Do you still smoke or did you quit?

MickaC said:
Sorry to say, yes i smoke.
Many years ago, i had quit for 9 months.....but started again.
I know, it's a very bad habit.
But......it's been many years since i've smoked in my house or vehicle.
I freeze smoking outside in the winter.......but that my dumb problem.
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You won't quit until you are ready to. I honestly hope that happens for you sooner than later. I really liked smoking, never disliked it, but when/if you decide to quit on your own terms, you really won't miss it, and you will feel so much better physically. I gained around ten pounds even though I substituted exercise like classes and jogging to help me clear my lungs.....worth the gain. When I smoked we could still smoke at work in the building, so I didn't have to fight the winter weather on my breaks, etc. Thinking of you, and wishing you the best no matter what you decide. šŸ’›
 
I quit 12 yrs ago this past Feb 28th. I started smoking with friends as a teenager. Then would stop for several years, on and off again with years in between. Then smoked consistently for close to 30 years.
So sorry I ever started.
 

I used to smoke and quit for 18 years or so then started again for some years. I have now quit again for about 4 years or so. I never wrote down the day I quit. I vaped for 2 years after that and then quit that too.

I started when I was 13 to be cool like everyone else. Glad I gave it up but sometimes still get the urge.
 
Started smoking about 19, quit for about a year and then finally quit for good at 25. I smoked up to 1/12 packs a day. But I've been a non smoker for years. I can't stand to see all the smokers at work. These people always have time for it. I've drove in for a mandatory meeting that lasted an hour, used the bathroom, left and the same that were outside smoking when I arrived are out there again when I leave.
 
Lanny said:
I quit smoking in 1989. Never really liked it all that much. Never was a "deep inhaler". From what I understand, deep inhalers have a more difficult time quitting. Cigarettes were about to go up to two dollars a pack when I quit. Being a lifelong penny-pincher I thought no way am I gonna pay two dollars for a pack of cigarettes. Cigs were 35 cents a pack when I started smoking in '71. I think they're 6-7 dollars a pack around here now.
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I smoked up until about 20 years ago and I too quit for the same reason, too expensive. Cigarettes were $2 a pack and were set to go up 25 cents for some tax or other, so I quit. My now ex-wife, at the time, still smoked but it didnā€™t bother me. Iā€™d made up my mind. I started at age 12, just a few cigarettes a day but Iā€™d made up my mind that I wanted to smoke and I did. No reason other than that. I was 10 though when I smoked my first cigarette. I found it in our basement after a family get together and saved it to smoke the first chance I had. No regrets though about starting or quitting. I just did what I wanted to do. Iā€™m just glad that I had no trouble stopping. I know that some folks really struggle with it.
 
Chris P Bacon said:
I smoked up until about 20 years ago and I too quit for the same reason, too expensive. Cigarettes were $2 a pack and were set to go up 25 cents for some tax or other, so I quit. My now ex-wife, at the time, still smoked but it didnā€™t bother me. Iā€™d made up my mind. I started at age 12, just a few cigarettes a day but Iā€™d made up my mind that I wanted to smoke and I did. No reason other than that. I was 10 though when I smoked my first cigarette. I found it in our basement after a family get together and saved it to smoke the first chance I had. No regrets though about starting or quitting. I just did what I wanted to do. Iā€™m just glad that I had no trouble stopping. I know that some folks really struggle with it.
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Woo cool story bro. Appreciate your honesty. My young son did that once. He kept it but I never knew if he had tried it or not. So I told him look what happened to grandpa. None of us are smokers here.
 
Started when I was 16 and quit at 24. Finances were tight and I started filling my own tubes, they even had a filter. I donā€™t know if those things still exist. The tobacco was cheap and it hurt my lungs. Best thing that ever scared me. I quit.
 
I started smoking at 14, giving up at 54 for health reasons, I tried for a whole year which turned out one of the worst years of my life so, every time something else went wrong Iā€™d light up a cigarette...

Fed up with myself on New Years Eve I stubbed out my last cigarette and have never had one since
 
Was a 3 pack a day smoker, quit several times without success. Then quit once and for all on April Fools Day, that day somehow seemed fitting. No pills, no patch, nothing but willpower.

I watch my hubby struggle with bad COPD and even if you quit years ago the damage is still there. Wish some of these kids could witness someone who is now paying the price.
 
When I was a child I hated the doctor's because doctor always had a cigarette smouldering in the ashtray. It was an age when all and sundry smoked. When the railways allocated a single carriage on which smoking was prohibited, it caused outrage: "An Intrusion of Freedom," read the headlines.

To my eternal shame I started the habit at college, even though I was a penniless student. In the UK today cigarette prices are astronomical, for example: 20 Benson & Hedges, Ā£13:50. When this penniless student started smoking Benson & Hedges cost two shillings for 20. Two shillings became ten pennies when we went decimal. The exorbitant price is mostly tax in order to deter would be smokers from indulging in the habit.

How did I quit? I remember some graffiti on a sign that read:"Maximum penalty for smoking is Ā£1,000." Somebody had written at the bottom of it: "Surely the maximum penalty for smoking is Death." It was meant to be a joke, but by then the link between smoking and cancer had been established, that graffiti inspired me to quit. I had smoked for about five or six years, but I've been a non-smoker for the last fifty-two.
 
Started smoking around age 16 and smoked 1 to 2 packs a day. I remember when I could buy a pack of smokes for a quarter out of a vending machine and get two pennys back inside the cellophane. Over the years tried all the gimmicks to try to quit.
Then in 1999, the year I retired, I quit right after I left the workplace and never looked back. 23 years off the smokes but it did leave me with damaged lungs.
 
My father used to smoke 'Woodbines' until he developed stomach problems (nothing to do with smoking) and ended up in hospital. After he recovered, he found that he didn't like smoking and stopped more or less overnight. Afterwards, he blamed everything on the fact that he used to smoke - no mater what it was.

I used to occasionally smoke a pipe. I just gradually smoked it less and less, so effectively quit. Sometimes I could fancy a smoke, but I haven't any tobacco!
 
Both my parents and my brother smoked. I started at 15 and smoked till I started having kids in my 20ā€™s.

Didnā€™t smoke for 20 years, started again during the worst years of my marriage..abuse, my husband was having affairs. Left him in 2004, quit several times between 2004-2008, and finally quit (hopefully for good this time!!) April19 2008.

I hated the way my clothes smelled, but even more than that I hated what it had to be doing to my health. My mother and my brother both had emphysema and COPD and I desperately didnā€™t want to end up like them!

Grateful, and lucky, that I am still in good health with no lung or breathing or heart issues. I used nicotine lozenges for a year after I quit, starting with the 4 mg, dropping down to the 2mg after a few months. Then I started breaking the 2 mg lozenges in half for a while and eventually weaned off them completely.

I know a couple people who smoke a couple cigs a day, and have for years. Honestly if I could smoke that way Iā€™d still be smoking. But multiple quit attempts have convinced me that I canā€™t have ā€œjust oneā€ cigarette. If I have one, or even a puff of one, thatā€™s it Iā€™m gonna be smoking a pack a day again within a month.
 
I started smoking in my teens,since both of my parents did thought it was a cool thing to do, not knowing then the health dangers
When I started, a pack cost .35 cents, I quit 'cold turkey' when a pack was $1 It usually took me 2-3 days to finish a pack,never smoked while having breakfast usually when I was watching a sporting event. At the time there were no patches or 'nictoine gum' on the market. I chewed alot of pencils,fingernails,was so used to having something in my hand. I'm glad I quit when I did,my favorite brand was 'Winston'
 
I smoked for 10 years - mainly to fit in with friends at age 20. It was the dumbest thing I ever did. I quit at 30 due to health concerns. It took 3 attempts to quit & it took all the stubbornness I have, & I have a lot.
 
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