Originally Posted by
Rrumbler
I am finding it amazing the number of you all who have quit. My story is perhaps a bit different, but I did "stop" cold turkey in March of 1983 - a day that will live in my memory, but not necessarily in infamy. I had "quit" several times before, and felt like a liar and a hypocrite every time I started back to smoking, so that last time, I say I just stopped. Makes sense to me. I smoked at least a pack of unfiltered Camels, plus a pack or two of Backwoods cigars, and sometimes a bowl or two of my own custom blend, each and every day for over twenty years - not so long by some standards, but enough so that I had a really bad case of smokers hacks and wheezes. Now, how did I? I worked alone most of the time, and had a lot of windshield time to think and ruminate, and so, I argued with myself and berated myself about the cough and hacks until one morning when I sat up on the edge of the bed and reached for my pack of smokes, I took one out, looked at it, then put it back and went on with my life. I left that pack of cigs laying there on the nightstand for a couple of months, along with the matches and ash tray, then one day I just cleaned it all away. I now find the smell of a smoker to be, at the least, a little "off-putting", but I do try to be tolerant of others; Lord knows, I made a liar out of myself enough times. I hope you have a fairly easy time of it; I was lucky, maybe you will be, too.