im quitting cigarettes tonight!

**LiveDose** · 03-31-2009, 05:56 AM

Good luck with quitting. I did cold turkey about 8 years ago. Best decision ever.

**MTCCash Tim** · 03-31-2009, 06:08 AM

agreed..you will not believe how much better you will feel

**tranza** · 03-31-2009, 06:13 AM

You can, you can do this!

**thundergasm** · 03-31-2009, 06:45 AM

Easily one of the hardest things a person will do, but being the one who made the decision as opposed to someone else nagging you will make the transition easier. Good luck to you!

**RobertD** · 03-31-2009, 06:49 AM

Stick to it. It's totally worth it

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**romeo22** · 03-31-2009, 07:04 AM

I hope you wont take one today

.....Good luck

**Snake Doctor** · 03-31-2009, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by mynameisjim

They key is to know you will have a slip up here and there and not beat yourself up over it.

If you break down and smoke a cig or two, just think about it for a minute and move on. Don't beat yourself up or tell yourself it's impossible.

Smoking is very hard to quit because there are virtually no immediate consequences for starting back up again. The nicotine isn't that powerful of a drug, it's just there is really no downside for starting back up and your brain knows it. If you are trying to quit crack or something, usually after a few attempts you think of all the horrible failures, the money you stole, the family you lost, the friends you lost, the arrests, and you quit. Smoking has none of that. Just get over the mental part of it and the drugs hold only lasts about a week.

Quitting smoking is 99% mental, the nicotine is very weak in relation to other drugs.

That's like the worst advice you could ever give someone trying to quit smoking.

Every time you have a cigarette, withdrawal starts all over again.

The only way to break free is to break free, never take another puff.

If you can make it for 3 days, you can make it for the rest of your life, but if you ever take another puff, then it's like you never quit, and the withdrawal pains will start all over again.

It's not a "habit" that you can wean yourself off of, it's a drug addiction.

You wouldn't tell a crack addict that it's ok if he smokes one or two rocks in rehab. You wouldn't tell a heroin junky that it's ok to shoot up once or twice.
Same principle applies to cigarettes. Nicotine is more addictive than heroin BTW....you've gotten some very bad information vis a vis the power of nicotine and you should really stop giving advice to people trying to quit smoking.

**Tom_PM** · 03-31-2009, 09:39 AM

You can totally do it! I did it. I smoked a couple of packs a day for something like 30 years! Even after my heart attack I smoked until I was just sick to death (damn near) and FINALLY was able to cut them out forever.

I dont even have a daughter.. or anyone who cares really for that matter.. so you are so far ahead of the game you dont even know it.

**Allxfunclub** · 03-31-2009, 11:08 AM

good for you... good luck!

**Kiwigirl** · 03-31-2009, 11:58 AM

best of luck with that....I hope that you succeed for the benefit of setting a good example for your daughter. Me on the other hand....I just purchased 2 cartons cos the price goes up on April 1st. LOL I ain't no quitter. hehehe

**mona** · 03-31-2009, 12:25 PM

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**Snake Doctor** · 03-31-2009, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by mona_klixxx

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For effect you should post the amount of time between the pictures.

It was 2 months, and the guy was 34 years old.

**Snake Doctor** · 03-31-2009, 12:42 PM

never mind

**mona** · 03-31-2009, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by Snake Doctor

For effect you should post the amount of time between the pictures.

It was 2 months, and the guy was 34 years old.

Good call -- http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/BryanLeeCurtis.html

I think it's messed up that people smoked at his funeral...

However, my aunt has emphysema and her partner smoked up until the day she (the partner) died of lung cancer (my aunt was sick the entire time)...My aunt is still hangin' in there.

My grandfather, who lived until 82, said he'd rather die than quit smoking.

**DonX** · 03-31-2009, 12:50 PM

I stopped about 13 years ago. It was harder then stopping drugs and drinking

Good luck bro

im quitting cigarettes tonight!

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