Qiut smoking day for AZers and support.Monday.

Ain't that somethin.............

Rackemep said:
The vaporizer is working well for me too....its way cheaper than my $7 a day cigarette habit, I don't stink like smoke and most important my wife is happy (trust me that's just as good for my health as quitting smoking lol) I did have a small relapse and took a couple puffs the other night and ill tell ya it was gross ....I don't know how I ever enjoyed cigarettes!
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You don't know what you had until it's gone.

A life with more energy to live strong and healthy.:thumbup:

Another Monday coming to start some new quitters out..................
 
trying to quit

I picked a Monday, April 7, 10 days ago. Using e-cig for now. Looking forward to trying a lighter dosage. I am 67 and had smoked for 52 years. Dont feel strong enough for cold turkey, so using a helper to get me started in the right direction. I hope good luck to all who are trying to quit.
 
Pretty soon you will be strong enough to do anything.......

hotrod said:
I picked a Monday, April 7, 10 days ago. Using e-cig for now. Looking forward to trying a lighter dosage. I am 67 and had smoked for 52 years. Dont feel strong enough for cold turkey, so using a helper to get me started in the right direction. I hope good luck to all who are trying to quit.
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Wow. That's so cool. After 52 years.

Good Luck to you and share your thoughts and battles on here for others to quit.

Good for you my friend..................
 
I quit (again) after smoking for 7 years 2 weeks ago now. I'm using a vaoprizer and it's been really easy. I started with a relatively low dose of nicotine in the liquid and am already starting to dilute the nicotine liquid with the nicotine free kind. The vaporizer is nice because it gives you both the action of smoking and the nicotine at the same time. I would recommend it to anyone trying to quit and have got a few buddies that quit already. Good luck to all of you who are quitting as well.
 
Whatever it takes............

dareads said:
I quit (again) after smoking for 7 years 2 weeks ago now. I'm using a vaoprizer and it's been really easy. I started with a relatively low dose of nicotine in the liquid and am already starting to dilute the nicotine liquid with the nicotine free kind. The vaporizer is nice because it gives you both the action of smoking and the nicotine at the same time. I would recommend it to anyone trying to quit and have got a few buddies that quit already. Good luck to all of you who are quitting as well.
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Good for you.

What ever it takes to get that cig out of our mouths is great.

I think the e-cigs are great because you can see the physical benefits real quick.

Life can get real good and your on the road to victory.

Keep helping others like you because if nothing is said our smoking friends just keep killing themselves quietly, methodically and softly.

One day at a time...........helping others.
 
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Friend of mine juse quit after 30 years of smoking............

I tell him that he had to quit 100 times before.

He read this thread from the start and told me that he decided to give it up.

Do we have any more quiters this week.
 
hotrod said:
I picked a Monday, April 7, 10 days ago. Using e-cig for now. Looking forward to trying a lighter dosage. I am 67 and had smoked for 52 years. Dont feel strong enough for cold turkey, so using a helper to get me started in the right direction. I hope good luck to all who are trying to quit.
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52 years, WOW!! Salute to you man!! thats a long time!
 
Visited the pool room this evening and saw an older friend. I asked how he was doing and he said he was recovering from chemo therapy and radiation therapy. He had lung cancer diagnosis in October and is just getting up and around. Still looked bad but he says he is on the mend. He said if his cancer comes back, he will not take chemo therapy again. I saw him about 9 months ago and asked him why he continued to smoke and he smiled and said he had to die from something and that he had smoked too long to quit now.

Somehow he found a way to quit smoking.

Don't let this be you. Stay strong, STAY QUIT!

JoeyA
 
Hope your still doing good................

hotrod said:
I picked a Monday, April 7, 10 days ago. Using e-cig for now. Looking forward to trying a lighter dosage. I am 67 and had smoked for 52 years. Dont feel strong enough for cold turkey, so using a helper to get me started in the right direction. I hope good luck to all who are trying to quit.
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I was reading all the testimonials from smokers that have quit or are trying to quit.

Share what is going on for you.

If you can quit after 52 years, now that would be strong will power.

How are you doing?;):thumbup:
 
Nice thread, I hope all of you succeed in quitting. I was a smoker for 15 years, I was finally able to quit for good 13 years ago. Here are some things I found out the hard way when I tried to quit some 100 times before finally succeeding.

Do it for YOU! It sounds great & is one hell of a gesture to say you are quitting because a loved one wants you to but unless you really want to quit for you it is going to be harder.

Learn what triggers you wanting to have a cigarette & how to cope with not having one in certain situations. Anger, stress, alcohol, after sex, driving a car, that after a meal smoke were all things I had to deal with & you might have the same or other triggers in your life. Identify & learn to deal with them.

When I was smoking it was still legal to smoke in bars in Maryland so I ended up not going to bars at all for over a year. Before then I could quit for a week or 2 but once I had a beer in my hand it was 2 ciggs for every 1 beer. I ended up quitting drinking all together for over a year.

Good luck to everyone trying to quit. It does get easier, your food will taste better, you will breathe much better, sleep much better & save a hell of a lot of money in the process. :thumbup:
 
JoeyA said:
Visited the pool room this evening and saw an older friend. I asked how he was doing and he said he was recovering from chemo therapy and radiation therapy. He had lung cancer diagnosis in October and is just getting up and around. Still looked bad but he says he is on the mend. He said if his cancer comes back, he will not take chemo therapy again. I saw him about 9 months ago and asked him why he continued to smoke and he smiled and said he had to die from something and that he had smoked too long to quit now.

Somehow he found a way to quit smoking.

Don't let this be you. Stay strong, STAY QUIT!

JoeyA
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I have a neighbor who has had 3 surgeries for throat cancer in the last 4 years & continues to heavily smoke. She pretty much has the same sentiment as your friend, it's sad. Nicotine addiction is very hard to explain to people who have never experienced it. Some will literally & knowingly take that addiction to the grave without ever trying to quit.
 
genomachino said:
I was reading all the testimonials from smokers that have quit or are trying to quit.

Share what is going on for you.

If you can quit after 52 years, now that would be strong will power.

How are you doing?;):thumbup:
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Tomorrow (Monday) will be day 28 no smokes. To anyone trying to quit, get you a "E" cigarette. Still need to use up original liquids so I can downsize to lesser dosage. My kids consider that I have quit smoking. I figure I quit smoking real cigarettes but will need to wane myself down over time on these vapor cigs. Untill I am totally off both I am not gonna be satisfied. House smells better, girlfriend says my clothes quit smelling and my pickup truck is starting to air out.I dont have strong willpower, if I did I would have quit years ago. Have tried many times in the past.One day at a time is all you can shoot for. Im shooting for many one days at a time. GL to all who are trying to quit. I hope many of us make it.
 
Cold Turkey 5 weeks ago.

I am only on the forum occasionally and just saw this thread. I'm 53 and I smoked for about 5 years in my 20's, quit for about ten years, and then smoked an average of a pack a day for the last twenty years.

Between the obvious health concerns and the fact that it's generally just become a giant pain in the a$$ to be hooked on them with all the places you can't smoke, I have "thought" about quitting for a few years now. My self imposed rules of not smoking in the house (never) or my vehicle (the past 10 years or so) made it even more of a pain but in retrospect it probably made quitting a little easier.

So in late March I was having a health issue, probably completely unrelated to smoking but at the time I assumed it was related, and just quit cold turkey mid-morning Monday March 31st. No patches, no gum, no E-anything, no acupuncture, no easing into it, no cheating, just good old fashioned stubborn determination. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but always knew it would be the right approach for me. The biggest fight really has been to avoid replacing them with food but I've pretty much succeeded there too.

No, the cravings haven't gone away but there are fewer per day as time goes on. Yes, I want one right now. Yes, I realize I may not have quit forever. I have no secret but I think two "facts" that I kept reminding myself of certainly helped. The first is that the actual physical addiction is pretty much over in 3-5 days. The second is that the cravings that get triggered throughout the day may never go away, but they generally last only a few minutes. You just need to immediately distract yourself for a few minutes when they come. Tomorrow will be 5 weeks.
 
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