Grrrrr....I QUIT!!!

That's a great birthday present to yourself and your family!!!

I quit Jan 2002...wish Nico would too BUT...you have to want to or it's next to impossible!!

First time I quit was 20 yrs ago and then I started again by smoking at a party and not even knowing I smoked one...yes...alcohol was involved!! Smoked again for 2 yrs...

Never again!!!

Good Luck...Happy Birthday and it DOES get easier like every one else says!!

[Top Cat]

Cold turkey is a very hard thing to do. It will be easier for you though. If you keep swearing at your boss you will not have a job, therefore no money to buy cigs with. Hang in there. good Luck.

[cactusjack]

Hang in there, man! You'll be glad you did. My son, who is 24, took up smoking in high school. He quit 2 or 3 times, he's been off the cancer sticks for 2-3 years now. The first few days are the roughest. Will power...will power!

[rflnomad]

You can do it! My wife smoked 20 years. Then 15 years ago, she quit cold turkey. Was it easy? NO!! But she kept it up and never went back.
She is SO glad she did it and so am I.

[beezer]

I'm your age and started about the same time Cadd. How old were you when you started playing stink finger?

'bout 16 or 17

[dakals]

Good luck!!!!!!!

[basco]

Good luck I quit smoking five years ago now if I could get off of snuff I would be doing good but I don't see that happening any time soon. I tried quiting snuff one time but that was the longest 30 minutes of my life so I started back

Cadd, unbeknownst to me at the time, I quit at 5 pm, February 7th. At 5:15 the chest pains started, by 6:15 I was in the cath lab having 4 stents inserted into my coronary arteries. Quitting is incredibly hard. The alternative is incredibly permanent.

[audiogooroo]

Good luck bro! Hang in there...you won't regret it.

[macmac]

Oh I know.. Maybe if you 'giterdone' I can come back and we can see if you can beat me up that rock! ::)

[ponch]

My dad quit around the same age as you, may be a little younger, and he quit cold turkey. I am sure you will and can do the same. he did say even after 30 years of quitting, there were times after dinner he felt like a smoke, but he never did. The first month is the hardest. I thank god I never took up that habit. My mom on the other hand was practically lighting up on her death bed. They are a nasty habit.

Well I just quit smoking (again ::) ) so I'm gonna be a little...ummmm...harder to live with than normal. I decided that at age 53 I'd been smoking long enough and convinced myself that I wasn't enjoying it anymore.. After 38 years. Yeah...right.

I did it as a birthday present to myself. Whoo-frikkin-Hoo.

I am about the most serious variety of nicotine addict you will find. When I figured out that $3.25 worth of cheap cigars had twice the nicotine of a $5 pack of Camels, it was sayonara Camels. As soon as consciousness hits me in the morning, I smoke. Before I hit the sack, ditto. If I get in bed and figure I haven't smoked enough, I get up and do it some more.

I've only been 33 hours without a smoke, and so the full effects haven't hit yet. There's still lots of nicotine floating around in my system. But the people around me can tell something's up. You wouldn't believe what I said to my boss yesterday while trying desperately to concentrate on my work as every noise in the universe conspired to annoy me and distract me from it. I can't repeat it here, but it contained at least 3 of the 7 words you can't say on TV. After working practically arm-in-arm for 14 years he recognised the out-of-character outburst even before I did.

So perhaps I'll live longer and enjoy it less. Or perhaps I'll eventually enjoy it more. Hard to say at this point. Cold turkey is a state of mind where even ordinary thoughts refuse to resolve themselves into coherancy without a brute force attack from the will. That part will soon improve (I know. I've done this before.) but the other part--the part where I start seriously aching to go smoke--the part where my body has leached out all its stored nicotine and has none left to ease the need--that part hasn't started yet.

I you sense it before I do, you might want to step back out of the line of direct fire.

My Dad had a heart attack and when the Dr asked if he smoked he said "I quit today!" and never smoked again! He always carried a pack of 'freedent' gum in his shirt pocket...where he used to carry his cigarettes.

I'm your age and started about the same time Cadd. How old were you when you started playing stink finger?

Thank you all for the support. Even you Nico.

Mac, it wasn't the smoking so much as working behind a desk almost my whole life. On my best day I'll never beat you up Morro Rock.


It's been 59 1/2 hours now, and it's not that bad. At least I haven't murdered anyone yet. As I said I've done this before. I just flunked about 6 months along the way. This time I'll know better.