Smoking, how did you quit ? - Page 7

CatVert68 · 12-21-06, 05:07

I quit in 1990 after smoking for 15 years. I quit using a product called LifeSign.

It's a credit-card size computer that tracks your smoking pattern for the first week, then weans you out of those patterns for the next 3 weeks. It breaks both the habit and the nicotine addiction. It can even handle it if you smoke an "emergency" cigarette and will recalculate the intervals accordingly.

Since I quit I've never wanted another cigarette and it's enabled ny kids to grow up in a smoke-free house.

jfelbab · 12-21-06, 06:06

Around 39 years ago a very close friend told me that if I smoked, chances were very, very good that my kids would smoke. After all, I was their main roll model and they looked up to me. I tossed the filthy ashtrays and my cigarettes out and have never smoked since. My kids don't smoke either and they are now 37 & 39.

BMW335i · 12-21-06, 06:28

Don't start in the first place? I mean, 20-30 years ago you can throw the, "Oh nobody knew smoking was bad for you" game, but I'm talking for todays kids. Don't start, smoking isn't cool and you will die with lung cancer and noone will care. You will just be another statistic.

Roadkeeper · 12-21-06, 06:50

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Originally Posted by CatVert68

I quit in 1990 after smoking for 15 years. I quit using a product called LifeSign.

It's a credit-card size computer that tracks your smoking pattern for the first week, then weans you out of those patterns for the next 3 weeks. It breaks both the habit and the nicotine addiction. It can even handle it if you smoke an "emergency" cigarette and will recalculate the intervals accordingly.

Since I quit I've never wanted another cigarette and it's enabled ny kids to grow up in a smoke-free house.

I quit using the lifesign Comp. also. It sat on my desk for a yr. They called to see how
things were going and my wife . She laughed amd told them that it was holding the desk
down. One day I decided that it was time. I remember the day,time and place I smoked
my last Cig. I smoked 2 pks. a day. 13 yrs. have passed and I have never felt better.
Carlos

jdpro · 12-21-06, 07:50

I used smokenders over 21 years ago and have not so much as wanted a cigarette since. Highly recommended.

MorBid · 12-21-06, 08:33

I picked up smoking in the Marines and since getting out I quit drinking but find smoking to be a very hard habit to break.

People who say it's a habit are right (well it's a addiction to the chemical's too). I read a study somewhere that of all the hard drug users (herion, cocaine) only less than 25% will be come addict's and of all the people who drink less than 15% will become alcoholics.

But over 95% of the people who smoke will become addicited.

I hate smoking and for the last 5 years or so don't even enjoy it. I live alone and don't smoke in the house or in my whips. I can't take the smell.

I tried the patches but they made me itch (and really didn't do anything for the cravings). Then moved on to Zyban but it made me skittish.

My doctor hooked me up with Chantix and I've got to say this the stuff that looks the most promising. It makes it soooooooo much easier to forget about smoking.

The main thing is you have to want to stop smoking (or any other bad habit). There are no magic pills that you can take an "poof" your done.

Now if I can just get back into shape

MorBiD

a.k.a. Patrick · 12-21-06, 09:27

Ive heard of, and did some research on the Chantix. It does sound promising, and my doctor wants me to be his guinea pig!

mopar · 12-21-06, 10:14

I. smoked for 20 years, as I got older my health became more of an issue so I decided to quit, now I loved the smell of a fresh pack of Marlboro they smell like chocolate to me.
1. you must want to quit, and have some will power, at least when it counts.
thats the mental part, if you really don't have you're heart into wanting to quit you wont.
2. you don't quit cold turkey, either a patch or my method, I would buy a pack at first smoke only a few only when I was really craving to satisfy the physical need to smoke, throw the nearly full pack away often, this will piss you off that you're throwing away money, and will keep you from needlessly smoking, then buy another when you cant stand it any more, do this for three weeks slowly smoking less till you have weened yourself away from the nicotine to finally drop the pack completely. You must find other things to do for the hand mouth part, like when you drink beer , after diner, when you wake when you drive, all those times that you enjoyed having a sig, at the bar stay away from the bar. not easy but thats how I did it, there is no easy way to quit at some point you must stop smoking drop the patch, then you're on your own will power.

MorBid · 12-22-06, 02:33

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Originally Posted by a.k.a. Patrick

Ive heard of, and did some research on the Chantix. It does sound promising, and my doctor wants me to be his guinea pig!

I had actually heard about Chantix earlier this year while watching a Financial News show. So happened I was going in for yet another high Cholesterol screening the next week and me and the doctor talked about it.

We agreeded that when it was finally on the market I could give it a go. I was her third paitent on it and she said feedback from them was it can make you a bit queasy (for me it's only right after taking it and then for less than an hour).

You take the little pills twice a day. For me the upside is I can make it past the crucial "wake up" cigarette which was the last one I out of a pack I had to have.

Haven't fully quick yet (been taking the stuff since Thanksgiving) but a pack lasts something like two or three days now. Some days I can go without a one.

On the downside I have found out that a bag of premium Pretzel Rods can cost half as much as a pack of smokes here (over $2.00) and I've been eating them things like nobody's buisness.

So the cost saving's aren't there yet

MorBiD

JohnZ3MC · 12-22-06, 04:57

I quit about 3 yrs ago after smoking for many years. I always enjoyed the rituals associated with smoking but didn't enjoy the wheezing I was doing while nodding off to sleep.
I was about 3/4 to a pack a day at the end and I just had enough. Here in BC, the local govt. was increasing the taxes on cigs, and laws were enacted to mandate where smokers could and couldn't smoke and life was getting more and more difficult for smokers in every way.
I just hit bottom I guess, got angry at myself more than anything, and finished a pack and decided to quit cold turkey.
To keep my hands and brain occupied, I did woodworking projects down the basement 10 hrs a day and bought a few new woodworking tools, justified by the money I'd save by not smoking. The woodworking went on for a month or two.
I don't think about it much anymore and I have come to internalize the fact I'm not a smoker.
Now, I take all the loot I save each year and buy myself a container of Pinnacle Souveran. (Insert raucus laughter)
OK, I'm smiling but not smoking has made it hugely easier to buy detailing products. I could post a few pics of the new PC and the Metabo, and .........
-John C, the cold turkey guy.

JohnZ3MC · 12-22-06, 05:22

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Originally Posted by pt91

I stopped on Thanksgiving day.
I have been using the Commit Lozenges. They are tough on your gums, but have helped.
Cost is about the same as my 1 pack a day habit.
The morning crave as I have coffee has finally subsided.
I also limit myself to one drink. Anything more and I really crave a smoke.
I spent a lot of my time since Thanksgiving dressing up my garage.
Here are a few pics. Still in progress.http://autopia.org/gallery/showgalle...at=500&thumb=1

Good work with the smoking and the garage area looks really sharp. If you lived closer, I'd suggest you head over to my place and organize my stuff too.
I enjoyed the shot of the cabinet with the doors open. It was surprising that I was able to recognize most of your products, from the Leatherique on the top left to the P21S on the 2nd shelf on the right.
-John C.

kpounds · 12-22-06, 08:40

Another thing I heard about Chantix is that sometimes its more effective on the 2nd try. For me, I tried 7 days of it but knew I wasn't ready to quit, so kept smoking. Then started up Chantix a week later when I had a "big change of mind" to really quit. I honestly think the stronger decision was the biggest factor...but the Chantix did "work" that 2nd time and got me over the cravings which I had NEVER been able to beat in 30 years.