Let's quit smoking together!!!
 

After 18 years its time for me to quit!
Anyone else ready to also?

I am going to try the e-cig method.

Here are some reasons for quitting, I'm hoping that everyone can join in this and give us all good reasons to quit and help each other stay on board. :) Some have different motivates to quit smoking than others.

1. I want my 18 year old stepson to quit before he gets in too far and can't quit. He's WAY too young to have this bad habit!

2. I am tired of feeling tired, no strength, no energy anymore.

3. I loved to be active and workout and hike and mountain climb and now I can't even do it w/o a struggle.

4. My nephews, beautiful babies that I want to see grow up!

5. More than 6,000 companies in the US will not hire a smoker!

6. Smoking in your car depreciates the value of your car, they already depreciate too much as is, and I pay enough for my BMW to not ruin it or make it smell bad!

7. I am too young to have to worry about cholesterol. Quitting smoking will increase my good cholesterol, which will decrease my overall cholesterol.

8. My loving, supportive, wonderful husband hates kissing me after a cigarette. Divorce rate is higher in couples when one is a smoker and the other is not. I don't ever want to lose this man!

9. I am not welcome into bars, restaurants, anywhere really with a cig, so Im always holding someone else up from going in somewhere if they wait for me to smoke. Its embarrassing, Im always apologizing to people for making them wait for me.

10. Its my ONLY bad bad habit that effects my health. I changed my eating habits and want to get back into working out like I used to.


Help me find more and more reasons to quit! :)

I quit smoking 7 years ago after 20 years of smoking. I believe cold turkey is the way to go. Any product with nicotine keeps you enslaved. You're making the decision and that's a start. Good luck.

I am rooting for you!!!

i too quit cold turkey 5 years ago and it was the best thing i ever did now only if my dh could kick the habit. wishing you lots of luck!!

I am going to be trying again with the e cig. They are best thing Ive found so far to help you quit for good iM juat vey weak. Im in excercizes classes now though and would really like to not be smoking

You are not weak! Smoking is the most addictive drug, more addictive than heroin. Many people quit 10 or more times before they finally quit. Please, do not think you are weak. Add your list of reasons why you want to quit to this chain, maybe we can help others also! :)

- Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.

- Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.

- The CDC estimates that adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lose 14.5 years of life because of smoking.

- Every year, about 3,000 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer as a result of breathing secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke also causes about 35,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not smokers.

- Ambergris, otherwise known as whale vomit is one of the hundreds of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes. (YUCK)

- Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3,000 a day in the U.S., and 80,000 to 100,000 a day worldwide. (soooo sad!)

It's not just the smoking that causes all those things. It's nicotine. Throw the e cig away and just quit. After a few days, almost all nic is out of your system and within 3 weeks all trace chemicals are too and you can start healing. Also for every pack you don't smoke, put the money in a jar and save it for a treat for yourself - something you woudl not normally buy. I was a few days shy of my 35th bday when I quit and I never looked back. I recommend the following website: www.whyquit.com

I watched my mom struggle and struggle to try to quit. She finally did it about 5 years ago (that would have made her a 45 year smoker) and although I am so proud of her, I also feel her smoking habit robbed me of the relationship I always wanted with my mom but never had. I still have resentments about it, especially when we're out together and she starts that embarrassing smoker's cough that she will always have. I could go on and on, but I am so totally behind all of your for deciding to quit for ALL the reasons mentioned. Do it for yourself, and do it for the people who love you.

:good job: I don't smoke, but I think it is great you are going to try to stop!! Good for you!! I be be sending good thoughts for you!! You can do it!! :thumbup:

Smoking makes me feel terrible
Nothing would make me more happy then being successful quiting
Nothing would make my Husband more happy than me quiting
Want to quit as an example to my son so maybe he will quit
Last yr I had a breast cancer scare that ended up being a cyst but i had to go to a biopsy and was terrified it was cancer. Never want to go through that again
I like to exercise and take exercise classes aND WALK ON TREADMILL and bicycle smoking doesnt fit in that life style
Im embarrassed of being A smokefr
Im tired of coughing
I want to show my 12 yr old daughter i CAN QUIT
i WANT TO BE ABLE TO BREATHE BETTER
AND so many other reasons I cant think of now

You can do it. Once you get past the first two weeks it's just a matter of reminding yourself that smoking isn't going to fix your anxieties when you get urges. Rooting for you! You'll feel so much all the way around. Cleaner, fresher, healthier, more time, money

I quit regularly its the staying quit...I quit for years at a time and then just one and I'm a dirty lil cig sneaker...

I justify it with its organic the menthol is in the filter only which is cotton bound...well after the kast start up and over $7 a pack its time to be done for good.

I think the ecig might really help I know I looked like an idiot but I cut straws the length of cigs and would hold it in my hand while in the yard at night in the last potty break fir the dog (my trigger time).

Anyways holding and even "pretending" to smoke with the straw really helped actually. I have to completely avoid any menthol flavored anything too its a huge trigger.

Hope it works and I'm in...at a certain point someday my 13 year old daughter may catch me ir discover them and I'll be the negative example I'm trying to avoid her being exposoed to...


Chach me too I necer smoke in public always hidden away outdoors. I lit up outside a restraint a few years ago and a PTA mom came ip and said Hi I tossed my ci like 30feet and was in a cold sweat like a busted beibg naughty little kid!

I posted about the e-cig the other day!! I had gone the entire day with out a cigarette....then I got a phone call that upset me and I bought a pack!! DUMB A$$!!...I ordered some "juice" to refill my cartridges...hopefully it will be in the mail today....I AM GOING TO DO THIS!!! we need to have a support group!!! How can we do this on here....threads get pushed out very quickly...anyway....I'M IN!!!

Good for you! I am 25 and have been smoke free for a year in september! :D
I gad smoked for about 3 years, I knew I didn't want to be a 30 year old smoker, so I just quit cold turkey! It was thebest thing I could have done.
I hope my mom and brother stop some day too, but I know no one can force you, or you'll just start again.

Good luck to everyone seriously thinking of quitting

I remember when I visited New York in i believe 2010 they were over $8 a pack. I couldn't believe it. I bet they are close to $10 by now there. Any New Yorkers here know? I'm very curious to know. They are about $6 here right now.