has anyone else quit

[RU shooter]

Yep quit when I went to the hospital last spring was in for 28 days never had a craving while I was in there . I lasted a week after I got home boredom got the best of me being alone while wife was at work .

[Brass&Lead]

If you are blowing smoke tobacco might be involved!

[444ttd]

i quit smoking cigarettes 8 years ago. i quit drinking 8 years ago. i also had a bad stroke 8 years ago, so there might be something that coincides, hmmmmmm i wonder...........why i quit smoking/drinking at the same time as my stroke? hmmmmm...........nah!!!!

i have an occasional urge to light up or have a beer/whiskey. but it quickly goes away. my dad and mom(who are in their 70s) were smokers, but last year they quit. they have a occasional urge too.

i was 14yo when i first had a cigarette. i quit the first time when i was 18yo or because of basic training. as soon as i was done with basic training, the cigarettes pulled me in. even tho i still in the Army AIT and smoking was prohibited(article 15 https://www.armystudyguide.com/conte...ticle-15.shtml ) but i did it on the sly. 20+ years later, i had the stroke(doctors are still questioning why i had it. they know the what and where of the stroke, but not the why) and i quit cold turkey. not that i was in any position to quit, i was "passed out"? for 4 days in the pittsburgh hospital. then i was transferred to johnstown rehabilitation clinic(lee hospital) for 2 months. i was trained to walk/talk again. it was like basic training, so i did everything they asked. i give me D- on the walking/talking part. i give A+++ to their nurses.

[Budzilla 19]

I stopped smoking on March 1, 1980. I definitely feel better than I did, I can still hang with the young guys(64now, soon to be 65) on the job, and I’m never going back!! Do I still want a cigarette every now and then??? Hell yeah, I do! Even after all these years, it’s tough to not light up! But, I don’t. Hang in there, you can beat this thing!! Good luck to ya.

[SweetMk]

Go to your doc, get a prescription for Wellbutrin,,

The quitting smoking will be easier for you ,, and trust me,
EVERYONE around you will be happy you are taking it, because you will not have the ex-smokers jitters,,
and other ex-smoker undesirable behaviors,,

[blackthorn]

Started smoking in grade school. Smoked till Nov 1977, so off smokes for 47 years. At one point I smoked 50 cigarettes' a day. In /77 I decided I would quit at the end of hunting season and, accordingly I told everyone around me what I planned. We came back from the last hunting trip and I got up the next morning and I thought I would just have one last smoke (and I did)! Later that morning I went up to my hunting partners place to help process the three Moose we had brought home. One of the guys asked if I had smoked that AM and I said yes. He then said--"well that's it then you wont quit"! Haven't had a smoke since. Quitting is NOT easy, but if you stick with it the desire gets less and less each passing year. It has been 47 years almost to the day, since I quit and I can say, that I have not been tempted for the last ten (or so) years. Hang in there.

[gwpercle]

Fight it ... start thinking about something else ... you don't really want to start again...
Not Really .

I can understand how inhaling the smoke of burning anything into your lungs can't be good for you but when it comes to inhaling pot for medical reasons ...it's so good for you... I don't get it .
Bad to smoke tobacco ...good to smoke weed ?
Yeah ... Right ... I ain't buying that fake news either .

Who said " I smoked it but I didn't inhale " ?

Gary

[Kraschenbirn]

After nearly 40 years of puffing, I dropped a 2-pack-a-day-habit just over 20 years ago and it was a tough pull all the way. Was using nicotine patches (they were 'prescription only' back then) and buying 'Big Red' cinnamon gum by the carton for the first couple of months. After a year or so off cigarettes, I backslid to enjoying a good cigar now and then...maybe once or twice a week...right up until my open heart surgery in April of this year. Since then, I've indulged in exactly two cigars...the first a Cuban Cohiba provided by a close friend upon the birth of his first grandchild and the second a Romeo & Julieta 'Medale del Oro', burned in mourning, on the evening of Nov. 4, 2020. I've a few more of those in my humidor and, when they're gone, I doubt I'll ever refill it.

Bill

[grayscale]

Pack a day from Jr. high on and quit a thousand times. Till my youngest was diagnosed with asthma at age 6 mo.
I quit that day and never went back. Sometimes you just need a good enough reason to quit and make it stick.
Took seven years for the urge to go away. I always wanted a beer in one hand and a smoke in the other.
Hard to have a beer with the other hand empty, so I put a beer in each hand, but that's another story.

[Win94ae]

I quit years ago, I still smoke in my dreams.

[Uncle R.]

yes....harder than hell.

Naw - quitting is easy.
I did it several times.


The last time was over 10 years ago - and this really will be the last time.
I actually lost most of the sight in my left eye due to vasoconstriction caused by nicotine.
Going partially blind overnight will get your attention, I can promise you that.
I was lucky enough to see one of the finest opthalmologists in the country, and he assured me that if I didn't quit smoking I'd be white cane blind in a year.

That did it for me. It was the last time I quit, and the easiest time by far.
I can tell you that the physical addiction is over in a few days - maybe two weeks at worst.
The rest is all between your ears.

Given the status of my eyes, I have no residual craving for nicotine.
Smoking a cigarette would be about like eating rat poison, and I don't want to do either.
That makes staying off the durn things easy.
You'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to smoke again.

I can tell you it's worth it.
Keep trying until you get there.
I really love being able to breathe well - and to see.

Uncle R.

[Bazoo]

I never got hooked. I tried cigarettes when I was bout 15. Didn't do nothing for me. I enjoy second hand cigar or pipe smoke. Never tried the pipe but have smoked a small handful of cigars. The last was with my uncle when he was dying. Still have a 3 or 4 out of the box of swisher sweets from 3 years ago. I have the notion to smoke a pipe once in a while, but I figure it will ruin the smell.

Since my wife has migraines and smoke triggers them, I'll likely never finish that box of cigars as the smell on me is no bueno.

[kayala]

Quit smoking over 10 years ago (don't remember actual number of years already). Don't have any cravings and don't even smoke in my dreams I've used to smoke at least pack a day with current prices (my wife still smokes so I know the prices) that would be around $2500 a year !

[nvbirdman]

I smoked Lucky Strikes for about seventeen years. When I decided to quit (just to see if I could do it), I woke up in the morning and said I used to smoke, but I don't smoke anymore and never had that first cigarette. After about a month I lost all desire for tobacco. That was forty three years ago.

[LAH]

Lucky Strikes & Camels for me. I really like the full favor. I managed to quit in 1978 while an over the road truck driver. The many hours I spent alone in the truck were HARD. Finally the craving to smoke stopped. This probably happened because of the Mail Pouch. I finally quit the Mail Pouch with a prayer for nearly a year & picked it up again at deer camp. About 6 months later [2002] I quit again & it was so hard I never want to go through that again so it is gone forever. If you start back, you'll have to quit again. Get your mind off it. Go shooting in the rain or whatever you need to do.

[hpbear101]

I quit a 40+ year addiction to Copenhagen on 11-7-2019. I went cold turkey and so far have done fine, still miss it on occasion. I made it through hunting season with a bunch of family that still chews so I think I'm going to make it this time. In the past I had tried some of the non-tobacco chews to HELP me quit. I think all they did was keep me at the point where I was almost quitting but not quite, and it was mentally easier to just give up.

Keep at it, it does get easier.

Tom

[BJK]

I quit in 1972. I was an underpaid GI and when a pack went from $.22 to $.23 I couldn't afford it so I gave it up. It was easy for me. I simply couldn't afford to buy them anymore. I had no choice. I never started smoking again and never had the slightest urge to start again.

[OldBearHair]

Some say that tobacco is the cause of my Bladder Cancer that started nine years ago. Afterwards bladder / prostate removed. Quit tobacco in early 1980s only after turning it over to the Lord Jesus. I had tried too many times to quit and asked the Lord to take it away and I was not going to worry about it anymore. a month wert by and one morning after breakfast failed to take a chew of DaysOWork..Didn't even think about not having a chew until about eleven am, when I suddenly felt as if something was deadly wrong. Then caught myself reaching for the tobacco in the shirt pocket. Next thought was, how did I make it this long without a chew? Next thought was I know why! God has taken it away! I carried that plug of Days work in my pocket for days until the cellophane package wore plum out. Yes, at first every twenty minutes the urge would hit and I would . say nicotine fit and it was gone away. Went on with fewer episodes of cravings for a long time. I haven't had a problem with that in twenty five years now.. My wife says that she has gotten a new husband at different times because of quitting smoking, then chewing tobacco, then getting a sleep apnea machine. A memory: once as I came in the, house , got rid of the chew, brushed my teeth, kissed the wife, she said golly, my lips just went numb. Tobacco is the best thing that I know of to put on bee stings and such.

[nun2kute]

they say 21 days to make or break a habit
hardest part for me was 4 days in 2002, but i still want one occasionally

dont do it, you'll be glad you didn't

[OldBearHair]

Bought a carton of Marlboros for $1.20 in the PX in Thule Greenland in 1963. Bought a Ruger single six 22/22mag 6 1/2 barrel, two cylinders for $37.95 as well.