Any quitters here?

[Kens]

I quit the hard way slowly over a years time. 50 cents a pack when I quit shows how old I am.

[stjohn]

A young man asked his date if she smokes after sex?
She replied ,I don't know I never looked.

[Chris C]

That one belongs in "Humor of the Day", I think!

[halfdome, Danny]

I always say it's the best thing I ever did for myself. I quit cold turkey in 1973 buy burning the roof of my mouth from hotboxing a corn cob pipe . It worked, I have no desire to smoke cigarettes or anything else. I sure saved a pile of money too, they were 40 cents a pack then. Stay determined you will enjoy more of life.

[Ira]

[b][color=darkred]I have no desire to smoke cigarettes or anything else.

Well, I can't agree wth the latter part at all.

[mikeschn]

I quit in 1981... I'm sure I saved a buttload of money, but who's counting?

Mike...

[halfdome, Danny]

Ira, I Never needed any mind altering substances, never tried, never will, if that's what your referring to.

[Boodro]

I started at 13 ,got to 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day. Then I couldn't breath one nite after smokin a doobie .Next day I quit cold turkey! That was when I was 31 !( now 50) Have not touched either since then. What really wierd tho is over the years I have dreamed that I smoked again , & when I woke up the next morning ,I was mad at my self for starting again. It was only after a few minutes that I realized I had dreamed it ( WHEW) VERY SRTANGE! I still get an urge now & then , like when I'm fishing or workin in the shop( or havin a brew!)
Anyone else ever dream about starting again??


Ya'll keep on keepin on!

[stjohn]

I've dreamed about smoking and drinking (I quit drinking 4 years ago also)I get mad in my dream not when I wake up, mad when I dream aboout smoking but when I dream about drinking i get confused because no matter how much I drink I never get a buzz.(strange)

Mike

[Rick Sheerin]

I quit Feb 22 of last year and have used most of the money I have saved to help finance building my trailer. That alone should be incentive enough to quit. And George, you are right, you don't actully realize how bad you stink like stale smoke until you quit.

[purplepickup]

I quit 20 yrs ago when I was 37. I smoked 1 1/2 to 2 packs of Marlboro reds a day....3 packs if I spent a few hours at the local watering hole. I had myself convinced that I really enjoyed it, in spite of waking up coughing and hacking up strange things.

I tried to quit a number of times...once for 9 months...and failed. Then I got pneumonia and couldn't smoke in the hospital for a week and I thought to myself that I already had a week without smokes and my lungs are trashed...this is a good time to quit for good. I did and I'm so glad I did.

I look at friends that haven't quit and their health is really suffering now that we're older. I've lost a best friend to lung cancer already. And George is right, they stink.

[toypusher]

George,

Ya they really stink, but it did not seem that way when I was a smoker! About 2 or 3 months it reallys started to bother me anytime I was around the smoke or even in a room or whatever that someone had been smoking in!