My fiancee and I have decided to quit smoking and I was wondering how many smokers and ex-smokers we have here.

Awesome my first poll and I look like an idiot who can't spell now. lol

 

I had quite cold turkey when I became pregnant with my son in 1983. Not only quitting to have a healthy baby, the cigs just started tasting nasty to me at that time. I've taken a drag on a few since then and those puffs just reminded me that I still don't like 'em anymore. I never really went back.

Good luck to ya Skate!

 

I only smoke when I'm on fire which doesn't happen too often thank God.

 

Never

 

quit after 40 year pack a day. wsed welbutrin. the spot the doc found on my lung was also quite a motivator. turned out to be a calcification

 

Quit when my first son was born(many,many years ago). Smoked 1 1/2 packs a day, gained twenty pounds but never felt better. LOL

 

Never smoked cigarettes, use to smoke a lil bit of another illegal substance but have not touched that for almost a year.

 

After smoking 35 years and working up to 2 packs / day of Newports, I went cold turkey. I have tried patches, gum, pills, smoking nasty cigars/cigarettes, cutting down, snuff, you name it.
I finally decided to stop fooling myself and think that after 35 years, I was going to cheat the withdrawl process. I also came to grips with what I learned in 19 years of AA: I can't ingest ANY amount of the substance I'm addicted to, and expect to ever be free from it.
I took the bull by the horns, accepted that I was going to be wired, angry, restless, and miserable for 3-4 weeks, and be done with it. It was no walk in the park, but not as bad as I anticipated. Then again, what ever is? Nicotine free since 7/7/06.

 

Never smoked. Came back from Vietnam in late 68 and bought a new 69 Chevelle SS to reward myself. Made the then revolutionary decision to not allow smoking in my car. If it cost me friends, so be it but I know my position about smoking perhaps played a part in some close friends and at least one close family member quitting smoking. Makes me feel pretty good to think that maybe I played a role in them still be alive.

 

36 years...only quit because I refuse to pay that much, otherwise I wouldnt have. The few trips I ever made to a doc he/ they never once mentioned me trying to quit, what do they know we don't? had chest x-rays and all clean... believe it or not the ONLY change that I noticed is a 10lb wt shift that I can't seem to get rid of.
Don't really miss it as it all seems so very long ago, but yet it's only been a year.