I just turned 45 and quit a few days before my birthday. I was 14 when I started. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 21 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 878 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $168 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 56

As difficult as this quit has been, it has brought a lot of laughs, too. When I think of what we went through for our addictions, it's ridiculous, as well as hilarious. I was thinking about how towards the end, I would douse my cigarettes in water each night and throw them away, only to climb into the trash a few hours later and dry them over an electric burner. For two years, I had patches, gum, and lozenges. Managed to smoke, chew, absorb, and swallow all at the same time. Finally, I looked at all of my NRT and said, You just have to stop it. Like just say, No! My Dad even died of lung cancer, and I managed to convince myself that had he been as diligent about getting his physicals as I am, he would have been saved. The problem, I reckoned, was that he hadn't had a physical since his induction into the Korean War. My mind goes places that I doubt few minds even bother to go. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 22 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 885 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $176 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 39

Got the idea! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 24 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 988 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $177.6 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 11 [B]Mins:[/B] 18 [B]Seconds:[/B] 33

Go Bonny! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 31 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,272 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $229.4 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 3 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 20 [B]Seconds:[/B] 16

It isn't just the money. I have a difficult time believing that I actually would have found the time and energy to smoke 1300 cigarettes in a month. This really puts it all into perspective. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 33 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,357 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $244.2 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 3 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 25 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53

My doctor just said that I was one of those people who's entire body functions better while smoking. I don't beleive him at all.. I thinkt hat I am terribly allergic to nicotine. I was using the patch when I turned purple. My oldest son was terribly allergic to artificial red food color, and when I found out, I cut him off all the kool aids and all of the junks and stuff, and I found him in my room eating my lipstick. Because he was allergic to it, he got a little buzz from eating it, and therefor neaded it to function at a level his body had grown accustomed to. I think that I have the same reaction to nicotine. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 21 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,205 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 16 [B]Seconds:[/B] 1

I started smoking at 16 years old, and I am now 37. At the end, I was smoking 50-60 ciggarettes per day and went over 60 a few days. Prior to that, I was smoking 35-50 per day. It just kept creeping up. I decided to quit, but never -really- did anything about it for a few months, and then I started this program to get organised and such, and I didn't have time to smoke 60 ciggies per day anymore, and I only got about 30 in me. After the third day of that, I couldn't smoke enough anymore to numb the pain I was feeling from withdrawals. That's when I quit. I had patches in my room to use, but didn't use them because of the withdrawals I felt when i cut down... I figured that putting nicotine in my body anymore would just prolong the withdrawals. I tried once, and failed, and then i came here that day and tried agian the next day and have been nicotine free ever since. The longest i've made it in previous quits is 3 months. So, hubby and I are trying to think of something really special to do for when I make it 4 months. I've already bought a new car. LOL... and for one month we're going out of town for the weekend to the hotel where we got married.. so there ya go.. has to top those. LOL!! Not really.. just has to be very special, and I am drawing a blank. This is my last quit.. i'll never ever smoke again. The last time I quit, I turned purple all over my body in the worste rash you could imagine. My doctor gave me everything for it, and finally told me to start smoking again (NO, I am NOT KIDDING!).. I did, and the purple rash went away in days. Well i have a new doctor now, and I luckily havn't turned any strange colors, and I made my new doctor commit to write me a referal to a dermatologist if I did. I take welbutrin, and I was on it for about a month before I quit. I don't know if it's helped or not, but now i can't check "cold turkey" in my glove box over there... I still feel I did cold turkey though because I am nicotine free. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 20 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,100 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $260 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 23 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24

That's what scared me most recently (aside from the really crap circulation down my left leg!) - the sheer number I was smoking. Have been smoking for 23 years. Just realised recently that I was averaging 35 to 40 fags a day. How did that happen? And being unemployed right now, what I noticed was how fast money was leaving my purse. I want and need to find a job and I couldn't imagine how I would cope with that, smoking the amount I do. it was bad enough last time I worked when I smoked way fewer. I remember getting really tense waiting for a break to have one. Still smoking what I was smoking would have made that MUCH worse! I'm using NRT - lozenges. Really because of fear and because the whole smoking thing is such an oral habit for me. I figure I have to break that constantly having something in the mouth thing, before I work on the nicotine! Oh, and I have a new job, due to start soon. And I'll be doing it fag-free!!!! (Have got a few mates who manage to only smoke like maybe one through the day and then maybe two or three at night. I have NEVER been able to do that. or to cut down. So I believe I was just destined to go on smoking more and more and more in a day. pants to that!) S [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/20/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 112 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �18 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 44 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46

I smoked anywhere from 15 to 25 a day. Depended on what was going on, how bored i was etc etc. In the last month before my quit, i stretched my pack out to nearly 1 pack every 2 1/2 days, this was before i had even decided to quit lol. I woke up with a full pack had a smoke on the way to work and another before i started work and that was it. I quit. cold turkey :) I was addicted to the slimy little suckers hmmmpfff not anymore :) Its the most liberating thing i have done in a very very long time and i wish i had done it years ago. PrincessC :) x [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 21 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 488 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $214.2 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 0 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11

I used think i was too Amethyst. During afternoon break i would try fit in 2 smokes which when i finished them used to make me feel rather nauseous. I used to stretch out break times so if i were to go out at 2pm i would stretch it out to 2.30 lol or until i was ready to bite someones head off lmao :) haha dont have to worry about that ever again :) (liberation) Also another thing with me, i used to smoke less when i drank!! Did anyone else find that or was it the other way around? I guess everyone is different. Im just curious thats all. :) PrincessC :) x [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 21 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 489 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $214.2 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11