QUIT Smoking , 3 years now

Been over 3 years since I quit now - kind of both financial and health related . 
Seems after 40 years of smoking Camel's then going to then small cigar type smokes (20 to pack like cigarettes) went to a pipe for couple years but spent more on lighters than tobacco . 
 Tried that Quit Plan from MAO here in MN and did help some but the free gum and such - well got lozenges from them - and now it seems been using them since i quit .
  Now gotta wean myself from them lozenges as it seems they give one kind of heartburn or upset , so need to hit the bi-carb soda a few times a day and before sleep . 

Heck, quitting amoking is easy,,,,  a piece of cake............ I've quit thousands of times!

Just read the other day that those Eciggerretts are worse than the real thing for cancer causing issues...
 An Coke, you were pretty thin back in November... You gained some over winter? Springs coming and yard work starts... and what ever else your boys get ye caught into too..


Edited by JC(WI) - 09 Mar 2018 at 8:29pm

Yes,,, you are doing a good thing for yourself...and those around you :)    Speaking of weight I never smoked and I have that problem of keeping "healthy" too.

Congrats Coke! been 26 years for me, one morning you'll wake up and you'll realize when
you smell one burning that it stinks and just about makes you sick, then you'll know for sure that you've got it beat! It took me twice to quit, second time was when my Daddy told me that he was dying from smoking and didn't want the same for me. I pray everyone
trying to quit finds the strength to leave them alone. Tyler, them girls need their Daddy, even after they're grown, remember that when you feel the urge!

Great Job Coke, took my oldest son to the hospital with type A flu tonight. He is a heavy smoker, he had type B last week. If I haven't gotten the 2 mixed up, type A effects the lungs and being a smoker makes it worse. Hoping now he will can them. Now their telling him he has COPD at 43 years old he may have to lug a 02 tank around for the rest of his life

Edited by HD6GTOM - 13 Mar 2018 at 8:23pm

don't remember the date I quit, have I had some since? yes! but I can count the amount on either hand yet. problem I have is all my trucks and the burbs all smell like ash trays, and that really is hard to not light up when driving them! I can't afford to have them detailed yet. and the old lady.....oooops....I mean the loving wife still lights up, so I gots to stay away from her too!

Coke I'm extremely pleased you've 'kicked the habit' ! Both my parents died due to smoking ,within 6 months of each other. Mom in a careless smoking fire.It was NOT easy to identify her in the hospital morgue. That was in 86, so 1/2 my life has been without them. So if anyone needs a reason to quit, just ask  yourself how YOUR kids would feel getting the call.

Jay

My grandpa smoked, off and on. Every time he'd quit, he'd gain 15 to 20 pounds. Some times he'd quit for a year or two, sometimes a couple months. Don't think he ever smoked real heavy. When I was a kid, my Dad was a very heavy smoker. Wasn't a real good deal, because we was poor as church mice anyhow. One time, just a couple years after I graduated from high school, he ended up in the hospital. Wasn't a smoking related problem, but somehow it inspired him to quit. He went home from the hospital not even caring if he had another cigarette or not. Now me, on the other hand, I must have had the Good Lord watching out for me. About the time I was sophomore / junior in high school, I decided I was going to smoke cigarettes so I would be "cool". I couldn't have gotten addicted to them stinking damn things if my life would have depended on it. My smoking career was pretty short lived. Tried the same thing with chew. YUCK! Why the hell would I intentionally want to put that teeth browning, God awful smelling, gross crap in my mouth. My hatred for cigarettes got re-confirmed one time when I was a senior in high school. My pickup wasn't the fanciest or most expensive, but I kept that thing so immaculatly clean, that you could have eaten off the floor board on any given day. My Dad, one day (was still a smoker at the time), borrowed it one day, and must have lit a couple up while he was driving it. Next time I opened the door to get in it, and that cigarette stench hit me, I cried like a baby. Darrel

Darrel, I'd have said; "Dad, DON'T YOU EVER ask to use my truck again!!!"

I used tobacco in one form or another for 35 years aND have as much experience quitting as anyone on earth because I quit ever other day. The only way to quit is to quit and the only way to get rehooked is to smok a few. Been 10 years since I quit and cannot stand to be around anyone smoking. But still every now and then it hits me that I could use a smoke, luckily it only lasts a few seconds and it is gone.
Keep it up and stay away from those cheapo stogies!!!!

Congratulations to all who managed to overcome that addiction. Actually; addiction of any kind!

Shameless if I can remember next time I get to town I will borrow a can of stuff from Jeff-- that will pretty much eliminate your problem. I think I can mail it to you, might be a couple of weeks before I get in town.

It is one thing that it is said to be a good thing to be a quiter!
Congratulations all you who quit smoking and chewing!