Did You Quit Smoking? How? Why? and How Long?

Well I figured you smoke by one of you other posts but most of my friends smoke and they try hard to be polite around me as I am not a smoker but once, well twice was. I quit smoking after 15 years of smoking. It was a story that I think is a bit weird but I quit smoking and that's great in my books. I think when you really decide to quit something triggers inside and you do. You just quit. When I quit. It took me two days. Well really one I guess. The first day I started quitting I cut my smoking in half and the next day I didn't smoke and that was that. I had no cravings except every once in a while I would have a dream where I was smoking with out realizing it and when I did realize I stamped it out and was disgusted with myself and even when I woke up I would feel depressed about lighting up even though it was only in my dream. So I would love hear and smell that you've given it up.

I quit smoking about 8 months ago. One day I lit up a smoke and I puked and I thats when I thought I could be pregnant cuz me and my husband had been trying. So I went to the health department and they verified it that I was preggy and now everytime I think about having a ciggerette I get sick and I thank god that I became pregnant or else I would still be smoking to this day.

It's not easy at all. I tried quitting several times and couldn't go through with it. Finally one day i just felt so bad that I told myself I had to quit before I made myself have serious health conditions. I just straight up quit, in one day, no help or nothing! It was hard but, I DID IT! I had smoked for four years before I quit and it has been almost a year since I quit.

no i didnt quit smoking yet... but trying for it..

I smoked until I thought I was pregnant with my first son, as soon as I thought I was I quit. I was not going to smoke while pregnant. When he was 3 months I did smoke one and that's the last one I've had... that was almost 5 yrs ago. I still crave one quite a bit, but won't do it because of my kids. Good luck if you do decide to quit.

I don't smoke but my father used to smoke for 20 years and then he stopped, it's been arouind 5 years now since he stopped smoking. He still has 1 pack of em yet he doesn't use them i am happy for him because he has brought a bit of health back to himself. MY father could quit ANYTIME, I noticed this because he could go without a smoke for days sometimes. Then we asked him to stop. He said alright ill do this for you. And so he did. The reason he quit is because it would affect our health too because of second hand smoke.

i quit smoking when i was 16 years old...i have started when i was 12..why?just one day i asked myself:why do i smoke?my answer was:just to be cool..so,i thought,i am 16 i am mature now and i dont have to be cool to anybody anymore:)

I dont smoke so i cant quit smoking but seem a hard and long problem for the smoker abuser and very dangerous for them, have a nice day on mylot and happy earnings also.

till now i haven't quit smoking, neither planning for it. if really wanna quit, just quit thats what i think if talk about it and think about it, its gonna be real hard for you.

To Quit smoking is prbably the easiest thing to do. I have done it a 100 times. On a more serious note, it's absolutely upto willpower. i am still quite young and never felt the need to quit smoking. But I hope when i need to, i can stop it in one go. U will hear all these remedies going around that u reduce the no of cigerettes in a day. but i feel its just rubbish. smoking can be stopped by absolute will power and willpower alone. Its a test of mind over body. and if u cant do it in one go, then u have to accept the fact that u dont have control over yourself.

Well this is about the 3rd time I have quit smoking, but I firmly believe that YOU must really want to quit. For instance one of the other times I decided to quit smoking was when I really couldn't afford to buy them. This time, after much thought, I knew I was at an point in my life that continuing to smoke was the worse choice I could make. I'm not going into all the details here. But I'll give you the shortened version of my beginning addiction. I was 38, a single parent with four young children/teenagers and a full time college student, trying to better myself. I picked up a pack and it was so hard to put them down. I loved the feeling of the first couple of buzzes I'd get and wanted to keep finding that little high I got when I smoked them. Jump forward, now I'm 45, my kids are almost all on their own, and now 3 of the 4 smoke. My reason is they saw me do it. My youngest is now 17, a smoker for 1 1/2 years, and I have gave him ciggarettes, bought and he has taken from me and his stepfather without asking. Stealing! So without really even no one person telling me I need to quit, I decided that the ones I had on New Years Day would be my last ones. So about 8 pm New Years Night I had my last ciggy. I selected to tell my family only at the last moment. One of my children I just called this week and told her. Well the family has been supportive, but the most support I have gotten so far and this is what keeps me going I think, is to tell those coworkers and bosses at my 3 part-time jobs who knew I smoked and who especially those at these jobs who do not smoke. They have praised me and tell me how proud they are. To me that means so much more from them than those in my family who have told me the same thing. I do not want to let anyone down and this has been my biggest factor in not picking them up again. I buy cinnamon discs to suck on while driving and at the computer, where those two places are where I loved to smoke the best. Those bags of candy are 2/$3.00 and I'm on my 3rd bag in my 3rd week. So much cheaper than the ciggy's. And now I'm putting that money I would have spent on a very bad and addictive habit in a savings account where I will pool and save until I want to take a vacation. My thoughts are I can save this money and have a nice trip as well and improve my health one day at a time. Has it been easy? No. Will I succeed? I can only do it with God helping me. Will I be guaranteed to live an additional 20-30 years longer? That is not up to me, but my God who knows which day is my final day to breathe. But you know what, smoking was a choice I made. Now I just choose, not to smoke. I wish you luck. Do it for you and no other reason. Other factors will play into the equation once you truly decide.

I tried to quit 100 times but cant help my self,but i know all the best was to quit smoking..but they cant help me nither will it help you unless u have courage to quit

Check how I quit in my discussion on mipen2006. You must want to quit. You have not yet convinced yourself.

Smoking is really a addiction and not easy to quit all of sudden. But good thing is there are many rehabilition center for helping to get rid of these habits. Try them and make a great change in your life.

no, i am not quit smoking until now

with regard to this i heard joke, a person said, it is very easy to quit smoking, the other one surprised and asked how? he replied i quit smoking more than four times....

i am not at all a smoker and i hate smoking and i would like to suggest all smokers to quit it before it is too late.

it is difficult to quit,but it is a bad habit everyone should quit

I am still trying to quit. From 2 packages a day, now it´ ?just? 1 package a week. I am still smoking but i think i will reduce it little by little... Last year when someone told me why not to quit smoking, i told them a joke that there are 3 ways to make me stop smoking: 1. Stop thinking of anything. Because, one of the most greatest moment for me to enjoy smoking, while i am thinking about something. 2. Stop putting myself on a ?waiting? situation: Well, in my country most of the people cannot keep their promises about coming on time, when they have somekind of meetings or appointments. So, what you gonna doinstead, while waiting?... Smoking! 3. Stop breathing... Well... Good thing that i am not yet coming to this point... I already thinking of quit smoking...:-)

yes, i did quit smoking. I started smoking at the ag of 15 to be "cool". i know, peer-pressure, but everyone falls to it at some point in their life. at that point i was living in Los Angeles, and the people i hung out with all smoked, so it was not anything out of the ordinary. Then when i was 16 i moved out to the valley area and had to start making new friends. of course, smoking was a door that was already open, so i walked in and began making friends with the same habits. then in the summer i met a girl (now my wife) and things started to change. in the beginning i never came out and told her i smoked, but whenever we walked by someone smoking she said how disgusting it was and how much she hated it. i stopped, that was enough. i was so infatuated with her from the moment i saw her i would do almost anything for her. it was hard, i found myself going home at 11, having a cig and then beating myself up about it later. it took about a good 2 months for me to quit, but i did. Now we have talked about it, and she said she knew i smoked and she wanted me to quit before our relationship could have progressed, so i know i did the right thing. so what i recommend is finding some motivation, if your self health is not enough, and holding on to it. you can do it if you really want to, and i am even willing to be a support system for you if you would like. if so i will talk with you soon, and if not, good luck and i wish you the best...