I QUIT SMOKING , YOU CAN TOO. I QUIT SEPT 27, 2012, SUPPORT EACH OTHER HERE

I quit for three weeks in september and fucked up from drinking, so this time I am trying to quit both.. see how it goes.

May the force be with you. Best of luck. 2 in one shot eh that's rough.

There is no way I can even sip a beer in the foreseeable future. I screwed up a 3 week quit a few years ago on NYE. Made it through Christmas stress with no dip, then gave it up after drinking at a NYE party.

I'm going to have to give up-
drinking
eating
sex
waking up
driving
glp (hopefully not)

and pretty much anything else remotely fun for awhile!!

ahah love how that's the one you said hopefully not to.

Priorities, right?

lol, it's the one that distracts me enough from thinking about the dip. So, while I normally surf with a dip in, maybe I can still manage.

I hear ya on that, Dip was a bitch to quit for me.

Anything remotely fun! got that right.

Day 7

Congrats your past the 3 day hump, now you got the 3 week hump and the 3 month hump. Do you drink?

nice!!!


Keep it up!!

GOOD JOB ALL OF YOU !!!!

much respect

i wasn't being figurative..

i meant a literal demon. he lives in an addicted tobacco slave's middle back.

you'll know when he's had enough of no tobacco. he'll come out.. ouch!!!

I knew what you meant, all good!

I've stopped for 2 weeks.

I have had another 3 attempts this year, my longest being 6 weeks. However, that did not include when I was drinking!! Out of the 6 weeks I probably had about 4 nights out drinking and smoked each time. I thought this was ok and i told myself that i will only smoke when i am drinking which sounded like a good idea. However, i seems it is not a good idea as it is easier to start again, which i did.

This time is different, i'm sure. I went out drinking last Friday (over a gallon of beer) and never had one cigarette. I was tempted a few times but there was something in my head that said i don't need it and i felt stronger for not doing it.

I think i mean it this time. I have also taken up running again and i am eating better so i think its my whole life package thats changing and i am becoming mentally stronger.

I think you have to want to stop. This time i think i really DO want to stop. My mindset has changed, for now.

Good luck to all.

Wow, I am impressed with the attempts and progress of the above posters kicking the demon out. Congratulations, an good luck. It can be done. ps, please keep supporting each other here. I may have started a good thing here.

ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, true, so true, those are the triggers for me, especially driving and coffee.

Yes they do go together don't they. Thanks for posting the link, perhaps it will help someone. Any thing helpful and encouraging is more than welcome here.

I fucked up already, attempt #4041 now in progress. 2 hours in lol. Sipping on some beers, lets see how this goes.

Don't give up, try and try again. It will happen.

Don't give up, try and try again. It will happen.

I smoked from 13 till I was 38, I was at some friends house one night and my buddies wife said hey do you hear yourself weezing? At the moment I didn't but thereafter for a couple of months I did. It really scared me. I knew I had lost the bulletproof teenage feeling for sure. So I quit on my birthday and that was a year and 3 months ago. It is hard and I had tried unsuccessfully many times but that weezing I heard every time I got in bed told me I had to do it. It sure feels nice not to lose my breath from a flight of stairs. Food doesn't taste any better from all the stories I was told but I am glad I stopped. All the best to you all. And when you do quit you will realize how nasty you used to smell.

Amen to your entire post.

Thanks for the support
but I know that until I quit drinking beer everyday that I wont be able to quit.

You will probably have to lay off the beer for a while like I did with coffee. You'll make it sooner or later.

Soon you find a beer in your hand only needs one other companion, it's not a smoke but another beer. It wasn't too difficult to separate the two, just keep your focus. It is easy to have distractions and excuses why you can't quit. Find ways to show yourself you can. After a beer I always say that it taste like another, so I do.

Good advice, but now I fear he will be a total drunk. lol

Well before I started drinking beer on the daily I didn't find it too difficult to stop smoking (lasted 6 months) but now taking into account the daily drinking I find it much harder to stop.

Thanks again for the advice though and +1

Last Edited by Meligrove on 10/26/2012 12:31 AM

I have a couple of e cigarettes, 1 with nicotine, 1 without. Huge help!!