[LauraleeBraswell]

Good for you!

I'm terrible, I need to quit,

[freedumb2003]

I quit after smoking for nearly 30 years. That was 3 years ago and it is the best thing I ever did.

Try Nicotrol inhalers (hits like a cigarette) and Zyban together.

My Mom died (after I quit smoking) of emphysema in her mid-60s after smoking all her life. She was too tired to quit but it was very sad and tragic

[Diego1618]

My advice.....if you want to quit, do not set a date. Do it
spontaneously. Do not wait until you have smoked the last cigarette in the pack. Rip up the pack and shred the individual smokes one at a time. If you do it this way...on the spur of the moment, you will have a better chance at sucess. Get mad at yourself and then do it!

[Diego1618]

My advice.....if you want to quit, do not set a date. Do it
spontaneously. Do not wait until you have smoked the last cigarette in the pack. Rip up the pack and shred the individual smokes one at a time. If you do it this way...on the spur of the moment, you will have a better chance at sucess. Get mad at yourself and then do it!

[L,TOWM]

Try the gum. I was watching my mother in law go from CPOD last summer (well over the last few years, actually). I quit a 28 year habit in August.

I could'nt picture my wife or myself through what Mom went through. I DO NOT want to go that way. It was ghastly.

[engrpat]

I quit about 12 years ago after smoking for about 35 years. I tried everything...and always went back. What I did was not to try to stop but for about 2 weeks I kept telling myself that I was committing suicide and kept after myself. One day at work I took the pack out of my pocket and set it beside the computer to sign in for the day, walked out to get started and later that day it dawned on me I didn't have my smokes. I never had withdrawals, shakes or anything. I had broken the mind addiction. There is hope but you have to want to stop.

[zeebee]

I quit 8/8/88 after 35 years of smoking and never looked back.

I used the Nicorette gum. It was painless (follow the directions!)

[wideminded]

I'm not a smoker, but there is something I have often been curious about. Why do more people seem to smoke when it rains? These days when smokers are often exiled to stand outside buildings when they smoke, I often see these people standing out in the rain. You would think that fewer people would want to smoke when it was raining if they had to stand outside.

[metesky]

Do it and shut up.