Great job guys!

I am getting the electric thing soon like this week and giving it hell. I smoke like its a job. Last time I quit I was in the gym everyday for two years almost. Now I am a tub. My dead lift is probably back around my body weight now. Sad.
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DO IT
 

3 years smoke free. :uhuh:

The 20 to 25 miles per week is awesome, trying to do the same so I know what it takes.

Gave up the butts 21 years, 5 months, 15 days ago but whose counting.

Hardest thing I ever did in my life, makes me feel bad for anyone with an addiction.

I told my kids I used to smoke and you would have thought I had the plague - it is good that this generation thinks this way.

Keep it up TT, like I said you are doing awesome!!! :uhuh:

The electric thing sucks and just makes you want to smoke even more. The patch has been working great. No real cravings even when partying with smokers this past long weekend. Yesterday I went without a patch just to see and I didn't need a smoke. I did put one on this am just to be safe and follow the program. I tried the e smoke for #^&#^&#^&#^&zz and giggles a couple of months ago. All it did was prime me up while I was indoors to go out for the real thing. I have been smoking for 21 years and I'm only 34. What a shame!:smash: 7 days without a butt and I'm not missing it at all so far. Hopefully this is the end. I have no real cravings or reasons to smoke. Plus now I can smell it on other people and it's friggin HORRIBLE. That's how I smelled for more than half of my life:yak4:

Still not smokin'
And happy about it!

Still never smoked....48 years and no intention of doing so!!!:rotf2:

:smokin: :laughs: keep up the good work!

:rotf2: Thanks Matt! Seriously folks you are all to be commended!!! Keep it up!!:uhuh:

1 year this past August smoke free. Completed various 5k's, ran the 10 mile blessing of the fleet road race as well as the providence half marathon. Running 3 days a week and crossfitting 3. On week 5 of a 12 week endurance program. While everyone is relaxing now is the time to train hard!! I smoked from 15 yrs old to 33. Deadlift is currently 20 pounds shy of double my body weight.

Put your mind to it and you can do it! I'm in northern RI if any if you guys need anyone to run or walk with you etc let me know and maybe we work out a time! Stay on it guys! Keep up the good work!
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Looking back to the guys just quitting. Speaking for myself the stopping part if lighting up was hard. I got rid of all lighters, matches etc. I didn't do the when I finish this pack thing. I think I had just opened a fresh pack and I crushed it and tossed it. The most hardest part for me was my own excuses. "What a great cup of coffee" time for a smoke. "I can't believe that woman cut me off " time for a smoke... "It's 10:15am" time for a smoke. I'm pissed off, time for a smoke.. The excuses are what I had to be aware of so stay strong!

Get your vehicle detailed and interior cleaned to be smoke free! You'll love it!
Also give yourself rewards can be something simple/ easy but something you'll have for a while that you can look at and remember I got that for myself at week such and such or month such and such.
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You still stink now, it's just the other smell isn't covered up by the smoke anymore.

Seriously, congrats on quitting, man. Your kid will appreciate the extra years you have to spend with him. :uhuh:

If you have any more of the Acid Dirt cigars, you can give them to me next week. You don't want to be tempted by having them around, lol.

thats awesome congrats on the accomplishment. Best of luck to all trying to quit. You will never regret that you quit but you will regret that you kept smoking.

I have a humidor full of stuff in the basement but I haven't added water in years! Any way of reviving them?

Finally got it licked!!! Quit several times over the past 5 yrs or so. It looks like this time it stuck,,, thank God.
Started the gym and patch every morning at 5:00 (except fishing days :-)) several months ago. Off the patch and still on the gym.

Don't ever give up trying,,, it can be done and the gym is fun,,, hey! that rhymes :)

Gup

If the wrappers are intact and they don't fall apart when you pick them up, they can be revived. They won't be perfect, but they'll be very smokable. There are a few ways of doing it, but I usually just humidify the heck out of them for a couple weeks.

I'll trade them for one of your famous reach arounds. Remind me and I'll bring them to Bob's

I might still have a bunch of Cuba in there also

You got it. And for the record, you would have got the reach around anyways. :rotf2:

Flush them down the crapper.
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11yrs and couple of months for me.

I don't have many personal positive accomplishments in life but this does count as one of the few positive ones.

I quit 12/22/12 I figured the world didn't end so I had something to maybe live for, I went Cold turkey. I just sold the last 7 packs in a carton I had left today Maybe this time I will not start up again

Freakin Huge Bob , congrats .....

It's been 2 years with out a butt or beer for me :uhuh:

The beer was easy, the cigs were a PIA, but now 2 years later I could care less... Funny thing is I work at UMass hospital and can pick out a smoker in a sec .. they way they talk , smell and just about everything else :buds:
ps, a little weed never hurt anyone :biglaugh:

pps, just watch what you eat because it is true you can now taste food sooo much better

I'm not out of the woods yet, I still haven't smoked yet but I'm still at times wanting to smoke I threw away the open pack and sold the remainder of the carton I had so I wouldn't have them handy

I also don't drink or do any drugs I'm just a real boring guy :devil2:

Congrats and "boring guys" are able to donate blood or blood products!:biglaugh: I'm scheduled to give platelets next Thursday.


I gave up pack 1/2 per day habit for 30yrs about 20yrs ago BUT I swore to never stop drinking good beer (in moderation). A LITE beer never crosses these lips.....although some Greek Coca cola might!

And the torture begins.........:wall:

Yup. Or I get disqualified from the health insurance.......

As the old saying....."quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times." Not this time....I am determined. I'm mad and tired of it...once and for all I will beat the terrible grasp of this bad habit.
Good Luck to us....
A few things I found helped me in the past (well, it didn't help me stop obviously but it did help me mentally).
I did NOT tell my mother, brother, father, my wife, or friends that I knew would badger me that I was trying to quit....I let them figure it out. Once they did, I told them to NOT ask me "how I was doing." I made the mistake before and would get phone calls 3 or 4 times a day asking me how I was doing with the attempt. I cannot repeat my response here....you can assume. They all would say the typical things (that as a smoker we already know)...think how much $$ you'll save, think about how much better you'll feel and smell. Trust me...all smoker know this.....none will deny these facts. Its a matter of doing it.
:fury::fury::fury:

Mugz, all the best. I'm in the same boat. Sick of being a slave to poison and I'm sick of spending money on poison. Good luck man. Going to be a struggle for me as well...

going cold turkey seldom works.....

What works is .....lighting up take one hit of nicotine
and putting it out very carefully so you can do that repeatedly
for as long as you can on a single cigarette
soon you will reduce your dependence

then, increase the time between hits larger and larger
let yourself down slowly... that way
to fool the body....by mentally thinking you had smoked a whole one.
but never do that... again .... jmho

I'm pulling for you guys,,, you can do it!
The patch worked for me and it wasn't the first time but it finally stuck a couple years ago. Toothpicks are helpful also.
Hey! A pack a day buy a hell of a lot of store bought plugage a month.
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Good luck to you all trying to quit. 4 years smoke free here. I tried for many years to quit also trying all the different methods. Only one way works IMO. Just stop and don't have another one. That simple. The withdrawal is going to suck but it will pass. Best wishes for a Happy, heathy smoke free 2014!
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I started this thread 1-1-09

Today marks 5 years non smoking!
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Nice work guys.

I am in that very edgy beginning of withdrawal...... Better half left a few hours ago. She will be in her CT office for two days. It will be better for our relationship.... especially if she stops txting me to see how I'm doing....:smash:

@ $10 a pack now, just thing of how much diesel fuel got paid for.
Good going.

Same here..day 2 for me and no one has been killed or beaten which is nice. $300.00 a month to slowly kill myself, after 25 years I've had it. Hopefully it sticks this time.

Good luck guys! It may damn well be the hardest thing to do. Think about a beginning walking or running program to put some of that energy into. Couch to 5k is a good nice and slow program so you don't end up hurting yourself.
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Go Andy go. Good luck to you.

good for you Andy

maybe keep the safety on just in case :hidin:

Safeties are for sissies ..and thanks.
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