I quit!!!

[Tyme2fish]

It's been six weeks since I've smoked a cigarette so I guess I can finally say I quit. This comes from a man that's smoked for over 40 years.

No particular reason for stopping, I just figured it was passed time to quit.
Besides, a person can't smoke anywhere anymore.

Now for the cost savings. I was smoking the cheapest cigarettes on the market but now I don't smoke Marlboros, my favorite brand. Here locally Marlboros are $3.75/pack. I smoked about a carton and a half or so a week. So now I'm saving over $52.50 a week or $2730.00 a year.

Stopping is all the result of taking Chantix, a prescription medication to aid in cessation of smoking. I tried all the patches and other pills in the past and even tried a hypnotist. None of them worked. Even taking the Chantix I really didn't want to quit but the desire to light up just gradually goes away.

So for anyone that wants to stop and has tried to do so in the past and failed, talk to your Doctor about Chantix. None of my friends ever thought I could quit.
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[Bonefish]

Congradulations. I have worked in the health care system for thirty-eight years in pulmonary rehabiltation and respiratory care. Believe me when I say, you will live longer, feel better, and family and fiends will notice the difference. It comes down as to the amount of abuse any one person can place upon one's body before irreversible changes become apparent. Some people inherent great genes which can delay the lasting harmful effect of abuse. You just never know when those irreversible changes start , and by then, it's too late. Again, congraduations.

[MsgMills]

Congrats on the job well done....I have been free of smoking for going on close to 10 years.....

[biggw]

Is this a omen for me or what--I just got back from my Doctor and him chewing me out for smoking- And now i find this topic wild

[Bonefish]

Biggw, now is time to take the bull by the horns and do what's right. I hope you can do this for you and your family. My father died way too young and quit smoking only when it was too late. He was my fishing partner and best friend, but father's and mother's are selfish when it comes to protecting their health, because son's and daughter's, believe it or not, love to have their parients around in later life to share the joys of doing things together once the kids have a little money make dreams happen. I can not tell you how many times I have gone fishing, and wished my Dad could have share those good days on the water.

[tracker4stroke]

congrats, good deal. now look at all those lures you can get with that or the extra fishing trips.

[redneckshadrap]

Congrats..

Mrs Shadrap is about to give that a try herself. Me and little Shadrap will be grateful...

Billy

[Grumpy]

On the 30th of November 1979, I smoked my usual two packs of cigarettes and on the first day of December I stopped smoking and have not had a cigarette since. And, it’s been so easy sometimes I don’t believe it myself. But that is precisely why I don’t lecture people. I offer to share my experiences with them, if they bring up the subject.

Without exception, every person I have ever talked to who said they had quit smoking and then went back to it, one or more times, has admitted that they really didn’t want to stop smoking in the first place. They quit because they had to quit for a health reason (theirs’ or a relative’s) or they quit because someone else wanted them to quit!!

That someone else they quit for may be a child, a grandchild, a spouse, a parent or anyone who wanted them to quit for one reason or another; or it may be someone they don’t want to expose to second hand smoke; or it maybe a Doctor or other professional who tells them that if they continue to smoke, they are going to have a health problem.

All of the smoking cessation strategies, from the various patches, nicotine gums, hypnotism, candy, fake cigarettes, and so many other substitutes, simply do not work without making the ex-smoker miserable unless the person really wants to stop for their own good. And, as is the case with other addictions, once a smoker makes the decision that they want to stop for their own sake and not because someone else wants them to, then they stop so easily they wonder what the big deal was.

If you want to stop smoking, then just stop smoking BUT DON’T QUIT.

When you say you are going to QUIT smoking, your mind hears that and your sub-conscience says: you can never have another cigarette for the rest of your life – and that’s a long, long time. But, if you say I am not going to smoke TODAY, or for the next hour, or for the next six hours, or whatever, you mind says: I can handle that – at least I can smoke later!

In my case, I thought back to when I had seen real long movies such as War and Peace, Ben Hur, and Doctor Zhivago. I hadn’t been able to smoke during those movies and it didn’t bother me because I knew that I could go get a cigarette anytime I wanted to. I decided to use the same idea when I stopped smoking. In other words, I wouldn’t QUIT smoking, I would just STOP smoking until some time later. It’s a mind game, but it works.

I made a decision every morning to put off that first cigarette. I have been doing that, ONE-DAY AT A TIME, every morning for 28 years. In all of that time I have never once even come close to lighting up a cigarette but more important, I have not even had the desire to.

Oh yes, there is one other little mind game that helped me to stop smoking. Each morning after I make my decision to not smoke that day – I ask God to help me remember to not take that first cigarette today and to give me the strength to avoid smoking a cigarette. He does!!

Grumpy

[fishhunter]

Congrats..

Mrs Shadrap is about to give that a try herself. Me and little Shadrap will be grateful...

Billy

You going to give up that Dip?

[djh480]

I have been smoking for 40 years and was smoking a pack and a half a day. Now I have been using that drug and down to smoking 5 or 6 cigarettes a day in just 3 weeks. Will be done with em soon. The drug works.

[BanditMan]

Good job man, way to go. keep up the good work. You will be surprised on how good you will feel. Just think the money you will save can go for gas. LOL Anyway good job and keep it up. PS Biggw and Wormin you can do it, I know you can.

[redneckshadrap]

You going to give up that Dip?

I only chew when I fish....LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Billy
BTW, are you ready for the Gtown pools on Elkhorn?