[Dolphan]

In 6 days, it will be 6 yrs that I quit smoking.

Quit cold turkey.

I kick myself for even ever starting such a dirty, disgusting habit.

[Young Werther]

Aug 14th 1976 was my cold turkey day. I quit on my wedding day at the urging of my soon-to-be wife. We had dated three years but she asked for this special wedding gift which was a gift to both of us!

Congrats to you!

[Lady Jag]

Six years and 45 days ago for me . . . we quit within a couple months of each other.

It is not easy and I must have tried to quit at least a dozen times before it stuck, but it is a lot easier than croaking on butts and the day-in-day-out harrassment I suffered.

[newgeezer]

In 6 days, it will be 6 yrs that I quit smoking. Quit cold turkey. I kick myself for even ever starting such a dirty, disgusting habit.

Congratulations.

You sound like my dad who quit smoking 8/1/68. Cold turkey. Pall Mall straights, a pack a day. No way he'll ever start again. Despises the smell and the filth.

Although he eventually gained and kept 40+ lbs. he didn't need -- food tastes so-o-o much better -- he's generally healthy today at the age of 80. Doctors say after so many years, it's as if he never smoked at all.

[raccoonradio]

My mom quit smoking on Oct 12, 1974, when I was twelve.

She quit because she stopped breathing, forever. I've never touched tobacco though I did take a few tokes of the odd joint or two in high school.

Some people smoke and die young. Others can smoke and live to a ripe old age. Your choice.

Personally my own vice of overeating helped to give me diabetes. I have a friend who found out at the age of 38
that he had diabetes--he was in a high risk group (black),
overweight, and getting to be almost 40 ("fat-family-
forty"). Went into a coma for a couple days because his
blood sugar (he didn't realize he had diabetes yet)
was sky-high. Doctors told him the only way he survived
was because he didn't smoke or drink.

My dad had a co-worker who was a vegetarian but the guy
wound up dying anyway (in his late 50s) because he smoked.
Again, some people get lung cancer, some don't. Your choice, and I don't want to deprive anyone of their right to
smoke. (I even think that bars/restaurants go too far,
in terms of anti-smoking legislation. But I will say that back in the old days when we had "smoke filled bars",
I had to leave after awhile because I got sick of the
smell.

We ought to have bars/restaurants that either allow
smoking or don't. You want to smoke, go to the ones
that allow it. You want smoke-free, go to the smoke-
free ones. Fair enough?

[Textide]

Good for you. Hope to be there with you in a few years.

I quit on Fathers' Day 2004 after promising my Dad that I'd never smoke again. That promise did what gum and patches could not.