Congrats!
For the life of me i simply cannot recall the first time i started being anywhere near as disgusting as it feels now. I must have enjoyed it if i stuck with it, i assume.
That’s awesome!
I quit January 14, 2007. I was going to say exactly how long that was but I just realized I haven’t downloaded a meter for this computer. That’s amazing to me because I would check that meter every time I had a craving for a very long time. I’d see how much I’ve saved and take a few breaths waiting for the desire to pass.
I’ve had this computer for several months. Wow. I almost never think about it anymore. I can’t stand the smell. I do still want one sometimes, just that reflex but it passes so quickly I don’t even think about it.
Go us!
On March 25th of 2007 I started to quit. Basically that meant that I no longer smoked at home. I struggled on and off with it. I used gum and still smoked occasionally at work. My last cigarette, and I truly hope and intend it to be the last ever, was on July 23rd 2010.
Damn it is hard. It is really at work that I feel the absence. I am having to find ways to get away from work without going downstairs for a smoke.
Five years? Hey, you’re 1/4 of the way to having no lasting effects, according to my cardiologist. I’ve been free of the demon weed since 1982, and never looked back. Keep up the good work!
Please keep trying! It took almost ten years of repeated efforts for me to quit, too. The most important thing is, don’t give up.
Yeah, I gained about 35 lbs before I realized it, but the doctor seemed to think that the extra weight wasn’t nearly as much of a problem as the tobacco.
Good for you! 
I quit in December, 2008 after smoking for over four decades. When I quit I was up to fifty cigarettes a day. Even over eighteen months after quitting, I miss the cigarettes on a daily basis. I dream of lighting up and wake in a cold sweat, afraid that I’m addicted again. I still love the smell of others’ smoke and don’t walk away when they light up. And I know absolutely and with no doubts that if I light one up, I’m addicted again. So I won’t.
Bravo for you!
I had my last cigarette at the end of January when I went in to have my gallbladder out. From what I can determine, the craving for cigarettes was killed by the morphine they were giving me.
I wasn’t particularly out to quit smoking, but when I noticed that I was past the nicky-fit stage, I actually started to feel like I had “outgrown” smoking. Occasionally, I get the feeling that I would like to have a cigarette, but the feeling passes almost as fast as it arrived. I think of it as a wave washing over me and past me.
I started smoking (at age 23 — go figure) in 1981, quit a number of times after that, finally for good in October of 1999. Today I do not feel like an ex-smoker, but like a non-smoker. Other people smoking doesn’t bother me, though these days it’s more difficult than ever to be around people smoking. I was getting cigarettes by the carton for less than $20 at the time. I am amazed at how much they cost now, especially when I travel since Missouri seems to be one of the cheaper states for tobacco.
Congratulations to LonesomePolecat and all the other quitters on this thread. Including me.
(For those smokers out there looking at this thread hoping for ideas, I bought a copy of You Can Stop Smoking by Jaquelyn Rogers and followed her program exactly. It worked so well I went to a bar to drink two or three weeks after I quit and did not once want a cigarette then or ever since.)
Congrats!!!
I was a two-pack-a-day cigarette smoker for 20+ years, and then quit cold turkey 10 years ago, come September. I haven’t smoked a cigarette since and I don’t miss them at all. It’s all about replacing one habit for another—no problemo. Quitting, for me, was so easy; my only regret is that I didn’t make the attempt much earlier. Now, if I can only do something about my 40 cigar-a-day habit, I’ll be really stoked!
I started at 21, quit at 33, started back at 37. Quit again back in March during a week’s stay in ICU for congestive heart failure. I don’t want a Foley catheter again- ever- so I guess I’ll stay quit this time.
I also enjoy the extra money I have now and the fact that I woke up this morning.