# I quit smoking! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651 "2003-03-27T23:58:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@BGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BGo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/1 "2003-03-27T23:58:55Z")
I quit smoking! I quit smoking! I quit smoking! Now I’m going to be insufferably smug and may take up slapping cigarettes out of people’s hands (just the ones I think I can outrun) I quit smoking! I quit smoking! I quit smoking! 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/2 "2003-03-28T00:11:41Z")
\ Don’t back down now! I’ve been clean 3 1/2 years now. E-mail me if you need support, I know how hard it is. Are you using anything, or going cold turkey? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/3 "2003-03-28T00:28:18Z")
Congratulations! Me too! Feb 7/2000 and I don’t ever want to smoke again. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/4 "2003-03-28T00:39:01Z")
Good! By the way, once you stop smoking, you find you can outrun most people who do. Don’t ever start again! * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/5 "2003-03-28T00:46:34Z")
Now quickly go out and thank whoever invented the fire extinguisher! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/6 "2003-03-28T02:16:36Z")
Go you!!! Congratulations! I’m working on my sixth smoke-free month now and I’m really starting to feel the benefits. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/7 "2003-03-28T02:52:29Z")
Hey, good for you! Smoking is one of those things where I figured it was easier to not start than it would be to quit, so I’ve never been a smoker. But my mom died of lung cancer 14 years ago, and my father is currently in the late stages of emphysemia, and he **still** smokes! So I know how painful/harmful the effects can be. I think it’s great that you stopped! ---
**Author:** ![ManDuh003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@ManDuh003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ManDuh003)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/8 "2003-03-28T02:58:03Z")
That it AWSOME! I have seen people who try to quit and it looks hard. (i don’t and won’t smoke). Keep it up and never give in! ---
**Author:** ![Shabadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Shabadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shabadu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/9 "2003-03-28T05:10:27Z")
**BGo** congratulations! The first little while is the hardest. I have just pasted my year mark and it was the best decision I have made. It is tough, but remember a craving only lasts for like three minutes. Just find something else to do for that time, and it will pass. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/10 "2003-03-28T05:21:50Z")
Congratulations. Now with all the money you’re saving, send me some so I can buy the patch! ---
**Author:** ![BGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@BGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BGo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/11 "2003-03-28T11:27:56Z")
I figured out how many cigarettes I smoked a day, which scared the hell out of me, so I bought some nicotine gum to help me over the hardest parts and I haven’t looked back! I’m determined never to start again, mostly because I’m not going through this again. ---
**Author:** ![Zorro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ad7895/32.png) [@Zorro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zorro)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/12 "2003-03-28T11:54:26Z")
I’m going for a cigarette break. While I’m out, ponder this: why is it that at parties, most of the interesting people are out in the garden smoking? ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/13 "2003-03-28T12:36:42Z")
good on ya, keep it up. I quit last August, afgter being on them for about 12 years. went cold turkey it was fine. good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/14 "2003-03-28T12:52:14Z")
Gratz, **BGo**! You will be amazed how much better food and beer taste… How wonderful things smell… How much easier it is to walk stairs, exercise, etc. You rock! I think I had my last cig in August of last year. I didn’t smoke much last year at all but MAN just one smoke would cause me to hock up some seriously nasty loogies the next day. El Hubbo quit right before Thanksgiving week. I’m so happy for him. The thing that sucks about quitting is how low your tolerance becomes for smoke. I hate coming home from a restaurant with clothes and hair smelling like smoke. We’ve become so sensitive to it that we’re going to try to find a smoke-free cruise next year. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/15 "2003-03-28T16:13:13Z")
Quitting smoking? Feh. I do it every night when I go to bed. It’s a snap! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/16 "2003-03-28T16:41:24Z")
I haven’t had a cigarette in four months. I’m still not brave enough to announce to the world that I’ve quit. I still want one. Less often than before, but still daily. The urge becomes less and less over time, but I thought that after 4 months it would be gone. I’ll yell from the rooftops when it’s a year. Until then, it’s a daily battle. Man, I’m a fuddydud. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking/164651/17 "2003-03-28T16:51:17Z")
Congrats **BGo**!! I just past my 5th smoke free month on St. Pattys day. I never thought I could go out to bars and not think about smoking. Amazingly I can. Keep it up. However, please don’t be one of those annoying ex-smokers or nonsmokers. Realize the fact that anyone who smokes will smoke until **they decide to quit**. Nagging them and destroying/flicking their cigs will only aggrivate them. I continued to smoke out of spite many times.