Did you ever smoke cigarettes? Did you quit?

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Vicky

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Have you ever smoke cigarettes?
Do you still smoke cigarettes?
Did you quit?? How??????

My story:
I have smoked for the past 40 yrs. 15-yrs ago I increased my smoking dramatically to 1-pack a day. 75% of me wants to quit. The other 25% still enjoys it.
  • I have tried quitting many times, yet never did fully.
  • I tried cold turkey, but couldn’t make it pass the 2nd day.
  • I never tried the patch. Those who used that method seemed to return to the cigarette, or never actually quit.
  • I tried decreasing the amt I smoked, yet once something went wrong, or I felt stressed out I reached for that cigarette and chain smoke until I made up for the cigarettes I missed. When I do try cutting back or quitting I find myself eating everything in site, which causes weight gain, which results in disgust, which results to smoking again.
So I ask you all: Did you ever smoke? Did you quit? Tell me in detail your experience.
 

Jules said:
I smoked from 16 until 25. Cut back to 3 a day, 2 the next and one on the last. People were lucky I didn’t harm them for the first while.
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I wish I was 25 again. LOL.

I quit when I was pregnant, both times. But the cigarette was the one thing I looked forward to when I got home. I wish I would have quit back then. I never smoked indoors. It was always outside. Didn't want to harm my babies.
 
My experience is similar to Jules. Smoked 19-25 quitting for about a year in there. Started again. But 25 was it. Never smoked again.

But Vicky, I hear you. You describe your relationship with cigarettes like I am with food.

At least when I smoked, they were cheap, you could smoke at the mall, in smoking sections in restaurants.
 
I did, yes. Off and on from 18 to 26... then off the whole time I pregnant. I started up again until August of 2004. It was at that time I picked up a smoke to head outside to have with my coffee on the porch... looked at it and said "well darn, this is NUTS!"... tossed it in the garbage with the rest of the packs I had here, and never touched any again. It had to be that way for me... I had to just go cold turkey with "that's ENOUGH!" Smoke-free for 20 years this month.
 
Nope, never smoked. My freshman year in college, it was considered very "sophisticated" to sit out on the front steps of the girls' dorm and look like you were smoking. We'd light a cigarette and occasionally do a little "mouth puff" to keep the cigarette going but inhaling would have sent us into a violent coughing attack, probably.

I guess we thought that made us looking like "women of the world" instead of silly 17/18-year-olds. Youth is truly wasted on the young. I've never had a cigarette in my mouth since then.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to avoid breathing in second-hand smoke, so I guess we've ALL smoked in the past, just haven't been holding the cigarette.
 
Vicky said:
Have you ever smoke cigarettes?
Do you still smoke cigarettes?
Did you quit?? How??????

My story:
I have smoked for the past 40 yrs. 15-yrs ago I increased my smoking dramatically to 1-pack a day. 75% of me wants to quit. The other 25% still enjoys it.
  • I have tried quitting many times, yet never did fully.
  • I tried cold turkey, but couldn’t make it pass the 2nd day.
  • I never tried the patch. Those who used that method seemed to return to the cigarette, or never actually quit.
  • I tried decreasing the amt I smoked, yet once something went wrong, or I felt stressed out I reached for that cigarette and chain smoke until I made up for the cigarettes I missed. When I do try cutting back or quitting I find myself eating everything in site, which causes weight gain, which results in disgust, which results to smoking again.
So I ask you all: Did you ever smoke? Did you quit? Tell me in detail your experience.
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Yes, as a teenager I was a veritable chimney.
No, I haven't smoked in decades. Why? Well, first, I stopped because my religion prohibited it.
Later, when I tried smoking again, I developed an inability to tolerate cigarette smoke.
So I was forced to quit. However, not before managing to inflict myself with asthma.
 
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I was witness to Beezer quitting! He had a thread about it and remained funny even when he was a bit wild eyed. He gets mad props. from me.

I smoked like a train for about 25 years. Two packs a day. The only time I wasn't smoking I was sleeping. The last five years my husband made me smoke outdoors and I was there in the rain and snow.

I tried quitting cold turkey but nightmares would send me out of bed screaming. So I tried the nicotine patches and they took enough of the edge off so I could function, but my emotions were right on the surface for about a year.

I gained weight but I think I would probably be dead by now if I hadn't quit.
 
Jules said:
The first decade or so, maybe two, I said that I’d start up again if I got a terminal diagnosis.
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Your comment reminded me of this Reader's Digest article I read many years ago about this male chain-smoker who developed throat and jaw cancer and who had to have his entire jaw surgically removed. It described how he would place a cigarette in an aperture on the bandages in order to be able to resume inhaling cigarette smoke.
 

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