Has anyone at all stopped cigarettes without any help of any kind?

Yep, me & my wife stopped together 10yrs ago, aided by nothing except a strong willed determination & a clear goal to succeed, which we did…which was nice.

My husband woke up one morning and said “Yeah, I’m done with that.”

Just after a call from the oncological surgeon, who said, “The biopsy was positive (for breast cancer).” I almost didn’t notice that I had stopped smoking.

I have done it without any help. I started to smoke when I was 18 years old and I smoked till I was 24, I have stopped for four years now without any help at all.

About 25 years ago. Just had had enough.

After smoking heavily for 12 years, I quit four decades ago, cold turkey and without help. Of course, my doctor cautioning that I might have increased susceptibility to lung cancer due to old scar tissue on one lung had a certain motivational effect. Also, I had grown sick of the tobacco smell on my beard.

I did, probably 30–35 years ago. I was about a pack a day smoker. What did it for me was when the price of cigarettes went up to $0.75 a pack and I swore I was not going to pay that much for a pack of smokes.. I just walked away. It actually took a little more than that because all my friends who also smoked would offer me one when they had one. Every once in a while a would take one but it wasn’t long before they either accepted my decision (or got tired of supporting my habit as well).

But you know what, even after all these years I still like the smell of the smoke.

I never did buy another pack.

I like the smell of the smoke too. LOL

Yes, I did. In 1984. I stayed quit for 8 years. I don’t why I started up again. I just want to cry.

Yeah, I went to bootcamp and didn’t start again after lol.

I did once for a year. All I did was make my morning smoke later and later. (I am a wake up and smoke person). I really battled for about two weeks and ate tons of oranges for some odd reason. When the craving came around I would busy myself with a chore. Like clean a cupboard. I didn’t miss it at all. But I wasn’t a freaky none smoker demanding every one smoke outside.

Sadly I started again a year later. So this time I am considering E Cigs. Not sure how good they are, or bad.

I stopped cold turkey in 1986 after 20 years; by then I was smoking 2–3 packs a day. There were 5 days of acute discomfort – to keep my hands occupied, I learned quilting from a little book. Then followed a period of moderate discomfort – if one could call it that – every now and then cravings would come on and resisting each one was just as hard. It never got easier, but with resistance the episodes became fewer. My husband was very supportive, especially during that first week. Years later I saw an unused cigarette on the front step. I looked at it for a few seconds, and thought how it would taste and left it lying.

On my father’s birthday, he simply said he wouldn’t smoke again. And he didn’t.

^^^Which birthday? How long had he been a smoker?

He started smoking at 16, and quit at 38. First heart attack at 42. When that happened, he was very, very glad he had quit 4 years before.

^^^Is he still alive and well?

My dad did. He quit several times like most addicts, but finally it stuck for good. He quit while on a week’s vacation in the end, when he didn’t have the pressures of every day life, and had a break in his routine.

My dad needed heart bypass surgery about 6 years after quitting. I don’t remember how young he started. He actually quit in his mid 20’s for a few years, and then started up again around age 30 and then smoked another 10 years.

There was a time not very very long ago where there was no pills, gum and patches and people quit.

My dad quit after picking it up in the army. I remember my mother saying he’d come home from work looking sort of green and march upstairs to bed. He simply used will power. Very determined man in whatever he decided to do.

My Grandad did. He had a few health problems that weren’t being helped by his smoking so one day, he just decided to quit and did. He claims it wasn’t that difficult for him. When my Grandmother tried to quit a few years later she struggled and he really made sure she knew how easy it was for him!!!! Thankfully, my Grandmother, with help, has been cigarette free for some years now.

@gailcalled No, my dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 53. That was 30 years ago.

One of my brothers stopped smoking last year, just like that. The family never noticed because he remained his mild, equable self. “It really hurt me that they didn’t notice,” he said.

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