For You Smokers Who Want To Quit

Good luck to all you quitters out there. I stopped Cold Turkey on 10 Oct 2011, my wife quit one week later. My lungs after 30 plus years said no more. I loved those damn things, a nice smoke on a hot summer night was the best. But with the money I have saved between the two of us the house will be paid off faster than planned. BEST decision we ever made..
 
I have tried to quit many times before. I'm 36 and have smoked for20+. Last I went on Chantix. I went crazy on that. Even before I was scheduled to quit I was either gonna get fired or divorced. Never thought FMDF was gonna be my smoking cessation forum :D
 
I've quit before with the e-cig and I'm going to do it again, Placing an order online tonight, thank you for the inspiration.

Now, what to do with this giant bag of tobacco I just bought? :p
 
I've quit before with the e-cig and I'm going to do it again, Placing an order online tonight, thank you for the inspiration.

Now, what to do with this giant bag of tobacco I just bought? :p

Nobody will understand this but pm PI JOE and offer it to him:laughing::laughing: unless you caught his post earlier
 
All joking aside thanks Dirty Genu for getting me off my butt and finally getting one of these. Of all the ways I've tried to quit never thought it would be a MD'ing forum. :grin:
 
I smoked for 38 years, 2 packs a day for about 30 of those years. I tried several times to quit using the gum and the patches. I finally realized that if a person tries to quit smoking they will fail every time and the only way to quit is to do it, not try to do it.

8 1/2 years ago I had a severe cold, I woke up about 2 AM and was having a really hard time breathing. That is when I decided that I no longer wanted to smoke and I quit. That was the best decision I have ever made. I didn't have any real cravings because I couldn't crave something that I no longer wanted. There were times however, especially after a meal, that I would think to myself that I would really enjoy a cigarette if I were still a smoker. I always thought that quitting is a really hard thing to do. But in reality quitting smoking was the easiest "hard" thing I have ever done.

I hope that what I am about to say doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. Replacing tobacco cigarettes with electronic cigarettes is not quitting. Of course smoking electronic cigarettes is not as bad as smoking tobacco cigarettes but, it is still smoking.

If you are thinking about quitting the first step is to decide that you no longer want to smoke. After you make that decision it is very easy to quit. A smoker who thinks about kicking the habit has 3 choices:
1. Try to quit and fail.
2. Replace cigarettes with another nicotine delivery system and still have a habit.
3. Decide that they no longer want to smoke and quit.
 
actually switching to the electronic cigarettes isn't smoking....its vaping
 
I hope that what I am about to say doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. Replacing tobacco cigarettes with electronic cigarettes is not quitting. Of course smoking electronic cigarettes is not as bad as smoking tobacco cigarettes but, it is still smoking.

It's still a habit yes, but a much healthier one than cigarettes.

My doctor actually recommended I try an e-cig to quit, either by slowly lowering the nicotine amount or (as I did last time) giving it up completely by smoking less and less in general.
 
It's still a habit yes, but a much healthier one than cigarettes.

My doctor actually recommended I try an e-cig to quit, either by slowly lowering the nicotine amount or (as I did last time) giving it up completely by smoking less and less in general.

I wouldn't call it healthier, I would call it less harmful. Because by no means is it healthy.

The last time? How many times have you tried to quit?

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My Doctor told me that nicotine is about like cafine. While its not good for you, it's not nearly as deadly as the tar and chemicals in cigarettes. She basically said that someone who vapes ecigs is the equivalent to a heavy coffee drinker.
 
The RoadRunner... I hope that what I am about to say doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. Replacing tobacco cigarettes with electronic cigarettes is not quitting. Of course smoking electronic cigarettes is not as bad as smoking tobacco cigarettes but, it is still smoking.

Read my earlier post about dropping the nicotine level and also the point that i mention that you can end up as addicted to ecigs as you are cigarettes.
It is entirely down to the individual to realise that you have not kicked the habit, you have just changed the way you get a nicotine fix.
The difference with ecigs is that, you get your fix without the inclusion of carcinogens and an abundence of other nasties!
E-cigs are meant to be a way to give up smoking, nicotine and everything that comes with it, not a way to give up cigarettes and end up chuffing away on an ecig for the next 30 years.
Set yourself a goal... I wish i had, but i'm halfway there. This time next year and i'll be nicotine free, i've promised that to myself.
BTW, it's not smoking.... It's Vapor NOT smoke.
As an ex smoker, are you bitter that all you had was to go cold tukey when you gave up? This is a big breakthrough for "us" smokers to give up in a controlled and workable fashion. Don't knock it. People complained for years that we ruined the air they breath in bars,pubs,clubs and restaurants and when a viable alternative comes along, they all kick us in the butt with that too!
This goes to anyone else BS this thread.
We never wanted to be smokers, it was a cool thing to do when we were kids. Regret... Yes of course, just DON'T start on the ones trying to stop ok.
Go find another thread worthy of an argument.
 
Sadly addictive personality is already in your DNA the day you are born. It's the same with alcohol. Alcoholism runs in my family. If I wouldn't have quit in 1987 i'd likely be dead or homeless now. Some can quit easy because it's in their DNA. Some can't. I myself try not to pressure anyone to quit. All I tend to do is tell people some of my life experiences. First real job promotion I ever got as a teen was because a smoker, lady named Mary who was a good ol' gal and was training me in the Woolworths stock room, one day got where she couldn't breath. She went to the doctor and got put on an oxygen bottle the following week. She couldn't work any more. And was dead a year and a half later from lung cancer. I got promoted to warehouse manager at 19. Too bad Mary didn't get to hang around and train me proper. That lady invented multi tasking!
 
The RoadRunner... I hope that what I am about to say doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. Replacing tobacco cigarettes with electronic cigarettes is not quitting. Of course smoking electronic cigarettes is not as bad as smoking tobacco cigarettes but, it is still smoking.

Read my earlier post about dropping the nicotine level and also the point that i mention that you can end up as addicted to ecigs as you are cigarettes.
It is entirely down to the individual to realise that you have not kicked the habit, you have just changed the way you get a nicotine fix.
The difference with ecigs is that, you get your fix without the inclusion of carcinogens and an abundence of other nasties!
E-cigs are meant to be a way to give up smoking, nicotine and everything that comes with it, not a way to give up cigarettes and end up chuffing away on an ecig for the next 30 years.
Set yourself a goal... I wish i had, but i'm halfway there. This time next year and i'll be nicotine free, i've promised that to myself.
BTW, it's not smoking.... It's Vapor NOT smoke.
As an ex smoker, are you bitter that all you had was to go cold tukey when you gave up? This is a big breakthrough for "us" smokers to give up in a controlled and workable fashion. Don't knock it. People complained for years that we ruined the air they breath in bars,pubs,clubs and restaurants and when a viable alternative comes along, they all kick us in the butt with that too!
This goes to anyone else BS this thread.
We never wanted to be smokers, it was a cool thing to do when we were kids. Regret... Yes of course, just DON'T start on the ones trying to stop ok.
Go find another thread worthy of an argument.

I'll second that. Thanks Pete.
 
I've been cutting down on smoking for the last month or so, but I just dug out my e cigarette to see if I can quit altogether.
Thanks to everyone who posted in here without sounding preachy doing it. I've tried quitting before, but the preachy people always cause me to rethink the quitting decision.

The first 3 days were the worst for me. I am cutting back on the nicotine level that I buy now and will stop vaping in the future. GL and keep us posted on how you are doing with it.
Clint
 
As of Monday I will be smoke free for a month because of this e cig. I don't even want cigarette anymore. I mainly started because of the ridiculous taxes on tobacco here in MN. Up to $9 a pack for certain brands!!! But I also switched cause I was just getting tired of the smelly cigarettes.
After using the e cig on the first day I tried a regular smoke to see what it tasted like and man it tasted like a$$! No urge to smoke one since then. The flavors that you can get with the e cig are awesome and a huge selection to boot. Now I'm waiting for our government to find something wrong with this awesome invention, like they always do. Or they'll start taxing this to death too. But I'm happy I switched to the e cig and recommend it to anyone smoking!
 
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