Did you quit smoking??

Question

If not please say why and if so HOW

Answer 1

My husband and I used to smoke. That's how we met and became friends six years ago. When we started dating a year year ago he had already quit.He just made the decision that he didn't want to smoke anymore and he quit. I finally quit when I moved to the base he was stationed at a month after we got married. I tried time and time again prior to quit but never made it but for some reason as soon as I moved into our house with him I quit cold turkey without going back thus far. I think getting away from my routine and starting a whole new one helped. There are days that i miss it. But I won't let myself go back.

Answer 2

I quit. I just said I was tired of paying all that money to pollute my body and I stopped. No pills, no patches, no gums. All it takes is willpower, and a strong desire to stop. At first you miss it, smoking is a habit. Now you have to change your habits. Quit smoking, and everytime you feel the need to light up go outside, or do something to occupy your mind and the feeling will pass. It takes a repetitive motin 21 days to become a habit, so mark your calander, quit on the first of the month and by the 22nd you will be free of the nicotine monster. And if not, if you slip, get back up and do it again. Don't quit quitting.

Answer 3

No. What am I risking, am I gonna get emphysema again? Not likely I will get cancer as I don't have the genetic risk for that. I enjoy smoking, am not likely to die from an STD, drug addiction or alcoholism and have had a fantastic life already. Outlived most of my enemies except greed, bigotry and the IRS and smoke mostly in my own home so if anyone has a problem with those, good luck with windmills and city hall.

Answer 4

i want to go into the military, so the thought of going into boot camp with bad lungs scares the crap out of me. I have quit for 2 and a half months now. The problem that I had was needing something to keep my hands busy while I was driving. I kept a bottle of water with me at all times, so whenever I got a craving I would take a drink of water. Also don't keep any "just-in-case" cigarettes anywhere. They WILL result in you starting up again. I ended up learning from all the prior times that I tried to quit and failed. Remember this as your motto: "As ye smoke, so shall ye also reek!" For some reason it kept me going. I wish you luck!

Answer 5

I haven't quit smoking because I investigate murders, rapes, suicides, and drugs. It is my only stress reliever and I don't want to start heavily drinking. I quit cold turkey before. The first three days was the worst. Once the first three days go by, the rest is easy. What I did before was everytime I had to smoke I ate something or chewed on something to get rid of the urge. After all, the most addicting part is the motions. If you keep your mouth busy, then you will not think about cigarettes. That is the key. To not think about it. The withdrawls are the worst, because you begin to hack up stuff, your body feels warn down, and anything will piss you off. To get rid of that, I would go running to burn off the anger.

Answer 6

It took me a long time to quit smoking but it is not hard once you set your mind to it. The things I did to begin with were the nicotine patches and chewing gum. Did not work for me. Strong will power and my son coming up to me, him being 2 years old, and saying that I should not be smoking cause they are bad was enough for me. Layed them down after I got to thinking that I wanted to be around to watch him grow up. Strange how a two year old can be exactly right about things.

Answer 7

Smoking is a rare addiction.
Slow poisoning of a sort!!!

Well I use to smoke a lot before,with usually friends.
I got this habit from a friend.
As days passed,I started to feel a heavy weight on my lungs.
I m a soccer player,so the change started to show.

One day I thought to myself I m losing myself,I m not benifiting at all from smoking neither m I improving on something.Infact I was losing my grip on the sport I love.

I quit!!!!
I started reciting QURAN..
Whenever I felt like smoking,I thought of the things I love and for which I want to live for.

Think abt it!!!!

Answer 8

Here is a lesson I should have learned early on, the best way to quit smoking is to NEVER EVER start in the first place.

Answer 9

I don't smoke.

My parents did.

They stopped eventually: They died of cancer.

Keep that in mind.
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A friend of mine started smoking soon after graduating high school. His mom smoked too. She died of cancer.

My friend coughed a lot. Phlegm-filled coughs. Fits of coughing. He didn't have a lot of energy.

A number of years later, his wife convinced him to quit, for the kids' sake.

He used the patch. He quit smoking. He doesn't cough a lot now. He has a busy life with the kids... fortunately he has a lot of energy.
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The moral of this is, all smokers quit eventually. Do whatever you can to quit in a way similar to how my friend quit, not how my parents quit.

Answer 10

Quitting smoking is really tuff, i ain't a smoker but i really understand since my mom is a counsellor, the point is that, you need to really smoking b4 it gets the better of you.
You see as everybody knows by now smoking leads to cancer and every pack you smoke your lifetime loses 4 valuable years, yes, its pretty proved.You also add to the increasing global temperatures that directly leads to global warming .
I think its best to approach a counsellor for this.
Thanks,
Kakes