I miss smoking.

[Bassic]

Smoking was fun.

:cry:

[mark414]

1. smoking what?

i am about to embark on the tobacco quitting train myself...:cry:

[Bassic]

2. Tobacco.

I hate that it's so bad for me.

Smoking was fun.

[Broken_Hero]

3. I hear you....

been over 9 weeks for me...and I feel like I can pick it right back up without missing a beat...

[Bassic]

7. Went up to six months once, and it was still good when I fell

off the wagon.

[Broken_Hero]

9. My longest was last year, into this year

june 2nd of 2005, til March 15th of 2006...just over 9 months...

[Bassic]

15. Sometimes it's enough to tell myself

that I'm doing the right thing. Other times it's not...

I wish they'd used all the energy they spent to make cigarrettes safer instead of simply more addictive.


Pipe dreams, pipe dreams...

[Broken_Hero]

20. yeah, in the smoking cessation

forum, I posted that "whatever scientist makes a safer/non addictive/cancer free cig, well get HUGHHH hug from me"....:) I know I can't quit forever, but I have to control it, and the only way I know how to control it, is to not smoke...I've tried the slippery slope of smoking, while drinking, and I always tend to get fully back into the habit of smoking....

on edit:to clarify

[Bassic]

25. Yeah I hear ya.

Social smoking doesen't work for me either.

[unsavedtrash]

4. me too.

but I have to say that I really like not smelling like smoke anymore.

[Bassic]

8. Yeah, me too.

There's at least that.

[a kennedy]

5. It's been 529 days for me, and d*mn it I want on too.......

:cry: I smoked through everything.....driving, gardening, walking my dog, in saloons, with neighbors, d*mn I could go for one now too, and that's not even saying how skinny I was. I've gained 30 gall d*mn lbs since I quit. :cry: :cry: :cry: Oh yeah, I want a smoke real bad.

[Bassic]

11. The hardest for me is when I drive.

It's like it had become second nature. Take the wheel, light up a smoke. It was automatic.

[a kennedy]

19. Yeah, when I was in the process of quitting while driving, I would

put both hands on the wheel to keep the "smoking" hand from being free to do what it used to do, and now, I really look pretty stupid driving with both hands on the wheel. Everyone else is driving while smoking or talking on their cell phones or eating.....and there I am with both hand firmly planted on the wheel at the 2 and 12'o clock positions. LOL and I can't take them off either, they're stuck on the wheel. D*mn

[Bassic]

26. That's funny.

I drive a standard, so the smoking hand was also the steering wheel hand, so that doesen't work for me. :)

[scarlet_owl]

6. It's been six years since I quit, and I still miss cigarettes every day.

[Bassic]

12. What do they put in there to make it so addictive?

Oh man.

[Kajsa]

18. The bastards at Big Tobacco

upped the nicotine content of cigarettes,
making it that much harder to quit.

I've heard it's harder for women to quit.
(figures).

I hate smoking but I know I'm not there
yet( really ready to quit.)

[Bassic]

27. Really? That's funny cause my GF had no trouble at all

and I'm really having a hard time quitting for good.

[Floogeldy]

10. I don't miss it.

But that's probably because I am drinking scotch and chain smoking right now. ;)

[Bassic]

13. A sotch and a smoke...

Have you been sent here to torture me? :cry:

[Floogeldy]

17. Sorry

Honestly, there is an even better and healthy sense of well being experienced when the physical body is free of such toxins. You're doing the right thing, Bassic. ;)

[Bassic]

28. I guess so,

but there's no way I'm giving up scotch altogether as well. :D

[filer]

14. I quit for seven years, once...

and backslid. Damn, still like em too much.

[Bassic]

16. Is there no escape from them?

Dammit why is smocking so damn much fun?

[a kennedy]

21. I don't know.....I loved tapping them on my hand.....loved opening

the new pack....ripping off the little tag that tore around the top of the whole pack, pealing off the silver paper to expose the rows of neatly white circles lined up. Oh sh*t I miss smoking...... :cry: I'm going to another area, this smoking thread is killing me.

[Bassic]

29. I know what you mean.

Sorry if I made it harder for you :hug:

[Sonora Nora]

22. still wanna smoke but not every day!

I quit 5 yrs ago... my hubby still smokes, sometimes that is hard. But DAMN! I feel so much better, healthier after 5 yrs of non-smoking than I did in the 35 yrs that I smoked.! The urge to smoke will always be there, but you just have to steel yourself & refuse to dwell on how good it was when you smoked. Concentrate on how good your lungs feel now that you don't smoke. Good luck!

[Bassic]

30. I guess I'm going to have to wait a few months, so that I can actually

feel a difference in my lungs, but I'm sure that'll make it easier.

[zanne]

23. I've been "missing" it for four years now...

I really liked smoking, too. I think it's different when you have to quit because of a pressing health issue and not because you want to. The one thing that really helps me when I have a craving is telling myself that I don't "need" a cigarette. After so many years of "needing" to smoke, it's hard to break that psychological habit, but when I realize I don't have to go outside and freeze or melt in the heat to smoke a cigarette, I feel better.

[Skittles]

24. yes it was

I always enjoyed it

[Bassic]

31. Me too.

All memories now I guess.