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

Thank you very much, a wishing you both much success when you go for it. Unchained is a good description.

Anyone else ready to quit smoking? Many on this thread have. You will receive digital support here. Good luck to you if you do.

I failed during the hurricane.. But I will not quit on my mission to quit.. going to make another run this weekend. Its really important for me to quit before I turn 40 next year. And time is running out.

That's the right attitude. Keep that mind set.

ITs the only choice I have.. and that one video I made over the hurricane I sounded like I wa smoker and it disgusted me.

Using patches and occasionally cheating. Life is very stressful and the cravings very strong.

It helps to observe others who don't smoke and see what they do... I used to smoke cigs and herb... cigs was the toughest, but observing others helped a lot... just to remember what it was like not to have to smoke...

If you are into Christ, the Lord's payer works for a lot of things... I use it all the time when something isn't right physically or if I crave something I'd rather not...

fasting is also a great way to detach from the material desires... 3-5 day water fast crushes most habits...

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I know its tough, but worth it in the end, don't give up my friend. Years of your life, and the quality of that life depend on your success.

What ever works is the right way. Congratulations to you.

How are my quitters doing??????

The app on my phone says I've saved $194 and not smoked 777 cigarettes since my quit day. Woo hoo!! How is everyone else doing? I only think about cigarette maybe once a day now, and it is very fleeting.

Great progress and cool app.

Going to bed bump.

I am going cold turkey starting today, been smoking 30 years. I have quit before many times but never cold turkey. I think it will be the hardest yet best way. just get it all over with. not working right now so seems like a good time to do.

Cold Turkey is the best way to quit. Most smokers who stay quit are Cold Turkey Quitters. Good On You.

I quit smoking on September 8th so I think I should be on this thread, lol. Still fighting it every day. Thanks for a place of support and a place to vent should it be needed.

I gave in and had a smoke this morning after the enormous amount of disappointment over the election...Once again I have to start over...

Sorry to hear it, but don't let one smoke get in your way. It's okay to slip every now and again.. We are all human.

Just acknowledge it and move on.

Good luck to you, but sure all will be fine.

Yes you are a part of this thread. Congratulations.

I bet a lot of people did after that disaster. Don't give up tho, give it another try.

Where have my quitters gone? Still quit or fail?

Hi ,this method helped me to quit two years ago.Hope it will do the same to you too.Good luck. [link to media.wix.com]

congratulations, DF, and may you have continued good luck.

After 15 years of smoking, I tried quiting with Chantix about 5 years ago and it worked for about 3 months until I went to a party. The issue was that I still wanted to smoke very badly and when the opportunity was there I took it. Since then I just resigned myself to the fact that I was a smoker.

This past February I moved into a new place and my neighbors were visibly disgusted by my smoking, and so over time I didn't smoke as much at home. Now I am down to 2 or 3 cigs per day. The morning coffee cig, the end of my work day cig, and my "nightcap" before bed. On days I don't work I just have the morning and night one. Now the morning one is getting to be much longer after waking up and sometimes not at all as I'd rather sleep a little longer.

For me, it just phased itself out over time. If I would've TRIED I would've failed, because I would place too much pressure on myself. I did this with drinking too. 6 years ago I was a daily drinker and had trouble sleeping if I didn't drink. I got sick, was on medication that I wasn't allowed to drink with and broke my routine. I tried to drink a few times, but let me tell you, alcohol on chemo just makes you sicker!

So I guess I don't have any tricks other than you just have to be ready to be finished and then quit. I find I don't really enjoy it anymore, so why am I wasting the money? I guarantee though if I put my mind to it to "quit" the few I do smoke I will probably not succeed, so I will let myself naturally quit.

Congrats to everyone who has done it with their own methods! It proves that you have ultimate control over your existance!

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I’m back and I’m winning. Quit with my wife Thanksgiving night and am 100% nicotine free for coming on 4 days. Turned out it was a great time to quit. Long weekend at home, plenty of leftover food to lessen daily responsibilities. We pretty much puttered around, bitched at each other and the kids, took naps, drank water and cranberry juice, bitched and moaned some more and now here we are. I had both nicorette gum and an e-cig at home; neither of us has touched either one. We don’t want to prolong our withdrawal and that’s exactly what these aids do. We want every last fucking molecule of nicotine metabolized out of our systems. Taking in ANY sort of nicotine at this point puts us straight back to square one; I want no fucking part of going through this past weekend again….EVER. I know the fight will be on-going for a long while but I also know the worse of the pain and misery is over. It’s nice to be over the early stages of life sucking because you cannot smoke and into the stages of identifying the positive aspects of being free.

This really helped me a lot: [link to whyquit.com]
Nice thing about ntap is that each chapter is no more than 2 pages so I could grab my ipad and knock out a couple chapters for support/motivation. An above poster mentioned Alan Carr. I read his easyway book on drinking; I can imagine his smoking book is just as good.

I also downloaded the no smoking ipad app. Nice to see a running tally of how many smokes you have NOT had and how much money you HAVE saved.

Good luck to all in the midst of the fight and to all gearing up to enter the ring. One round at a time….it may not seem so but it is a winnable battle!! I (25 year smoker) am proof as are many others here.
I will be back with updates and to offer support for others.

I quit Oct 26 2011. Over one year now. Dont miss it anymore. Did for a while.

Thanks for joining the thread, and I wish you both sucess. I look forward to your updates.