I quit

Congrats, stick with it!
It gets easier.
I've been off for almost 25 years.

Congrats!

that's some fancy footwork you got going there
keep fighting the good fight, RfromP...

Good deal. I and some other a2k members are ex smokers, too.

WooHoo!!! Glad for you RfromP!

I've been a non-smoker for 8 years.

Congratulations!

Yes, well done.

Any time you feel a craving, remember you've given up NOTHING AT ALL!
Hope that makes sense..

I sympathise with you RfromP.I've been told it's agony but I wouldn't know.I've never tried myself.
I smoke hand-rolled fags using Golden Virginia.About ten a day.Perhaps they'll kill me and perhaps they won't.They are quite cheap though and when I take a good pull on one and suck it into the depths of my lungs I feel like a million dollars.
I drink too.I'm a real schmuck and no mistake.
Listen-don't bet either.If you have a good win a fag will be irresistable.And post coital scenes are out as well.Many a resolution has been obliterated in such circumstances.So-be warned.Chin up-best foot forward.

Hang in there. The cravings never stop but they become more and more easy to ignore and eventually you realize that it's not the smoke nor the nicotine that calls to you. It's the habit. And that's easy to dismiss.

I smoked for 29 years and quit four years ago. Cold turkey. It's one of my proudest achievements so far.

RfromP: Good for you! Welcome to the non-smokers club.

eow: Wow! That's pretty awesome. What made you give it up cold turkey? I smoked for ~6-7 years (more heavily in the last couple). Gave it up cold turkey too on Nov. 4 2004 - the day I found out I was preggers.

Just wish I could get my husband to quit as well. He says it's his NY resolution. I've heard that before, but this time - we've a baby, so maybe that'll drive him.

RfromP - good work!

Not easy quitting. I quit my "big" smoking <3 packs a day> about 20 years ago. Had my last relapse <2 packs over a week> about 4 and a half years ago. Not easy - but worth the initial fuss.

Congratulations, RfromP !!!

I was really tired of smoking at that point, almost embarrassed about it, and wanted to quit. Then my mother passed away and altho' she smoked until they wheeled her into the emergency room for the last time, she'd always wanted me to give them up so on her birthday, in her honor, I did. I was prepared to go with the patch or something if I couldn't do it cold turkey but wanted to first try it on my own.

You had a baby to consider. Good for you! I never understood how women could continue to smoke while pregnant. If you can't give them up for your unborn child's health... the guilt would have eaten me alive.

My husband really wanted to quit also but couldn't as long as I continued smoking so in part, I did it for his sake as well but then, after about a month without cigarettes, he foolishly started smoking those little cigars?-just to take the edge off?- and of course, transferred his habit. Now he smokes about three or four Black & Milds a day. I smoke them too. Maybe one a month or so. Thankfully, they never took ahold of me.

rfromp, you're passed the hard part. Passed the drug habit. Now it's merely an emotional thing. You can do it!

Chomp chomp chomp.....well, I'm still working with the Nicorette gum...you'll be my inspiration! Good job, rfromp!

Whatever works, Stray Cat.

I quit......um..... (counting fingers).... maybe 9 years ago. I almost nver (maybe actually never) get cravings anymore. I do, however, occassionally think it might be okto have one - but, of course I don't.

Anway - congrats RfromP!

Nicotrol is the same - exactly, stray, and cheaper, especially if you order from New Zealand.

I quit a year and 4 months ago.

I feel so much better! I bet my lungs are nearly pink now.

Hang in there R!!!!! You can do it!

Non-smoking is sooooo 2005!

I just started smoking yesterday, it's very nice!

I'm sure your lungs will thank you down the road.