Three days without a smoke!!!

[Ash]

Three days smoke-free. 13 years with this habit (a pack and a half a day as of the past 8), and I can't remember going this long without one. Never pictured myself not being a smoker, but it's starting to feel like a reality. I know three days is chump change to most, but for me, might as well be an eternity. Using the Camel Snus right now and awaiting some Swedish Snus to be delivered (The Domestic camel stuff, I must attest, is pretty weak compared to the Swedish product).




Anyone who is remotely considering quitting, take a look at http://www.healthline.com/blogs/smok...n_archive.html for the rundown and https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...35931512002861 for some good comments from users... Don't think I wold have made it this far without it.

[jsalansing]

Good for you, glad to hear it. Three days may seem like chump change to a non smoker, but to a smoker I think it's pretty good. Congrats and keep with it.

Joe....

[Charlie Brengun]

I ran into snus stuff in Finland, it's pretty common there as well.. if you use that for a long time your gums die and your teeth drop out from what i've heard..

i quit smoking about two months ago and have been smoking for about 17 / 18 years prior to that, about a pack a day (started when i was 13..) all i can say is you're doing good, keep it up.

[mc84_zz4]

Congrats man, each day after gets a little easier, just keep a stubborn attitude that YOU control the urge, not it to you. As the first week is over, the second almost seems downhill, by week 3 you'll feel a helluva lot better, it gets easier, and the yellow-finger goes away.
Keep on going!

[ProdigyCustoms]

Stay with it man. I am NOT one of those non smoker preachers, but I do tell anyone trying to quit. And since you posted here your obviously looking for support.

I smoked 3 packs a day, 3 packs for 15 years. I would roll over in bed and light one, finish one before sleep in bed. i was BAD! Tried to quit and failed a dozen times, Tried everything from the patch to poking holes in the filters. Then one day I said Screw It and put them down. No help, no patches, just fricken quit, and you know what, I did not die! But when I did this time I did it without telling anyone I was quiting. I did it over Christmas holiday and Lisa did not figure it out till March! By then I was home free. And yes, she still did and still does smoke! And I had to quit with her smoking, and league bowling (at the time you could, were required, LOL, to smoke on the lanes). I just had to do it, I did not feel good anymore. And there was not one single compelling reason to continue smoking. And now it is socially unacceptable.

That was 12 years ago last week and I cannot begin to tell you how much freedom I got from quiting! And how much extra money, and that is when they were $1.50 a pack!

Now they have made cigs Fire Safe and have added more garbage. Lisa and I were talking about it last night, She wants to quit but simply does not have the will power. Thousand excuses and reasons for bad timing. I really want her to quit, but there is very little conversation before I get don't tell me what to do. I hope she musters the courage before they win the battle.

Read some of this stuff I found last night might put you over the hump

2 weeks, 2 weeks and your home free, If your really ready!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/rep...cigarette-laws

Good Luck and congratulations in advance

[JEFFTATE]

Stick with it man !!
Not smoking is so much more healthy than smoking.

I smoked ( casually ) for the last 30 years.
Since I was 13.

I quit about 4 weeks ago.
Because , I just couldn't get a full breath anymore.
I have asthma too.
So , smoking wasn't a good idea anyway.
I just couldn't breath anymore, so I quit.
I was afraid I had lung cancer or emphysema or something.
But , the bronchitis seems to be clearing up now..

Stay quit,
It's good for you..

[WILWAXU]

Good job! Keep it up!

[cheapthrillz]

I guess I need to quit too....

I have a very short temper (which I have always battled) and I tell myself that "If I didn't smoke, I would probably kill somebody" and I realize that that is not the case. I just use that as an excuse to smoke, along with "I enjoy it" and "it is relaxing". I think that all in all, the cons definately out weight the pros for smoking. Haha.... Pros for smoking.... Non-smokers would say that there are no Pros for smoking, but they have no clue. (Advice for people who have never smoked: don't preach to a smoker about quitting... you will only make us want another ciggarette.)

I have smoked 10-15 ciggarettes a day for the last 6 years and I can already tell that it is hurting my health. I am only 23, but shortness of breath and chest pains will scare you sometimes. I've never really had the "desire" to smoke more that 10-15 a day for some reason. I just "need" one about every hour. The main thing that gets me is boredom. I can go for hours without smoking if I'm working intently, but as soon as I slow down, I smoke. I just wish I could convince my brain that I am always "busy" so that I don't have the urge to smoke....

Sorry for the rant..... Good luck to you! It is dificult, but anytime you get a bad craving, just find something to do that takes your mind off of it.... that is the advice that I would give to myself.

[DaviRotten]

STICK AT IT! Its all in your head..

[6'9"Witha69]

Keep with it. I am 26 months smoke free. Had been smoking for 15 years before that. Pack and a half a day for the better part of 10 years. It sucks. I hate smoking now, but still get a twitch for one every now and then. I shrug it off and I am fine.

I can finally run over 5 miles again and still have my breath at the end. The feeling now is soooo much better than it had been for a long time.

[Damn True]

Yesterday was my last day of using Copenhagen.

I feel like complete rubbish today, even with the nicotene gum, but I need to do this.

[6'9"Witha69]

Uh oh, Irritable Mod Alert!!

[Young Gun]

Keep it up you guys!

[Tony_SS]

Anyone got a light in here? Opps, wrong room!

[Damn True]

Uh oh, Irritable Mod Alert!!

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!

[Ash]

WOW, Thanks for the comments and support guys. Encouraging to know so many on here have kicked the habit. I was'nt even planning on quitting, but my sister and her boyfriend mentioned it a couple days before New Years and I said "what the hell, I can do this too"...The prospect always seemed so epic, like it would require a while to work up to...but it's all in the mind. I might be cheating with the SNUS, but I'll beat the habbit first and then ween off the nicotine later. I did a fair amount of research on it, and alot of people successfully quit while using it. since it's steam cured and not fire cured (like dip and chew) the carcinogenic levels are crazy low and don't statistically show oral cancers...but again, just using it as a tool to quit.

Charlie, Jeff, True, I'll keep you guys in the back of my mind when the urge hits.

[Taman]

I quit September 1,1991 at 9.05 p.m. I put my last cigerrette out and put a patch on. Two months of patches and I have never touched a cigerette again. Good luck. You will need it. Take it one day at a time and before you know it, it will have been years.

[mlm1961]

When the air filter on our cars are dirty we either clean them ( K&N ), or we discard them and replace them ( paper elements ).

We all love our motors enough for us to want them to ingest clean air. Clean air makes our carburetors/fuel injection system happy!

Until K&N can make washable and reusable lungs i strongly suggest you keep off the cigarettes.

FYI, i used to smoke 4 packs a day!

Keep it up buddy, you can do it!!

[John Wright]

Hey Ash!....how are you gonna live up to your screen name now?...J/K

I think it is great that you have made it 3 days or so without lighting up. Keep up the good work, but don't look at it in number of days, or weeks, etc... just worry about about TODAY and determine in your mind that you will not smoke TODAY, and then tomorrow, make the same committment to yourself, and each day afterwards....it is a day by day process until you get to a point where you just don't think about it any longer....that point may be a ways down the road, but take it just one day at a time. Best wishes on your new life!

BTW, Be careful, because food will smell sooooo good in a few days....

[Tony_SS]

Hey Ash!....how are you gonna live up to your screen name now?...J/K

LOL!

With all these stories.. I'm glad I never gave into peer pressure to start. I just cant believe how addictive they are? Is it the tobacco itself or all the other additives that make it so?

I saw one of those 'truth' commercials saying 1 in 3 smokers die from doing so.. that would be reason enough to quit right there!