How did you quit smoking?

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I have been a smoker for 50 years. yes, thats a lot of money. i could have bought a brand new porsche with the money i have spent on cigarettes. this i know. i have tried just about everything known to man to quit smoking, except hypnosis. i will never try this. i am still smoking, but at least i gave it the old college try. my mother is 92 and still smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. she is healthy for her age. i wonder if there is a gene in humans for nicotine, like the gene for alcohol?

10 years
Cold Turkey
3 months

1. I smoked about 6 years, on and off.
2. I basically quit cold turkey, but I had many setbacks before I kicked the habit entirely. Tips and tricks along the way:
Avoiding bars and drinking
Developing a taste for expensive cigars I couldn’t possibly afford that made me like the taste of cigarettes less.
Think of yourself as quitting, not trying to quit. Don’t allow failure to be an option (as Yoda said: “Do or do not, there is no try.”
When you have a setback, it is not failure, you’re just not done yet. Keep working at it.
3. I have not smoked anything of any kind in ten years, and have no desire to.

I told myself that I haven’t smoked a single cigarette this year… and so far it’s still true.

I quit cold turkey 35 years ago after smoking heavily for 15 years. I have never gone back. The secret is, you’ve GOT to want to stop.

2–3 packs / week over 15 years.
Stopped a year and a half ago after 4 attempts: Wellbutrin (4 months), the patch (8 months) and cold turkey (1 year).

Each time, though, I hadn’t really wanted to quit, but I thought I should. Nothing will work unless you really want to quit.

I quit for good after I read Allan Carr’s Easyway in August 2008 and realized that I really did want to stop, and I did. I haven’t had an urge for a smoke since November 2008, and I focused my attention on something else until it passed.

20 years several cigarettes a day.

Big tragic event in my life..two packs a day for several months.

Phonecall from the Oncologist; “The cells are malignant.”

I never smoked again and didnt even notice that I had stopped. That was 14 years ago.

It is not a technique that I would recommend, however.

the most recent time I quit:

1. smoked for 4 years off and on (no more than 5 cigs a day)
2. cold turkey
3. 1 year* (yay!)

*had 5 cigarettes 2 months later (all one night) became violently sick with nausea, have not smoked since that night in late March 2009

I firmly believe that because I got so sick the last time I smoked, it is impossible to romanticize that last cigarette; therefore, it’s been a lot easier to stay quit when times of significant stress have cropped up.

@john65pennington If there is such a gene, I got the wrong one. My great-grandfather was a cigar smoker and died young of throat cancer. My grandfather died young of lung cancer. My father is still kicking (and smoking) for now, though he has emphysema. I don’t know why that man can’t quit, but I think the cigarettes helped him kick the booze.

3 years, almost a pack a day, severe asthma attack got me to quit, haven’t had one in 3 months

I lived on celery, carrots, coffee and gum.

Just came home from work after a long, hard day, and then discovered I was out of cigarettes. Was too tired to go out for more, and never bought or smoked cigarettes or an alternative again.

I personally have never formed a habit from it, though I’m sure the fact that I smoke at all would have some say that I just don’t want to acknowledge I’m addicted but to each their own. As to your question I have a very good friend who “quit” in 2006, she had been a smoker for 12 years at 1–2 packs a day, quit cold turkey for about six months, and has been a “social smoker” since at maybe a pack every couple or three months.

1.5 packs a day. Tried bupropion, hypnosis, patch, gum. Nothing stuck.

Then I found this forum
which changed my life and didn’t even FEEL like quitting, even when drinking and hanging out with smokers.
1628 cigarettes NOT smoked in 2 mos, 7 days. $488.40 saved.

by not doing it in the first place.

Doing it right now.

Smoked 1 pack a day for about 6 years.

58 hours, have had two cigarettes.

Sunflower Seeds, a Vick’s Inhaler (keychain), munchies, dick punching. I am winning.

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