I've been wanting to quit for several years, been a smoker for 8 years now and I'm not even 23 yet. I first heard about the book about a year ago here on GFY and thought it was a joke. The bf and I were at the bookstore about a month ago now and saw it on the shelf. I looked at it everyday for the following week on my desk and laughed. I finally did pick it up to read it....I smoked while reading the whole book and 3 weeks and 2 days later, I quit just like that. I didn't even think that it was possible since most of my friends and co-workers are smokers but it really works. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking

It was easy for me to quit. My boyfriend at the time and I were on a trip in Wyoming. One morning he couldn't stop looking at his tongue in the rear view mirror of the van. He had a sore spot that wouldn't go away.

Fast forward to the end of our 3 week trip. I convinced him to go to a doctor and it turned out he had tongue cancer from smoking. Right where he used to always hold the cig in his mouth to take a drag. They removed a piece of his tongue the size of a quarter and gave him 3 months of radiation therapy that made everything taste like alluminum foil and made him talk like he was retarded.

Fast forward again 8 months. All of the sudden he had a big sore bump on his neck. Turned out to be more cancer. Here's him after the surgery:
http://www.alwayseager.com/stuff/Mark.jpg

Had his jugular and that whole muscle on the side of your neck removed along with all his lymph nodes. After that, more radiation and this time 6 months of chemo where he barfed for hours and hours until he would beg me to give him some water to drink so he'd have something to throw up instead of dry heaving.

A year after that, his left lung removed. Scar from the middle of his chest around to the middle of his back. He couldn't walk a quarter mile without being winded. No more surfing. No more windsurfing. No more playing with his teen aged sons the way he used to. No camping. No hiking and really limited on his fishing. :(

More fast forward. October 1993... he was sitting in the car on the way to the doctors and he shifted in the front seat. There was a loud crack and he was screaming. He shattered his cancer ridden pelvis. A few weeks later he didn't know who I was as the cancer was in his spine, pelvis and brain.

I never had another urge to smoke.

Cold Turkey! :thumbsup

quit immediately. From one day to the other...that helped a lot of friends of mine!

quit smoking?

hummm

let me just light up a cigar and think about that for a min...



:)

Personally... life it too short not to do what you enjoy... if you like to smoke... do it... if you like to eat... fuck the diet.... Live life to it's fullest while you can... Why prolong a life when you are not living it to it's fullest and doing what you like to do... no matter what the outcome is.

:2 cents:

If you don't mind, I'm going to forward your post via e-mail to my girlfriend. We're both smokers.

easiest way to quit smoking is to never have started to begin with.

What a fucking excellent post! :thumbsup :thumbsup

If this post doesn't shock and wake people the fuck up to stop killing themselves, nothing will.

Who knows how many people will quit after reading this and therefore how many lives you will have saved/prolonged.

Well Done :)

Cutting down daily dose of nicotine NEVER helped me, nor any of people I knew. It's all in your head, your mind must be ready to quit.

This has helped me preparing my mind for quitting:
http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/

enjoy

first..
do you have a girlfriend????

second...

you really love her???

based on my experience with my last bf...

he smoke like 10 years too,but when he got committed with me, i'll ask him to please stop smoking beacuse it can't help him for anything...

i think he do love me so ( he court me about 2 years and 5 months ) HE FINALLY stop smoking....

ooooppsss........just sharing my experience.

oh im sorry i got wrong quote....:mad:

Please do. I forgot to add that in that picture he's 38 or 39 years old, very active and very healthy other than the cancer.

Bummer

find a new vice, such as coke

The biggest thing that helped me is NO DRINKING... because when you're drunk you will say "ahh fuck it"

So really no drinking for like a month

I did that + cold turkey

Got the flu-like feeling for 2 days from not having any nic

But it's by far the best thing you can do for yourself

im addicted to salty snacks now

Jennie... sure i love my GF. She smoked for almost 12 years but quit feb 2004. Too bad i was not able to do the same. Gonna try tommorow to not smoke the whole day.

SleazeQueen... too bad that happend and it really looks shocking. But i guess you know that those pictures do not impress a smoker for long. Sad but true. Everyone belives that this will never happen to themselves.

it's funny but I really didn't have any interest in quitting smoking until I would start to notice the wrinkles on these people who smoked for years faces......... they look horrible and whenever I get an urge to smoke those wrinkly old faces appear in my head...... it really does a number on your physical appearance

Start exercising on a regular basis. You'll start feeling so much better that you won't even think about it. :)

Put a gun to your head and pull the trigger... you will have NO withdraw symptoms at ALL.... I guarantee it :thumbsup

that post just like all the comercials about smoking, are surely a wake up call and very disturbing, unfortuntly when ur highly atticted they dont help only depress