Thread: Anyone here quit smoking successfully?

After 15 years of smoking I quit in 1983, it was a hard habit to break. I did the "Cold Turkey" method. hats off to anyone who can quit smoking.

Tobacco is a real bitch to quit. I dipped Copenhagen for nearly 40yrs, trying to quit for most of the last 20yrs of that. I just didn't REALLY want to quit bad enough I suppose. Tried the nicotine patches and gums. Nada.

I did a little internet searching and landed on a product called Final Smoke. It took away the cravings. Well, most of them. It (and a whole lot of praying) helped me over the hump and I was able to get past the cravings.

It's been over 4 yrs now. 1507 day to be exact and it's still one day at a time. Cravings are 99.9% gone. Brain says it OK to do just one dip but I know better.

I wasn't able to quit until I really decided to quit. I couldn't stay quit unless I decide at every craving to stay quit.

What an insidious drug...

I totally understand where you are coming from, kelbro. Part of my strategy this last time I quit was not to sucunb to "just one" thinking. I find it easier to follow a plan if you don't accept exceptions.

I've successfully quit.... many times!

(seriously though, you've got to really want it and in my opinion cold turkey is the only way to go)

"Quit means none"

Yes, I tried nicotine patches, Zyban, and Chantix. In the end it came down to determination and you really have to sincerely want to quit.

I'm giving this a bump. It's been four years and no cigarettes.

If anyone is interested in quitting join in!

My high school girlfriend was the one who got me smoking at least a pack a day. She must have been breast-fed on her mother's nicotine-laden paps, and I sort of tagged along with her. When I went to college, I was smoking pretty much at the same level on my own. Then, when I was around 20, I started coughing up tar in the usual fashion, coinciding with some hemorrhaging in my throat that lead to a bloody mess. I stopped smoking right then and there, out of shock. A few years later, I was working in a health food store and came up with the theory that it was the filter and artificial additives that had caused my problem with smoking. So I began smoking filter-less pouch tobacco, one hand-rolled cigarette a day. One cigarette led to two, and by a month's time I was smoking at least four a day. Really enjoying it until I coughed up blood again. Never smoked a cigarette since and that was around thirty years ago.

Do I regret giving up smoking? Yes. The nicotine was a wonderful, stimulating sensation, and at the time I couldn't imagine myself without a cigarette. Were it not so immediately detrimental to my own personal health, I probably would have continued for quite some time. But I had to stop for the reason given, there really was no other option.

Not sure if I quit successfully...

New Years Eve, 1990, Calif. at a party. Was out side in the moonlight and totally enjoying my Pall Mall, no filter, brand of choice for 42 years.

Finished it, stripped it and dumped out the butt...and...reached into my pocket and then tossed the BIC and rest of the pack into the trash.

Not sure if I quit "successfully" so I haven't smoked even a puff since.

Setting, persons, weather, inner feelings/ mood, all have a part in the successful leaving behind a habit.
JMO
~Richard

Thanks for sharing, Brontosaurus.

I've read a relapsed smoker reverts to the same nicotine level they were consuming when they quit. Another

I have had a few relapses and if I smoked most of the time it was the same amount I had always smoked. It makes sense to me. I think I am at six years and a few months