Anyone ever quit smoking succssfully?

Yea, I wish I never would have started because quitting is easy bordering on hard. Staying quit though is hard bordering on torturous.

 

I've never smoked, however my grandparents, mom, and aunt have all successfully quit after 20+ years. Most recently, my aunt quit. She literally couldn't afford her habit. She has to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met. I didn't think she had an ounce of willpower. She was a smoker for over 30 years. If she can quit, I believe anybody can.

 

this. quitting initially isn't that hard. I actually get pretty into quitting for the first few days. It makes me feel really good about myself because you feel the health benefits after the first day or so and the nicotine withdrawal can produce a good natural high. I've quit a few different times for several months (the longest, a year) at a time with no problem.

Its the resisting the urge to smoke FOREVER that gets me every time. I always go 6 or 7 months then I have a beer and I think it would be okay to have just one cigarette...but of course the next time I have two cigarettes and it spirals down from there.

I've never really started a full blown habit again since the very first time I quit smoking, but I always end up smoking a few here and there after several months. Now I usually have one or two a day, although occassionally I'll skip days. I find it harder to quit when I'm not smoking that much because I never get to the point where the cigarettes are making me feel shitty enough to quit.

 

I quit smoking successfully many times a day. It's not the quitting that's hard, it's the staying quit that gives one problems.

 

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”


― Mark Twain

 

I quit 6 years ago. I just stopped, went cold turkey its the best thing I ever did...so nice to breath again!

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I've never really smoked. A few people close to me have tried and failed many times, even when their lives are clearly at risk. It must be one hell of an addiction when your doctor tells you that it is killing you and you still can't help but light up.

Then again I know people who have quit successfully even after fifty years!

 

I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to quit, I just don't seem to have the strength to.

I'm seriously thinking about doing the Alan Carr one day clinic, it's £250 but it'll be worth it if I stop.

 

I know people that only smoke very occasionally and think that they won't start smoking more, isn't that how every smoker starts out. A pack can last you a week it's no big deal, you never think you're gonna be smoking a pack a day in a couple or so years.

 

Its not easy for sure, you gotta want to give up smokes way more than you want to smoke. And it is life or death in the long haul, I've lost many friends and family members, my dad included to lung cancer. I quit for good in 1971, and I still occasionally want one, but I don't want to quit again. I consider myself lucky to have stayed off of them. Good luck to all of you trying to quit, you can beat the beast!

 

Yes, smoked for about 2 months & decided I could by more useful things with the $'s I were spending. Nothing worse now than smelling cigarette odours on other people

 

^ The best way to quit successfully and for good is to convince yourself it is absolutely disgusting. Until every single little aspect of smoking sickens you to the core. When walking by the slightest hint of smoke in a parking lot makes you want to punch someone. Then you've won.

 

Then you've actually lost, because you became a pathetic anti-smoking ****. Those are much worse than any smoker.

 

You're a ****.

 

I disagree.

Being eaten by a bear for instance is much worse.

 

Woah there partner. Were you mugged by a non smoker or something?

 

I managed to quit before- but I had no choice. I was in hospital for a while and since I was recovering from a serious OD, I'd been in intensive care the first couple of days. After that I was on constant watch, because I'd been admitted after a suicide attempt, and I was not allowed to smoke as I was fifteen at the time. The weeks I was in the hospital actually helped me to quit a lot- when I got out I rarely craved them. After that I was at home a lot because of my fragile state of mind, and my parents disapproved of me smoking. This helped further. By the time I had regained my independence, I no longer had frequent urges to smoke. But when I was sixteen, I started again because of a troubled relationship with a friend, and since then my attempts to quit have been unsuccessful.

 

I've quit a couple times when I had to, been locked up when I was younger for dumb shit and couldn't smoke cigarettes but upon release didn't make it past the steps to the sidewalk before bumming a cigarette from someone walking by

I think for many people they may be forced to quit for whatever circumstances but that didn't work for me and probably doesn't work for a lot of people because they were forced to quit and didn't really "want" to quit. You have to want to quit on your own will power for it to actually be worthwhile other wise youre just gonna say fuck this shit, as soon as I get out of here/this shit is over/ whatever I can't wait till I can smoke a sweet fuckin cigarette

 

A nonsmoker bit them as a child