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I think I quit smoking today

pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
well...I was sitting here at work and going over my finances and doing some math...and I realized. I don't smoke as much as I used to anymore...a pack will last me about three and half days.

My girlfriend doesnt smoke and I feel like a drugie when her son sees me smoke and asks what I'm doing. I don't like the smell on my hands after smoking a cigarrette, and I know she doesn't like it. The kicker was that I paid $7 for a pack of cigarrettes last weekend while in Orlando.

I had what I plan to be my last cigarrette at around 1 PM today and will see how it goes cold turkey. I figure so long as I keep my self busy, I shouldn't have a problem....21 days to break a habit right. Hell, I quit biting my nails...I can do this.
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10 months yesterday...Best thing i ever did for myself and My family

    Harleeman1030@aol.com
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, pikeal1, I can tell you its hard as hell but well worth it. First, your health will improve. I quit almost 6 months ago and I feel MUCH better already! I can smell things I couldn't before (sometimes that isn't good), I can run up 2 or 3 flights of stairs and not get totally winded, I save lots of $$ but the best thing of all is that I wake up every morning NOT COUGHING!!

    Stick with it, there's lots of guys on this board who will give you support!!

    G36

    p.s. My mother-in-law used to smoke only a little, like you. She was diagnosed with non-small cell carcenoma (lung cancer) two weeks ago. Just quit, you won't regret it.

    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I quit a year and a half ago after spending 10 days in the hospital with pneumonia. I had smoked for fifty years (up to two packs per day); but every time I think about having one, I remember not being able to breathe. I am now working on my wife, and she has promised to stop on her birthday at the end of August--I'm "not holding my breath".
    Pete

    "Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live."
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I quit a year and a half ago after spending 10 days in the hospital with pneumonia. I had smoked for fifty years (up to two packs per day); but every time I think about having one, I remember not being able to breathe. I am now working on my wife, and she has promised to stop on her birthday at the end of August--I'm "not holding my breath".
    Pete

    "Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live."
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey it is a win, win situation for you. When you stop you will be improving your general health (a good thing). And you will be saving money so you can buy more guns and ammo.
    Best wishes!

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Two years seven months. Cold turkey is the only way. You must always remember though that you will always want one now and then.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    pikeal1,

    Good luck, and stick it out. After you quit, you'll be glad you did. You have my support!

    Save, research, then buy the best.Join the NRA, NOW!Teach them young, teach them safe, teach them forever, but most of all, teach them to VOTE!
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  • UnbatolocoUnbatoloco Member Posts: 110 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seven years ,nine months ,four days ,two hours ,six minutes and twenty one seconds ago .But who's counting ?? Best thing you will ever do !


    24 HOURS IN A DAY ,24 CANS OF BEER IN A CASE !!COINCIDENCE??
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    GREAT! stick it out pikeal ! , it only gets better in the long run. Don't ever go back.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    pikeal-
    you've got a heluva good support group here so give it your best shot.
    i know you can do it.
    we need to get one of those pyramid things going; you know, the one where each person who quits smoking converts 10 more, etc.
    just a thought that popped up.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Whatever you do don't just try to quit. Just quit, that is the only way.

    I quit three years ago. I am living proof you can still drink a beer or a cup of coffee after you have quit smoking.

    However I about beat my chest to a pulp until I learned you can drive a tractor or a pickup without a cigarette.

    I was behind a couple in the local stop and rob the other night******four packs of generic cigarettes and two cold drinks = sixteen bucks!!!

    KEEP ON KEEPIN ON!


    wundudnee-junior

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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    close to 10 weeks now. i was weak and had to use the patch....but i say do whatever it takes....GOOD LUCK/BE STRONG
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Mid July 1986,I was trying to quit,
    accidently dropped half a pack in the toilet.

    That was it,the sign I needed.

    GOOD GOIN`!!

    .218
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    May the force be with you. Wish you the best.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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