Thread: No Smoking ( realy, its true ).....

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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.

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.

I smoked from the age of 13,,when a friend,whose father worked night shift,,would steal a couple of cigarettes from his father's pack,,and we would have a smoke before we went to school..i started full time when I was old enough to feed my car,and my habit,with a wage of my own..I stopped a couple of times,,if not three or four times,,the final time,not long after I met Lynda,,15 years ago.. I went cold turkey,,like the previous times,,but this time,I was determined to stay off them.. And I have... I can usually smell a smoker from 50 yards,,and if people smoke around me,,I get headaches,,real bad ones,sometimes.. We came home from a night out,once,,and stripped our clothes off as we came into the house,,threw them in the laundry,,and showered.. The stink was in our hair as well.. Miss smoking?? NO WAY...Sorry,, to the few people we know who still smoke,,but my health is more important than your habit.. My only regret,is that I didn't stop earlier..
T top... Go for it,mate.. If you can get off those stinkin things,,DO IT.. I found it easy,because I didn't work with any smokers,,and I cut back on the alcohol,too.. One thing I did do,,was to leave the ashtrays in the places where I sat,,,,one by my chair in the lounge,,one at the table,,and one by the telephone,,and after a couple of weeks,,I put a teaspoon of water in each of them.. It stank the place out,,but a week later,,I was cured..