My 150th aniversary. 150 days smoke free. Tell me about your quitting progress. nt

[Speck Tater]

[Wapsie B]

1. Going on 30 days breaking my sugar addiction.

[bigwillq]

2. 19.5 hours

Since the last time I smoked a cigarette. That's the longest streak I've had in a long, long time. I really want to quit this time. It's really difficult, though.

Good for you! :hi: :hug:

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. Congrats

Thats a really great accomplishment. It gets easier as time goes by.

OLTG
Nine years, eight months, two weeks, five days, 4 hours, 7 minutes and 6 seconds smoke free.
106475 cigarettes not smoked, saving $23,956.63.
Time spent not puffing: 1 year, 5 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes.

[Speck Tater]

4. OK that's an impressive fact, BUT ...

I just jotted the number of days on my calendar. how the hell did you manage to get so precise about it? !!!

On the other hand, playing the devils advocate, your not really an ex-smoker until you have completely forgotten how long ago it was since you quit.

[One_Life_To_Give]

10. A little program called Silkquit

Was written by a fellow quitter. I think writing it was an aid to him and I know it has been used by many of us over the years.

These days I don't think about how long it's been till someone asks. Then I just fire up the program and it has the dates loaded and spits out the up to the second results.

[Speck Tater]

11. Cute. Anything that helps has to be good. :) nt

[Auggie]

5. 8 years, 10 months

I struggled with addiction for years. I still have urges, but I'll never go back.

[newcriminal]

6. Congratulations, wish my husband would try.

Are you related to taterguy?

[Speck Tater]

9. This is about the 300th time I've quit. Best before was 3 months.

This time it will stick, though. I can feel it in my bones. Plus I watched a good friend battle lung cancer very recently. A sobering experience.

(No relation to taterguy.)

[Roon]

7. I quit smoking four years ago

I am on social security and I broke up with my boyfriend and all of a sudden found myself unable to support my smoking habit. The county hospital had a program which included patches and group. That is how I was able to quit smoking.

It's so nice to not be a smoker. People don't hassle you at the bus stops for a smoke. Less crap to carry when you do ride the bus. More money. No more coughing. It's just nice all around. Quitting smoking is the hardest, greatest thing I ever did!!

Quitting smoking is VERY hard! But I did it because I had no choice. When you first quit smoking,you really notice all the other people who DO smoke. But after awhile it's like when you were a kid and the adults smoked...you just don't notice it anymore.

[SCantiGOP]

8. my wife and I both

will celebrate one year this August 1. She had two brief (2-4 cigarettes) relapses. I had none, but saved my last cigarette and went out in the yard about 2 hours after they had declared Barack Obama as the next President and smoked for the last time. We both feel great, but agree that if the world-ending asteroid were going to hit next week we'd both be smoking our brains out.

[dana_b]

12. congrats!! 23 years without cigarettes now for me.

from age 12-21 I smoked and for the last two-three years I was smoking 1.5 packs/day. I decided that I didn't want it controlling me so I quit.

Keep going!! 5 months, you got this.

[Speck Tater]

13. I smoked for 47 years before finally quitting.

As kids we used to collect tobacco from butts in the ash trays and go back behind the barn and roll our own smokes.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. I had a cigarette a few days ago

just to remind myself why I quit 24 years ago.

While I was smoking, it was quite pleasant; but as soon as the cigarette was done I had to brush my teeth, scour my tongue, and take a shower. And my lungs felt like shit the next morning.

Breathing is highly under-rated.

[applegrove]

15. I tried Champix, Chantix. It worked really well for me. I was also on the quitnet.com

where you can vent and get expert advice on the process of quitting for a hundred quitters at a time. I'd go for a walk every time I had a crave. I'd buy popsicles. I had a move in the middle of it and didn't break down and smoke. A few months later i had a crave and bought herbal cigarettes. Disgusting but just enough like smoking to take the edge off a crave. Finally the herbal cigarettes disgusted me just as much as the idea of being a smoker disgusted me. I had stopped being jealous of smokers and started to feel sorry for them. I still do. That was the sea change for me. I lumped together all of smoking with all of the denial about bad health that goes with it. It was finally one "package" I didn't want in my life.