My mother quit too only after she lost a lung. She died at the age of 59 from smoking related cancer.
I quit cold turkey, no crutches. Thanksgiving weekend 2011. 3 days before the birth if my first grandchild.
My doctor says, ‘If you smoke, you’ll be at the bottom of the list for health care resources.’
It’s a twofer for liberals. They get to control other people’s behavior and steal money at the same time.
When I first read, ‘I quit..’ you scared me. I thought you had gotten mad about something and was quitting FR!
You’re one of our best.
I would expect that by using ‘vaping’ to quit is a bit difficult as one retains the ‘get an urge, feed the urge’ cycle whereas something like the ‘patch’ delivers a constant stream of nicotine.
Look I have been rolling my tobacco cigarettes for over 10 years....one pound of tobacco (not treated in any way just good ol’ tobacco) costs 12.99 plus a 5.5% sales tax...it lasts 3 months or more......I purchased a gross of papers online a year ago....The tobacco I buy is tax class K which is deemed pipe tobacco so the fed and state can’t tax it like the chemically treated garbage in every prepackaged multi carcinogen laced death stick’s your government forces manufacturers to create (for your own good) Idiots wake up and do what you want....these same swinging dicks and arrogant broads will scream to high heaven when cash stops flowing into their pathetic agencies because they piss and moan about tobacco. Our country was funded by this plant to supply the world...how stupid are you ...... everyone dies and boo hoo...who would want to live forever with crying little faggots constantly whining about what offends them? Grow a pair and and act like you are actually FREE ...screw the fed/state and anyone else who gets in your way pursuit of liberty and happiness. No one likes a quitter.
My 20 yr old daughter recently quit cigarettes. She used a vap for a month and then quit that too. Jesus took away all cravings, one day she woke up and had no cravings anymore.
My vaporizer changed my life as well as my finances. I’m so much healthier and look and feel great. It’s motivated me to correct my diet and get back in the gym 3 times a week. My depression also went away. Certainly, it must be banned.
I quit about 6 years ago using laser therapy.
I tried so many other things. It sounded crazy enough that it might work. I never craved a cigarette again. The week after my 20 or so minutes of non-invasive laser therapy, I could set in a room full of smokers and not want one. It may be the best $200 I ever spent.
Liquor has caused more death and destruction than tobacco ever has or ever will.
I smoked for 50 years. My parents smoked, hell...the whole world smoked then. Sunday drives to gramma’s house, me and my sisters in the back seat while mom and dad flicked ashes out the vent windows of daddy’s Galaxy. Fast forward to 2014, I go to Sheetz every week and plunk down $35 (Virginia prices) for another carton of Pall Mall Light (Lights..yea right). Last December 18th, I was fighting a bad cold. I had gone to the menthols, the usual method of smoking while you have a chest cold. I started coughing, and then had that moment that must be what it feels like to drown. I couldn’t breathe, the docs said my lungs started to spasm. I was able to get to the phone and dial 911 and croak out the words, “trouble breathing....” After four days in ICU I finally got the hint. Have quit 9 months and counting...and yes I still have a crave now and then. Probably always will. But of all the ways I may die, flopping around on the kitchen floor like a fish out of water is one of the least attractive. Trust me on that one. Plus there is the added bonus of flipping off the tax man.
Vaping got me off cigarettes easily and I can do it in hotel rooms and airports and any other place where smoking is verboten - it’s not smoking!
The people who want ban or restrict these e-cigs are murderers, period. Their motive, less tobacco tax revenue or rank stupidly.
I seriously want to punch them all in the balls/ovaries. E-cigs don’t kill and they don’t stink up my air like noxious cigarettes do, great invention. I’m happy to say my stupid little brother got off the death sticks thanks to them.
Tried the gum in the early 80s. Didn’t work — for me.
Tried the patch in the mid 90s. Didn’t work — for me.
Finally puffed my last in January 2003, finished off the half pack, and never bought another.
One big factor was the constant increases in taxes/price.
I quit for one whole day in 1979,
I quit for another whole day in 1985.
I quit for good in early 2003. I found my hard cravings happened 3 times per day. The actual craving lasted less than 20 seconds. If I would outlast that (which I did), I could get through.
A whole day. Then, a week. A whole month. The cravings subsided to almost non-existant. Then, about about 6 months later, I started having hard cravings again. They did follow the same pattern — 3x per day for about 20 seconds. I lasted through them. After about a month, I didn’t have the cravings anymore.
I sometimes reminisce when I see a smoker on TV, but I have a philosophy:
A puff leads to a cig which leads to two cigs which lead to a pack which leads to a carton which leads to a habit.
I will start my 13th year in January. Whenever I want to upgrade computers or get a splurge item, I say I can afford it out of the money I have saved from cigs. At current prices, that is around $3,000 per year that would have otherwise gone up in smoke.
It can be done!
After smoking for 25 years, I quit cold turkey 20 years ago. IMHO it is the only way to do it. Replacing one habit with another is just a waste of time.
The State harassing and punishing people who have quit using tobacco is sick. We know liberals are not in this sin tax nonsense because they stand on some high moral ground or love human life and want to protect it. That is not their thing. Taxing, bullying and shaming people - that is their thing.
Oops - thought it said, “On being a QUILTER” “;^<