I finally decided to stop smoking cigarettes last week. Today marks one week, and after not smoking on a 24 hour duty yesterday, I gotta tell you, I'm feeling good about quitting. Don't get me wrong, the cravings are there, but I'll kick it.

Cool Congrats...

one day I may give them up as well...

but for me.. today isn't the day

Go go for it my freind!!

I will pray for you, this is very important!

I wish I had never smoked a cigarette!

Keep us posted!

After the 1st month send me your snailer for a reward!!

keep it up !

Thanks for the support guys. I'll be updating this with my progress.

Mike,

I smoked two to three packs a day of Lucky Strikes for years when I was a shipboard engineer.

Quitting ain't easy, but it's well worth it brother.

You know my phone number if you need it. Call anytime.

WTG Waves!! I am coming up on 9 years, the cravings still come once and a while but they are quickly subsided by the nasty memories. Keep it up, you will not only be happy you did it, you will also be proud...it is a heck of an accomplishment.

Diver

WTG!

I'll make a prayer for you.

Blessings,

neo

I did great for about a year, then some bad health news had my careening off that wagon head first. Took about two days to get back to a pack a day. If you kick it, keep it kicked! Don't do what I did.

Good Luck! And Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas!

I'm hoping I can look back on this post in a couple years, and remember the day I quit.

I don't think I'm gonna use patches or gum or anything.

One thing I'm wondering though for those of you that were smoking cigars before you quit cigarettes: Did you smoke more cigars per day after you quit cigarettes?

I only smoked between eight and a dozen cigars per year back then before quitting the cigs, so it really wasn't an issue for me.

I basically just woke up one morning and didn't want a cigarette, so I just decided right at that point I might as well quit. It wasn't a debate or a struggle at all for me, I just simply stopped. *shrug* I guess I was sick of them or something. Never needed or even considered patches or gum.

Going instantly from nearly three packs a day of unfiltereds to zero didn't change my cigar habits of the time either.

Even dwindled down to about two (or less) cigars a year there for a number of years, but that more to do with the ex-wife migraines than anything else.

Waves, you can do this.

I smoked for about 40 years, then quit 3-4 years ago.

If you've gone a week w/o, you've pretty much completed the hard part...you are over the hump.

^ I sure hope so. I'm feeling pretty good about it now. Haven't craved any over the Christmas holiday. Too busy, I guess. I went from a pack a day, but I do feel good.

Thanks again gents.

Waves, good trick that helped me with cravings was to take a really deep breath in through your nose, and hold it. Then slowly exhale.

Also, figure how much you spent on cigs a month. Go a month and treat yourself. That way your earning something with the money you saved. Keeps your mind on the prize. I bought a new computer and digital camera the first year without smoking.

Good luck bro.

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Lou, That's a damn good idea.

Thanks for the idea.

Boli, I saw and posted on that's kind of one of the things that got me to thinkin I should quit.

Nobody likes a quitter.

I however took a hopefully lifelong hiatus from cigarettes Oct 23rd this year. Good luck.

congrats to you and rob and a prayer to never go back.

I wish I'd never started but peer pressure, I was already smoking something else(ya know,wink wink)and a friend said you might as well smoke a cigarette.

Waves,

I didn't smoke cigars when I smoked cigarettes, so I have no info there. I was concerned that when I started smoking cigars that I would want to smoke cigarettes again...still have no desire for them nasty little bastids.

Good luck, keep up the great work.

Diver

Best of luck Waves. I took Chantix and it worked very well. Unfortuneatly, the failing of my last kidney transplant was more stress than I could bare. I fell off the wagon... hard. If you quit, stay quit! After nearly two years smoke free, it only took me about a week to get back to a pack a day.

Stay strong, I know I felt better, and had more energy when I wasn't smoking (cigarettes anyway). I was even able to climb up Medicine Bow Peak, 12,000 ft+, without much trouble. Although it's not a terribly difficult climb anyway, I don't think I could have done it had I been smoking at the time.