re: Who here has successfully quit smoking and how?

I smoked from ages 16-24. After many attempts at quitting, I finally stopped cold turkey 2 years ago. I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to do it anymore.

My main advice is to stay away from drinking for a few weeks. Your judgment will be compromised you will probably have cravings. I also recommend not making a huge deal out of it to others. Every time I tried to quit, told all my friends, and made a big thing out of it—I failed. This is because at the end of the day I was just looking for a pat on the back. The one time I just shut-up and did it, I was successful.

I've been smoking for 19 years. 1 carton per week.

This costs me $100 per week (wife smokes too).

But we're quitting. It's a battle each day.

I realized how much $$$ we're throwing away.

I realize how bad my lungs are and my sinuses and all the other health effects.

Plus my two small boys hate it.

But it's a daily battle. I enjoy about 4-5 cigs per day.

Oh .... we're using the E-Cig.

Cold turkey and proceeded to gain around 15 lbs

I started running/working out on a daily basis and just kind of slowly phased them out.

I only smoked about a pack a week and mostly on the weekends while fishing/hunting/drinking.

Hardest part for me was driving and in mornings with coffee. I drank my coffee black, after I quit I had to start adding cream and didn't drink near as much coffee. I literally hated driving for about 2 weeks after I quit. Also I quit several months before hunting season. Chantix is what I used.

I quit smoking pot and the withdrawals almost killed me

Pneumonia did it for me.

I'm on chantix right now. It really is an amazing drug

Chantix for about three to four weeks. First week, smoked as much or more than normally. Second week (dosage upped), the craving simply was not there. When the craving came back a couple weeks later I stopped taking the chantix and just fought through the cravings.

Didn't have any crazy dreams, suicidal thoughts ,etc. And I was taking ambien most nights.

I was a smoker for 20 years, and was averaging about 2+ packs a day when I quit. It wasn't easy, and I still want a cigarette. I smoked a marlboro red while at the bar a couple weeks ago, first cig in over a year, and haven't had one since.

Bought a vape pen/e-cig deal

Now I'll have a cig or two when I go out, but thats it. After being a pack a dayish smoker for 7-8 years.

In fact unless I'm hammered cigarettes are disgusting to me now