I don’t think I am renowned for making great personal decisions, but that is one decision I have never regretted.
In another twenty years I plan to give up sex.
Disgusting habit, still that first one in the morning …
I will hit the 10 year mark myself this year 
One of the better decisions I have taken and stuck to.
Congrats to yourself.
It is a little dispiriting to find you know the date even after 20 years… just saying’
Congratulations! Keep up the good work! My Dad quit over 30 years ago, and says he could go right back to smoking. You’re doing a hard thing - stay on course!
I’ve been quit smoking for a few months now. I think I’ll start again when I’m 60. I may start adding heroin to the cigs when I’m 70. Why not?
My memory is not that good- I just knew the Gulf War erupted a few days later. I thought if my giving up smoking caused this to happen, I’m never giving up drinking!
Typo Knig, I could never go back to smoking. I am very anti smoking- when I gave up I found it surprisingly easy and thought I must never have enjoyed them that much anyway.
I wish I felt this way. I try to stand downwind from smokers, just to enjoy that second hand smoke. I’d go back to smoking in a heart beat and I quit more or less fifteen years ago. After my third surgery for oral cancer. And I’d still go back. But I’ve gone overboard with every bad habit I ever had.
Whew. I gave up smoking when I found out I was pregant and I STILL have to count backwards to remember when it was. I backslid a couple time when the kids were very young but I still count that as my quit date.
Congrats.
I never really had a quit date. I went from smoking, to smoking only when I drank, to smoking only when I was drunk, to smoking only when I was inebriated. Then I decided to just give it up. This was phased in (or out) over a 10, or so, year period.
Congratulations Cicero. I got the tobacco monkey off my back about 10 years ago and it still calls to me.
I told myself (when I was in my teens) I wouldn’t try drugs until I was over 50. Then I could do anything I wanted because it wouldn’t matter if my chromosomes or whatever got messed up. I stuck to my plan and now my reward is: I’m too old and square to know anybody with drugs, so I couldn’t get them if I wanted. Don’t leave things until too late!
Congratulations Cicero!
I don’t remember the exact date I quit, I just know it was sometime after Y2K and before 9/11. I wish I did remember, I’d like to celebrate the anniversaries.
I said then that when it was my time to go, I’d hope it was something long and lingering, so I could take up smoking again. And I did feel that way for a good long while. But unlike the others who commented here, I’ve grown out of the desire. I’d say that took more than a few years though.
Outstanding! Twenty years is a major benchmark, as it means you are now completely free of the latent effects of the habit (according to my cardiologist).
Chefguy - tobacco-free for 29 years
I have not smoked since that day in April, 1965, when I had a heart attack.
Still have not given up sex though.
Congratulations Cicero! That’s quite an achievement. My mom and aunt quit almost 2 years ago and they’ve never looked back. Good on all you ex-smokers.
Yay! I just passed the 3 year mark January 1. I’m much like you in that I’m very anti smoking now. I hate smelling it. I was so happy when NC passed the law that you couldn’t smoke in restaurants anymore. Now I don’t have to endure being in an enclosed area with the smoke.
NORTH CAROLINA??!?!?? mandated smoke free restaurants? I’ve been away from NC too long. How long can tobacco farmers last in the US?
December 27th was my 5 year anniversary for quitting smoking.
Wow from me too!
I remember one restaurant near RTP (a Golden Corral near the intersection of 54 and 55) that had a nonsmoking section for a while… and GOT RID OF IT. This would have been the mid-80s. The times, they’ve a-changed for sure!
Oh, and for all of you who’ve kicked the habit: big-time congrats!!! That’s a tough one to kick. My mother only managed it by having one lung removed (which turned out to be too late, as the other one turned bad within a year).