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I dont smoke for 9 years, 7 month, 16 days, 3 hours 40 minutes (june, 12., 2003, 9:00) after 30 years of smoking
Bye, Klaus
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About 12 minutes.
A year and 4 months or so. But I'm still using an eCigarette, which isn't ideal.
This September 23rd it will be 20 years since I quit for the 1,879th and final time! That's what happens when you smoke three-plus packs of Marlboros every day for 28 years!
20 years
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Trying to quit my 5 Hamlets a day habit as we speak, 1 day so far :(
On April the 24th it will be eight years since I quit.
7 and a half years.
16 years... But is this the right place for this thread? :)
10 yrs this coming 4th August....
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10 yrs this coming 4th August....
About 39+ years.... I had been smoking from about 16 and when I stopped B&H were 37½p for 20 and I was smoking 20 a day. I stopped after buying 3 packs and smoking them all until they were gone and then getting a loan to buy a bike which had a repayment of what I was spending.
I never smoked...
having not bouht any for nearly 10 yrs i was staggere dto see how expensive fags are nowadays. nearly 8 quid. i seem to remember as a youth buying vending machine packs for a quid....mayeb my memory plays tricks.
It's the perfect forum for this thread: modify your behavior or wreck your health!
Bit longer than a year and a half for me.
since october :)
Just over a year best thing I ever did.
since 1984 wanted a cd player.
bowie
22 years.
Twelve years.
I was incredibly "lucky" in that I had a horrific chest infection which lasted two weeks. During the first week, I was so ill I could barely breathe let alone smoke, so I easily passed through physical withdrawal since I was mostly asleep. When I began to feel better, half way through week two, I was determined never to go through that again and haven't touched one since.
As an old teacher used to say, "Smoking is a slow, expensive method of suicide."
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Watches and cigarettes, weird combination but I'll role with it.
8 years, still have a cigar on rare occasions with a large scotch but i don't miss the cigarettes one bit.
4 years and 7 months. Don't miss it in the slightest.
I think i was out of it and it was almost a year before. When i use to go all day without thinking about a smoking. but unfortunately, I started again and keep it up for long time. As i should have left it for lots of time before.
It's been just about thirty one years now since I last smoked. It is my firm opinion that the only way you can quit smoking is if you really, really want to. If you are being pressurised by family, doctors or friends you will automatically resist and, most likely, fail. But good luck to anyone who wants to quit.
Rob
On day 11 today but with an e-cigarette. I stopped for 10 months in 1993 and another 6 months in 2006 but started again both times. I need to make it work this time, 50 years of smoking really does take its toll.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I stopped 46 years ago, from 20 Marlboro a day to 0 overnight.
Since the day my dear old mum dropped dead of smoking related cancer, so about 12 years.
30 a day Camels.
I can't even begin to tell you how stupid I find smoking now.
My mum hadn't smoked for years when she popped and I remember, after terminal diagnosis, that she said she wished she'd known which was the one cigarette that had turned on her cancer so she could have stopped before. Didn't half help me quit - the thought that the next cigarette could be the one that switches my cells to cancer active. That and the knowledge that I never wanted to sit my kids and grandkids down and tell them I am dying like she had to do.
Gray
Just passed my 7th anniversary (on Valentine's day).
I went cold turkey as I didn't fancy forking out loads of cash for substitutes that were only going to continue to feed my need for nicotine.
I had a couple of previous attempts, but I guess I didn't really want to give up those times.
Coming up for 8 years. If I started again there'd be no more watches with the price of fags nowadays, so that's enough to stay stopped ;)
Stopped 28th march 2012 (my sons 10th Birthday) so nearly a whole year.
Now addicted to Nicolette quick mist instead. One of these puppies lasts me a week.
I still have to odd ciggy and the odd cigar when the time and place allow, but its never as nice as I think it should be.
Andy
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Exactly my experience. I decided it was time to quite when my first son was born seven years ago haven't smoked since. One thing I learned that surprised me is that smokers don't half reek of smoke. I don't have a sense of smell and even I can smell it. The other thing that surprised me is that every breath I take is like breathing in menthol compared to how it felt drawing breath when I was smoking. Remarkable.Originally Posted by Barryboy
11 years & 11 months
Just gone 3 years.... new year resolution 2010
10 months thanks to the e-cigs thread
19th April 2008
28 days for me, thanks to ecigs
Never did, unless you count the cigar in Cuba, but you've got to, haven't you?
M
15 years, I do smoke an occasional cigar though.
Fas est ab hoste doceri
Keep at it Eddie - I have been on ecigarettes for well over a year now - they are my smokes now.
Just reach for the ecig whenever you like...
So clever my foot fell off.
Same here, a little longer. I don't even bother with the efags now.
God bless TFB!
About 12 years. I used to be a social smoker. Enjoyed a cig with a drink but that eventually got banned. Probably better for my health.
Must be like 12 years or so
Still have the occasional cigar which i enjoy but dont inhale anything
Thirty years.
Cheers,
Neil.
Four years for me
Gave up drinking at the same time.
22 years and 70 days since 26 December 1990.
Never thought I'd manage it and is my greatest ever achievement. I smoked at least 40 and up to 60 per day.
If you want to stop smoking choose a day several weeks ahead and concentrate/focus on that day and all the reasons why you want to quit ... and tell yourself every day, "I WILL QUIT ON THAT DAY". Worked for me and had no withdrawal symptoms ... in the days leading up to the chosen quit day I kept telling myself, "There will be no withdrawal symptoms".
You can put years on your life if you quit and also save a fortune.
In today's values over the last 22 years I have saved, or not spent, c. £120,000 by quitting smoking.
Sucking on cigarettes all day is a stupid and pointless habit.
dunk
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"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
Fair play for showing it can be done. All the best to those who have recently quit. Keep it going!
I'd given up for 6 years and then stupidly started again 18 months ago, I've been off them for exactly a week today, I'm off work with a chest infection and it's the kick up the arse I needed. No real problems as yet but if I do feel the urge to smoke, I'm just going to look at photos of my 3 year old daughter on my phone and tell myself not to be a selfish idiot.
I quit for three years and then through blind stupidity started up again for a few months.
I had a major moment of clarity at the weekend and just sat thinking what am I doing!
So i chucked them again yesterday and we are now on day 2 and feeling ok. I'm using the patches (as I did first time round) and I know what to expect havin been through it before. I've made a vow that this is the last time I'll quit, no way I'm going back again this time round.
Mild heart attack in November 2009 made me stop after 35 years of mostly self rolled. I am so chuffed that I stopped that crap!
Will be a year at Easter. Used Allan Carr's book.
One of the best things I have done recently.
Eight Years this coming August :)
Just woke up one morning and said no more, my wife said I was a royal ass for 4 days.
I had a terrible headache for about a week, and have not had one since.
Honestly have not wanted any either.
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