then.

Good for you, Fred.