Who has Quit Smoking with Success?

[Patti]

I am not a smoker but having lived with my DH for 40+ years who was I know first hand how hard it is to quit. He died last summer from lung cancer at the age of 60. He used the e cig for awhile after his diagnosis but went back to smoking when he could towards the end. It is so terribly addictive. I am so glad you are trying to quit! Keep it up it is so worth it.

[francis53]

Never give up on trying to quit, I smoked for 29 yrs. and tried to quit many times, but it wasn't until my grandchildren came along that I really did it! My children, none of them, smoke and I didn't want to be the stinky grandma, so 17 yrs. ago I gave them up and now I wonder why i smoked as long as I did! My father and father-in-law also passed away from lung cancer and seeing them suffer was also a great incentive for quitting. Good luck!!

[yorkietalkjilly]

I smoked for 10 years and my surgeon boss kept telling me day after day what it was doing to my lungs - even bringing me pictures of lungs taken out at surgery! One day when I had jury duty and ran out of cigarettes, there were none for sale at the Courthouse - and I just never bought more. For the next 3 weeks, whenever I would really crave one I would get on my treadmill and walk as hard and fast as I could until all I wanted to do was breath deep. Finally, the wanting stopped and 6 months later, I smoked half a cigarette but other than that, none since 11-19-88.

[MandiesMom]

thank you all for your encouragement & sharing your stories. i cant get on yt from home right now and my arthritis in my right hand is kicking my butt so very hard to type. just had to say thank you!

[GeorgiesMomma]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

thank you all for your encouragement & sharing your stories. i cant get on yt from home right now and my arthritis in my right hand is kicking my butt so very hard to type. just had to say thank you!

Hope you feel better!

[dawn27]

You can DO IT . . . Just think of how many (minuites, hours, days, months and years) you will add to your life and be there for your children and your family.

Stock up on gum & candy. Never been a smoker but i hear it helps take the urge away.

Good luck !

[celstu1]

I bought an e-cig, called Green Smoke. I really need to plug it in, charge it and fire it up again. I was doing well using it and cut down to maybe 3 cigs a day and using that. I think I got too weak cartridges though and thats why Im not super stoked to try again, but I need to. Honestly I NEED TO!!!!

[MandiesMom]

So, it's been over 2 1/2 days now. I have really weak moments sometimes but still no cig.

[kamax60]

Yay Terri!!! Keep up the good work

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

So, it's been over 2 1/2 days now. I have really weak moments sometimes but still no cig.

Congrats to you! Sometimes you have to take it a minute at a time...if you do that you will see that the actual craving is usually a very short one. When it comes along, just replace it with some kind of positive activity. It will go away!

[SophieKatesMom]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

So, it's been over 2 1/2 days now. I have really weak moments sometimes but still no cig.

Good job!!! just keep telling yourself "I am not smoking today" take it one day at a time.

[MandiesMom]

Thanks for the encouraging words, everyone! It hasn't been easy since I can't get on YT at night from home - so I lost TWO addictions this week! lol

[yorkietalkjilly]

Keep it up - I quit after smoking 10 years and you can do it! I had two neighbors die of COPD and let me tell you, breathing as if through a twisted paper straw partially filled with liquid is no way to spend the last couple of years of your still young life. They both went far, far too early and I miss them dearly. You can't walk or do much of anything without fighting just to breathe through those terribly narrow and congested tubes coming from awful lungs. Going to the bathroom was a major activity for them each those last two years of life! It's a slow death. That is grim but it is the truth! Both were longtime smokers and their houses smelled like smoke and so did their cars. One smoked to the end(!) but the other one did stop a year before the disease took her. Please, please, please do not smoke!!! I stopped cold turnkey 11-19-88 and it was the best day because I did the best ever on my doctor's lung-capacity test. I set a record using that thing about two years ago!

[MandiesMom]

What's sad, Jeanie, is knowing the stuff about the COPD and emphazema and still not being able to break the nicotine habbit. That's how strong it is!

You all (well, most) know about my niece who has Cystic Fibrosis. The girl is literally dying waiting on lungs.

My granny (my dad's mom) had emphazema. She died of something else but was connected to an oxygen tank for the last 10 years of her life.

I see/saw that and I still have not been able to come close to quitting - until now. I try not to put unrealistic expectations on myself but so far, I'm hanging in there.

[yorkietalkjilly]

It is so sad and I know about that habit from when I smoked but eventually, all of those pictures of black, diseased lungs and things got me so motivated I just never bought another pack of cigarettes and thought if I walk around the house screaming and beat my head on the wall, I'm not buying anymore cigarettes ever ever ever. If I die craving, I will stop this and not wind up sick and diseased because I had a habit and let IT run my life. I prepared for a horrible time and it wasn't. I prayed and asked God for help how to avoid cravings. I would get on that treadmill(which I just happened(?) to have bought 3 weeks before and was delivered to my home the DAY I quit smoking at the Courthouse!) and would walk off the jitters and breathe, breathe, breathe. I focused hard at work and started the next project instead of taking that smoke break and got up and went for a walk after lunch rather than having a smoke. Same after dinner. Driving was one of the times I smoked and that was hard but I would turn on Rock N Roll music and actually sip on an icy Diet Cola or chew mounds of Bubblegum as a pacifier as I'd drive to and from work. Soon my body gave up the urging and forgot about it. If you have made it this far, you can make it another day. Just get through the next 24 nicotine free. Go to a movie tonight and then another after if you have to. Shop and spend money or do whatever it takes to not ever pick up another of those nasty things and kick that drug from your body. Your mind and your body is stronger by far than is the craving, especially when you can get immersed in movies or running/walking and shopping shopping shopping and things that can keep your mind and body busy busy busy. Stay busy until you drop. Heck, it's only for a day - you can get through a day. And tomorrow, you can get through that.