Posted on 09/07/2012 1:20:27 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
I've smoked since I was 15 years old. I turned 55 last March and now it's time to quit!
I vowed that when cigarettes got to cost 28 cents a pack I would quit. Now they’re over $6. a pack. I’ll never quit now, because the cost will never get back to 28 cents again.
The way I quit my two pack a day habit was one winter I got a cold and I kept smoking anyway. I forced myself to smoke no matter how much it hurt or how much I didn’t want to. Did that for a couple of weeks, then just quit smoking entirely and I finally got over the cold. Never really felt like smoking much after that.
LOL
I smoked less, then used dip, then sunflower seeds. This is over a couple of months. I also drank no booze during this time.(well, I drank a couple times)
P.S. Did you tell anyone off, or hit on any hotties at your retirement party?
I did it my self and about the same years - you can do it.
For once in my life I kept my big mouth shut!
I think it was because my wife was my DD and much of my family was their.
I did outlast all the drinks though, sticking to Coors Light only.
I had smoked for many years and had quit 30 times only to come back doing it again. 8 years ago my wife begged me to quit, she had a friend who used welburtin to quit.
A doctor was able to get me that drug. I followed the plan,
have never smoked again nor did I have a craving to do so again. Clean for 8 years and money ahead!
Good job. I hope you quit smoking and enjoy your retirement. Keeping busy will help as well....for both.
Good luck.
I quit after 25+ years cold turkey.
I drank A LOT of water(Flush out your system) for 4 days and a lot of prayer.
I’ve been smoke free since 11am Feb. 27 2012.
I’m going to need the money after retiring.
That part is my biggest motivation!
Randy, from my personal experience, there’s only one way to quit smoking: cold turkey. Gum, pills, etc. They’re just crutches. Until you develop the guts to just quit, you’re just fooling yourself.
I don’t mean to mean. That’s just the way it is.
Now here’s another side: I smoked my last cigarette on February 24, 1999. It’s been 12 1/2 years. And I still want a cigarette every day. I smoked 2-3 packs a day for 43 years. Powerful, powerful addiction.
Now here’s another side: I know now that if I had not stopped when I did I’d probably be dead today.
Good luck Randy. You can do it. It takes character and guts. You CAN win!
≤}B^)
once you get past the automatic ones it's easy... but the automatic ones are hard, the first one of the day, the one with coffee, the one after you eat, the one when you get in the car, the one with a beer, etc
once you get past them it's all down hill from there
Step 1. Put a half pack of cigs in the glove compartment of your vehicle and let them dry out.
Step 2. Keep smoking for several weeks.
Step 3. Go fishing or some other activity you enjoy with no fresh cigs.
Step 4. Grab and light one of the dried out cigs.
Step 5. Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, and throw them away.
Worked for me after smoking over 30 years.
IMHO, E-cigs are nothing more than another type of crutch. You need to kick them to. If you don’t, you can’t say you’ve quit smoking.
I quit in 1995. I used the patches, which were brand new and a very expensive prescription at the time. I chewed gum and cried. A lot. I had been a two packs a day girl.
However, just two days after I got the prescription for the patches, my best friend was diagnosed with lung cancer, even though she had quit ten years before.
I spent the next year driving her to and from chemo and radiation appointments.
She died almost a year to the day from her diagnosis. My husband’s father died the same day. Somehow I managed to get through that time without picking cigarettes up again. I did gain weight. I lost some of it (60 lbs) this past year by cutting my carbohydrate intake in half. That is an ongoing process.
Good luck. If I can do it, anyone can.
I quit cold turkey too. I had someone tell me that if you remember when you quit, you have not quit. I have no idea when I quit, but it's been a long time ago.
You know, the e-cig makers should start marketing their stuff to non-smokers.
Dang it. Ok. I’ll join ya.
You can not quit until you actually want to ...
For me it took burning a hole in the leather seat of my brand new Ford Bronco ... was really po’d ... crumpled my pack of Camels and haven’t touched one since ... (that was 1989, I had smoked since 1970) easiest thing I have ever done, never looked back.
TT
PS I had quit dozens of times before
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