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Nicorette Gum. It has been 7 years now. I got the 2mg ones and cut them into halves and later quarters. Chewed then enough to soften them and then tucked the piece between the teeth and gum like they do with snuff. That way I did not trade the smokes for a chewing gum habit lol. tom

My Dr said I might have the beginning of COPD,he wasn't sure at that point. I left his office,had one more cigarette. That was the last I had just about 2 years ago. I craved them, I wanted the and I questioned my ability to stay off of them. I finally asked my self,who was in charge, me or the cigarettes. I won.
I know from the time I quit for almost 15 years, I cannot have even one,if I do,I will be buying packs again. I worked too hard to get here to lose it now. Yes, I still get the temptation,I will probably will forever. I will not start again,my decision period.

After a late night of poker, smokes and booze, I rolled out of bed one morning and grabbed the pack of cigarettes and lighter off the bedside table as my feet hit the floor. I had observed a couple of autopsies earlier in the week that were performed on life-long smokers, and had dreamed about how the lungs looked all night. Something clicked, and I took the cigarettes and flushed them down the toilet.

After I showered, shaved,and dressed, etc., I took the rest of the carton outside and threw it in the trash. Whenever I had the urge to buy a pack of cigarettes, I bought a package of chewing gum instead (Spearmint). It took about 8 weeks, but I finally became a nonsmoker. That was 42 years ago, and I have had maybe a half-dozen puffs since just to be sociable.

I did smoke a pipe off and on a few years later, but quit that too when I found out about the tongue cancer risk. Like one of the previous posters said, when it's time he can do it. In my case, the time came when I sat in on those autopsies.

Zyban for a week then began with a patch. Had to have a hit or two that first day but only when completely desperate. After two days no more "hits" and cut the patch in half. About day 5 cut the half patch in half so is 1/4 patch. Two or three days of that then quit completely. Quit the Zyban a week later.

I been a pack and a half a day smoker over twenty years the first time i quit. Above is how I quit the second time after smoking for 8 years after quiting the first time and being a non somker for 8 years. First time I did it cold turkey. Second was three times as easy but still hard.

Been 5 or 6 years this time, and the damn things still smell good sometimes

Same Here.

You're a riot ! ( with a handle on the science of Burritology)

Moons ago, my climbing wind started lookin' bad,....I just QUIT smokin'

No sweat,...Cope, and Skoal won't affect my wind. Gotta' admit, offshore where "Snoose" wasn't handy,...I'd go back to smokin'.

When the stuff hit about 3.50 a can, and I realized that I was really ADDICTED,.....I did a "Lone Ranger" bit,...and tossed alla' the snoose out the front (South) door.

Bigger then hell,....I was out there in the dark, with a flashlight,....LOOKIN',.....HOPIN',.....PRAYIN' ! Wind like last Saturday pretty much had me screwed, on finding enough for a dip......

Did that ALONE,....and was nobody to be around, during the next 3-4 days,.....

Still miss Snoose,.....and "Coffee and a Cigarette" still have occasional, and utterly stoopid and romantic conotations.

No Moral here,......we ARE better off without commercial tobacco.

GTC

Put out my last smoke before boarding the elevator of parking garage of hospital on my way in for bypass surgery. Surgery did not go without complications and I stayed in ICU/Cardiac Care Unit for close to a month.
Going on ten years now

geo

I have made it to the ripe old age of seventy-six and put in quite a few days last summer hauling my backpack around at elevations of 10,000 feet or so. Had I not quit cigs when I did, that hi altitude hiking probably wouldn't be possible.

As somebody else said, just quit. After I quit in 1978, I have never had any desire to start again. God has been and always will be my strength.

I never smoked but I did chew and quit last October cold turkey, I think the thing that helped me the most was studying what the symptoms of quitting were so that I knew what to expect and I could prepare for it.

Dipped Copenhagen (can per day) from age 14 until 41; smoked a good bit along the way, too. All the way through college, medical school and residency, where I removed many voice boxes that were cancerous, and took out a lot of tongues, while I was dipping under the surgical mask! At age 41, the year after my father died from heart disease related to smoking, I decided enough was enough. I went on Zyban, and started chewing the Nicorette Gum, and went on a Canadian Whitetail hunt in Sasketchewan, where I just knew Copenhagen wouldn't be available......wrong. It worked, and I've been free of the schitt for damn near 10 years. I know me though, one puff and I'd be back at it.
Don
Good luck

Christmas break, 1953

Gave my cigarettes away.

Threw my pipe and tobacco away.

i use to smoke 2-3 packs a day for 10 yrs. when i quit drinking i realized if i could do that i could quit smoking so i did. been 14 yrs.

I got into a fight with the wrong three guys. When I got out of the hospital I realized "I haven't had a smoke in 8 days". Why start back now. I had some pretty good meds too amd mixed them with wiskey for a while. Im not proud of this, but it worked and I haven't smoked in 15 years.

Damn bunch quitters here anyway! JK,I admire the people who can make a decision like that and stick to it.

I`ll admit it, I like smoking. Some people say they hate it and wish they could quit,which I never really understood. I do realize the health risks invovled,and therefore I limit my cigarette intake to 2 a day. I`ll have one after work and one right before bed. Go all day without even thinking about it. I just don`t take them to work,so I don`t even think about it usually.
Most I ever got up to was less than a half pack a day, and I noticed it affected my `climbing wind` as it was so aptly put. I cut it down to 2,and have been there for the last couple years.
I did order me one of those e-cigs, just to check em out. I figure if they work, I can still have my couple smokes a day without any real reprecussions. Win Win!

I felt better when I quit but did gain a little weight.

1987. Threw them away. Took em up again for a few months in 92... Stopped when I realized how stupid it was. Never regretted quitting.

Alan

YES!!!
Out of town job sharing a room with a guy that smoked was how I started the second time. He made the room smell awful but if I smoked "just one" it wasn't so bad. One turned into two, two into a pack and a half a day for eight years more.

I feel like the AA guys. "Hi I am 700LH I am a smoker".
An Tobacco Junkie

Shortly after I made my previous post I had to run to the corner store. There was a young lady in front of me and she asked for a pack of Marlboro Red, regular length. I heard the clerk tell her "That will be $9.42 Miss" I couldn't believe HOW MUCH a pack of cigarettes cost in NY any more. Mostly Federal and State taxes of course. It is no wonder so many people travel to one of the Indian Reservations around here. I shudder at the thought what my 2 packs a day cost a week.

I picked a day and stuck to that day, it was nearly a year away but it actually worked. All I thought about was that coming day and I quit after 13 years of smoking 2 packs a day and that was 15 years ago! Good luck to your son!

I smoked a pack and a half per day for about 35 years. Decided in December that I would quit on Jan. 1st. Asked the wife to get me some patches but she forgot........so I went and got them myself. Quit that night. The first "step 1" patch was too strong...couldn't sleep, so I cut them in half and used that for 3 weeks, then cut them down to 1/4 and quit the patches a couple of days later. Haven't wanted a smoke since, and yes the cig smoke smells good, but it stinks on people.

Biggest factor in quitting is WANTING to quit.