9 Years and 2 Weeks ago today.

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outofyourmind said:
Had my last cigarette.
Best thing I ever did.

1st Couple of weeks were tough, but way better after that.

Never think about them.
Can't even remember January 13th anymore.

It's great. They don't bother me at all.


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Yeah, dog!

I haven't thought about it for a few years, but my last cigarette was on December 30th, 2017.

Totally agree with your thoughts though. I'm so glad they're in the rearview mirror and when I consider what it would be like to have one now, I can't believe that I smoked all those years.
 
outofyourmind said:
Had my last cigarette.
Best thing I ever did.

1st Couple of weeks were tough, but way better after that.

Never think about them.
Can't even remember January 13th anymore.

It's great. They don't bother me at all.


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Good for you brother. That’s awesome!

I don’t know how freely I speak here….but I’m a smoker. Really bad the last few years. I’ve quit many times before….over a year and once or twice. But I still got that out of the blue blitzkrieg 13-15 months in and failed.

I’ve started smoking one more time than I’ve quit. That’s my problem. I need to get them back to even.

I have been working on cutting down….this is good motivation to see.
 
NU_FTW said:
Curious, why would you try to start back up when you successfully quit?? did someone hit you with a baseball bat upside the head and you said "hey lets waste money and deteriorate my health cuz gits and shiggles"??
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I had quit for a little over a year once and then some very stressful shit happened in my life and I fell off the wagon with the old 'oh, I'll just have this one' bit. Just one didn't work and I started back up, although I didn't get up to previous level of smoking. I'd have anywhere from two to five cigarettes a day, depending on what I was up to.

When I went after it this time, I wanted to quit 100%, and here I am. Done.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Good for you brother. That’s awesome!

I don’t know how freely I speak here….but I’m a smoker. Really bad the last few years. I’ve quit many times before….over a year and once or twice. But I still got that out of the blue blitzkrieg 13-15 months in and failed.

I’ve started smoking one more time than I’ve quit. That’s my problem. I need to get them back to even.

I have been working on cutting down….this is good motivation to see.
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You have to want it. Half-assed wanting it won't work.

For the first year of quitting, I carried a pack of cigarettes on me at all times so that I could look at them and say, 'fuck you, not today,' no matter how stressed I got.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Good for you brother. That’s awesome!

I don’t know how freely I speak here….but I’m a smoker. Really bad the last few years. I’ve quit many times before….over a year and once or twice. But I still got that out of the blue blitzkrieg 13-15 months in and failed.

I’ve started smoking one more time than I’ve quit. That’s my problem. I need to get them back to even.

I have been working on cutting down….this is good motivation to see.
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In addition to my other-worldly will power... I think what helped me is I got really in to fitness and working out.
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
In addition to my other-worldly will power... I think what helped me is I got really in to fitness and working out.
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That’s actually a really good tip about having a pack to rail against. I always stayed fucking clear of them like their presence would take me down.

It’s fear. I admit it. It’s fear. I will stand up to and take a slap from someone twice my size (have before, will again)…..but these fuckers have had the fear with me.

That’s something I’m reading now….looking at the weakness in such an addiction and overcoming it. Having pack to rail against makes total sense.

Health and working out has always been synonymous with quitting for me. It just makes sense.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
That’s actually a really good tip about having a pack to rail against. I always stayed fucking clear of them like their presence would take me down.
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That's it. I wanted to prove to myself that when I felt like I wanted one, I wasn't having one because I quit, not because I didn't have any.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
That’s actually a really good tip about having a pack to rail against. I always stayed fucking clear of them like their presence would take me down.

It’s fear. I admit it. It’s fear. I will stand up to and take a slap from someone twice my size (have before, will again)…..but these fuckers have had the fear with me.

That’s something I’m reading now….looking at the weakness in such an addiction and overcoming it. Having pack to rail against makes total sense.

Health and working out has always been synonymous with quitting for me. It just makes sense.
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Another thing I found difficult to overcome is that I was a "smoker." In a way it had become an identity. Honestly, once I really decided I wanted to quit, that part was harder to get over than the actual addiction.

Sometimes I would get a cigarette out of the pack and puff on it unlit.
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
Another thing I found difficult to overcome is that I was a "smoker." In a way it had become an identity. Honestly, once I really decided I wanted to quit, that part was harder to get over than the actual addiction.

Sometimes I would get a cigarette out of the pack and puff on it unlit.
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Honestly…..one of my tricks when craving was to “mime smoke”….empty fingers to my mouth inhale. And it…..fucking….worked.

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Orlando_Eagles said:
That’s actually a really good tip about having a pack to rail against. I always stayed fucking clear of them like their presence would take me down.

It’s fear. I admit it. It’s fear. I will stand up to and take a slap from someone twice my size (have before, will again)…..but these fuckers have had the fear with me.

That’s something I’m reading now….looking at the weakness in such an addiction and overcoming it. Having pack to rail against makes total sense.

Health and working out has always been synonymous with quitting for me. It just makes sense.
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If it helps I quit by switching to vaping then once I kicked the 400000 other chemicals in cigs it was easier to quit just nicotine, was more the habit at that point. To each their own, just don't become a cloud chasing fheg if you do it that way. Too many transition then just stay there and go to fogging up places like queers.

At one point in life I was 4packs and half a can of dip a day
 
NU_FTW said:
If it helps I quit by switching to vaping then once I kicked the 400000 other chemicals in cigs it was easier to quit just nicotine, was more the habit at that point. To each their own, just don't become a cloud chasing fheg if you do it that way. Too many transition then just stay there and go to fogging up places like queers.

At one point in life I was 4packs and half a can of dip a day
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A year and a half ago I bought a Jul. It sits in a drawer.

I’m trying to decide if I want to take such a half measure….Walter White warned me of those. Lol
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
A year and a half ago I bought a Jul. It sits in a drawer.

I’m trying to decide if I want to take such a half measure….Walter White warned me of those. Lol
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Personally I did my own liquid so I could control every aspect (ocd like that)
I stepped nicotine down 1.5mg/ml at a time to go from 6mg/ml down to 1.5 then started halving twice then quit. In the end it was mostly the hand to mouth habit that was left to break. If you're skipping it you could start banning times/places that you smoke to help break chemical association (after dinner smoke after shit smoke smoking while driving etc)
 
I quit in July and started vaping. I never had a cigarette that tasted like blueberry custard so fuck those nasty bitches from now on.
 
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