Good luck! I think I’m going to join you. Been thinking about it for months.
I’ve just started a midnight shift at work, in a secure building. If I want to smoke, I have to call security to come around, unlock the building, and stand around waiting for me to smoke, then let me back in. It just makes sense for me to not smoke on my shift. And if I can make it 8+ hours, hell, I may as well just quit for good 
Thirty-plus-year smoker now 2 years clean here. One of the things that made it easier for me was that for several years before I quit I didn’t smoke in my house. Even when it was -20 F. outside, I bundled up in my coat and bathrobe and flannel shirts and whatever else was handy and stood outside to smoke. I did smoke in my car if I was alone but not if my husband was with me. (He quit several years before me after having a heart attack in his 40s.) Because I didn’t smoke inside at all, I had a lot more activities that were no longer associated with smoking.
The real key to my success was Chantix, though. I had told my husband years before Chantix was even on the horizon that what I needed was something that made the nicotine not work on me, and that’s exactly what Chantix does. The first week, when I was taking the drug and still smoking, cigarettes started to taste just like an ashtray smells and there was no nicotine buzz any more, so when the time came to quit it was virtually painless. I had no side effects with the Chantix other than slight nausea for 5-10 minutes after I took each dose.
I do have the “out” that if I’m ever diagnosed with a terminal disease I get to smoke like a chimney on the way out, but now I’m not sure if I’d even take that option because I like not smoking so much.
Best of luck with it. I read mine cover to cover, puffing away the whole time. I got to the end, and thought “Well…that certainly makes sense. What the hell am I doing with this thing in my hand?” Tossed out my last smokes and never looked back.
I bought the book, but I have yet to read past the introduction. Now that I think of it, I don’t even remember where I saw it last. It’s been weeks since it came in the mail, and now it’s lost somewhere in my house. I’m not ready to quit yet, though. Yes, I know it’s never too early to think about quitting, but I’m 23 and enjoy them immensely.
As of now, the major reason why I would quit would be to attract and hold on to more women. I know this seems shallow at first, but I’ve been on the verge of a few great relationships with girls that found smoking a HUGE turnoff. One girl even refused to get in my car, because it was powdered with cigarette ash and smelled like stale smoke. Since then, I’ve cleaned my car, got a few air-fresheners, and have not once smoked while driving. That has cut down on the number of cigarettes I smoke considerably.
Maybe this is the first big step I’ve taken towards quitting smoking, and I didn’t even know it!
Same here. I had almost a full pack when I finished the book one evening. I held onto them until the next day without the slightest temptation, and gave them to a smoker friend at work. It was almost a year before I could go 5 minutes without consciously thinking how overjoyed I was to finally be a non-smoker. Seven years of pills, patches, gums, tablets, and “cold turkey” attempts had done nothing but make me miserable, and now I was finally free.
I used Allan Carr’s book too and quit with no problem, but of course went back on the ciggies again…the usual story, would allow myself one or two when out at the pub, then started having a few more, then started buying a pack for the pub because I didn’t want to bum off my mates all the time…At the minute I work in a bar (security) and it can be very physical/stressful - it was quite alarming how much a cigarette calmed me down after two customers in the bar jumped me on Saturday. I do have to quit though, I have asthma ferchrissakes. I’m not drinking very much at the mo - I have a really busy time ahead of me until Christmas - so that might help, plus I’m trying to look after my health a bit more at the minute because I can get quite down in winter (not SAD as much as living in freaking cold, rainy and dark Ireland 
). Come on Manila, I will if you will…
Yes, this is a real danger, even with Allen Carr’s book. I quit August 7th of 2006. Tried a cigarette toward the end of September that year and it didn’t do anything for me. Tried another one around August of '07 and it didn’t do anything for me. Around January of '08 I got cocky and started bumming them off people on a somewhat regular basis. I never bought a pack but I was sometimes smoking 2 or 3 a day, 4 or 5 days a week. Which is, in my eyes, being a smoker again. I never even really craved them, as I always went all weekend without them and didn’t think much of it. I would just see people smoking and think, hmmm, that looks good, “can I have one?” After awhile I had a “wtf am I doing?” moment and banned myself from touching them again. I’m a lot happier now.
Realize that it is going to suck really, really hard and the withdrawls may be physically painful as well…it is by far the hardest thing that I have done in my entire life.
After 8 failed attempts with nicotine replacements and cold turkey. 23 years of 2 packs a day.
I took Chantix and used their online support program. Haven’t smoked since May 29, 2007. I didn’t want to quit - I had to. Smoking is pleasurable and I loved it. The Chantix would block the ‘pleasure receptors’ in the brain and even if you slipped, you got no pleasure from smoking and let me tell you…it lost its appeal which made cravings after I got through the initial withdrawls (mine were 3 weeks) a breeze and temptations manageable.
You have to make your peace and say goodbye to something that has helped you through many a hard time, good time, and really became a part of your life. It’s like you need to break up with your smoking habit. You still have feelings, but its got to go!
Best of luck…