I intend that to be my last cigarette

[Recursion]

2017: the year I beat the cancer sticks.

Here goes...

[applegrove]

1. You can do it. I quit almost 9 years ago and love it. I had no craves at all after being quit for a

few months. Keep that goal in mind. Don't forget to get a free account at the quitnet. Log on every time you have a crave and people will egg your quit on or kick you in the pants....whatever you need. Thank your fans there and boom! 5 minutes have passed and so has your crave.

[Hoyt]

2. Good luck. Finally kicked the habit in 1993. It's worth the effort in many ways.

[True Dough]

5. But you had to choose an avatar with a cigarette pursed between his lips!

[Hoyt]

6. True. That was when I was young and stupid.

Still stupid, but the wheezing spurred me to quit.

[Callmecrazy]

3. Try vaping ...

It helped me quit three years ago. I discovered in myself that it's not the nicotine but all the other crap in tobacco that had me hooked to cigarettes. I still vape, and I have my wind and sense of smell back. I smoked for 35 years and now I don't know why I ever started.
Good luck and Happy New Year.

[Recursion]

4. I've switched addictive platforms back and forth for years

I'm done. I'm done needing a substance.

[Iggo]

21. "I'm done."

There it is.

[rug]

7. Good luck!

I'm coming up on four months.

By Wednesday it will be out of your system. Then the hard part comes. But it goes too.

[mopinko]

8. you are a better man than i.

hope to kick it this year, tho. short term habit, but still harder to kick than i thought it would be.

[herding cats]

9. Congrats!

I was in your shoes a handful of years ago. You can do it!!

[democrank]

10. You CAN do this.

I quit as a birthday present for my daughter, because I knew I'd never intentionally go back on my word to her.

This may help you....

I realized that I had a habit of starting my day, just about every day, in a rocking chair on my porch, cigarette and coffee in hand. As soon as I decided I wanted to quit smoking, I changed my morning routine completely. No porch, no rocking chair, no coffee, no cigarette. I poured a glass of cranberry juice, picked up a book and headed for the living room. As simple as it sounds, changing my routine was the beginning of the end and it helped immensely. I never had another cigarette in the 10 years since. Occasionally I would think about having a smoke, but as soon as that happened, I changed whatever I was doing at the moment, sometimes doing something as simple as walking into a different room. You might want to consider doing this and see if changing your (smoking) routine helps you as well.

Best of luck to you.

[OldYallow]

11. Just think of yourself as a non-smoker

Sometimes it takes a mental trick. Also force yourself to not think about smoking when you have a craving. Turn it off. I quit for 2 years then screwed up and started again. Now been 20 years smoke free. I simply don't smoke. I am a non smoker. Was at 3 packs a day last time I quit.

[hay rick]

12. I quit on New Years Day, 1980.

It was my second attempt. My first attempt was 5 years earlier on my 30th birthday. The first time I quit I was living in a large house with 4 other guys, one of whom smoked one or two cigarettes a day. After 2 weeks of not smoking I got to feeling cocky and decided I would also smoke one or two a day because I thought that level of consumption wouldn't be dangerous. A week later I was back to two packs a day...

Good luck. You can do it.

[Yavin4]

13. I quit this past November using the patch.

It worked. Been smoke free for 2 months. The cost of smokes in NYC ($13 a pack) also helped. Good luck to you.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. "They" said if you make it past the first week, you will be fine.

Day 4 is the worst.
I actually prayed.
damned if the cravings did not stop.


Last cig April 1998.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. There's an app for that

Lots of them actually

http://www.healthline.com/health/quit-smoking/top-iphone-android-apps

[Tikki]

16. Some clues from a former smoker...

Clean the walls, curtains, all bedding and wash clothes, clean inside car if necessary....this isn't just about getting rid of the smell of cigarettes. It is about starting the parting with that habit.

Change your schedule as much as you can. Get out of bed on the other side. Take a shower at a different time.
Eat meals at a different time. Sit in a different chair. Rearrange furniture if possible.
Stop at a different gas station and coffee shop.
Shop at different places as much as you can.
Take walks in different places.

Tough part...stay away as much as you can from smoking friends and coworkers.
I don't know where you live, but most workers have to leave a building to smoke.
Tell the smokers...you don't feel up to it. One day at a time.
If you have a smoker at home they will eventually notice, let them in on the goal,
I actually quit after watching my son quit and stick to it.

This one really works...put the money you spent on them...in a bank or jar.
It adds up quickly. Plan a trip in a month with the money and then 6 months and then a year.

Days 7~10 can suck...so can days 15~18. One day at a time. But days 23 into infinity can be oh so sweet.

I quit January 14th 2005. 13 days after I saw my son quit January 1st 2005. Neither of us have ever smoked again.
I quit cold turkey...he quit with the patches.

You'll do it...you are smart.

Tikki

[yardwork]

17. Good for you! One day at a time.

[Mosby]

18. try the nicotrol inhaler, its prescription

I used the euro/australian guidelines where you can still smoke a little at first.

8 years without a cig, I used to smoke 2 packs/day.

[Cairycat]

19. Good for you! You can do this!

I too felt the first week was the hardest. Sometime toward the end of that time my husband said, "Go ahead! Just smoke! Just smoke if you're going to be such a bitch!" Of course that made me stubbornly determined NOT to And I ate a lot of gum drops, which I probably wouldn't recommend but helped me. Smoke free since October 1986

[Laffy Kat]

20. Yay! Good for you.

[rurallib]

22. 42 years ago I did it with deep breathing

it's cheap, available everywhere and can be done in any setting.

This was before gums and vaping and patches -
ten deep breaths when you have an urge and it goes away.